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- Comment on After every 10 years of every social media platform becoming just another political propaganda machine Im totally bored of it. 1 hour ago:
There’s plenty of blocklists for politics unless those got deleted recently.
- Comment on U.S. solar will pass wind in 2025 and leave coal in the dust soon after 1 hour ago:
Assuming Dear Leader Trump don’t stamp it out, of course.
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 4 days ago:
Trump would probably launch strikes on the Blue states so he can start a second Civil War if he wanted to.
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 4 days ago:
One more step towards the US becoming an NK clone.
- Comment on YSK: YouTube views went down since mid-August because they no longer count views of not logged in users 5 days ago:
Just like saying the open web is broken when they’re the ones who broke it.
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 6 days ago:
You got PeerTube for that, but anyone who kills their YT account and moves to PT full time will need to secure alt funding somehow either through Nebula, merch sales, getting a W-2 job, or a combination of the three, though, even if they host on a physical server they own and not on a VPS; buying the parts to build a decent PT server is going to be a pretty heavy up-front cost in itself.
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 6 days ago:
This is why it sucks that physical print media is on the decline, because one could just scan their own PDFs instead if physical print media was still commonplace.
- Comment on Qualcomm unveil the Snapdragon X2 Elite and Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme, the fastest and most efficient processors for Windows PCs 6 days ago:
My wording might have sucked, but yeah, Linux on ARM has plenty of software, excluding Android.
- Comment on Qualcomm unveil the Snapdragon X2 Elite and Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme, the fastest and most efficient processors for Windows PCs 6 days ago:
I’d like to see decently small powerful laptops that can actually be upgraded, ala old-school Thinkpad X-series from before Lenovo ruined the ThinkPad name.
- Comment on Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened 6 days ago:
I assume the recent forced JS enforcement which recently broke downloaders and alt front-ends is connected to this somehow.
- Comment on Qualcomm unveil the Snapdragon X2 Elite and Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme, the fastest and most efficient processors for Windows PCs 6 days ago:
Too bad software still doesn’t exist in Windows on ARM.
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 1 week ago:
Plus unless they discontinue all the modular desktop form factors in favor of mini PCs where everything is soldered, and turn the PC platform into yet another Mac clone controlled by a single entity, you can still just build your own PC and install whatever OS you want at that point since custom builds don’t generally ship with an OS and expect the builder to provide it themselves.
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 1 week ago:
Good luck trying that with loose mainboards for custom builds unless they can just preinstall Windows in ROM at that point or push to get the current desktop form factors axed in favor of mini PCs from the big OEMs.
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 1 week ago:
Good luck blocking alt OSes on PC if Windows goes the route you’re describing though, unless MS pulls some strings to force Pluton platform-wide on PC and stamp out alt OSes altogether.
Also, good luck blocking decentralized and self-hostable platforms, at least easily.
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 1 week ago:
You got Linux phones but those are rough to be nice about it.
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 1 week ago:
Mirroring is more for your own content, unless you get permission to set up an instance to mirror others’ content like the numerous mirroring channels on PT.
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 1 week ago:
I meant as far as being able to self host and retain your user data, at least on PT anyways, you can do that by design and unless Google broke the ability to mirror to alternative platforms, you could mirror your YT stuff over.
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 1 week ago:
Most people are probably just using the official app without a second thought, or even the official web client on Chrome or Edge, or vanilla FF without an ad blocker or any other protections, whatsoever.
This JS thing still isn’t a good sign of things to come should Google crack down even harder.
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 1 week ago:
Whatever the latest version of HDCP is, sure.
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 1 week ago:
New broadcast standard which if implemented as intended, will use Widevine DRM to encrypt/decrypt streams, and require a web connection to view previously free OTA broadcasts, also that DRM will limit what you can do with it, as Rossmann puts it early on in his ‘this is why I show these things in my vids’ vid. …gravitywell.xyz/…/61332f1b-9a15-46b6-8a97-c4e378…
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 1 week ago:
You can already do that with PeerTube proper.
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 1 week ago:
Imagine if they broke viewing for all of the countless cheap (and e-waste) phones, tablets, low end IOT devices, “smart TVs”, and so on because they place a requirement that the device cannot meet. Those users will not throw away their hardware - they’ll migrate to the first available alternative way to watch content.
Not-so-fun fact, this is exactly what ATSC 3 is trying to do for OTA broadcast TV.
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 1 week ago:
They’d sooner replace those users with home-grown AI slop the way they’re moving right now.
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 1 week ago:
The end game is to take full control. If Google implements Widevine on YT, and especially Widevine L1, that’ll be Google’s Hiroshima bomb for both third-party front-ends and downloaders, and even non-Android, ChromeOS, Apple, or Windows platforms as far as OS goes and non-Chrome or Edge browsers.
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 1 week ago:
Not on my end.
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 1 week ago:
For now.
- Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required.github.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 228 comments
- Comment on YSK How to opt out of LinkedIn using your profile to train generative AI 1 week ago:
I just killed my LinkedIn because it was useless to me anyways.
- Comment on Sources to purchase mp3s? 1 week ago:
You could always get binders to stick them in to save space that way.
- Comment on Sources to purchase mp3s? 1 week ago:
I’m not so sure I would recommend 7Digital anymore since they’ve been delisting a lot of stuff lately, meaning even if you already bought it, you can’t download it anymore.