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Invidious utilizes a PostgreSQL database to cache video entries. By default every 30 minutes or so it attempts to connect to YouTube’s Servers via their APIs to refresh the local database. Basically invidious is like a RSS News feed reader with extras for YouTube.

yewtu.be is one of many public Invidious instances. Invidious is an open source front-end for YouTube.

What’s worse is that these things have a full Computer inside them with some custom distribution of Linux on it. And usually it’s some really outdated software, (even the Kernel they use is most of the time 10+ years old) which means IoT devices are a perfect target for hackers to exploit.

And of course the custom software on them is some quickly thrown together hack-job that works just enough to convince investors. After all; Time is money!

Also let’s not forget that if the company closes down all IoT devices they made become paper weights.

Such progress! /rant

If you ever want to go independent, since some search engines (namely Google and DuckDuckGo) censor search results, there is always YaCy.

If you do want to give it a try make sure to run it on decent machine (good performing multi-core CPU, at least 8 GB of free RAM and at least 1 TB of storage space).

I actually have been running my own YaCy instance on my homelab Server for a few months now. Currently it has indexed about 13 million web pages. Right when this shit with Ukraine started and I read that DuckDuckGo is now censoring russian search results I had enough. And first thing I did was search for things like “China concentration camps” or “North Korea escape” and blacklisted all the US media that popped up. Like you said:

These corporations are a plague upon this earth.

some of which I wrote myself (search engine)

Meta search engine or independent with its own crawler?

I argue it needs to be free/libre software not just open source. Yes there is a difference; “Open Source” is usually used as a marketing term by companies and refers to software that is under a permissive license, which doesn’t necessarily grant the users any freedoms; It can still contain proprietary binaries or have strings attached in some other way. In other words it can still serve the interests of private person(s) by only releasing parts (usually non-crucial) of the source code.

Copyleft licenses are the only way to go here if you want software where the user has 100% control.

If true, I didn’t know that and it’s sad indeed. I actually own some Pine64 hardware because I think their cause is great and I’m a free/libre software enthusiast myself. They shipped it to me from a factory in Hong Kong.

Now that you mentioned it, in the beginning of the year I remember they were telling people that they’re unable to produce or ship anything because the chinese government issued a lockdown and they even posted an image of a letter they got in the mail (which was in chinese but they translated it) telling them to stay inside until further notice. Also every year around chinese new years they halt production.

EDIT: Also, also when I ordered I had to send the money to China.

Same what you said comrade. A lot of my clothes are 7-12 years old and some are starting to get noticeably worn to the point where they start to fall apart. I honestly don’t mind too much but I absolutely despise this “fasion” BS. I’m on the spectrum too so it’s difficult for me to be in places where a lot is going on. My senses get overloaded every time I step into one of these shops and I can hardly deal with it.

Reminds me of how Apple’s iShit goes for like double the material cost of everything that’s in them.

For anyone who wants to see computer hardware that is more priced after the material cost and cost of production, rather than “market value” or whateverdafuq: https://www.pine64.org/

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