Jellyfin does not handle NAT punching automatically to point that a non technical user can install an app on their TV, see one or more libraries, and connect to my server across the Internet. This is the biggest problem that Plex solves compared to Jellyfin. I can’t expect my parents to install Tailscale or make any changes to their network.

That being said I use Jellyfin. I just don’t share it with my friends.

Does it support Health Connect so I could import from other services or just Google Health? I’ve used Samsung Health for long time and want to move to something open.

Do people still use PS/2 ports?

Surveillance pricing usually makes people think per-person pricing, but the law goes further than just that.

I worked on an electronic shelf label project at a (now defunct) retail project. I’m less worried about them trying to target prices per user while in a store because there are some difficult hardware and software challenges trying to show a price to one person (like what if two people are looking at it.) Showing a per-user price per app is trivial. There’s also laws in most states that require you to pay the price shown on the price tag and trying to target per person risks failing that, though that depends on state enforcement. The system I worked at linked the prices to the point of sale system to ensure you paid the lowest price shown on any price tag in the last few hours (though that was company policy to make complying with the law easier.)

What I am worried about is prices dynamically changing based micro trends like water getting more expensive on warm days. Some people might say that increase prices means increased supply to meet that demand, the real risk is retailers being able to micro optimize prices to better capture consumer surplus as profits. A consumer is un-prepared for that and the consumer will not benefit.

15.0 adds support for OIDC tokens being handed to Actions workflows compatible with GitHub Actions. I was excited to upgrade because I wanted to continue doing cosign Docker image signing, but then I found out that the Cosign transparency log doesn’t support Forgejo. Looks like I need an alternative.

My next biggest problem is the Actions workflow itself. I setup Docker in Docker, but turns out there’s a bit of work in preparing the runners to be on par with what I used on GitHub.

Otherwise, I’ve found Forgejo to be quite good and almost all my private repos are moved over.

Home Assistant and local, cloud-free protocols and devices are great

Google Fiber unfortunately got sold to a private equity company and merged with Astound.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/google-fiber-will-be-sold-to-private-equity-firm-and-merge-with-cable-company/

I wish I had some water meters that I could monitor to take advantage of the Energy dashboard, but sadly I don’t have a submeter I can access.

Home Assistant just keeps methodically getting better!

What about throughput, latency, schema modeling, query load balancing/routing, confidentiality, regulatory compliance, operational tooling? How easily can I write a CRUD or line of business service using it?

I use the HA Voice Preview in two different rooms and got rid of my Alexa Dots. I’ve been trying both speech-to-phrase and whisper with medium.en running on the GPU for STT, tried llama3.2 and granite4 for the LLM with local command handling

I’ve been trying to get it working better, but it’s been a struggle. The wake word responds to me, but not my girlfriend’s voice. I try setting timers, and it says done, but never triggers the timer.

I’d love to improve operating performance of my assistant, but want to know what options work well for others. I’ve been experimenting with an intermediary STT proxy to send it to both whisper and speech-to-phrase to see which one has more confidence.

I’d love for my HA Voice Preview to be sufficient to replace my Alexa/Google devices. I even unplugged my Alexa devices. However, it’s been rough going for me. It never responds to my girlfriend speaking the wake word and doesn’t set timers. There’s a number of knobs that define how well it works including the physical hardware (there’s obviously the Voice Preview, but also some community made versions with better mics,) wake word model, conservation LLM model and the speech to text model (whisper vs speech to phrase). If it works well for you, can you share your configuration you’re using?

That’s the option to publish it. I was curious about the aggregated results.

Is there a place to view the device database yet or is that coming soon?

EDIT: Found it here

Are you trying to make an offline website? If so, you could look into using a Service Worker which would give you full control over when the content gets refreshed.

Windows has something called the ShutdownBlockReasonCreate API which enables apps with long running operations to prevent a shutdown to avoid corruption or losing work.

Is there an equivalent for Linux? When used appropriately, it makes shut downs even more graceful.

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I thought this was using SDKs embedded in apps and advertising platforms. This is a different threat model. You need to block ads and prefer using websites instead of apps which have more access to device info like the advertising ID.

If you’ve got an Android, go to Settings, search for ads, and find the advertising ID and delete the ID. It’s a stable identifier that can be used to identify your phone.

Switch to more private browsers like Firefox for Mobile and install uBlock Origin.

EDIT: I’m not saying this will protect you against IMSI catchers or tower based drag nets. In addition to not bringing your phone, when you do go home you need an entirely different set of tools to protect yourself.

Are those networks marked as hidden SSID networks? Hidden networks require the client STA to broadcast them to find them.

I use it to play music from Jellyfin to my Sonos speakers. It won’t fix a Jellyfin library that has bad data, but it can pull in music from multiple different sources and push to different players.

It works well enough. Some issues where songs get interrupted, but I think that’s issue with the Music Assistant/Sonos integration.

I developed my own scraping system using browser automation frameworks. I also developed a secure storage mechanism to keep my data protected.

Yeah there is some security, but ultimately if they expose it to me via a username and password, I can use that same information to scrape it. Its helpful that I know my own credentials and have access to all 2FA mechanisms and am not brute forcing lots of logins so it looks normal.

Some providers protect it their websites with bot detection systems which are hard to bypass, but I’ve closed accounts with places that made it too difficult to do the analysis I need to do.