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  • YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads

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  • No, but Plex can. I'd migrate to Jellyfin if you can as Plex started paywalling some of their services.

  • Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux

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  • But if you have problems with open source, you gotta go get a computer person

    • Not necessarily, most commercial enterprise Linux distros sell support contracts, for example, RHEL and SUSE being the two most famous examples of that.

  • YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content. Videos are allowed if "freedom of expression value may outweigh harm risk"

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  • Slope's Game Room is about to lose his channel over 'hate speech' that isn't even his. One more reason for me to not post any future video content to YT if I ever seriously get into making vids and instead just posting everything to PeerTube where it at least isn't in danger of getting nuked because Google got pissed at me.

    Update: he got to keep his channel. Still one more reason to not put any future content on YT should I pick up video content creation though.

  • YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content. Videos are allowed if "freedom of expression value may outweigh harm risk"

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  • How long before Google locks YT down to loading only on Chrome, and only on Windows, Mac, ChromeOS, or Android, and only without ad blockers of any kind, including hardware ad blockers like PiHole being implemented anywhere, and straight-up blocking it from loading at all on non-Chrome browsers (to also include other Chromium browsers) and on Linux or iOS, and enforcing TPM2 and SecureBoot mandates for authentication, and blocking downloading and re-uploading of YT vids, using DRM?

    Basically, I wouldn't put it above them to ensure their video platform only runs on their browser, and only on hardware that they deem worthy of running it, even if it means somehow implementing a Vanguard-style rootkit. Something else I wouldn't put it past Google to try, is completely discontinuing the YT browser client and fully locking the API down to the official app, and still implementing a Vanguard-style rootkit on that.

  • YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content. Videos are allowed if "freedom of expression value may outweigh harm risk"

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  • I still wouldn't trust Google not to nuke my channel on a whim even in spite of those relaxed moderation rules. What's stopping a little bribe from the right company or political party from causing them to backpedal or even tighten their grip further?

    This is why one should at least mirror their content to PeerTube or a similar alternative platform like that even if they're not going to just outright post future content to said alternative and give up on YT altogether.

  • Live long enough to see yourself become the villain

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  • Musk as Lex Luthor would be a better fit, and even that might be insulting to Luthor.

  • iFixit says the Switch 2 is even harder to repair than the original

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  • Not that Nintendo can't just withdraw from regions that have some level of consumer protections.

  • Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform

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  • I've been daily-driving Linux for over a decade at this point so you don't need to convince me, and I'll just spin up a Windows VM for things aren't picky about baremetal OS installs, but also don't play nice with WINE.

  • YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point.

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  • Not going to help when you have a monopoly over the user-generated content field like YT and by extension Google basically does.

  • YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point.

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  • Only Freetube is being actively attacked by Google and Invidious is basically dead.

  • Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

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  • Not in the traditional sense anyways.

  • Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

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  • Vo-techs at least kinda have to be based on the types of things they tend to teach, you can't really teach things like masonry out of a book, for example, that's one subject where you actually need to go in and get your hands dirty as it were, and actually do the thing being taught, to learn it, or really anything else having to do with building a house.

    I could very much argue that this also applies to art school as well, but there's also a lot of theory and history and such that very much needs a lot of reading to pick up, although things like color theory are best picked up by actually mixing different paint colors together, as well as the practical side of things in terms of actually doing a painting or drawing or sculpture or whatever.

  • VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom

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  • I didn't even know that was a thing. Cool!

  • Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

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  • Or even actually show what they learned in a practical sense. In a vo-tech, for example, have the students fix up a car or get a small LAN set up, or even in the case of an art school, have the class do a mural or a sidewalk-scale mosaic outside as their end-of-instruction project (both of those sound like really fun end-of-instruction projects, btw), with admin approval, of course.

  • VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom

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  • And virt-manager is pretty solid for hobbyist tinkering too.

  • VMware perpetual license holders receive cease-and-desist letters from Broadcom

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  • This is why KVM is a good option, or even Hyper-V for Windows hosts. The only problem with KVM Is graphical support for paravirtualized drivers is basic at best with no full 3D acceleration that I know of for Windows guests; virtio-win isn't exactly the best option graphically and QXL to my knowledge is even more lacking, but one can just pass a hardware GPU through over vfio-pci for that.

    Unfortunately for Mac hosts, Apple has no KVM/Hyper-V equivalent so your best option for virtualization there is Parallels.

    (and it's honestly kinda stupid that Apple can't build their own KVM equivalent into the Darwin kernel which macOS is based on)

  • Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

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  • How long before Respondus introduces an education equivalent of BattlEye or other kernel-level anticheats as a result of stuff like this?

    And I don't mean the Lockdown browser, I mean something beyond that, so as to block local AI Implementations in addition to web-based ones.

    Also, I'm pretty sure there's still plenty of fields that are more hands-on and either really hard or impossible to AI-cheat your way through. For example, if you're going for carpentry at the local vo-tech, good luck AI-cheating your way through that when that's a very hands-on subject by its nature.

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  • If this literal malware (I say that because again, what MS is proposing here is what some actual viruses used to do, typically to an even worse degree than simply changing settings) gets ported to the Enterprise/Education and IoT SKUs, the people who work on this stuff for a living at the local call center or public school district are going to have a nightmare on their hands.

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  • Looks like this isn't ripe for abuse in any way.... sarcasm

    You just know MS is going to find a way to abuse this 'feature' to change people's settings behind their backs in any way they see fit.

    This reeks of the type of malware that used to take complete control of your PC and change settings maliciously, and even delete important files or straight-up nuke your OS install in the worst-case scenario, but made 'legitimate' somehow. Yes, MS is really stooping that low to make one of the worst types of malware an actual OS feature.