New Privacy Keyboard By Rossmann

4:18 This is so spot on. For ten years, every time I post a video with technical content or repairing something, I will lose two to three hundred subscribers the day that I post it. It will get three percent the viewership of other content. Yet people will still scream that they missed the days of me posting it. What people do and what people say are so very different and separate from one another. was a pleasure to be mentioned on your program. Have a lovely rest of your day!

PrimeTime said: "One less vector of people spying on me." Youtube auto subtitles said: "One less vector of people buying on me" 💀

Rossmann is the best. Loved his response to mkbhd's interview with Apple about repair.

I think this claim that people don't want deep technical content on youtube is at odds with 3blue1brown being a successful channel. I think what people want is creative and intuitive graphical representations of technical content - not chalkboard lectures

I don't always agree with Rossman, but he fights the good fight, and is very articulate. What's not to love? Edit: I used to watch him a lot, I like his takes, but his style not always. He has a way of being a bit too convoluted (or maybe repetitive?) + presenting things without any room for self doubt or self reflection. It does not create a climate that encourages discussion, only agreement. Writing this, I realize the pressure from people who immediately wanted me to justify myself about specifically what I disliked. Such defensive suspicion is actually quite telling haha😅 But just to be clear, "I don't always agree" here does mean "mostly agree". I have no noteworthy complaints about the guy.

When I was kid, I thought I was legally obligated to read every EULA. Learnt a lot from that misunderstanding

I’m a Haskell guy; the only ads on my machine are monads

I'd enjoy more Rossmann coverage. He can be longwinded, but he's incredibly passionate about Right to Ownership and Right to Repair. His views on adblock and piracy are nuanced while having a very simple takeaway: Companies should be more focused on improving their products so that it's easier to pay for it than to pirate it.

There was an ISP in South Africa some years back that wrote in their T&C's "The first person to read line will get $500 from us." Took months for someone to claim it.

12:10 you can de-google your phone, and ironically the easiest phones to de-google are google pixel phones

Interesting coincident that this is the only video from ThePrimeTime that doesn’t show up in my subscription feed. YouTube really loves Rossmann.

futo keyboard has no futa theme

The level of control that governments and companies, especially the American government and companies, impose over the population is, in some sense, incomprehensible, as in the normal person would not grasp the depth of it. Yesterday I went back to the US and in the boarding I didn't even need to show my passport, because they had a new system of face scanning and we were all being recognized as we were approaching the door to go to the tarmac. There is something so surreal to see the side screen show your blurry face taken with what looks like a 90s webcam, but it is still able to show your passport photo, your name, etc. It was honestly scary. But this is the new normal.

It’s not the ads themselves. It’s: 1. the privacy violations to target and present them; 2. the exceptionally obnoxious, often crippling, ways they’re presented; and 3. the incentive to make them more obnoxious to drive “ad free” subscriptions. E.g., Hulu, where only the highest tier subscription has fewer ads. (Granted the ads are probably more about contracts than Hulu’s own preferences.)

I think you got the conclusion backwards. I'm more inclined to trust someone who's selling me something at a "fair" price, as opposed to someone who's trying to give me something for free, or close to it.

I've been using this app a 2 weeks or so, works faster than google keyboard that I have used before. I'm really suprised but that's probably just because it doesn't have as much bloat and tracking. Speach to text uses a version of whisper from ClosedAI and prediction model is an LLM with architecture similar to llama that has sth. like 40 thousand parameters. Fine tuning with user data is off by default, but when on, it fine tunes a LORA when phone is plugged in to a charger and battery is full and then uses it for better text prediction. All this info and more is in their docs.

Blocking an ad isn't about someone stopping someone from getting paid. It is about controlling the data into your equipment.

I spent 3 weeks watching a 9 hour video of deep technical content

Prime is wrong about how we watch technical videos. Usually I watch it once, and then try to apply it to my work. If I have trouble then I won't re-watch the video, instead I'll look at the references in the video description, because the video is usually much higher level, or they are implementing an algorithm in javascript and I'm doing it in Python. Prime, you're doing younger developers a disservice by making such generalisations and yelling at your chat.

primegen is keeping FUTO mainstream, very cool