glockenspiel

@glockenspiel@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube deletes and strikes Linus Tech Tips video for teaching people how to live without Google. Ft. Louis Rossman⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, people defend Linus and other faces like MKBHD for one huge reason: Parasocial relationships.

  Just look at all the conversation happening in this thread with people defending the figure of Linus (and others). Influencers, even tech influencers, make money because they can monetize those people.

  And Linus appeals primarily to the folks who like thinking of themselves as the tech person in the family or at the office, but really they are no more technical than slotting a stick of RAM into a case on average.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a week⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably the people—accurately—pointing out that Mozilla has also adopted Manifest V3 along with Google. Google is doing it to curtail (“kill”) ad blockers. Mozilla is also now in the advertising game, and secretly began a telemetry program which is opt-out only. And, given how we shouldn’t trust orgs with financial motive, very well could opt you back in with future updates exactly as Microsoft does.

  Plus, their current CEO has a history, and Mozilla as a whole faces dicey times ahead if their Daddy Google is forced to stop buying exclusivity deals by the U.S. government.

  So take your pick I guess.