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IratePirate

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  • FreeTube's 0.24.1 Beta update fixes issues with not loading videos from feed or channel pages

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  • If you stay hooked to big corporate-owned services, you agree to get enshittified. With Freetube, at least I get to choose the type enshittification I'm exposed to, and get to deal a bit of damage to Google's profits in the process. I'll gladly take that.

  • Judge Learns Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case

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  • No. Dead law began with the supreme court (which I shall no longer capitalise) hand-waving presidential crime. Law has been broken ever since in the US, and it's been getting worse.

  • Judge Learns Lawyers on Both Sides of Case Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case

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  • "I get you're frustrated 🧨. That's perfectly legitimate. 👍 Here are five ways to make your concerns heard: ..."

  • me_irl

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  • Now do a role reversal, write the equivalent onto a girl's lunch packet, and watch the comments section burn. 🍿

  • New privacy frontier: Europe eyes crackdown on smart glasses

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  • openmediavault 7 approaching EOL

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  • Wow, this went smooth! Just upgraded to 8 without issue! And I've done a ton of modifications on my system... Even pulled an image with Clonezilla just to be in the safe side. Very well done on OMV's part! 👏

  • No visas for Russian soldiers, no crypto, no fish — EU announces new Russia sanctions package

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  • "Wait, they were still allowed to do that?"- Me with every new sanctions package.

  • openmediavault 7 approaching EOL

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  • You da real MVP mate! I'm still on 7 and completely missed this. Will go for Proxmox soon, but until I get round to it, I'll have to get this done.

  • Companies now block older browser versions from accessing their websites!

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  • No more Netscape Navigator for me I guess. 🥲

  • Broken speaker? Finicky zipper? Anticonsumerist Repair Cafes urge you to fix it instead of pitch it

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  • Mmmmh! And ribbon cables that you need to manually fold so they'll fit into the slot - what a great chance to break the sub-millimeter copper wiring inside!

  • Broken speaker? Finicky zipper? Anticonsumerist Repair Cafes urge you to fix it instead of pitch it

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  • Just so you know, the larger gauge wires were to carry more current required by the old halogen bulb and are unnecessarily large for an LED light.

    Thanks for the insight! Yeah, I could've thought about that. Yet, thinner wiring also comes with much poorer wear resilience. Looking at you, headphone and charger cables...

  • Broken speaker? Finicky zipper? Anticonsumerist Repair Cafes urge you to fix it instead of pitch it

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  • Ugh, that description triggered my PTSD acquired during the latest repairs on a Lenovo Yoga. Tons of printed and taped-on PCB in place of once solid construction.

    I guess that's why nowadays, whenever I need to buy new, I first watch a teardown video to see the insides. If things look finicky and hard to access/repair, I'm not buying. Refuse > repair.

  • Broken speaker? Finicky zipper? Anticonsumerist Repair Cafes urge you to fix it instead of pitch it

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  • We're quickly moving towards a Warhammer40k world where "old stuff is better". Just like digital services become increasingly enshittified, late-stage capitalism incentivises companies to produce things ever more cheaply just to squeeze out some more of that precious shareholder value. Plastics, electronics, garments - everything is so thin nowadays that it will crack, break and tear quickly.

    Case in point: here's a picture of two types of copper wiring.

    On the left, you can see the original wiring of a defunct LED light. Further examination showed that the wiring had simply broken in parts of the cable. So I went to the scrapyard and scavenged the wires off an old 1960s lamp plug (that's the wiring on the right-hand side). These wires had 3-4x the amount of copper strands as compared to modern wires and will not snap easily. I soldered them onto the lamp - now the lamp lives to light another day.

    I can only encourage everyone to get a simple soldering iron, some screwdrivers, or a bit of sewing equipment and get to work. You have nothing to lose from tinkering with your stuff (almost*) . If something was broken before, chances are you'd have discarded it anyway, so you can't break it much more. But the dopamine hit you get when something previously defunct suddenly jumps back to life and serves you for several more years - that's priceless. Also, fixing your shit is an erect middle finger to the capitalist logic of ever-decreasing product life cycles and the ever-increasing amounts of deliberately produced waste - all that at a time where we're more painfully aware than ever that resources are finite, and the so-called first world is squandering a lot of them at the expense of everyone else.

    So do your bit. It's thrifty. It's fun. And it's the right thing to do.

    * Unless you're dealing with batteries or high voltages, in which case you want to be careful and do your research; house fires are no fun.

  • Engineer turns disposable vape pen into a working web server

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  • OK, but can it run Doom?

  • Kittygram v1.1 has released

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  • would be a constant game of cat kitty and mouse.

    Come on, it was right there!

  • [Discussion] Which privacy apps / services do you think are most likely US government honeypots?

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  • Maybe not a honeypot, but definitely too large for my taste by now: Proton. With Mail, VPN, password manager, file storage, AI and whatnot, it's one ginormous basket to put all of your eggs into, hopping it'll hold.

  • Age-verification partner Yoti is reporting GrapheneOS users to authorities for using GrapheneOS, due to "past security concerns."

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  • The security of your phone is a concern to surveillance fanatics.

  • Anthropic/OpenAI may be spending more than $1000 for every $100 you pay them

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  • Joke's on them. I'm not paying them a dime.

  • Thoughts on using 2 phones during the age of enshitification and age verification.

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  • I, too, have pondered what could be done in case the nightmare of age identity verification rears its ugly head where I live. And I've come to similar results as you.

    I'd add that,if your means of communication do only require an internet connection and not a phone number, you might get away with not having a SIM in your personal phone at all. You might access the net through WiFi connections (even mobile hotspot), hiding your actual destination through a VPN (if those are still a thing). Not having a SIM removes yet another identifier linking PII to your personal privacy phone.