Comments by "clray123" (@clray123) on "Louis Rossmann" channel.

  1. They are learning directly from China, don't forget the pandemic.
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  2. They will realize soon enough as the labor abuse starts happening (again) in their own country.
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  3. The sad reality is that many people are simply barred from doing the useful thing. When a major corporation owns all the land, it is the executive board of the corporation which decides how many potatoes to grow, not the potato grower or consumer. The root of the evil is turning off market mechanisms in favor of government-approved monopolies.
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  4.  @Tall_Order  Generally, the problem is that people assume that courts are there to serve justice. But in reality they are there to enforce laws. And laws are constructed to serve particular interests, not justice.
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  5. Correct, the final result is no companies and no consumption. This is basically the "back to third-world early industrial era country" scenario, it may take a generation or two to recover.
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  6. Not just YT ads, mind you.
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  7. Aftershocks of the pandemic rescue, accurately predicted to last for decades when it was happening.
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  8. @ Nah, monopolies naturally arise from bigger companies acquiring smaller competitors as soon as they pose any threat to them. You don't need a state for that, although state subsidies and corruption of course can speed up that process.
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  9.  @marcogenovesi8570  The reality is no court is going to defend the company's contract if you STOP using their predatory service after you stop paying for it. And no sane company is going to pursue this in court. It's just that consumers are dumb af when it comes to enforcing their interests. If you let yourself be raped because you are too worried to even SAY no, then maybe it's not just the rapist who is to blame.
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  10. The problem is that state and big corps are not competitors. They operate hand in hand. Like any entity who can violently force their will onto others.
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  11. Grow yer own potatoes and chickins in the backyard, that's how.
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  12.  @Tall_Order  Well, technically their app is accessing URLs offered by YouTube, which already is a form of API. And they are likely also accessing the actual YouTube API for user authentication, and they are causing YouTube's infrastructure to consume computational resources, so that argument won't fly. Even web scraping against consent of a web site owner can be battled in a civil lawsuit. And if they say that it is just their users who are accessing, not themselves, then they can still be sued for operating in bad faith and enabling others to break the ToS.
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  13.  @Tall_Order  But they do not just link to YouTube, they embed YouTube's content into their app. Which happens to be against YouTube's ToS. You can't embed (for example) New York Times into your own website or app and serve it to your users in that format, that's why there are Acceptable Use Policies written by those who serve the content. And if they don't like the way you consume the content, they can very well enforce it in court - because it's their content and not yours. And if you claim it is the creators' content, not YouTube's, the creators are of course free to migrate elsewhere (e.g. to a platform which allows embedding).
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  14. Correct, companies need to learn that you only lose trust once.
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  15.  @Glitter_H_Hoof  also we have seen how China treats its population during pandemic .. unless you want to call them "sinophobes" as well
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  16. @ Grow weed in yer apartment and sell to the chickin potato farmers!
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  17. AH but they are not changing terms after transaction, they are "just" phasing out an old app and defining new terms for a new app. Actually, they also offer a free version of the same service through the browser - you do not have to buy new the app. So good luck with suing them for anything.
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  18.  @MrGTAmodsgerman The somehow is called Linux without TPM.
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  19.  @praenoto Yes, that's the plan. But companies, unlike governments backed by military and police, can't really force you to participate in it.
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  20.  @MrGTAmodsgerman  lol I've been using the "buggy Linux" for 20 years with rock-solid stability and have never experienced any problems... and yes I can automate everything I wish and enjoyed scripting and virtual desktops for 15 years before they were "invented" in Windows (PowerShell cough cough). Of course, if you want to play games, this is what microshit excels at.
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  21.  @MrGTAmodsgerman No, the average consumer just sits in front of their browser and watches shit on youtube and other social media, edits text/spreadsheet documents or sends emails; and Linux is very sufficient for all these purposes, no command lines required. As for drivers, I'm not sure you would have noticed, but printing shit is no longer all the rage these days, so what hardware exactly do you want drivers for? USB works perfectly fine.
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  22.  @BeholderThe1st  Right, the actual role of government should be to make sure contracts between private entities are enforced, maybe break a monopoly from time to time. Not regulating all aspects of people's life while censoring information and forcing them into wars. The big problem here is that whoever has "police power" can abuse this power for their own benefits and at cost of all the policed ones.
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  23.  @Tall_Order  Actually, my New York Times is a very good example because that's what Google News does - they aggregate content from various sources. And they do it with permission of the content providers and pay licensing fees for that, unlike our friend here.
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  24.  @Tall_Order  No, that's not how embedding videos (or deep linking) works. The server is actually aware of the embedding taking place, there are ways to detect it and even technically suppress it. As stated before multiple times, it is done with an express permission of the content server, not against it. What you are mentioning is something like "youtube-dl", which allows you to download videos - which is also completely against YouTube's ToS, but more difficult to detect and sue. In fact youtube-dl has already been successfully taken down in Germany after a ruling of a German court.
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  25.  @MrGTAmodsgerman  Never had any problems with speakers here.
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  26. Now everything is surrounded by huge fences and no one is allowed in... not just landfills.
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  27.  @TolerantMindworks  Screwing your customer works the same whether they are consumer or enterprise.
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  28.  @TheKuptis  They can already "turn off" your bank account, that's enough to control you for most practical purposes.
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  29. You should have invested into a bag of potatoes instead.
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  30. Back in my times, many years ago, the parents were forced by the principal to pay the house rent of an invited (foreign language) teacher.
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  31.  @Tall_Order  Not every video has the embeddable option, and when it does, it is done with permission of YouTube, not against ToU. You are really running in circles with your argument here, while it is a relatively simple matter to grasp. If that comforts you, I'm a programmer as well.
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  32.  @ShaggyRogers1  Too bad that all the REST API invocations to retrieve data are literally normal HTTP GET requests to designated URLs.
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  33. If someone stole your drone you would presumably tell the police at which point they would blacklist it and hunt it down. The whole point is a that unregistered/stolen drones would raise suspicion.
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  34.  @zipitrik1  Why don't you just stop paying them if they can't be bothered with EU law? Regardless of which payment method you use, they can't just remotely take your money (yet).
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  35. Also famous for fighting wars for other countries while not winning much for themselves. Coming soon.
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  36. Just because one scam worked in the past does not mean it's gonna work forever. People tend to catch up.
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  37. And start living like a humble oppressed person in China. Great idea, but you may have to eat your own words.
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  38.  @Glitter_H_Hoof  idiots writing comments about "sinophobes" challenges, difficulty: impossible
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  39. Ok, after the woke excesses, I think this is enough bullshit from Mozilla. Librewolf installed. Note you will have to copy ~/.mozilla/firefox/profile/<profile folder> to ~/.librewolf/<profile folder> and edit ~/.librewolf/profiles.ini to pick it up. After that it works just like Firefox before the switch.
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  40. That's naive, the governments are 100% in cahoots with the big corps. The only reason they pretend to "protect" anything is that it can bring some political benefits, but wait until the regular big corp bribe day comes, then all the "protection" flies out of the window.
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  41.  @xjet  Because Freedom? Guns and Boom Booms being the most free of all?
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  42. @ And also the initial state of non-free markets. That's why "market design" is preferable to communism.
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  43. Why not just purchase from the author cutting out all the freaking middlemen?
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  44. The last month bribes paid by Samsung were probably not high enough.
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  45. Actually every tax is a sort of fine.
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  46. Except the damage is already done and stays.
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  47. Enshittification at its purest.
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  48. I should also add that none of the "privacy protecting" EU laws apply to doings of EU governments. So much for the "consumer friendliness" of these bastards.
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  49. It's just a way for companies to sell you less for the same price. When as a government policy you make money increasingly worthless, companies seek to cut corners to stay afloat. Shoddy quality, planned obsolescence, ridiculous packaging, reducing your rights... all means to make more $$ without (or actually in addition to) raising prices. And market mechanisms that correct that are increasingly knocked out because business is concentrated in monopolies.
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  50. This is in concert with Microsoft's vile Trusted Computing initiative and the long-term goal is not ad money, the long-term goal is taking over the entire world's Authentication and Authorization (AAA) infrastructure. In other words, becoming a gate keeper for (1) your identity (2) your digital permissions of any kind. It is equal to capturing the users' hardware and disowning them from their own systems. It extends to other areas of life beyond IT. We have seen test runs of these systems in the "show your smartphone to enter the bus" during pandemic (not in China - in Western countries). This is the future these companies are striving to construct for us.
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