pigeonburger
1d ago
284, though I don't really know english/american litterature much, so my litterature score is (I hope) understandably affected. 91st percentile non-anglo western.
You could also script the download to run every day for a set of approved channels. And you could also, if you are so inclined, set up something like ErsatzTV and create your own TV channel (complete with EPG) with youtube videos, music videos downloaded with yt-dlp as well from playlists of best 80s, 90s and 00s music videos, ripped TV shows from DVDs (and not torrents, that would be piracy!), movies and even 80s and 90s ads as padding between "shows" (there's channels with lots of ads on youtube). And then serve that through Jellyfin.
*EDIT: The perils of new comments browsing! I missed the part in the OP where he wanted a specific channel and nothing else! Still, he could make a curated channel with a specific schedule for his kid; piano lessons run from this time to that time. Having to follow a hard schedule probably teaches kids a valuable lesson about punctuality and understanding that the world doesn't revolve around them.
They're not talking about inflated stocks, but about the technology.
Indeed, we can see that when the dot com bubble burst, internet technology and adoption did not step back, it kept accelerating, probably it was even helped in the long term by capital becoming more careful and not just throwing millions and millions at every e-commerce under the sun.
But... Maybe those people are more hoping for the bubble to burst not because it will save them, but entirely because they believe it will hurt the "tech bros" they see as responsible for their current predicament.
In my city that has a large Iranian diaspora, the "protests" are actually pro bombing with iranians carrying american and israeli flags it's surreal. The small anti bombing protests tend to be white college kids.
You can take the stated reason at face value; it's not like it's false. But it's a bit hypocritical if you consider that it is quite certain the US has either intentional backdoors and/or undisclosed vulnerabilities to achieve surveillance on its domestic networking equipment, but they aren't wrong to be suspicious of chinese made routers.
And on its own, this measure is not gonna achieve much as the horse is already out of the barn when it comes to consumer network security. What normies even keep their router updated? When people keep their 10 year old router that's never been updated, has tens of known exploited vulnerabilities and is configured with a WAN facing admin panel, who even cares where it was built?
Sadly, the realistic solution is to incentivise people to let their ISP take charge, which as someone who prefers personal responsability, I hate. Subsidize ISP sold/loaned equipment, enable auto-updates. I'd even make it so that the router has a hardware switch enabled VPN to let the ISP in to the LAN-facing management if they need to do some work (I'd make a hardware switch so that clueless customers can be reasonably certain when it's on or off). Convenient but security nightmare networking options need to start being disabled by default and users should not be encouraged to enable them ever (I'm looking at you UPnP). I'd probably ask or heavily incentivise ISPs to have all of their customer facing techs to have a security certification. If you had all of this taken care of, then banning hardware backdoored (by state adversaries as opposed to domestic intelligence agencies) might have an effect.
pigeonburger
4d ago
"God made Man, Sam Colt made them equal"
In that case, God tried real hard to make that guy harmless, but the score's God 0, Colt 1.
pigeonburger
4d ago
I'm also left to wonder how many side effects were not identified as caused by the vaccines because the message was broadcast loud and clear to every doctor that if you question the vaccines you risk becoming a pariah and a crank.
My wife got a condition that could have also been blamed on the vaccines, but since there was another plausible explanation for it, doctors clung to that other one. I'm not saying they're wrong, but I'm saying I'm not confident that they gave the possibility that the vaccines were the cause a serious, scientific look. Multiply events like this all over and who knows what the death rate/side effect rate even is? That's what happens when achieving political objectives is more important to politicians and the high level medical establishment than achieving the correct medical outcomes.
The reason I feel it's doomed is because a shared group identity, a "us", can only exist in a contrast against a "them", otherwise it's amorphous and fails to inspire. Which is why I believe a united earth will only realistically happen when there will be something else for it to be contrasted against, be it other human colonies or aliens.
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