Watching creators beg youtube to reinstate their accounts is like watching a domestic abuse victim beg their abuser to take them back.

Too bad its all about ad revenue these days for most people, I feel like we could do a lot better then google if people just put slightly more effort into supporting alternatives, that’s why I continue to mirror youtube channels on my peertube instance (and you can too if you want).

I understand why some corpos are lazy and just use some third party service that blocks all VPNs, but if you’re going to do that an also providing a service in which i need to give you money, you could at least TELL ME with a proper fucking error message.

Its like the people who work in fraud prevention think security by obscurity is a useful tactic. I don’t NEED an error message to figure out whats going on and Im not even trying to do fraud, If someone is actually a professional fraudster I’m pretty sure they’ll know where to buy residential proxies.

The reason I approve damn near every request that gets submitted on the GravityWell.xYz Jellyfin, even ones I don’t like such as trashy TV or whatever dogshit Matt Walsh puts out, is because I’d rather anyone who is curious about those things watch them in a way that provides no revenue to the people who produce such garbage.

Also I don’t mean this as an insult to people who enjoy trash TV. I myself am a big fan of some seriously trashy shows, we all have our vices, I just want to deprive corporate media cartels of as much money as possible.

Documenting the many failures of #Mozilla part 1 of ???

In 2015 #Firefox began including the service now defunct addon/service “pocket” as an integrated add-on, the first add-on to ever be bundled with their browser up to this point.

This decision baffled many users at the time including myself. Many wondered why such a niche service was given such consideration ahead of much more desirable addons such as ublock or adblockplus.

In hindsight we know this is because bundling such adblockers would result in a near complete loss of funding for the project from google, with little hope of another advertiser like microsoft being interested in taking over.

https://news.slashdot.org/story/15/06/09/1722236/mozilla-responds-to-firefox-user-backlash-over-pocket-integration

Look I get it, you’re lazy af, but guys you really shouldnt be keeping your entire digital identity with any single entity. Just think about this for a minute, what happens if you wake up tomorrow and your AppleID, or Google, or Microsoft, or whatever it is you have 90% of your stuff saved on decided to lock you out, would that be more or less of a hassle to deal with then taking the time to spread things out and setup backups for things that are important to you.

I’m the laziest mfer there is and I self host almost everything, If my lazy stoner ass can figure out that much then i think you as a functioning adult should be able to figure out how to master basic things like having a second email and a physical drive for backups that isn’t on “the cloud”… this is like basic stuff people. Either that or don’t complain when you get smashed by the corporate ban hammer.

Really you should just stop using corporate services period if you have any sort of ethical consideration into the services you use (paid or not) then you should be avoiding Microsoft, Apple, Meta, Google, all of these tech companies… go with small ones like Tuta or ctemplar.com or riseup.net. Avoid using services that try to be all-in-one like proton, or if you do use such services dont use the same one for both a VPN and Email.

https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/

I’m so sick of every site and service I spend money on telling me how much i “SAVED” by using them. I didn’t save shit, You made a sale because you had the cheapest price and no other reason, if i could get it literally anywhere else for cheaper, I would have.

Even worse is when its delivery apps and they try to gas light you into thinking you’re saving money by having a subscription to them, when the apps themselves are directly responsible for everything having prices inflated by like 100% on top of all the bullshit fees they decided they could slap on…. but yeah keep reminding me how I’m “saving” $2 on my order by paying you $6 a fucking month for the privilege.

“I can’t help but feel like Vince Gilligan is giving women their own version of Walter White with Carol, to cheer as an antihero while wildly misunderstanding the point of the character the way dudes did with Walter. I keep watching Pluribus and trying to honestly assess how I’d feel if she were a man. But I’m pretty sure, if she was a man, I wouldn’t bother watching it at all.

Like, am I the only one who is driven crazy by her total lack of curiosity? Or trying literally anything that’s not just shouting at people who are being very nice to her and trying to help her at every turn? Does it not occur to her to ask them: listen, if this is so great, why don’t you reverse the process on just one single person and let them tell me so themselves, if it’s reversible? If one person became an individual again and said to me “Shit, no, man, it’s amazing,” even if I didn’t choose to do it myself, I’d give them the benefit of the doubt.

But as it stands, she sounds kinda like an antivaxxer, and it worries me that people are regarding that as something brave and iconoclastic, when I have a feeling that Gilligan really is setting her up to be a monster like Walter was - to splash around in those same waters.”

#Pluribus

MyTerms/ IEEE P7012 - the ‘No…., but’ Browser/ App Standard Privacy Signal AKA The cookie banner zapper….

https://hendersoni.substack.com/p/myterms-ieee-p7012-the-no-but-browser

Yikes!

“ A mistake in Mozilla’s signing infrastructure previously disabled NoScript and all other Firefox extensions signed by Mozilla in Tor Browser. Because NoScript enforces the higher security levels, this single point of failure compromised privacy for millions of users. The solution: host NoScript yourself, sign it yourself, update it yourself. Version 13.5.2.1984 equals AMO’s 13.5.2 in functionality, but now the Tor Project controls the entire update pipeline without waiting for Mozilla.”

https://www.sambent.com/tor-browser-15-0-3-noscript-goes-independent/

#Mozilla #Tor

small joy: remembering that with this project there is no reason i can’t name a log analysis folder “anal-logs’ and giggle at it each time

If we’re just saying things we thing might be good for business;

Personally I think Alex Karp should be tortured before his execution without a trial, so he can first retract his support of war crimes, before having his head removed with a very dull knife.

I think that would do a lot of good for the anti-fascism and anti-oligarchy industry.

https://gizmodo.com/palantir-ceo-says-making-war-crimes-constitutional-would-be-good-for-business-2000695162

Equating “data centers” with hosptials, as if they are in any way the same… This really begs the question, why did he not compare to building data centers in china, is it perhaps because they take just as long regardless of the location because data centers are a lot more complicated then hospitals (and hospitals are just one of the many critical services that actually depend on datacenters these days)

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: “Data centers take about 3 years to construct in the U.S., while in China ‘they can build a hospital in a weekend’”

https://fortune.com/2025/12/06/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-ai-race-china-data-centers-construct-us/

https://web.archive.org/web/20251207000000/https://fortune.com/2025/12/06/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-ai-race-china-data-centers-construct-us/

#Nvidia #AI #DataCenters #ChinaVsUS #JensenHuang #TechRace

Current #FunkWhale #playlist

https://funk.gravitywell.xyz/library/playlists/1

“Survivor footage shows U.S. forces opening fire on shipwrecked crew after strike. Sailors in life vests waving arms—gunned down in water. ‘Executed the ones who survived the bombs.’”

#WarCrimes #USMilitary

https://theintercept.com/2025/12/04/boat-strike-survivors-video/

https://archive.is/o9BJq

“Across U.S. prisons, LGBTQ inmates—especially trans women—are disproportionately assigned to clerical jobs: typing, filing, data entry. Staff justify it as ‘they’re good at paperwork’ or ‘less likely to be violent.’ Pay: pennies per hour. Many say it’s forced feminized labor that trades on stereotypes while keeping them visible & vulnerable to harassment.”

#PrisonLabor #TransRights #LGBTQPrisoners #QueerIncarceration

https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/lgbtq-prison-life-office-administrative-work

The evolution of pizza delivery is the plainest example of our everything-to-the-top economic decline.

=Ordering a pizza in 2005=

Customer: I would like to place an order with free delivery!

Business: Thanks! One of the drivers on our payroll will arrive shortly!

Customer: Great! I will tip them at least $3, or more if anyone in our household is attracted to them or likes their jokes!

Driver: I will now buy other things with minimum wage plus tip income, and write the gas and mileage off my taxes!

=Ordering a pizza in 2025=

Customer: Why is this pizza $30?

Business: We don’t know. If you need delivery, please order through the app.

THE APP: With our fees your pizza is now $45. Would you like to tip the driver? Otherwise, we won’t pay them.

Customer: Wait, none of this is going to the driver? What are these fees for then?

THE APP: They are for The App.

Business: We also have to pay for the privilege of being on The App. If we don’t, we’re aborted from the internet.

Driver: If you don’t tip, I’m yeeting that pizza through your front window, because I just depreciated the value of my car for negative money.

Customer: Why did I pay $15 in fees to get my pizza yeeted?

The App: Good question. The fees are now $17. I recommend blaming a foreign war or food stamps for this.

I keep hearing about new AI software because of crazy shit people let it do, mainly deleting entire codebases or drives… So I’ve been playing with google AntiGravity lately (in a VM because im not an idiot)

Wisconsin lawmakers push to ban VPNs in age verification bill A.B. 105, claiming to “protect children” by blocking privacy tools. But it’s technically impossible & harms businesses, students, journalists. “What the actual fuck?”

#VPNBan #PrivacyMatters #TechFail #Censorship

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/01/lawmakers-want-to-ban-vpns-and-they-have-no-idea-what-theyre-doing/

It’s almost winter, and you know what that means: hoodie season. It also means you now have the opportunity to not only buy a very nice new hoodie, but one that supports human artists (and websites).

https://aftermath.site/destroy-ai-aftermath-kim-hu-hoodie-shirt/

#FuckAI #DestroyAI