There is a decent metaphor buried in there, yeah. Basically trying to get at the difference between broadcast (how TV and radio worked, which everyone was already familiar with) and how the internet works which is a “unicast” kind of thing
Ah sweet, my left-pad is coming today!
Save this to your phone and get permanently banned from visiting both superpowers
Admiral Adama was right again
National Secessionist Forces
VERY hands on, wouldn’t recommend it haha.
But that’s the beauty of open source. You CAN do it
I think my approach is probably the most insane one, reading this thread…
So the only thing I expose to the public internet is a homemade reverse proxy application which supports both form based and basic authentication. The only thing anonymous users have access to is the form login page. I’m on top of security updates with its dependencies and thus far I haven’t had any issues, ever. It runs in a docker container, on a VM, on Proxmox. My Jellyfin instance is in k8s.
My mum wanted to watch some stuff on my Jellyfin instance on her Chromecast With Google TV, plugged into her ancient Dumb TV. There is a Jellyfin Android TV app. I couldn’t think of a nice way to run a VPN on Android TV or on any of her (non-existent) network infra.
So instead I forked the Jellyfin Android TV app codebase. I found all the places where the API calls are made to the backend (there are multiple). I slapped in basic auth credentials. Recompiled the app. Deployed it to her Chromecast via developer mode.
Solid af so far. I haven’t updated Jellyfin since then (6 months), but when I need to, I’ll update the fork and redeploy it on her Chromecast.
Yep, still mad I missed the final episode of Season 6 of Stargate SG-1
Well, only fair. The Martians brought Red Weed with them back in the day
Hytale… that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time. Ah, started development in 2015, that’s probably why
I also wish to become a WEB SITE CREATOR when I grow up
How much content do you have? It can only do so much when the options are few lol
You made me feel old, calling Machinae Supremacy “a band at the time”… I thought nah that can’t be right, that era wasn’t that long ago, surely? So I looked up when Overworld came out and it was 17 years ago. Oh.
I sorely miss that optimistic, anarchistic (and anarchic) old internet. But the older and more cynical I get, the more I have a deep-seated suspicion that the powers that be actively encouraged this early adopter hype-optimism, knowing they’d be able to lock us in to more exploitative forms later.
It’s a bit later in the timeline, but I also see that in the world of design language and HCI: the abrupt shift from skeuomorphic “Fruitger Aero” to soulless, flat “Material Design” encapsulates this feeling of being ensnared, of having the jail bars slam down shut behind you, in a more visual way.