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peertube.wtf and lemmy.wtf are both down right now.

I can’t sign it because I’m in the US… unfortunately… but it’s in Overdrive right now.

Given the US is ran by the New Fuhrer? I could see this being used against criticism of leadership or anything else resembling free will and not just piracy. I also find it sad that the day the US will probably die as a free country and turn into a dictatorship, is the same day it gained its independence in the first place.

If it’s upheld, that’s the precursor to full-blown info blackouts, just cut off internet to anyone ‘accused’ of wrongspeak against the powers that be, which is basically everyone.

This also sounds like SOPA reborn.

And how long before that applies to citizens too? If Free Speech and Free Expression on the whole aren’t dead yet, they’ve got a foot in the grave

That’s exactly what Google is trying to do on YT with Veo 3 and the ‘AI slop’ button.

Good luck breaking down people’s doors for scanning their own physical books for their personal use when analog media has no DRM and can’t phone home, and paper books are an analog medium.

That would be like kicking down people’s doors for needle-dropping their LPs to FLAC for their own use and to preserve the physical records as vinyl wears down every time it’s played back.

Still gonna need a large screen somehow unless you watch all your stuff at the desk or through a laptop.

Too bad this probably still won’t drive people to other platforms.

Mine ain’t, I’m using an ancient dumb TV.

They don’t host anything, they’re just an alternate front-end that lets you download stuff.

Workaround got released, that same issue just updated itself to indicate that. Still shitty of Google to be going full Reddit like this though.

YT’s blocked on it. Fuck you, Google.

https://github.com/futo-org/grayjay-android/issues/2351

If Google’s going to be further tightening YT to the degree where they might roll out DRM platform-wide as opposed to just limiting it to movies on the platform, I’m about to seriously start looking for stuff to watch on PeerTube because YT is not long for the world and will probably start pushing away anything that isn’t AI slop at some point in terms of content.

UPDATE: A workaround has been released for this issue.

Liberapay is looking pretty good right now.

One more reason to be glad I ditched that hellpit.

No, but Plex can. I’d migrate to Jellyfin if you can as Plex started paywalling some of their services.

But if you have problems with open source, you gotta go get a computer person

• Not necessarily, most commercial enterprise Linux distros sell support contracts, for example, RHEL and SUSE being the two most famous examples of that.

Slope’s Game Room is about to lose his channel over ‘hate speech’ that isn’t even his. One more reason for me to not post any future video content to YT if I ever seriously get into making vids and instead just posting everything to PeerTube where it at least isn’t in danger of getting nuked because Google got pissed at me.

Update: he got to keep his channel. Still one more reason to not put any future content on YT should I pick up video content creation though.

How long before Google locks YT down to loading only on Chrome, and only on Windows, Mac, ChromeOS, or Android, and only without ad blockers of any kind, including hardware ad blockers like PiHole being implemented anywhere, and straight-up blocking it from loading at all on non-Chrome browsers (to also include other Chromium browsers) and on Linux or iOS, and enforcing TPM2 and SecureBoot mandates for authentication, and blocking downloading and re-uploading of YT vids, using DRM?

Basically, I wouldn’t put it above them to ensure their video platform only runs on their browser, and only on hardware that they deem worthy of running it, even if it means somehow implementing a Vanguard-style rootkit. Something else I wouldn’t put it past Google to try, is completely discontinuing the YT browser client and fully locking the API down to the official app, and still implementing a Vanguard-style rootkit on that.

I still wouldn’t trust Google not to nuke my channel on a whim even in spite of those relaxed moderation rules. What’s stopping a little bribe from the right company or political party from causing them to backpedal or even tighten their grip further?

This is why one should at least mirror their content to PeerTube or a similar alternative platform like that even if they’re not going to just outright post future content to said alternative and give up on YT altogether.