2xsaiko

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Or even better: spend money (if you can afford it) to host a peertube instance that automatically rips the videos off of youtube.

Oh that’s amazing. I’m gonna see about doing that for channels I actively watch. Gives me an excuse to unfuck my NAS storage too since then it’ll be full faster.

Do you know of any software that does that already (I assume PeerTube itself doesn’t)?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Bruh. I thought that was uBlock bypassing the ad or something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I saw it in my subscribed feed earlier.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay, sure, that's just all of Apple's software though. With a few exceptions (Apple Music and Safari for Windows (RIP) I believe) all their software has only been available for their own operating systems. And (especially since I'm a Linux user) it would be great if cross-platform software were the standard, I don't think software can be truly cross-platform without being open source. And as much as I think forcing every company to open source all their code would be epic, I don't think it's reasonable, as much as I don't think it's reasonable to force them to port to every platform.

Rather I think that generally all software anyone can legally obtain should require any sort of file format, network protocol, or other protocols that are used to transfer information between computers to have (usable) public domain documentation, plus, in case the protocol makes use of device authentication, anyone to obtain a valid certificate for their device. This would solve the iMessage problem because it would allow anyone to write clients for it for any platform, but it would solve the same problem for iCloud, Microsoft Office (LibreOffice could have so much better compatibility if they didn't have to reverse-engineer the file format), Photoshop, Dis "custom clients are against TOS" cord, and thousands of other proprietary software. Because those are all the same exact problem as far as I'm concerned.

Maybe you're saying something along the same lines. But I don't think it's specifically an iMessage problem.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It's just the network effect. Here unfortunately it's WhatsApp, you pretty much have to use it because people organize events in groups with it and whatnot, and you're the weirdo if you don't have it. I actually deleted my account for a couple years but recently caved and made one again because people just wouldn't use anything else and having someone else relay messages is annoying for both them and me.

I use iMessage when it's available but I wish for groups (or just in general tbh) everyone would just use Signal because it's both not tied to an expensive device and also not owned by a corporation with a track record of shamelessly exploiting user data.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They're not doing it because every single one of these breaks after folding it 10 times. /hj

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

So you're saying there's never been an instance of private keys getting leaked or extracted ever? And there's probably easier ways to break this than trying to extract the keys, especially if they're in some kind of secure chip. People can get the hardware, they can do whatever they want to it. Of course it's most likely going to be a lot harder than copying someone's SSH keys off a hard drive.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When I visit the YouTube site, all that happens is their server sends data to my browser that it requested. What I/my browser do with that data (especially how and whether to display parts of the site) is up to me.

edit: Of course, they can try to forbid this via ToS but afaik nothing more than that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I really wonder why he renamed it to "X, formerly Twitter". /s

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yup. Chrome is the new Internet Explorer.

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