I'm using https://freetubeapp.io/ and so far it mostly works. You have to stay on top of updates, and age-restricted videos can be a problem, but the feature I love most is that it can subscribe to creators without an account, and it just shows you time-sorted feed. It also has native sponsorblock baked in, and has support for downloading videos, or using an invidious as a proxy.
You can turn off autoplay, comments, recommended videos and other engagement-maxing bullshit, so it's just a video player without distractions that I can use to follow stuff I'm directly interested in, that doesn't force content on me.
Turning off TVs with adds has been the only usage I've been getting out of my Flipper zero. Doesn't work always, but I did have some success and I'll always try whenever I have to spend time longer time anywhere.
I have the same relationship with ads as the OP, and even deeper hatred for fingerprinting to the point there is a lot of friction in my daily tech usage. Lot of stuff breaks, I have to fill captchas often, maintain self-hosted tech, get wrong time zone and language I don't know on websites, etc. (On one hand it's a boon, because it is keeping my pretty serious internet addiction in check and it has kept me away from most social networks and short form content).
They have just installed this annoying kind of LCD slideshow adds that are a long screen alongside underground line, and I'm actively trying to avoid and not look at it, same with any IRL ads. I really hope we'll get some FOSS smartglases tech eventually, just so I can have an IRL adblock that replaces adds around you that I've seen a demo for.
But, I have seen (single instances) of adds over the year that I appreciated, because it's more a clever art than an add. But 99% of adds isn't that, and it's just annoying intrusive attention grabbing slop designed to burn into your mind. Fuck that.
I highly recommend looking into Matrix Ansible Deploy, has an amazing documentation and actually works robustly. It will make the whole process of hosting it way easier, I only needed to change like 5 config values, give Ansible the SSH key for my server, and then basically run "just setup-all" from a Ansible docker.
It's extremely easy, the Matrix ansible deploy project is very simple to use (with at least basic tech literacy), is very well documented and as far as I've seen in the past few years of using it do deploy and update my Matrix instance - it's also very robust. I haven't seen it fail a single time, which tends to be a problem with larger Docker/Ansible projects.
I'm paying 7$ a month for a cheap server on Hetzner, you also need a domain name, and the whole setup took like an hour.
Haven't heard about this piece of internet lore. It's really tragic, and I shudder to think how differently would it go if he had access to ChatGPT.
Or rather, probably not much different, but there are already several cases of people nudged to the exactly same path solely thanks to AI, that they wouldn't have probably ended up on so quickly. It sucks.
I recommend transfering to Cloudfare, since they have guaranteed wholesale price (no added fees, and only what the tld owner and ICANN asks), so they should be cheapest (since anything less is selling at a loss for the registrar, at least ifI understand right).
Namecheap has started overcharging me like 20+$ on a renewal compared to CF. So, transfering after a first year (which is where registrars like Namecheap take a loss and give you a discount) is probably the cheapest way how to go about it.
As far as I know, Cloudfare is the only registrar that offers you wholesale price, as in the price asked by the tld owners. So, you a registrar can't go lower, because that's what they pay for it.
But, a lot of registrars will give you first year at a heavy discount (so, at a loss), just so they can ramp up the price to wholesale + a lot extra. I got my domain for like 5$, and they then asked for 40$ for renewal, while wholesale is around 25$.
So, I just transfered to Cloudfare for the renewal. Tbh I don't remember if it was the first or second year, and what are the transfer rules, but I think it should be possible to just buy a first year at heavy discount with i.e Namecheap or something, and immediately transfer to Cloudfare for the first renewal at wholesale price.
Oh, nice. A sync with ProtonDrive, that looks promising.
I don't trust myself enough to backup my passwords on something self-hosted, but ProtonDrive might actually be reasonable. I'll look into it, thanks! And I sure don't want to use stuff like GDrive or OneDrive.
I've switched to Ecosia from Kagi because they started spending my money on AI instead of making the search engine better, and I stumbled upon an option to something like "Chat with Ecosia AI. You can try asking it how to be energy neutral. Note that by interacting with this chat you agree to the ChatGPT privacy policy"
It's baffling how out of touch that sentence is, lol. "Energy neutral" and "ChatGPT" in one sentence is so bizzare.
If I'm not mistaken, Keepass doesn't have cloud sync, right? That's a pretty important feature for me, and a reason why I went with Bitwarden, even though Keepass is probably better.
It's starting to slowly show up. I think I've seen quite a lot new tools and projects pop up, from World of Warcraft addons, CIs, through "game engine based on Tesla's Aether theory" to secure loginless messengers.
I remember few months ago that the state was "If vibe coding is so good, where are the AI coded projects?", and I'm starting to slowly feel, at least anecdotally and in the past few weeks, that they are slowly starting to surface.
As a DJ, AI music made it extremely difficult for me to build sets, since I really don't want to support AI music. If FOSS vibe-coded apps start popping out just like AI music did, it's going to suck - especially as someone who likes to look for new tools and cool software often, mostly around cybersecurity. Vetting tools as safe to use is already pretty difficult in that scenario.
Thankfully, most of them will just have agents.md or ./claude, so I know I can disregard them outright. Unfortunately, seems like Bitwarden is one of those :(
Ah, damn. Bitwarden has Agents.md. That doesn't really fill me with confidence, and it's the most critical software I use.
I need to update my threat model, I've trusted them quite a lot to the point of using Bitwarden for MFA for less-important services (so it's not really MFA, since both my password and MFA token is in Bitwarden, but it's super convenient), and only had Yubikey for my Bitwarden account, so as long as the app itself isn't compromised I should be good (and Bitwarden has a pretty good track record as far as I know), but if they are going to start vibe-coding their tools then it's probably time to move to a proper MFA.
When I first saw this, I read through the readme, and it sounded pretty cool. Needless to say, I know nothing about physics.
I didn't suspect AI in the slightest, until I saw this comment thread.
Now I'm pretty taken aback. Looking at it again, it should be pretty obvious. I wonder what was it about the way it was presented that made me believe it and not suspect AI in the slightest, because that's a mistake I don't really want to do again.
Probably a combination of passionate presentation, topic I know nothing about combined with topic I love (game engines), and my whole interaction being "this is pretty cool" and moving on. I did try looking for some actual sources about the Tesla's mythical "standart model", which I found none, plus got suspicious about definiton of "standart model" feeling like it doesn't match what the text was talking about, and I just moved on, but the conclusion I had was "i wonder what will turn up out of it", instead of "probably llm halucination" as ot should've been.
Oh well, I guess it's time to properly lock in on actual textbook knowledge in fields I'm interrested in, because recognizing stuff like this in tutorials/posts and eventually books will be only harder, and it won't be really feasible to rely on "I'll research it on the internet when I need it"
I had no idea, and this hurts. I have a few, but fond, memories about DeviantArt when I had a short phase on highschool where I was drawing for a bit (which was more than 10 years ago). It didn't last long, but DeviantArt was a large part of it.
Hearing they are commiting to AI art - THE platform for actual artists (at least it was, 10 years ago), who AI hurts the most, is insane. That's pure betrayal. I hate this.
I'm using https://freetubeapp.io/ and so far it mostly works. You have to stay on top of updates, and age-restricted videos can be a problem, but the feature I love most is that it can subscribe to creators without an account, and it just shows you time-sorted feed. It also has native sponsorblock baked in, and has support for downloading videos, or using an invidious as a proxy.
You can turn off autoplay, comments, recommended videos and other engagement-maxing bullshit, so it's just a video player without distractions that I can use to follow stuff I'm directly interested in, that doesn't force content on me.