Yikes. Back to Newegg for me!

When I was in college we had disposable film cameras. That was more than enough intrusion, thank you very much. I’ve always been incredibly happy that we did not have digital cameras in those years. 😅

What’s the pay rate for artists?

Algorithm-free solves a lot of problems.

The real problem with the internet isn’t Facebook or Twitter or Reddit, it’s the fact the entire experience is pretty much controlled by Microsoft and Google. As they shape your content, lock you out of areas and generally dictate what’s “legal” or even what gets found during your searches.

I agree the Google and MS are a problem, but Facebook, Twitter, Reddit are also a problem, albeit a different one.

If you’re up on your bash coding skills: in the Firefox debugger, you can find the URL to the page images and see if there’s a usable pattern in the URLs. If there is, you could script it in bash and repeatedly call curl to download the images.

This is my favorite cd feature by a large margin.

As much as I hate ads and hate the concept that I would be forced to view them, these kind of legal wranglings freak me out. It seems quite possible that a ruling in my favor here would be used against me somewhere else. Courts and lawmakers don’t understand technology and don’t realize the effects laws have. And frankly, the rest of us don’t have much idea, either.

“Unless you give us all your money to put in our new bank, we might be facing insolvency issues.”

For sure–I just don’t tend to watch anything more than once. :) Most of my federated identity and offsites are at SDF, which is a solid place with a mission I respect and certainly don’t mind giving $36/year to. Grayjay for stupid vids (if I could just get it to work with FCast…)

Depends on your definition of “evil”, I guess.

Might get there. Right now I just have external SSH access (key only) to get to the files. I also need an offsite, so it’s all sent to a remote server with rsync and gocryptfs. I only have about 90 GB of stuff on there right now; I don’t do any media serving.

https://archive.is/tCWIM

I took my money from YouTube and started giving it to Kagi. 🙂👍

I used to give Google money for services (Drive and YouTube), but I’ve already stopped doing that because of their evil ways. This just hammers it home that much more.

Edit: The shitty part is what a cool company it used to be. And to watch it destroy itself like this is just sad.

I was a premium subscriber for a long time, and probably still would be if Google hadn’t turned so evil that I can no longer in good conscience pay them any money.

But what pushed me over the edge with an ad blocker was a page I got to where every paragraph had a video ad in between. That was it.

Turns out if you get rid of ads and the algorithm, you end up back in the land of sanity.

Louis Rossmann: “when the pirate experience is better than the paid experience, you have a problem.”

I haven’t tried it, but anything that’s interoperable is fine by me.

Definitely. And your best self wants to buy these fantastic products.