What's Up with FUTO? • Hacker News Board

Re: What's Up with FUTO?

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Post by wkat4242 » Wed, Oct 22, 2025, 10:54 PM UTC

mzajc wrote: post #18

wkat4242 wrote: post #9

I only know their YouTube app grayjay but I don't really like it because puts all this futo stuff in my video feed. A video player should get out of the way. I prefer smarttubenext (tv) and revanced.

Another: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/ (has backends for a few extra services, interestingly including media.ccc.de)

Yes newpipe is ok but they don't allow the sponsorblock plugin for high horse reasons and I need that. Without that YouTube is unbearable even with premium. Someone else even did all the work for them writing the plugin.

I used a fork for a while that did have it but it wasn't updated often enough to keep working reliably.

Re: What's Up with FUTO?

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Post by Zufield » Thu, Oct 23, 2025, 5:08 AM UTC

Why does anyone even listen to Drew Devault? He's basically the open source version of the angry cat lady from the simpsons

Re: What's Up with FUTO?

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Post by asindon » Thu, Oct 23, 2025, 6:53 AM UTC

Zufield wrote: post #22

Why does anyone even listen to Drew Devault? He's basically the open source version of the angry cat lady from the simpsons

He's worse than that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41859793

Re: What's Up with FUTO?

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Post by ErroneousBosh » Thu, Oct 23, 2025, 9:45 AM UTC

marginalia_nu wrote: post #16

ErroneousBosh wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So, you'd accept money from any source, regardless of how reprehensible, as long as you got paid? Do you take payment in melted down gold fillings? See, this is why you shouldn't read Ayn Rand books, or at least take them seriously.

I can see this is an argument made in bad faith, as I simply don't see any other way a statement made in the context of not looking too closely at the politics of donors has turned into the accusations you are making now. But still, I happen to quite enjoy pointless sophistry and I am no stranger to hyperbolic comparisons, so: Wouldn't the logical conclusion of your line of argument be that criminals and reprehensibl…

It's not an advert made in bad faith. It's a simple question.

Where do you draw the line? Whose money would you *not* take?

Re: What's Up with FUTO?

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Oct 26, 2025, 12:43 PM UTC

ErroneousBosh wrote: post #7

marginalia_nu wrote: post #4

FUTO sent me money for a production server with no strings attached. Seem to be nice people, if possibly a bit inexperienced with charity work. Eron came off as very much the archetype of a Gen-X tech bro what little I spoke with him. Whether a donor's politics are red or blue, their dollar bills are still green. Turning money down, especially when no strings are attached, is just self sabotage. Dunno if that puts me…

> Whether a donor's politics are red or blue, their dollar bills are still green. So morality doesn't factor into it for you? You'd take anyone's money, regardless of how dirty the source? Where's the line for you? The Irish Republican Army? Hamas? > Turning money down, especially when no strings are attached, is just self sabotage. Reputation is the most valuable currency you have, but it's easy to get it dirty and…

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