I took my kids swimming that day and the pool couldn't take our money since the payment terminal was on the Rogers cellular network, so it was a free family swim.
Maybe, but that isn't really what the GP post is talking about. At the level of mythology, the eye-earth is place where people of that group belong without judgment or limitation. No different from Harry Potter or Narnia or any other fantasy place one might imagine going where they can be with their people.
In any case, I'm not sure this even survives transposing to other senses that humans are weak in, such as smell (like prey animals) or magnetic direction (like migratory birds). A human who randomly had these would indeed be seen as superpowered, but that wouldn't become a statement that all regularly-abled humans are now disabled for missing the "critical" long range sense.
I wonder whether all the animals of Eyeth are also deaf, and how they are doing?
Deaf predators must have a field day sneaking up on deaf prey.
As life evolved on Earth, so did the senses that life forms possess, and that happened for a reason. If you hare missing some senses, there is a sense in which you are set back millions of years of evolution.
It's not just about human society, but biology.
Someone with no sensory disabilities, sent into the wilderness, has better chances of survival than someone with such disabilities, other factors being equal. That has nothing to do with society, which is absent from that scene. Civilization is the best place for people with disabilities, even if it is geared toward those without. For that matter, it's better for animals with disabilities. People help disabled pets lead quality lives; wild animals with disabilities don't live long.
That's all factually correct. Though both things can be true: Disabilities can be a disability in themselves and additionally the disabled can also be disabled by the society around them. Someone fully blind might not be able to distinguish some poisonous mushroom from an edible one with the same shape and smell but different color. That is a fundamental limitation of the inability to see. But blind people can for example still read. They are often just not provided by others with writings that are accessible to them, although that would be possible and is not a fundamental limitation of their condition.
Also ableism and othering are very much a thing that disables peoples' ability to function in a society and come exclusively from the social environment rather than from the disabled themselves.
I wouldn’t read too much into the logic of mythological worlds and realms.
Their purpose is narrative, not scientific. They don’t even need to be internally consistent.
No one expects Greek mythology to make scientific sense. Other mythologies should be seen from a similar perspective and understood that they are narrative, not logical.
Applying a scientific viewpoint to such mythologies results in a new narrative. The scientific view is always wrong unless scientific correctness is part of that world’s narrative.
I add this because a lot of people don’t know narrative purpose.
To put it briefly:
Other peoples worlds aren’t wrong when they don’t match “what makes sense in the real world”.
I'm not sure if this is what you mean by secret society, but I could well imagine that these kind of limits would be hard to enforce. Like a person creates shell corporations to own their properties on their behalf, or buys them in the name of their kids, or employs randos to "own" pieces of their portfolio.
They already do these things to take advantage of "primary residence" or "first-time home buyer" incentives; see the big hullabaloo over Letitia James doing it by accident.
Check out the origin of freemasons, a originally a secret society of stone masons whose labor was in such high demand after the black plague rolled through Europe and England that London set a maximum wage. I forget exactly what the meetings were for but it was something like a union / underground political resistance / price-fixing agreement club that worked in all the Pythagorean and Egyptian ritual later on .
I will never not talk about how bonkers it was that Jobs got up on that stage in 2005 and launched a complete replacement for the iPod mini, at the time the best-selling portable music player and it wasn't even close.
How many other execs would have the courage to do that vs letting the current thing (microdrive player) settle and holding the new thing (flash memory player) in reserve to launch only in response to a competitor gaining traction?
I had a rough time with Jellyfin like 6-7 years ago, with media not populating/playing properly, and metadata being lost on upgrade, etc.
Tried again a few months ago and couldn't be happier. The whole thing is very stable and reliable. I think my only annoyance is that the HW I have it running on isn't beefy enough for transcoding, and my LG C4 can't play some of the 4K codecs natively (particularly around DV). Obviously this isn't Jellyfin's fault, but this kind of thing is just one more item for the list of stuff to have randomly be a surprise when setting up this kind of thing.
Transcoding generally isnt about raw power and is really just a function of having hardware transcoding support. Minipcs with 'recentish' intel chips handle it with ease for a couple hundred dollars all in (pre-DRAM price increases at least)
Yeah, it's on me for reusing an industrial Mini-ITX motherboard I had leftover. The i5-4570 / 16 GB DDR3 is no slouch and is perfectly adequate for everything else this machine needs to do (download torrents, serve media, handle some backups, run a few minecraft servers), but I'm a generation or two too early for the right transcoding support, and I can't even patch over it with the PCIe slot as I'm using that to give this machine dual NVMe drives.
Given the state of RAM pricing, it's probably cheaper at this point to just buy an Apple TV or the like to put on the TV end. Eventually the NAS can go to an AM4 build when I upgrade my workstation to AM5 and the CPU and RAM from that are freed up.
Which app are you using on your TV? I've had success direct-playing 4K content with the jellyfin Android TV app. On AppleTV, Infuse works well. Infuse isn't free, but it is worth the money to me.
Wanted to put in a plug for Swiftfin, which plays the formats Infuse wanted to charge me money for, but is free and seems to work well. I use it on the AppleTV mainly.
This is using the native Jellyfin app available for LG's tvOS, so you're at the mercy of the codecs available on the TV. Last time I wanted to watch a movie affected by this, I just plugged in a laptop with an HDMI cable and played it that way.
I'd be interested to see someone try to untangle the sycophancy/flattery from the modern psych / non-violent communication piece.
In theory (so much as I understand it around NVC) the first is outright manipulative and the second is supposed to be about avoiding misunderstandings, but I do wonder how much the two are actually linked. A lot of NVC writing seems to fall into the grey area of like, here's how to communicate in way that will be least likely to trigger or upset the listener, even when the meat of what is being said is in fact unpleasant or embarrassing or confronting to them. How far do you have to go before the indirection associated with empathy-first communication and the OFNR framework start to just look like LLM ego strokes? Where is the line?
I think the difference between sycophancy and NVC (at least how I learned it) is that a sycophantic person just uncritically agrees with you, but NVC is about how to communicate disagreement, so the other person actually listen to your argument instead of adopting a reflexive defense response.
I think the problem is that telling someone they're wrong without hurting their ego is a very difficult skill to learn. And even if you're really good at it, you'll still often fail because sometimes people just don't want to be disagreed with regardless of how you phrase it. It's far easier for the AI to learn to be a sycophant instead (or on the opposite side of the spectrum, to learn to just not care about hurting people's feelings).
A lot of NVC writing is pretty bad. I recommend going directly to the source https://youtu.be/l7TONauJGfc (3h video, but worth the time)
I think NVC is better understood as a framework to reach deep non-judging empathic understanding than a speech pattern. If you are not really engaging in curious exploration of the other party using the OFNR framework before trying to deliver your own request I don’t think you can really call it NVC. At the very least it will be very hard to get your point across even with OFNR if ot validating the receiver.
Validation being another word needing disambiguation I suppose. I see it as the act of expressing non-judging emphatic understanding. Using the OFNR framework with active listening can be a great approach.
Also see Kants categorical imperative: moral actions must be based on principles that respect the dignity and autonomy of all individuals, rather than personal desires or outcomes
I guess so? I'm not well-versed, but the basics are usually around observation and validation of feelings, so instead of "you took steps a, b, c, which would normally be the correct course of action, but in this instance (b) caused side-effect (d) which triggered these further issues e and f", it's something more like "I can understand how you were feeling overwhelmed and under pressure and that led you to a, b, c ..."
Maybe this is an unhelpful toy example, but for myself I would be frustrated to be on either side of the second interaction. Like, don't waste everyone's time giving me excuses for my screwup so that my ego is soothed, let's just talk about it plainly, and the faster we can move on to identifying concrete fixes to process or documentation that will prevent this in the future, the better.
On some level it's the role of the publisher to pick winners and guide them over the finish line. See for example the hit machine that is Devolver: https://www.devolverdigital.com/games
I'm not an indie dev, but if I was I would happily give up a chunk of my potential profit to be listed on there, knowing the size of the market that says "oh yeah... a Devolver title, I would blind-buy this, it's probably pretty good."
I agree. I'm not the moral police, but video games ultimately have to walk a line where they serve up entertainment that is engaging/addictive without being all-consuming and abusive, and do so for an amount of money for which there is general consensus is "reasonable".
Trying to ride that to the moon is a very different proposition from a B2B play where you sell some service that concretelt delivers $X/mo recurring value to each customer for a $Y/mo price tag, and X > Y, but Y - your costs still turns a healthy profit. If you do that right, everyone is winning and the economy as a whole grows, not at all the same as the zero-sum game that is soaking a few whales and ruining their lives.
So this is a configuration linter; what I was hoping it might be is something that provides live auditd notices for when a tailscale user connects by SSH to a common "admin" account.
The tailscale daemon definitely knows which user it is making the connection, as it publishes that info into the journal and I've seen people scrape it out of there, but I'd much rather it go through a structured reporting pipeline. AFAICT, tailscale itself provides several things that look like they're this, but aren't quite the right thing, for example https://tailscale.com/kb/1203/audit-logging is about logging changes to the tailnet itself (eg adding nodes), and https://tailscale.com/kb/1246/tailscale-ssh-session-recordin... is recording the ssh sessions rather than simple events for XYZ logged in / XYZ session idle / XYZ disconnected.
(And yes, I know people have opinions about common admin accounts, but tailscale is another route into what FB described as far as everyone accessing the same root account but doing so with their own credentials [good!] rather than a shared key [very bad!]: https://engineering.fb.com/2016/09/12/security/scalable-and-...)
OTOH, a lot of people who think they need a VPN really just need tunneling and authenticated access, so I can see the pitch for why Teleport's offering is a fit for many users who would otherwise consider tailscale.
Theres more to it. This falls into the realm of privileged access management. I think if you are critical infrastructure, financial institution, healthcare tech. This is non negotiable and it is part of your compliances. Just VPN do not cut it out. At adaptive [1], we do the same for server, databases and kubernetes clusters. It is a double digit billion dollar TAM.
Oh that's a cool idea. Super useful for detection and response teams, guessing they're able to get some of that by standard OS telemetry via agents/EDR.
Having an audit trail is really important for medium-sized shops where a lot of senior devs still have the keys to prod and kind of need to as they're still the defacto ops team and have to be able to get in quickly to investigate faults or poke at systems to get them back online.
At the same time, when something is left in a bad state, you want to know how it got that way and when; not even necessarily just to punish people, but so that the right people are in the room to explain the full circumstances of what they did and why.
I took my kids swimming that day and the pool couldn't take our money since the payment terminal was on the Rogers cellular network, so it was a free family swim.
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