To exclude social

Honestly I think it’s weird that people think social media is tech.

The nuanced soft ban you’re talking about is just the topic of the community.

When musk does something tech related that’s tech. When he does something that’s not tech related that’s off topic.

Twitter is a social media website it’s not tech.

Settle down mate.

Yeah but relevant to current tech events? Not that often.

It’s complicated I guess.

Musk offering starlink access to gaza is tech news, him changing subscription prices for xitter is not.

I guess I just mean that a happening is not “tech” by virtue of musk saying it.

No, that’s just how it appears through the advertising revenue model.

Bear in mind this model has been actively developed over the last 20+ years. Imagine of other models enjoyed that kind of attention.

Consumers pay for ads in product costs. Access for poor people is a myth.

IDK who the fuck this guy is but he’s speaking my language.

Fuck the advertising revenue model.

Really cool, thanks.

This seems like a great way to try lineage without a huge commitment.

Well, it’s the default way of paying for physical objects and professional services.

It hasn’t really been the default way of paying for online services.

That’s fine, your position is reasonable and I can accept that.

Over the years I’ve become more and more opposed to advertising of any form. It makes me very grumpy - probably unreasonably so.

I understand that services need to make money but $10 / month for something like twitter just seems absurd to me.

Ads are one method of payment, cash is another.

This might be true if the cash payment was equal to the ad revenue per person, but it isn’t.

Ad-revenue per person would be a few cents per month, but even if it were $1 per user month, paying $4 or whatever to remove the ads means the ads are punitive. Pay the subscription or we will drive you nuts with shitty ads.

The whole “pay to avoid ads” model is so weird though.

I feel exactly the same but it’s 20 some years since I was a teenager and for most of that time I was an idiot. Not an apple idiot but an idiot just the same.

Sure, it’s a fundamental concept of strategic management.

torrentio

probably none! I’m new to stremio and orion was the only way I could find to link stremio to real debrid. Thanks for mentioning this one I’ll look into it!

orion is non-free btw. I assume torrentio is also paid ?

edit: just installed, I see it’s free. Looks great. I may have been turned off previously by the utorrent logo 😆

Well that’s good to hear. Tormenting sucks in Australia.

Apparently it wasn’t so much a “golden” goose.

They were all happy to let them run at below cost just gathering up market share.

Now they’re trying to re-position to be profitable. Their subscriber numbers will definitely take a hit but they will have done the math.

stremio + real-debrid + orion

Basically, orion finds the torrents, a debrid service cache’s torrents and streams them to you, stremio renders the stream.

No need for a VPN, no need to seed, no need for the *arr family, nice UI with high wife-approval-factor to browse content.

What’s the situation with usenet these days ? I preferred nzbs over torrents for several years but it just became impossible at around the time nzbmatrix chucked it in.

Most of my friends & family use telegram. I’ve always liked it.

Yes.

There’s a “we told you this would happen” going on here.

If chromium didn’t have a monopoly amongst browsers, they would have a much harder time pushing this through.

Imagine everyone using a browser built by an advertising company.

Perhaps, but it’s not as simple as it sounds.

Most of the Web requires js to work. I don’t think the js will work without the DRM.

So the proxy would need to be running the js, and emulate your clicks and so on.

It’s a way to disable ad blockers.

Presently web servers send data to your browser, which can arrange the content however you wish, because it’s your browser on your device. Excluding content you don’t like is fairly trivial.

This drm stuff will basically make the browser refuse to display anything unless the whole page is unaltered.

This is really interesting (and awful) context.

This isn’t a simple “my body my choice” type situation.

I recommend password managers to people nearly every day, but it always “seems too complicated”.

The alternative… trying to manage credentials some other way, even if I used the same password everywhere, seems way more complicated.