Indeed. I tried on mobile with LibreTube and with Mull and both fail. And also fails now in Tor browser. The list is getting shorter.

Now I’ve tried almost all of them in the Piped instances list (Several domain name for sale and server not found errors) and only the smnz.de one works for me. :( I am wondering whether a freshly installed self-hosted private Piped video instance will work fine.

Works for me still (Using Tor browser. I’m Europe located).

The instances list is not up to date :

• List of instances : https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/wiki/Instances But after trying maybe more than 10 of them I found one which manages to play a video :

https://piped.smnz.de/watch?v=bBhDWTZDH9c

There’s probably more working instances.

Plan B : I guess running your own Piped instance and not sharing it with a lot of people could be worth considering.

Personally I’m sticking to https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Yt-dlp#Faster_downloads for the video downloading I do.

Was about to post the great blog post from my bookmarks, but another commenter beat me to it (t y !). Here’s comments on that blog post on Lobsters and HN :

• https://lobste.rs/s/gqoj5n/passkeys_shattered_dream
• https://web.archive.org/web/20240507211213/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40165998

Yes and no. Code development for Nitter has officially stopped afaik, but there are still some instances not completely dead.

• https://status.d420.de/ Nitter Instance Uptime & Health

Yes, gdebi :

• https://screenshots.debian.net/package/gdebi

This article is about Mobifree https://f-droid.org/en/2024/05/24/mobifree.html As far as I can see F-Droid mentions that it will be a contributing partner :

For more than 14 years, F-Droid has been developing solutions which act as pieces of the alternative mobile ecosystem puzzle. So it was a natural fit for F-Droid to become a contributing partner in the broader Mobifree project.

F-Droid playing a role :

F-Droid will play a major role in this project, tasked with creating a decentralized distribution system for developers to deliver apps to Android users.

Help to create the NGI funded project Mobifree :

F-Droid is one participating organization who has joined forces to help create this new mobile ecosystem. However, additional input, expertise, inspiration and work will be needed in order to break the traditional framework established by Big Tech. From community outreach to legal support, from developers, to researchers and end users, we welcome all forms of support.

I don’t read that F-droid will force ads on F-Droid on users any time soon. I can imagine F-Droid will continue to exist as it is but I could be wrong.

Tested playing a video with an Invidious instance right now and it worked. Did you try another instance ?

There’s more to it. The mono-culture is one thing, but rolling out the update to millions of computers on the same days sounds like a bad idea.

Fun fact in 2008, with nuclear submarines, the mono-culture was not that bad yet.

It’s interesting to note the UK went with a Windows XP variant and not Windows Vista, which is marketed as the more reliable OS. The USA never made the same calculations: The American Navy runs on Linux.

Big fan of Cantata here :)

It was forked this year and the new developer kept using the original name.

• https://github.com/nullobsi/cantata

• https://flathub.org/apps/dog.unix.cantata.Cantata

I guess the important thing is in the unique versus total in for example 200 fonts and 150 unique metrics found.

There’s a summary here with some Tor browser findings : https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/18097#note_2961761

Tor has noscript automatically enabled no?

There’s three security settings via NoScript in Tor browser. The default has JS enabled.

Disable javascript, trying to get around fingerprinting with javascript enabled is an exercise in futility, and is especially risky with something as heavily monitored as tor.

I like disabling JS myself for some web browsing but this can make fingerprinting easier because most people do enable JS, and I’ve read that with JS disabled certain things still can be detected through CSS files.

For web browsing i2p is still much slower for me than with Tor these days.

💯

Would using a blue-tooth keyboard make sense ?

That looks neat and useful. <nitpick mode on> It is an Android wrapper around rclone not rsync.<nitpick mode off> Thanks for sharing.

EDIT: I kinda forgot to actually mention my problem. When booting nornall, I get stuck at a lonely white blinking cursor on a black screen, so startx seems to make some problems. I enter a TTY and run startx and this is what I get when running startx:

output of startx

What was the output ? It is not visible for me here.

• Were you using startx successfully before ?
• Or are you reverting to trying startx and you did use some graphical display manager like gdm, sddm or lightdm before ?
• Could it be a disk space problem ? If you run out of space trouble can happen with various applications.
• Can you boot from a previous kernel (At the GRUB or systemd boot menu) and see what happens ?