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- Comment on Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers 1 day ago:
They don’t host anything, they’re just an alternate front-end that lets you download stuff.
- Comment on Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers 1 day ago:
Workaround got released, that same issue just updated itself to indicate that. Still shitty of Google to be going full Reddit like this though.
- Comment on Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers 1 day ago:
YT’s blocked on it, at least on my end. Fuck you, Google.
- Comment on Patreon plans to consolidate its Pro and Premium plans starting August 5, taking a 10% commission, rather than the current 8% for Pro and 12% for Premium users 2 days ago:
Liberapay is looking pretty good right now.
- Comment on Reddit will help advertisers turn ‘positive’ posts into ads 3 days ago:
One more reason to be glad I ditched that hellpit.
- Comment on YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads 4 days ago:
No, but Plex can. I’d migrate to Jellyfin if you can as Plex is paywalling more of their services.
- Comment on Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux 1 week ago:
But if you have problems with open source, you gotta go get a computer person
- Not necessarily, most commercial enterprise Linux distros sell support contracts, for example, RHEL and SUSE being the two most famous examples of that.
- Comment on YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content. Videos are allowed if "freedom of expression value may outweigh harm risk" 1 week ago:
Slope’s Game Room is about to lose his channel over ‘hate speech’ that isn’t even his.
- Comment on YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content. Videos are allowed if "freedom of expression value may outweigh harm risk" 1 week ago:
How long before Google locks YT down only to Chrome on Windows, Mac, ChromeOS, or Android with DRM?
- Comment on YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content. Videos are allowed if "freedom of expression value may outweigh harm risk" 1 week ago:
I still wouldn’t trust Google not to nuke my channel on a whim even in spite of those relaxed moderation rules? What’s stopping a little bribe from the right company from causing them to backpedal or even tighten their grip further?
This is why one should at least mirror their content to PeerTube or a similar alternative platform like that if they’re not going to just outright post future content to said alternative.
- Comment on Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been dailying Linux for over a decade at this point so you don’t need to convince me, and I’ll just spin up a Windows VM for things aren’t picky about baremetal OS installs, but also don’t play nice with WINE.
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 4 weeks ago:
Not going to help when you have a monopoly over the user-generated content field like YT and by extension Google basically does.
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 4 weeks ago:
Only Freetube is being actively attacked by Google and Invidious is basically dead.
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 5 weeks ago:
Not in the traditional sense anyways.
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 5 weeks ago:
Vo-techs at least kinda have to be based on the types of things they tend to teach.
- Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom 5 weeks ago:
I didn’t even know that was a thing. Cool!
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 5 weeks ago:
Or even actually show what they learned in a practical sense.
- Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom 5 weeks ago:
And virt-manager is pretty solid for hobbyist tinkering too.
- Comment on VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom 1 month ago:
This is why KVM is a good option, or even Hyper-V for Windows hosts.
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 1 month ago:
How long before Respondus introduces an education equivalent of BattlEye as a result of stuff like this?
And I don’t mean the Lockdown browser, I mean something beyond that.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 1 month ago:
If this literal malware (I say that because again, what MS is proposing here is what some actual viruses used to do) gets ported to the Enterprise and IoT SKUs, the people who work on this stuff for a living at the local call center or public school district are going to have a nightmare on their hands.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 1 month ago:
Looks like this isn’t ripe for abuse in any way…
sarcasm - Comment on End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again? 1 month ago:
More like MS enabling Bitlocker and causing data loss without the user knowing about it, something that’s been pissing a lot of people off lately, and forced obsolescence refers to Win11 blocking everything prior to Zen+ and Coffee Lake, compounded with Win10 going EOL soon, which has at least the intended effect of making people buy a new PC even if their old PC is still good otherwise, and not all people are comfortable with having to sign up for an online account just to install their OS and would rather make a local account if possible; MS recently axed the workaround which enabled that for the consumer versions of Windows.
Also, I didn’t know local backups of your data ala simply copying it to an external drive at the minimum, weren’t an option that existed anymore.
sarcasm - Comment on End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again? 1 month ago:
So, forced Bitlocker, forced obsolescence of otherwise still viable hardware, forced online accounts, and Copilot/Recall make Win11 the best PC OS?
- Comment on End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again? 1 month ago:
I was thinking more in terms of MS locking out everything prior to Coffee Lake or Zen+ from running Win11, rendering a lot of otherwise still viable hardware obsolete, killing off Win10 GAC, and essentially forcing the purchase of a new PC with Win11 installed.
- Comment on End of 10 - Windows ten is ending. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again? 1 month ago:
If Win11 adoption is really massive, it’s because MS forced it down people’s throats.
- Comment on Doom (2016) now DRM free on GOG 1 month ago:
I thought this was never going to get ported to GOG. Sweet!
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 1 month ago:
I hope I’m not the only one in here who nuked my Reddit account voluntarily after they started ramping up censorship.
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 1 month ago:
I ditched Reddit because the writing’s on the wall for them becoming a complete hellscape with their ramping up of censorship recently, and I jumped ship before that Titanic sinks.
- Comment on Meta is failing to stop dangerous disinformation in the world’s most spoken languages. 2 months ago:
I’d more likely argue they’re facilitating it, but that’s just me.