FreeTube is currently broken, maybe for the same reason OP is having problems, YouTube changed something on their end. Although supposedly the fix is coming through shortly. Shoutouts to the maintainers doing all this work.

If it’s really what is described (an app that other apps can use to classify content without querying a server), seems like a good thing to me. There is a clear need for people to be able to filter spam and things they don’t want to see. Imagine a Lemmy app where you can set it to not show you US politics related posts, where it will work regardless of whether specific keywords are in the title. Couldn’t that kind of thing contribute to a more decentralized web?

From the article:

“Classifying things like this is not the same as trying to detect illegal content and reporting it to a service,” GrapheneOS said. “That would greatly violate people’s privacy in multiple ways and false positives would still exist. It’s not what this is and it’s not usable for it.”

Yeah, sorry, my tone was too harsh there, it’s definitely relevant context

If you’re considering how good software is, how it was made is irrelevant, the only thing to measure is how well it works. A criticism of Linux from a user perspective is still valid regardless of who is or isn’t to blame.

Thanks for the info, I’m on linux mint and after checking these out it isn’t immediately apparent from their websites whether or how I could install them. Still think etcher occupies a niche that alternatives don’t fill, its website directs you straight to installing it, it’s cross platform, and using it is very easy, so it’s something that could reasonably be linked to in various install tutorials.

I almost never use my phone, mostly just when I need it for authentication stuff. Computer only for everything else. Hoping to be able to get rid of the phone at some point.

Tried this prompt with deepseek-r1:14b, it seems to get it right about half the time, otherwise giving the wrong quote or claiming it wasn’t really Thomas Jefferson who said it.

Rufus seems to be just for Windows and dd does not have a gui

I don’t actually know how good it is but another software that does screen sharing you might try is Jitsi

Matrix is the main one I think

All of the media about this stuff has felt increasingly like misleading propaganda to me since 2016, and getting an accurate, unbiased, big picture understanding of what is happening seems somewhere between a lot of work and actually impossible with so many people trying so hard to manipulate you. It is like reality television. I try to tune it out as I can but enough gets through.

I’m glad everyone is finally coming around to hating Twitter though.

Yeah I mean I did read the translated version, but translations are imperfect. Looks like this confirms that there is a recent spike though

Not sure, the article links to another article about the recent state of Argentina’s economy and currency though, which seems to be saying among other things that its stability became worse in 2023, which was closely followed by spikes in cryptocurrency adoption:

I’m not 100% on all that though since I can’t read Spanish

Cryptocurrency has exploded in Argentina in recent years, as disillusioned savers sought to keep their money outside traditional banks amid a decades-long economic crisis and soaring inflation rates.

Kind of makes sense if the people in charge of running their official currency are this corrupt as to be doing blatant pump and dumps on Twitter

Will they even know if they are throwing it all away?

Silicone caulk, lithium batteries, sharkbite fittings, laminate flooring, etc. I remember watching my father struggling with diy house projects and a lot of that is clearly easier now because of various advances.

I have and I think it makes a lot of sense that psychedelics could potentially help with OP’s specific problem

LSD is just a tool to turn us into what we are supposed to be. -Albert Hofmann

A better analogy would be a ban on posts that are just a link to a Steam page or a ticket sale page. In which case, yeah, makes sense, that’s spam.

Even in a bookbclub, the library won’t have 15 copies of the same book, some people will have to buy it, unless your book club comprises 2 people.

IME this is not so much a problem because people are using ebooks and you can digitally check out books from other libraries than the one closest to you. If there is a lack of copies, that could be grounds for going with a different book.

So we shouldn’t have communities around videogames (or board games), professional sports, traveling, food, clothes, most hobbies, or anything else, because it costs money?

This is not at all what I’m saying. Does wanting to ban paywall links equate to wanting journalism to die? No, but it makes sense to do, and if it making sense to do conflicts with the business model, that’s not a moral problem because people aren’t obligated to help companies make their (imo stupid and harmful in this case) decisions work out for them.