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NewPipe is incredible. If Google ever stops signing apps like that, I'll be switching to a Linux phone.
as soon as they have a map app that works with car play i'm switching to linux phone.
Days of just getting data off the web are coming to an end as everything requires a full browser running thousands of lines of obfuscated js code now. So instead of a website giving me that 1kb json that could be cached now I start a full browser stack and transmit 10 megabytes through 100 requests, messing up your analytics and security profile and everyone's a loser. Yay.
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Don’t worry! Ads are coming to AI. The big AI push next will be context, your context all the time. Your phone will “help” and get all your data to OpenAI… “It looks like you went for a run today? Good job, you deserve a treat! Studies show a little ice cream after a long run is effectively free calories! It just so happens the nearest Dairy Queen is running a promotion just for the next 30 minutes. I’m getting you d…
It would not be that much of a problem if ads promoted healthy and tasty food but they will probably promote an ice-cream made from a powder and chemicals emulating taste of berries rather than from milk and fresh-picked berries.
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Identical to Chrome except the part where Chrome uses os-level sandboxing on top. V8 exploits are common, Deno sandboxing by itself is not a good idea if you are executing arbitrary code.
We are comparing to situation where the alternative is nothing. Maybe we just should remove locks from the doors because someone has lockpicked door somewhere.
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the control changes sound like you might have gotten caught in some kind of a-b testing
They flop back and forth at a high frequency though. I can hit all three cases in five minutes and it's been like that for months. Also there is never a sensible reason to offer video speeds as a combo-box popup of all options from .05x to 4.00x. It's like three times the vertical size of my screen.
Don’t get me started on the “highest quality” account setting absolutely never selecting 4K options when available. They simply have to try to save the bandwidth money by nesting quality options a couple taps away. (A userscript fixes this on desktop and even in Safari iOS/iPadOS, but I don’t deserve the quality I’m paying for if I use their native app.) [Privileged rant over!]
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And by "not many" you really mean zero competitors. (before you ask: Vimeo is getting sold to an enshitification company)
Those "zero" include: Rumble, Odysee, Dailymotion, Twitch, Facebook watch... etc. And a decent list here: https://ideaexplainers.com/video-sites-like-youtube/
Not actually heard of the first two, what's their USP?
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I was talking to "my friend" about how I'm annoyed my calendar duplicates holidays because it imports from multiple calendars and he asked me "what value" would be provided if this was solved. Confused I said it pushes things off so I can't read events. He clarified he meant monetary value... We're both programmers so we're both know we're talking about a one line regex... I know quite a number of people like this an…
What did you tell him was the monetary value? Let's say there are like 5 holidays per year that result in days where some people have holidays but others do not, so business meetings happen that day that get missed. Let's say you have a 100 million people using this calendar software. Let's say 0.5 percent of those are in the executive class. Furthermore, let's say 10% of them miss a meeting due to this UI issue. Tha…
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What about the auto translated titles? It also happens for chapters in the video... Sames languages as you. It drives me nuts because the translations are almost always wrong.
This “feature” amazes me. It is badly done and a bad idea. I haver never watched a dubbed video so why show me a translated title? It’s also surprising, Google has plenty ESL employees on staff.
I’m a paying YouTube premium subscriber. Last weekend, I wanted to download something so I can watch it on my way in the train. The app got stuck at “waiting for download..” on my iPad. Same on iPhone. Restart did not work. I gave up after an hour (30 mins hands on trying stuff, 30 mins waiting for it to fix itself). Downloaded the video using yt-dlp, transferred it to my USB c flash drive, and watched it from that.…