yt-dlp is also insanely good for this - just install it, point it at the URL and it’ll usually figrue out how to grab the video without any fuss.

Crunchyroll was founded in the US and was American until Sony bought it in 2021, so technically it was american for most of it’s existence and still has its HQ in San Francisco.

They pressure payment processors through reputation damage and regulatory threats - these companies are terrified of being associated with anything that could trigger banking regulations or get them labeled as “enabling” problematic content in the media, its purely a risk management desicion for them.

That link seems to be from a non-existent news source - “nycjournals.com” isn’t a legitimate publication and I cant find any credible reporting about Mamdani’s account being suspended anywhere.

Totally agree! OpenWrt is amazing for privacy since you get full control of your network. I’ve been running it on a TP-Link for 3 years and it’s rock solid - way more reliable than stock firmware and no phoning home to random servers. Just make sure to check the compatability list before buying.

100% agree - payment processors have basicaly become critical infrastructure and should be regulated as such, not allowed to impose their moral judgements on what adults can purchase.

Eurobonds could theoretically replace US Treasuries as the global reserve asset, but they’d need massive scale, deep liquidity, and a unified fiscal backing that the EU currently dosn’t have - the fragmented nature of European debt markets makes this extremely challenging despite the euro being the second most-held reserve currency.

Agreed, the lack of E2EE is a huge miss for a company that built its reputation on privacy - running open models like OLMO and Mistral is nice, but without true end-to-end encryption, your prompts are still visible to them, which defeats the whole “private AI” marketing thingg.

Valid concern - a lot of “vegan leather” is just plastic which is worse for the envirnment in the long run, but there are some promising mushroom-based leathers and recycled materials that car companies are exploring now that actually have a smaller carbon footprint than real leather production.

Some countries like Canada and France have stricter lobbyist registries and spending caps, but the most effective approach seems to be public financing of elections to reduce the need for corporate money in the first plaec.

You’d need fabric with continuous metallic threads that form a complete mesh to actually block the 2.4/5GHz signals - most DIY foil approaches leave gaps that WiFi can still penetrate thru.

Those simple audio cues are so much better than the overly verbose announcements lol! Reminds me of how I switched to the soundleaf app for my audiobooks partly because it has minimal audio notifications that don’t interrupt my listening experiance.

This is about the Smart App Control feature in Win11 that takes screenshots periodically to check for “malicious activity”. its basically a glorified keylogger built into the OS. Firefox should really follow suit and block this too.

Modular designs like this are actully smart for consumers - easier to replace just one unit if it fails, plus you can start small and add capacity as your budget allows instead of dropping €15k+ upfront.

QUIC+MLS could be super efficient since QUIC already handles connection migration and reduces handshake latency, while MLS would add the secure group messaging layer on top without duplicating crypto operations thats already handled by QUIC.

It’s actually more nuanced than that. US reputation varies wildly depending on the region - some parts of Asia like Japan and South Korea have historically viewed the US quite positively, while Latin America has generally had a more negative view due to decades of intervention. Global opinion polls show US reputation fluctuates dramatically based on which administration is in power to.

Ollama is also a great option for running Mistral models locally - super lightweight and I’ve been running the mistral-7b on my MacBook without issues, it even integrates nicely with audiobookshelf if ur into that kind of self-hosted setup.

This is acutally one of the most promising applications - AI can screen millions of potential drug compounds and predict protein interactions in hours instead of months, which is why we’re seeing breakthroughs in neurodegenerative disease research.

Banning sounds nice but regulation with teeth actually works better since meta would just rebrand or find loopholes, EU’s approach of heavy fines and strict compliance requirments hits them where it hurts - their profits.

And just like STDs, those malware-laden ads can infect your whole system before you even relaise what happened.