Thinking about how my television was only ever on the internet for 5 minutes in 2016. It must think the world is tiny.
Readit Newsfishbacon commented on LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted old.reddit.com/r/mildlyin... · Posted by u/bj-rn
I swap back and forth between favorit movies. Every few days it may be Goodfellas. Some days it is The Room. But I always return to Kiki’s delivery service and Howls moving castle. Both are absolutely gorgeous and incredibly well told.
I also find myself quoting porco rosso a lot lately.
This a treasure trove of gorgeous lockscreen images. Very excited to put them into rotation.
fishbacon commented on Show HN: Yourshoesmells.com – Find the most smelly boulder gym yourshoesmells.com... · Posted by u/boshenz
The font you chose is borderline illegible. Password being 3-20 characters makes me nervous.
Fun idea though.
Looks amazing.
A recent game, Eclipsium[0], was a short horror game with a similar esthetic. I really liked it for the simple gameplay and the short (less than 4 hours) completion time.
I wonder if it can carry a larger scale.
With the risk of sounding like a fanboy.
LTT makes 9.2% of their revenue on In-Video Sponsors and 12.5% on Sponsored Projects (which are like full videos for a sponsor)
I wouldn't call this the vast majority
If sponsored projects and in-video sponsor spots dried up because of low view count I feel like a +20% loss would be something they would feel on their bottomline?
I suspect their business still requires that revenue.
But my example could be better. Take any moderately sized youtube channel which has a sponsorship in each video. Maybe one of the gaming channels that figured this out? If they lose the sponsorships it would probably not be great for them.
Seems almost incredible that no one is pointing out the YT incentives behind this. YT has a war on two fronts: ad-blockers and in-video sponsors. That is because in-video sponsors don't get YT money, so they want to be in the monetization loop. So, by decreasing the views, sponsors are now less attracted to in-video sponsorships and YT ads look better in comparison.
This is completely unspoken by most of the youtube channels that are making videos about this. The reason they are worried is not because of the algorithm or vanity. Especially for channels like LTT it is economical. They get the vast majority of their money from getting a lot of views.
The interesting thing here is that since youtube did not change anything, it is actually adblockers successfully making sponsored content less viable. Something youtube has been trying to, at least on premium ([ytp]), where I get a little "Jump ahead" button on all platforms when sponcon is detected (in aggregate people skipping forward, it also does it for intros and similar).
I wonder if it will have a measurable impact on placement in the algorithm for channels like RLM that are seeing the drop. But rely on crowdfunding and youtube ads.
fishbacon commented on Dotfiles feel too personal to share hamatti.org/posts/dotfile... · Posted by u/speckx
I share my .emacs with people who ask. Not really for privacy, but because I would feel bad: If someone tried to use any of it and was not able to ask me what I was thinking.
The usual answer is that I was not and we should change it.
I would also have to distribute a couple of novel go programs that I am not proud of if I was sharing it publicly.
fishbacon commented on Open Sauce is a confoundingly brilliant Bay Area event jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/rbanffy
As a teacher I have become more skeptical about whole maker movement. Don't get me wrong - I really appreciate what has become possible. I couldn't even dream about most of it when I grew up in seventies in Soviet Union. I use a lot of open source hardware and the results maker movement myself as a hobbyist and as a teacher.
But the problem is that while kids like it a lot, it doesn't translate to engineering careers. Kids don't want to become engineers as result, they want to become content creators, tinkerers etc. Even rather good students with a lot of potential see all this engineering stuff more as a media career or a fun hobby.
PS. I don't say the engineering hobby isn't cool and fun. I don't say that maker movement doesn't produce incredibly cool and deep stuff. I'm not even saying that it's the only reason why there is a shortage of engineers. But it's certainly contributing because I see it.
I'm a member of local engineering community and I see a lot of stuff like the quality of civil engineering sinking and we're all paying for mistakes in it. I see a lot of local production closing only because all R&D engineers are 60+ and planning to retire.
> Even rather good students with a lot of potential see all this engineering stuff more as a media career or a fun hobby.
This seems positive, no?
I love the idea that young people want to make stuff and tinker in their free time.
I used Kagi for a year. It was a great experience, no ads, decent search results. I quit recently, when I discovered that they integrate with Yandex. I think it is unacceptable in the todays reality.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42349797
https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integratio...
Kagi seems to genuinly have a good mission when it comes to the internet.
I want small web search. I want good results. I will pay for search!
I do not want to support Russia.
fishbacon commented on 3blue1brown YouTube Bitcoin video taken down as copyright violation twitter.com/3blue1brown/s... · Posted by u/talonx
Completely ignoring the release dates for the videos is simply amazing.
The database they are comparing to is probably not only youtube videos. So the freebooted or matching video, in their database, has a creation data which is earlier than the 3blue1brown video.