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by smashah 3y ago
Yep, I think people have amnesia about the last 10 years where our API rights have slowly but surely been taken away and have a lack of imagination for solutions so fallback to authoritarian narratives. API key so premium users can use invi
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by smashah 3y ago
I subscribe to YT premium and sometimes like to use invidious so you're actually wrong.
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by smashah 3y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think the type of person who uses invidious is going to ever be convinced to buy something from an ad on YouTube, especially if they're forced to use it. Secondly, imo technical measures is
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by smashah 3y ago
When is OpenAI going to suspend or fire Tal Broda?
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by smashah 3y ago
If there's doubt, then a free and contiguous Palestine from the river to the sea with equal rights for all it is then. Thanks
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by smashah 3y ago
This is my basic first draft proposal (nobody asked me, i know) for a dual-state solution as a fallback if a full single Palestinian state cannot be achieved (either case has 99% of the same suggestions from my perspective, Palestine from t
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by smashah 3y ago
This is precisely how I, and many in tech, feel. It's as if my own internal monologue wrote a blog post itself. You might be asking why I can claim many on tech feel this way. It's because I've seen similar repression from Sa
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by smashah 3y ago
Yes there should be a more substantial ask and price to pay for committing a Holocaust, just as Nazi Germany was dismantled, we in tech should be demanding of a ceasefire AND the dismantling of the Holocausting state of Israel.
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by smashah 3y ago
On a scale of 1-10, how nuanced is an Israeli Extermination Force executing a holocaust upon the prisoners of the Gaza concentration camp?
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by smashah 3y ago
This is an affront to freedom of speech which is known to be a core tenet of the tech ecosystem. It is also very targeted character assassination & cancel culture. They did this to Paddy Cosgrave & Paul Graham. We need to stand agai
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Bill Ackman Is on a McCarthyite Witch Hunt(twitter.com)
9 points by smashah 3y ago|1 comments
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by smashah 3y ago
Invidious is heaven-sent! I'm just a bit lazy :) and watch a lot of youtube so hope it they get something out of it.
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by smashah 3y ago
"remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrades" Revoking or paywalling API access falls under this definition of enshittification. The enlightenment* brought about human rights. We are well within the digital age without any mean
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by smashah 3y ago
if you have YT premium you can get rickrolled in peace
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by smashah 3y ago
We are in an age of shamelessness and self-interest. There's no story in the world that will get people to stop using services like Whatsapp or Instagram. The only thing stopping these big companies is potentially setting a legal prece
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by smashah 3y ago
Yes they demanded us to delete and stop working on all projects. At the time it seemed like a serious threat.
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by smashah 3y ago
Here's a write up of the legal threats timeline to our projects and how it coincides with their in house development of an npm package: https://gist.github.com/smashah/667d4d5cf31670ee87547450861a... They sent us
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by smashah 3y ago
Terminating accounts is fair game. Billion dollar companies making legal threats to OSS devs is another. I can kick said person off my network. It shouldn't be grounds for me to go and start legal proceedings against the developers of
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by smashah 3y ago
I agree. After receiving a C&D from Meta for my OSS project (along with some other maintainers from some other projects) I strongly believe adversarial interop is a basic digital right that is required to fulfil the broken or revoked pr
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by smashah 3y ago
I've been told by a C-level exec at a similar company (but relating to banking) that citing Van Buren against CFAA claims gets the claimant's lawyers to back all the way off.
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by smashah 3y ago
DMA. These companies have many years to comply and drop Fred functionality to 3PAs. It's not enough imo. DMA should've explicitly greenlight adversarial interop, superceding any existing agreement between gatekeeper and interop de
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by smashah 3y ago
Please read this: https://gist.github.com/smashah/667d4d5cf31670ee87547450861a... The game being played here is poker. If they call beeper's bluff then they risk setting a whole industry wide precedent that intero
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by smashah 3y ago
Emulator based WhatsApp accounts are highest risk of bans just f.y.i If you're worried about using beeper due to bans then just get a second hand burner phone (needs to have had WhatsApp before so it is safe from being identified as &q
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by smashah 3y ago
Van Buren protects it from CFAA. The only avenue that is untested is based on Terms of Service. I did a OSS WhatsApp reverse engineering project and got a C&D from 800 billion dollar Meta's lawyers all based on violation of their T
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by smashah 3y ago
Apple may not buy WhatsApp will. If there's ever a commercial or OSS third party WhatsApp voice client I would expect they will try to send their Perkins Coie dogs after the project. They've already done it to many oss projects, t
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by smashah 3y ago
Congrats on the Eric & Team. Can't wait to try it
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by smashah 3y ago
Have you ever received C&D for your work? There's a big problem of OSS projects being TOS-trolled by billion dollar companies and having to shut down out of fear.
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by smashah 3y ago
Make sure you get your dog or a random stranger to accept Metas terms and conditions on the accounts you may or may not be using otherwise they will try to send you legal threats based on their overbroad terms and conditions
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by smashah 3y ago
They should also add WhatsApp support
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by smashah 3y ago
If there is a consortium which is ready to protect this project from legal threats (C&Ds) from platforms based on their overreaching TOS then please share it as many OSS maintainers out there are stuck in legal purgatory who need help a

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