Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Until YouTube makes it possible to boost quiet audio natively in the web player, I will not feel a single drop of guilt about using yt-dlp or watching maintainers fix whatever they broke for the third time this week. Google can throw billions at walling off their platform, but no amount of corporate money will ever out-code a bunch of nerds driven by open-source idealism and a deeply autistic need to archive everything. Just give up already.

Look folks the genie is out of the bottle. The genie went from $20/mo to $200/mo. The genie is spending $8 for every dollar it makes. The genie is reactivating every coal power plant it can. The genie needs 60% of your town's water. The genie is hiding $1.65 trillion in debt. But it's out of the bottle! The genie is out of the bottle folks.

Techbros have literally solved and then re-created the problem of lack of access to information in one lifetime.

It's funny how in my lifetime I've gone from:

“you need to memorise everything and use offline sources if you want to navigate the world,"

to:

“just bring your magic phone thingy and it will have all the answers for you,"

back to:

“you need to memorise everything and use offline sources if you want to navigate the world"

again.

Often the species that are labeled "invasive" don't just need humans to move to new places, they tend to be dependent on humans to thrive. They are anthrophilic you might say.

It's really us.

There have been a few cases, where on a small island rats, or some other pest has been eliminated. It's much easier if there aren't any people around.

4/

TIL #github censor some topics about #p2p: got 404s trying to view #bittorrent topics while any random topics i've tried works 🤷

https://github.com/topics/bittorrent
https://github.com/topics/bittorrent-client
https://github.com/topics/torrent-client
https://github.com/topics/torrent

#GithubCensorship