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  • watching age-restricted videos from youtube without google account

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  • 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.

  • Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel

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

  • What are your favourite jokes and puns?

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  • Yo mama so fat, when she fell in love, she broke it.

  • Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

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  • Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

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

  • Fake 7-Zip downloads are turning home PCs into proxy nodes

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  • 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.

  • Best apps for private messaging

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  • Thanks for explaining. But unless I'm missing something, Conduit doesn't seem to be quite dead just yet. I got upgrade notifications throughout 2025, the latest two being in December; one for v0.10.10 and the other for v0.10.11.

  • Best apps for private messaging

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  • Wait a sec, I run Conduit on my test machine and seems fine so far. What drama did I miss?

  • Best apps for private messaging

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  • Why not Synapse?

  • Firefox's AI Kill Switch Lands in Firefox Nightly, Slated for Firefox 148 - 9to5Linux

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  • Good news, if they keep that promise.

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    a chance we shouldn't miss

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  • It's not just you, I agree. People should switch to Linux because they like it, not because they were told Microsoft sucks.

  • Firefox's AI Kill Switch Lands in Firefox Nightly, Slated for Firefox 148 - 9to5Linux

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  • That's good, but it would be better still if AI was opt-in instead of opt-out.

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  • Yeah, the whole situation with OGC and Bazzite is rather messy. From my understanding, you have conflicting accounts from two parties: one is from Bazzite and OGC, i.e. Kyle Gospodnetich and the other from Antheas Kapenekakis, the developer of the Handheld Daemon, a tool for configuring handheld devices that Bazzite uses (for now). Antheas' account can be read here.

    From what I understand, there was an internal conflict between Antheas and another Bazzite developer (not Kyle), which caused a rift in the team. At the time Antheas was the one in talks with GPD to port HHD to one of their devices. The team was not aware of this and during this time, Antheas was removed from the team. Then, not being aware of the situation at Bazzite, GDP announced the collab and the Bazzite team, was of course unaware of the talks between Antheas and GDP, which is why they denied the whole thing.

    Personally, I'm going to stop updating Bazzite for a while and see how this shakes out, because if Antheas' account is to be believed, the other Bazzite developer mentioned above, Derek J. Clark, is ripping stuff out of Bazzite, including HHD in favor of his own implementation Inputplumber, which is allegedly already causing weird stuff to happen like wifi no longer working on some devices.

    On the other hand, I'm hesitant to believe everything Antheas said in his blog, because I simply don't know the guy and also, there's also some sketchy stuff in there like mentioning Derek's Inputplumber implementation being "fundamentally flawed" and not even attempting to explain why. If you're going to label someone's work as such, then I feel at least a cursory explanation why is in order. The other is "apologising on behalf of Kyle" and apologising in someone else's name never sat well with me.

  • Politics 101

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  • Ah, yes. The Nolnah's Razor.

  • Looks like an update to Newpipe is imenant (hopefully). Complete YouTube lockout as of this morning. 😡😭

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  • There are still working Invidious instances? Which one are you using?

  • Google pays $68M to settle claims its voice assistant spied on users

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  • These fines are so toothless, it's pathetic.

  • What are peoples thoughts on the Mecha Comet?

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  • Not for me. The pogo pin modules might look nice, but they're essentially just more moving parts that you can break and/or lose.

  • What XMPP clients do you like and why?

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  • On Linux, I really like Dino, because it's one of the few clients that played nice with OMEMO. I use XMPP on my PC and on my phone and that seemed to trip some clients up.

    I also liked Gajim on Windows for much the same reasons, but this was years ago, I imagine it's pretty good now, too.

  • Piracy @lemmy.ml
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    Options for pirating scene releases of movies and TV shows?

  • Gaming @lemmy.ml
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    You'll have to pay for a $20 DLC to unlock two out of six clans in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2.

    www.eurogamer.net /this-sucks-youll-have-to-pay-for-two-clans-in-vampire-the-masquerade-bloodlines-2
  • World News @lemmy.ml
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    SpaceX's Starship explodes in flight test, forcing airlines to divert

    www.reuters.com /technology/space/spacex-launches-seventh-starship-mock-satellite-deployment-test-2025-01-16/
  • Gaming @lemmy.ml
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    A new Virtua Fighter project has been announced

  • Gaming @lemmy.ml
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    Nintendo, Xbox, And PlayStation Have All Now Abandoned Twitter/X Integration

    archive.is /qn0Ou
  • Anime @lemmy.ml
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    Akira Toriyama has passed away

    en.dragon-ball-official.com /news/01_2499.html
  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Can anyone tell me what the heck web3 actually is?