froztbyte

plex has decided that it is no longer worth maintaining merely partial tax on those who "want more", and has decided to continue on their path to become the bridgetroll:

As of April 29, 2025, we’re changing how remote streaming works for personal media libraries, and it will no longer be a free feature on Plex. Going forward, you’ll need a Plex Pass, or our newest subscription offering, Remote Watch Pass, to stream personal media remotely.

As a server owner, if you elect to upgrade to a Plex Pass, anyone with access to your server can continue streaming your server content remotely as part of your subscription benefits. Not sure which option is best for you? Check out our plans below to learn more.

got your own server and networking and happy to stream from your home setup? no more. the extractivist rentlords are hungry.

these people are fucking insufferable

aaaand this from 22h ago: an insta showing what looks like triple (or more) bodies than that first group

guess they feel comfortable that they worked out the launch kinks? but that also definitely is enough people to immediately stress all social structures

found another from early march

trying to follow up on shillrinivasan's pet project, and it's ... sparse

that "opening ceremony" video which kicked around a couple weeks ago only had low 10s of people there, and this post (one of the few recent things mentioning it that I could find) has photos with a rather stark feature: not a single one of them showing people engaged in Doing Things. the frontpage has a different photo, and I count ~36 people there?

even the coworking semicubicles look utterly fucking garbage

anyone seen anything more recent?

as a thing both parallel and tangent to usual sneerjects, this semafor article is kinda notable

I'll try gather previous dm sneers here later, but some things that stood out:

• the author writes about groupchats in the most goddamn abstract way possible, as though they're immensely surprised
• the subject matter acts as hard confirmation/evidence of observed lockstep over the last few years by so many of the worst fucker around
• the author then later goes "oh yeah but no I've actually done this and been burned by it" so I'm just left thinking "skill issue" (and while I say that curtly, I will readily be among the first people to get extremely vocal about the ways a lot of this tech falls short in purpose sometime)

no idea, sorry. “find some wordpals online” maybe but then you need to also deal with the vetting/safety issue

it’s just so fucking frustrating

it's gotten worse

I've logged a support ticket.

after I've previously posted this and this, an update: both the memrise browser version and the iOS app now have "chat to a buddy" as a non-skipable step in course iteration

the "buddy" is a chatbot of unclear provenance. this page mentions "MemBot - powered by AI" at the top, which is a link to this zendesk page, but that's a dead link

so it looks like duolingo is planning to become damage to be routed around

From:  The Sentry Team <[email protected]>
Subject:	Update to Sentry’s List of Subprocessors
...
 - Google LLC (Google Cloud Services) and OpenAI, L.L.C. are now reflected as subprocessors for all Sentry products, instead of select features only; and
 - Anthropic, PBC is now added as a subprocessor.

sigh

they do still have user-specified controls (and appear to respect them), but... sigh