Zedstrian

Any form of age verification is a violation of user privacy.

Stremio settings can be configured and add-ons installed from any web, mobile, or desktop version of Stremio, including the Android app and the Linux flatpak. Stremio settings sync to the Stremio server to let you sync add-ons between devices, just like Omni and Vidi (another Stremio clone) do on iOS via iCloud.

In that case, I recommend getting the Onn 4K Pro for 75 CAD and following the guide I wrote here. Same process with Stremio, except that it works better on Android, and you can also easily use YouTube ad-free with SmartTube.

There’s cheaper Android devices out there, including cheaper versions of the Onn (Onn FHD for 39 CAD and Onn 4K for 53 CAD), though if possible, I recommend getting the 4K Pro for its higher specs if you decide to go this route.

They have everything to lose if other countries provide support to the U.S. Iran is already infringing upon Oman’s sovereignty by stopping ships from transiting the straight through its territorial waters. Not allowing neutral third parties to use the straight bribe-free incentives otherwise neutral countries to side against it.

StreamEast still seems to be up.

The U.S. is in the wrong for starting the war, but Iran placing a toll on 30 percent of the world’s oil will only further convince other countries to side against it.

Assuming you have an iPhone, unless your main reason for using IPTV is live sports, I’d suggest Stremio with a Debrid service instead, as Debrid services typically have more VOD content available. Several Debrid services are available, but Real-Debrid (~25.54 CAD per 180 days) seems to have the largest library of cached content.

Since Stremio itself isn’t available on the Apple App Store anymore, Omni is a suitable alternative (one-time ~13.82 CAD cost). You would then install it on both your iPhone and Apple TV (configuring it on your phone, with the settings syncing to the Apple TV) and install the Streaming Catalogs add-on (for recommendations based on other streaming services) and Torrentio to fetch content from the Debrid service.

As Torrentio and free add-ons similar to it at times becomes unresponsive under high load, Debridio is a paid (~13.82 CAD per year) alternative if reliability is essential. Personally I prefer Torrentio’s results, but keep Debridio as a backup.

Every APK installation from outside of the Play Store gives an installation warning. It’s unnecessary and deliberately trying to make such installations seem less secure in comparison.

A beneficial warning would highlight the many privacy risks in installing apps from the Play Store instead of privacy-respecting alternatives from F-Droid.

The APK installation process is already more inconvenient than it should be, and now it will be getting even worse. There should be no difference in installing an APK via Google Play versus any other method.

The fact that the process will still have a ‘security’ warning each and every time after the 24 hour wait period shows that even for “advanced users” they want to make it as inconvenient as possible while claiming to still be keeping Android open.

People should be switching to Mastodon with how clear the coming enshittification is. User data is valuable, and the way ATProto siloes data from multiple platforms using the protocol encourages them to entrench the dominance of the official Bluesky PDS to maximize data collection. With $100 million in venture capital, Bluesky is in no way incentivized to meaningfully decentralize its platform.

Before subscriptions or advertising turn it into just another Twitter clone, users should be migrating to Mastodon.

Making users wait 24 hours doesn’t improve security; it’s an anti-competitive change designed to make the Google Play store seem like less of a hassle in comparison.

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The far right criticizes NATO when they either don’t do “enough” by their standards (even though NATO is purely a defensive alliance), or “too much” by defending against Russian aggression.

Counter-probe the U.S. for forced labor in the American federal and state prison systems.

When you can’t trust that the votes, the comments, and the engagement you’re seeing are real, you’ve lost the foundation a community platform is built on.

Reddit and Twitter are filled to the brim with spambots and remain successful. The lack of distinction between real and fake content serves to attract marketers and propagandists to such platforms, with most users remaining due to the network effect. With its venture capitalist funding, Digg would be just as willing to benefit from spam if it held market dominance, and thus only distributed Fediverse platforms like Lemmy or Mastodon are viable solutions.

Generative AI products in general need to be better regulated. With more and more consumers trusting the output of LLMs, companies can use them to collect more consumer data than ever before and infuse marketing and propaganda into LLM outputs with no distinction, to the detriment of the genuine sources of information upon which they depend.

Penalties that are lower than profits encourage companies to rob consumers again in the future.

They are losing in the context of not being able to benefit from those resources themselves at a later point.

Gr0lum shouldn’t have revealed the IP addresses of YGG moderators and could have handled aspects of the leak better, but the YGG admin’s rebuttal post is undermined by disgusting transphobia:

The rules of the competing tracker, set up by these same individuals, clearly show their true colors: anyone who doesn’t buy into their woke ideological vision isn’t welcome. “LGBTQI+ phobias” are placed on the same level as fascism or racism, and any “debate” on the subject is purely and simply forbidden. In other words, if you’re not comfortable with the idea of dad putting on mom’s wig, you’re not welcome on their platform.

Preventing Iran from acquiring a bomb is one of Trump’s stated war aims

Something that could have been achieved through continued negotiations, resulting in far fewer lives lost and less money wasted. Assassinating Iran’s leaders and threatening to invade only serves to bolster their justifications for seeking nuclear weapons in the first place.