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felindevon Age verification doesn't need to be a privacy footgun

As the saying goes "optimal amount of fraud is non zero"

felindevon Age verification doesn't need to be a privacy footgun

> We’ll trade away the last scraps of online anonymity and build a legally required censorship machine, all for a promise of safety that's always just out of reach.

Good example would be EU's proposed "chat control" regulation. Wiretapping every (even encrypted) channel for off chance illegal material might be shared.

felindevon YouTube No Translation

While it is annoying, reddit at lest gives you option to see original text.

felindevon YouTube No Translation

This change has really been annoying me and as far as I tested, no extension worked. Quick look through network activity and it confirmed that it was done server side, no original titles were supplied anywhere. Only option was display language and titles were pre-translated to it. Just give me option to see original content, that is why I'm here

felindevon I won't connect my dishwasher to your cloud

LTT made a video [0] where they tried "5G blocking paint" in real world scenario, this is always an option if you like black.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5BOFsiDpYQ

felindevon Thinking About Why YouTube Is a Monopoly

One very important factor is creators. Unless you got people to create on your platform, it isn't going anywhere. As far as I know, Youtube has best ad-revenue split of all platforms

felindevon Introducing deep research

While people might attempt that, it's going to be an arms race, just like ads vs adblocks. There's already multiple crawlers that present fake user-agent when their original one is blocked. Temptation of more data is just to irresistible to them

felindevon Seagate: 'new' hard drives used for tens of thousands of hours

> the company launched an official eBay store that sells refurbished drives. [...] However, this store only sells in the US

One could make a joke that seagate did start selling refurbs in EU, just without telling anyone. Why is it always seagate when there's something wrong with HDDs?

felindevon TMSU: Command-line tool for applying tags and viewing virtual tagged filesystem

There's multiple projects that attempt similar thing with SQLite, most recent one being Tag Studio. Seems like tag-based file organization is better solution but required mental cost/effort of upkeep is what keeps it from gaining any traction in long run

https://github.com/TagStudioDev/TagStudio/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTQeMkYRMcw