It is their goal. Peter Thiel and his ilk want governments to be replaced by corporations, and the best path to that is to make governments look incompetent.
The GOP has been doing the same thing for decades, so they could argue for privatization. The desperately want their buddies in corpland to be able to make much more than the equivalent government services are charging. Government services are by definition non-for-profit and that kills them.
Do you mean the iOS YT app? It's at most three, two if you allow a swipe. Swipe down on the video (moves it to a smaller view in the lower-right) > tap the X in the upper right of the video. Or tap the video (to bring up controls) > tap the down-arrow in the upper left (moves to the same smaller view) > tap the same X in the corner.
I just tried on an iPad, so it's possible it's a different experience, but it was only 3: swipe down (exit's fullscreen) > swipe down (same flow as before) > X in the corner.
I am using YouTube website, on Firefox, GrapheneOS. If I click on youtube logo, it will close the video.
what am I missing from not using the app? It also continues playing when phone closed/black screen
Very cool. I just started using AI to do something far simpler. I will definitely check out your site.
I had restarted guitar after a 45 yr absence of playing. Took lessons for 9 months and progressed well, but hit a wall. I was going to look toward AI for help getting over the wall what you did looks promising. Thanks!
Google is known to make user facing A/B testing whenever they feel like it.
They can one day decide to rearrange the Gmail interface to absurd levels by removing the TO field or replacing everything with a big Gemini button. Then push it out without any internal testing to half of the planet, and suddenly you are doing IT support for grandma who is convinced North Korean spies have hacked into her email...
The way most people feel, there's no choices of not having bad actors at the top. Just a choice between a greater evil and a lesser evil. There's is vehement disagreement about which evil is lesser and which greater. Not not disagreement that they both suck.
We need an electoral system that makes both evils vulnerable to a not-evil.
> [if Biden had the authority to fire DeJoy] it might have meant Trump could have fired Jerome Powell.
Annoyingly/ironically, Trump seized the power to arbitrarily fire folks like DeJoy anyway, after the ruling in Trump v. Slaughter. [0] While the Federal Reserve was excepted from that, the exception doesn't seem to be based in law as much as the conservative SC justices trying to save Trump from hurting himself.
In other words, holding back didn't do much. In fact, if Biden had tried to fire DeJoy and been slapped down, maybe that would have made it harder for Trump to do the same. Even this Supreme Court might hesitate to completely reverse course on its own decision from a couple years back.
Emacs user… wow, didn’t know any of that. Was at UCB 80-84. Switched to Gosling’s emacs in 82ish, GNU in 83 while rms was visiting UCB. He shared Prof Fateman’s grad student office. Wild times.
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