Time traveller from 1995: I’m new here, what’s the latest with computers?

2025 guy: We have AI integrated into the OS!

TT: Wow! So whenever you spot a bug in Windows or Mac OS, you just show the AI the problem, and it fixes it in a couple of seconds?

2025 guy: Um

TT: Minutes?

I'll be damned. All of my Audios are back, not even one day after a fix was announced. Unusual for a surprise to be pleasant lately.

Google support has announced in the Google Nest forum that they're pushing out a fix for the expired cert problem

And the third one is working for this purpose as well, after unplugging it and plugging it back in. (No factory reset for me!) .

Was wrong about the app though, it's no longer finding the devices.

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Hang on, they're still working, for that purpose. Enjoying some Brubeck streamed off my own file server while making dinner.

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Well, until this morning two of my Audios were still working with noncommercial apps like and , since they don't ask the devices to authenticate. But today those have dropped off the network as well.

@dm319 @LateNightLinux

I've installed Moode Audio on a Raspberry Pi and hooked it up to my living room sound bar alongside the Audio. It can't do casting but it can do AirPlay.

But that's a somewhat inferior solution, since for the most part AirPlay doesn't hand off streams for the target device to handle on its own, you're actually streaming from the sender device, using its resources (e.g. battery, CPU, bandwidth), and you can't close the app. So I really hope Google fixes this thing.

Interestingly two of my devices are still working for local media -- I can cast to them from VLC on the iPhone, using music that's actually stored on the phone, for example. But none of them work for internet streams.

I have a suggestion: if you PM someone for information in a technology forum, don't make them read and reread a rambling, multi-topic message in order to even find the answerable questions in it. You're asking for their time and attention. Focus.

Just took a cat to the vet today, and I think I finally begin to appreciate what an emotional toll it would take to be one. A veterinarian that is, not a cat.

I mean you can't be a good veterinarian (I hereby posit) without being a compassionate and empathetic animal lover, but there's no way to tell the animal that this bewildering, invasive and sometimes painful experience is necessary and done out of love and concern.

I don't know how you get over feeling that every day of your professional life. I don't know if I could.

(Personally I never mail my ballot, I take it to one of the drop boxes. Which are easily as common as polling places are in other states, so it works out to be the same except no lines or malicious poll workers.)

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This is like an episode of Blackadder, American Style. Except here the stupidity of Percy, George and Baldrick are all concentrated into a single protagonist, along with the capricious and unchecked power of Queenie.

I wonder if has a plan for how we're going to vote when Trump destroys the post office.

A perfect comparison from @drshepherd2013.bsky.social about the importance of meteorologists at NOAA.

Saying you don't need them..."is like saying, “Why do we need potato farmers when I can just get fries at my fast food place?”" forbes.com/sites/marshallsheph

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