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What is this shit? I have to be signed in to watch any video now?
  • I would guess you're using a bunch of privacy protecting features that's preventing them from verifying your browser/device. Unfortunately, being anonymous is the same as looking like a bot.

    Use NewPipe. It only ever gets blocked if you're on VPN or if YouTube did an api update and the app needs to update to match.

  • What is this shit? I have to be signed in to watch any video now?
  • I only ever get this when I'm on a VPN. Sometimes reddit will do that to me too. It means someone's been abusing/scraping YouTube through your VPN server and they've temporarily blacklisted its IP address. Switch your VPN servers or turn off your VPN.

  • Realizing Arch isn't for me after updating broke VLC
  • I don't want to fault people for avoiding Arch's instability in general but this is a very minor issue.

    VLC is not a system critical package. I absolutely understand the mods choice to not put it in the RSS. At most they could put a notice in the pacman logs when it updates.

  • Why does Arch seem to have a cult like following?
  • About 10 years ago it was The Distro for first time linux users to prove they were a True Linux Enjoyer. Think a bunch of channers bragging about how they are the true linux master race because they edited a grub config.

    Before Arch that role belonged to Gentoo. Since then that role has transitioned to NixOS who aren't nearly as toxic but still culty. "Way of the future" etc.

    All three of have high bars of entry so everyone has to take pride in the effort they put in to learn how to install their distro. Like getting hazed into a frat except you actually learn something.

    The Ubuntu hatred is completely unrelated. That has to do with them being a corporate distro that keep making bad design decisions. And their ubiquity means everyone has to deal with their bad decisions. (snap bad)

  • Cloudflare offers to make AI pay to crawl websites
  • How about you just read up on Cloudflare Turnstile instead of acting like you know anything? Here are some notable methods:

    • Residential IP requirements
    • TLS Fingerprinting
    • Canvas Fingerprinting

    It's still possible to get around these but it's not easy. You either must have as good network engineers on staff as Cloudflare or pay some third party service to unlock it for you. All Cloudflare needs to do is keep their prices lower than the third party services.

  • What's wrong with Democratic Socialism?
  • First everyone should be reading these works critically and not as absolute doctrine. Any ML who's actually knows what "scientific socialism" means and isnt a tankie larper should know that.

    Second, all except for the Catalonia examples are false.

    • EZLN is literally a Maoist people's army started by a Maoist cadre. The people they organized simply didn't see overthrowing the entire Mexican government as worth it. If you knew anything about Mao you would've known that.
    • Lenin and Mao were required readings for for the YPG according to western volunteers. Just look into Occalan their connection with the PKK and understand they were just softening their image to get US support.
    • "original workers councils in Russia" AKA the Soviets. Yeah they didn't read Mao or State and Revolution because they hadn't been written yet! But to suggest they weren't reading early Lenin is obvious baloney given that him and the Bolsheviks were their contemporaries.
  • What's wrong with Democratic Socialism?
  • The DSA was founded by Marxists and has always been socialist. If you show up at a meeting and say 'I don't think we need to overthrow capitalism' you will be laughed out of the room. I've seen it happen.

    The libertarian wing of the DSA doesn't caucus within DSA because they got completely shut down in either the 2017 or 2019 confrenece. Everyone else actually learned something from the failures of Occupy.

    What goes forthe Social Democrat wing of DSA is the faction most connected to Labor unions in the DSA, namely Bread and Roses. The rest are either Trotskyite or ML. There are plenty of anarchists still but they don't bother with any national caucus. Besides, its not like anarchists aren't also reading from spooky "authoritarians" like Lenin and Mao. If you want to overthrow capitalism you should read up on the people who've actually done it.

  • What's wrong with Democratic Socialism?
  • Democrats aren't socialist but there are socialists who are democrats. The majority of the party are beholden to big donors just like the Republicans and view anything even remotely socialist as not only a threat to their donors but a threat to their position in the party.

    The democrats are melting down over Mamdani because he might cause a wave of socialists primarying them.

    They are also melting down because the main attack they used against Mamdani - calling him an antisemite when he's really just an anti-zionist - had zero affect. This is huge because it's been a tried and true tactic to use against socialists most famously in the UK against Corbyn.

  • How do I change the clipboard program that neovim uses?

    I start my coding workspaces in tmux sessions which persist when I log out. If I switch from a wayland session to an x11 session, then my copy and paste functionality in those neovim sessions are broken because it's still trying to use wl-copy. To be more precise:

    1. Start a wayland session.
    2. Open a terminal and start a tmux session.
    3. Open neovim and do some work.
    4. Log out of wayland, log into an X11 environment
    5. Open a terminal and reconnect to the tmux session
    6. "+y broken. clipboard: error invoking wl-copy: Failed to connect to a Wayland server...

    Restarting neovim isn't sufficient. I have to restart the entire tmux session or switch back to wayland. Is there some short cut I can take here?

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    Vim Wayland users: how do you bind CAPSLOCK to Escape?

    Everything I read says it's a feature enabled in what ever compositor you choose, if your compositor supports it. Why isn't there a general purpose keybinding program like setxkbmap? Does it just not exist yet or must it be built into the compositor?

    I've read [this stackexchange thread] on something related but it all seems to be using XKB which should imply I'm using XWayland?

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