Yeah, but it sucks, because of the heavy constraints of MV3

VPN over an HTTP proxy then?

Or WireGuard TCP over UDP obfuscation?

Many people just downvote when they see any mention of AI. Unfortunately the Fediverse is pretty stubborn on this topic. That’s why I like the instance I’m on, @db0 is open to AI, and even develops AI tools you can run locally on your machine.

Beautiful

There’s a very similar FOSS alternative that can be self-hosted called Perplexica. You know what’s really funny?

When you ask Perplexity “Perplexity vs Perplexica”, it returns this answer:

Recent evaluations indicate that Perplexica often outperforms Perplexity AI in terms of interaction quality and content relevance. In various tests, Perplexica scored higher in comprehensiveness and user-friendly interactions compared to Perplexity’s different models (Vanilla and Copilot)

and

In summary, while both Perplexica and Perplexity AI aim to improve the search experience through AI technologies, Perplexica stands out as a more flexible and privacy-focused alternative. Its open-source nature allows for greater customization and control, making it suitable for users who prioritize data privacy and adaptability in their search tools.

LOL

Perplexity just acknowledged that it’s worse than its open source competitor

Do they really block all connections to popular cloud providers? That also blocks a bunch of “innocent” websites and services, doesn’t it?

Windows Copilot+ integration

*economically challenged text

You can get a free VPS from AWS or Oracle Cloud and set up Wireguard on it

Not anymore if you use their new sideloading framework… which is only available in the EU

That’s exactly why more people need to leave Reddit and other corporate social media platforms

Wrong instance I guess. Yeah, Lemmy.ml, Lemmygrad and hexbear are toxic as hell, but there are really nice instances out there. I chose dbzer0 and it’s great here. We also have many interesting threads about locally hosted FOSS AI. db0 himself is quite involved in this topic, he’s the initial author of things like AI Horde. Basically everyone on db0 I’ve seen acknowledges the active genocide that’s being conducted by the Israeli fascist government. Other topics on the instance are anarchism and of course piracy.

You know what’s not impossible? Leaving that shit hole and never coming back.

Elon is probably proud of it.

Only in the US unfortunately

I don’t know, but it seems like a fun thing to try out.

The easiest solution is to go to Settings -> Instance and toggle both “Disable Piped proxy” and “Local stream extractions”

If you host your own private instance, it’s less likely to get blocked. But quite a few public instance are having trouble right now.

Grayjay is source-available, but not free & open-source software.

Downloading YouTube videos works, but it’s probably not the desired workflow for most people. It takes up storage space on your disk, and you have to wait for the video to download, before you can watch it. I like Tube Archivist, and use it myself for archiving videos, but I wouldn’t consider it a great solution for just watching videos. I think LibreTube, FreeTube or a self-hosted Invidious instance are better solutions here.

You can easily deploy Invidious on that Mac as well. Just use Docker, Invidious has pretty good documentation for that: https://docs.invidious.io/installation/#docker-compose-method-production

I used to host Invidious like that on a Mac for almost a year, it worked flawlessly

Some instances like inv.nadeko.net still work pretty well

You can also host your own instance at home on a small server or a VPS. You can optionally put it behind a VPN using Gluetun.