Developer Diary, North River

Mini-Server, Part 29 Entropy Arbitrage Next This week’s not-quite-interesting anniversary celebrates the launch of the North River steamboat—“the Clermont” in some circles—the first steam-powered commercial water vessel, originally operating on the Hudson River between New York City and state capital Albany, which should make “North River” make a bit more sense as a name if you know the eastern United States. And with that, on to the week’s projects. Mini-Server, Part 29 While I haven’t installed anything, some small modifications impressed me and might interest some readers. As I mentioned in the second post on escaping big companies, Jellyfin has the ability to add IPTV streams, such as what companies now refer to as FAST channels. You add a Live TV source1, identify it as an “M3U Tuner,” and give it an M3U file. Content Warning: I admittedly haven’t deeply considered the legal aspects of this. It seems like copyright shouldn’t care about this at all, since it doesn’t involve…