Victor Villas

New Kurtzgesagt video, a new opportunity to improve my filter bubble by blocking anyone who starts parroting factoids about their ties with the Gates Foundation 🤭 great day

Morning Show seasons 2 and 3 condensed in a single week

Mine has been working fine, but the instance did lose all my “Mark as watched” videos, and for some reason one specific channel never makes into the Subscriptions panel, but I just have it as a favourite and it ends up almost the same. The instance I was using for Piped is now borked, so I’m hanging onto Invidious for now.

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Glad someone is finally taking on a fediverse alternative to GoodReads

Firefox is just the only decent option. And while at it, use Piped or Invidious while you still can, people!

I’m in total agreement that OSS builds more secure software. What I’m saying is that these companies are not in the business of building safe software.

From there, I see no advantage to closed-source here.

I think the easiest mental map is this: doing things well has a cost; doing things poorly can be cheaper; if it’s way cheaper and there’s some method available to de-risk it even if a little bit, no matter how little effective it is, it might be financially advantageous to pick the inferior option. This is not just for security, but pretty much everything.

What a complicated way of getting a building floor reassignment

You’d still need an account, but I think you can plug Zapier into a group to create RSS feed items from posts.

From there you can use your RSS reader of choice, FOSS or not

There’s also the graph API if you want to DIY, also needs a token with group permissions

I think you might have read it backwards, I equated closed source with security by obscurity. And obviously you can have both, if you pay extra.

Sure, finance is not technology, but I think it’s worth it pointing out that it’s not arbitrary or just greed or whatever, it has technicalities too.

Am I going to be behind the competition by doing this?

Yes, because you are due a lot more diligence with open source, and that will slow down your releases.

If the most secure crypto algorithms are the ones that are public, can we ensure the security of a bank’s apps by publicizing it?

You trade security by obscurity for security by expert oversight. I’m not a lawyer or baking auditor, but I’d say while zero-days are problematic for open source software projects; they can be life-ending for banks.

Is there a technical reason they don’t publicize their code or is it just purely corporate greed and nothing else?

This is a false dichotomy. Financial reasons to not publicize the code are technical reasons. Finance is technical.

We really are social creatures. Went big on Orkut, Facebook, WhatsApp, and of course the current trends are YouTube, Instagram and TikTok. I think the only one that didn’t really take off that much (relatively speaking) was Snapchat.

Even finance apps had way too much social features, looking at you PicPay with the worst timeline feature ever: see people’s payments to each other lmao

Yes, it’s a client. Well, for better or for worse, no chance that this huge of a user base will move to piped. I don’t understand why it’s not super famous yet, but I guess invidious and piped are simply fringe tech still.

That’s why I said that YouTube would need a major tragedy to get a real hit, real alternatives like Peertube are going to struggle a lot against the network effect. Nebula has a much better shot given the amount of content creators invested on it, and it’s still a long shot.

I’m placing my bets on piped video instead, for now at least. YouTube needs something more tragic, like getting acquired by Elon Musk, before it bleeds for real.

At this point I’m just holding for dear life to piped.video, because illegal front-ends are my only hope to keep watching YouTube.

Yeah, it’s a decent app with less overreach seeping in from Meta compared with Facebook, Instagram and Threads. Still, it makes me uncomfortable that many communities that I value greatly would be out of my reach if it were to stop using it. For now it’s not a problem, but I’m hyper-aware of the danger.

In my case, that but WhatsApp. Can’t live without it, as much as I’d like.

It is. Among literal children, TikTok and YouTube wins because it’s easy to consume without a real social network.

Among teenagers, though, Instagram goes hard.

Since 2014-15, TikTok has arisen; Facebook usage has dropped; Instagram, Snapchat have grown

It is a good comparison, but it goes to show how the framing of individual freedom supremacy warps any discussion about the collective. As soon as you hit “freedom age” magic number, suddenly you can’t hold accountable the powers at play anymore.