And this is surprising how?
Apple is like all the other corporate monopolies operating in a fascist country: they’re in cahoots with the powers that be. It’s just that somehow Apple has managed to convince a lot of gullible people that they’re on their side.
As always, follow the money - because Apple’s friends are rich fucks and people in power that can give them more money, not you.
You guys ever wonder if maybe if the answer is to stop stealing s*?
There are two ways to be honest with normal companies:
1/ You pay them and they stop monetizing your data
2/ You don’t patronize their services and you choose a competitor instead
Unfortunately, with Google as with most other surveillance capitalism monopolies, it doesn’t work that way:
1/ If you don’t pay Google, they violate your privacy and abuse your data. If you pay them, they don’t stop: you just gave them extra money because you’re gullible.
2/ Youtube is a virtual monopoly. There is no valid competition to speak of. And unfortunately, a lot of the societal discourse now happen on Youtube. So it’s kind of unavoidable.
Therefore, Google being the abusive monopoly that it is, you have no way to deal with the essential service they provide honestly and pay your fair share - which I honestly would gladly do - without compromising your privacy. They put themselves in a position to be this abusive.
Therefore, I consider my duty towards paying honestly for Youtube waived. That’s why I’m happy to pay for a FUTO license for the work they do with the Grayjay client, but I’ll never give Google a cent: FUTO respects me while Google spits in my face.
apt generally downloads more things than apt-get on my Debian machine. apt-get never broke anything, but I tend to eye it suspiciously now.
Yeah alright. That’s one way of looking at it 🙂
I guess what I meant is that I don’t like upgrades that happen without me explicitly requesting each and every one of them, and me watching the upgrade process as it happens for errors.
No Linux system of mine upgrades itself without my explicit consent. That’s one of the many reasons why I don’t run Windows.
The poster would be more convincing if you hadn’t inverted apt-get update and apt-get upgrade…
The cynic in me immediately thinks it’s a honeypot to trap privacy-conscious individuals.
I’ll look it up. But I suspect it’ll be just another case of a company pinky-swearing to respect your privacy, like Apple.
I think it’s very much post-crime at this point.
What an orgy of resources dedicated to the production of mediocre…
One of the most stupendous traits of the Trump fascist regime is the deep-seated desire to be cruel.
Really? Last I tried it - not very long ago - it refused to do anything without an account.
It does but the UI is terrible for TV. It’s totally unusable without an external keyboard and mouse.
SmartTube doesn’t do local subscriptions, and that’s a big no-no for me.
I wasn’t aware there was a x64 Grayjay desktop app. I’ll check it out. thanks!
They think that they’re hardcore, we are so much more hardcore than they are
This bald Nazi wannabe talks big, but I bet he would collapse on his knees and cry for mommy if he found himself being mugged in an alleyway.
What the fuck is wrong with this psycho? Was he bullied at school or something?
He’s right. “Fascist” doesn’t quite capture the Trump regime. “Nazi” does much better.
Newsflash: unlike traditional America, it seems like fascist America suddenly cares about soccer.
Here’s my take: fuck fascism and fuck soccer.
Yes the main .py is quite a pile of code 🙂
It’s one of those projects that grew organically and never got reorganized. I maintain a niche open-source project like that that has a few dozen kilobyte main Python file and I’m ashamed of it. But then it’s so niche I don’t really want to spend the time reorganizing it.
yt-dlp would benefit from that though…