It’s funny how you think that every single company just lets their IT choose what the best course of action is. Sometimes management just doesn’t care.

Yeah, I thought the same! I’ve been waiting for an opportunity to share it around, since I think the world would be a better place if more people knew about this!

Insulin, and a lot of other stuff, it’s pretty awesome! I watched this talk from Defcon recently. It’s pretty sick.

Oh, we already have jetpacks. They’re just not affordable for the average person and are insanely dangerous to fly with. Also, afaik, they only get less than an hour of flight time.

She did, it’s in the article

“Free speech for me, but not for thee” lol

I do want one of those new flip phones. Since normal phones aren’t getting any more portable, I’d rather have that than carrying around a brick. For me, the biggest problems with these at the moment are repairability, durability and price. Once those are solved, I will probably get one.

But what about muh brainrot?

Wear Matrix cosplay and jump off a skyscraper. Just believe, Neo!

… something about that image is terrifying and funny to me at the same time. 😅

Could just commission someone on Fiverr for an original artwork

Lol, ya dickhead

Youtube is my main source of entertainment. I don’t watch regular TV, and I barely watch any movies or series. Doesn’t have anything to do with an addiction, it’s personal preference lmao

I know about Nebula, but you have to admit, the barrier to entrance is a lot higher for most people because of the subscription fee, so it’s not necessarily a direct comparison. Some of my favourite content creators are on there.

Didn’t know about Odysee. As far as I can see, that platform uses crypto for payments, which could also act as a deterrent to some people.

As for Rumble: Personally, I wouldn’t touch anything related to JD Vance with a ten foot pole (he’s a pretty big investor). And one of their biggest channels seems to be by Andrew Tate (ew). To be fair, I couldn’t tell you for sure that Youtube doesn’t take money from any of them in some form. But they seem to be more of an equal opportunity offender lol.

The problem is, there’s just no (good) direct competition. The audience will follow creators once enough of them switch to the same alternative platform. But as long as there’s no platform with a comparable amount of money behind it, most people will continue to use Youtube.

Oh no, I’m not under any illusion that my data is safer with any of them lol. I’m just saying that that’s why the US doesn’t ban American social networks/companies. Because it’s all about control.

No, they love those, since that data goes to the US government instead of to the CCP

Can’t wait for all the weird VR sex stuff that’s in the book lol

It’s a way smaller userbase, but imagine what Facebook does with the Quest headsets

Don’t you love throwing a whole bunch of people with different backgrounds into one bucket? 🙄

Youtube can’t paywall the site, since that would create an even bigger outrage than longer ads. But they are already working on unskippable ads, so people won’t be able to block them with conventional means. So to them, it’s not a simple request. Either you watch ads or you pay. I’m personally not a big fan of that, since it feels way too intrusive and dystopian.

And yeah, Google as a whole sucks ass, we all know that. Again, I’m not arguing against stealing from them, but just that it IS indead still stealing/piracy to block ads. If you want to do that or not is a personal decision, but people still need to be aware of what they’re doing.