ErilElidor

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Politician who pushed Philippines natural gas boom is behind firm that planned to profit ( apnews.com )

An influential politician in the Philippines, who has been a cheerleader for natural gas power, is behind a company that planned to make a fortune from it, an Associated Press investigation of thousands of pages of documents has found....

ErilElidor ,

Politicians working for their own profit instead for the well-being of the people who elected them? Color me shocked!

ErilElidor ,

Smh my head

ErilElidor ,

Have some browser extension play the video in the background with ads and notify me once it's done. In the meantime show some message like "bringing out the trash". Can do better things with my time than watching ads
Or something to that effect.. 🤷

ErilElidor ,

Not to mention they were kicked out of the Nazi group, because THEY WERE TOO EXTREME FOR THEM.
Wake me up in 5 years when we can hopefully stop this...

ErilElidor ,

The scary thing is, I could imagine someone writing this text, but unironic...

ErilElidor ,

I'll develop my own browser before using an ad-infested internet. Luckily I don't have to do that, because there are alternatives and also because it would be a damn time consuming project to put it mildly 😅

ErilElidor ,

Mostly the same. I tried ChatGPT a few times to get it to generate some code, but mostly it produced code that didn't even compile and when I asked it to fix it, it created code that didn't compile in a different way. I enjoy writing code on my own a lot more than having to review some pre-generated code.

Though I use it as a glorified Google sometimes and that is not even so bad.

ErilElidor ,

And that one ad probably uses more memory than Voyager has in total 😅

Which *arr for file hosters?

I'm German and seems 'we' rely more on file hosters than torrenting. There are lots of tv series and movies with both the original audio track and the dubbed one on sites like funxd, serienjunkies, serienfans... They mostly redirect to a filecrypt.cc folder and then I get a DLC file to download the parts from turbobit or...

ErilElidor ,

I guess the idea is (make of that what you want):

  • Usenet is not illegal by itself (but well, same goes for torrenting)
  • As long as law enforcement doesn't get its hands on the server it can't tell what you download, as long as you use TLS (no VPN required, but doesn't hurt either)
  • But even if: Usenet providers (hopefully) don't keep logs of what you downloaded, so for all we know you just paid the provider to download actual news/Linux ISOs?
  • But even if they do: You are not uploading anything -> you are probably less interesting to law enforcement and they might just ignore you (especially if you use some payment method that might require going through some extra steps to link it to you as a person)
ErilElidor ,

And last time I checked they wanted to change the law so the overachievement over other sectors can excuse the failure in others. So no need to do something in the traffic sector, if other areas performed better.
Not sure what the current state of this plan is, but I would assume they didn't take it back, which would seem the only reasonable thing to do🤷‍♂️

ErilElidor ,

Very hard. Trust me bro

ErilElidor ,

Just relax and make some tea at 4:18 :) No coffee though!

ErilElidor ,

Honestly I would probably just stop using YouTube altogether if I was forced to use it unmodified.

ErilElidor ,

I never understood how a chatroom took off as a tool to document stuff. Who seriously thinks this is a good idea? 😵

ErilElidor ,

I'm actually curious about "Embrace Extend Extinguish": What can they do? They "extend" the ActivityPub protocol in a proprietary way, ok. Doesn't mean any other instance has to use that, no?
Ok, that would mean if an instance doesn't follow that extension, it can't interact optimally with Threads, but how does it matter? To me it seems all that can be lost by that is the content/user base that Threads brings into the Fediverse and then we are at the same point as we would be if we defederated immediately.
Maybe I'm missing something here?

ErilElidor ,

I guess it is impossible to say what would have happened if Google never used XMPP. To me it mostly looks like google joined XMPP and made it way bigger than it was before and eventually left it again, making it small again. But is it worse than before Google even joined?

Maybe, but can we say for sure?

Maybe the lesson is not "don't let the big corporate players in", but rather "make sure the development of the underlying protocol itself is done in an open way".
If Google/Meta adds proprietary extensions, just don't add them to the main protocol. If they leave the protocol again or changed their implementation in a way that is largely incompatible with the open version, nothing is lost than what they brought in initially.
Doesn't that make sense?

ErilElidor ,

I really hope with this move the crazies from die Linke are all gone, so it's finally possible to vote for them. Let's keep an eye on them 😊

ErilElidor ,

"Schrank" is not really a drawer. Translating it as "cupboard" would be more appropriate, I think.

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