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chneu··on Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology
Is it still lying if he's high as a kite?
chneu··on Jared Kushner Hacked Phone Reveals Secret Negotiations, Millions in Transactions
Facts don't matter when that is how I feel
chneu··on Plex laid off the whole player team
I ditched Plex for Jellyfin + audiomuse AI. So the front end is any Jellyfin app.

Audiomuse has a Jellyfin plugin that automates a lot of the playlist creation.

chneu··on Plex laid off the whole player team
Jellyfin after the 10.X update changed their database. This introduced a major performance issue with SOME large music libraries. There doesn't seem to be a hard set of criteria besides "some large music libraries suffer from bad performance degradation". I finally managed to upgrade after just brute forcing it and trying several times. It finally just worked.
chneu··on Plex laid off the whole player team
Okay here's what I did to finally update Jellyfin to work with my 300,000+ size flac library.

I copied my 10.X whatever Jellyfin 3 times. So I basically setup 3 identical Jellyfin instances. I then upgraded each of them to the latest version. 2 of them upgraded but had horrible performance. The third one finally works the way it should. I have no idea why that worked but after seeing tons of comments that were basically "Idk mine just works" or "idk mine just sucks" it seemed worth doing.

So, maybe try that.

To be clear I didn't copy the libraries. Just the Jellyfin docker data.

Their new database is just bad.

chneu··on New plastic pollution discovered: 'Plasticorals' coral rubble fused with plastic
Yeah I've replaced wiring in farm rigs going back to the mid-70s. Rats and mice just like wiring.
chneu··on The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable
Be aware you're repeating some outdated takes on land use.

Invasive cattle grazing on "worthless" land is a trope that's not true. Especially in the US west, we have seen massive ecological destruction at the hooves of cattle. They are not bison. They do not graze the same. The plants they consume do not regrow the same. They introduce a ton of issues.

Jon Muir called cattle, and other livestock, "Hooved Locusts", because of how they destroy the land.

The latest research is that we should absolutely be removing cattle from these "worthless" lands. We are still discovering how these lands work and we are finding so many benefits we had no idea existed.

We gimped nature and now we call that gimped version "how it's supposed to be". We use culture and heritage, "the western way of life", to perpetuate the systemic destruction.

But this trope of "white people decide the land is worthless" has a long history of being used to exploit the land/people for short term gain. Cattle grazing is a form of land theft. Destroying the land/ecosystem so people can't use it they way they have was, and still is, a form of land theft.

Also, the US west is getting so dry that cattle can't find enough grass so we do what? We pull water to grow grass in the desert so we can feed those cattle that are on "worthless land". Thereby making the issue worse. But are cattle ranchers and alfalfa farmers gonna give up their water? Ha! That's an affront to the Cowboy Way Of Life! We need cheap beef and stetson hats cuz this is Murica!

chneu··on The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable
Bro go outside and meet people. You're saying keyboard warrior stuff.
chneu··on The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable
Plastic recycling was about one thing: getting people to use more plastic.

Less than like 7% of plastics get recycled and basically all of that comes from industrial sources, not our homes.

The best thing you can do with plastic is use less of it and throw it in the trash. This tells you it is garbage and not going off to some magical facility to get recycled.

Also, keeping plastic in the environment by using it in building materials/fake grasses is a microplastics nightmare. We need to be removing plastic from the environment, not putting more out there.

chneu··on The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable
In my experience the folks having kids care less about the environment than others.
chneu··on The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable
They're realists. Folks like you hand wave away the 100,000 deaths this summer from a heat wave like its nothing.

Its peak selfishness on your part. You take a "I'm smarter" perspective and condescend about things that are literally killing hundreds of thousands of people.

The privilege is insane. It's sad.

I've seen it throughout my life, though. Once you get hit by a climate event your tune will change. Once a wildfire destroys your neighborhood, or a flood wipes out your family, or a landslide destroys your property, etc, the tune changes.

The privilege is insane. It's sad.

chneu··on The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable
I've heard this argument for the last ~40 years.

"Technology will take care of this" and then crickets.

The solution is to curb our excess, which nobody wants to do. We are all living like kings and queens.

chneu··on The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable
"Things are expensive! Vote for short term price decreases at the expense of the next generation!"
chneu··on The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable
Except emissions are up under Trump. The US is puking new emissions right now.
chneu··on The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable
They also blamed China for being the largest polluter. Which, while true on a pure numbers basis, doesn't really account for population/per capita and total renewables.

It also dismisses the fact China's pollution is everyone's pollution when they make most of the crap we buy.

chneu··on Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month
To me it read as, "Scantrons did a lot of good, but were developed to track Jewish concentration camp prisoners" type a thing.

Meta's ultimate goal is immoral. It's not justified if a few projects do some good.

chneu··on Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month
I don't use marketplace but if anyone buys/sells used stuff then they are likely on marketplace.

Its ubiquitous for reselling.

chneu··on Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month
I work in wildland firefighting.

Those comments you mentioned are a bit of a problem. Whenever admin complains about them I always say, "You're using Facebook. What do you expect? Only retired people, idiots, and bots are on there."

They never seem to understand what I'm talking about because, unfortunately, most of the folks in wildfire admin are 50+ years old

chneu··on Why do we have so many meetings?
I've worked with a lot of people who will not engage with a request until the request has been made multiple times.

Its a very lazy way of filtering.

"It couldn't have been that important" is their logic.

chneu··on AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right
>but was more or less tolerated before abolition

What? Slavery wasn't tolerated. It was celebrated(still is) in a large amount of the country. It was considered a right by many white people in the US. Something they were entitled to(entitlement is a big theme with American conservatives) and still are.

Let's not forget, or maybe let's try to learn, that racism was the united states original social/cultural export. Back in the day Americans were seen as the most racist people on the planet and they were proud of it. Americans minstrel shows were big business and a very early one in the countries history.

Let's not forget that well after slavery was outlawed, Americans were still firebombing black/indigenous neighborhoods, towns, and lynching people. Americans still kill native Americans to this day, lookup native American women going missing.

Let's not forget that Kanye, just a few years ago, said that slaves had it good and should have been thankful. While that was absolutely the ramblings of a mentally unwell person, he was simply restating what is prevalent in many circles in America today. Kanye was just repeating what was said around him and is repeated in "private" across much of the country.

Lol wtf ya think ICE actually is? It's just a government force meant to remove the blacks/browns/foreigners who take all the good jerbs from the hard working whites.

chneu··on AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right
Most people, at least in the US, have no clue wtf is going on.

I'd seriously wager maybe 20% of the US population even understands the basics of how their state government functions. Less than 10% probably understand their local government or could name more than 1 local politician.

This isn't hyperbole. A shocking number of Americans are PROUD to not be engaged in politics in any way. Especially for young folks, politics and understanding the government are just not cool.

chneu··on AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right
"Sensationalism is the problem"

And you reply with sensationalism.

You fell for it. Congrats. You played yourself.

When we engage with such tactics we harm ourselves and the people around us. We become stooges for politicians. We repeat their nonsense. Cmon.

chneu··on AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right
What are the interests of their people?

Nations are a race to the bottom in 2026. We find more divisions, on purpose, than things to bring us together.

Politicians and capitalism figured out that division is engaging for the loudest people, which is profitable.

Using nationalism, the flag, etc are very very useful tools for politicians, capitalism and bad actors. Nobody wants to be say they aren't a patriot.

Israel, right now, is claiming to be acting in the best interests of its people. Would Palestinians agree? Race to the bottom logic, we will destroy ourselves before we give up our flags, it seems.

As developed nations destroy the environment, where are the people who had no say in that supposed to go? Who bears that responsibility? It certainly won't be the developed nations, which will act in the best interest of their people and deny entry to the climate refuges their citizens created with the latest plastic garbage that became cool on TikTok.

chneu··on AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right
Reminder that Trump's admin is going after election officials and public officials using nonsense charges.

A sitting US member of the house had their house and offices raided just the other day.

He is also very directly going after journalists.

Freedom is speech is very much not guaranteed in the US.

chneu··on AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right
They mean immigrants.

"Look at the conditions X is in" is a common dog whistle for anti-immigrants and racists. It's a flare sent up to say, "Hey, who else thinks all these X are ruining our country?"

chneu··on AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right
So should Jews/israealis but who is genociding right now?
chneu··on AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right
That was never the "main complaint". It was just a complaint or the most convenient complaint at the time.

Conservatives are vibe haters. They feel something is wrong and will figure out how to justify their feelings. The email server was just one of many excuses to dislike Hillary. But it was never the "main" one. It was just one that gained a lil traction.

Hillary also caught crap for Benghazi, her husband, her aides, her outfits, etc. It never ends with conservatives because how they feel is as important as reality. They'll find anything to justify their vibes.

chneu··on Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs
I've had AI lie about fact checking and can't really trust it anymore.
chneu··on Anthropic's proposed AI safety bill only kicks in if 50 deaths or $1B in damages
This is PR and advertising for anthropic. They don't actually care. Their only objective is to be more successful than other AI companies.
chneu··on Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That's not a problem we need to solve
In my life I don't think I've ever answered a survey honestly and I'm nearly 40 years old.

I do not take self reported surveys as accurate and I don't think anyone should. Especially for kids.

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