Cannot confirm, in my usage I have never encountered this. I use Newpipe almost daily and do not have a YT login.
Occasionally Google has done something (deliberately or coincidentally) to limit third party app access, but that's usually worked around very quickly.
Defo go for F-droid! Dunno if it's baked into Graphene but I use it almost exclusively on Android.
I also recommend Firefox/Fennec with the Web Archives add-on for viewing paywalled articles. You will be depending on others archiving the full version to read them, but with most larger outlets they will.
For Youtube w/o ads just use Newpipe, an open source, privacy aware, third party app. You'll never need to log into Youtube again. And it's not even piracy, even if Google might think differently 🙂
Oh, do educate me on my life choices based on an unrelated online comment, internet stranger 🙄
FWIW, I'm living my best life, rejecting influencers and enjoying a low- to no-drama fediverse. Anybody feeling bad for a Youtuber failing to peddle their bullshit to Mastodon can kindly get in the sea.
"Ghost town" = Not driven to oversharing by algorithms.
"getting shit" = nobody wanting to listen to a youtuber's outrage bait.
It must be confusing to log into the fediverse straight off of Youtube, though. "Why aren't people compulsively clicking and subscribing to everything? How am I not being recommended radicalising posts by conspiracy theorists and terror organisations within five clicks?"
Interesting piece, didn't know about iOS stealth apps, and the ages of the accused certainly makes the news stand out —
— but can we talk about that hilariously bad "AI" generated picture they chose to illustrate it? That disembodied hand left of centre holding up the "iPhone"?
I mean, I get the joke of using that expression in the context of a chat named after The matrix, but it's an in-group jargon that mostly the terminally online will get.
The Register failed in their due diligence by not clarifying from the beginning that this is a different Matrix chat than the open standard. They amended the mistake with an update to the post (quoted here in OP), but that is placed at the end of an article that not everybody is going to read all the way through.
IMHO this needs a rewrite to make clear from the outset that the Matrix protocol and matrix.org are not affiliated with the criminal chat service. As it stands, even with the correction, it looks like character assassination of a perfectly legal open source project.
No worries, The Register hid the clarification about the two different networks way down at the end, so it's an easy mistake. I honestly think they need to put that note at the beginning to avoid confusion.
There may also be academics or professionals named David Mayer in various fields, such as psychology, medicine, or technology. For example, there could be a David Mayer who has contributed to a field like cognitive science, education, or software engineering.
things that were sent to landfill three or four months ago could be three to five feet deep
So there is a good deal of waste on top eleven years later, which means
the layers get compacted, things break, under the weight and pressure of heavy machinery crisscrossing the site.
other waste gradually dissolves into who knows what kinds of chemicals. I can't tell what kinds of waste exactly is deposited there, but clearly electronic parts among others.
We're talking about a hard drive that was removed from the computer, so it only has a thin aluminium casing for protection. Chances are it's crushed beyond recoverability.
The spinning disk inside the casing is fairly fragile. One scratch on its surface could render it unreadable, as would, say, spilling a sugary drink into it, which our unfortunate bitcoiner already did. Now imagine the drive buried in an environment full of debris and potentially corrosive chemicals.
TL;DR — At this point, even if a major excavation was undertaken and the drive was located, there is barely a chance that any data would be retrievable from it.
It's dead, Jim. Bitcoin man is chasing a dream long past its sell-by date.
Thanks for that. I worried it was something worthwhile that I'd just forgotten about in the mind-boggling meantime of "almost a year" since last update.
Calling in @jwr1@kbin.earth re possible domain block.