It seems like that link implies that despite not having to, he does anyway?
stifle867
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It inspires hope to see other countries pick up the ball that the USA has been so consistently dropping.
Yes it is. The code is in Bitcoin Core so there's a non-zero chance you win at life if you want to try.
I'll have to look into it more seriously. I've been considering a ChromeCast for a while but this is swaying me more to the Android TV side. I usually don't make these purchases lightly or until I have a really strong motivation to.
In theory I agree with all your points. I just find it infinitely more likely that PeerTube dies before YouTube. That's purely my opinion even sometimes I wish it weren't true.
Definitely true but they're also still heavily reliant on external countries for advanced machinery and it will undoubtedly take them a long time if they truly want to be able to have a homegrown chip industry. In particular I'm thinking of the lithography machines that a single company on the world makes. China is only allowed to purchase the older tech of these and they pushed it to its known limits to make these chips.
It will be interesting to see how this all plays out that's for sure. I can definitely see them going quite far especially with all the IP theft they do.
This is not an answer to your question but it's tangentially related.
Someone I greatly respected ran an open-source project with the policy of merge everything. Completely flip this idea of carefully review, debate and revise every PR. His theory was that it helps to build an open community, and if something breaks someone else will revert that commit. He says that the main branch was almost always stable, a massive improvement to how it was run previously. He passed several years ago and for some reason this reminded me of him.
I guess what I'm trying to say is if you get something out there that people find useful, the code will be looked at. It doesn't help you if you're looking for someone to collaborate sorry.
The thing is that YouTube attracts people who want to make a living by creating content. And as a business that turns a profit it is also self-sustaining, ensuring longevity. YouTube is not going anywhere just because it's not federated.
I would love PeerTube to be able to find a smaller niche and really run with it. At the moment it just seems like reposting and random videos most of which I can find on YouTube anyway.
Please enlighten me if there's some part of PeerTube I'm really missing out on or have overlooked!
I've heard 2nd stories of the few old-timers who still know COBAL, FORTRAN, etc who have very generous salaries working in sectors like banking. It's probably too late now though.
I'm sure that's perfectly fine in 99.9% of cases but I can never rid that niggling doubt in the back of my head that thinks the cheap devices (especially Chinese) are backdoored or have some deeper malware embedded on the system. It's the unknown that kills me, as stupid as that is. At least I know what type of shit LG TV is phoning home.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/18/popular-android-tv-boxes-sold-on-amazon-are-laced-with-malware/
If you have an idealogical reason not to (like majority of the users in privacy based communities) then you already have your answer and you can read them in the comments.
I'm going to be different here and answer from a practical perspective and say that sigh yes it's probably fine to use WhatsApp if you already use Instagram.
By this point Meta already knows more about you then you'd probably feel comfortable with. They're very good at micro analysing every little signal you generate when you use their platform. I think it's somewhere in the realm of $30 per user per year they make off the average Instagram user. That's the value of how much data they have on you.
WhatsApp users are not monetized so there's less incentive to track you to that extent. Also, WhatsApp messages are mostly end-to-end encrypted. You are giving up your phone number but they probably already have it.
If it were the other way around and you already used WhatsApp but not Instagram I would say NO. But as it is, WhatsApp does not represent a meaningfully significant decrease in your privacy if you already habitually use Instagram.
It's due to the Adult Survivors Act as referred to in the article and I believe that was ending on Thanksgiving Day so really close to the cut off point too.