It’s certainly and obviously not, but:

• YT is not anywhere near the “literal only possible way”. Heck, air TV still exists!
• even tho it isn’t, I don’t see you nor anyone acting to that extent, instead you go on a self-defeatist-for-everyone attitude.

Does Youtube have a monopoly and network effect? Sure, absolutely, and someone’s gotta correct that. But it’s not a complete monopoly in the sense of “if you don’t eat you die”. If the main supermarket in the area doesn’t like me because “boobs” or something, I can still go to a minimarket.

…Look, you really get tiresome. I’d ask if you are fine but honestly you are not my problem. If you need serotonin or something, get you seen; don’t try to drain mine.

I mean , not with that attitude certainly. And dog that doesn’t bark doesn’t eat.

But if you want to be self-defeatist, you do you. I’d thought half the point you were even here, in a platform that is not GAFAM, was that you weren’t.

and platforms who leverage network effect need to be held to different standards

Then do so. Come on. It’s 2024.

Until something is seriously done, being able to at least go elsewhere has to be and is the rational option that is left.

Unless they want it to be possible that people see their content.

That’s what the airwaves are for.

But no, really, Youtube is neither that open nor that essential that the people not there are Somehow Invisible on the Internet. And even if that was somehow the case, you actually don’t need to upload video, you can just use a normal youtube account to comment and link your content wherever relevant “conversations” lead there.

I yearn to find the lost knowledge of how to do those thingies!

Okay where is False?

There’s like [checks notes] 2 more video platforms on the internet!

No reason these people can’t post on those, or host their own.

Yes.

Next up!

ICANN approves use of .awesome-selfhosted domain for your network

Always has been.

I think Proton is a good choice. I’ve heard good things about them.

Well they have been behaving just as Microsoft has been doing if we’re complaining about these kinds of behaviours. Handing over information about environmentalists and freedom fighters to repressive governments, etc.

GRRM is still writing his series.

That’s simple: have the earliest works released into the public domain, while he keeps squatting on the newer and promised ones.

How long do you think copyright should be?

No easy solutions but my general guideline would be that both copyright and patents should never last more than half the retirement age of a current generation, calculated via actuarial tables or some trustable scientific method.

The rationale is simple: the ultimate purpose of both is (or, well, should be) to promote creation so that society in general can be participant of the resulting effects. Half the retirement age not only is a good compromise between giving creator control and giving at least half of society the opportunity to enjoy the public good result of creation within their lifetime and within their fair opportunity to earn wages, in particular in such cases as eg.: big pharma and medications, but also promotes that big creators, such as corporations, act towards the public good of lengthening life and providing good living standards for the rest of society.

To be fair it’s 2024 and I’m still doing this, because adding an alternate location to install flatpaks in results in Flatseal not being able to detect those apps or edit those permissions. Just setting the default location as a symlink to where I want to magically fixes everything.

Yeah I just checked Atkinson Hyperlegible and, at least the version I can access (the one on Github) lacks entire Latin and compatible character ranges, as well as having a substantially limited math symbols set (only two greek letters show, for example).

The weird thing is, if I understand how fonts correctly, that shouldn’t have been an issue. The font doesn’t register those missing characters, so your browser should have known to fallback to a default typeface for the missing characters. It’d be weird if you have none of the many compatible fonts (not even, say, Times New Roman).

Leading with the hard questions, I see!

(I honestly wouldn’t know how to answer the question. I guess in order to pirate it, you’d have to fetch a copy from someone who broke the license terms and is thus not authorized to distribute it, but that kinda turns into a Catch-22)

It’s likely that system only has the base Latin-1 font set for some weird reason? Or a misconfigured fontserver (or equivalent in Windows). My understanding is that the text “sail the high seas” uses glyphs in both the Latin D group and the phonetic extensions groups (feel free to correct me!), so pretty much any Unicode-aware font since 2010, FOSS or otherwise, would render this correctly.

I personally recommend the Liberation font set, although it’s free software so you can’t really pirate it.

This is potterdung’s ultimate plan.

Because I left Windows precisely to avoid the kind of shittery that systemd is doing.

It’s absolutely no coincidence that the people who have developed the stuff that’s brought the most degradation to Linux - systemd, PulseAudio, Gnome’s “user has no right to themes” attitude - all come from a Microsoft background or explicitly work for Microsoft.

I’d have far less of a problem if systemd was split into more practical, actually independent things that actually worked and distros didn’t buy their snake oil so easily. But for the time being, to me, the systemd experience is pretty much like the PulseAudio experience, what with the whole “waiting 120 seconds for a network interface to activate that it’s not going to because it’s the damn ethernet port and I’m on the road so the cable is not connected, stupid letter-potter dipshit”.

Hmmm maybe that’s the one that tries to do everything on its own instead of using the stuff I’ve already set up. Had similar issues with eg.: Nextcloud.

I’ve been looking for an alternative “the actual XMPP service only, nothing else that can be sourced by the host” container setup but there doesn’t seem to be any.