Years later, Netflix is still having issues. Maybe it's not as easy as you claim.

> 1. Now you just have a blank screen. Sure some people might like that but others will think there's an issue with the stream.

NASCAR has a separate feed for international broadcasts without their ads. During the ad break they'll just show an overhead camera or maybe an in car camera.

Yeah I'm familiar with that. I guess it all depends on the sport and country. Ads during the sport is quite unusual in the UK for example so we get that NASCAR feed where the camera continues with no commentary during US ad breaks. We also have a cool setup for Indycar where a local UK commentator jumps in to talk over the feed while the US goes to a break. For MLB (on their own league pass product) we get a blank screen or non-ad montage thing in between innings (although as I mentioned in another comment that's its own kind of hell).

I feel like it's fine for social chat but for technical chat I feel similar to the article.

The kernel has a cache used for block devices.

If you want to be more targeted:

    blockdev --flushbufs /dev/sda

Jitsi is an excellent free and open source alternative.

And that is useless if you have meetings with people that "have standardized" on Zoom, and that hold some sort of leverage over you, like clients/customers.

I found Clients / Customers don't care, I just send them a meetings link and they find themselves shocked in that it just works.

If they moan say it's Zoom but the corporate version.

Self-hosting my own Jitsi and it's faultless and the way to go.

Just send a meeting link and it works in any browser.

I'm pleasantly surprised at how often someone will use jitsi when the alternative is not communicating with me in such a fashion.

Can’t see enjoying my time on this Earth putting up with that sort of burnout.

I don't understand why people are still using Google search generally. It's so bad nowadays.

I'll consider it when zfs in in tree.

Governments lie all the time. This is not new.

New to me is that judges openly confirm and accept it.

Isn't that what the safe drinking water act is for?

They're still used today for cellular modems

Yep. And not your grandpa's AT command set - it's been extended to support HTTP.

https://computer.rip/2026-04-26-voice-modems.html

> Modem vendors continue to build on AT. If you look at LTE modems made for IoT applications, for example, it's common for them to provide a complete HTTP implementation (and sometimes MQTT, and sometimes some kind of proprietary message broker protocol) accessible via AT commands. That means you can implement an IoT device without a network stack at all, deferring all network operations to the modem itself. With a JSON-over-HTTP backend, for example, you might send AT commands with JSON payloads over the serial control channel and then get JSON back. You never interact with the network at all, the modem is a completely self-contained system. At the extreme, you might implement your entire device using exclusively the modem. This is a common approach for telematics devices like GPS trackers: they consist of nothing but a cellular modem, the telemetry application is built for the modem using an SDK from its vendor, and you interact with it using AT commands. IoT-class modems frequently provide GPIO and user flash for just this purpose.