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YouTube screwing itself with adblockers again

I use Firefox and uBlock Origin. Not sure what kind of experience anyone else is having with YouTube, but recently my home page has been empty because I “don’t have watch history turned on”. Okay, fine. I won’t be able to browse suggested videos, and I’ll spend less time on their platform....

dog,

Give piped.video a try. Basically a youtube frontend that isn’t ass.

dog, (edited )

I’ll wait until EU declares Android phones must offer the option of stock AOSP, custom ROM, and OEM AOSP.

Until then, I’m staying the fuck away from Chinese phone brands.

dog, (edited )

The same reason they’re currently going after big corpo for bundling in random shit in OS. Microsoft recently had to remove or make removable a lot of their bloat on Windows. Google recently had to allow search engine selection at first install.

So antitrust legislation.

To further the point: in Chinese brands, this is a NOTORIOUS issue, because they do everything in their power to try stop the user from:

  1. Uninstalling their bloat
  2. Installing any of their competition’s products
  3. Not having a shit ton of hidden trackers, which imo amounts to Spyware, even if you opt out of everything you can.

I know Chinese phone brands sell for low prices because they’re selling Spyware, that dualpurpose as phones.

And if everything was above board, I’d have no issue with that.

Want to fill your “phone” with ads so it pays your loss back in time? Go ahead.

Just let the user disable ALL of it if they so choose.

dog,

Caffeine. For the love of god, why isn’t this drug legalized legislated like Alcohol and Nicotine is?!

dog,

I can’t anymore. Leads to system crashing randomly. 11 works unfortunately.

dog,

Eh, I give it 5 years.

Never say never, because everything is possible given enough time. The only question being how much time.

dog,

Interestingly, and somewhat related, it was tested years ago whether a Robot could bring comfort/social support to lonely pets/elderly.

The results were outstandingly in support, and this is going into actual commercial usage/development as we speak.

dog,

Imo this is why big projects that are borderline like this should use github alternatives, preferably self hosted solutions. This was always going to happen.

dog, (edited )

What we need isn’t browsers. What we need is an universal way to write extensions cross-browser.

Browsers themselves are easy to make. The problem is convincing extension devs to work with yet another codebase.

E: Think of it this way. There’s a lot of open source browsers out there.

Are you using any of them? Probably not.

Would you use one if it doesn’t have for example Bitwarden, Ublock Origin, Sponsorblock, and such mandatory extensions?

Users follow extensions and ease of use; not what’s good for them.

E2: A good project would be a builder extension for VSC for example, which compiles to all supported browsers.

Browser devs would then contribute to said extension via native-made plugins.

Cooperation of two fronts.

dog,

Scenario 1. X11 “works”, wayland doesn’t. Trying to update NVIDIA drivers leads to boot failure.

Scenario 2. Wayland works. Only on igpu. Only via HDMI. Only on one monitor.

Scenario 3. Wayland works on Displayport. Doesn’t even recognize second monitor.

Scenario 4. Everything seems to work. Trying to do GPU passthrough fails.

Scenario 5. IGPU is hogging displayport, despite being connected via HDMI, thus preventing the DGPU passthrough on either HDMI or DP.

dog,

Sadly not sarcastic. Ideal is Radeon handling the base, and NVIDIA being used in passthrough.

They just refuse to cooperate.

dog, (edited )

You can disable it explicitly, yes.

It should be possible to use it with the dgpu.

Edit: You can also prioritize using the iGPU over the dGPU in bios. Maybe that’d work, hmm.

dog,

How would hooking up everything to the GPU be beneficial when it comes to GPU passthrough?

Albeit is it even necessary these days.

dog,

iGPU shares one monitor with the dGPU, but on different protocol, which from what I read online is supported.

It only really needs output when I flick it open.

So maybe it needs a KVM switch instead of trusting the monitors splits.

dog,

Could you elaborate a bit?

Isn’t Proxmox etc. “Gpu less”, as they only use tty instead of anything like a WM or DE?

I’d prefer a “master” / hypervisor running a bunch of VM’s for different purposes.

Whether they be for gaming, pirating, development, pen testing, home automation, porn, or anything else really.

'Course I’d only be running gpu passthrough into a single VM at a time, can’t split a single GPU into 50 passthroughs yet.

dog,

Bookmarking this.

dog,

See, capitalism is good!

When it’s imploding on itself, that is.

dog,

Protip: “It gets better later” isn’t a good way to promote a game.

It has to be good from the start.

If it isn’t and it can’t hook a player, you’ve just lost a customer, who likely just refunded the game as well.

Now personally: I like terraria from start to end. It got a bit boring in the middle. I used to not be able to play it at all because /something/ about the game really triggered my migraines. It doesn’t anymore, and I can play it.

dog,

I was thinking it’s only spam servers, but it might actually just be downtime for hetzner or something.

Instances do not get banned on lemmy. You can run any kind of an instance.

That said, part of this could be providers pruning “fake customers”, aka spammers, scammers, etc, who “paid” for their servers with stolen CC and SSN.

Edit: Someone up to making an uptime map for Lemmy, placing servers on a map based on where they report originating at? This could help seeing if a specific datacenter has downtime.

dog,

Doubt it, that’s usually just a single command on the top level domain. Everything gets kicked out at once.

Edit: Also, suppo.fi also seemed to be down for a bit, and it’s probably in DE hetzner datacenter.

dog, (edited )

Adding an asterisk on the *this particular thing happened quick.

I assume it would, but I don’t know, OP got the statistics.

E: OP had a link, it’s pretty fast drop.

dog,

I mean it’s easy to reimplement entire games if you’ve built it modularly. Just swap your core game logic to run on another library and the game works the same it did before.

Edit: 'course, exceptions exist like if you wrote everything using their proprietary coding language, instead of using something universal.

Edit 2: It MAY still be possible that a translation/compiler exists that’ll run as a plugin in a proprietary engine, and converts it into something universal.

dog,

As I said, it depends on how it’s built. And how proprietqry the engine is.

Unity from what I know supports universal code/mesh/texture formats, but if the devs opted for the “easier to use” proprietary systems- well, that’s a problem.

Now what I don’t know is how easy are scenes to export in Unity. They’re probably built with Blender or something else though in most cases, unless Unity has drastically changed.

dog,

Depends how it’s built.

dog,

Not downplaying the effort, it still takes time. But not impossible.

How you made it all matters in situations like this.

dog,

Well I’d say that was true 5 years ago. Is it still? I’d not be so sure.

Small projects might as well start from scratch.

But projects with years of devtime are best ported.

dog,

This is true, and I vouch for gamedevs to first test other engines to see the differences.

Calculating for the future is extremely important in pretty much everything.

Also I wouldn’t say there would be performance issues, unless you somehow completely screw up coding and compiling said code.

Projects should work on top of a bottom layer, or translation layer as it’s sometimes called; game logic calls for functions from there, instead of directly from the engine. This is also important for code security.

_move_entity might be calling the proprietary unity_move_object with a different reg stack, but when compiled the performance should be +/- 0.

dog,

If you ask me engines should be free for most indies (UE, Godot?), because they’re not making millions. But yeah. I get it’s not feasible for most new devs especially, and senior devs have better things to focus on.

It’s more a code principle you’d stand behind.

dog,

Not untrue, but it helps to adapt your future projects if done in such a way.

It does require more expertise, and it takes more time, thus it’d have to be the first thing done for the project, not something you do after everything’s done already.

dog,

The good ol fashioned, <center><div>hecc</div></center>``div {display: inline-box; text-align: initial}

dog,

Pixel as a phone is good.

Google bad.

But it’s not like other brands are any bit more ethical/pro-consumer.

So buying second-hand is always a goos option.

dog,

So you were looking for Bad Dragons and Good Dungeons, huh. Just wait, someone will mod it all in.

dog,

Probably just no more actually talented people where they were needed. Be it anything from devs to board of directors.

dog,

You can actually just stream media files sequentially via torrents.

It only needs couple* seedboxes by Google to seed the torrents.

dog,

Youtube, as in the entire site, is an advertising platform.

Everything the user does is sold to the highest bidder.

Video ads make pennies compared to everything else.

dog,

Reminds me more of a certain game that was on PS1 I think? This is just in 3D, that game was 2D.

Old plane bullet hells were nice, though. Albeit very hard.

dog,

Old Steam calling.

Website and Client used different password rules, what worked for the other didn’t in the other.

dog,

Your password could also just be a long, unique sentence, without any excessive special characters. Maybe even a poem.

Like "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Vestibulum eu leo eu nibh efficitur viverra. Integer lacinia tortor est, quis aliquet tortor varius sed. Sed dapibus vel turpis at suscipit. Nulla consequat orci in nibh dapibus sodales. Phasellus at arcu ac dolor suscipit pretium. Curabitur sit amet justo sit amet ipsum scelerisque accumsan ac ac nulla. Nullam accumsan lorem sagittis iaculis varius. Nullam convallis nisi ante, id congue diam tincidunt vel. Aliquam sed iaculis mauris. Nam leo nisi, consequat sed sodales non, tempor vel ante. Nunc eleifend vulputate turpis bibendum bibendum. Morbi nec massa in mi sagittis lacinia id ut metus. Maecenas gravida mi vitae lorem laoreet sagittis. "

That’s alot of common characters and words; yet, it’ll take centuries to crack.

dog,

Argon2 is the best (secure) crypto currently.

That said, adoption is slow, Bitwarden only recently implemented it for example.

That said, due to Argon2 being security-oriented, the recommended settings for it are pretty heavy.

Hey Linux devs - Build a GUI or gtfo

Not everything actually requires a GUI, obviously. But anything that requires configuration, especially for controlling a hardware device, should have a fully functional GUI. I know Linux is all about being in control, and users should not be afraid to use the command line, but if you have to learn another bespoke command syntax...

dog,

I didn’t pay nuffin and I got 100% GUI for everything I use. Where did I go wrong??!

dog,

Why are we celebrating/idolizing war?

dog,

Owned, unless you have proof they still do.

Edit: Looked it up a bit, the shares are 70% Sven and wife, 30% Tencent. Honestly not too bad considering at the time those shares were sold, Larian was almost bankrupt.

dog,

Do Rust, Nim, etc use semicolons? I don’t remember

dog,

Fairly sure they just use IDE’s.

Or chatgpt.

dog, (edited )

Mate, you should never think an online influencer/store is on your side. They’re not.

Not even Steve from Gamer’s Nexus is your friend.

Can you still practice safe exchange with them? Yes, just be informed of your rights.

Edit/addition: Didn’t check the link. Thought this was about the last drama.

This addresses new issues, and it’s important to solve those issues.

I feel like when Linus was still CEO, he made too many choices too fast, and that’s caused the situation LMG is in now.

They have to rush content to get bills paid in time.

An extremely impulsive CEO is never good.

dog,

Well to be fair, he’ll probably agree over a longer contact period, albeit it doesn’t seem he has a lot of free time.

dog,

You can care about people as a proxy of doing PR over the thing you like to do.

Not saying he’s an asshole or anything; people just need to stop having these weird as fuck personal relationships with online personalities whom they don’t even actually know.

But yeah, Linus used to care more, but it was years ago when he started saying he’ll stop being CEO soon. Started piling up from back then to where it is now.

Tl;dr: frustrations, inability to do the thing he wanted, high commercial pressure, family, impulsiveness (New houses, new cars, new projects while there were multiple still in progress or not even started), etc. Lost sight of what he was doing, and what he wanted.

Maybe that’ll slowly improve with new CEO, and the projects he started finishing.

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