refalo

fun fact: they can't reply back to you if you block them. I only found that out because I would get errors trying to reply to people who hate me.

/c/all will definitely show instances like lemmygrad where it's very common

their own modified copy of mercurial fits their needs better

The version I heard was that hg people were way nicer to them and very much willing to help compared to git.

I feel like Linus got a taste of his own medicine dealing with Gtk and Gnome people while developing Subsurface and that caused them to switch to Qt.

• much faster

• proper unicode (and other encodings) support

• automatic recursion (no extra flags needed)

• can search inside compressed files/archives like gz/xz/zip (also see ripgrep-all) for even more archive support)

• honors .gitignore and ignores binary/hidden files

probably a lot more things too

curl is most definitely not developed solely by one person though, it has thousands of contributors. in fact, there is so much red tape around curl that you can't even discuss making a change to it without first writing an RFC and having it approved by a committee.

most basic thing

I don't think you understand what youtube has been doing...

Wouldn't this just draw attention to your yourself and cause the opposite problem?

My library doesn't even have a single computer-related book :(

I just want to have the ability to control the algorithm

I know of at least one selfhosted alternative: https://github.com/chris-lovejoy/YouTube-video-finder

There may be others if you look around.

I'm confused... is your "entire drive" wiped or no?

You might be, but the vast majority of the population would not like it.

Sure one could argue that the content is addictive and they shouldn't want to view that stuff, but that's a separate issue.

we should create an Internet whereby ads don’t exist

I think the main issue with that approach is that it is not commercially sustainable without an alternative source of revenue... and I really don't think people are going to pay money to every website they visit.

Or maybe you are one of the people who consider a capitalist society fundamentally broken and that there is no solution to make that method work long-term. Not saying anyone is right or wrong, and I don't presume to have any answers there either.