I feel like as someone who recently worked within helping in the aftermath of supply-chain attack. I personally recommend to instill good practices to sandbox things properly, both as a developer publishing libraries yourself and as someone who uses libraries . There are some good projects out there which can do the sandboxing for you and I am seeing a ton of explosion in this space recently something which is good to have as I had the idea of sandboxes an year or so ago and we have gotten far more options now to chose from.
I have been a bit more involved in the LiteLLM incident but I have read about the axios incident and in my research, I found this to be interesting[0] which could have helped. I feel like there are definitely ways to safeguard things which we should try out.
I don't know too much about Antivirus software so I can't speak about that but I feel like there are multiple interesting projects within this space.
My (personal opinion) is to keep the surface of exposure as low as possible. Relying solely on antivirus doesn't feel the best of scenarios and one of the things that I learnt from all of this is to keep a more active eye on security if-possible and to keep your attack surface low basically.
Prime is one of the most nicest guys and he has a very good positive influence in my life personally which indirectly why is why I am on the forum in some sense and I think I had actually learnt almost all from watching these guys on youtube (fireship,prime etc.)
I am not on twitter or anything as well, but drax has responded to my comment on hackernews once and my comment was a bit critical but he responded and I think he responded nicely and I really appreciate that (It was related to an opencode rce) and honestly, I wish all the people within this video good luck within future :-)
I feel like a lot of people are gonna try to copy what prime has done but I think that this works (atleast to me), because they are mostly humble and nice guys to talk to. Some people are gonna see this and try to replicate it but I believe that this only works the best for them.
Also happy that I knew almost every term, maybe I will try to have this as a ringtone from a certain bar. I really vibed with this and its honestly really good!! :-D
Okay what is happening, I am seeing so many posts which don't make any sense right now which are being posted by 1 karma old accounts, what is happening
Vultr is NOT a DMCA ignoring vps. Source: Vultr themselves. There are DMCA ignored hosts like Alexhost Aluy and Avahosting (ava is sister company of Alex)
The em-dash in the title, the new account, I am seeing so many common themes. Something is off.
I have personally been using Revanced on phones and Ublock origin on my computer devices, highly recommend them
How can a company in current world environment where unemployment and everything bad is on the rise think that the best way is to simply raise the prices.
Also the free youtube experience has degraded so much that I cringe so much whenever I am forced to use youtube without ad-blocker, sigh.
Edit: Its going from 13.99$ to 15.99$ whereas I had misinterpreted it as going from 2$ to 15.99$, though that being said, I find it now a bit both funny and depressing that I fully believed that google might do something like this and people would still be forced to pay. And also the ad blockers are working mighty-fine if I didn't even know the price of Youtube premium.
I think every single one of these streaming companies is seeing exactly how much people are willing to pay to avoid ads.
From what I’ve read the old Premium pricing was already more profitable than an ad supported viewer.
I pay yearly for Premium, watch requires a manual renewal every year. Last year I tried not to re-up and made it less than a day. My primary platforms for YouTube viewing are the Apple TV and PS5, so playing plugin cat-and-mouse doesn’t really work.
I do want to support ad-free business models, as I don’t like the dynamic ad-supported-everything has created in the world. That said, these costs that continuously ramp up don’t seem sustainable.
This price increase won’t break me, but at some point a line in the sand needs to be drawn. I did that with Netflix and Amazon over the past couple years after almost a decade of subscriptions. They will keep raising rates as long as people keep paying it. I do make it a point to totally cancel, I refuse to go to an ad-supported plan that I also pay money for. I cancelled my whole Prime membership over ad-free video being a separate charge.
> How can a company in current world environment where unemployment and everything bad is on the rise think that the best way is to simply raise the prices.
Economics talks about “price elasticity of demand”. A good or service is elastic if small changes in price greatly affect the demand. An inelastic good is, at its extreme, one for which people would pay literally anything.
Basically YouTube is betting that their Premium subscription is so important, or will become so important, that it will pretty much become a necessity. Likely because of discounts (invite a friend and get a discount) and network effects (YouTube Premium becomes a new video-oriented social medium like Tiktok?) or because the standard free version will become so bad that you will pay the subscription to have a somewhat decent experience.
> because the standard free version will become so bad that you will pay the subscription to have a somewhat decent experience.
I suppose the term for this is called en-shittification, correct?
I feel like this is because of Youtube being a monopoly, which is used by almost all people including here, far more than any other platform I have seen.
We kind of need more Youtube alternatives. I know bandwidth and storage is a hard problem to solve, but we probably need better alternatives if a company can seemingly just charge 8 times more. I mean, raising prices 8 times is seen as a joke by most if not all companies/products.
I personally wouldn't be impacted because I use ad-block and have given my family the same. But to imagine someone either getting so many insane ads (can we now expect ads to be 8 times more too?, I hope I am not giving someone at Youtube some ideas) or people who might be struggling financially because of so many instances to be asked to pay money or be shown X ads in Y time.
I had thought that Google had deep pockets but I genuinely feel like we are all funding the AI bubble one way or another through mechanisms like these and we are having no say in any of these things.
I feel like as the world itself is turning en-shittified and we are all having no say in all of this :-/
Yes, being a monopoly certainly helps, but that monopoly is YouTube, not YouTube Premium. Since the basic offering is free, raising the price for the Premium version only makes sense if they don’t expect a shift from Premium to free users. This suggests that they believe their Premium offering to become more important, so its users can tolerate a price increase without shifting to the free version (or a YouTube alternative).
> The price is going from $13.99 to $15.99 , that's "up $2" .
My apologies. It's a bit late here and I misread it.
And I was completely out of the loop about pricing (ad-blockers as I have mentioned) and so I had genuinely thought the tag was going from 2$ to 15.99 my apologies.
(that being said, it does say something about the society perhaps that I genuinely thought it was within the realm of possibility that google might raise the prices 8 times and people would just be forced to use it, showing the monopoly of Youtube)
There is an android application which you have to install called Revanced Manager.
You install a working version of youtube from apkmirror and microg core and then patch it with the manager and then install that too.
There are also ways to do the same with cli tools. It's a bit more complex but you can find guides online.
Nowadays I am hearing some news about morphe too, it seems to be a revanced fork iirc, but I am currently happy with revanced so I am gonna stick to that but I can recommend checking out morphe too perhaps
I was born in july of 2008 (not to get more specific), but this is what the website said:
john doe, you showed up in July 2008 just in time for the global economy to set itself on fire. While you were figuring out how to keep your head up, Lehman Brothers collapsed and the US government started handing out billions in bailouts like they were party favors. By the time you were six months old, Barack Obama was elected and someone named Satoshi mined the first Bitcoin. You didn't care; you were busy trying not to get Swine Flu in June 2009.
// Three more paragraphs
Here you are, john doe, sitting at the edge of adulthood in a world that feels like it’s being held together by duct tape and spite. You grew up watching "once-in-a-generation" events happen every other Tuesday. Now, in April 2026, with ceasefires collapsing and the map being redrawn in real-time, you're expected to have a plan. No pressure.
The world you were born into is gone, and the one that replaced it doesn't offer refunds. Good luck with the rest of it, john doe.
I sort of resonate with the last lines. As someone who follows Geopolitics, the last year has anything been but hopeful.
Also the duct tape line is golden in the sense that yeah I believe that the world is just running on vibes-economy and those vibes are being the duct tape.
> You grew up watching "once-in-a-generation" events happen every other Tuesday
this is something which sort of worries me. When I was studying history, I always used to imagine myself asking questions to the people who lived in that time. I am not sure if in future people are gonna be asking me the same questions. I mean, I do feel like we all should be prepared for what answer we are gonna give next generations as to all the mess-ups done. I just hope that we learn from the past and the present to build a more hopeful future.
I think there's more nuance to it from what I can find on the internet.
Jobs definitely had knowledge about coding and other technical issues to do his job. Here's Eric Schmidt on this:
He was exactly the same way he was at Apple: strongly opinionated, knew what he was doing. He was so passionate about object-oriented programming. He had this extraordinary depth. I have a PhD in this area, and he was so charismatic he could convince me of things I didn’t actually believe.
I should tell you this story. We’re in a meeting at NeXT, before Steve went back to Apple. I’ve got my chief scientist. After the meeting, we leave and try to unravel the argument to figure out where Steve was wrong—because he was obviously wrong. And we couldn’t do it. We’re standing in the parking lot. He sees us from his office, and he comes back out to argue with us some more. It was over a technical issue involving Objective C, a computer language. Why he would care about this was beyond me. I’ve never seen that kind of passion.
(Optional: I would really appreciate it if you can from now on, optionally add these things on archive.org as well, I have made a submission on how to use these things, It's just a non profit effort on saving things on archive.org as well as some people's dns is starting to block archive.is or captcha related issues)
I have been a bit more involved in the LiteLLM incident but I have read about the axios incident and in my research, I found this to be interesting[0] which could have helped. I feel like there are definitely ways to safeguard things which we should try out.
I don't know too much about Antivirus software so I can't speak about that but I feel like there are multiple interesting projects within this space.
My (personal opinion) is to keep the surface of exposure as low as possible. Relying solely on antivirus doesn't feel the best of scenarios and one of the things that I learnt from all of this is to keep a more active eye on security if-possible and to keep your attack surface low basically.
[0]: https://github.com/DataDog/supply-chain-firewall
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