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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • (caveats: ianal, and not familiar enough with US corp law)

    took a brief look at this last night and no, don’t think it entirely kills it. they’re changing two notable things: one is converting from whatever they are into a Public Benefit Corp, and the second is turning their weirdo ownership thing into actual stock

    while those AG paragraphs do indeed indicate that they got told to get fucked, perverse incentives still apply and saltman still needs to try find a way out of the squeeze they’re in. don’t think they’d be doing either of those changes if they didn’t see a possible path to exploiting it





  • plex has decided that it is no longer worth maintaining merely partial tax on those who ā€œwant moreā€, 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.






  • 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 ā€œoh yeah but no I’ve actually done this and been burned by itā€ so I’m just left thinking ā€œskill issueā€ (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)