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Yokoloson Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads

Because no matter how much the YouTube app may suck in various ways, it's still vastly better than NewPipe and LibreTube in UX and much more enjoyable to use. So I'd rather use a patched version where the bad parts are removed over something like NewPipe which is just nowhere as polished.

Yokoloson Amazon to end commingling after years of complaints from brands and sellers

I don't mean to say that I don't believe it happens. It seems quite plausible to me. I'm just wondering whether it's a regional issue.

Yokoloson Amazon to end commingling after years of complaints from brands and sellers

I've been ordering on Amazon in Germany for a good 20 years now and I've never received a counterfeit item. Is it not a thing here? Does it primarily affect certain countries? Am I insanely lucky?

Yokoloson Nvidia buys $5B in Intel

You mean like this? https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/msi-claw-8-ai-plus-review

Yokoloson EU Chat Control: Germany's position has been reverted to undecided

I can't believe with our history involving the Third Reich and the Stasi that we aren't staunchly opposed. Especially with the impending political upheaval when AfD finally gets enough votes to form a ruling government. Our politicians are insanely shortsighted and somehow don't understand the danger they're enabling.

Yokoloson Samsung 870 QVO 4TB SATA SSD-s: how are they doing after 4 years of use?

For data storage, I just avoid SSDs outright. I only use them for games and my OS. I've seen too many SSDs fail without warning into a state where no data is recoverable, which is extremely rare for HDDs unless they're physically damaged.

Yokoloson Denmark's Justice Minister calls encrypted messaging a false civil liberty

The US which has already turned into an authoritarian fascist dictatorship. Right. What a bastion of freedom there, lmao. "Don't tread on me" has literally turned into "Tread on me, daddy".

Yokoloson Denmark's Justice Minister calls encrypted messaging a false civil liberty

Even worse, they're setting up Europe for a fascist takeover. To protect us. Just what?

You'd think we never had the Third Reich, Nazis or WW2 with how they're behaving.

Yokoloson TikTok has turned culture into a feedback loop of impulse and machine learning

I still see plenty of videos that are around 15-20 minutes long.

Yokoloson TikTok has turned culture into a feedback loop of impulse and machine learning

You say this like their viewers don't want long videos. They do. I am one of them. So if they started doing what you suggest, I'd stop watching them.

There is no sweet spot. Different people have different preferences. Not every Youtuber needs to make 10 minute videos. Not every Youtuber needs to make hour long videos. It depends on their audience.

If you don't like hour long videos, that's fine. You're not the intended audience. Stop trying to make every content creator abide by your preferences and just look for those who already cater to your preferences.

Yokoloson US High school students' scores fall in reading and math

I grew up being told by my peers in school that memorising things was a waste of time and critical thinking was all that mattered. Now I use Anki to literally memorize programming language syntax and ideas and facts that are relevant to my job (like data structures and algorithms). I wish I'd valued memorization when I was in school, because it's such a foundational thing to have knowledge upon which to build everything else.

Yokoloson The Universe Within 12.5 Light Years

A lot of science is crazy but real. Are you not awestruck by the weird ways the real world behaves? Where's your wonder?

Yokoloson What's New with Firefox 142

If you click on "See full release notes", there's the link "Complete list of changes for this release" at the bottom of the page on the right that points to this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?j_top=OR&f1=target_...

Is that what you're looking for? If you sort it by updated, I assume everything after the 27th is probably in the current release.

Yokoloson Kazeta: An operating system that brings the console gaming experience of 90s

I've imitated something like this for my Steam Deck by just keeping a bunch of games on sdcard and switching them out when I want to play something else. Sure, it's technically a complete waste of time and I don't suggest you do or anybody else do it. But I have fun doing it and that's all that matters in this case that has no effect on anybody else.

I find it odd when people on Hacker News say "but why?" Because I can, dude, and it makes me happy.

On that note, this project sounds awesome to me.

Yokoloson Apple pulls iPhone torrent app from AltStore PAL in Europe

The unspoken part is, now that the functionality exists, it will be rolled out in more and more countries because it allows governments to directly control what apps users have access to. My response to Chat Control in the EU, if all efforts to stop it were to fail, was always "well, I have an Android, so I'll just install whatever app that isn't backdoored". But if Chat Control passes, this exact functionality will eventually be used to ensure that I can only use backdoored apps.

Yokoloson F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash

They're really not. You're basing this on misinformation and propaganda. The only reason why nobody should be buying them is because the US has become an untrustworthy partner. Otherwise, there is no credible evidence of any kind that I've seen showing the F-35 is anything other than a great fighter jet.

Yokoloson Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android

When governments across the globe are becoming more authoritarian, we need to protect our ability to run whatever app we want. Otherwise they'll ban communication apps when we step out of line and protest, as we've seen in places like Hong Kong on more locked down platforms like iOS. This isn't about power users. It doesn't matter how many links you post. The US is literally turning into an authoritarian dictatorship before our eyes. Germany's AfD now commands 25% of the vote and it keeps increasing. Far right parties are gaining ground everywhere.

We can't be handwringing about safety right now, because our right to free speech and to protest are at stake. Our democracies are at stake here.

Yokoloson Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android

> Google notes “supportive initial feedback” from government authorities and other parties:

Ah, then I guess everything is fine. I'm sure they aren't in favour because it gives governments greater control over what apps we're allowed to have on our phones. That would be absurd.

Yokoloson Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation

I'm very confused. Public and state ownership are the exact same thing. Public ownership is not the same thing as being publicly traded.

Yokoloson Blurry rendering of games on Mac

What MacBook doesn't have a camera?

Yokoloson Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy

It's been taken down plenty of times. They just host a mirror somewhere else under a new TLD.

Yokoloson US Wholesale Inflation Rises by Most in 3 Years

https://usafacts.org/answers/how-much-does-the-us-spend-on-d...

22%. But operations also includes civilian salaries and procurement naturally includes the labor required to produce what was procured. I would assume that R&D also includes research grants and salaries.

Yokoloson Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England

Anything coming out of a US government institution today is not trustworthy. Not sure why you'd reference the 2025 report. It's a laugh and a half that the country deploying the national guard in their own capital and putting the capital's police under federal government control is saying Germany is unsafe. The country that's rounding up immigrants and even US citizens to be deported to random countries.

Please. Stop falling for the right-wing propaganda.

Yokoloson Fight Chat Control

Foreign countries with less regulations and protections for sex workers and actresses.

Yokoloson Al Jazeera condemns the assassination of its journalists by the IOF

I'm surprised anybody still takes Al Jazeera at their word on anything. They're no more trustworthy than any Israeli news media. That is to say, not at all.

As for Al Jazeera crying that their journalists keep getting targeted, I'm wondering why I can't find any reports of non-Al Jazeera or non-Palestinian journalists being targeted, when other news media like BBC are more than happy to paint Israel in a terrible light (whether deserved or not).

Yokoloson AI is propping up the US economy

I get a lot of garbage out of 2.5 Pro and Claude Sonnet and ChatGPT. There's always this "this is how you solve it", I take a close look and it's clearly broken, I point it out and it's all "you're right, this is a common issue". Okay, so why do we have to do this song and dance a million times to arrive at the actually correct answer?

Yokoloson Every satellite orbiting earth and who owns them (2023)

Somebody has never heard of the tragedy of the commons. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

> The tragedy of the commons is the concept that, if many people enjoy unfettered access to a finite, valuable resource, such as a pasture, they will tend to overuse it and may end up destroying its value altogether. Even if some users exercised voluntary restraint, the other users would merely replace them, the predictable result being a "tragedy" for all.

There is no right of absolute freedom, because at some point that freedom affects other people who also have rights. So we're always limited explicitly and implicitly in what we can do. Free, unfettered access just means taking something away from somebody else.

Yokoloson EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google

Why is it I can use my German national ID online without these Google requirements, but age verification suddenly requires dependency on Google?

Yokoloson What will become of the CIA?

What do you mean Eastern Europe? The only one meddling is Russia, which is why Eastern Europe wants to join NATO. To protect themselves from an aggressive neighbor who started the end of the Cold War with invading a former satellite state. If Russia wasn't so eager to revive its imperial ambitions, there would be no interest in joining NATO.

Russia invades Georgia

Poland and the Baltics join NATO

Russia: Surprise Pikachu

Yokoloson I tried vibe coding in BASIC and it didn't go well

When I start getting nonsense back and forth prompting, I've found it best to just start a new chat/context with the latest working version and then try again with a slightly more detailed prompt that tries to avoid the issues encountered in the previous chat. It usually helps. AI generally quickly gets itself lost, which can be annoying.