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Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo

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Post by namibj »

dec0dedab0de wrote: post #338
graton wrote: post #290

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> my phone doesn't have a QR reader. It is possible it does. The default photo app on Android is a QR code reader, at least on Google Pixel phones. I open the photo app and then point it at the QR code. After a moment or two text appears which allows me to open the QR code link. I only realized this in the last month or two...

I have a CAT s61, it comes with it's own camera app. I used to be able to do it with the camera app on previous phones that I broke, which is why I got a rugged phone. (also the IR camera and laser pointer.) I would just install one, but at a glance, all of the QR code apps seem like scams, and I haven't cared enough to do any research.

good-old `ZXing` ( https://github.com/zxing/zxing ) does the job for me nicely, supports non-QR codes, and contains practically zero BS. The only downside IMO is the forcefully-narrowed scan window, which can cause complications with extremely large QR codes, as the pixels get a little blurry and decoding gets harder for the software.

Edit: you can find it on Fdroid or probably on the project site/page. It's not getting updates, but why would my QR scanner need those, anyways..... also Google doesn't want it to be published anymore, iirc due to it using relatively ancient APIs.

Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo

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Post by causi »

Pxtl wrote: post #233
PragmaticPulp wrote: post #109

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> I wonder why sharing of links is so unpopular It’s because the most active parts of Reddit’s user base prefer it this way. Reddit has become about rapid-fire content consumption without leaving the site. Following a link and actually reading an article for 5-10 minutes isn’t as exciting as rapidly consuming a few videos, a few screenshots, and a few self posts along with the top comments for the most interesting on…

Imho, part of this is an industry failure to provide an interoperable way to share documents that meets the needs of the modern web - a way to copy documents by-value instead of by-reference that runs in the browser, and can be composed into an existing website. We made sharing images dead simple. You can copy and paste them around. Download them and upload them. You can copy the hyperlink and the target site can eit…

Embedding gifs is getting harder as well. I wish I could spit in the cereal of whomever at Google decided videos need to show up in image search. Even when you search for a gif you saw fifteen years ago you have to sort through a dozen webm or gifv or mp4 versions of it before finding one you can actually embed with an [img] tag.

Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo

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Post by [deleted] »

CuriousCosmic wrote: post #319
lanfeust6 wrote: post #238

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> You can change your sex with a sex reassignment surgery. You can surgically change genitals and pump hormones, the gametes don't change, nor chromosomes. > you are the sex your characteristics match. You're conflating gender and sex. Even for medical reasons alone, biological sex is an important consideration. We can show our appearance any way we like.

You aren't necessarily though which is the point. If you medication to regulate your hormones in the way a female's hormones would be regulated, your body largely acts as if it was female. The significant majority of sex related differences from a medical perspective are almost entirely hormone driven. he exception to this rule are genetic disorders and sex-organ specific health considerations. The genetic disorders…

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Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo

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Post by archduck »

RileyJames wrote: post #161
kevincox wrote: post #90

Once upon a time Reddit was a link aggregator. You would post a link and the author would get credit. You could save the link without Reddit. But Reddit is moving towards first party content. Not only has the site added native photo and video upload support but many communities disallow external content. Requiring a reupload or a screenshot. This not only removes the link to the actual creator but is also a nightmare…

Maybe a coincidence, but my completely non-technical sister called me this week to pitch her ‘app idea’ (feature) “screenshots should have the link embedded in it”. And I had to explain that it’s probably not possible, except if ios or Android implemented it directly (more so iOS, I’m not up familiar with android). And ultimately that’s sad, because it should 1. Be possible to implement and 2. Should already have bee…

Bing's image search still lets you view the image or copy the image url directly from the search result.

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Post by healthysurf »

BoxOfRain wrote: post #5

I really don’t miss Reddit, I’ve deleted the accounts I had there and am much better off for it. I’m not sure when the real tipping point was but that platform has really lost its way.

Shameless self promotion but I'm working on an extension to help filter out crud. I'm only in day 2 of dev work but I plan to have controls to select which categories you want removed so you never have to see political, angry, or controversial content on reddit (or any other major social media or news site):

http://healthy.surf/

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Post by spc476 »

cloverich wrote: post #206
konschubert wrote: post #143

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> because recipes on non-reddit websites always seem to be gated behind multiple auto playing videos and the author's entire life story Thank SEO for that.

I went down that (thought) rabbit hole and it was a bit sad to realize the cat and mouse game at play, where content creators on sites (such as recipe sites) are optimizing for search results, and intentionally burying the searched for content in a way that the search engine has difficulty optimizing for, so promote their own ads (more scroll -> more ads). Then once people begin obtaining the info they want from said…

I recently came across the search engine Marginalia [1], which ranks web sites based on the ratio of text to HTML tags (more text, better score), with a very heavy penalization for JavaScript.

[1] https://search.marginalia.nu/

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Post by jdgoesmarching »

Breza wrote: post #241
theshrike79 wrote: post #118

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TikTok seems to be the #1 source for video content nowadays, the algorithm is just uncanny how fast it learns what you like.

Agreed! I downloaded the app, saw 10 minutes of teenage girls dancing, and deleted it. My friend talked me into giving it another chance. After a few hours, it was consistently delivering videos that were exactly my taste. I've never had such a good discovery experience.

I love when people complain that Tik Tok is just teenagers dancing. That tells me you haven’t really spent time on the app or the algorithm has determined that dancing teens keeps you engaged.

Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo

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Post by jdgoesmarching »

JohnWhigham wrote: post #227
nicbou wrote: post #3

When a company grows large enough, the APIs and user-generated tools that propelled its growth get treated like a threat. They tend to vertically integrate and keep anyone from using their data.

We'll see how much longer the API lasts. reddit knows that if they kill that, they may trigger a digg-style user migration. It's also why they keep the "old" version of the site around.

I’ve been saying for years that the degradation and eventual removal of their API is inevitable. Their app keeps getting worse, their business keeps relying on the ads that make it worse, and every complaint thread is free advertising for other apps.

Re: An impersonator issued a fake Reddit take down notice against SaveVideo

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Post by tvprod1203 »

RileyJames wrote: post #161
kevincox wrote: post #90

Once upon a time Reddit was a link aggregator. You would post a link and the author would get credit. You could save the link without Reddit. But Reddit is moving towards first party content. Not only has the site added native photo and video upload support but many communities disallow external content. Requiring a reupload or a screenshot. This not only removes the link to the actual creator but is also a nightmare…

Maybe a coincidence, but my completely non-technical sister called me this week to pitch her ‘app idea’ (feature) “screenshots should have the link embedded in it”. And I had to explain that it’s probably not possible, except if ios or Android implemented it directly (more so iOS, I’m not up familiar with android). And ultimately that’s sad, because it should 1. Be possible to implement and 2. Should already have bee…

> And I had to explain that it’s probably not possible, except if ios or Android implemented it directly (more so iOS, I’m not up familiar with android).

PDFs with embedded bitmaps can actually do that (and are currently supported widely, but PDFs are a terrible format with way too much attack surface). Same for any other composite html+whatever formats like epub. Standardizing a non-book format name and a spec that mandates nothing more than bare xhtml & image support with no JS or CSS interpreters would probably be quite sufficient.

> duckduckgo

Duckduckgo caches/proxies the images on its desktop site, which is useful when it gives results for sites that are since dead. Often at a lower resolution, but that's what reverse image searching is for.

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Post by benjaminjosephw »

ineptech wrote: post #291
kevincox wrote: post #90

Once upon a time Reddit was a link aggregator. You would post a link and the author would get credit. You could save the link without Reddit. But Reddit is moving towards first party content. Not only has the site added native photo and video upload support but many communities disallow external content. Requiring a reupload or a screenshot. This not only removes the link to the actual creator but is also a nightmare…

Once upon a time, neat/surprising/weird/amazing sites were part of the currency of the internet. "Check out this link" was a welcome message. Sites full of links to neat stuff were really popular. You tried to fill your chat app with friends who consistently linked you to neat stuff. Now, no more. "Check out this link" is not an enticing offer, it's assigning homework. I don't know if it's because neat stuff is no lo…

Maybe its also because good content is more frustrating to actually get to. Compared to a decade ago there's a lot more friction on a first visit to a site. All the marketing pop-ups, paywalls and surveillance consent boxes are a hassle and page load times seemed to have gotten worse. Maybe we've been gradually conditioned to avoid those frustrations unless its really worth it.
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