If you missed yesterday’s live stream, here’s the latest AFTVnewscast episode. Thanks to everyone who viewed live and who participated by asking questions.
The AFTVnewscast is streamed live on Fridays at 1:30pm PT. You can watch all episodes on YouTube, subscribe via RSS, iTunes, Google Podcast, listen via TuneIn, Stitcher, or download the MP3 directly. Read on for the show notes and links.
Show Notes & Links
Sideclick Clip-on Universal Remote Review and Giveaway
Logitech Harmony remote on Amazon
How to connect a USB Keyboard or Mouse to a rooted Fire TV Stick with an OTG Cable
Kodi’s future on Android and the Amazon Fire TV is in jeopardy
MrMC, a forked version of Kodi, gets approved into the official Amazon Fire TV appstore
MrMC’s developers do not deserve the hate they’re receiving
Square Enix releases 5 new games for the Amazon Fire TV in Japan with an interesting promotion
App Deal: Jelly Blox down from $1.99 to FREE
Motorland, AWN, and Here TV arrive as the newest Amazon add-on subscriptions
Amazon adds 7 new video add-on subscription options
How to Cancel an Amazon Prime Video Add-On Subscription
Triby, the family oriented gadget that puts Alexa on your fridge, is on sale for $169
NVIDIA offering a second game controller for free when you buy a Shield TV
How to partially or entirely move Kodi data to external USB or MicroSD storage
How to block software updates on the Amazon Fire TV or Fire TV Stick
Fire TV & Fire TV Stick Rooting Starter’s Guide
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Just letting you know that firewall at work blocks http://aftvnewscast.aftvnews.com/feed/podcast/ for the content: pornography. And now I am in trouble with HR. please fix.
Thanks for the heads up. I need to know what software your company is using to be able to do anything about it.
Those lists are handled by the company who does the list/service. “AFTVnews” did not sign up to be put on a “pornography” list.
Does your HR consist of a human? Or is your HR a completely automated process? If it is a human, you can request they manually review the site. Unless they just want an excuse to fire you, there should be no issue.
When you are at work, work! Then some occasional porn wouldn’t be an issue. HR should give you a couple months off without pay.
Spoke to HR, explained what aftvnews is, looks like the process of blocking content is fully automatic based on the category of the website.
The filter is Fortiguard Filtering
see below
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=975F6C2BCE1A1B0E!586&authkey=!AEGaO7xEYmPeNZo&v=3&ithint=photo%2cpng
Good news. I clicked on the link to re-evaluate the page content and after 10 mins it was changed to the “web hosting”. You may contact Fortiguard directly if you think it’s a wrong category.
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=975F6C2BCE1A1B0E!587&authkey=!ANR3FwIJUHX1dIk&v=3&ithint=photo%2cPNG
Still blocked at my work though. Will report in 24 hours
Thanks for the info. It looks like they’re flagging the IP, and not the domain itself. The podcast is hosted on a separate shared plan because bandwidth is cheaper there than my main host. Most likely, a different website sharing the same host/IP was flagged for porn, and your companies service just flags all sites with the same IP.
What’s odd is their site has it listed as a “Shopping” site. http://fortiguard.com/iprep?data=aftvnewscast.aftvnews.com