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Good question! Indeed you can run the challenge code using headless Chromium and it will function [1]. They are constantly updating the challenge however, and may add additional ch…

Nsig/sig - Special tokens which must be passed to API calls, generated by code in base.js (player code). This is what has broken for yt-dlp and other third party clients. Instead o…

In sticking to vanilla HTML/CSS/Javascript for my hobby projects over the past ten years, I've come to enjoy writing "simple" code with minimal dependencies and bare-bones interfac…

A while back I installed uBlock on my grandparents' computer to help them avoid scammy ads. This change will make it more difficult and dangerous, for elderly users to browse the i…

I read both. They are both great but I like the original better. The new edition is accessible but I think the original's prose is beautiful.

The "get in touch" button on blog.rendley.com leads to a 404 page: https://rendley.com/try-for-free

It was pretty straightforward for me to install and use yt-dlp. On a Mac with Homebrew you can do `brew install yt-dlp` to install it in one command. IIRC yt-dlp also provides bina…

The moov contains a list of byte offsets which the player can use to directly access media data. You can skip the moofs and other headers inside by using gaps in the offsets.

Having worked with some MP4 demuxing for my extension [1], I feel the pain. Lots of times I would play the video only to find inexplicable issues such as drifting audio. I highly r…

Great article. I've always thought that pessimistic sci-fi dystopias were on the rise, but it turns out most still have positive endings. The observation about walking out of the t…

Requirements as listed by the article: 1. Browser extension has a wildcard pattern for content script. 2. Content script passes postMessage messages to the background script using …

Really? What browser are you using? Is it up to date?

Most sites still use a player that fetches a ".m3u8" or ".mpd" manifest file. The extension monitors webRequests and triggers when it sees a request to such a file.

Thanks! You can already do that. Open a new tab, and then click the icon to make the player appear. It will fill the whole tab. Then use another tab to find videos on other website…

I have trouble watching things without subtitles. I dislike most video players on websites since they don't give you the option to search for or manually upload subtitles. This and…

I'm sure children can distinguish fiction from reality better than adults give them credit for. Sure, it's possible for a kid to mimic a violent kid's show from time to time. But s…

You won't gain additional momentum from a loose belt. But a loose belt may give your body the chance to slip out. The impulse you feel from a tight belt will be no less than the im…

Biological systems are not "engineered" in the same way a computer is. Computer chips, despite all their complexity, are designed to be understood by humans - they are modular, and…

I've developed some small extensions for fun. A couple of weeks ago I got an email from ExBoost with the subject "Collaboration To Grow Our Extensions." They wanted me to include t…

After reading the books, I thought that there was some sort of underlying political meaning with the way Liu incorporates both philosophy, religion, and real world events (ie, the …

This extension will replace videos on websites with a custom one that use download acceleration to prebuffer as you watch. It works on most websites, including Youtube. Fortuitousl…

The idea that society itself may be a living intelligent organism is fascinating. It's not a revolutionary idea in nature, (eg: the portuguese man o' war is composed of multiple an…

Yep. There are some ridiculous web APIs out there that expose all sorts of things you'd think should remain private. Take the Battery Status API for example [1]. [1] https://develo…

This! It is frustrating that web apps like draw.io can't save to file directly using Firefox. It gets old having to save a new file every time you make a change. Beyond that, the F…

I'll check out the Discord server because I want to see cool stuff other people are making, but I have no intention of seriously marketing my extension. I don't really want it to "…