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Google's Web DRM is Worse than I Thought...
  • I feel it's worse than this. Imagine being the brightest mind in college, have a ton of experience, just to invent new algorithms to get people to click on more ads.

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    Youtube Premium
  • I use YouTube the most of all streaming services. Yet I don't understand why there isn't an affordable easy to use option, that includes no ads and a high CPM for creators.

    My understanding is YouTube premium, doesn't highten the payout to creators, but rather just substitutes the dirt poor ad revenue per impression.

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    Ad blocking on android
  • I've been using NextDNS for a while now. It's great compared to VPN implementations like Blokada because it frees up your phone to use an actual VPN.

    I've found PDNSQS for when I need to temporarily disable ad blocking, a really nice addition.

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    Top Extensions to Make YouTube Bearable
  • They gathered as much data they could on dislikes before it was removed, so it also shows actual numbers on older videos.

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    Denuvo wants to convince you its DRM isn’t “evil”
  • Where I'm from, it's legal to download cracked games so long as you've bought it legitimately. Paying for games isn't a problem, it's treating everyone as suspects that bugs me.

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  • Every single time I talk to my friends, whom also want an *arr/Plex/VPN/Home Assistant setup like I've got, I can see the fear in their eyes when I mention Debian, Docker, and the terminal. It could be a case of "git gud", but I want to help them out with a setup like this, but with as low friction as possible. Ideally something completely GUI based, and very low maintenance.

    I know of unRAID, and Portainer, but does anyone have any experience in setting up something like this for people whose knowledge of self hosting and networking aren't as good as yours?

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    It's Open Source!
  • I don't really think auditing is a compelling argument for FOSS. You can hire accredited companies to audit and statically analyse closed source code, and one could argue that marketable software legally has to meet different (and stricter) criteria due to licensing (MIT, GPL, and BSD are AS IS licenses), that FOSS do not have to meet.

    The most compelling argument for FOSS (for me) is that innovation is done in the open. When innovation is done in the open, more people can be compelled to learn to code, and redundant projects can be minimised (i.e. just contribute to an existing implementation, rather than inventing a new). It simply is the most efficient way to author software.

    I'm probably wearing rose tinted glasses, but the garage and bedroom-coders of the past, whom developed on completely open systems moved the whole industry forward at a completely different pace than today.

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  • www.mxcrbn.com The rise of open-source startups in France

    This article offers a reflection on the rise of open-source startups launched in France as well as an exhaustive list of French open-source companies.

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    How Reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history (Feels super weird to see Lemmy get mentioned on mainstream news)
  • Reddit def won, but I have no idea why people still continue to moderate it for free. It's crystal clear that the do not care about their mods, and for all intends and purposes treat them as peasants.

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