• Teknikal@anarchist.nexus
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          2 days ago

          You may have been on the version that was possibly exploited he stopped updates to that one and advised people to manually install the fixed one.

          I think he was being paranoid though, he did it because his PC was hacked and there’s no evidence anything was actually compromised on Smarttube.

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            2 days ago

            Might could. I’m not up on the happenings. I just turned it on last night to watch cartoon hell and it just kept refreshing the video and never starting.

            But once I installed the beta it’s been working like a dream. Maybe I should delete the stable version and try again, but it’s working now and I’m incredibly lazy.

            Also didn’t know it was one person’s project. You know if they got a “buy me a coffee” thing or anything set up?

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              1 day ago

              Not sure I know the guy is Ukrainian and it’s impressive he gets so many updates out considering. But yeah I only know of the scare mainly because of reddit making a huge deal about it and claiming the sky was falling etc.

              But yeah I think the github is about the only way to contact him really.