diff --git a/README.md b/README.md deleted file mode 100644 index 8deab9c..0000000 --- a/README.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,67 +0,0 @@ -``` - /$$ /$$ /$$ /$$ /$$$$$$$ /$$$$$$ /$$$$$$$ -| $$$ /$$$| $$ /$$/| $$__ $$ /$$__ $$| $$__ $$ -| $$$$ /$$$$| $$ /$$/ | $$ \ $$| $$ \__/| $$ \ $$ -| $$ $$/$$ $$| $$$$$/ | $$$$$$$ | $$$$$$ | $$ | $$ -| $$ $$$| $$| $$ $$ | $$__ $$ \____ $$| $$ | $$ -| $$\ $ | $$| $$\ $$ | $$ \ $$ /$$ \ $$| $$ | $$ -| $$ \/ | $$| $$ \ $$| $$$$$$$/| $$$$$$/| $$$$$$$/ -|__/ |__/|__/ \__/|_______/ \______/ |_______/ -``` - -_Because selling out is bad_ - -## How to use - -MKBSD comes in two variants! Node.js and Python. - -### Running in Node.js - -1. Ensure you have Node.js installed. -2. Run `node mkbsd.js` -3. Wait a little. -4. All wallpapers are now in a newly created `downloads` subfolder. - -### Running in Python - -1. Ensure you have Python installed. -2. Ensure you have the `aiohttp` Python package installed (`pip install aiohttp`). -3. Run `python mkbsd.py` -4. Wait a little. -5. All wallpapers are now in a newly created `downloads` subfolder. - -## FAQ - -### Q: What's the story behind this? - -On September 24th, 2024, well-known tech YouTuber MKBHD released Panels, a wallpaper app that: - -- Had insanely invasive, unjustified tracking including for location history and search history. -- Charged artists a predatory 50% commission (even Apple takes only 30% for app purchases). -- Forced you to watch two ads for every wallpaper that you wanted to download, and then only letting you download it in SD. -- Gatekept all HD wallpapers behind a **fifty dollars a year subscription**. -- Had many wallpapers that were essentially AI-generated slop or badly edited stock photos. - -Especially given MKBHD's previous criticism of substandard companies and products, people justifiably got upset given that this looked like a pretty blatant grift and cash-grab that is exploitative of the fan base that's trusted his editorial integrity over the past fifteen years. However, on the same day, MKBHD wrote a post doubling down on the app. - -### Q: Aren't you stealing from artists by running this script? - -MKBSD accesses publicly available media through the Panels app's own API. It doesn't do anything shady or illegal. The real problem here is Panels and MKBHD's complete inability to provide a secure platform for the artists that they're ~~exploiting~~ working with. Any other app could have avoided the issues that make MKBSD possible had it been engineered competently. - -## License - -``` - DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE - Version 2, December 2004 - - Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar - - Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified - copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long - as the name is changed. - - DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE - TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION - - 0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO. -```