nicetriangle

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[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Based on some other article I saw on this yesterday, my understanding was that GitHub was likely going to take them down for the BS DMCAs they were receiving, but maybe I misunderstood what I was reading.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You are very much stealing

No, no you are not. Words have meanings.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

Plex does not recognize them in terms of pulling down metadata but you can still organize them in folders and browse that way. I find the Plex route is a healthier way to engage with video content than platforms that just keep serving you whatever the algorithm thinks will keep you peeled to the screen. It's more intentional and less of a passive consumption kinda thing.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm from that generation too and as soon as I moved out of my folks' house I never subscribed to cable or watched broadcast TV because that constant onslaught of advertising was offensive and I didn't want it in my home.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 32 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Ad blocking is not piracy. That's like saying that muting ads on broadcast TV is piracy. Get the boot out of your mouth.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

They had premium light which gave you just a no ad experience and nothing else for about $7/mo. Totally reasonable, I was happy to pay it. Then right at the same time they started going nuclear on ad blocking, they killed that plan and forced everyone to move to a plan that costs about 70% more and added a bunch of stuff I didn't ask for and will never use. They had those added services available already prior to that change. If I had wanted them I'd already be subscribing. This was just a greedy cash grab.

They'll just keep jacking the price up and decreasing the quality of service and mining your data and annoying you with ads and algorithmic bullshit just up until they can't anymore and it stops being optimally profitable. A lot of people will just put up with it, but they lost me as a customer.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social -1 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I guess a positive outcome of this might be people more seriously considering alternatives to Github. Something about MS owning the defacto developer platform never sounded good to me.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

These tech articles on some new advancement are basically the same phenomenon of bullshit as articles ending in a question mark. The answer is always "nah"

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 10 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Man that is nuts how thoroughly those guys are folding when they've done absolutely nothing illegal

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

These people are out of their fucking minds. Nothing’s ever enough.

[–] nicetriangle@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago

Got you crawling around in the dirt fighting people below you while the oligarch class picks your pocket. Classic.

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