Bad news, I’m afraid. Tried opening a few restricted videos with PipePipe, FreeTube, tried downloading with yt-dlp, nothing works. YouTube is being locked down.

Man, just good decisions all around on Discord’s part.

I mean, you’re not wrong, but have you seen what those alternatives were?

Following a YouTube tutorial for a new build, they were instructed to download 7‑Zip from 7zip[.]com, unaware that the legitimate project is hosted exclusively at 7-zip.org.

My heart goes out to the poor, unsuspecting new PC owner and at the same time: fuck YouTube tutorials. It’s basically Russian roulette: either the information is solid or you get shit like this. YouTube doesn’t vet videos, nor does it have any interest in doing so, unless profits are somehow involved.

Played it on DOS. However, I never finished it, because the music level was such a bastard. Any kind of traction between Rayman and the ground was gone, so you’re slipping and sliding everywhere, and when you weren’t, you were basically running into spikes. To top it off, the level layout was confusing as hell. Eventually, after many attempts, I got to the boss of the music level. Once. And just like the levels preceding it, the boss was hard to beat, too! In the end, I got frustrated and just bounced off.

That quote caught my eye, too. I can only hope it’s either a mistranslation or clumsy wording, because there’s no way clicking a button labeled “open” requires any kind of skill.

Heaven forbid actually paying an artist to make your stupid banner.

You might like Penny’s Big Breakaway.

I did say Xthings is the second laziest name I ever heard.

Xthings is the second laziest, most unimaginitive name for a company I have ever heard.

Ugh, so tired of this old argument. Nothing to hide doesn’t mean everything to show. There, now let’s get on with our lives.

I have a few experiences working with acedemics, and it always seems to be abbreviation first, long form later. I kinda hated this practice. Not everything needs a catchy and marketable name. Often times it wasn’t even an abbreviation, but instead it was like:

STUBBLES: Study of Faulty Abbreviations and Failure to Understand Words

The new CEO’s overarching goal is to turn Mozilla into the “world’s most trusted software company,” citing public dissatisfaction with today’s privacy practices and the tech industry’s growing appetite for all kinds of data.

What the fuck does this man think the industry is feeding the data to?

Telegram talks a pretty big privacy game, but consider that the feature that actually enables end-to-end encryption, called “Secret Chats” in the app, is OFF by default. Couple that with everything else said in this thread and you start to see a picture forming. And it’s not pretty.

Fair warning: even if you disable telemetry on Windows, it has a tendency and history of re-enabling itself after a major update. You shouldn’t expect it to be a one-and-done deal.

Wait, what? Really?

I’m so confused. The article says the news comes from the original Saints Row design director, but then the image is from the failed reboot.

Okay, how about we rephrase “Nothing to hide” and change it to “Everything to show”. Doesn’t sound good, does it?

As an aside. this stupid, tired argument is old enough to be of drinking age. Let. It. Die.

Ah, fair enough.

I thought Vaultwarden was a server for Bitwarden? I didn’t know it could interact with KeePassXC.