I don’t understand, all tomatoes have been gmo since the chemtrails started appearing in the fall of 52

NO NO CREDIT GIVEN MUST SHOUT

“the page”? Do you mean kiwix?

365 is the web browser one isn’t it?

Nobody could ever execute an installer as root on a Linux system 🙄

Exactly, they aren’t losing anything and there’s hope a better system will come along.

Agreed on Bandcamp though. The very few artists who use it get my money through there.

Still can some places, but generally it came down to keeping a drawer of menus for restaurants you like, family looks at the menu, call up the restaurant, and they deliver for a fixed known fee (or more often free, above a normal order threshold of maybe $20 which would be $30-40 today). It would come directly from the restaurant, no petulant third party complaining about whether or not you tipped enough ahead of time of service to be worth treating you and your property with respect (ie nobody would eat your food if they didn’t like you).

It really was a fine state. I now appreciate that some places let you order online and then just pay normal prices when you pick it up. Great too. The centralized nature of door dash and GrubHub are a pain in the ass. First I have to poke through all of the adverts for McDonald’s and subway, then I have to figure out which restaurants are ripping me off with their online prices, deal with guessing which things have extra fees and which things have “waived” fees, use the mediocre UI that still friends on restaurants to do the hard work of adding pictured and sane descriptions (they usually don’t), and then guess how much tip will get my food delivered while it’s still warm by the “independent contractor” assigned my case. More middlemen means more people trying to sap you dry.

Why would any of this be about you personally? I honestly can’t take you seriously when this is your view of security, and it’s made worse when you extend that to “we caught em once so the system works”.

That’s just the normal resting state of a cybertruck. Saves time to only add an adjective when it’s actually working :)

You sent a lot of words that seem to be agreeing with my point and I appreciate this.

Yes I’ve been to Ohio. It’s as terrible as people say.

However the correct analogy is this: “I distrust alliant credit union, but I trust a random internet stranger that in theory is doing their work in public”. That’s the right number of employees and the right scale.

Your analogy is basically accepting my point. In this case, I’m trusting a random internet stranger not to lie to me, and you’ve very clearly illustrated why that doesn’t work. Believing Ohio isn’t real would require a large conspiracy. Ublock introducing something naughty would require one man. I trust that one man, but there’s no reason to. If you think that’s absurd do some research about recent software package changes that introduced backdoors.

Their business model isn’t necessarily functional

Start here https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aFsfJYWpqII

Obviously if you say “just ignore shitty businesses and practices, the fundamental idea of being able to order from an app is great”…well, sure. I’m not arguing about the idea of apps. I’m arguing about the current status quo.

I use them only when it’s free (ie someone else is paying for it). I hate them so much. They are not more convenient, they increase the price by 100% and they actively hurt people and small businesses.

You act like PayPal and eBay aren’t in a codependent relationship. Has that changed? I mean I see PayPal as an option everywhere but I don’t use it because giving money to Paypal is like giving money to ticketmaster.

Did you read the source or do you know anyone who has? Do you have statistics on vulnerabilities found?

If not, it is the same, you just trust gorhill more than honey without evidence to back it up. So do I. But it’s important to remember this is just a lie most people are telling themselves, not backed up by anything other than faith.

Why would you need to order pizza online? Not everyone wants to pay fees for the “convenience” of paying more for the food and having to type in my credit card info myself. You call them up, you get a better price, and you pay when you get there.

You don’t seem like you’re ok.

The thing is I think it’s feasible to do this in a non gross way…it’s essentially a search engine that just looks for promo codes, matches them against brands, and then tries them in rapid succession on the checkout screen. I think they would probably need humans to resolve the many 1-off issues (could work in a crowdsource manner like adblock filters) and a central registry to keep track of which ones fail, but it’s not a hugely complex problem.

I don’t think they said that. However, I am. For the most part they are my enemy.

That’s a side effect of YouTube messing with the streams to try to break downloaders. Obvs a dedicated downloader like ytdlp handles YouTube jerking the chain around better than a tool intended for viewing.

My understanding is you’re pretty much only gonna get those broken up streams especially for piratey content like music videos and tv shows. Ytdlp will join with ffmpeg.