Traders Say ‘Insane’ Tech Is Making FX Markets Sleepier
Currency Volatility Is Getting Crushed in Era of ‘Insane’ Tech Advancements
Advancements in electronic trading may be crushing volatility in the currency market, making prolonged wild swings a thing of the past.Alice Atkins (Bloomberg)
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Jon Stewart was slightly pissed off about Kimmel's cancelation. So he hosted last night's Daily Show.
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
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Mark Zuckerberg Humiliated as AI Glasses Debut Fails in Front of Huge Crowd
On Wednesday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a slew of new augmented reality glasses, including what he claimed to be the "first AI glasses with high resolution," a new $799 version of its Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses that features a tiny screen that's viewable to the wearer.But it didn't take long for the company's MetaConnect 2025 keynote to descend into chaos. The social media giant's demos repeatedly failed, leading to awkward stares, deafening silences, and muted laughter.
The poor showing painfully demonstrates that the tech is far from ready, even as companies continue to shove AI into every aspect of our daily lives.
Mark Zuckerberg Humiliated as AI Glasses Debut Fails in Front of Huge Crowd
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's demos of new smart glasses repeatedly failed, leading to awkward stares, deafening silences, and muted laughter.Victor Tangermann (Futurism)
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Wait until you see what they did to the Roku UI.
So Jellyfin... How hard is it to migrate from Plex?
It would take me more than a few minutes to set up remote access VPN-less, Arr stack and Riven/Zurg to it...
But hey, as a Plex Pass lifetime user Jellyfin still looks like a good second option.
Wait until you see what they did to the Roku UI.
What about it? Genuinely... I've been using Rokus longer than Plex, what's the issue with the Roku version?
There's a new Plex UI that they pushed to Android a few months ago that breaks everything, removes options and customizability, requires extra unintuitive actions to get to any self-hosted libraries, and pushes Plex's Live TV and other junk into prominent UI positions, as I assume the investors and MBAs demanded.
It was released and universally criticized. So Plex's team thought long and hard about that user feedback - ok, ok, sorry, I couldn't make it without laughing. They changed nothing and pushed forward and now it hit Roku, with no way to decline or roll back.
They are clearly making a shift to bury the user's libraries to the profit of their monetised content.
I guess they consider that our lifetime pass isn't enough money anymore.
Enshitification is here, and I'm pretty sure it's on it's way to every other platform's UIs.
So yeah, I guess it's time to figure out how Jellyfin works.
I honestly haven't opened the android app for awhile. But I just did and the content from my server was right there on load. Near the bottom was trailers and things from Apple TV. I had to scroll pretty far down to see this and if anything it gave me an overview of what was coming up so I could add them to radarr.
I see no Plex content, I have it disabled on my account. So if it was there I'd be pretty annoyed, but it wasn't. So whatever.
Nah, I bought it years ago, and have enjoyed the experience for the better part of a decade.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not shitting on jellyfin. But Plex is just the superior experience. I've used jellyfin alongside Plex for a couple years and while it's very useful for sharing content I don't want my family to see in my Plex libraries. It just doesn't have the polish that Plex has. There's definitely potential, and I look forward to where it goes as the project matures. Like all companies, Plex will goto shit eventually, we all know it. The past couple of months have brought annoying changes and I expect them to continue to enshittify the service. But until that time comes I will continue to prefer Plex.
I could open the Plex port in my router and put it behind a reverse proxy, since the Plex frontend is actually secured unlike Jellyfin
Lemmy is obsessed with (F)OSS. But strangely when it comes to Plex/Jellyfin it's not as important due to financial decisions from years ago.
And users here are usually **But my Plex :c"*
Jellyfin, unfortunately failed the spouse test when I last tried last year.
Besides, I don't think for this particular case it would help much, they both pull their data from the same places iirc
The bane of my existence before it hit Paramount+
Now you can find individual episodes as WEB-DL
Now I only need it in dubbed form to be useful for me.
I (partially) blame tvdb for this mess. SpongeBob has every story listed as a separate episode, but good luck finding any source that doesn't bundle these up.
Meanwhile, the list for Kaguya just bundles all stories aired together in a single episode (thankfully).
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I have the French dub, which has a very different broadcast order.
S03E12 in French might be S02E22 in English, while S03E13 is part one of a special episode (so... S00E04, p1).
No one had published a conversion guide yet,so I ended up playing each file up through the title credits, to determine the new watch order.
And I raise you Pokémon. Holy mother of fuck that's messed up. Some episodes switched around for foreign distribution, some removed, and two seasons put into one, making the entire ordering one season and three episodes off. Had to manually edit nearly everything after Sonarr tagged them because Sonarr used the UK tvdb ordering iirc (the UK removed a couple episodes) but my source used Japan (scene) and Emby used US tvdb. Something like that
Feast your eyes on this shitshow (use desktop mode if on mobile)
Feast your eyes on this shitshow (use desktop mode if on mobile)
Ouch, my condolences.
It's fascinating that it took me longer to scroll through that than most people have or ever will spend on watching the show.
I did that for the first 3 seasons of a dvd pack I ordered and ripped to get the dub iny language (and the 2 rips on trackers were of a too low quality)
The initial idea is probably to extend the viewers interest over the whole episode rather than pick what you wanted to see.
Works more for linear tv. Not so much for VoD.
Thanks for the insight 😀
I've heard they're called smyths on reddit and there's a complete collection in some thread over there.
r/smyths/comments/8gix4w/streamlined_mythbusters_complete_may_2018_update
The worst I've experienced so far is Panty And Stocking S2. Here's a copy paste of what I explained to someone using my plex asking why it was so fucked.
E01 is a single episode
E02 and E03 are one episode in the west and on japanese streaming(E02), but it airs on TV as two episodes in japan
E04, E05, E06 are also one episode in the west and jp streaming(E03), but airs on TV as three episodes in japan
E07, E08, E09 are also one episode in the west and jp streaming(E04), but airs on TV as three episodes in japan
E10, E11, E12, are also one episode in the west and jp streaming(E05), but airs on TV as three episodes in japan
E13 is a single episode, but it's episode 13 for TV broadcast, and 6 for streaming..
E14 and E15 are also one episode in the west and jp streaming(E07), but airs on TV as two episodes in japan
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My main issue is that I use Sonarr which uses tvdb as backend.
If an alternative to sonarr existed that could also integrate with Overseerr I'd be on that instantly, but sadly there is nothing like that.
Having to manually handle shows my friends and family want to watch us not happening.
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If an alternative to sonarr existed
Flexget, Medusa
Overseerr
Ombi
The *arr stack is an abomination.
Having to manually handle shows my friends and family want to watch us not happening.
Your providing a free service, right?.... Dont forget to enjoy it yourself. Unless you serve 100 "friends" like everyone else. Then enjoy the money.
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Flexget, Medusa
Neither of these have a backend that would improve on sonarr for Anime.
I assumed it was obvious with the context that I meant one that used something like AniDB as a backend for anime.
Ombi
I don't like ombi, it's always been jank af for me. (also I use jellyseer not overseer to be fair)
The *arr stack is an abomination.
100% facts.
Your providing a free service, right?.... Dont forget to enjoy it yourself. Unless you serve 100 "friends" like everyone else. Then enjoy the money.
Ofc it's a free service strictly for friends and family, people who profit from piracy are cunts and should fuck right off.
Edit: huh, so medusa does support using AniDB as a backend. I seem to remember it didn't or that there was some issue with it.
Wasn't obvious as I only saw thetvdb and don't watch anime. This isn't a unique issue for anime though. It's an ancient problem at this point and without a simple solution.
Edit: huh, so medusa does support using AniDB as a backend. I seem to remember it didn't or that there was some issue with it.
Perhaps it was added later.
Oh yeah for sure, the issue with airing, vs dvd, vs streaming, vs etc etc order and what is "right" is terrible.
But it's actually kinda solved with anime, everyone in the scene and such just uses AniDB and that's all that matters. Sonarr tries to solve the terribleness of thetvdb by using theXEM, but it should just use AniDB as the backend for anime and be done with it.
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That is indeed the right way to do it, unfortunately Plex doesn't handle it well. It'll show all the episodes separately, but each one plays the entire file (fair, it doesn't know for sure where the breaks are, but could be done better), and watching the whole thing marks only the one you selected as watched, so you have to mark all the other "episodes" as watched manually (this is annoying, if it knows you watched the whole file, it should know that you've watched all the episodes it covers).
Usually if an episode is a 2 parter in one file, I'll just name it for part 1 since you'd watch them together anyway, but for cartoons the two parts are usually entirely unrelated, so it really only works properly if the file's split. It'd be better if the interface at least showed that a range of episodes are combined so you could, say, start it and know that the episode you want needs to be scrubbed through to find it, and also if it marked them all as played when you watch the whole thing.
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The main issue is automation. Now it's not a problem now that theXEM has stuff properly scene mapped, especially since I use proper private trackers.
The numbering is still a fucking mess though, and the fact that different index websites have different rules makes it really annoying.
Personally, I don't care enough. Mostly my kids watch SpongeBob, and I can tell when vaguely paying attention as they watch it that I've seen every episode in seasons 1-3 (the only seasons I bothered to load) multiple times, which would specifically have been when I was a kid watching live TV. And half the time it's on shuffle anyways so the order doesn't matter at all
Edit to add: not sure if the issues people are describing are Plex specific but Jellyfin required zero manual effort when I injested the rips. All episodes have correct metadata (as two parters, so for example I have "S1E10-11 Pizza Delivery / Home Sweet Pineapple" as a single episode)
I am too much of a lerfectionist (metadata) to not care. 🙁
Edit:
Thing is, not every release respects the aired or the DVD-order that TVDB uses.
So you might have some episode which deviates from the current order and suddenly it doesnt work anymore.
New York lawmakers arrested for blocking Ice access to federal building
New York lawmakers arrested for blocking Ice access to federal building
Arrests include 11 city officials who had demanded to see the conditions of an Ice intake facility on the 10th floorJosé Olivares (The Guardian)
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China blocks sale of Nvidia AI chips
China blocks sale of Nvidia AI chips
China steps up efforts to boost semiconductor independence, compete with US.Financial Times (Ars Technica)
Secrets of DeepSeek AI model revealed in landmark paper
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/49028251
archive.is/LGL8c
R1 is thought to be the first major LLM to undergo the peer-review process. “This is a very welcome precedent,” says Lewis Tunstall, a machine-learning engineer at Hugging Face who reviewed the Nature paper. “If we don't have this norm of sharing a large part of this process publicly, it becomes very hard to evaluate whether these systems pose risks or not.”In response to peer-review comments, the DeepSeek team reduced anthropomorphizing in its descriptions and added clarifications of technical details, including the kinds of data the model was trained on, and its safety. “Going through a rigorous peer-review process certainly helps verify the validity and usefulness of the model,” says Huan Sun, an AI researcher at Ohio State University in Columbus. “Other firms should do the same.”
Secrets of DeepSeek AI model revealed in landmark paper
R1 is thought to be the first major LLM to undergo the peer-review process. “This is a very welcome precedent,” says Lewis Tunstall, a machine-learning engineer at Hugging Face who reviewed the Nature paper. “If we don't have this norm of sharing a large part of this process publicly, it becomes very hard to evaluate whether these systems pose risks or not.”In response to peer-review comments, the DeepSeek team reduced anthropomorphizing in its descriptions and added clarifications of technical details, including the kinds of data the model was trained on, and its safety. “Going through a rigorous peer-review process certainly helps verify the validity and usefulness of the model,” says Huan Sun, an AI researcher at Ohio State University in Columbus. “Other firms should do the same.”
Secrets of DeepSeek AI model revealed in landmark paper
First peer-reviewed study shows how a Chinese start-up firm made the market-shaking LLM for US$300,000.Gibney, Elizabeth
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Secrets of DeepSeek AI model revealed in landmark paper
R1 is thought to be the first major LLM to undergo the peer-review process. “This is a very welcome precedent,” says Lewis Tunstall, a machine-learning engineer at Hugging Face who reviewed the Nature paper. “If we don't have this norm of sharing a large part of this process publicly, it becomes very hard to evaluate whether these systems pose risks or not.”In response to peer-review comments, the DeepSeek team reduced anthropomorphizing in its descriptions and added clarifications of technical details, including the kinds of data the model was trained on, and its safety. “Going through a rigorous peer-review process certainly helps verify the validity and usefulness of the model,” says Huan Sun, an AI researcher at Ohio State University in Columbus. “Other firms should do the same.”
Secrets of DeepSeek AI model revealed in landmark paper
First peer-reviewed study shows how a Chinese start-up firm made the market-shaking LLM for US$300,000.Gibney, Elizabeth
China connects its largest battery-supercapacitor hybrid storage plant - Energy Storage
China has connected to the grid a 100 MW hybrid energy storage facility that integrates supercapacitors and lithium-ion batteriesTouted as the world’s largest supercapacitor-based installation, the facility combines a 58 MW/30-second supercapacitor array with 42 MW/42 MWh of lithium-ion battery storage, spanning a footprint of approximately 16,800 square meters.
Supercapacitors provide ultrafast response times – specified at 0.001 seconds – and maintain over 85% capacity at –40°C, significantly outperforming lithium-ion batteries in extreme cold. By offloading rapid-response tasks to the supercapacitor, the system is expected to extend battery lifespan and reduce lifecycle costs by around 30%
China connects its largest battery-supercapacitor hybrid storage plant - Energy Storage
China has connected to the grid a 100 MW hybrid energy storage facility that integrates supercapacitors and lithium-ion batteries, setting a new benchmark for ultra-fast frequency regulation services.Marija Maisch (Energy Storage)
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San Francisco Gets An Invasive Billionaire-Bought Surveillance HQ
San Francisco billionaire Chris Larsen once again has wielded his wallet to keep city residents under the eye of all-seeing police surveillance.The San Francisco Police Commission, the Board of Supervisors, and Mayor Daniel Lurie have signed off on Larsen’s $9.4 million gift of a new Real-Time Investigations Center. The plan involves moving the city’s existing police tech hub from the public Hall of Justice not to the city’s brand-new police headquarters but instead to a sublet in the Financial District building of Ripple Labs, Larsen’s crypto-transfer company. Although the city reportedly won’t be paying for the space, the lease reportedly cost Ripple $2.3 million and will last until December 2026.
The deal will also include a $7.25 million gift from the San Francisco Police Community Foundation that Larsen created. Police foundations are semi-public fundraising arms of police departments that allow them to buy technology and gear that the city will not give them money for.
I must have a master to defend myself. /s
In seriousness, meet your material needs for self-defense. I'm confused?
For the First Time in 40 Years, Panama’s Ocean Lifeline Has Vanished
For the First Time in 40 Years, Panama’s Ocean Lifeline Has Vanished
Panama’s seasonal upwelling collapsed in 2025, linked to reduced winds. The event signals risks for fisheries and climate-sensitive ocean processes.Vincent L (SciTechDaily)
When is it time to switch away from youtube?
We all hate google and youtube, but overall as a community we're all simultaneously lukewarm and non-committal about pushing towards using an alternative. I admittedly cling to invidious frontends for dear life.
It seems like whenever somebody asks for an alternative to youtube, they're offered Odysee and Peertube, but inevitably many others chime in about the shortcomings of both of those platforms.
Can we as a community come to a consensus as to which of these platforms should be pushed forward?
I don't even think it needs to be a binary choice. Obviously youtube cannot be immediately replaced for it's archival of educational and tutorial videos, but we can at least push newcomers towards using invidious frontends for those instances.
Maybe Odysee is better for some type of content over Peertube. Let's discuss which platform works best for what and try to be more active about sharing and promoting them not just to viewers but potential creators as well.
If you go to share a youtube link, try to see if that video exists on an alternate platform first and share that link instead. I think that's a good first step towards getting away from youtube in the privacy community.
But youtube alternatives are still very much on the fringe and I'm hoping this post will at least inspire some discussion about changing that.
It’s kind of wild to me that the alternatives to YT aren’t… better. I mean, it’s not as if YT is brand new.
The PeerTube iOS app is just a mess. And I’m not sure, but I think the Odysee app hasn’t been updated since the Second World War.
Holy crap, my entire response sounds like a whiny kid. Maybe instead of me complaining, I should throw up a PT instance and do something meaningful.
I mean I did throw up a PT instance and publish my videos exclusively on it, and I'm getting decent views if the topic is interesting and I promote it on hacker news, I'm getting several thousands of views. But that does not fix the PeerTube mobile app, nor the fact that finding content is practically impossible and the subscribe mechanism constantly randomly stops working, there is no app for my TV (like SmartTube) etc.
I'm all in with PeerTube as a creator, but as a user it's a terrible experience.
I’m honestly not sure why PeerTube isn’t bigger than it is, aside from a few things.
I would love to have PT as a nice, open competitor to YouTube, like Mastodon is to X and Bluesky (I know Mastodon is much smaller, but you get my meaning). I’d love to see, say, bands throwing their music videos there.
If nothing else, having people yoink YT content and chuck it onto PT. I know they probably can’t, but still.
Do you mind sharing your channel? EDIT: Nvm found it. Added the new hyprland video to my watch list.
And can I ask how you find other interesting channels?
I'm sure you weighed the pros and cons of Peertube vs Odysee. What made you choose peertube?
Fair point. I'm sure many would disagree with me, but for web video anything more than HD is pointless except for very niche content. But even HD streaming at scale is taxing and expensive.
Airlines make the majority of their money from a small percentage of flyers paying business and 1st class. I think there's a world where this principal can be applied to something like peertube hosting in some form.
I agree with you for the majority of "content creators". But I think there's a sizable number of people who aren't interested in making videos for a profit and I imagine there's a fair overlap with people in this community and the fediverse at large.
If I were to create videos I would make them on either peertube or Odysee. I wasn't really aware of either platform other than vague whispers of them until recently, and I find it difficult to gauge the community sentiment on which of these platforms would be suitable for finding interesting content as well as posting it, hence this post.
Yeah, YouTube's value is not so much the content creators but that its the go to place for the average person to upload something.
So if you need a tutorial on something like fixing something at home or finding an item in a game someone who hasnt uploaded since then can be the one who provided value.
And that's the part that's difficult to replace. Youtube is like a wikipedia video resource.
Personally I feel that YouTube's data centers need to be a public resource. Nationalize them, pay out Google appropriately for their value, and then turn it into public property. YouTube can remain just the way they are and will undoubtedly retain market share because they're recognizable and everyone already has a YT account, but other people can spin up their own video front-end services to compete, while drawing from the same leviathan-sized backend data store which would now be publically owned.
There is just too much general knowledge available through YouTube for me to say it's a good idea to let it all rot behind a corporate firewall. I would love to force YouTube to shut down to then in turn force the availability of third party options. But if we shut it down without a plan to recover their server data then we've just lost a massive international educational platform. Just think of how many people you know personally who learned to fix their car or write code via YouTube University, then expand that to encompass the entire internet-connected world.
I don't think there's a chance in hell this would ever happen, because Google would never open its datacenter to become a public resource no matter how many infinites of dollars you paid them to do so, and the American government (where Google is based) would never legally force them to do so. But I really don't see any other viable path forward to dethrone YouTube and de-monopolize the video sharing industry.
Nebula is great.
It's pretty funny to watch a quick "check out our extended content on Nebula" video exit, then just immediately watch the extended content roll along with a thank you message. (Many creators simply add the Nebula exclusive bits directly to the end of the video, on Nebula.)
It makes me feel like a fancy rich person.
I use peertube as much as I can, but there's only like 3 people that I like from Youtube that's also on Peertube: Veronica Explains (@veronicaexplains@tinkerbetter.tube), The Linux Experiment (@thelinuxexperiment_channel@tilvids.com) and Gardiner Bryant (@gardiner_bryant@subscribeto.me). I guess I watch Tafotin (@trafotin@spectra.video) from time to time as well.
I hadn't even used Odysee before, but just a cursory look I did find someone whose content I enjoy there, Naomi Brockwell. From the looks of it, it has some sort of crypto feature? (ew)
Also, how in the world does decentralization work there? There's only one website, that's odysee.com, that doesn't seem very decentralized to me.
I'm just so sick of the censorship on youtube, and the shadowbanning of comments. It feels like 90% of my comments aren't seen by anyone, not even myself.
It's a shame crypto has such a stink on it.
I mean, I despise crypto-bros and just don't want anything to do with any cryptocurrency or tokens of any kind.
However, in another universe it might have been a nice way to do micropayments to support content producers.
Like I'm not going to click on an ad so the platform gets $0.02 and the creator gets $0.01, but I would click a button to give the creator $0.01 if that were a thing.
PeerTube is the 'YouTube alternative' I can somewhat get around but the issue I have it has few content creators I would watch. Otherwise, just seems more of a concept than an actual replacement for now.
I hate Odysee, it has many far-right content creator which I remember seeing much of pro-nazi video on there. It's beyond me people keep suggesting that god awful platform for people that hate YouTube for allowing far-right wingers on YouTube and doing barely anything about it.
I'm not sure how Peertube works, but from my current knowledge, torrents seem like a great (and obvious?) option, especially from an archival pov.
Not sure that streaming them is great (mostly for skipping around), but theres a lot of streaming players out now, maybe it's good now with well seeded torrents.
If I'm being naive, I would love to know in which ways.
No consensus. We should never look for that, because we need diversity in options and usage.
Discussion is peachy tho.
The very platform you're clinging to is on Death's Door and they're actively breaking YouTube's terms of service while still using the service.
None of the other platforms are even close to replacing YouTube. They can't handle the scale or the features. And none of them are heading towards being able to accomplish this.
YouTube is a capitalist utopia funded with more money than God. They provide unlimited free storage and transmission of all videos sent to their platform. They fleece videos for copyright and legal impingements. They gather corporations willing to spend on advertisements and link them directly to end users uploading data, and when they reach a threshold, they pay them.These funds pay for the unlimited amounts of storage at levels that no other platform could handle.
The other platforms that are open to us don't make enough money to do any of those things. We're relying on the funding, development, and administration of a couple of generous strangers.
I don't disagree with anything you've said, but IMO it's not the whole story.
You're correct that youtube is not going to be dethroned in the foreseeable future. The thing is, I don't want an open platform to replace youtube, I just want some content to be available on that open platform.
There are a couple of peertube servers that aren't horrible. TILVids is particularly decent.
But until somebody works out monetization for these people, it's probably going to be Slim Pickings.
At a minimum, peertube is going to need to support private videos for Patreon to have proper effect.
Nebula fucks, I had been putting off the lifetime sub for ages and finally bit the bullet one day and I've been using it more than YouTube. Feels good knowing the creators get more stake in it and are literal stakeholders without all the alrogithm nonsense.
They've made it seem like the lifetime sub won't be around forever though, worth noting.
Is the video catalog larger for paid customers?
I searched for my topics of interest and hobbies but barely got any hit.
Sucks they don't have a trial period.
I searched for my topics of interest and hobbies but barely got any hit.
Oh yeah, it is worth noting that Nebula doesn't have as many options as in YouTube, I'm afraid. That is the limitation of platform. New content creators do come in to Nebula but not as often as it would be on YouTube.
Personally, I love nebula because it does have the topics I am interested in, which is mainly history, news, video games and politics. There are also long form video essays on variety of topics. I would say that Nebula is more like nerdy because of prevalence of those topics. I haven't come across Nebula videos that are more niche like, let's say, woodworking or metalworking etc. I do photography but I think there is only one Nebula content creator that does photography.
Nebula is terrific!
It does take some time to find everything. It's not (much of) an algorithm, so I just had to explore and start subscribing to things.
Nothing can compare yet to YouTube.
The main reason is: YouTube is not only a distribution channel. It is also its own promotion channel tied to a search engine which magnifies that promotion.
You open YouTube and it offers similar videos tho what you've been watching. You search for something and there is probably a video (or many( matching what you are searching.
Other platforms are currently only distribution channels. You upload the video and promote it through other channels. Whether your own website or posts somewhere else.
Si, if you are a content producer and want to share, the current fediverse solutions are great, however it will need critical mass to attract content consumers.
And without content consumers, it will be hard to attract content providers who want a broad distribution and exposure.
So, let's start moving out own content to the fediverse and use other channels to promote them. Let's create a snowball effect. We could even post to several and see where the content consumers gravitate to.
however it will need critical mass to attract content consumers.
My guess is that that's the reason why OP wants to focus on one platform. Pick a winner and bring the traffic.
GitHub - TheWicklowWolf/ChannelTube: Download Video or Audio from YouTube channels on a schedule via yt-dlp.
Download Video or Audio from YouTube channels on a schedule via yt-dlp. - TheWicklowWolf/ChannelTubeGitHub
I think one of the biggest challenges is alternate choices for creators. If everybody posted their content to YT plus another platform, things would naturally start shifting.
If a channel I follow posts to Odysee then I watch it there. I follow multiple channels that also post to Nebula, so I try to watch it there.
But there's no clear standard for what platforms are good for what. There's also a paywall issue with some (like aforementioned Nebula) that not everybody will be able to pay. I've also tried Curiosity Stream, and never watched it because there was no content I found worth it.
Then there's the technical issues.
I can't believe that I am paying for Nubula when their app sucks so badly. (I will probably cancel but haven't yet). Odysee is so much better than when it launched but it's still a pile of dung. PeerTube I never felt worked well at all, so much so that maybe I'm missing something. But while I might not be the sharpest tool in the shed if I can't figure it out then its a bad platform.
So in all reality, there isn't a replacement for YT. I wish there was, but there isn't. There should be, but there isn't. Yes, we should try to post alternate links and such, but that's not going to make much of a difference in the end.
And sorry, this all came out significantly negative sounding. I don't mean to be crapping on the post or the idea. I just mean to point out that the issue is much deeper than user interactions. There's an infrastructure problem first (we need a viable working alternative), then a content problem second (we need to convince creators to move there), and only last is there a user interaction issue (which this post is discussing).
YouTube with a custom app seems to be the best way to actually watch your own chosen subscriptions, rather than bent force fed by the Google algorithm.
I've heard folks talk about how to get this from regular YouTube, but it's wild to me that that put up with having to go to all the trouble with the official app.
I'm not sure whether you're asking why to use a frontend vs YouTube rawdog or conflating Odysee/Peertube with a YouTube frontend. I thought they were frontends as well for a long time.
If you're asking why to use a frontend proxy for YouTube, there could be a few reasons. The obvious being privacy concerns, but other people prefer the less cluttered interface, no ads, no YouTube premium or sign in with google popups, no manipulative algorithm.
So my familiarity with front ends is extremely limited. I'm familiar with for instance someone writes a program that links to a database, but the database is still the database. So I figured the algorithm was still the algorithm since the videos reside on YouTube's servers. I thought all you would be changing was the appearance, but it sounds like a lot of the annoyances go away. Especially ads. I don't really watch the ads because for a long time I used ad blockers and when they failed, I succumbed to the extortion and paid for premium. Yes I know uBlock seems to have come out on top and when the subscription ends I'll probably go back to that. I don't really have a problem with the interface, but I don't really care for a lot of the other stuff so thanks for the intel.
Now if only I could get some of my favorite YouTubers to stop making their own commercials during the content.
I was thinking about trying Nebula, but it kind of looks like there's not that much content there. Thoughts?
A Single, ‘Naked’ Black Hole Rewrites the History of the Universe | Quanta Magazine
A Single, ‘Naked’ Black Hole Rewrites the History of the Universe | Quanta Magazine
The James Webb Space Telescope has found a lonely black hole in the early universe that’s as heavy as 50 million suns. A major discovery, the object confounds theories of the young cosmos.Charlie Wood (Quanta Magazine)
case in point, in reference to some people who made edgy memes on bluesky
‘We took the gloves off’: ex-IDF chief confirms Gaza casualties over 200,000
A former Israeli army commander, Herzi Halevi, has confirmed that more than 200,000 Palestinians have been killed or injured in the war in Gaza, and that “not once” in the course of the conflict were military operations inhibited by legal advice.
Halevi stepped down as chief of staff in March after leading the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for the first 17 months of the war, which is now approaching its second anniversary.
The retired general told a community meeting in southern Israel earlier this week that more than 10% of Gaza’s 2.2 million population had been killed or injured – “more than 200,000 people”. That estimate is notable as it is close to the current figures provided by Gaza’s health ministry, which Israeli officials have frequently dismissed as Hamas propaganda, though the ministry figures have been deemed reliable by international humanitarian agencies.
‘We took the gloves off’: ex-IDF chief confirms Gaza casualties over 200,000
Retired general Herzi Halevi says ‘not once’ had legal advice constrained Israel’s military decisions in the stripJulian Borger (The Guardian)
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What is smart to use as messenger? Briar, SimpleX or XMPP?
Very important note that 90% of users forget: There is no point using encrypted messanging apps if you use the default Keyboard app on your phone, that is already uploding every keystroke.
Before you think changing messanging app, change the damn keyboard to open-source first!
Snoops gives more context to his statements on empathy. He qualifies his statement by saying he prefers sympathy over empathy. He didn't give any explanation.
Interestingly he was correct that empathy is a relatively new word in English (early 1900s) and sympathy is much older (1500's).
If we age going to make a judgement on age alone, I don't want to go back to the 1500's.
Charlie Kirk once said empathy was 'made-up, new age term'
Turning Point USA CEO and co-founder Charlie Kirk once said, "I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that — it does a lot of damage."Jordan Liles (Snopes.com)
Honestly, this sounds to me like something a sociopath would say, which is why I don’t buy it when these people are using the ‘full context’ defence here.
The difference between empathy and sympathy is subtle, yet important, and (I think) exposes that he was a sociopath.
I’m not sure how to explain what I mean other than that sympathy is passive whilst empathy is active. Sympathy exists at arms length, whilst empathy is truly felt. Or, perhaps, sympathy is cerebral whilst empathy is emotional.
Does that make sense? I think sociopaths can understand sympathy, and maybe can tell themselves they ‘feel’ it, but empathy is a foreign concept – and in Charlie Kirk’s mind, a weakness.
So, for me, the context actually makes this quote worse.
The Treasury Is Expanding the Patriot Act to Attack Bitcoin Self Custody
cross-posted from: lemmy.bestiver.se/post/613592
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The Treasury Is Expanding The Patriot Act To Attack Bitcoin Self Custody
We shouldn't have to cater to the lowest common denominator.Marty Bent (TFTC – Truth for the Commoner)
It doesn't need mixing because the protocol itself hides the sender, the receiver, and the amount as due course.
This stuff is basically banning any privacy-preserving technology on a public blockchain, like Bitcoin, since it has no privacy by default.
As reminder crypto are being centralized so it is looking more like traditional finance. Coinbase holds over 12% of all Bitcoin and 11% of staked Ether.
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Coinbase Users Statistics 2025: Key Adoption Insights • CoinLaw
Explore Coinbase Users Statistics for trends in adoption, engagement, and usage. Unlock clear insights into growth and platform dynamics.Barry Elad (CoinLaw)
big deal, and fascism. NATO colonies copying the fascism is to be expected. Spirit of 2nd amendment is spirit of right to resist.
Patriot Act's name is meant to distract from fascist powers within it, and while bitcoin is not super anonymous if you use techniques that are now recommended to "crackdown", there is improvement.
Bitcoin's superiority over gold is the ability to move to a more welcoming jurisdiction without border confiscation, or luggage weight, concerns, and so US/Colonies crackdown on "definancialization rights" may well lead to wealth drain from the empire.
I'm sorry, but WHAT?
The US has been detaining citizens to foreign countries without due process.
Supreme court validated ICE raids in cities.
This is not 'authoritarianism creeping', it's just doing a victory lap.
Ironically this does not prevent technologies like Monero from becoming the next big platform; nor will it really prevent people from evacuating their coins to a more private and self-custodial wallet.
In general it really only puts a few more onerous steps into the equation where there will be fences and people who are expected to digitally mule bitcoin around.
In the same manner that organized criminals work around modern financial regulations aimed at capturing them; they can also work around regulations surrounding Bitcoin itself; and once the Bitcoin itself is fenced off into a Monero or other privacy preserving coin; it will remain there 'burned' or get 'laundered' by a group of gang members a few hundred times to re-mint coins clean enough to be re-deposited and re-used in the same manner.
It won't matter in the long run that they are tracking the provenance of every satoshi. Especially not if it's far too common that anyone making a suspicious move turns out to be a privacy conscious, law-abiding, yet innocent citizen.
We asked Israel's president if he's a war criminal in front of Starmer
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.youtube.com
How much the recent developments with android are gonna affect the Foss world?
A month ago I just bought a xiaomi tablet for my main work machine. Full android, with no google play / google play services, and it runs f-droid and all the apps fine. Haven't missed any app on the google play store, or that require play services.
If google keeps on alienating people, people will move over to HarmonyOS, or a lot of the larger chinese companies making android devices will maintain their own AOSP fork, and google will be as irrelevant worldwide as apple is.
bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame/brands/xiaomi at main · melontini/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame
Keeping track of companies that "care about your data 🥺" - melontini/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shameGitHub
I hope we can elevate the discourse in the Android world to accept that Android isn't about FOSS. It is, at its core, about making Google more money by getting Google more of your personal data.
Ad blockers and apps with ad blockers are hurting Google's revenue and they're going to go after it.
Honestly it's not that much better (some argue it's worse) on my side, being an iPhone user. Like yeah, we can't sideload, but I've never really felt the need to. I think both platforms should have the option though. And screw these Apple guys who say "well you should buy Android if you want that," doubly so now that it's not guaranteed in the future.
In the meantime anyway. The only real way forward is Linux phones and thankfully theyre a lot better these days.
Android will never be safe so long as it's under Google's thumb. They'll just keep tightening the screws til it's just a different looking iOS.
It is difficult to switch to custom roms when manufacturers like Samsung block bootloader unlocking or like Xiaomi make the process hard.
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GitHub - melontini/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shame: Keeping track of companies that "care about your data 🥺"
Keeping track of companies that "care about your data 🥺" - melontini/bootloader-unlock-wall-of-shameGitHub
They have Google in their
Proceed with caution!The following manufacturers require an online account and/or a waiting period before unlocking.
section, despite you not having to do either of those to unlock your phone to install e.g. GrapheneOS?
Nvidia 580 update freezing gui - Ubuntu Studio
Anyone else having this issue? I just updated through Discovery and it auto installed 580. Taskbar froze up, but everything else worked fine. I had to purge nvidia drivers, reinstall 550, and reboot. Now I'm on X.Org Nouveau. Pretty sure I was on Nvidia 570 prior to this but I don't know how to go back, still new to this Linux stuff haha
Edit: Ok, I was able to get back on 570 with software sources (kept getting an error before). 580 is still borked for me though (says proprietary and tested). Do I just wait for the next update?
I don't think there's an inherent issue with 580, but maybe others can chime in with different info.
Do you know the install source for the packages?
I don't know if it's the same in Ubuntu Studio, but in Ubuntu and derivates you can launch sudo software-properties-gtk or sudo software-properties-qt from a terminal. In the window that appears, choose the tab 'Additional Drivers'. There you can choose the Nvidia graphic drivers you prefer among older and newer versions. Good way to roll back.
Apologies if this was obvious 🙏
Number of photos and evidence for the genocide in Gaza: infinite
Number of photos and evidence of the "genocide" in Xinjiang: 0
Young Activists Say 3 Trump Orders Violate Constitutional Rights
In a Montana courtroom, a group of young people argued that a judge should halt three of President Trump’s sweeping executive orders on climate and energy policy.
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"Israeli-American" IDF Sniper Brags About Killing Palestinian Civilians.
In shocking leaked audio, Daniel Raab, an Israeli-American IDF sniper from Chicago, brags about killing unarmed Palestinian civilians.
As an investigation by the Guardian reported in the leaked video, Raab was shown “footage of 19-year-old Salem Doghmosh crumpling to the ground beside his brother in a street in northern Gaza” and Raab replied, “That was my first elimination”.
The Guardian noted that, “The Palestinian teenager appears to be unarmed when he is shot in the head”, that “Raab concedes he knew that,” and that “he says he shot Salem simply because he tried to retrieve the body of his beloved older brother Mohammed”.
The Guardian quoted him saying, “It’s hard for me to understand why he [did that] and it also doesn’t really interest me, I mean, what was so important about that corpse?”
The Guardian quoted Raab bragging, “They’re thinking: ‘Oh, I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon and all that, but they were wrong, that’s what you have snipers for”.
The Guardian noted, “After Salem was shot, his father, Montasser, 51, rushed to the site, and tried to collect his sons’ bodies for burial, but was also fatally injured by a sniper.” The paper noted that, “Raab treated love and grief as cause to kill,” quoting him saying, “they just kept on coming to try and take these bodies”.
It also noted that the video of this massacre was posted by an IDF soldier, writing, “The video of Salem’s killing, and footage of other attacks on unarmed Palestinians, was posted online five months after his death, part of a montage made by a soldier called Shalom Gilbert to celebrate a deployment in Gaza.”
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IDF Sniper Brags About Killing Palestinian Civilians.
In a secret recording, an Israeli American sniper brags about shooting civilians.The Dissident
x forwarding still works under wayland
i know this sounds silly and it should be obvious, but i've been using x forwarding at work for a few days now, but it just dawned on me that i'm running wayland on my plasma machine and the x forwarded window is display through xwayland. it works so well that i didn't even notice a difference and in fact it seems to perform better than on x
this is not even the first time xwayland works better than pure x at work. i also need to use horizon client every once in a while and it got so much more stable after i moved to wayland -- even though the application claims wayland is unsupported
waypipe too, which I've found works for most things.
Also WPRS
github.com/wayland-transposito…
GitHub - wayland-transpositor/wprs
Contribute to wayland-transpositor/wprs development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Is there a Macro application that doesn't need a whole lot of scripting knowledge?
Morning y’all
Since I switched from windows a couple years back I have yet to find a useful macro application that can handle both mouse and keyboard inputs that also doesn’t need a lot of scripting knowledge.
Back on Windows the Logitech GHub was the perfect application for making macros. Record the macro, edit the key press down & up, delay and change whether or not the macro was a toggle or of the key needed to be held was really easy to do but ever since I switched to Linux/Debian I’ve tried numerous different applications that all seem to need a bunch of scripting knowledge that I honestly don’t have the time nor energy to learn.
I’ve tried:
GitHub - sezanzeb/input-remapper: 🎮 ⌨ An easy to use tool to change the behaviour of your input devices.
🎮 ⌨ An easy to use tool to change the behaviour of your input devices. - sezanzeb/input-remapperGitHub
I've been meaning to check out open.qa/ from the OpenSUSE folks. It's what they use to test their operating system, so I figure it should be pretty good at having mouse and keyboard events scripted under it.
Wish I could give more info, but it's been a "I want to check it out" project, so I don't know much other than it exists.
openQA, automated testing for operating systems
Home of openQA, the engine at the heart of http://openqa.opensuse.orgopen.qa
Europe is legally allowed to classify nuclear and natural gas as sustainable investments
Europe is legally allowed to classify nuclear and natural gas as sustainable investments
Austria sued the European Commission, the bloc's executive, to try to have gas and nuclear excluded, but the courts shot down that argument.Canada's National Observer
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Good news on nuclear, awful news on gas, but considering the German fake energy transition is powered by it, it's perhaps inevitable.
Also this just annoyed me more than it should:
Nuclear power is a carbon-free source of electricity but it is not typically labeled as green energy, like solar, wind and other renewables. Generating power this way requires mining and processing uranium to create nuclear fuel, an energy-intensive process that produces emissions.
Unlike wind turbines and solar panels, which are made from butterfly shine and faery sighs.
Classifying gas as a sustainable investment is defensible, albeit wrong.
Gas is good in the short-term for stabilizing a power supply that doesn't yet have enough storage. Coal is too slow to respond, hydro is limited by geography, and batteries are on the cusp of major advancements that may render them obsolete in the near future (especially at grid scale). Furthermore, as I understand it gas equipment can be used to burn stored hydrogen as a kind of battery storage. In the future perhaps that could be a use case for the decades this gas infrastructure will need to be used for to be profitable.
If it were up to me I DEFINITELY would not classify it as green though.
Those two things are very different in sustainability.
Including gas as a renewable makes that classification worthless.
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Including gas as a renewable makes that classification worthless.
i wonder if that's the point
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Payment privacy
What are the options for increased privacy in how you pay for things where you live?
Cash is the obvious answer, but what about buying stuff online?
UK here. Thinking of ditching cards/contactless for good old cash. No idea about online payments - not doing anything illegal so might persevere with cards for now. Zero experience with crypto.
VPS, email and aliases have no use in real daily life outside of small niche hobbies and is a poor indicator of how useful cryptonis as currency.
I'm intrigued about PC hardware, bedsheets, food and drink directly with crypto from a store, because I have never seen that.
VPS and email are highly used in professionnal environment not only in hobbies. There is also AI where you can pay per tokens but I don't really use that.
I have even found a local phone carrier that have added Lightning Network and Bitcoin onchain for payment recently.
I live in a country where the currency holds strong even against US petrodollar. Where bank transfers have no additionnal cost (with the exception of international ones) and where cash is still used, so yes here bitcoin is considered more a store of value investment, despite mutiple merchants accepting it as a medium of exchanges. And crypto is more on the gambling side anyways.
However in countries like Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Vietnam, India, Venezuela, etc... people understand that the monopole of their government over money is not necesserly a good thing in their current situation. Use adoption is much stronger in the global south than the north. We also saw during recent protest in France people asking other to move out from the banks and store cash and Bitcoin to destabilize their corrupted system.
I would also like to remind people that without Bitcoin, Sci-Hub and probably WikiLeaks would be dead as both got banned by payment processor. So that is a strong indactor of how useful they can be. Also a non-monetray interesting use is OpenTimeStamps and the guatemala's election of 2023 that takes benefits from the immuability nature of blocks produced by the consensus. Or also the mining facilities that reduce the price of the electricity bill of nearby citizen, or help renewable energy to sell when there is no demands or simply balanced the electricty grids. But one that I am really excited about is the ones that clear methane from the atmosphere to turn it into bitcoins and make it actual economically viable. It's not all black or white, we have to see uses outside our comfort zone 😁
Cash isn't private due to banknote serial scanning. Now we need a remixing service for physical cash.
For cryptocurrencies, look at Monero.
You pull money from an ATM which scans the serials and associates them with you. You spend that bill at a shop which brings them to the bank at the end of the day where the serial is collected. So there is the information that you visited a particular shop at a particular day and bought something there.
This can be crosscorrelated with information from a dozen other sources. That information will practically never be used to your advantage.
You spend that bill at a shop which brings them to the bank at the end of the day where the serial is collected.
Have you ever been on a cash based society, banknotes don't do bank - user - seller - bank route, sometimes it might happen okay but it's not the norm, these are global, not precise tracking.
This can be crosscorrelated with information from a dozen other sources. That infomation will practically never be used to you advantage.
I agree on this, but cash have still stronger anonymity and privacy than most electronic payment methods. That's why they want cash to disapear in favor of CBDCs and banking cards. That's also why corrupted european deputee have big bags of cash at home lol.
I use it to put transaction dollar limits on my subscriptions, satellite radio in particular, so they can't jack up my rates automatically.
I don't put much stock in privacy.com being truly private, but it does break the data chain of using the same card for everything. I wish my credit union offered virtual cards.
I believe it only protects your privacy from the merchant (which only works of you dont need the item shipped and can put in a fake address)
I also only use it for subscriptions and sketchy looking sites.
I have questions. I've known about taker for a long while now and always thought it would get nowhere not because its bad, but because people likely don't care. However since the steam adult games sensorship, I seen it mentioned in Lemmy like 6 times. Even before crypto.
Has something changed? And I missing something? Do they have some actual big users? Do people now care? Or is allt his just a Lemmy bubble kind of thing?
Since Taler isn't operating in the same way as the wild-west of crypto, and needs to secure the adoption of existing banking institutions, its rollout is going to be much slower.
It hasn't been widely adopted yet, but the big change that occured is it only just recently released a stable 1.0 version that makes wider adoption possible, and passed some essential security audits, including for iOS.
In addition to recently being approved and available in Switzerland, it is also planned to be added to a Ko-fi-like payment/donation system thanks to a grant by the NLnet foundation, which will hopefully enable it to gain wider adoption by creators or youtubers, as an example. In the future, it could become a replacement for Zelle if more banks adopt it (I suspect credit unions would be more likely to give it a try, if they became aware of it by their membership, and it was requested a lot).
There's a bit more discussion of it over at !money@slrpnk.net, if you're interested.
It likely does have more representation and mind-share here on lemmy since it aligns with the ideals of many users here in particular, we're going to be more tuned into alternatives like that compared to the wider population.
Digital Payment System GNU Taler Gets Green Light to Operate in Switzerland
GNU Taler, the privacy-preserving digital payment system, is now Swiss ready.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
Cash is the correct option.
The person raising alarms about note scanning is misinformed about how frequently atms actually scan bills as they go out (it may be that all British atms have been updated in the last ten years but it’s not likely) and has completely discounted the laundering effect of just buying something small with your big bill or getting change at a store somewhere.
The argument against cash is that they know what bill you took out and that they know where that bill got deposited from, because the atm reads the bill serial and the bank does too when the shop makes their deposit. So they know where you went!
Even if you can only pull from an atm that scans the bill serial and you have a bank that actively correlates that information to your kyc account holder information and uses facial recognition to verify it’s you using the atm taking physical custody of the withdrawl, when you use a 50 or a 20 to buy a bag of potato chips or ask a bar to change your 100, the cash you get back isn’t now associated with you.
Further: places that deal with cash do not deposit every bill they take in, so there’s a decent chance that the panopticon will never associate your withdrawal with having gone to the corner store or the bar sometime after you withdrew the money. Those bills may have ended up making change for someone else or in the cash portion of the tip out or used to cover some expense that day or any number of other things.
So the choice is between some electronic form of payment where there’s an absolute paper trail between you and the recipient of your money, with a transaction id that can be correlated to your purchase.
Or
The possibility that the atm read the serial number of the bills dispensed to you, then if they made it into some shops daily deposit, the indication that that bill was possibly spent at that shop.
No indication it was you, no paper trail, no transaction id, no amount of purchase that can be correlated with actual items based on their price, just two data points with no real correlation between them.
Use cash.
Killing one of them causes a crackdown on political opponents, killing them all doesn't.
Paradox of tolerance and all that stuff.
So when people you disagree with politically, are kidnapping your loved ones, beating you up, killing people like you around you, you should... say: "I don't like that..." or...
If violence is used against you, you have a right to defend you with violence.
I'm sorry to say, but violent people don't care about you yelling "boo"... They just turn their attention against you, and use violence to silence you.
It's very impressive, that the violent people has brainwashed you to such a degree, that you let them be violent, and are willing to protect them from violence in response.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Was that what they've been saying all this time?
yep, you'll be in favor of it until it happens to someone you like. Then you'll lose your shit
see here's the thing, I don't want that to happen to anyone, not even the people I hate
what kind of a fascist is going to have civil conversations with people on college campuses around the US?
And what kind of fascist is going to advocate for the free speech rights of people he strongly disagrees with?
And of course, things got violent in 1776.
Reminds me of a classic German leftist joke: "If the RAF was so bad, then why is Schleier dead?"
(Wenn die RAF so schlecht war, warum ist Schleier dann tot?)
I am quite conflicted. On the one hand this is extraordinarily bad for American democracy, but there is a feeling in me that said democracy farce at this point.
I also believe that this will justify further violence from the right towards lgbt/left/immigrants etc. But would that happen anyway?
Political violence is a symptom, not a cause
We were already here. Lawmakers have already been killed. Just, no one took it seriously because the Democrats miss every moment
And yes, they were already invading Chicago. They were already calling to arrest political opponents. They were going to do it all anyways
Every time I see this guy, I remember this.
Chat Control 2.0
The EU Commission is lying open on social media about chat control.
Tomorrow EU governments debate about Chat control 2.0
Use the fightchatcontrol.eu email tool to make yourself heard
‘Danger to Democracy’ patrick-breyer
‘Danger to Democracy’: 500+ Top Scientists Urge EU Governments to Reject ‘Technically Infeasible’ Chat Control
Over 500 of the world’s leading cryptographers, security researchers, and scientists from 34 countries have today delivered a devastating verdict on the EU’s proposed "Chat Control" regulation.Patrick Breyer
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Only material that is clearly child sexual abuse will be searched for and can be detected.
Uh-huh. And how do you search for something specific without decrypting everything first? This is fucking embarrassing.
The government doesnt get to read every message I send and see if they deem it sendable or not. Thats the problem
If you think this would stop at CSAM then you're naive.
"Only the thing we are searching for will be searched for"
How do you know if a message has that content without scanning all messages to begin with?
The fuck? Do they think we are stupid?
Do they think we are stupid?
They definitely do. And they are partly right, for the average person this is enough to stop worrying
Using AI is a step too far.
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..... And how will you be able to distinguish between encrypted child pornography and encrypted normal messages?
It's kind of the crux of the matter, so please answer this question
Gotta have the encryption key, though. But you mustn't use for decryption. Only encryption
Oh it's easy, anyone talking about "child pornography" is obviously just using manipulative emotional talking points related to children to cloud the discussion. This person has forfeited their right to free speech and has outed themselves as an enemy of self-determination.
You can tell because all the people invoking "think of the children" never actually care about children in their action, except maybe for their children, but not children as an abstract concept.
What they really want is to read your emails, your correspondence, know your plans and your thoughts so they can subjugate you and enslave you for their own benefits. Those people are the enemy of every human and should be treated with less mercy than witches at Salem.
Stop playing their game, they ALWAYS do this and they always brow beat their little transparent evil plans.
You want my answer when they ask "how will you be able to distinguish between encrypted child pornography", you go to the person that asked and punch their clock right the fuck out, take that you fucking dickhead ! And then spit in their face as they go down.
If you care about children how about you don't fucking cut their food ration out of the budget, you horrible ghouls and vampires !
Here is a less radical version
Privacy is not negotiable. It is not a privilege granted by the state, but a fundamental condition of human freedom. Any attempt to undermine encryption, to insert backdoors, or to surveil private communications is not about protecting children, it is about total control.
The invocation of child protection is not neutral. It is a deliberate emotional manipulation, weaponized to silence dissent and shame opposition. If these proposals were truly about helping children, they wouldn’t be attacking the one technology that protects vulnerable people, encryption, including children themselves, activists, journalists, and victims of abuse.
Once the infrastructure for total surveillance is in place, it will never be dismantled without revolution. History is clear: power concedes nothing voluntarily. There will be no going back. The moment we compromise, we lose everything, and we will not get it back without blood.
There is no middle ground between liberty and submission. This is not a policy debate. This is a war for the future of human autonomy. We must reject this system entirely, not tweak it, not reform it, but destroy it at its root. To preserve freedom, we must be absolutely ungovernable.
And this fight will have to be won every single time, while they have to win just once and we'll never get it back ?
It's obviously a rigged game and such a game can only be won by cheating. Cheating so hard no one ever dares to play this game again.
So, maybe it's time to draw post-Europe borders now that european governance has become malignant, I don't believe it can be saved. This always ends up happenning so might as well hit that reset button early while they're not seeing it coming this early.
I don't see how we can stop it. If they don't succeed this year, they will try the next, and if not next, they will try the year after until it works. How do we stop this? We can't. Its like cancer. You can only slow the process down by being against them. Thats it :/ we all will be surveiled and there is nothing to stop it.
All we do as privacy advocates is to jump around. If one thing becomes illegal, we jump over to something else that provides privacy once again.
We are slowly becoming cashless, but new tech arrived and we started with crypto like monero. Once crypto is banned, we find different methods in staying anonymous or private 😀
Should I use Zen or Floorp Browser ?
I am currently using Librewolf.
But Zen & floorp browser looks beautiful.
What do you suggest?
I personally like the looks of Zen.
I would also appreciate any tips to make Zen more secure than it already is.
Edit: consider this too
Negative post about zen: reddit.com/r/LibreWolf/comment…
Positive post about zen:
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You can, part of the script corresponding to its UI is proprietary, but UI code is written in plain, accessible code for those who read HTML, CSS and JS and even moddeable by the user, but can't be forked legally by Chrome or EDGE (🖕) nor by other browsers. It`s something like open proprietary freeware. There are no logs, tracking or any other crap. nor third party investors. Sync ee2e no-knowledge. The rest is OpenSource with several different licenses, specificated in the source package. As all other browser, collecting anonym statistical data (country for lenguage settings, OS, needed tecnical data)
Source | Vivaldi Browser
View the source code for past versions of the Vivaldi browser.Vivaldi Technologies
I think that it's your browser, your choice.
I use Firefox, and don't worry about a thing. 😀 Not even what you like for a browser.
I come from Vivaldi, and Zen was the only customizable powerhouse that equaled the former. Next to Zen I also use LibreWolf, and Waterfox on Android.
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LibreWolf Browser
A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.librewolf.net
I've used a few tutorials online, and was looking through my bookmarks. This one is pretty good:
brainfucksec.github.io/firefox…
I also run Enhanced Tracking Protection in the 'Privacy and Security' settings in firefox at Custom with all options ticked except:
- Allow Firefox to automatically apply exceptions required to avoid major website breakage.
- Also apply exceptions automatically that are only required to fix minor issues and make convenience features available.
Whatever breaks, breaks.
Additionally, 'DNS over HTTPS' set at Max Protection.
Again, whatever breaks breaks and I move on to another site.
The privacy/security struggle is real.
Solidarity my brother. If I can't bend a website to my will, screw it. The info is more than likely duplicated across the internet anyways.
'Free Palestine worse than KKK' claims Jerry Seinfeld, funnyman who dated 17-year-old
'Free Palestine worse than KKK' claims Jerry Seinfeld
Many people say Jerry Seinfeld isn't funny, but this really isn't funny - amid Israel's ongoing genocide and famine in GazaWillem Moore (The Canary)
"Funnyman" so famously "funny" he's been regularly lampooned for decades as being formulaic, bland, and predictable. Quite literally the source of the
What's the deal with...
meme. He's popular like pop music, and his comedy is about as deep. This kind of dullness tracks with Zionism and genocide apologia, so I suppose these comments aren't that surprising.
funnyman who dated
Pedophile who raped FTFY
The US is now the largest investor in commercial spyware
The United States has emerged as the largest investor in commercial spyware—a global industry that has enabled the covert surveillance of journalists, human rights defenders, politicians, diplomats, and others, posing grave threats to human rights and national security.
The US is now the largest investor in commercial spyware
And new countries are linked to the dangerous software.WIRED (Ars Technica)
The irony is I remember growing up with numerous stories about how expression is locked down in China and everything there is surveilled and if you speak poorly against the government you’ll get arrested etc. And thank goodness we are free in America to express ourselves even if it’s against the government because, my gosh, I might not like what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it!
And as if with no sense of irony and not even a remote bit of critique, all those stories about surveillance in China (true or not, I don’t know) were actually true, are currently true, or are becoming true here in the USA. And in many cases they’re just sold as commodities back to us e.g. ring doorbell cameras.
And a final thought: the USA used to be able to justify many of its foreign interferences on a sort of moral high ground, including freedom of expression and all that. That mask was slipping but now with Trump2 seems to have just fallen off. The pretense has given away to crass might makes right international relations. I consider the USA becoming a hyper surveilled state to be part of this story.
That mask was slipping but now with Trump2 seems to have just fallen off. The pretense has given away to crass might makes right international relations. I consider the USA becoming a hyper surveilled state to be part of this story.
the USA has always been like this and the only reason why they don't like him is that he never bothered with the mask.
I just want to ask on behalf of people who don't care about this, "why should I care about this"?
Because every time I bring up how much we're being spied on by the government or Amazon or Google, et al, people just shrug it off. At best, they'll admit it's a problem - for people who should be worried about it. Meaning, "I've got nothing to hide". If nothing else, Americans lack (or choose to reject) the basic concept of a shared society. If there's a threat that the government is spying on people, we believe it's the "other" people, not "us".
Threats to our privacy is largely hypothetical for the majority of people. I'd even argue that the whole premise of privacy is no longer what it was just 15-20 years ago. I've even had people argue with me that they 'want' to be tracked so the ads they see are relevant to them.
So, I could see some Americans read this story and be in full support of this. They believe in a spy state as a means of protection. Ironically, these are also often the same people flying "Don't Tread On Me" flags.
See Jamal Khashoggi
theverge.com/2021/12/21/228484…
New analysis further links Pegasus spyware to Jamal Khashoggi murder
Forensics suggest that a UAE government agency installed spyware on the phone of Hanan Elatr, Khashoggi’s wife, months before his death.Corin Faife (The Verge)
In the case of AE Industrial Partners, investment performance reports show that the firm was backed by several US pension funds—among them the Contra Costa County Employees' Retirement Association, Baltimore Fire & Police Retirement System, Houston Firefighters' Relief and Retirement Fund, and the New Mexico Educational Retirement Board—providing cash that could help support the deal with Paragon, which could reach $900 million.
Daymn. Firefighters unknowingly profiting from for-profit cyber mercenaries
well vetted European services are the only viable way forward
EU prepares to give US direct access to police and immigration databases
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/48322335The EU is planning to strike a deal with the US that would let the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies search European databases to identify people posing “a threat to US security,” according to a proposal published by the European Commission at the end of July.
Statewatch | EU prepares to give US direct access to police and immigration databases
The massive increase in violent immigration raids, detention and deportation underway in the US has put off many people from visiting the country.www.statewatch.org
Regardless of which service it is, it shouldn't be selected on national lines (this "Buy European"/"Use European" crutch is reactionary nationalist bs), but rather on pragmatic terms: F/LOSS. Because even European services and legislation don't have your best interests in mind:
- The EU Funds Surveillance Around the World: Here's What Must be Done About it
- AI mass surveillance at Paris Olympics – a legal scholar on the security boon and privacy nightmare
- Investigation of the use of Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware
- Female health apps aren’t doing enough to protect sensitive data, study says
- 20 Biggest GDPR Fines of All Time
Border-transcending, fully transparent and easily accessible and auditable F/LOSS software is what should be strived for.
20 Biggest GDPR Fines of All Time
The past few years have seen massive GDPR fines handed out to firms. Here's a breakdown of the top 20 penalties from 2018 to 2024 thus far.Emmeline de Chazal (Skillcast)
It's definitely a shortcut bus since the EU start GDPR it does force a lot of services, in the EU and elsewhere, to at least show some of the practices that are privacy threatening.
There are plenty of services in the EU that are not better than in the US and elsewhere so "buying EU" does not always mean buying better.
Yet... there are also not geopolitical changes that can't be ignored. Sure the US had the NSA, 5 eyes, etc before with new regulations and examples like Microsoft, US company, that can't even tell its relatively big French government client that its data will NOT cross the boarder despite the promise of doing so initially.
So again, yes it's a shortcut, a heuristic, imperfect by definition, but at least it prompts most users to become customers, namely pay for services rather than get them for free and try to insure that they are indeed private then IMHO it's an interesting trend.
PS: note that I didn't even suggest "Buy European" so I'm not even sure why that was addressed to me specifically but because it's a recurrent trend happy to try to address the concerns.
PS2: the EU is not Europe, the EU does not represent all countries, all members state have their own regulation, the EU itself includes the Parliament, Commission, Council, etc and Members of the European Parliaments go from the far right to the far left so to somehow imply it is all for privacy or all for surveillances is an oversimplification of a much more complex situation.
It really isn't that complicated. All these major EU services adhering to the oh-so-sacred GDPR doesn't mean or guarantee anything in the grand scheme of things for as long as they run their services with Google Ad Services, AWS, Cloudflare, etc...
No matter how many times GDPR violations have been paid for, these services aren't exactly punished for doing what they do when they pay their dues in pennies.
Even if they don't use or embed tracking into their services like "promised" (which we don't even know or can confirm since most of them are closed-source), they're still under EU jurisdiction, any request for data from the service's respective origin EU country HAS to be fulfilled and they can just make up any pretense (e.g. "think of the children!!" and like we see there linked in the article about "Enhanced Border Security Partnership"). They'll also gladly incorporate literal spyware (Pegasus), with the EU's full approval.
So yes, blindly switching from US to EU services, believing that EU services are so great because muh GDPR, doesn't actually achieve "more privacy", it is simply nationalist delusion, you can read every single article linked to see why.
We still supply military support, and the DFAT page is gross: dfat.gov.au/geo/israel/israel-…
Also, abc.net.au/news/2025-08-14/aus…
We take liars at their word - because money and mossad i guess. It's not unexpected, but horrible.
ABC News
ABC News provides the latest news and headlines in Australia and around the world.Annika Burgess (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Anyone have experience with NymVPN?
It's one of the VPN products I saw on fdroid, but I couldn't find payment info and it says it's experimental. Has anyone tried it and have a baseline on how it is compared to other VPNs?
Also do they have payment methods? I couldn't find them last time I looked and I'm worried it's a free VPN
Sonalder explained it very well. I just want to emphasize that it's much more private than any other vpn because its impossible for Nym to keep logs.
I also want to add to his comment that it's like Tor network but adds noise to data and harder to deanonymize. As there aren't as many and as fast nodes as in Tor, it's slower. Here is the owners conversation with the Youtuber The Hated One:
- YouTube
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
Over confidence in VPNs
I found this to be an interesting watch in layering security/ privacy rather than throwing the hail mary at a VPN and expecting it to keep you anonymous.
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Over confidence in VPNs
Sure, I'll buy that. I mean, all the VPN power in the world is useless if your DNS leaks. As you are probably well aware of, there is no magic bullet. It is a series of layers.
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Mullvad's no-log policy proven after police raid
No customer data was compromised, the provider saidChiara Castro (TechRadar)
As a wise person once said, "No company is going to break the law for you."
It's fine to have some trust in your services, but it should never be without exception. The responsibility for privacy is always ours to ensure.
(EU) Cheap Prepaid SIM with little to no top up requirement?
Was forced to use WhatsApp a while ago and didn't want to give Facebook my phone number.
Got a pretty cheap prepaid SIM, forced myself through the KYC, used it for close to a year without issues. Now they want me to top it up with at least 15€ to avoid cancelation. Surely there's a cheaper way?
Edit: Looking to buy one in Germany
I think there are IoT sims that can only receive SMS.
My friend wanted to make something with them (I think smart thermostat) when the internet wasn't everywhere.
Kies je Prepaid simkaart met beltegoed - Simyo
Prepaid van Simyo! ✓ Prepaid simkaart ✓ Voordelig tarief ✓ Het betrouwbare 5G-netwerk van KPN: uitstekende service en kwaliteit.Simyo
In NL, one option is to get one of these: top06.nl/products/lyca-mobile-…
It is also possible to buy one of these with cash from many shops.
This one lasts 6 months each. You can buy several of these and replace every 6 months if you don't mind changing the phone number, or top-up €5 every ~6 months. You can buy the 5 euro top-up code in person from many shops, using cash, or online in a website like this one: kaartdirect.nl/beltegoed/lycam…
Lyca Mobile Simkaart met gratis beltegoed
Lycamobile simkaart met €5 beltegoed en 50Mb data – direct klaar voor gebruik in Nederland en Europa. Geen contract, wel vrijheid. Bestel vóór 16:00 = vandaag verzondenTop06
I looked up LycaMobile in Germany and was surprised to find you have an entire 'Prepaid SIM' wiki, ha! prepaid-wiki.de/tarife/Lyca_Mo…
Germany is not too far from NL. I think you can just order a Dutch SIM card. If all you want is for it to be active, I don't think it would be a problem as you would not actually use roaming services. Just top up via code every 5.5 months or so by dialing 101CODE#
I have not tested this myself so there may be some special rules I am not aware of, but I have often kept phone numbers abroad for years - just not Germany specifically
Hm, was expecting there to be some kind of artificial hurdle preventing me from getting a foreign SIM. But looks like I can just choose any SIM I like (read: minimal top up fees) from a country without annoying KYC regulations. The shipping fees to Germany for the shop linked above are reasonable.
Will report back if I find a cheaper deal in case someone else is interested. Thanks!
Hmm, you are right, it is possible that the initial activation is more difficult if you are not in NL.
I found a forum post of someome having problems with a KPN sim card, but for LycaMobile I still don't know: community.kpn.com/prepaid-16/s…
I wil be going to Germany in a few days so I will bring one of those SIM cards and check what happens when I try to activate it, I'll report back.
Sim card activation doesn't work in Germany | KPN Community
Dear Support Team,I purchased the prepaid SIM and the guy in store he told me i can activate in from any where in EU but now i am not able to activate, even sending messages failing and also calls not going through so can you activate it? My number i…community.kpn.com
I am currently near Cologne in Germany. I placed one of these LycaMobile SIM cards from NL and it activated automatically. It does recognize that it is connected to the German network and roaming, and still activates data and assigns a phone number.
So, it seems to work fine
Same thing in the UK, except you've got to top it up at least every 3 months, minimum of £5 each time IIRC, or they disconnect it.
Personally I'd be up for paying £100 cash for a SIM that would stay connected for 5 years or so. Sadly, doesn't exist
Forced to use WhatsApp? How does that work? Whoever "forced" you to do so didn't provide you a phone?
You can probably get a local eSIM with a phone number, e.g. telekom.de/unterwegs/esim but AFAICT that's also KYC, unlike data-only eSIMs, so that might not help you much, depends on your threat model (e.g. does T-Mobile share data with Meta or not).
eSIM: Alles rund um Geräte & Aktivierung | Telekom
Die embedded SIM, kurz eSIM, ist eine fest verbaute SIM-Karte, die in Smartphones, Tablets oder Smartwatches zum Einsatz kommt. Hier erfahren Sie mehr!www.telekom.de
Matrix? No, thanks. — Hackea documentació
The article alleges that Matrix:
- has links to Israeli intelligence.
- sends a lot of sensitive data to matrix.org servers, even when Synapse is self-hosted.
Is this information accurate?
To be clear, I'm not saying Matrix is bad. I'm still using it. I just want to know more about it and who's running the show, and hear other people's opinions and arguments. Thanks for all the insightful comments.
has links to Israeli intelligence.
Wrong. It's libre software. We users control it.
Lumo
I am LOVING Proton's new AI, Lumo! Are there any concerns I need to take with Proton as a company? Heard something recently about them getting fashy.
The Proton CEO has said multiple times how much he admires Trump—and this is after he started displaying his fashy colors. He might care about privacy, but I can't trust him not to sell me out if his favorite celebrities "ask nicely."
Edit: And they just recently censored journalists "by accident": theintercept.com/2025/09/12/pr…
Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency
The journalists were reporting on suspected North Korean hackers. Proton only reinstated their accounts after a public outcry.Nikita Mazurov (The Intercept)
Well what I don't love is that it's not open source. The interface is open-source, and it's definitely an important step, but the actual "AI" or LLM and the backend it uses proton.me/blog/lumo-security-m… is not.
That's unfortunate because other open source project that use "AI" (quotes here because the term is... it's just not intelligence but anyway) like Immich, even though focusing on another topic (namely images) could benefit from that for github.com/immich-app/immich/t…
So... I'm a Proton client, Visionary for years, and I do NOT like AI... but if they absolutely mush shove it down my throat at least :
- be open source with the whole toolchain
- tell me which models are used
- tell me how the datasets for models were collected
- tell me how much energy it users
otherwise I will assume something under is not right.
Overall it feels like Proton has great intention but more and more uses the excuse of privacy to keep secret that are unfortunately detrimental to individual users and the privacy community overall.
Lumo privacy and security model
Your AI chats deserve privacy. Learn how Lumo keeps your conversations confidential with zero-access encryption and no logs.Marc Dupont (Proton)
What proton offers as a paid service is compelling. It does give you the opportunity to provide metadata that can be used against you, which is how the legitimate concern over its cooperation with law enforcement played out.
I would recommend against choosing security or privacy services based on the politics of their c-suite. In a lot of ways it’s similar to getting firearm training or equipment. You might feel like you’re materially supporting your enemy, but specifically in this particular political moment you aren’t in a position to sus out the depth or veracity of someone’s expressed politics and the point is to get the right understanding, equipment and systems, not to vote with your dollars.
Further, you want to understand how the system you’re purchasing access to works. Email, for example, cannot be private without some sort of additional cryptography. SMTP is best effort only, and even in the case that the system doesn’t fall back to unencrypted transmission, it relies on certs that are often spoofed by the end users isp as a matter of course and allow mitm attacks.
Information input to an llm will be used as a training dataset later on down the line so that means anything you use the llm for shines the panopticon beam onto you.
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in reply to Ghoulishlover • • •I can't tell if that's Nozomi or Umi.
Either way, typical Kotori W.