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> If I pay someone $100 to come clean my house and they take my money and don't clean my house, its no different than if they came into my house and stole $100.

It is not OP's house though. He is just another employee, so it's none of his business to worry about this. Your argument sounds just like an excuse to morally justify snitching on co-workers.

> And unless you were writing drivers, that major OS version wasn't going to break anything.

Just a minor nitpick, but the NT device driver API has in fact stayed largely the same since Windows 2000 and in comparison to the various technologies that came and went in userland.

Well other package managers don't automatically update packages like NPM does though but pin the exact version that you installed.

It's his project. It's your fault if you blindly trust random 3rd-party code on the internet and have your mission-critical software depend on it.

The fundamental problem is that the interests of Google do not align with the interests of it's users.

Google is not interested in serving us the "best" search results possible, they are interested in serving us their customers ads. In other words, Google search results are crap, because Google wants them to be crap.

That whole story is debatable at best. Here's just some of the things that make you scratch your head and wonder how much of it is really true:

- Author of the fork claiming that he recieved 70+ calls on his pinephone and jokingly said it didn't crash. [1]

- He deletes said tweet moments after someone asked him how anyone might've found his pinephone number despite it not being on his website or social media. [2]

- Then he says he doesn't have any proof becuse he had to wipe/reflash his phone due to his pinephone crashing (this directly contradicts his previous tweet). After being called out, he immediately deleted his HackerNews post. [3]

- The author was posting f-word and r-words on his github bio. [4]

sources:

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20210706000825/https://twitter.co...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27746263

[3] https://postimg.cc/BPXX26W1

[4] https://archive.is/ZqK2T

Say "I support the AfD." (which is a bit like the German equivalent of saying "I support Trump") in Germany though and you are villified beyond belief and declared an Unperson, so while I may agree with your point in general, Germany certainly isn't a great example to support it.

Unless you get 95% of people to use such an extension, it will be mostly useless. And if somebody succeeded in getting 95% of people to use their extension, they would sell it to the highest bidder in a heartbeat, as has happened many times before. YouTube is dead, it's time to create something new.

> We want 'order' first, which can enable a bit of prosperity, and then the slow grind to basic freedoms, it's generally the only path.

Why did you invade Iraq then plunging it into total chaos and support ISIS in Syria against the Assad regime? Why did you overthrow the Gaddafi regime in Libya. All of these actions have led to an incredible destabilization and power vaccuum in the entire region, completely destroyed the 'order' you claim you want, led to the rise of terror groups in the region and to a migration crisis of epic proportions.

> Otherwise I see a very dark future where super large companies kill people's livelihoods and nothing can be done.

What do you mean future? This is already the reality. I recall reading multiple threads here on HN in the last couple of months alone where people lost access to their Google accounts and only got it back because they happened to have a somewhat bigger following on Twitter or elsewhere. I think it's safe to assume that for each of these cases there are many others where the victims don't happen to be influential online personas and their cases just go unnoticed.

It's still actively being developed, the author just created a new project page for it for some reason. You can find it at https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc

MPC-HC is just as good as VLC and maybe a little less cluttered. It's Windows only of course, but if that isn't a limiting factor, then it's a very good alternative to VLC in my opinion.

Sorry, but no. Electron is the absolute worst piece of technology that I have come across in at least the last 20 years. It's not only that it is bloated, ridiculously resource hungry and terribly inconsistent because every program has it's own set of UI controls, but it's also just absolutely plain terrible to work with:

The APIs are a complete mess, half of them are not working properly, things constantly get broken between even minor version revisions, the documentation is usually outdated and incorrect and you need to plaster your code with OS-specific if-else statements all over the place because many of Electron's APIs behave differently on different OSes. The whole thing is just a complete disaster.

I wish I could agree but from my experience, DDG's search results aren't really that great. Often even worse than Google's.

And another private company is not the answer I believe. We need something more drastic, an open-source search engine organized as a genuine non-profit organization. Something like that. Otherwise, whatever replaces Google will just turn into another Google as soon as it gets any momentum.

Because Google is not interested in serving the best possible search results but rather in serving those that will make them the most money.

That's what it's still somewhat good for. I mostly use it to read about random history stuff I'm interested like medieval Europe etc. but avoid it completely for anything contemporary because it always has incredibly left-leaning bias.

I'm thinking of just getting a subscription for a real encyclopedia though because Wikipedia is often rather low quality in my opinion.

> I mean, I assume that for some reason the platforms just buy the rights for the dubbed version, but don't the subbed original versions also have a ton of demand (maybe more than the dubbed version)?

Why would it have a ton of demand? Nobody in Germany wants to watch subbed original versions for the same reason nobody in the US wants to do that. The German market is big enough so that everything gets localized and people are used to that and expect it.

On that note, Catherine the Great had her own husband and several other people brutally murdered to illegitimately usurp the Russian throne and was a terribly repressive and authoritarian despot, even if she liked to claim otherwise.

Oh yea let's build an OS where we can just import our kernel-mode drivers from the repository of quality code that is NPM. I mean what could possibly go wrong, right?

I'm sorry but we need less NodeJS and JavaScript in this world, not more.

Well I can still develop like this in ASP.NET if I wanted to and probably and many other languages/frameworks too, so it's not exactly unique.

> XMPP is fundamentally flawed

how is it fundamentally flawed, can you elaborate?

Don't try to put the blame for the absolute mess that is NPM on Microsoft.

> Some subgroups -- motivated groups who seem to have endless free time and a lot of passion to click little arrows and leave comments -- brigade and basically remove any functional utility of likes, dislikes and often even ratings. Hateful groups tend to particularly dominate, and weird agendas dominate.

And who exactly are these nebulous people? This sounds like something O'Brien from 1984 would say about Emmanuel Goldstein and his followers.

Their comment system will bury or shadow ban your comment because it has the word dislike in it.

That's why you only ever see positive, happy high-five comments under videos anymore. The dystopian crackdown started sometime after the 2016 US election.

> The problem with Youtube as I see it is that these comments never rise to the top. It's always compliments and ass-kissing and high-fives that make it there.

That's because they have engineered their comment system in a way that comments the AI perceives as negative are shadow-banned or buried deep down so people don't get a chance to read them.

That service does not get said exclusives until many years later, if ever.

It's just as credible as any of the mainstream US networks like CNN, MSNBC et al.

> I had the impression that RT is a propaganda tool[1] for the Russian government not an independent news organization.

Surely then you will likewise acknowledge that Euronews is a propaganda tool for the European Union not an independent news organization.

But that is only true for the consumer product line, isn't it? I have a Thinkpad T series and you can replace virtually everything and you can buy replacement parts super cheap on eBay because Thinkpads are so common.

> The Linux way of installing the apps is merely a convenient tradition. You can still put the app files anywhere and run. It will put its configuration files wherever the developer wanted them (conventionally the app dir is meant to be immutable and the files are meant to be stored under the user's home dir though). In fact many apps (incl. Chrome and PyCharm actually are installed the Windows way under /opt which is an equivalent to C:\Program Files\).

I don't think he was disputing the technical possibility of it. It doesn't help him from a user perspective though to know that this is merely a convention and not a technical limitation.