Mansplaining as a Service

yes, I’m aware of how absolutely useless it is.

to ensure the author of the issue can provide more details about their problem and respond to follow up immediately.

if you actually visit that Discord (like I reluctantly do, from time to time), you’ll find that all issues are being discussed in a handful of general channels with multiple people discussing multiple issues at the same time in one never-eding stream of messages. if you miraculously find a proper keyword that brings up someone else having the same issue as you do, the only way to find if someone else replied to it is by scrolling through all that noise.

so are Discord’s “servers”.

“millions of flies can’t be wrong!”

every time I run into an issue with Proton-GE it makes me angry again: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom?tab=readme-ov-file#2-if-you-have-an-issue-that-happens-with-my-proton-ge-build-provided-from-this-repository-that-does--not--happen-on-valves-proton-please-do-not-open-a-bug-report-on-valves-bug-tracker-instead-contact-me-on-discord-about-the-issue

and yet people insist on using it as a forum, wiki, issue tracker, and a support channel.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/twitch_5/

https://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions

mobilism

does it open Youtube links from other apps? I don’t use iOS but I’ve been wondering how viable it is to recommend it to friends who do as a replacement for the Youtube app.

no it’s not. the modifications are open source, but the base client is the same old closed source Youtube app.

gee, I wonder how no one has ever thought of that, ever

by the time it got popular, it was already not working with multiple big sources.

the difference is that they’re not modifications of the official Youtube app to unlock paid features for free (which you can tell from how they look completely different), they’re written from scratch as separate entities.

neither of those are “cracked” apps, they’re separate clients.

Youtube often changes things on their end, and it can take a while for Newpipe and the like to catch up with the changes.

which isn’t GDPR-compliant. you can’t force people to accept tracking if the service doesn’t require it to work.

actual source of “this pic” https://eupolicy.social/@thatprivacyguy/111261130799704016

the workaround is to disable comments, you’re not going to miss out on anything anyway.

ah right, I forgot there are only two ways of creating a software - making the user install a separate Chrome browser that eats 10 times as much resources as it should for what it does, and a command line tool. there are no options in-between.

ugh, I wish they didn’t use Electron.