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praisewhitey··on YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken
I agree, it's a nonsensical complaint. It's a feed of the channels videos and some of those videos are short. If you don't like their content, why are you subscribed?
praisewhitey··on Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold
They use react native
praisewhitey··on Goodbye to Sora
>If you look at US top videos on YouTube any given day, 40-60% of the videos are IP-based. Star Wars, Nintendo, Marvel, music, etc.

Where can I get this data?

praisewhitey··on Grok 4 answers controversial questions by searching what Musk has to say
Some other people were able to verify this

https://x.com/paularambles/status/1943453894589456624

praisewhitey··on Material 3 Expressive
There are demos on the Material Web website https://material-web.dev/components/button/
praisewhitey··on Try Switching to Kagi
>I just tried searching for “expedited passport renewal” in Google and in Kagi. Kagi presents as its first response the US State Department’s “How to Get my U.S. Passport Fast” page. Google has that same link listed 7th

It's the first result on Duckduckgo.

praisewhitey··on Anubis Works
Firefox with Enhanced Tracking Protection turned on is enough to trigger it.
praisewhitey··on Apple Debuts iPhone 16e
Not seeing examples of comments claiming it being "near-impossible" in your linked discussion. Most of those comments are just grumbling about eSIMs.
praisewhitey··on Mark Zuckerberg: This Man Is a Coward
Use hckrnews.com to read the HN front page and check "show dead" in settings. This will let you see threads that were active but flagged off the front page.
praisewhitey··on Pornhub Is Now Blocked in Almost All of the U.S. South
I'll add that there's plenty of porn easily accessible on Reddit and Twitter and those websites haven't implemented any age verification measures yet. Chat apps like Discord and Telegram host a lot too.

My guess is if the lawmakers are successful in making porn websites comply with age verification then all social media websites will have to next.

praisewhitey··on The Depths of Wikipedians
Take a look at the talk page for Havana Syndrome where one editor (Bon courage) keeps blocking new edits referencing 2024 NIH studies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Havana_syndrome

praisewhitey··on South Korean president declares martial law, parliament votes to lift it
That would require the median salary to be enough to support a family.
praisewhitey··on The Rise of the NormieNet – Echo chamber politics
Before social media no one was lamenting the people who read the same local newspaper each day and only discussed the news with their same handful of friends. Now that's seen as being stuck in an echo chamber and people should be forced to engage with every single view point under the sun. I can't say I agree.
praisewhitey··on Bluesky is on the verge of overtaking Threads in all the ways that matter
>It's a matter of time before large corporations start preventing their employees from using non-approved platforms. They'll probably use cybersecurity safety as an excuse.

Already happened with TikTok.

praisewhitey··on Please Don't Make Me Download Another App
But you don't have to.
praisewhitey··on Mozilla exits the Fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December
In the early 2000s people were regularly banned from various phpBB forums because a moderator was a bit of a dick.
praisewhitey··on Google Has Officially Killed Cache Links
For some sites. For years many search results didn't have a cache link in the drop down.
praisewhitey··on Apps now block sideloading and force downloads through Google Play
My guess is it's to stop things like ReVanced patches which can remove ads in various apps like YouTube
praisewhitey··on YouTube deletes LTT video for teaching people how to live without Google
The actions of private companies are a fair target for criticism.
praisewhitey··on YouTube deletes LTT video for teaching people how to live without Google
This is the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsjHMzGl-VY

Right now it says "This video has been removed for violating YouTube's Community Guidelines"

praisewhitey··on Google Pixel 9 Pro
>when done correctly, the Pixel 8 Pro's temperature readings are very accurate. Clinical trials revealed that the Pixel 8 Pro could successfully calculate body temperatures between 96.9°F and 104°F to within a margin of error of ±0.54°F.

https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/google-explains-pixel-...

praisewhitey··on TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel
There are Bluetooth adapters for wired headphones on Amazon that work with the Apple Watch.
praisewhitey··on TinyPod – Apple Watch case with scroll wheel
Would be cool if it also had a headphone jack
praisewhitey··on From 0/10 to 8/10: Microsoft Puts Repair Front and Center
The article says the Surface had a 7/10 in 2022. A bump to 8/10 in 2024 isn't that significant to chalk up to a change in leadership.
praisewhitey··on So you want to build a browser engine
IE/Edge was behind the competition at standards adoption since IE7. Just look at the history of Acid3, HTML5Test or Caniuse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid3

https://html5test.co/results/desktop.html

https://caniuse.com/ciu/comparison

praisewhitey··on Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search
You're looking at it the wrong way, the goal should be 0% inaccurate. Meaning for the 20% of things it can't answer, it shouldn't make something up.
praisewhitey··on OpenAI and Reddit Partnership
Who is "they" and "we" in this?

As far as I'm aware, the people telling us not to pirate content are the people currently suing OpenAI for (allegedly) using pirated content to train their models.

praisewhitey··on Rabbit R1: Barely Reviewable [video]
Which sponsorships are you referring to? I'm only aware of his deal with d-brand, and those products work as advertised.
praisewhitey··on MKBHDs for Everything
worth noting the controversy at The Verge is the opposite with people saying a 4/10 rating is far too generous
praisewhitey··on Humane AI Pin: The Worst Product I've Ever Reviewed for Now [video]
Has anyone made a video comparing using this and an Apple Watch with Siri?
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