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PawgerZon Amazon Q (Preview)

Weird that I read a story about OpenAI's mysterious "Q" model, open up Hacker News, and read about Amazon's Q model. It will be interesting to see the business expertise functionality that they tout.

PawgerZon New Outlook is good, both for yourself and 766 third parties

We use outlook for work. The only emails that go to my spam are new sales appointments from Salesforce. Just the most important, time-sensitive emails that I recieve. No matter how much I mess with the settings nor how many I flag as not spam, Microsoft is adamant that it's spam.

PawgerZon My favorite database shirts

According to the founders "mongo" came from "humongous" not "mongoloid". Additionally, "Mongo" has never had insulting conotations in America, as far as I know. Also, if you weren't aware, Mongo is an ethnicity and a language, should we force them to change the name?

PawgerZon My favorite database shirts

The distinction being a hoddie is a sweatshirt with a hood. As opposed to a long sleeve shirt with a hood. Sweatshirts are thicker. Calling it a hoodie would be like calling a long sleeve shirt a swetashirt because they have the same silhouette.

PawgerZon Robot Dad

If questioned, AI will readily tell me it was wrong. If questioned, my dad will hit me

PawgerZon US govt pays AT&T to let cops search Americans' phone records without warrant

Someone should rewrite this as the Romans hunting Jesus with metadata -- could maybe get some evangelicals on our side.

PawgerZon Reflecting on 18 Years at Google

Partially. They still harvest your data from YouTube to try to manipulate you with ads on other websites.

PawgerZon YouTube blames ad blockers for slow load times, not the browser

As others have commented, there is a way to do this with yt-dlp.

Here's a link to the other options that yt-dlp allows

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp#usage-and-options

PawgerZon YouTube blames ad blockers for slow load times, not the browser

>Google has a system in place to gate that file with an ad view

This may be their intention, but, no, they don't gate files with ad views. They allow you to start downlaoding the ad and the file at the same time. I am not circumventing a "system to gate files with ad views" because that is not the system that they have.

PawgerZon YouTube blames ad blockers for slow load times, not the browser

I didn't log in, I didn't agree to their terms of service. This is what people mean when they say it is "public"

PawgerZon YouTube punishes ad-blocker users with slower videos on non-Chrome browsers

"Preferred video quality" is set to HD720 by default, but you can change it to DASH and change "Preferred DASH video quality" to a higher rate.

PawgerZon YouTube punishes ad-blocker users with slower videos on non-Chrome browsers

Here are the quality setting on YouTube Music according to Google:

     Low

        Uses the least storage on your device

        Bitrate: 48 kbps AAC and OPUS

    Normal

        Default setting

        Bitrate: 128 kbps AAC and OPUS

    High

        Higher-quality audio will use more storage on your device

        Bitrate: 256 kbps AAC and OPUS

Seems like it is automatically set to normal on WiFi and Mobile Data. It also seems like there is another option for streaming labeled "Always High" which forces 256 kbps stream over bad connection.

I typically only use Youtube Music for discovery then buy albums that I like (or rip them if they're not available for purchase). I, personally, have never experienced low quality audio on YT Music.

PawgerZon FBI director admits they rarely have probable cause for using NSA collections

You really are the "quintessential affable sales person." With the way you twist narratives, I suspect you sell a lot of networking equipment.

PawgerZon Why does the moon change size when you snipe it in GTA?

A little fun fact about Cyberpunk for those who haven't played: Every quest in the game is named after an old song.

PawgerZon Stable Video Diffusion

Viewers did care: the teeth got changed before the movie was released. And, I don't know if you missed it, but it wasn't just one niche of the internet commenting on his teeth. The "outrage" went mainstream; even dentists were making hit-pieces on Sonic's teeth. I'm not gonna lie, it was amazing marketing for the movie, intentional or not.

PawgerZon Sam Altman is still trying to return as OpenAI CEO

"defense"

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

PawgerZon The diamond world takes radical steps to stop a pricing plunge

Why?

PawgerZon YouTube will show labels on videos that use AI

I've only ever watched his videos on fitness (weight training, recovery, endurance), substances (alcohol, weed, nicotine, caffeine), and sleep.

He has some amazing and very knowledgeable guests on for his fitness videos. The substances and sleep videos also seemed to be very high quality.

Maybe he does participate in some quackery, but everything I've watched seems sound.

PawgerZon The diamond world takes radical steps to stop a pricing plunge

How does bringing comfort and peace mean that religion is not irrational? (I don't personally believe it is irrational, just that your logic is flawed.)

PawgerZon The diamond world takes radical steps to stop a pricing plunge

You could replace that CZ every year and still spend half the amount of a diamond ring.

PawgerZon Casino-like apps have drained people of millions

If you ever want to get back into magic, definitely check out pauper. The decks have to use only card that were printed at common rarity. There are only like 20 cards in the cardpool that are over $2, and you can build pretty much any deck for less than $50.

PawgerZon uBlock Origin 1.53

Any phone without an IR Blaster can not be the peak of mobile design. Note 4 master mobile.

PawgerZon Show HN: Ladder, open source alternative to 12ft.io and 1ft.io

Copying my previous comment over because I found a fix that works for me:

There's some issue with DNS over HTTPS, so you have to whitelist their sites in your settings, or turn off DNS over HTTPS (which I don't recommend).

To whitelist, on Firefox: Hamburger menu > settings > privacy and security > DNS over HTTPS > Manage exceptions > Add "archive.is", "archive.ph", and "archive.today"

PawgerZon One sleepless night can rapidly reverse depression for several days in mice

Why would you think they're taking benzos on a thread about SSRIs?

PawgerZon 12ft.io has been banned by Vercel

I actually figured out my problem after replying to your original comment. There's some issue with DNS over HTTPS, so you have to whitelist their sites in your settings, or turn off DNS over HTTPS (which I don't recommend).

To whitelist, on Firefox: Hamburger menu > settings > privacy and security > DNS over HTTPS > Manage exceptions > Add "archive.is", "archive.ph", and "archive.today"

If you don't want to do that, or it doesn't work, use Firefox's reader mode or the google cache bookmarklet I added below.

Google Cache Bookmarklet:

javascript:void(open("https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:" + document.location))

PawgerZon Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form of education

>In pretty much all studies

Any citations? I believe you, but would want to look at the methodology. If they're opt-in studies, then obviously the ones neglecting their kids in homeschool aren't going to join a study where they are scrutinized.

PawgerZon 12ft.io has been banned by Vercel

12ft.io accepts money from websites that want to be blacklisted from their service.

Archive.is goes in captcha loops everytime I try to open it.

I've resorted to just using reader mode and bookmarklets that others have made.

PawgerZon Meta sued by states over harmful youth marketing

I can't downvote, nor flag. I'll leave you to your work.