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  • The very platform you’re clinging to is on Death’s Door and they’re actively breaking YouTube’s terms of service while still using the service.

    None of the other platforms are even close to replacing YouTube. They can’t handle the scale or the features. And none of them are heading towards being able to accomplish this.

    YouTube is a capitalist utopia funded with more money than God. They provide unlimited free storage and transmission of all videos sent to their platform. They fleece videos for copyright and legal impingements. They gather corporations willing to spend on advertisements and link them directly to end users uploading data, and when they reach a threshold, they pay them.These funds pay for the unlimited amounts of storage at levels that no other platform could handle.

    The other platforms that are open to us don’t make enough money to do any of those things. We’re relying on the funding, development, and administration of a couple of generous strangers.


  • Clarification:

    CERT Fd up and called two whitehat disclosure accounts malicious

    Proton did not check these accounts before they torched them.

    Specifically for the type of privacy and security that Proton offers, I would expect a slightly higher level of customer service. Perhaps a message to the end user saying we are considering terminating your account. And giving you a chance to appeal before you knock it out.

    This is by far not the worst thing they’ve done and in some sense it’s not completely unreasonable. But I think they could do better.



  • It supports more complicated subtitles and menuing, more codec support (like a LOT more) lossless support, mode audio formats.

    It’s like they took MP4 and added in all the stuff that you needed to replicate a BluRay, then added in lossless audio.

    If you just want a movie with basic subtitles and audio, MP4 is fine. If you want to replicate newer stuff, MKV supports it.

    The real hot part of this is if you have a collection of high-quality video/audio and you’re streaming it to firefox, you’ll natively be able to do so without transcoding.


  • We’ve been poking at it for a while now. The parent company is demanding we see where it can fit. We’ve found some solid spots.

    It’s not good at ingesting a sprawling project and rooting in changes in several places, but it’s not bad at looking over a file and making best practice recommendations. I’ve seen it preemptively find some bugs in old code.

    If you want to use a popular library you’re not familiar with, it’ll wedge it in your current function reasonably well; you’ll need to touch it, but you probably won’t need to RTFM.

    It’s solid at documenting existing code. Make me a manual page for every function/module in this project.

    It can make a veteran programmer faster by making boilerplates and looking over their shoulder for problems. It has some limited use for peer programming.

    It will NOT let you hire a green programmer instead of a vetran, but it can help a green programmer come up to speed faster as long as you forbid them from copy/paste.












  • I tried to make a new account for my child recently. You need a number. It wouldn’t even work as a first signup on a wifi only tablet.

    I tried to uninstall on my phone, set him up a new acct with a VoIP number then move the account to his tablet. It constantly failed when I uninstalled and put my account back on my phone.

    You can only use one cellphone. Of you switch between two, it has to deactivate on the other.

    Then you can have 4 or 5 other devices but that acct is tied to an activated cell phone and it gets screwy if you change that phone.