The Metaverse hasn’t really played out like they wanted it to

✨ create consequences ✨

booo

Hopefully You, The People

A .Net dev in the flesh? I’ll pray for you /s

Like half of open source is just devs trying to satisfy their very specific needs

And I know NewPipe works with video, I meant I strictly use it for music (behind VPN) and nothing else for the reason above.

Gotcha, I misunderstood.

I still don’t want Google to link the IPs I use to the content I’m interested in.

But YouTube’s servers only know that some ProtonVPN (ex.) user is connecting. They aren’t able to discriminate your music requests from those of some other user on the same VPN server - based on the IP alone at least. That’s assuming you never generate any traffic on that node while signed into your Google account of course. Is the video vs music distinction because song listens offer less bits of identifying information than videos?

Don’t take this as preaching what you should or shouldn’t do, I don’t judge anyone’s threat model - just always curious about where people draw the privacy vs “comfort” line :)

Don’t expose your real IP, keep a VPN on all the time and not only when you have traffic you want to mask.

NewPipe definitely does play video. I have it installed and it works fine

You can kindly ask the candy guy to remove the poisoned one (it makes him a lot of money though) or you can reach into the jar and take it out yourself

Use mpv on desktop, newpipe on mobile

critical_thinking.rst

The big difference is that with torrents you also upload data to other peers, which is what fucks you copyright-wise.

Also remember kids, if you’re not in the US throw those DMCA claims in the trash

“easy if you have a diffraction-limited watt-scale laser” I guess

Intentional deletion is a lot different to entropy-caused bitrot

Those viewing stats were the result of polling and maybe some heuristics, but it’s not possible to measure how many receiving stations are tuned to a TV or radio frequency

I mean, sony has already installed rootkits under the pretense of DRM. Back in 2005

Oh, the same company that screenshots your content even if you use it as a dumb display? Who could’ve predicted this!

Depends on the country, but yes it is actually difficult to find a TV that is not android TV based or at least has WiFi and smart features built in, especially above a certain size/price threshold.

If it is connected to the internet, that’s not true. https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06203

FYI, LG and Samsung were both confirmed to take and upload periodic screenshots, whether you’re using native apps or an external input.

Shitty article with guide to disable ACR: https://appleinsider.com/inside/mac/tips/how-to-stop-your-lg-or-samsung-smart-tv-from-tracking-you (you might want to block traffic altogether knowing what they are ok with doing)

Primary source for finding: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06203

Probably not unless you have the signing keys.

Buy products based on the features they have out of the box, not promises about future updates