We really do live in a boring dystopia

  • frogman [he/him]@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    a bit off-topic but relevant nonetheless:

    i know i’m probably in the minority opinion here, but there are better privacy-respecting (and google spiting) platforms for viewing these videos than the official youtube website and rossman has been vocal in his support for these; particularly Odysee. below are 3 different projects, Odysee which is a whole separate and sustainable project, and piped & invidious which are privacy-respecting frontends to youtube. i think in future it’d be valuable to link these alternatives instead of the official youtube link.

    https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/amazon-accuses-customer-of-racism-shuts:2 – Odysee

    https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=NfiIXooD77s – Piped

    https://yewtu.be/watch?v=NfiIXooD77s – Invidious

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      Odysee is good for privacy, and fine for viewing, but most creators aren’t going to use it as a primary way of distributing their stuff.

      If you’re publishing, you want an audience (and preferably a monetization method), and odysee doesn’t have that.

      On this video Rossman has 1200 views on Odysee, but over 725K views on youtube.

      Almost everyone publishing on Odysee (myself included) do it as a secondary distribution channel, with youtube as the main (because, again, the viewers are there, and it has a monetization method).

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        1 year ago

        i agree in terms of what we have right now. but without users engaging with the videos on alternative platforms, we’ll never see any platform change unless there’s spooky investor money thrown into it.

        as “power-users” (ew) or tech-literate people, i feel like we should be the ones doing the early adoption.

        for anyone who doesn’t want to use odysee because there isn’t many videos, I recommend the Watch on Odysee extension. when you open a youtube video it’ll automatically redirect you to the Odysee upload, if there is one. it’s available on Chromium and Firefox.

        become the change you want to see :))

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    1 year ago

    I work in IT and I keep a baseball bat handy in case I suspect a device has gone online.

    However what a ridiculous situation on Amazon’s part and it raises a bigger question. Even if this guy was 100% a racist shitbag, should he have had his Amazon account suspended unilaterally in the first place? Should someone have their bank account closed too then? How about utilities? I obviously am not agreeing with someone being racist but think that allowing corporations to impulsively take punitive actions is a slippery slope. Next thing we know, Amazon will be offering capital punishment as a service.

    I’m of the opinion the “smart” home thing was just unintentional secondary, I can’t imagine them being smart enough to do so on purpose.

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      1 year ago

      Not everyone has the same level of mobility that you do.

      Incidentally, do you get off your arse to change the volume on your TV?

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      1 year ago

      I got a family that likes to leave the damn light switches all on at night, I’m no longer going around and shutting them all off when everyone is in bed. Also, they are tied to my alarm, when I disarm the alarm or it goes off, they all come on.

      But I’m doing all this through Home Assistant, a local open source automation server, not any of this cloud bullshit.

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          Some fights are just not worth the hassle tho, you got to pick your battles.
          And it’s not like there is anyone factually “right” or “wrong”, it’s mostly a matter of opinions/priorities.

          Another example, different expectations w.r.t. to cleaning. Either try to convince the other person to clean more, even if they don’t see the need, or be always the one cleaning and build up frustration. Or: Get a roomba.

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          My bedroom lighting setup doesn’t even use ZigBee

          Its all theatre DMX lighting > ola (open lighting architecture) > ArtNet > home assistant.

          It’s slightly jankier than if I had built a direct ola > Hass plugin but it works quite well

          I also only run lighting, and control my Chromecast on my Home assistant - and both are turned off at the power supply when I’m not home, it isn’t accessible outside the LAN (except through a zerotier VPN, though I probably should turn that off as I don’t use it much)