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Seirdy (seirdy@pleroma.envs.net)'s status on Friday, 04-Mar-2022 22:31:20 UTC Seirdy

The music industry is going after the hosting provider of the youtube-dl homepage: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/campaign-shut-down-crucial-documentary-tool-youtube-dl-continues-and-so-does-fight

Funny since everyone's switching to yt-dlp anyways.
In conversation Friday, 04-Mar-2022 22:31:20 UTC from pleroma.envs.net permalink
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1. The Campaign to Shut Down Crucial Documentary Tool youtube-dl Continues – And So Does the Fight to Save It
  
  from Corynne McSherry and Mitch Stoltz
  
  Copyright maximalists just don’t know when to stop. Having failed in their 2020 attempt to use U.S. law to force GitHub to permanently cut off access to youtube-dl, an open source tool that allows users to download and preserve videos, on the theory that the tool can also be used for infringing...
Seirdy (seirdy@pleroma.envs.net)'s status on Sunday, 06-Feb-2022 19:50:00 UTC Seirdy

Flutter and Chromium accept contributions from anyone. Anyone who's rich enough to buy modern hardware capable of building the software from source.

Like no, I don't want my computer to be unusable for hours just so I can attempt a Flutter build.

Daily reminder that software has a carbon footprint. How many devs buy new hardware because they need to build software like this while running Discord/Slack/Spotify? How much e-waste is your software responsible for?

In conversation Sunday, 06-Feb-2022 19:50:00 UTC from pleroma.envs.net permalink

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Director's Cut of my bio in its un-truncated glory: https://seirdy.one/about.htmlWorking towards a world without exploitation through consumption.Fun facts about Seirdy:- Enjoys tweaking Fedora/Sway Linux setup (dotfiles on Sourcehut).- Software freedom supporter.- CS/Math undergrad student at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR.- Likes building everything from HEAD without good reason.Software I use: Fedora, Weechat, Minetest, Neovim, tmux, Sway, neomutt, and zsh.

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