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I don’t know where you found those lists, but on their site they still say it’s not possible to block YT ads.

Luckily this was downvoted unanimously. Not a single person voted in favor.

Yeah this tracks for the Danish government. So I found the original press release from back in 2025 and I’ve sent them an email asking wtf is going on. They had 38 press releases for all of 2025, and for 2026 there’s been just 4 total, and the year is almost over.
Not sure what is going on, except that we (Denmark) had a election year and it took 69 (nice) days to form a government, and that might’ve influenced how things are run there. It is funny though because our new government is slightly more left-leaning this time around, at least on paper, so one would think they’d be more interested in moving away from Microsoft.

This requires quite the leap of faith.

The Illinois age verification law, however, applies to Linux distributions and other open-source operating systems.

Get fucked Illinois.

Gotta love Doctor Ow:

Where do all of these apologetics come from? Why are people so eager to leap to the defense of scammers and their adtech and fintech enablers? Why is there such an impulse to victim-blame?

I think it’s fear: in their hearts, people – especially techies – know that they, too, are vulnerable to these ripoffs, but they don’t want to admit it. They want to convince themselves that the person who got scammed made an easily avoidable mistake, and that they themselves will never make a similar mistake.

Not yet, but I’ve definitely been thinking about it. But for now it’s mainly just a backup for my config files just in case.

Good thing I only use git for my dot files, I’m luckily only pissing future me off ;)

Odd how similar those reasons are to my git push messages…

How time flies, happy 1st cake day :)

The Danes

As a Dane myself, assuming the entire country is pro-surveillance annoys me to no end. Just a few weeks ago there was enough signatures to send in a proposal to folketinget to stop this insanity.
It ends with:

Når Rusland indfører masseovervågning, ryster vi på hovedet og kalder det diktatur. Når EU vil gøre det samme, er det “for børnenes skyld” og forventer, at alle bare nikker.

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When Russia introduces mass surveillance, we shake our heads and call it dictatorship. When the EU wants to do the same, it is ‘for the sake of the children’ and expects everyone to just nod in agreement.

Brodie interviewed the creator of Anubis a little while back, it’s pretty good.

I was under the impression that it was dead, or maybe there was a time where all the nitter frontends died for a while and I turned it off or something. Welp, gonna try reactivating it.

Wow, that’s courageous, well done. I’m envious. I’m still battling with the sunk-cost fallacy mostly related to my youtube account. My gmail just redirects to my new mail address currently, so that’s sort of sorted until I’ve gone through 20 years of created accounts that are linked to it.

Not sure. I always just thought it was due to laws in those countries.
In the case of Albania it seems that it’s just as simple as youtube not being present in the country at all, and that Albania has just been allowed access to youtube despite being a money drain and them not helping pay for server costs via ads.

VPN to Albania or Monaco since they don’t have ads on youtube at all.

To some extent you’re right. There’d be less content if nobody paid. But imagine current society without treats. I don’t know if capitalism without “panem et circenses” would start to crumble real fast.

So the quote was about the American secret service?

Ah, that’s something I didn’t know. I thought it was centralized.

“The cloud is just someone else’s computer”, so I guess if you trust bitwarden, that’s cool. I hear that everything is encrypted before it’s sent to their servers, but I prefer having everything done locally via KeePassXC.