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  • The Department of Homeland Security Is Demanding That Google Turn Over Information About Random Critics

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  • You saying youtube is the only way to make money?

    Literally in my comment that you quoted, I said there are other ways to make money. I said "making money by some other contractual means." meaning non-youtube related methods for making money.

    Look, if you are watching youtube, you are supporting youtube first. That is a fact, it is inescapable.

    This whole reply chain is about using non-youtube clients. Literally not supporting youtube, or the creator as a consequence. If you use a non-youtube client and pay the creator director, you bypass supporting youtube in a monetary fashion at all.

    There are not alternatives, because people are still supporting youtube. There are options. People aren’t going to go to websites anymore? Ok, oh well, its dead. Sorry.

    This is just a lack of understanding on the scope of the requirements for video hosting on the scale of YouTube. To let anyone upload as much as they want whenever they want entirely for free? There are soooo many reasons why there are no other real options. It is cost. Virtually no other company has the capability to do what YouTube is doing. With how successful YouTube is, if it were even remotely possible, plenty of people would be doing it. The only other company that might have the ability to compete would be Amazon, but it literally would not be profitable for a long time, and that doesn't solve anything for this conversation since Amazon is no different from Google.

    The closest we get is platforms like Nebula, but that is very different. That is for established creators to be able to post either more in depth content, or exclusive content for a more reliable revenue source. Without YouTube (or a YouTube alternative), how would one become established enough to be able to join Nebula in the first place?

    The worst part and you glossed over this: they have no contract. Their livelihood could be gone in a day if youtube decides to drop them, or reduce their pay, or even promote someone else. It is a bad business plan.

    I didn't directly mention it, but I did say they could make money in some other contractual means. That still applies if they lose their job overnight with youtube. But also, Nebula could stop get enough subscribers to be able to afford their creators and go under, virtually losing that revenue source overnight.

    What gets me is you act like other jobs are way better, when there are literally massive layoffs happening in the US right now.

    "Their livelihood could be gone in a day if Amazon decides to lay them off, or reduce their pay, or even hire someone else." is also just as true.

    At the end of the day: Why the hell do we care so much about passive activities like watching people?

    Ignoring the conversation on the value of entertainment, Youtube is more than just entertainment. It is an incredibly large source of knowledge. Watching people is how so many things are learned. I am talking in person teaching, mentorship, training, lectures, conferences, presentations, and even videos. If you want to do something you've never done before, it would be done best by watching someone else do it first, and then attempting it yourself. When you attempted it, you may have missed some things, so you can rewatch to reinforce what you missed. This applies to videos and non-videos. It would be far less efficient to skip the watching/learning, and go straight into the doing. It would take longer to figure out and achieve a comprehensive understanding. Could it be done? Sure, eventually. But there is literally a famous quote for that:

    “Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.” ― Otto von Bismarck

  • TikTok Refuses to Confirm or Deny That It's Providing User Data to ICE

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  • It is well and truly E2EE. They have a page on their site dedicated to what information they have given to courts/government bodies: https://signal.org/bigbrother

  • TikTok Refuses to Confirm or Deny That It's Providing User Data to ICE

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  • They have a page dedicated to everything they have given over to the US government: https://signal.org/bigbrother/

    Signal themselves cannot decrypt the messages, so they are literally not able to provide any substantial information to the government. They can literally only provide two timestamps, when the user registered and the last time they connected to the server.

    the only information we can produce in response to a request like this is the date and time a user registered with Signal and the last date of a user’s connectivity to the Signal service.

    source

  • TikTok Refuses to Confirm or Deny That It's Providing User Data to ICE

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  • The attack chain is as follows: the threat actors masquerade as "Signal Support" or a support chatbot named "Signal Security ChatBot" to initiate direct contact with prospective targets, urging them to provide a PIN or verification code received via SMS, or risk facing data loss.

    Should the victim comply, the attackers can register the account and gain access to the victim's profile, settings, contacts, and block list through a device and mobile phone number under their control. While the stolen PIN does not enable access to the victim's past conversations, a threat actor can use it to capture incoming messages and send messages posing as the victim.

    That target user, who has by now lost access to their account, is then instructed by the threat actor disguised as the support chatbot to register for a new account.

    Don't give your signal PIN to someone via text? And even if you did, they still don't have your message history.

  • Just Switched from iOS to Android after a decade, help?

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  • My experience with Firefox on Android is very different from yours. I also recommend Firefox with uBlock

  • The Department of Homeland Security Is Demanding That Google Turn Over Information About Random Critics

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  • Choosing to be on YouTube for money is so stupid. They have no contract.

    Most people are not choosing to be on youtube for money. They are on youtube to make videos, because they enjoy making videos. However, they need money to survive. If I like their content, and want them to make more content, then they need money. Otherwise they have to spend less time making videos and more time making money by some other contractual means.

    The only way to get them to move on is not supporting them, on YouTube.

    You believe people making videos on youtube should move on and do, idk, real work or something? However, if that person has an audience that enjoys watching their videos, they very clearly want them to keep making videos. Them "moving on" would be the exact opposite of what they want.

    If you're under the impression that they could move to a non Google owned video streaming platform, there is no real option. People could make their own websites for their own videos, but viewers are not going to go to a hundred different websites. Not everyone's content fits Nebula's platform. There is no platform that can host videos in the same way YouTube can. Maybe one day peer tube will be good enough that we can realistically use that to spread the load of video hosting, but we are not there yet.

    To suggest that YouTubers need to move on is truly wild. Especially given Nebula is made up of YouTubers.

  • The Department of Homeland Security Is Demanding That Google Turn Over Information About Random Critics

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  • But maybe directly support the creators you watch. They shouldn't also suffer because of Google

  • LineageOS just brought two of the best things about Pixels to custom ROMs

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  • What's wrong with Termux?

  • Who were some of your childhood heroes that turned out to be horrible people?

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  • And look what happened to dinosaurs

  • Why $700 could be a "death sentence" for the Steam Machine

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  • The steam deck is nice, but you have to throttle a lot of games performance. And that's on an already very small screen. I have played the crap out of my steam deck, but there are some games that just don't work super well. The difference is just the power of the components, primarily CPU and GPU, but also RAM and SSD speeds. It would expect the mini gaming PC to be more expensive than the handheld, if the expectation is that you can play any large AAA game at (basically) full specs with good frame rate. You can't do that for cheap. I also don't expect the price point to be a problem

  • Why $700 could be a "death sentence" for the Steam Machine

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  • What is life if you aren't spending some of it on stuff you enjoy doing? Adults should be able to spend large amounts of money on stuff that is primarily a toy if they enjoy that toy. I get it if you're saying you literally cannot afford to eat and buy that expensive of a toy, but for most people saving their pennies for long enough warrants buying an expensive toy. It's also fine if you prefer spending your money on experiences rather than things, but saying it's an invalid purchase because it's a toy is pretty silly.

  • What are some product categories where the mainstream option IS the best option?

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  • Even more relevant video

    There are definitely decent adobe alternatives. Though I am a little worried about what Canva is doing to affinity.

  • Epstein file scandal: Why none of the rich have been sent to jail for pedophilia ?

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  • It's only believed by the same people that already that he was a traitor to the USA and should be in prison. The people that rightfully consider him a hero haven't changed their beliefs

  • why does my knife need a web browser smh

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  • The primary cause of lead's toxicity is its interference with a variety of enzymes because it binds to sulfhydryl groups found on many enzymes.[22] Part of lead's toxicity results from its ability to mimic other metals that take part in biological processes ... Among the essential metals that lead displaces in this way are calcium, iron, and zinc.[186]

    The brain is the organ most sensitive to lead exposure.[77] Lead can pass through the endothelial cells at the blood brain barrier because it can substitute for calcium ions and be taken up by calcium-ATPase pumps.[203]

    The targeting of NMDA receptors is thought to be one of the main causes for lead's toxicity to neurons.[202]

    The half-life of lead in bone has been estimated as years to decades, and bone can introduce lead into the bloodstream long after the initial exposure is gone.[182][183][184] The half-life of lead in the blood in men is about 40 days, but it may be longer in children and pregnant women, whose bones are undergoing remodeling, which allows the lead to be continuously re-introduced into the bloodstream.[26]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_poisoning

    Stainless steel is generally considered to be biologically inert. However, during cooking, small amounts of nickel and chromium leach out of new stainless steel cookware into highly acidic food.[115] Nickel can contribute to cancer risks—particularly lung cancer and nasal cancer.[116][117] However, no connection between stainless steel cookware and cancer has been established.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stainless_steel

    Lead is very different in its toxicity. Chromium is not nearly as toxic, and in fact trivalent chromium is an essebtial nutrient:

    Trivalent chromium is a trace mineral that is essential to human nutrition

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_toxicity

    Of course wikipedia isn't an official source, but almost all statement's link to reliable sources

  • Do you get very upset when strangers scold you in front of everyone?

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  • Not acknowledging it is the best way to go. People will only think about what a dick the bus driver was, and likely will think little to nothing about you. If you fight back, people will be pissed for holding them up longer, not think more of you

  • How could you?!

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  • Lmao, I get one comment saying of course it's fake and another suggesting it's obviously real.

    It makes the most sense that somebody saw this image and thought it looked like the given caption. It's a funny personification, but almost definitely not real. I think it would have been just as funny if they prefaced the text with "it looks like...". But in the grand scheme of the world, lying on cat posts is by far the lowest on the list of concerns. But then again, so is my comment pointing out they lied.

  • How could you?!

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  • Ahh, classic "here is a picture of cat(s) with made up caption". It's funny, but it definitely did not happen.

  • 'Fake it till you make it' insinuates fakers stop being fake, once they make it; reality seems to suggest otherwise

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  • It's often about imposter syndrome. People don't feel like they belong, when really they often are the same as their peers. So if they just pretend like the belong they can keep the facade until their imposter syndrome goes away.

  • Reddit Mod Deleted Breathtaking Photo Taken by NASA Astronaut From Space Because It Was "Blurry"

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  • Frustration/anger is an easy emotion to provoke. It is much easier for anyone creating content to get clicks by making people mad. The title was intentionally sensationalized to get clicks, which is just the world we live in. Youtube videos perform better when it is provoking, podcasts get more listeners, news channels/sites get more watch time/site views. The headline could have just as easily said "Reddit's r/Aviation Moderators Temporarily Delete NASA Astronaut's Image for Quality Reasons, Then Restore It" but nobody would click on that because it's not a story.

    Obviously there is a lot of animosity towards Reddit, but the animosity of tech companies is so widespread you could name any large tech company and make a sensationalized or clickbait headline.