Be good to your neighbor and try to mentor the motivated. Inculcate the same lessons they gave you in others.
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It is underappreciated that every single command-line option parser/toolkit is its own full configuration language with individual tools being "programs/configs" in that language. The lexical similarity of the zillion dialects (mostly due to Unix shells doing the word splitting for the eventual argv to be interpreted) masks what is really a dizzying diversity that for whatever reasons people think is much more uniform than it really is.
For example, I've done experiments running every single program in /usr/bin with --help and -h. The number of failures to get any useful help are a huge percentage. (The normalization of said percentage naturally is idiosyncratic to the exact system I ran that on).
Anyway, adding types to a complex one like ffmpeg may help more people realize this as well as offering practical benefits. So, great job!
For the unitiated where was the conflict?
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plussed_reader commented on TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale afterbabel.com/p/industri... · Posted by u/cwwc
It's practically fucking impossible to have a normal amount of tech in the house and keep it under control, while also keeping things not-annoying for the adults. It's so much work, all because the tech is bad at providing simple and powerful solutions.
Everything lacks the basics, and nothing reads system-level e.g. content rating restrictions, it's all per-service and per-device and it's maddening.
Worse, the single most-useful parental control possible, an allow-list, is often absent from TV interfaces and steaming services. Allow-list just the PBS app on AppleTV? Impossible, there is no way to do a case-by-case allow list. Allow-list only the handful of non-brain-rot children's shows on Netflix? Nah, it's just by age rating. Et c.
[EDIT] Our solution, after years and years of banging our heads against this? App-installation blocked everywhere, no YouTube on anything, all streaming services cancelled because they're such a pain in the ass, and the kids have a large curated set of pirated content served by Jellyfin that they can watch when they get TV time, including some things pulled from YouTube by yt-dlp. If we want to one-off stream something for the kids outside of that set of content, we "cast" it from a parent's device.
The non-piracy alternative would be to go back to discs for everything, I guess.
Standard ways of interacting with "modern" media services are just awful, if you're a parent. They're so bad that it's easiest to simply abandon them.
I pretty much subscribe to your list, with the further caveat the router I got for Comcast service has a USBA network drive port that can run a 64GB thumbstick of content. A single piece of content can serve 5 devices this way before you start seeing buffering issues. Great for car trips.
plussed_reader commented on TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale afterbabel.com/p/industri... · Posted by u/cwwc
> I would say most of the time kids spend above 3yo should be without a parent facilitating their activities.
3 to 4 year olds are still putting things in their mouth that they shouldn’t be.
In a village raises the kid scenario, there would be older kids and neighbors looking after the kid, presumably with good intentions since they are neighbors.
But in a world (the internet) where anyone from around the world can communicate any of their idea to everyone instantaneously, the village is no longer raising the kid, so village rules don’t apply.
I was learning dos command line on my grandfather's lap at 3/4.
Reminds me of the time I tried using pkunzip to expand a shareware demo and filled the C drive on accident.
You could be taught to use those machines respectfully, if you knew games were available.
What does a family computer with minimal internet access look like in the constantly connected modern era?
I doubt we'll see a pseudo macOS mode on mobileOS, but the mirroring for iOS in the last 2 major releases of macOS is just a jump to the left of local emulation.