“Anti scam”… Riiight. I’m sure Zuckerberg is very concerned about his customers users cash cows being scammed, and it has nothing to do at all with surveillance.

Yeah DDG has been serving up AI slop lately, it’s really annoying.

Ducky see, ducky do. It’s kind of pathetic…

Because alternative clients offer features that only the for-pay official client offers, like subscriptions and playlists, and Google can’t collect data on what people subscribe to or their playlists because in alternative clients, they’re stored locally.

Google doesn’t hate third-party clients because they skip ads: it hates them because they impede surveillance and privacy invasion, which is the true bread and butter of Google.

Awesome! I didn’t know. I’m gonna try it now. Thanks!

Oh wow interesting. Thanks!

…for the desktop.

Newpipe and Grayjay are still going strong on Android.

Google clearly has the ability to break any and all third party client at any time.

My theory is that they’re conducting random campaigns of working-but-not-all-the-time on this or that client at different times to grind everybody down and force them to comply through shear exhaustion. Because if they banned all 3rd party client outright, it would negatively impact the antitrust case against them.

Markup applies to titles in Lemmy. But be aware that titles are displayed raw above comments so don’t go too crazy with it, so your titles display okay raw too 🙂

Personally, if I can’t watch Youtube in third party clients - which happens regularly courtesy of Google - then I don’t watch Youtube at all. The official clients are simply too painful - not to mention, a privacy-invading nightmare.

Fixed.

There has been so many of them, to be honest I picked the first one I found 🙂

All the invidious instances I’ve tried either don’t work or their API is disabled - Sorry I didn’t see “through your browser”.

Not all invidious instances work. A lot of them have been hit by Youtube. But NewPipe still works - until it gets targeted too I guess. It’s a game of cat and mouse with Google - and it’s fucking tiring.

Yeah but China ain’t a democracy and Apple has their stuff manufactured in China. So you’d expect them to bend over backward to comply there.

The UK on the other hand is nominally a democracy, and Apple has no vital need to keep the UK powers that be happy. Apple could very well decide to tell them to pound sand and pull out of the country for the sake of principles, and I guarantee you the UK would quickly back down.

If Apple hadn’t complied in the UK, they would have lost a bit of profits for a while, but gained a ton of good will and credibility. They chose profits. Because corporation.

Incidentally, this whole thing should tell you how much of a democracy the UK really is.

I’m glad one more person discovered Linux is good in 2025.

I’m a random person too and I discovered Linux in 1993. Where’s my 15 minutes of fame?

Oh right, I’m not a Youtuber…

Have remembered to set the reboot in future command since

That’s not a bad idea actually. I’ll have to reuse that one. Thanks!

This is a server I was setting up. It’s not doing anything useful at all at the moment, hence the lax work practice. The only reason I drove back to work is because it’s needed tomorrow and I wanted to finish setting it up tonite.

In my defense, I just installed the machine. I was configuring it from home after hours.

Because I plain forgot I was remote. It’s as simple and as stupid as that.

Well yeah but as long as the price of eggs goes down, it’s worth any sacrifice.

I use Terminator. It’s nothing fancy but it works fine.

If I work locally, I usually stick several Terminator windows side-by-side and up-and-down in i3 tiles and that’s good enough.

If I work remotely through SSH though - which is 75% of what I do in a terminal, I’ll run tmux so I can have several shells in one terminal of course, but mostly so that I don’t lose what I’m doing if the internet goes down.

You’re comparing apples and oranges here. Kitty is a terminal emulator, tmux is a terminal multiplexer. They are only tangentially related, which is why…

The one thing I miss a lot is being able to quickly detach and re-attach to existing sessions