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Cake day: June 12th, 2025

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  • Well… The person somewhere above calculated that if it was solid gold it would be about 1km x 1km… However now I just looked it up on Wikipedia, and it seems that Psyche 16 is roughly 223 km in diameter… So first of all it’s clearly not solid gold… But the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteor, and we think the meteor that caused the extinction of all the dinosaurs is the Chicxulub crater, a little off the coast from Mexico. That meteor is estimated to have been around 10km in diameter… So if we crashed Psyche 16 into earth, it would certainly be a “life on earth”-ending event.


  • To be honest I don’t know (also not OP) but if the gold is one solid chunk there might be chance that it will function as a large enough heatsink that it wont “burn”… But then again it’s probably not just one chunk… So some of the outer layers might “burn” as you say, but the gold atoms are not lost. That would require a nuclear reaction… Instead some of that gold would turn into liquid, and some would turn into gas. In this state it might reach with other elements in the atmosphere, but if it doesn’t it will turn back into solid form again when it cools. In that case the result would be microscopic gold clumps spread over a huge area.


  • You can block channels for a child.

    First you will need to set up their account as a child account, and your own account as a parent account using the Family system in Google.

    On mobile: Using your PARENT account, go to the channel you want to block for your child. Then press the “3-dot” menu in the top right corner, then select “Block channel for kids”, and finally select which child accounts to block it for.

    On desktop: Using your PARENT account, go to the channel you want to block. Click the channel description. Scroll to the bottom. Click “Report user”. In the menu that pops up select “Block channel for children”, and then select which whildren to block the channel for.










  • Holy shit… This is so incredibly out of touch… I can’t even…

    The Basics That Blow Minds

    Lol no… yt-dlp is a bit nifty, but everything else here is utterly expected of any media solution… Exactly zero minds were blown here…

    No transcoding

    Damn that sucks when the destination device isn’t capable of hardware decoding the media file, and too slow to software decode it… (also, you do know that you can just disable transcoding in Plex/Jellyfin, right?)

    No server

    SMB and NFS are both servers.

    Send someone an SMB/NFS share to your media

    Jesus, are you directly exposing SMB and NFS to the Internet? NFS is entirely unencrypted, and SMB has super scary vulnerabilities regularly…

    Zero server maintenance

    I really hope you are patching the OS, to avoid vulnerabilities in SMB and NFS which you are exposing to the Internet…

    Plays literally any codec without setup

    Sure, provided the device supports hardware decoding the codec or is fast enough to software decode it…

    Works offline/online seamlessly

    So does both Jellyfin and Plex (plex needs a one liner config change, though, to be fair)

    cross-platform

    How about TVs? How about Mobile?

    Or just… teach them? play movie.mkv isn’t rocket science.

    My mom has needed to call me and be guided over the phone 100% of the times that she has needed to scan a document… How do you think teaching her to navigate a file structure in a terminal is going to go?

    My daughter still needs us to spell out the cheat codes for her The Sims game… Do you think she’ll remember the terminal commands.

    If I forced any of my friends and family to use the command line to play media, they would just watch something else from a streaming service that actually offers some User Experience… Or do something else entirely.

    write a simple script or just… remember what you watched?

    Dunno… That seems like a hassle when it’s a built in feature in Plex/Jellyfin

    It’s literally a config file. If you can set up Jellyfin, you can handle this.

    No… It’s a config file per device, and SMB/NFS mounts per device. Now you need to handle syncing that config file, and any other user of the server will need their own config files…

    … And what about other features…

    • How do you browse metadata for your movies and series? I often like to read a summary about a movie to know a bit about what to expect. I also like being able to search for an actor, and see the cover art.
    • How do you group your movies with the extra features for that movie?
    • How do you stream your media to your TV?
    • How do you easily fetch subtitles for a movie that didn’t come with any subtitles?
    • When you are away from home on a heavily bandwidth constrained connection, how do you watch your nice high-quality movies?

    Back when I lived alone, attaching my media drive directly to my desktop computer made perfect sense, it was the only screen I owned that I wanted to watch anything on… And I didn’t need to share anything with anyone… And I could easily use mpv or vlc to watch anything I want…

    But now that other people are in the mix, and I like the convenience of using whichever screen I’m currently near, a simple network share + mpv falls so far short it isn’t even funny.






  • That’s not correct. Under the GDPR, the data that Facebook collects on you, makes them the Data Controller. Any partners they share data with would be considered Data Processors. When you invoke your right to be forgotten under the GDPR, then both Data Controllers and Data Processors must delete your data. So if Facebook partners isn’t deleting your data after you filed a request to Facebook, then they are violating the GDPR.

    That said Facebook is certainly violating the GDPR left and right. For example with their “Pay or Consent” model…