You can connect Jellyfin to an SSO provider. It still needs work, and client support is lacking. Ideally I think it maybe should be built in rather than a plug-in (would definitely encourage more client support). But it exists.

https://github.com/9p4/jellyfin-plugin-sso

Feature request for oidc/sso:

https://features.jellyfin.org/posts/230/support-for-oidc-oauth-sso

As it stands, you could enable both the SSO and LDAP plugins, and let users do password resets entirely through your auth provider.

Basically, this is all stuff that comes with Plex out-of-the-box, but you sort of have to glue it together yourself with Jellyfin, and it’s not yet in an ideal state. Plex is much much easier to configure. I wouldn’t allow yourself to believe that Plex doing all this for you will make you totally secure through – there’s been multiple incidents with their auth, and IIRC the LastPass attacker pivoted from a weak Plex install. Just food for thought.

I think you are correct that there are parts of the protests that are difficult to verify.

Some parts are easy to verify. There are videos and photos. People were killed brutally in the crackdown.

But the reporting and sources from that time (and now) can be a bit lacking. Information was spotty, and of course anything official can’t be taken at face value.

We went through some of this in a Chinese Government class I took. This about 10-15 years ago at a U.S. university. We were looking specifically at how many people died. The Chinese government said a couple hundred. Some western media said over 10,000. Hospital records were like 500. The true answer is difficult to know. We sort of have to interpret the claims based on other information that we can verify (photos, different accounts of the events) and make a best guess to what the true range might have been.

Like anything that’s been turned into online propaganda these days, a lot of extreme claims are thrown around to support an unrealistic interpretation of facts. For example, western media claiming over 10,000 deaths turns into “western media was lying to make China look bad” turns into “it didn’t happen”.

If I have time later I’ll try to revisit this thread and point you to some of the better sources I found.

TL;DR: good faith skepticism of specifics can help us learn. However, tankie/wumao skepticism is not really grounded in fact

How can you call me out like this.

When I use the word “private” I mean that stores, for the most part, are not owned by the government. I am saying that laws related to private property apply in this situation.

Technically what we are talking about here is a private business open to the public. And we are specifically talking about non government here, since getting trespassed from public property is a bit different in some ways.

Yes, there are many laws that apply to a private business open to the public (ADA, civil rights, food safety, etc.).

But the store is still owned by a company or an individual. They have the right to determine who can be on their property and when, within the bounds of any other applicable laws.

For the most part my response was concerned with legalities, as you seem confident that a store could lose a lawsuit merely for trespassing an individual. It seems you are claiming that a private business does not have the legal right to trespass an individual?

I’m not questioning your ability to walk past receipt checkers without talking to them. I do the same thing.

I do not dispute that refusing to talk to the store makes things more difficult if their goal becomes trespassing you from their property. However, the store does not need your name to tell you that you’re not welcome on their property. If you return, you will be in violation of trespass law. The store also does not need your name to call the police and report a crime. In reality, yes, this is unlikely to happen to you, but it has certainly happened.

I am not attempting to put under scrutiny your ability to file in court the paperwork necessary for a lawsuit in the event that a store trespasses you.

My question is: what would be the legal basis for such a lawsuit?

If a private business decides to trespass you for any or no reason, what would be the basis of your lawsuit?

You are correct that you own the items after you purchase them, and the store has no right to stop you unless they are asserting shopkeeper’s privilege. For that, I believe they would need reasonable articulable suspicion just like any investigatory stop by law enforcement.

But at the same time, a private business has every right to ask you to leave for any reason at all, as long as they are not discriminating based on a protected class. They can tell you that you’re not welcome back, and if you return then you will almost certainly be breaking your state’s trespass law.

In reality, I don’t really see any store wanting to start the widespread trespassing of customers who are just walking out of a store with their purchased items (assuming no prior agreement with the store to stop or show receipt). It would be a big customer service risk on behalf of the store. However, it’s also untrue to say that just walking past a receipt checker is completely devoid of the risk of a store banning you.

To put it another way: you’re at a friend’s house, and he says you must stand on your head and sing the alphabet. You refuse. He has no legal way to compel you to comply. But he can ask you to leave his house and not come back. Your refusal to comply with his ridiculous alphabet related request is perfectly valid, but doing so can also bring some amount of risk that you’re no longer welcome.

I’ve been using using Sync since it was Sync for Reddit and the developer is known for flurries of updates followed by radio silence. So it’s not unusual for him. It is closed source so if he ever disappears forever it will probably eventually break. But it’s a great app.

Why does he suck?

I see a lot of comments in here against the cloud and saying that on-prem is better. My question is, why would on-prem uptime would be any better? Or is it more about a loss of control in moving to the cloud?

Folks this is the most based admin in the fediverse.

Thank you. You’ve put in words everything I’ve been feeling about this art.

Sounds like we’ve got a lazybones over here.

Sounds like we’ve got a lazybones over here.

Sounds like we’ve got a lazybones on our hands.

In the early days of streaming it wasn’t quite as bad. A few licenses did expire, but it wasn’t like most things were just going to disappear overnight. And Netflix started out with strong original programming, so there was still always value.

Now, though even though I’ve spent a lot of money on my server and a lot of time futzing with it, it’s worth it to me compared to futzing around figuring out which streaming service has the license this week for the show I want to watch.

Plus, unless I totally lose my Plex/Jellyfin database (has happened before as I’ve tinkered around learning things), my watch history stays with me. I can pick up a show where I left off, even years later. Not true if a show moves to another streaming service.

I view it kinda like the trade-off paying for anything vs DIY. Sometimes it’s worth paying a premium to hire someone, especially if it’s way outside your skill set. Other times you interview contractors, and either the price is way high, or you get the sense they have no clue what they’re doing and will wreck your project. If you DIY then there’s a learning curve and you won’t always get everything right, but you have total control.

Based admin.

I haven’t pooped since yesterday.

h

It goes without saying that the U.S. tax system is terrible.

That said, owing some money at filing time is more efficient for you. If you are owed a refund, it means that you are getting paid back an interest-free loan that you offered to the government for the year. Offering that loan to Uncle Sam gives you zero benefit. If you want to save the money for a big purchase, it’s better off sitting in a interest-earning savings account, at the very least.

On the other hand, if you owe money at filing time, it means the government offered you an interest-free loan. You were able to take advantage of it throughout the year, and ideally put that money to good use. Now you have to pay it back, but at least you don’t have to pay interest on it.

The later scenario is part of why underpayment penalties exist.

Of course the whole system is pretty terrible especially as knowing the number at filing time requires reading a damn horoscope or something. But with a bit of savvy and planning, you can end up with a better outcome.

By the way, if you want something at a cheaper price point but still high quality for your son, I’ve been buying from these guys:

https://www.stirlingsoap.com/collections/eau-de-toilettes

I don’t think they have anything that smells like Chanel No. 5, and most of the scents are more masculine. But a few are feminine (duchess, queen of hearts, evie, sweet stuff, witchy woman). Some of their scents are “inspired by” (basically copies of) more well known and expensive scents.

My personal favorite is Haverford, named after the Parks and Rec character.

I am seriously not into perfume/cologne at all, and I’m sure someone more knowledgeable would have better suggestions. But thought I’d throw in my 2c. Especially since the stuff that Sterling scents are inspired by is often 5x or 10x the price.

I’m sure I’ve already used every bit of that RAM over the years. ZFS loves to use all the memory I throw at it. If there’s any killer virus hiding in the ones and zeros…I guess I already have it.