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I'm not a fan of Apple or Google, and it feels bad that all of our notifications pass through APNS or FCM. Megacorps shouldn't have control over our digital lives to the extent tha…

I was in Japan recently and did find that my non-Japanese Pixel phone wasn't allowed to use the mobile Suica app, even though the hardware supports it. Some nerds on XDA figured ou…

Agree that "control" is a much better framing, since it doesn't suggest a need for secrecy and therefore embarrassing/unacceptable/untoward behavior that needs to stay behind drawn…

I think that inflating the perceived value of the good beyond rationality is one of the main objectives of marketing.

You're right, of course, but I don't think blame rests solely on the individual consumer here... I guess it's a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem, wherein Apple makes $200 knitted i…

The way I see it, the suggestion that one can simply "vote with their wallet" is absolutely a pro-corporation stance because it pretends that consumers and megacorps have equal foo…

I wonder what the "free-market" types will say to minimize criticisms like those in this thread once everything that can possibly be purchased requires bending over for this sort o…

Yeah, from the demo video, it looks like this OCRs a photo of text and turns it into one of those QR codes. Then you can use Google Lens against the QR code onscreen to get the "jo…

Good spot, thanks... I'm reading up, more info here: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/PO-Token-Guide

whether this is a positive thing is left as an exercise to the reader :)

Yep, downloading copies of videos so I can watch them on long flights is one of my main use cases for yt-dlp. I suppose someone more sycophantic to the wishes of trillion-dollar co…

Felony contempt of business model! The DMCA and its anti-circumvention provisions bring us a rich history of abuse, including such gems as "Lexmark suing a company that figured out…

In summary, YouTube is A/B testing a change where specific clients receive only DRM-locked video streams. This is notable because yt-dlp impersonates those clients during normal op…

I've rambled about this on here before, but I'm pretty bothered that the media coverage of these always mentions the 25-year import law, but also always frames it simply as a matte…

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It looks like you're doing great work here, thanks a bunch; looking forward to seeing this project develop. Selling custom integrations, managed instances, white-glove support with…

Nitter worked by signing in with special "guest accounts" that I think were given to fresh downloads of the mobile apps.[0] Last year, X fully disabled that functionality, which le…

My understanding is that Nitter instances like this one, now that guest accounts don't exist anymore, depend on a pool of manually-created Twitter accounts. If the use case is peop…

FIGlet http://www.figlet.org/ is a nice command-line tool for doing stuff like this. Can preview its fonts online here: https://patorjk.com/software/taag/

I think it's reminiscent of "rectum", unless I'm missing it too.

Low-hanging fruit of dodgy medical claims aside: why would you post this as a response to someone announcing that they are shortly going to die from cancer? Is the intent to make t…

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As someone who has to interview candidates occasionally, I love the idea of a real-time interview copilot system. Here's why. I see two main ways it could shake out. In the less ex…