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Re:Remember That DNA You Gave 23andMe? on Saturday September 28, 2024 @10:33AM (#41680444)
Notably, the GDPR applies depending on customer jurisdiction rather than company jurisdiction. If they’re serving EU (or UK) customers, the GDPR definitely applies.
Trace route has such a nice promise of untangling the internet into its constituent parts. We used it last year in an installation where we physicalised the internet as marble run. You would create a packet for any website, and the visit all the hops one-by-one across their various locations[1].

[1]: https://youtu.be/9uIs0sh4iYU

Re:Jellyfin: We're Good, Seriously on Monday July 22, 2024 @10:42AM (#41034999)
Just so you know, there are (open source!) third-party clients available that solve these issues. Particularly with respect to the music player, there's Fintunes[1], Finamp[2] and AmpFin[3] for instance.

Source: am Fintunes dev.

[1]: https://fintunes.app [2]: https://github.com/jmshrv/finamp [3]: https://github.com/rasmuslos/AmpFin