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3 votes
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In order to cultivate an environment where the truth wins out in the end, you have to be biased against falsehoods
8 votes -
The machine fired me
30 votes -
Truth, disrupted
8 votes -
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey admits platform not a place for 'nuanced discussion' as top New York Times reporter quits after abuse
28 votes -
The Elon Musk impersonators of the internet - For cryptocurrency scammers, imitation is the sincerest form of fraud
7 votes -
Undercover Facebook moderator was instructed not to remove fringe groups or hate speech
19 votes -
The SIM Hijackers
8 votes -
Looking inside a used voting machine from the 2016 election
12 votes -
A look at a brilliant 1945 paper on the future of computing
1 vote -
Reddit reinvents the chat room with subreddit chat
31 votes -
Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter partner for ambitious new data project
7 votes -
Tech companies are structured like wealthy socialist states
5 votes -
Remove the search engine setting. Hard-code the search engine to Google
8 votes -
Why Google won't break a sweat about EU ruling
3 votes -
Are there any other HAMs around here?
Where do you usually work from? What is your setup? And also, what has been your most memorable HAM experience so far?
13 votes -
Internal documents show Facebook's own marketing strategy was influenced by what it learned from its valued customer, the Trump campaign
8 votes -
Our phones and gadgets are now endangering the planet
12 votes -
Digital Laundry: How credit card thieves use free-to-play apps to launder their ill-gotten gains
6 votes -
The rise of digital dictatorships - Prof. Yuval Noah Harari
5 votes -
Public Telegram, private strife | The precarious future of messaging apps
3 votes -
The next generation of VR headsets will connect over a single USB-C cable
9 votes -
On the future computer era modification of the American character and the role of the engineer, or, a little caution in the haste to number (1968)
7 votes -
Project Code Rush - The beginnings of Netscape/Mozilla
6 votes -
NVIDIA, Oculus, Valve, AMD, and Microsoft form VirtualLink Consortium and introduce an open industry standard for connecting next-generation VR headsets
8 votes -
Github is currently experiencing service outages
14 votes -
Chrome uses ten to thirteen percent more RAM due to Google's 'Site Isolation' protection for Spectre CPU flaws
14 votes -
Hooktube is dead
Hooktube.com used to provide a private way to view youtube vids, blocking ads, bypassing region locks, and also pulling comments and search results via the api. All you had to do was replace the...
Hooktube.com used to provide a private way to view youtube vids, blocking ads, bypassing region locks, and also pulling comments and search results via the api. All you had to do was replace the you in a youtube link with hook.
No more. On July 11, this appeared on the changelog:
HookTube no longer uses YouTube api for anything, and most features (channel page, search, related videos, etc) are gone. No choice.
Which was extremely bad, but at least you could still watch videos privately right?
July 16: YouTube api features are back but mp4 <video> is replaced with the standard YT video embed. HookTube is now effectively just a light-weight version of youtube and useless to the 90% of you primarily concerned with denying Google data and seeing videos blocked by your governments.
rest in pieces
It was a good run, 1.5 years. Started as a quickly made addition to the norbot project, and within long the server had to be upgraded several times. Of course YouTube Legal was an inevitability at that point.
Special thanks to the many people who created plugins and extensions for hooktube, /g/, the five people who donated anonymously, and BitChute for working hard on a real YouTube alternative. HookTube will remain operational in the present state for those who only needed it for performance reasons. See you in the next project.:(
Alternatives include: invidio.us, youtube-dl, the Freetube desktop app, Newpipe for Android, and
you’re doomed if you use iOS.ETA: Actually, I just remembered, there’s Media Grabber for the Workflow app. And Invidio mostly works on mobile.15 votes -
Women making science videos on YouTube face hostile comments
11 votes -
Filezilla bundles malware; dev doubles down on "false positive"
31 votes -
The NSA’s hidden spy hubs in eight US cities
7 votes -
Despite Chrome’s pending “mark of shame,” three major news sites aren’t HTTPS
18 votes -
What if people were paid for their data?
14 votes -
Elected officials, please stop drinking Silicon Valley's kool-aid
4 votes -
'Data is a fingerprint': why you aren't as anonymous as you think online - So-called ‘anonymous’ data can be easily used to identify everything from our medical records to purchase histories
7 votes -
Microsoft urges Congress to regulate use of facial recognition
9 votes -
Walmart's newly patented technology for eavesdropping on workers presents privacy concerns
18 votes -
VPNFilter, malware that targets network infrastructure discovered in May, deployed against Ukranian water system.
7 votes -
We are all public figures now
31 votes -
The woman in the #PlaneBae saga says she's been 'shamed, insulted, and harassed' since the story went viral and asks for her privacy
4 votes -
Elon Musk criticized for trying to help. Accused of selfish PR stunt.
23 votes -
Silicon Valley, from ‘heart’s delight’ to toxic wasteland
2 votes -
Facebook labels Russian users as ‘interested in treason’
13 votes -
Using a robot to move a plant into the sun.
4 votes -
The FCC wants to charge you $225 to review your complaints
16 votes -
Reddit suspends user for posting CEO’s position on hate speech
39 votes -
Microsoft announces Surface Go
17 votes -
Battling fake accounts, Twitter to slash millions of followers
7 votes -
First GDPR ruling: German court finds collecting domain registrar techincal/admin contact info violates Article 5
17 votes -
The real value of cucumber tests
5 votes