til i found out pico is actually run by bytedance

had no idea til now, cool

since some people don't know about some of the crazy shit meta did:

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/

besides all of this tbh i just would want more hardware that does not require me to give all of my data to god knows who just to have it work, this shit sucks

gonna clarify this since i don't want to sound like i am shilling for china or anything lmao

bytedance is still doing too much tracking for my taste lmao but at this moment i just do not trust or support meta at all, they have way more power of influencing real change for the worse and with their latest TOS changes they are willing to OPENLY do some terrible shit, this is pretty much it for me

so yeah they do both suck and we need more freedom in general from companies trying to track everything we do online lol

(he is joking pls do not harass him lol)

(this is just fortnite in chinese i hope i got it right i do not speak chinese lol)

https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner

found this yesterday when i was doing some research on libreboot, seems interesting

made me think of this scene from volunteers (rip john candy :( )

ok i deleted my post about bytedance because i did realize it only after posting it that it sounded like shilling for them aaaaand yeah i don't want to do any of that even by chance

that + some friends that are in the group here sent me some sources proving that yeah bytedance and meta are pretty much both not great for different reasons

sooooo i guess we are fucked either way and we should buy whatever hardware is best from whoever we think is worth our money then figure out the best practices to debloat it or at least avoid as much tracking as possible

i know that is not as exciting of an answer as "this company is bad this one is not" (that wasn't what i ever meant ofc) but it is and has been the reality of things for a while now lol

as always love you all this sort of dialogue and feedback is genuinely why i love this community so much

this dude just tried to scam another youtuber that i know but this time pretending to be fujifilm i can't make this shit up

https://x.com/thesoypill/status/1879636123674370412

someone that was probably salty about my dearrow post marked every single word mention of "bambu" as sponsor in my webcam video making it almost unwatchable lol

anyway according to the sponsorblock browser that uses the extension api to obtain info about the submissions these segments were marked by a vip user named jiraph, making them non removable by normal users

i know some sponsorblock vip users follow me and are willing to help so if you can help me with this tysm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1T1eMyPIC4

this is the video in question ofc

that was a fast answer from them lol

i am just very confused rn ngl lmao how is this supposed to be a better viewing experience when you literally cut out single words

https://wiki.sponsor.ajay.app/w/VIP#I_am_a_new_VIP._How_does_stuff_work?

their own rules say that badly timed segments that degrade the viewer experience should not be submitted btw this is weird as fuck

this might be just me but i think that when, in your extension, you end up allowing marking ad segments that are shorter than a second (sometimes having your browser buffer for 5 seconds each btw) just to skip the single word mention of a brand that yes sponsored the video but also literally manufactured the tool that is being used in the video NOT IN AN AD READ but to... do something as part of said video...

maybe something is wrong with that idk maybe users are better off not using the extension and skipping the sponsored segments manually if they want, just saying

call me biased but i think saying you should be able to understand a video is just... common sense?

they are just crazy

this is happening on their discord server rn lol this is clearly targeted