You can very easily fool the machine into recognizing John Cleese.

Peertube is great but it will never amount to anything until you can perform meaningful video and channel searches on it. At the moment, search is virtually nonexistent: you have to know what you’re looking for exactly to finds something.

Because you consume Google content but you don’t give as much surveillance data to Google as you would with the official YouTube client spyware, you skip advertisement which denies Google revenue, you can do things like listen to music in the background which are only available for pay in the official client - again denying Google revenue…

And of course you give Google the finger. Spite is also a valid reason.

It’s not much but it’s something, and at this point anything that hurts Google delays the inevitable dystopia a little bit - and sadly I’m afraid it’s a little too late to hope for much more now.

104?

Yes thank goodness for the NewPipe team. We need them to free us from Google’s monopoly at least a little bit.

But I do have a suggestion: Grayjay appears to have some sort of plugin system with which they push workarounds for Google’s Youtube shenanigans very quickly. I’m not sure exactly how it works, but I imagine the main Grayjay app framework mostly remains the same, while whatever regular expression or filter needs changing because Google purposedly broke the previous one gets uploaded to everybody quickly and efficiently.

I would suggest the NewPipe team implement something like that too. They’d have a much easier time than having to recompile the whole thing each time Google plays with their balls.

I don’t care enough to bother, to be honest. Neovim, like Vim, is just a tool to me. It failed me, I moved on. I have more interesting things to spend my time on.

Ah, thanks for your efforts, you’re very kind. But I’m done with Neovim. It’s already wasted more of my time that it was ever going to be worth.

I wanted to try Neovim to give Treesitter a spin. In the end, I went with something much simpler that works immediately and without drama in Vim and does what I really wanted all along: simple, dumb autocompletion.

Yeah she just condemns all protests against israel committing Genocide. What could that possibly mean.

It means she’ll do anything to avoid losing the votes of the American jews.

Or latinos. Or black. Or christians. Or atheists. Or women. Or gays. Or white nationalists. Or anyone. She’s a politicians, like all the others. All she cares about is getting elected.

Most people don’t even know VSCodium exists so that makes perfect sense

What would make sense is that people who know what VSCodium is answer the survey while those who don’t refrain. Then you would see fairly identical scores for VSCode and VSCodium.

What this survey demonstrates is that people express opinions about stuff they know nothing about.

VSCode has a better selection of extensions.

True. I’m aware some extensions don’t work in VSCodium. But I’ve yet to run into one myself.

Having said that, I’m not a VSCod(e|ium) user myself, so it’s not like I’m a specialist I’m forced to know enough to support my users, and what I’ve seen of VSCodium so far is that it has almost zero downside for the invaluable upside of not feeding data to Microsoft.

But naturally I’m a Vim user through and through, and we Vim / Neovim / whatever VI clone floats your boat don’t need no Microsoft-made Electron resource pig to do our work, as you well know 🙂

I must be a minority then. I tried it once - as in, I made a real, honest attempt at liking it and making it work for me - and all it managed to do is show me it’s buggy and confused, and to convince me to steer well clear of it and stick to vanilla Vim.

I really really dislike Neovim.

Also, I question the vailidy of a survey in which VSCode is 13 times more “desired” - whatever that means, it’s not like it’s hard to procure - than VSCodium, given that VSCodium is VSCode sans the Microsoft spyware. Makes no sense to me…

Nah, it’s not that. Sometimes I’m listening to a 1 hour 1/2 album while cycling, and 25 minutes in, the music stops. I pull out my cellphone, the video looks like I’ve just stopped it myself, and when I try to restart it, it says there’s an error message in the notifications.

And restarting the app does nothing. Nor does clearing the cache.

That is not a typical form of employment. I’m sure there are edge cases where that sort of thing is workable. But for most people who work for an employer, that’s not an option.

Besides, I’m almost certain people who have cash-only or Bitcoin-only forms of income will be repeatedly audited like nobody’s ever been audited. The taxman doesn’t like cash transactions. I know that because I have a few friend who run cafes and bars in France and Belgium, and they’re audited ALL.THE.FUCKING.TIME for one reason and one reason only: most bar patrons in those countries pay in cash, and it’s super-easy for bar owners to whisk some of that money away from the cash register.

Good luck finding a job where your employer accepts to pay you in cash or check in Europe.

I’ve noticed something new: videos play, then suddenly stop. When I try to restart them, NewPipe says there’s an error. This happens a lot and it started 2 or 3 days after the latest version defeated Google’s latest shenanigans. I can see it on my Android TV box and on my cellphone, and it happens with NewPipeX too, but not with Grayjay or Freetube on the desktop.

It certainly feels like Google is deliberately creating random errors for NewPipe users.

That happened in Finland last year. But nice try.

And if you think Euro banks don’t profile their customers like motherfuckers like in the US, you’re delusional. Europe isn’t the land of the Care Bears.

They’re a for-profit: they cater to the most successful scam.

“Cash is outlawed. Let’s use a Ponzi scheme instead.”

Hmm, you know what? Somehow I think the solution is neither of those things.

Give it a few more years of inflation and 3000€ will pay for a week’s worth of groceries for a family of 3.

“I’m a huge privacy advocate unless your privacy is worth more than 3000€”

Anonymity is very important.

Here’s a example why, that recently happened to a workmate:

He applied for a mortgage to buy a house. The application was denied 3 times, despite his having been employed at the same place for 20 years, paid all his bills on time and never received so much as a parking ticket. Finally, after insisting heavily and threatening to sue, his bank provided the reason why: his purchasing habits included too much alcohol.

Or said another way: the bank watched what he purchased when doing his groceries for years and quietly classified him as a wino and potential deadbeat.

I can tell you, when I do my groceries, and back when I still smoked, I never paid for alcohol or tobacco with anything other than cash, for that very reason. The only things I pay for with plastic paint the portrait of a boring working stiff with no habits out of the ordinary. For the rest, it’s cash-only.

And if you want another example of why anonymity is important: a few years ago, I sought the help of an underground surgeon to perform a certain type of surgery on me that my stupid doctors here refused to perform, despite my quality of life going to shit (it’s a long story…)

Guess what: underground surgeons don’t take credit cards. The man changed my life for the better but I certainly don’t want my local health insurance to know about it. Was it illegal? Hell yes. Was it justified? Hell yes. Legal and right are two different things.

And similarly, I expected many women post Roe v. Wade would like to have the opportunity to get an abortion out of state anonymously without going to jail.

That’s why anonymous payments are essential: they are the last rampart between you and unjust laws and prejudice.