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Yeah, really great news: more vertical integration for higher walls around those gardens. And, as usual, the majority of hackernews is celebrating this as a win and will happily shovel more money into the pockets of tax evasion and anti-competitions champions, privacy invaders, and polluters.

I think introducing a law to require open documentation plus repairability at launch, and open-source+hardware at EOL (maybe even before say 5 years after launch) could work. Businesses keeping their secrets to make a profit and get a head start for a while is OK - it should create competition. Driving pollution with e-waste through forced obsolescence is not.

> The lesson? There’s no tool, however well designed, that can bring pure reason to politics.

The whole article is just slamming an attempt at improving the situation without suggesting any improvements. It's the typical "Hah! Look! They tried! Idiots!".

Do you think you're going to be able to convince the bricklayer, that just came back home after 8 hours of work and 2 total hours in traffic, to spend several hours reading up on a party's + candidate's history, political stance, ideology, scandals, in-depth interviews, program, and so on an so forth for every party available?

We should be happy that these things at least exist and try to aid people when making these decisions, instead of belittling them (the tools and their makers) and calling the whole thing futile. At least there are attempts to counter (at least a little bit) the deluge of opinions, misquotes, misinformation, faux news, deception and lies, that are spread, facilitated and guided on and by social networks.

If WebRTC is activated in your browser and webtorrent (https://webtorrent.io/) is being used by the instance, yes. However, you could say the same for Zoom or most video calling platform, if I'm not mistaken.

WebTorrent (https://webtorrent.io/) is built upon WebRTC, but I believe PeerTube should fallback to simple HTTP mp4. There is a download link handy that you can open in the browser, vlc, mpv or your favorite video player.

https://diode.zone/download/streaming-playlists/hls/videos/b...

It's not P2P, it's federated. Anybody can host an instance and probably that one has low bandwidth and isn't mirrored by other instances.

Instances like https://tilvids.com/ or https://video.ploud.fr/ have better bandwidth.

It does use Webtorrent by default (it can be turned off).

Is this comparable to IPFS running on I2P?

It depends on the configuration of the server. Some disable Webtorrent (probably because it doesn't support HLS). When they do that then I think it pulls from the federation, which then depends on how many have mirrored it.

Please not mailinglists. They are unbrowsable and who likes getting their inbox spammed in order to follow a discussion?

What's more, not everybody follows etiquette:

- reply and just keep the original message at the bottom

- reply in between the original message

- reply at the bottom with the original message on top

- Some mix quotes and then reply to some parts in the original

And then how do you link to users or messages from your email client?

Plus who wants to have 5 different email accounts for 5 different mailing-lists? And why would I respond in a manner that allows the world to see my private email address?

I heavily disagree that emails are the way forward in this regard (maybe even in any regard).

I'm a little split on it because they don't use IPFS. It would be great if they had a button to "mirror" or "contribute bandwidth", because that I would do. I have a few VPSs contributing bandwidth to other smaller projects + a fiber connection at home with aging disks lying around.

A simple docker-compose.yml with an IPFS service and a coordinator to pin the least replicated or most wanted items would be great. Cloudfare also has an IPFS pinning service + gateway, so they could offload some traffic to them as well.

It's not JS or node that's the problem, it's the JS ecosystem. Badly or too broadly defined dependencies can (and do) lead to pulling a new version of a dep that introduced a breaking API change and tada, you have to start hunting for the right version.

Most projects don't define the node version that their project runs on either, so what ran in node 8 might not run in node 14 now.

What's wonderful to run into is non-JS dependencies: node-gyp happens to be used here and there. Sometimes the native lib will be pulled, sometimes it will be built, who knows why. And node-gyp might then depend on python2 which might not even be present on newer distros anymore.

And so on and so forth. If it doesn't come in an AppImage or docker image, there's no chance I'm getting myself into a node mess.

I'd go even one step further: EOL software and hardware should be forced to be open-hardware (at least open schematics) or opensource. If you're not willing to support a product anymore then it should not be possible for it to simply turn into a brick because you turned off a server.

This would either create a market where companies will sell the license to support old products to other companies, or old hardware and software would finally be able to be supported by the community. There wouldn't be a need to reverse engineer or develop stuff in a "clean room" for fear of litigation.

That's going to take a while. But at least the linux kernel is starting to integrate Rust. It's doubtful they'll rewrite the whole thing in Rust, but getting it in there is a start.

I know the Chromium team was considering switching to Rust too, but who knows if that's ever going to happen. IIRC Chromium has more LOC than the linux kernel.

This reminds me of the words in the video "Why Bing Isn't a Failure (& the Future of the Internet)" [0]

> At the very bottom are plugins, extensions, mods and hacks. They fundamentally depend on the indifference or obliviousness of a larger company, who they often mean very little to. And when their goals differ the larger company always wins.

Any third-party dependent on another party will be at the whims of the other party. yt-dl can see it happening with age-restricted videos, people using tools to migrate from Spotify depend on them turning a blind eye to leaving customers taking their data with them, fan-made games that continue a story (pokemon for example) and get a cease-and-desist, probably many other examples, and now this too.

Kudos to this dude for writing an entire framework for bots as a friggin' doctor in his spare time. Hats off for staying at it for so long. Also, respect for drawing a line in the sand and not giving in to any demands from Discord or users to just lie down, take it, and continue developing the framework with more constraints.

[0]: https://youtu.be/mviTS_cIWXg?t=277

https://zorin.com/os/pro/ is basically what you're looking for

1. Other OSes (at least linux) have user keychains.

2. Once malware is running as your user, how do you expect to protect against that even with a keychain? They can log all your keystrokes, extract certificates and keys from applications running as your user or anything your user has access to, etc.

3. How are you going to support different keychains on different OSes? And what happens when they diverge? Say Apple gets "brave" again and allows only Apple signed binaries to access the keychain with the excuse of "user security", will binaries have to roll their own keychain? Are you going to make apps add another corporate dependency?

While watching live, probably not, but once downloaded they lose value, don't they?

Considering the current system and real options that they have right now, what are they supposed to do if they want to earn money (or even a living) making videos that will make you happy?

Perhaps more importantly, would you give them money?

Will this set a precedent for other countries or economic regions to follow suit? I could see France for example pointing to SK as a successful model and implementing it. Probably other EU powers will disagree, but they seem like the most like EU contender to limit Apple and Google.

I'm reading the comments here and it seems like quite a few people are disgusted but not surprised by this behavior. My question to them: has it changed / will it change your behavior and what you buy?

It's easy to complain, but if that's all that ever happens, how do you expect anything to change?

You mean the Afghan conflict? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan_conflict_(1978%E2%...

China is doing more for those countries than the West ever has or will.

Yeah, sure, they're building the infrastructure to strip the country bare, but the West hasn't been much better. Funding wars and bribing officials to keep a country poor and disorganized in order to plunder it has been the modus operandi for decades. Before then it was straight slavery.

If the Taliban make billions and build modern cities, I bet you anything that large Western countries will sell their good there. Apple, Mc Donalds, Coca Cola, Pepsi, Yves Saint Laurent, Rolex, VW, Ferrari, and so many more will be trying to conquer the market.

It's just business.

Linux laptop or desktop: https://linuxpreloaded.com/ or customize a desktop yourself

You can checkout compatibility of hardware components @ https://linux-hardware.org/

It's of course possible to keep your Macbook, do the environment some good (less waste) and run linux on your mac: https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux

Phone: a phone that supports LineageOS ( https://download.lineageos.org/ ) or GrapheneOS ( https://grapheneos.org/faq#device-support ). Neither are perfect:

- LineageOS still has some google config but at least it doesn't have Google Services (use microG for that https://lineage.microg.org/ )

- GrapheneOS only runs on Google Pixel devices so you will be putting money into Google's hands

LineageOS and GrapheneOS are as close as you can get to freedom and privacy on your phone while keeping lots of features. Open hardware + software phones are in the budding stage so people investing in them and using them right now are trail-blazers - not everybody wants to be one.

Therefore Android phones with custom ROMs are the way forward for privacy conscious people. It's easy to mock if you aren't serious about getting away from walled gardens.

How many do care though? The vast majority has swallowed whichever pills were laid in front of them and fully believe the "I have nothing to hide" message.

It's not hopeless, the people with money here should be putting it where their mouth it and actually buying things or donating to projects that make a positive change.

I think the problem with your response is that you aren't proposing anything better. It just sounds like you're saying "give in, it doesn't make a difference anyway".

That capitulating, "crabs in a barrel" attitude is why things are the way they are. The majority just sits around waiting for something to happen and for some miracle to happen; for a leader to show up, galvanize the masses to change their ways and save the day. At the same time you don't believe that will ever happen, so you stay complacent, non-active and immobile (physically and mentally).

Stop preaching futility and do something positive. Try and be the positive change you want to see. Just because you've given up doesn't mean you have to try and convince somebody else to give up. You're part of the problem.

Some apps (especially banking and governmental apps) refuse to start at all. With microG (https://microg.org/) you can run a wide range of apps though. It's quite bearable, especially if you aren't an app junkie that downloads every app promising a discount on that new store you're purchasing from.

I hope so, but at the same time, which app developer is going to target compatibility with the windows desktop when writing an app?

Also, how will/do apps that depend on Google Services work (or not)? Is there some shim or something?

Which ocean current, when was it predicted to collapse, and what do they mean by collapse?