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- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 2 days ago:
Yeah it is, and it’s their fault that it is.
- Comment on Nepal bans social media(Facebook, X, Reddit, Mastodon, Discord, Signal, YouTube and more) for failing to register with the government; Only 7 to be open(Viber, TikTok, Telegram and more) 1 week ago:
Mastodon’s main code repo is on Github, a government could just pressure MS and that repo is blocked in their borders.
- Comment on Nepal bans social media(Facebook, X, Reddit, Mastodon, Discord, Signal, YouTube and more) for failing to register with the government; Only 7 to be open(Viber, TikTok, Telegram and more) 1 week ago:
Blocking the domains connected to it is the only way I can think of.
- Comment on Nepal bans social media(Facebook, X, Reddit, Mastodon, Discord, Signal, YouTube and more) for failing to register with the government; Only 7 to be open(Viber, TikTok, Telegram and more) 1 week ago:
Nepal went full iron curtain.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 1 week ago:
Couldn’t the US hypothetically put a clause in some ‘online safety’ law conveniently deanonymizing Tor given they own most of the exit nodes?
- Comment on House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias 1 week ago:
Easiest way is via Kiwix.
- Comment on House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias 2 weeks ago:
A right that’s getting rapidly eroded.
- Comment on House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias 2 weeks ago:
Good thing I downloaded it then because it’s probably going to be blocked in the US next.
- Comment on Melania Trump launches AI contest for schoolchidren in grades K-12 2 weeks ago:
Noooooo… Leave school kids in general but especially kindergarteners and first graders out of this shit!
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 2 weeks ago:
I hope MS doesn’t start doing this to Windows or else that would kill WINE/Proton, and also severely harm Windows itself given how deeply sideloading exes or msi files is ingrained into that OS.
- Comment on Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus 2 weeks ago:
This extends to the animation communities too given Google will probably flag those channels as underage with their AI at some point. Like, people like Saberspark, for example, also need to mirror to Odysee or PeerTube before their accounts get flagged, if not moving away from YT outright.
Even someone like PhantomStrider would benefit from that as well.
- Comment on Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus 2 weeks ago:
Time for them to at minimum mirror their channel to Odysee and PeerTube so that they’ll still have a platform just in case their channel gets nuked.
- Comment on What’s even the appeal of Linux? 2 weeks ago:
Or
yay [software]and pick out the software you want to install from a list. - Comment on What’s even the appeal of Linux? 2 weeks ago:
Well, you actually own it for one, given Linux is an open platform, you’re generally not at some corporation’s will unlike with closed platforms like Windows or even macOS, you’re also not arbitrarily locked out of running it on hardware made before a certain date unlike with Win11; as long as the kernel supports it, it should run on your hardware, where Windows arbitrarily locks out anything older than Zen+ or Kaby Lake without a modded install medium starting with Win11, and it generally uses less resources than Windows nowadays although that varies based on configuration.
- Comment on US pursuing stake in struggling chipmaker Intel, commerce secretary says 2 weeks ago:
This is GM in 2008 all over again.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 3 weeks ago:
and unlike the US it doesn’t even have constitutional limitations on surveillance of people on their own soil
- I’d argue the US doesn’t anymore either, or if it does, it’s only on paper.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 3 weeks ago:
It’s finally happening, tech jobs are suffering the same unemployment that the trades had been suffering for years if not decades, only this time around it’s probably self-inflicted by the AI bubble.
- Comment on The Terminal Demise Of Consumer Electronics Through Subscription Services 3 weeks ago:
Mirrorless and P&S cameras should still be able to work without an app. Also, there’s always used SLRs.
- Comment on The Terminal Demise Of Consumer Electronics Through Subscription Services 3 weeks ago:
'… now Windows works off the same model.'
- Good thing PCs aren’t locked into Windows then.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 3 weeks ago:
Making ad blockers illegal means they win the ad blocker war that YT has been waging for a while now.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 3 weeks ago:
Plus what if this hits the US and everywhere else too?
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 3 weeks ago:
Assuming it doesn’t come over to wherever you live too.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 3 weeks ago:
Also, wouldn’t this ban also potentially kill or at the very least cripple FOSS too? And what about browser forks like LibreWolf or Icecat?
Because I could see this law overriding rights that basically all FOSS licenses grant to modify something as long as that modification is still freely available.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 3 weeks ago:
I bet Google probably lobbied to revive this somehow.
- Comment on UK government suggests deleting files to save water 4 weeks ago:
How is deleting locally-stored files on your home PC going to save water, when your hardware sips resources vs. any AI datacenter in existence?
- Comment on Reddit will block the Internet Archive 4 weeks ago:
Knowing the corrupt pricks that Google are, I wouldn’t put that past them. The age-gating isn’t even about protecting the kids, it’s about censorship.
- Comment on A Tech Rule That Will ‘Future-Proof’ Your Kids 4 weeks ago:
That’s screwed, and most of the places I mentioned, are generally in cities/towns that are pretty well off, as I mentioned in that ‘sarcasm, but not really’ disclaimer, places like Appalachia are truly screwed in that regard, and also your situation.
- Comment on A Tech Rule That Will ‘Future-Proof’ Your Kids 4 weeks ago:
You still have local second-run theaters where those still exist, plus parks and playgrounds where those haven’t been ruined yet, and depending on where you live, there may even be various art/craft places to hang out at, splatter-painting places included in that.
Aside from those, yeah, there isn’t much for kids to do.
sarcasm, but also not really if you’re in a *really* low-income part of the country where there really *isn’t* anything to do, think places like Appalachia for a good example of that - Comment on Reddit will block the Internet Archive 4 weeks ago:
And Invidious while that’s still an option, but I have both a PeerTube and Odysee set up already.
- Comment on Reddit will block the Internet Archive 4 weeks ago:
I’ve declared my YT channel to be dormant starting on the 13th due to this AI age-gating crap.