Sorry, that was in response to if anyone knows alternative youtube frontends, not really aimed at your original question. You probably just entered a youtube url. And piefed just goes ahead and matches all the links that start with youtube.com and adds this additional link to a privacy-respecting service… which unfortunately doesn’t work… But PieFed does this entirely automatically, and I believe to all links. I don’t think there’s anything for the user to change here. But PieFed should offer features which actually work, so me might want to deal with this in one form or another.

What’s the encryption and signing on a hardware level for? I mean dependent on what’s that good for and who controls it, it’s trusted computing, or treacherous computing as Stallman calls it…

I think the overall idea is nice, though. We had these project ideas to just plug in a box and be self sufficient in the self-hosting community since the SheevaPlug. Or the FreedomBox. There are some niche hardware projects as well like the Home Assistant Green. But none of those match exactly with your proposal.

I think yewtu.be (Individous) and for example https://lt.epicsite.xyz/ (Liberatube) still work, at least as of now. I’ve not seen any working, public Piped instances in a while. And that’s pretty much the alternative webfrontends I’m aware of. But I know from tinkering with Peertube and yt-dlp how difficult it is to access the videos in non-standard ways. Youtube has some countermeasures in place and they’ll regularly come up with ways to make it yet more difficult. So, overall it’s not looking good for quite some time now.

Ah danke! vielleicht sollte ich auch mal wieder ein Buch lesen… Kann man bestimmt auch eine ganze Buchreihe draus machen wie Neoliberalismus, Social Media, Überwachungsfetisch und so und alles in Richtung Faschismus treibt. Hängt eh wahrscheinlich alles zusammen und ist eine detaillierte Geschichte und verwickelter als man sich das so ausmalt…

What’s the appeal of a pitbull anyway? I don’t have a dog but I think I’d go for a fluffy large and calm one. The opposite of that would be something like a bull terrier which I don’t find pretty at all. Or a pug which just looks deranged and I’ve never met one with a personality I like, but that’s not a dangerous breed, just a silly one.

Uh sorry, I don’t have a good recommendation. I myself use a self-hosted instance of SearXNG but that’s a bit much for the non-tech people and it doesn’t work that well due to all the rate-limiting of Google etc so it’ll intermittently stop working and I just can’t recommend it. I know lots of people use Duckduckgo, Startpage or Ecosia. But I’m not an expert on them, if they provide privacy or whether they care for the environment or do green washing. So I’m afraid I can’t make a good statement here.

Thanks for sharing. I use a metasearch engine so I don’t have to see it. Unfortunately that doesn’t make a big difference in the broader picture. For most users this is the default experience. Slop at the top, then advertisements and only then what a search engine is supposed to return. And those burnt CPU cycles will be forced upon them. And I guess that’s pretty much normalized by now. Probably also the reason why Google does it in the first place.

Außerordentlich lieben Dank! Wird umgehend in meinen Wortschatz integriert. Nebenbei: wenn man nach “Merz Kacklöffel” sucht, kriegt man aktuell die ganzen Artikel über ob er und Macron im Zug nach Kiew gekokst haben.

Geil. Hat sie auch gesagt wie wir jemanden wie Merz stattdessen nennen können? Ich hätte schon gerne ein Wort um Leute zu bezeichnen, die konstant in der braunen Suppe rumrühren und ganz nonchalant für alle Probleme die Lösung Abschiebung anbieten?!

Bit unfortunate that the authors then went ahead to write “This is crazy. NEVER” over it. Because that makes it wrong, given never has a meaning like not at all. I mean this doesn’t take away from the atrocities humans did to other humans, I’m just questioning the choice of an inaccurate map to visualize it. And I think travelling shows were big as well back in the time. I mean people didn’t have the means to travel 2h by car to visit an exhibition of something. So that proper definition would be limited to big cities anyway, while the rest of the shows, exhibitions, circuses would be travelling to reach the majority of the ordinary people.

Thanks. Bizarre conversation. But from all sides really, also wild to just claim they don’t know what a zero day is and that’s just made up. I think it’s super unhealthy no one looks at the actual code and what they’re doing but it’s completely hypothetical and about what people say, not do. Like what code quality they actually have. That’d be a good indicator for their users to judge. And also to judge how clever these people are. But seems that’s exempt from the discussion. Idk. Thanks for pointing me at this, I wasn’t aware. I’ll scroll through it some more.

And I’d really like to know what those developers see in AI that I don’t see and why they use it in the first place. From what I can tell by scrolling through their PRs, Copilot hasn’t been of much help to them. And there’s a reason why other people use or avoid it. I still think it’s not as bad as portrayed. The review process will deal with AI slop the same way it does with malicious PRs from the NSA or Russian hackers… It needs to handle all of it 100% so slop doesn’t really stand out here. But it’s really weird to do experiments in a password manager and not some side-project.

Edit: And now that I see that, I kinda hate how mobs show up in their Github repo to spam them. I don’t think this is the solution either.

debate the merits of slop code in a password manager elsewhere

I’m just commenting, I didn’t make the post?! I mean I like 80% of what they say. I think it’s great to have transparency and a review process in my password manager… Just not AI…

Isn’t “to double down” a blackjack reference? I mean sure, they’re upholding their position here. And it might be debatable whether that’s a risky game. Just saying they didn’t change anything with this statement.

Lol. How is that doubling down? That’s what we concluded two days ago in the discussion over at !fuck_ai@lemmy.world from what they did in the previous months. And now they confirm it is in fact like that… And… I mean it’s not a secret. They’re actually pretty transparent with it and the statement matches almost exactly what they’ve been writing in their Github repo for some time now. I mean we might not like what they do. But I really don’t see how they double down on anything here.

Yeah, I’d be willing to partially blame that on the users. If you’re using some big advertisement company’s product as your portal to the digital world, that’s on you. Similar for other data-harvesting companies like OpenAI.

Bit black and white thinking, but there’s some truth to it. I mean in reality everything is nuanced. Your government is probably neither fully democratic nor authoritarian and art is supposed to be there for everyone but then it costs money and you need time and not a 70h work-week to participate. But generative AI has some additional obstacles due to the cost of computing, the datasets and the impact. The closest we get is something like Mozilla’s Common Voice and these efforts to collaboratively work towards an open source text to speech, or machine translation… But we can see how it only got us so far and then the big companies and research institutes did the natural sounding ones. LLMs or video generators are pretty much exclusionary as they are laid out today. And I think that’s the biggest issue with them next to environmental impact. (I don’t think the automation of human thought itself is the problematic aspect, I mean my neighbour having a brain also doesn’t limit mine, so I don’t think it’s due to the existence of other “intelligent” entities. But it’s really the other thing that makes it bad.)

Ergibt Sinn. Ich hab meist ganz normale Regular Fit Jeans. Und lass die mit Stretch, Auswaschfarben oder Löchern im Laden liegen, keine Ahnung, irgendwie kriegen die ohnehin irgendwann Löcher und zumindest mein schwarzen waschen konstant leicht aus. Ich denke, dass Jeans vor 150 Jahren Arbeitshosen waren und heutzutage nicht mehr so ganz, ist hinlänglich bekannt. Und auf Markennamen kann man sich auch nicht verlassen. Die sparen genauso an Allem wie gutes NoName Zeug oder irgendwessen Hausmarke.

Btw, the proper place to mount filesystems is either /media or /mnt. I wouldn’t create a directory called /Volumes in Linux. And pay attention, these are case-sensitive and most (not all) system directories have agreed on using lower-case letters only. And “volume” is kind of a Windows and MacOS-term anyway, I rarely see Linux-people refer to media and filesystems that way.

Something with an eagle and genetics. I’m out of the loop myself. There’s some crazy outrage of the day every day and someone will use something to distract from something different. Or Musk had a brain-fart, retweeted something and then that’s what everybody talks about for two days. That’s usually how these things come about.

Thanks for writing this down. That’s pretty comprehensive and looks like solid advice. I’d add “good documentation” and help readily available to the list. It’s really nice for new users if they’re able to find information on common woes, so they’re enabled to figure things out by themselves, instead of using some more obscure distribution.