I think society has evolved to the point where people want to make as much money as possible, so instead of shareware the person creating it charges money.

Also posted on Mastodon / Fediverse: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116200110686604617

I think part of the reason for not caring is that our bosses put unrealistic deadlines on us and force us to get this work done. Going up the ladder, the pressure is put on by the board that wants more profits and all in the short-term.

YouTube does offer RSS feeds for each channel, you just need the channel id.

For example, the RSS feed for the defunctland channel is https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCVo63lb....

I have a list of many youtube channels.

However 2 days ago google marked my page as harmful, so probably not that many will be able to access it.

https://rumca-js.github.io/feeds

I used some strange wording when I read it back, but that's what I meant.

If you use any Block products (including Tidal), make sure to do as much as you can to cost the company more than you pay.

My goal for this year is to cost Tidal / Block at least 2x of what I pay for it (so if I pay $100, make them pay $200).

The reason for this is that the creator wanted to "hack" Google's AI and ChatGPT, see his article at https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260218-i-hacked-chatgpt....

See all the people who submitted that article at https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Ffuture....

Interesting how they talk about all of these estimates or research done by other people, yet don't link to them.

Transcript and full podcast episode are at https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2026/02/19/the-splitting-...

FYI, the HN guidelines state, "Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity." I would encourage you to submit content from others rather than just your own.

I believe when someone says "talk to people" they mean ask them what they currently love and hate about a competitor (to understand what makes yours different and how to attract people), and to gather some users / customers to understand what can be made better (as nothing is perfect at the beginning).