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  • Google was the first example I thought of, because they were founded in 1998, solidly before the dotcom crash. They survived because they hoarded data.

    My point was that every company going into the bubble thought they had a product they could monetize, but virtually all of them failed in favor of just hoarding everyone's data. Amazon and eBay were competing for ecomerce supremacy, but now even they are just privacy violators for various reasons (amazon via AWS and Alexa, eBay in the interest of detecting malicious account behaviour).

    MySpace is an example of another unsustainable social media model in the vein of many dotcom era services. They died out as soon as Facebook realized they could hoard everyone's data.

    All roads lead to privacy nightmares. It's the fossil fuel of the internet, and enshitification is the climate change.

  • Israeli Attack on Rafah Tent Camp Kills Dozens, Wounds 50
  • Because you think the inevitable alternative will somehow be better? I hate Biden as much as the next reasonable human being, but I don't want another 2016 situation. We don't have good options, only least bad ones.

  • what invisible thing could set off my smoke detector?
  • I don't think this is what you're experiencing, but I had an alarm go off randomly for one beep once. Went and looked at it, and a few seconds later a spider crawled out and away from it.

    If it's photoelectric, anything that could scatter light could cause it to go off. Is your house dusty?

  • Google disrupted YouTube video playback on Firefox, again - gHacks Tech News
  • It is literally the definition which has been used since the term's conception when the open source movement split off from the software freedom movement

    No, it's the definition the Open Source Initiative has used since their inception. They are just one of many open source communities with their own licenses.

    I think we'll have to agree to disagree (which is my entire point). Cheers.

  • Paradox Lays Off Entire Studio Before Its Game Was Even Released
  • Honestly, 80% of everything is crap, and 80% of businesses fail, and that's nobody's fault. It would be even worse if they tried to ship a turd they knew wouldn't satisfy players.

    I understand if you're sad that the game didn't turn out and you don't get to play it, but I'm just proud of them for taking the risk to begin with, and I'm sorry it didn't turn out how anyone would have liked. Sometimes thems the brakes.

  • Disk space counted twice on root folder?
  • Ahh, that might be it. I run TrueNAS too. IMO that should be the default behavior, and you should have to explicitly pass a flag if you want mount to silently mask off part of your filesystem. That seems like almost entirely a tool to shoot yourself in the foot.

  • Google disrupted YouTube video playback on Firefox, again - gHacks Tech News
  • You can’t just redefine an established term because it’s inconvenient to your argument.

    Agreed, which is why you can't expect to enforce the definition you like on everyone. The only thing about "open source" that we agree on is that the "source" is "open".

    I'm realizing you're working with outdated information. Take a look at the license again, it's been updated.

  • Disk space counted twice on root folder?
  • I think I would have expected/preferred mount to complain that you're trying to mount to a directory that's not empty. I feel like I've run into that error before, is that not a thing?

  • Google disrupted YouTube video playback on Firefox, again - gHacks Tech News
  • If someone posts their source code publicly, it's open source. It's unreasonable to ask them to review and maintain every PR sent their way. If they want to work on it by themselves, that's fine. If you want to fork it and make changes yourself, you can. Literally the only qualification for something to be open source is that the source is open.

    It's also unreasonable to be upset if they tell you you're not allowed to take their work and re-sell it for your own profit. That would be like saying that artists are in the wrong for being upset that all those AI companies used their work to train their bots without asking. "Why would they prevent the creation of nonfree applications that use their work?!" I assume that's not your position, right?

    But as you said, NewPipe is also copyleft, and it seems like you don't have a problem with that. So I don't really understand what your issue is with Grayjay/FUTO. It's reasonable to be concerned about where their funding comes from, but you haven't mentioned that. You say they have "marketing lies", but haven't pointed to any.

    It's perfectly fine for there to be multiple open source solutions to the same problem, and you're allowed to have a favorite, but that doesn't warrant dragging the others' names through the mud for no reason.

  • Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws
  • There's gotta be a solution that leverages their unwavering support for the 4th amendment here. I mean a penis is basically a naturally occurring gun, already. You could almost certainly get a congressman to endorse porn in schools this way.

  • Photo manager that deals with RAW and JPG together?
  • It has a File Browser tab on the left that lets you view thumbnails of all the images in a folder. From there you can select multiple images to do batch operations on, or pick a single image to open in the editor. Not sure if that's what you mean.

  • Israeli Politician Quotes Hitler to Argue for Resettlement of Gaza
  • Yeah, I think this "cartooning of evil" is at the core of American patriotism and entitlement. There are a lot of Americans who legitimately believe that we're immune to certain phenomena "because we're American". It's the same as when people say they're not racist "because they're not trying to be". Or the rich man bankrolling the presidency isn't evil because he doesn't twirl a mustache.

    In the same way, this can't be genocide, because we would never do a genocide! We're just doing what we believe needs to be done to maintain our standard of living...

  • Open casting alternative (by Amazon?)
    www.trustedreviews.com What is Matter Casting? New AirPlay rival explained

    What is Matter Casting? The smart home standard Matter includes the ability to cast media and it'll allow users to cast content to Fire TV | Trusted Reviews

    What is Matter Casting? New AirPlay rival explained

    I'm curious what people's thoughts are about Matter. This is the first I'm hearing of it.

    I've been trying to find a way to replace my old Chromecast Ultra (because Google), but I really like having that little cast button show up in apps, even on the phones of guests. But from what I can tell, Google killed this functionality on open alternatives (ex. Raspicast) with a lockdown to the Chromecast spec.

    I'm hopeful that Matter could be a way to have my devices cast streams to each other in a standardized way that wouldn't require me to rely on Google/Apple/Amazon/etc. Maybe even Newpipe could get in on the action?

    I don't know how it will work, or if this "Connected Standards Alliance" (which is apparently used to be the ZigBee Alliance, also news to me) will still have to greenlight specific devices despite it being "open", which would rule out Newpipe. I would assume the official YouTube apps will be particularly resistant to supporting Matter.

    Anyone have any experience here? Has anyone else successfully replaced their media device with something open that also works with the casting button in apps?

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    qpwGraph vs wireplumber vs pipewire

    I'm trying to wrap my head around the pipewire ecosystem. I think it's great that we're getting a fully featured audio system with all the upsides of pulseaudio and jack, and none of the downsides (that I know of), plus a bunch of completely new features. However, I can't help but think it could have used a little more vision in its interface (or maybe just qpwGraph).

    From what I've read, my mental model is that pipewire holds the graph, while a "session manager" manipulates it (create/modify/remove new nodes/ports/links/etc). That's fine. I also understand that wireplumber is such a session manager, and despite having a really convoluted config syntax, it does its job (I assume).

    As a simpleton, though, I'm drawn to the wysiwyg interface of qpwGraph, but it's not clear to me how it's supposed to fit into pipewire's vision or how it interacts with wireplumber. It seems to render the current pipewire graph as it is, it can create/remove links between ports, but also it's not a session manager (right?).

    I suspect that whatever I can do in qpwGraph I could also do using just wireplumber via conf files and the cli. But dragging my mouse between nodes is so much easier than learning a new syntax. But then I also don't understand what "Active" and "Exclusive" mean. I'm guessing that if Active isn't checked, it won't do anything at all, but if Exclusive isn't checked then...maybe wireplumber can override it? Does that mean if Exclusive IS checked it's able to override wireplumber (look at me, I am the session manager now)? Is that why, if I have a qpwgraph active that links VLC to both OBS and my headset, I hear/see a delay of the link to my headset when a VLC process launches? First wireplumber decides where it should link, and then qpwGraph modifies it several ms after?

    I feel like it's currently not clear what qpwGraph is in pipewire terms, but it's also clearly the most intuitive way for someone to use pipewire right now. I think it would be best if qpwGraph was either a standalone, fully featured session manager (not to be used in combination with wireplumber) or just a front end for wireplumber rather than talking to pipewire directly.

    Thoughts? Anyone else confused? Am I missing a piece to the puzzle?

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    404 when trying to access a new community?

    Hi, I'm sure this is just a noob lemmy question. I saw on /c/newcommunities@lemmy.world that there's a new YouShouldKnow community: https://sopuli.xyz/post/675270

    But when I search for it through Sopuli, it doesn't show up, and if I use the ! link in the top comment, it returns a 404 from sopuli. It seems the sopuli server doesn't know about the community yet, how is it supposed to find out about it? Thanks

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