It’s been a little surreal watching everything as a self contained file
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…
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 happens 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.
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.
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!
As long as sideloading is a thing, I don’t use the Google app store. And I don’t install malware like Instagram - not that it’s very likely to work on my deGoogled Android cellphone.
Of course, now that fucking Google has declared war on deGoogled ROMs, what I’m saying here is pretty much a dead-end. But as of today, it’s still an option.
Fuck Google.
Also, in case it bore repeating: fuck Google.
And finally, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that Google can go fuck itself.
Looks like Trump renamed the agency the SSAID.
The rich aren’t facing the law
The point I’m trying to make, as a regular Joe who isn’t mega-rich on the backs of everybody else, is that we’re better than that.
I’m only applying to Musk or Trump the standards I would like others to apply to me. If I was wrongly accused of being a pedo, however vile an individual I might otherwise be, I would like others to have the intellectual honesty to say they have no proof, even if they hate my guts.
Also, it reflects poorly on people who accuse others of things without proof. It certainly would feel good to go around saying Musk is a pedo because the man is so abhorrent. But it would also be wrong.
Until proof that he is a pedo comes out, that is. And boy do I wish proof comes out or what!
I honestly don’t think all people in the Epstein file are pedophiles, even if they went to his island, even if they went multiple times, anymore than all the people in Charlie Manson’s diary were loonies and serial killers. It does cast doubts on what they did or did not know, but it’s not proof of wrongdoing in and of itself.
What being mentioned in the Epstein file really means is that those are utterly disgusting people who are part of a disgusting elite. The friends they keep says a lot about them, and what that says isn’t good.
I do believe Trump is a pedophile however, even if he was only mentioned twice in the Epstein files - in the birthday card and in Epstein’s rolodex - because both clearly show that Epstein and he had something a lot more special, dark and unavowable in common that just partying together.
So no, absent more proof, I’ll assume Musk is “only” an obscenely wealthy, dangerous neo-Nazi with a ketamine addiction and a pedo daddy, but not a pedo himself. But I wouldn’t be surprised if the proof came out soon…
Stop telling me I’m easily offended! It’s triggering!
Wow, Trump barely stopped the war with Albania and Aber-baijan is already holding a Formula One race.
I saw this coming in 1999 when Scott McNealy inadvertantly spilled the beans on what his hateful industry was up to, and I have been extremely cautious about what I’ve been posting ever since. People have called me a paranoid crackpot for decades. I guess I hate to tell you I told you so…
Consumers aren’t exactly ecstatic about throwing away perfectly serviceable computers just so Microsoft can push their spyware-cum-advertising platform down their throats either.
I’d say this is a great push towards Linux for anybody who knows anything about computers and isn’t a corporation with a dumbass MCSE jockey as an “IT” guy.