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Post by sneak »

anonytrary wrote: post #45
donatj wrote: post #7

I was telling a friend recently about how there was this "golden age" when you could access all sorts of free APIs, and how I still long for this time. I remember the public Netflix API, Twitter APIs and Flickr API with particular fondness. My personal site was a big mashup of all of my data. I also abused the hell out of Yahoo Pipes - I would run RSS feeds through like 15 different languages with Babelfish before ba…

I remember when you could just stream in every tweet and reddit comment ever posted with a few lines of code. There used to be dedicated API methods for doing so. Now, there's all sorts of namespacing, rate limiting, pagination, and upper bounds on data access that make this impossible, or at least infeasible.

Twitter wants to capitalize on the fact that tweets are massively public, and they also want to capitalize on the fact that they are not.

Researchers are passing around lists of tweet IDs ("dehydrated", they call them) that can be "rehydrated" (that is, turned back into full tweets) if you have the right permission from twitter to do so.

The whole setup is really shameful.

It would be de-facto illegal to build a "Google for Twitter" today. I settled on doing it for ActivityPub/Mastodon because it's less likely I'll get sued into oblivion for creating a search engine that way.

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Post by banana_giraffe »

anonytrary wrote: post #45
donatj wrote: post #7

I was telling a friend recently about how there was this "golden age" when you could access all sorts of free APIs, and how I still long for this time. I remember the public Netflix API, Twitter APIs and Flickr API with particular fondness. My personal site was a big mashup of all of my data. I also abused the hell out of Yahoo Pipes - I would run RSS feeds through like 15 different languages with Babelfish before ba…

I remember when you could just stream in every tweet and reddit comment ever posted with a few lines of code. There used to be dedicated API methods for doing so. Now, there's all sorts of namespacing, rate limiting, pagination, and upper bounds on data access that make this impossible, or at least infeasible.

This reminds me of an endpoint that Google used to run. It was a never ending stream of RSS feeds. Anyone could subscribe (it was just a never ending HTTP GET, if I remember right), and be told which blogs had updated in near real time.

Nowadays you'd need to sign up for an API key, probably pay some amount of money, and provide twenty different forms of contact to use something like that. That's assuming it was allowed to exist in the first place, since it might take views away from google.com.

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#93

Post by joshspankit »

donatj wrote: post #7

I was telling a friend recently about how there was this "golden age" when you could access all sorts of free APIs, and how I still long for this time. I remember the public Netflix API, Twitter APIs and Flickr API with particular fondness. My personal site was a big mashup of all of my data. I also abused the hell out of Yahoo Pipes - I would run RSS feeds through like 15 different languages with Babelfish before ba…

It surprises me that we don’t have crypto-based API micro-transactions yet.

Even if you had to pay 1 satoshi for 10 queries, it would go a long way towards making APIs viable long-term.

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Post by snisarenko »

sneak wrote: post #91
anonytrary wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember when you could just stream in every tweet and reddit comment ever posted with a few lines of code. There used to be dedicated API methods for doing so. Now, there's all sorts of namespacing, rate limiting, pagination, and upper bounds on data access that make this impossible, or at least infeasible.

Twitter wants to capitalize on the fact that tweets are massively public, and they also want to capitalize on the fact that they are not. Researchers are passing around lists of tweet IDs ("dehydrated", they call them) that can be "rehydrated" (that is, turned back into full tweets) if you have the right permission from twitter to do so. The whole setup is really shameful. It would be de-facto illegal to build a "Goo…

Hi sneak,

I am working on some fediverse aggregator projects. Let me know if you want to talk.

https://mastodonia.club

https://pixelfed.club

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Post by tialaramex »

icebraining wrote: post #87
dheera wrote: post #61

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Another downvote? Really? For factual information? https://vimeo.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000817648-Rep... Geez, HN has become worse than reddit.

Maybe they aren't downvoting for the fact, but they disagree with you that tying to karma solves the problem.

Yup. A lot of Youtube abuse starts with hijacking.

Lots of popular Youtube channels are by people who aren't very technically savvy. You can easily have 10 000 subscribers while only barely following how to make a video and upload it if there are 10 000 people out there who want that particular niche content. 100 000 is less common but not rare.

That's a juicy target for a hijacker. The hijacker tricks the channel owner into giving them control. "Hi, YouTube Services here, great to see you're so successful. Can you go fill out this form and we'll upgrade you to Elite status". A day later, locked out of their account and unsure what's happening, the channel owner is frantic. If they're lucky they know other Youtubers and can get control back. Otherwise... they may just walk away.

Meanwhile their subscribers are surprised to find that they're now subscribed to "Crypto investor update" or "Apple Genuis Bar" or whatever and it's bombarding them with videos they don't want.

Every feature you give the channel is a feature hijackers will try to use to maximise their profitability. If they can replace old videos, they will, if they can edit them, they will. They can change titles and hide stuff so they do that immediately.

If you're a channel owner: Buy two FIDO Security Keys. Use them to secure any accounts related to the channel then put one somewhere safe (maybe literally a safe if you have one) and keep the other like your house keys. Unlike other 2FA technologies, FIDO keys can't be phished. So short of you being dumb enough to literally Fedex your key to a bad guy (Do I need to say not to do that? Do not do that) there's no way to get tricked into letting them control your channel.

But until we get to a world where this sort of defence is ubiquitous, every Youtube API feature has to be considered as to how you'll unwind it if the channel was hijacked.

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Post by nrdvana »

slg wrote: post #53
wil421 wrote: post #29

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I can go find NES games and Gameboy games in my parents basement. If the NES worked I could play it or find a knock off on Amazon. Pretty sure I have a Doom floppy. Kids these days will be lucky to remember their favorite mobile games. Let alone be able to play them. Will they ever have an iOS or Android equivalent of ROMs?

Some of those NES and Gameboy games might not work as originally intended. Lots of them had internal batteries in order to save information and those batteries are starting to die. Floppies from that era and early CDs are also at the age in which they are likely to degrade. So while some of this old tech might have a longer shelf life than tech today, as the video says, entropy will get us all in the end.

Replacing the battery isn’t hard. There are plenty of youtube instructional videos on it.

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Post by anchpop »

function_seven wrote: post #67
function_seven wrote: post #58

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> Kids these days will be lucky to remember their favorite mobile games. Let alone be able to play them. I'm already feeling the pain of this. There was a game for iOS called GeoDefense (and a sister game, GeoDefense Swarm). To this day these were my favorite games on the phone. But iOS 10 ended support for one of them, then a later OS update bricked the other one. The developer hasn't updated these games to work in…

Sorry for self-reply , but hopefully someone out there can point me to some similar tower-defense games? Everything I see on the app store now is bloated with graphics or IAP and shitty gameplay. If you're familiar with the GeoDefense games[0], you know what I'm talking about. [0] http://www.criticalthoughtgames.com/geodefense.html

Mindustry and Infinitode are both lots of fun

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Post by rplst8 »

cortesoft wrote: post #78
cjhopman wrote: post #66

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There are 3 big problems with open APIs 1. they enable people to do things that other people think shouldn't be done 2. people get upset at companies when (1) happens 3. people get upset at companies for removing or restricting apis when, or in fear of, both (1) and (2).

I think you are missing what is probably the biggest factor: they can be very expensive to run if successful. If you create a popular API, people are going to find creative uses for it, and because they can, by definition, be automated, you can get rapid growth in traffic with not that many users. There is a bit of a 'tragedy of the commons' that goes on, because the people writing apps that consume the API have no i…

Couldn't this all be solved with a p2p network that hosts restful services?

Re: This Video Has X Views

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Post by sneak »

snisarenko wrote: post #94
sneak wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Twitter wants to capitalize on the fact that tweets are massively public, and they also want to capitalize on the fact that they are not. Researchers are passing around lists of tweet IDs ("dehydrated", they call them) that can be "rehydrated" (that is, turned back into full tweets) if you have the right permission from twitter to do so. The whole setup is really shameful. It would be de-facto illegal to build a "Goo…

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