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What's your recommendation for a video doorbell, without a subscription, wired not battery, that can collect footage on your doorstep around the clock?
Not Amazon. Thanks!
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Let's spread awareness of #peertube as a powerful and free alternative to corporate platforms. #foss #opensource #surveillance joinpeertube.framalab.org/
Did you know if you, as a creator, would like to continue publishing to #YouTube, it is actually very easy to synchronize/mirror your videos to a peertube account (if the instance allows this) automatically.
So basically, after an initial one-time setup, you will now have a presence outside GAFAM and corporate control.... baby steps;)
In addition, since it's compatible with #activitypub it's possible to follow your videos much like a 2 way RSS from the #Fediverse #mastodon platform of your choice. AND viewers can comment directly from here!!
It would be awesome to create a hashtag like #discoverpeertube to highlight interesting videos available there.
I'll start:
How Advertisers Censor Content - A Talk By Allum Bokhari
peertube.futo.org/videos/watch…
#FUTO
*please boost and follow the hashtag if you'd like to highlight this amazing alternative or better yet post any cool videos you find there as well:)
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FUTO has selected Ladybird browser project for a $200k grant!
Ladybird is a clean, libre, new implementation of web standards that can bring a new voice to the land of web browsers and help us defeat Google's and Apple's stranglehold on the web.
peertube.futo.org/videos/watch…
Thank you, @futo for supporting this and many other important free software projects.
#FUTO #Laydybird #Browser #Chrome #Google #Firefox #Safari #Apple #FOSS #WebNeutrality #HTML5 #DigitalSovereignty
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As a visual artist myself, I found this video to be so incredibly inspiring and at the same time it expresses something I've always felt but had difficulty expressing to non-artists.
Danny Gregory goes into how he uses his sketchbook as a visual journal of his life, it's impact on how he experiences the world around him, and how it also creates joy and connection in his life.
I don't believe this is limited to any specific creative pursuit, but rather all creative pursuits. In this day and age where society is obsessed with money and all things quantifiable, we often forget how essential Art is to the human experience.
Take a look, it will make your day:)
10 things about drawing I wish I knew when I was 35.
#sketchbookskool #art #creativity #passion #mindfulness #dannygregory
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🎉 PSA: F-Droid users! 🎉 The Tuta Calendar app is now available on F-Droid 🥳
❤️ You can get the Tuta Calendar app here: f-droid.org/en/packages/de.tut…
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when are you going to add a custom repeat option, for events?
Not having that option is making me hesitant to use your calendar app.
I always appreciate how your team treats F-Droid and Linux as first-class citizens. It's one of the reasons I prefer your service.
Keep it up please! 🥺
Is there any reason (besides available features) that I couldn’t use a free personal plan for my business until it starts bringing in money? Once I’ve got a more consistent income stream from the business I could then upgrade to a business plan.
I’m the sole employee in the business. I think the only major feature I’d be missing by taking this approach would be a custom domain — which I have setup already via my family plan on Proton.
An encrypted messaging app based in Australia is leaving the country after police pressured an employee. Possible additional fallout from Telegram situation:
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Yup. They went full OG AdBlock and got WaPo and other major publications to prevent them from working.
You can mimic what they did by adding the Google Crawler user agent to your browser but I just use archive.is
Yeah, unfortunately 12ft.io didn't keep up with the paywall arms race. It's too bad because it was one of those things that a lot of people knew about, many of whom may now just give up when it doesn't work even though there are other options out there.
As one example, there's now also the 13ft ladder: github.com/wasi-master/13ft It's like 12ft but self hosted. Sounds really good but I can't vouch for it yet.
I mostly would just archive a paywallrd page with archive.is (aka archive.today, archive.ph, etc.) and that worked great and also helped take traffic away from asshole sites that paywall content. Unfortunately, archive started requiring a cloud flare captcha when archiving a page. This is a deal breaker for me since captcha totally deanonymizes you and is used for tracking purposes and even to train AI. So it defeats a good chunk of the purpose of using an archive site.
Still, there's a good chance that someone else already archived the page you want to see, so putting the url in archive.is search can be enough to bypass the paywall.
I have been using inspect element to manually remove ads and other annoying things
Thanks for reminding me that i can just use useblock origin!
Yeah the article stub doesn't link to the article. It links to a login flow with the article id. If you go directly to the article you get redirected if you don't have a session.
It's incredibly easy to make an impossible to get around paywall. Porn has done it since the Internet existed.
In this very particular situation I'm glad most companies are lazy and stupid.
I don't particularly care if a company does pay only content. I think its legitimately ok. I hate companies that don't make you pay enough for the service to cover their costs thus leading to complete enshitifaction.
It's incredibly easy to make an impossible to get around paywall.
Sure, but the easily-bypassed js method makes sure it’s still crawlable by search engines, which is a trade well worth making where I work. Doesn’t matter as much for porn sites since the title and description aren’t the content most people are there for, so you can expose them on the paywall page.
Very true. I don't disagree at all. I think once google finally becomes totally useless. It won't matter.
I mean Google is already just Yellow Pages AdWords edition with AI content
If you insert yourself as a side of a war and also imply that people doing this should be on the front lines, then apparently you are?
And I don't.
Brave browser has a filter to bypass paywalls. Works on desktop and mobile versions. Definitely works on NYT as I just read something there today. And of course has built in adblock. You can also add additional filters and adblock lists.
Bonus: print to PDF in Brave to share an article with someone else. It retains all the graphics relevant to the article and cuts all the junk and ads out too.
If you just want to be aware, you could often read the headlines for free or follow news sites like Reuters, AFP, or AP.
They are primarily wire news companies and are a great way to get reliable, truthful and often free news.
If you want to read longer articles, you should pay if you want to have articles to read in the future.
Brave browser has a filter to bypass paywalls. Works on desktop and mobile versions. Definitely works on NYT as I just read something there today. And of course has built in adblock. You can also add additional filters and adblock lists.
Bonus: print to PDF in Brave to share an article with someone else. It retains all the graphics relevant to the article and cuts all the junk and ads out too.
Many sites don't work like that and don't even load the content from the server before the paywall check.
But I have a trick that work 100% of the time. Just don't read those sites.
I get that journalism and entertainment magazines have workers and need to be paid BUT:
They were getting paid when I could pay a cheap physical newspaper if I want to read it and usually had those for free anyway. As you'll get newspapers on most public places and one single newspaper would serve a whole family. In my house we didn't really paid more than 4€ a month and got physical things that you could just keep. Now with digital distribution you own nothing and it is far more expensive. So... No. Also they get a ton of public money through institutional advertisement, so I'm already basically paying for them without getting access to their content.
So unless they are willing to change their model I'll just refuse to read them. I'm happier without their clickbaits anyway.
So unless they are willing to change their model I’ll just refuse to live.
Wait what
Saddest typo ever.
I just won't tell this to my psychologist, just in case.
Ad companies with biases and normies/boomers who pay for it without any second guess.
In case anyone wanted to know.
do not right click inspect element on the paywall window and then delete the code & re-enable scrolling (i always forget how to, but don't google it)
the downside is that sometimes half the article is neutered anyway
Wow, I feel like the most upvoted solutions here don't work, and meanwhile some obvious and widely known alternatives are being completely overlooked.
❌ Inspect Element - many modern sites don't even include the full article in the paywalled html, so this wouldn't work. Also sitting there and mousing over elements and deleting them one by one, is tedious, it's easy to accidentally delete an element that encloses the content you intended to keep, or to drive yourself crazy trying to figure out how elements are nested.
❌ Ublock Zapper - a similar to the above, won't work on stub articles, and just janky because you're manually zapping things
❌ Disabled JavaScript - Similar to the above, same problem because many articles are stubs anyway. And the HTML layers that block your view don't have to be done with JavaScript.
❌ Rapid copy and paste of the article to notepad or rapidly printing the screen - similar problem to the above, lots of places just post the stub of an article, and besides nobody should live their life this way rapidly trying to print screen or copy everything. If you're trying to do a quick copy you're going to grab all kinds of gobbledygunk from the page and probably have to manually filter it out.
❌ Reader Mode - Your browsers reader mode will be hit and miss because, again, many sites post stub articles, and it's possible the pay wall stuff will just get formatted into the reader mode along with an incomplete article.
✅ Archive.is - works!
✅ Pocket and Instapaper - amazingly, nobody has mentioned these even though they're probably the longest running (dating back to 2007-2008), possibly most widely known, and most consistent solutions that still work to this day. They keep their own local caches of articles, so it's not depending on the full content being visible on the page.
✅ Other dedicated extensions - Dedicated browser extensions seem to work, but be careful what you're signing yourself up for.
🤷♀️ Brave - It works, but, it's a Chromium supported browser, so ultimately Google controls the destiny and can drive Chromium to incorporate fundamental frameworks supporting DRM and pushing their preferred web standards.
“A third party option takes away that consent from the ruling class and gives power to working class people,” says Claudia De la Cruz, socialist candidate for presidentNatalia Marques (Peoples Dispatch)
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These ideas only seem "radical" since capitalism has brought us to such an unbelievable, ridiculous point that the population has become numb to it.
It is the most inefficient system that any society could imagine
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More than 300 Spanish artists and academics, including Oscar-winning filmmaker Pedro Almodovar, have urged the government to completely suspend all kinds of trade in arms and military equipment with Israel.
"As long as Spain maintains military relations with Israel, it will continue to be complicit in this massacre," the letter read, calling for "urgent measures to impose a comprehensive arms embargo on Israel."
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Well, well, well, what is it? :)
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I think that it is a super often shared #mastodon pro tip, but in light of @pluralistic recent plea for #rss i post this again:
You can get an RSS feed for any mastodon account by appending ".rss" to the URL.
My local public transit - @hochbahn - runs a mastodon account and also provides info about service disruptions there. So i just subscribe to that account, instead using apps like Telegram or Notify for it. No ads, no tracking.
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it would be great if it worked the other way too, not just as output, but input too.
i'm happy to help if you want to pursue it.
i know there are products that do that, in fact I wrote one myself. 
i'm talking about support in Mastodon itself.
Time for somewhere new.
Two separate areas: Benderloch beach, with its golden sand and craggy ends, and Sutherland's Grove, a beautiful glen forest with a dramatic mind-bending gorge in the middle.
More images from this day are on my website, and you can plant your eyeballs on them here -> iancylkowski.com/blog/2024/10/… 👍
#landscape #nature #travel #autumn #fall #photography #photo #photographie #scotland #highlands
Zum #silentsunday
Das Cafe am See.
#eifel #nationalpark #landscapephotography #landschaftsfotografie
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in reply to Luddite (under protest) • •As with all the different federated platforms, each will require its own account, which IMHO is actually a good thing.
Yes, you can link videos within a Lemmy/Kbin thread that points to the video, just like you would with any other video link.
However, when it comes to interactivity/comments in order for this to happen a user needs to follow the channel, for example try following this @Blender
From the point you start following, it will pop up in your timeline like any other user and your comments to it will show up on their instance, just like a YouTube comment.
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in reply to LPS • • •I have been able to post in a Lemmy community from an Mbin instance without having a Lemmy account, so the separate account limitation is not a universal limitation. Hence why I asked. In any case, I appreciate the answer.
I’ll also say that there is a privacy issue with this design. If I am in a video, my appearance, voice, & part of the world I am in are all revealed & subject to facial rec. I don’t generally want my biometrics to then be linked to my threadiverse accts.
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in reply to LPS • • •I would never touch Youtube. YT also blocks me anyway. Nor would I disclose my identity to peertube beyond what’s unavoidable as far as biometrics goes.
It would be useful if peertube would add the capability to post to Lemmy (as Kbin does). Until then, we have the burden of creating an extra kbin or lemmy acct just to add a link.
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