Fun video, but fucking hell… even that webpage is enshitified by some vimeo garbage:
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Remember that in capitalism, anything but growth is a tragedy
Can’t say I’m with you. If the top hat shop goes out of business because the demand for top hats dies off, it’s a good thing. It’s one of the few good features of capitalism to have a natural death of that particular variety of waste (the waste of producing beyond demand).
If the consumption of meat is dropping (good!), then it’s even more important for grocers to stock less of it.
Not eating it is much easier than stealing it.
Indeed. But also less effective.
I consider vegans neutral. They neither help nor hinder the industry of animal products. I love this quote by Desmond Tutu:
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
Or, more controversally, stop paying for meat. I personally have no ethical problem with shoplifting meat. To buy meat is unethical because it supports the meat industry. To shoplift is to punish and deter those causing harm.
The only thing that stops me from shoplifting meat is I cannot be bothered to study the art of it and then take on the risks of getting caught.
Guardian is paywalled for me.
Certainly that’s the case in the US. It would be suicide for US republicans adhere to their conservative values and drop subsidies, which would outrage all the farmers whose vote republicans rely on. (edit) So the survival of the republican party inherently forces them into hypocricy.
But why don’t the dems nix meat subsidies? No farmers vote for dems, so no loss there. But I suppose there would be enough meat-eating dems who would abandon their own party. Just like in California a politician tried to push a fuel tax and got voted out by both parties.
If you require something that couldn’t be used over CloudFlare, that cedes a whole lot of power to what they choose to support
Power is excessively unreasonably ceded when Cloudflare is in the loop. To avoid CF is to put power back where it belongs. Cloudflare-incompatible tech ensures CF does not wield inappropriate power.
any networking could, in theory, be run by proxy.
Indeed, and this frustrates sigsec. Connecting to someone requires trusting them not to do something stupid like hand their keys to a giant centralised corporate overlord. At least avoiding Cloudflare is low-hanging fruit. It’s usually easy to detect when CF is in the loop, apart from a few rare shenanigans where CF uses some IPs that are not in CF’s ASN records.
Cloudflare is not a host. It’s a reverse proxy and governments use it.
I’m with you. Works great for those living alone.
But when there is a household w/3+ people, there is always someone who cannot resist playing the spineless pushover. Granny and gramps are living out their last decade; they will be damned if they give up convenient entertainment in their last stretch.
So when one person in the household insists on these shitty overpriced subscriptions, then what? You can probably rightfully get the boot licker to pay the whole bill, but then do they have to watch alone? Or do others in the household freeload? It must be awkward in a lot of situations.
Factors I care about w/shows and films:
✅ no tracking
✅ no ads
✅ cheap
❌ ownership
If I only need to see a video once, why do I care about owning it? Exceptionally, I need my own copy of:
But those are rare exceptions. I don’t want most films taking up space in my house or on my hard drive. Streaming is obviously a fail, so for most films the best answer is to borrow the DVD from the public library.
I am assuming the public library is less likely to abuse your viewing data than your ISP (in the case of torrenting).
Perhaps the best case: I recently pulled ~50 or so DVDs from a dumpster. I watched them once. Now they are just taking space. I will dump them on someone, or see if the library wants them.
The article doesn’t seem to answer the “why” question too comprehensively… just mentions some performance differences.
I saw a Tesla in Europe with a bumper sticker like this: “I bought this car before Elon went crazy”. So I would not neglect the cultural factor.
Note there is also !disenshittify@lemmy.cafe. Ideally it should be mentioned in the sidebar.
thebrainbin.org is not cataloged in any of the main datasets (lemmyverse, lemmy-federate.com, fediverser.network, fediseer.com) so my searches always overlook thebrainbin. nevermind… it’s covered by one of them… it’s just less visible because it’s a k/mbin instance.
It’s apparently a bit of both. I have never seen Cloudflare give those javasript messages. That was inside of a Vimeo frame on the webpage. But indeed CF is in play because of the ray id. Vimeo likely uses CF to push its enshitified content.