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@RTP good job for Zoom responding and, apparently, acting upon this issue

@freemo as a linguist and a many-times parent, I endorse the spirit of this message. I wouldn't go so far as to call it abuse, but it is definitely not helpful to the children.

@rap1ds awesome! I experience a conflict in #clojure between leveraging the awesome interop power with its hosts (Java, Javascript, etc) yet holding as "inferior" or at least suspicion non-Clojure code

Whoa -- somehow I was joyfully surprised that #Piped can play live #YouTube broadcasts!

For a while I wondered how to change my #emacs modeline in a destructive function call; then I rethought the situation, read the code, and just turned off the destructive behavior. Ah, the glory of #OpenSource!

@david_megginson

my morning playlist is the music to Newsies, so I have a casual awareness of some of that.

True that the entire economic state of news has changed; nonetheless, I prefer the Newspaper Box model to the News Delivery model. The box model -- which is no longer inconvenient to digital users -- is a clear win to privacy and freedom from invasive algorithms, spam, and black box news-feed tweaking.

That tweaking is the sort of thing that makes feeds non-reproducible ("I read a thing this morning and can't find it now") and non-shareable, not to mention unknown forces "tailoring" the feed to what they believe users want, which inherently promotes clickbait and ideological contention.

Give me clean #RSS !

In the physical world, the only real limitation to the newspaper box distribution method is that of convenience; the consumer might not have a box near them, or my not want to be troubled to go out to that box. These concerns go away online, and #RSS really shines at keeping anonymous distribution instead of anything requiring an registration (newsletters, vendor accounts). Identity is costly, even bothering with dummy or burner identities.

#GitHub down

@daviwil The long build times are gross, but "separate software management stack" is a real pity for Guix...

wow. Text-browser Nitter is actually quite nice. https://nitter.net/ChrisO_wiki/status/1673963225845493764#m

Ah! Great solution found: the impressive #libredirect plugin, which allows choosing redirects for YouTube and many others! https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/ #privacy #FireFox #piped #YouTube #twitter #reddit #ManyOthers

Many #piped instances, including the main ones, seem to be hitting a java error that might be a result of being blocked by #YouTube. Fortunately each instance provides "preferences" that list other instances. Swapping them out individually, eventually I found one that still plays videos (for now). https://piped.simpleprivacy.fr/

@daviwil Are you using GUIX system with flatpak? If flatpak is just another repo, how do I tell guix to prefer that Firefox instead?

Whoa. Just performed a #guix update of #FireFox from 107 to 114. Downloading and installing the dependencies and the final product took over two hours... 🤯

no instance of #piped.video is working for me. eg https://piped.video/watch?v=1ZPopZJipnA

#MarcAndreessen on #LexFridman podcast points out that the advent of software would have #Marx rolling in his grave, because Marx' ideas were founded in industrial economics while the software boom sees individuals able to convert labor directly into capital. https://lexfridman.com/marc-andreessen/