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Comment on How did you choose your podcast app and would you switch to a different one? in ~tech
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Comment on 2025 Spotify Wrapped is now out in ~music
goose Link ParentI have a family plan 😂 My kids are 8, 6, and almost 2. None of them are using devices independently, other than my 8-year-old for occasional school stuff. So anytime they want to listen to music...I have a family plan 😂 My kids are 8, 6, and almost 2. None of them are using devices independently, other than my 8-year-old for occasional school stuff. So anytime they want to listen to music it's me pulling it up on my phone.
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Comment on 2025 Spotify Wrapped is now out in ~music
goose LinkMy children have ruined my Spotify wrapped for six years running now ðŸ˜My children have ruined my Spotify wrapped for six years running now ðŸ˜
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Helldivers movie in the works from Justin Lin, Sony
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Comment on Netflix kills casting from phones in ~tech
goose Link ParentAh, yes, the restriction on remote access unless you have a Plex Pass. I picked up a lifetime pass roughly six years ago, as one of the unaffected, I forgot this was a decision they made from the...Ah, yes, the restriction on remote access unless you have a Plex Pass. I picked up a lifetime pass roughly six years ago, as one of the unaffected, I forgot this was a decision they made from the time they announced it to now rolling it out. But that was definitely a shitty decision they made that I was hoping they'd revert on. Were I affected, it would definitely be a reason to look at switching to JellyFin.
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Comment on Netflix kills casting from phones in ~tech
goose Link ParentCould you be more specific about "shady and weird"? Jellyfin is FOSS, Plex is closed source and for-profit. When I side-by-side tried them some time ago, all the differences felt aligned to those...Could you be more specific about "shady and weird"?
Jellyfin is FOSS, Plex is closed source and for-profit. When I side-by-side tried them some time ago, all the differences felt aligned to those two points. Plex had some features Jellyfin did not, which I appreciated -- Easy support for my OTA antenna (EPG), intro/credits detection, and I couldn't quite get Jellyfin to work with my P400. The Jellyfin app for LG WebOS (at the time, at least) was very clunky and difficult to use, as well. While the ability to more heavily customize Jellyfin was nice, but didn't really add anything I appreciated. The biggest advantage I saw was fully local auth.
The addition of Plex's *oh look we're also a streaming service now* was annoying at launch, but after turning off/unpinning those features, I haven't seen or thought about it any more. The two data breaches I've been around for I felt like were handled less poorly than I've seen others. The biggest issue I've had is tech support for a paid product, the forums are very hit or miss, more often miss. To their credit though, I've had much less technical issues with Plex in the last year than I have in years past.
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Comment on Netflix kills casting from phones in ~tech
goose Link ParentYou would be looking for an article, guide, or YouTube video that describes setting up: Plex or Jellyfin Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr Sabnzbd There are many well written ones out there.You would be looking for an article, guide, or YouTube video that describes setting up:
- Plex or Jellyfin
- Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr
- Sabnzbd
There are many well written ones out there.
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Comment on Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world in ~health
goose Link ParentI think of medicine in three "branches": Techniques Application Access The disparities you address are very valid. I would classify most of them under the "access" branch. No one -- women, people...While I like that sentiment, I think that there is a real problem with Western medicine and how they (don't) listen to women, and how they treat patients.
I think of medicine in three "branches":
- Techniques
- Application
- Access
The disparities you address are very valid. I would classify most of them under the "access" branch. No one -- women, people of color, non-English speakers, whatever -- no one should have reduced access to medicine. Either through barriers such as insurance, or bias from a healthcare provider causing the patient to "not be heard". On this note, I could not agree more.
But on the topics of techniques and application, modern medicine has done so much to improve the lives of those who use it, across all demographics.
Don't get me wrong, there are still barriers there. For example, a lack of techniques leading to a lack of applications in populations whose disparities are unknown or de-prioritized for whatever reason, such as pain in women historically being mismanaged due to a bias that "they're just soft, not really in pain".
But on the whole, while there is absolutely room for improvement, I see the trend that medicine continues to try and "do better" year after year. Sometimes not as fast as it should for specific populations. But definitely in an upward trend.
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Comment on Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world in ~health
goose LinkEvery time I see some "natural" or "homeopathic" medicine pop up as "preferable" to modern medicine, I am reminded of one of my favorite quotes: I don't mean to dunk on natural remedies, they have...Every time I see some "natural" or "homeopathic" medicine pop up as "preferable" to modern medicine, I am reminded of one of my favorite quotes:
Do you know what they call homeopathic medicine that works? They call it medicine.
I don't mean to dunk on natural remedies, they have their place. But there's a reason neonatal mortality during childbirth has dropped roughly 90% since the advent of modern medicine.
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Comment on After break with US President Donald Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene will resign in ~society
goose Link ParentI'm a Georgia resident. Prior to the last 30ish days where her platform was, what I would describe as "entirely unhinged", no, I do not think she could have gained enough statewide support for any...I'm a Georgia resident. Prior to the last 30ish days where her platform was, what I would describe as "entirely unhinged", no, I do not think she could have gained enough statewide support for any other elected positions in Georgia. Our state mostly follows the trend of blue in the cities, red everywhere else. But given our most recent elections, it's very much a purple state right now. That said, after her "recent position changes", I would have some degree of concern that she is walked back enough of her shenanigans to potentially earn support of people who might not have voted for her because "[they] could just never vote for a democrat, no matter who it was" (thinking of my wife's grandmother, for example) -- But because of her ideology change, perhaps they could ship from not supporting her at all, to supporting her.
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Comment on After break with US President Donald Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene will resign in ~society
goose LinkPure opinion/speculation, but I suspect she's just going to run for a different office, likely senate or governor.Pure opinion/speculation, but I suspect she's just going to run for a different office, likely senate or governor.
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After break with US President Donald Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene will resign
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Comment on Android Quick Share can now work with iOS’s AirDrop in ~tech
goose Link ParentI mean, that's rather par for the course, with Apple. The only time I can think of the two working together cooperatively, outside of things the EU forced them to do (RCS), would be COVID contact...I mean, that's rather par for the course, with Apple. The only time I can think of the two working together cooperatively, outside of things the EU forced them to do (RCS), would be COVID contact tracing via bluetooth. Although it was a geolocked feature that so few locations supported, it wasn't widely know/used.
Edit: Although it would (in my opinion) be a very Apple thing for Apple to now change the way their AirDrop works just to break compatibility with Android.
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Comment on Android Quick Share can now work with iOS’s AirDrop in ~tech
goose (edited )LinkI'm not trying to come across as a google fanboy, I'll criticize them as appropriate, but I think this is an awesome feature. I appreciate their effort to try and coexist and be compatible with...I'm not trying to come across as a google fanboy, I'll criticize them as appropriate, but I think this is an awesome feature. I appreciate their effort to try and coexist and be compatible with iOS/Apple, rather than taking the full "fuck you outsider" walled garden ecosystem approach that Apple does. Among the things tech giants get right and wrong, stuff like this is nice to see.
The blog post seems to specify Android to iOS, I'm curious to know if it will also work in the other direction?
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Comment on So, NPR fixed their RSS ... it seems to work globally again in ~tech
goose Link Parent🫖 The greatest April Fools joke to ever be immortalized in the RFC* * in my opinion🫖
The greatest April Fools joke to ever be immortalized in the RFC*
* in my opinion
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Comment on So, NPR fixed their RSS ... it seems to work globally again in ~tech
goose Link ParentI didn't, off the rip, but reading into it, it's humorously appropriate. For the fellow uninitiated: I have nginx configured to return 444; on my geoblocks, but perhaps I'll change it to 451, just...or 451 (lol get it?)
I didn't, off the rip, but reading into it, it's humorously appropriate. For the fellow uninitiated:
HTTP 451 is a client error status code that means the requested resource is unavailable for legal reasons, such as government censorship or copyright restrictions. The code is a reference to the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, which depicts a future where books are outlawed. Unlike other error codes, it indicates a legal, rather than technical, issue preventing access.
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nginxconfigured toreturn 444;on my geoblocks, but perhaps I'll change it to451, just to stick it to the Chinese crawlers trying to index my/robots.txt -
Comment on Epstein-Barr virus appears to be trigger of lupus disease in ~health
goose LinkShould I take this to mean the study is not yet peer reviewed? I don't easily have the ability to pull the actual paper (without paying for it), while I work in healthcare, my hospital system does...If confirmed, the findings would add impetus to clinical trials for an EBV vaccine, which are already under way. There are also several teams exploring repurposing cancer treatments designed to wipe out B cells for severe cases of lupus.
Should I take this to mean the study is not yet peer reviewed? I don't easily have the ability to pull the actual paper (without paying for it), while I work in healthcare, my hospital system does not appear to subscribe to this publisher. So I can't read anything but the abstract.
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Comment on Any chance we can get a shorthand for the <details> tag? in ~tildes
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Comment on NATO alphabet in ~talk
goose LinkMy personal favorite take on this is silent letters: A as in Aisle G as in Gnocchi K as in Knight M as in Mnemonic P as in Pterodactyl But to stick to your original theme: C as in Chlamydia E as...My personal favorite take on this is silent letters:
A as in Aisle
G as in Gnocchi
K as in Knight
M as in Mnemonic
P as in PterodactylBut to stick to your original theme:
C as in Chlamydia
E as in Enema
H as in Hemorrhoid
L as in Laxative
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Comment on Paid e-mail providers - your experiences, how you use them and how I would use it in ~tech
goose LinkWorth mentioning that iOS has been shown to be vulnerable, as well :) I've been very happy with FastMail, more than anything, because of their integration with BitWarden for masked email...I decided to spin off this topic based on the discussion in the Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking.
Worth mentioning that iOS has been shown to be vulnerable, as well :)
I've been very happy with FastMail, more than anything, because of their integration with BitWarden for masked email addresses. But nearly two years into it, never had an issue with my things going to spam, haven't had much issues with incoming spam (a couple false positives, but the true positives were easily manageable due to masked email addresses). Their price point has been good, too. Support for contacts and calendar, as well. I can provide a referral code if you care for it.
I ran Pocket Casts (PC) for a very long time, probably 2015-ish to earlier this year, when I switched to Podcast Addict (PA). My biggest complaint about the PC model is that they cache podcast feeds through their servers, which seem to refresh on an hourly basis.
So for example: Let's say PC indexes the RSS feed for NPR's "Up First" podcast at 6:38am. NPR has not yet published that day's episode, but they do so at 6:45am. I can "Pull down to refresh" as much as I want in PC on my phone, but that's just pulling a copy of the cached RSS feed from the PC servers to my phone. Until the PC servers index and re-cache their copy of the RSS feed at 7:38am, PC won't have that new episode.
This probably isn't an issue for most people, but I found it to be annoying enough for me, that I finally moved off of PC to PA. PA pulls the RSS feeds directly from providers to your device, so no caching issues. I've largely been happy with it. I've only found one issue that bothers me with PA, sometimes when re-arranging my queue, I'll accidentally manually start playing something and it switches my queue from the automatically generated one (of downloaded items) to a "Custom" queue with only that item, so no items will autoplay afterwards. Barring that, it's been solid for me.