Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

A week or so ago I received a rather bizarre email from the London Transport Museum Shop, telling me that if I didn't want to see Mothers' Day spam, I could opt out now. In other words, encouraging me to engage in a whole interactive experience with specific reference to Mothers' Day, in order to spare myself any potentially traumatic references to Mothers' Day.

The thought processes involved in creating this campaign beggar rational comprehension.

@thisisrjg Yes, I've just shut down a participatory server I've been running since 1998. It was never hosted in the UK but it unambiguously served a UK-centric user base, and as you say -- between steep, costly, onerous requirements and unclear but potentially huge penalties, there was simply no case for leaving it up.

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

@Fife4Europe Still, the Streisand Effect never fails, does it?

Brussels Government: Seven-party coalition option to be decided by Monday

https://www.brusselstimes.com/brussels-2/1487057/brussels-government-seven-party-coalition-option-to-be-decided-by-monday

Google support has announced in the Google Nest forum that they're pushing out a fix for the #Chromecast #ChromecastAudio 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!) #Chromecast #ChromecastAudio.

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

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

#Chromecast #ChromecastAudio

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

@EugeneMcParland This time Trump will have 60 guys in his office to gang up on Zelensky instead of 30. Some of them will be placed between Z and the cameras so nobody gets to see how strong he looks.

@EugeneMcParland Oh look, the rule of law is still alive in some parts of the world.

@dm319 @LateNightLinux

I've installed Moode Audio on a Raspberry Pi and hooked it up to my living room sound bar alongside the #Chromecast 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.

@dm319 @LateNightLinux Too small for bricked. They've pucked.

(Interestingly, two of my Chromecast Audio devices still work if I stream local content to them. None work for internet content.)

Interestingly two of my #Chromecast #ChromecastAudio 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.

@beebrookshire
I know from painful experience with most of my relatives that no matter how many times I were to say, paraphrase or explain your third-to-last sentence ("People are used...") there would simply be no way to make them understand it. None.

@1br0wn Honestly, Zuck's got my "most likely to fork the human race into two separate branches" award. His branch will basically be the blobs in Wall-E*.

*BTW Pixar deliberately pulled the punch and were much kinder about them than they originally intended to be. Something something Disneyfication something.