CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@lenzgr You know what weirdly follows this pattern? #JellyFin. I tried to get off #selfhosted #plex and run a self-hosted JellyFin server. Not only can you not organize your media, they are actively hostile to the concept.

I have hundreds of films and thousands of home movie files I have accumulated over 20+ years. All arranged in a directory hierarchy by my own preference. In Plex, I choose “Library” view, make that the default, and never look at their stupid suggestions again. JellyFin literally cannot do this. And if you ask on the forums (I didn’t bother because dozens already have asked and been answered), they just say that’s not how it’s done. There’s no workaround and no backlog item. Please feel free to pound sand.

You dump everything into whatever, and the app surfaces them in whatever predetermined organization you select. Genre (according to some db somewhere), year, recently added, alphabetical. Anything except my way.

I fought it for a few months. I even paid $2.99/mo for an appletv app that was a better client than the native client. Everything ignored my structure and imposed its own on me.

So this mentality of the-system-knows-best has infected even some otherwise good open source tools.

Is it pyjama time?

@paul_ipv6 I will now use this!

My son via SMS: The check engine light has come on in my car

Me: I recommend checking the engine. Like and subscribe for more Dad tips.

My son:

@skinnylatte Having grown up in the US and then living in London 10 years, I was always amused to find tortillas on the “exotic foods” aisle at the grocery store

@cR0w I pay to support https://www.virginiamercury.com/ . They're part of an org called "States Newsroom" and they seem to have local journalists on the ground that do real reporting. Like, these are the people still showing up at hearings and filing FOIA requests.

It's bleak. There aren't many good options. But this is one.

The word cloud for Sunday, 10 May 2026. Words are larger the more frequently they appeared in posts. There were 9017 unique words posted, and the wordcloud shows the 200 most frequent. The top 10 most frequent words were: yonggary: 224, reptilian: 181, kaiju: 105, monster: 101, gary: 91, young: 89, aliens: 81, think: 78, right: 60, even: 59,
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#monsterdon

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The busiest moment was at 37:00 from the start with 51 posts in that minute. The quietest moment was at 98:00 from the start with 8 posts in that minute. The yellow line is a 15-minute moving average.

#monsterdon

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Summary of #monsterdon generated at Mon 11 May 2026 11:27 EDT.

• We looked at 3476 toots posted between Sun 10 May 2026 21:00 EDT and Sun 10 May 2026 22:39 EDT by 120 different participants across 72 different servers. mastodon.social contributed the most toots at 606
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@km Yeah. I didn’t mean it personally. I wasn’t criticising what you said, I’m sorry if I sounded that way.

I was just pointing out this constant theme. The only thing that ever is made public is the fully-polished, human-vetted final result. They carefully hide all other details and the press don’t care.

@bagder

@km As far as I can tell:

• No one who has worked with raw Mythos output has ever written about it.
• No one who has written about it has ever used it.

They would much rather have @bagder writing about it because his opinion carries weight. That means he can’t have direct access. To give him access, they’d demand to gag him with an NDA, like everyone else who has access.

This technique of making readers mentally fill in the gaps between what is verifiable and what is claimed is genius marketing and really dishonest. But we have come to expect systematic and casual dishonesty from these companies.

I thought this was a cybertruck cameo.

#monsterdon

@trixter "It smells... old.'

"Oh that's just my aftershave, young lady."

#monsterdon

Did this absolute piece of shit movie just pass the Bechdel test? In 1999??

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This is what you'd call a medium movie.

It's not rare, and it's not well done.

#monsterdon

@allanb Here’s my version of the same question. According to Statista, the average net worth globally is $3650. Think about the half-planet of people with net worth lower than that. The huge number of people at $0 net worth and negative net worth.

How have THEY benefitted from #GenAI ? I don’t have an answer.

@APBBlue When you start using tea bags more than once…