bardan

NewPipe is a YT frontend that blocks ads, allows downloading, can run in the background and is generally great. It's a killer app for Android in my opinion.

https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe

Potentially related is yt-dlp getting a 403 lately when downloading from Reddit. The extractor uses old.reddit.com. Hopefully they'll find a way to use the regular Reddit gateway instead.

But I can't stand new Reddit so maybe I'll take this as an opportunity to give it up entirely.

0.3... is just the decimal representation of 1/3. So:

0.3... = 1/3

0.6... = 2/3

0.9... = 3/3 (= 1)

Seems like a competition that started reasonably and mutated into nonsense over time as the rules were exploited (and never modified, I guess). If it's an established debate style and offered to kids as legitimate you can't blame them. Kids do what is available to them.

The equivalent would be speed chess, wouldnt it? There is nothing intellectual about speaking as fast as possible.

There is also safe-rm https://adamheins.com/blog/a-safer-rm

I completely disagree with you. Very ideological people might be given to lie about or simply ignore things that challenge their ideology.

It seems very cozy, although filled with people pushing their commercial projects. If people are projecting Bluesky's future on its current cozy state they are fools. The only way to remain cozy is to remain small.

Nearest thing to a name drop is the end, but isnt a name drop (also spoilers):

"And yet, now that I am an old, old man, I must confess that of all the faces that appear to me out of the past, the one I see most clearly is that of the girl of whom I've never ceased to dream these many long years. She was the only earthly love in my life, yet I never knew, nor ever learned, her name."

Sounds like a comfy sequence in a larger game I would anticipate on replay. I put my own $250 on the table (given the prompt and process were forthcoming).

If they are unable to use a shell, don't understand environments etc. I would push them onto some specific IDE/plugin combination that creates a new virtualenv, handles PATH etc. for every new project.

Dealing with environments and understanding how different parts of the filesystem relate to each other is its own pretty steep learning curve. You wouldn't want them to get tripped up on that while they are learning to program, so I think I would opt to teach the two as entirely different concepts and not mix them at first.

No idea if an appropriate IDE/plugin combination exists! Surely there is one.

Can confirm that after donating > 7€ I am still able to unlock pro features on new devices 8 years later

For me the baseline is if an AI made up a new joke that is actually funny. As you say it's sort of an "I know it if I see it" issue, but anyone who has tried to prompt a language model to come up with a novel, funny joke knows that these models aren't really demonstrating human-like intelligence.

Amazing. I have never witnessed anything so pathetic, or such a level of projection. Thanks for exhibiting that buddy, it was quite a show.

Lol. If you weren't just repeating bullshit, why isn't information about the Assange series being funded by RT reflected on these sites? You have given me a line in an article that came out before the series aired, got upset and now... you have decided to list your "credentials"...

Ahem... hrm...

Edit: Haha is that you editing the Wikipedia page?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=World_Tomorrow&di...

You could retreat into invective or you could point me to a better source than an article that came out before the show even aired. Assange has enough fuming and frustrated detractors that a verifiable source saying his show was funded by RT would have made it into the Wikipedia and IMDB pages a decade ago.

As I mentioned they were in the middle of one of the biggest releases in their history, the submitted documents didn't look interesting and indeed when they were published nobody cared. Do you know what they were? Publishers won't just publish any old trash you send them.

According to the article you link which was posted before the series aired, but not according to IMDB or Wikipedia which anybody could have edited with sources in the 12 years since:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2223847/fullcredits

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Tomorrow

(Or if you actually have a real source for "RT funded it" then you should update Wikipedia and IMDB)

Wikileaks had no "gig" with Russia Today. They produced the series tthemselves and it was picked up by various news channels - just not any mainstream Western ones (what a shock)

It isn't made up. It was during one of the email leaks when the org was stretched to it's limits. Suddenly they get these documents that they don't have time to fully parse and don't look very interesting anyway. Immediately there are dozens of articles put out simultaneously about how Wikileaks refused to publish Russian documents. I guess they learned about the documents being passed to Wikileaks in the first place, wonder who let them know?

The documents were later published elsewhere and nobody cared because they were uninteresting.

Might be nice to display a couple of related articles from eg. Wikipedia or Wiktionary if the user wants to cross-reference.

In this video they can apparently hear the transmission by holding a blade of grass against the transmitter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9UO9tn4MpI

The video looks convincing but it could also be faked, and I don't think it's possible. The signal coming into the radio tower (which is basically just a big antenna) would already be modulated to a much higher frequency (702khz or whatever).

I guess there could be some other effect that makes it audible when you hold a blade of grass or a hotdog to the transmitter, but I don't think it would be intuitive.

What foreign ideas? All I see from Tik Tok are increasingly bizarre bids for attention primarily by Americans themselves.

somebody check the test functions...

It would be nice if companies like this gave a significant benefit for returning cartridges, especially given the enormous markup on the detergent. 25 or even 50 percent off if you send your empty cartridges back. They would still extract the absurd full price from the lazy.

"Ah, but what about Spain? Orwell put his life fighting for POUM in the Spanish Civil War. He got himself shot in the neck-pretty high risks for a phony socialist. How do I explain that one?

Actually, it’s simple. Orwell went to Spain to fight for his most deeply held belief, yes. Unfortunately, that belief wasn’t socialism but the nastiest, most puerile of the tribal hatreds English babies learn in the cradle: anti-Catholicism."

I just couldn't keep reading after that. I like John Dolan's analyses in the War Nerd podcast but this essay seems unhinged. Did he write this at the time the Exiled staff were smashing each other in the face with horse semen pies? Seems like a lot of edginess and projection.

There's a prominent link up the top of this repo to a spammy payment processor, or something.

OK Google, write me a satirical Hacker News comment to define "Whataboutism".

Seems like Mitchell could easily offer the offending cabinet for anybody to examine. But really it seems like there was never any question whether he was going to do that.

I remember that graffiti well from my childhood, although I recall it as "All Australians are bloody minded sheep". In retrospect it's remarkable it was there for so long.