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snug commented on Google releases its new Google Sans Flex font as open source omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/g... · Posted by u/CharlesW

lucb1e · 10 days ago

Where possible, I've stopped picking fonts that don't distinguish lowercase l and uppercase I. Words virtually always have redundancy (or context in the sentence) and it's fine in 98% of cases, but too often someone sends a token, password, name, or other string where you need to copy it out to another application to see it and just... why? Why bother?

I/O test for Sans Flex: https://snipboard.io/wXCQq5.jpg

It passes the O0 distinction but not the Il one

Example of a font that passes, Ubuntu: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Ubuntu?preview.text=10%20I... (custom license but looks similar to GPL in that you can do what you want besides relicensing it as proprietary or removing credits)

Another one, Nunito Sans, using the Open Font License: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Nunito+Sans?preview.text=1...

IBM Plex Sans is another Open Font License option: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/IBM+Plex+Sans?preview.text... (it has an unusual capital Q style though)

snug · 9 days ago

When I was in Italy, it took me far too long to realize on Google Maps that all the restaurants I was visiting started with "Il" and not the roman numeral two "II"

snug commented on The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem basicappleguy.com/basicap... · Posted by u/andrem

el_benhameen · 2 months ago

I have this happen outside of flights. Cupping your finger over the ANC mic is enough to trigger it.

The new tips (that’s my guess, at least) also transmit vibrations into your ears much more than the old tips or third party memory foam tips. This results in a popping noise when walking or moving around, and a horrible thumping sound when running with them in. I think the latter is partially caused by the “reduce loud noises” feature incorrectly identifying vibrations from heel strikes as loud noise.

I’m glad I’m apparently not the only one experiencing these issues. I hope they’re software fixable. I filed a bug report, but radio silence on that, of course. I would sing the praises of the second gen AirPods Pro to anyone who would listen, but the 3rd gen have been a huge disappointment. I had to buy a different set of headphones for running, whereas the second gen were my daily drivers. And I’ve been through three pair of the third gen, so it’s not a one-off issue.

snug · 2 months ago

I've been able to get this same issue when I am laying in bed and lay on my side where my APP rub against the pillow. I've been able to reliably make the screeching sound by putting one airpod in my hand and tumbling it around or opening and closing my hands.

I still love my APP3, and still have my APP2, but have not made a change back to them. I think they feel so much better in my hear with the new tips, and sound way better.

snug commented on "Return YouTube Dislike" Chrome Extension Injecting Ads chromewebstore.google.com... · Posted by u/snug

Bratmon · 2 months ago

Subtle correction: The extension shows how many users of the extension downvoted the video. It has no way of knowing what non-extension-users did.

snug · 2 months ago

The paid for feature seems to show the number of dislikes that have the extension installed, however what is shown is the estimated number of dislikes based on the actual number of likes youtube shows, so if the extension users have a like/dislike ratio of 50%, and there youtube shows 1000 likes, the extension estimates that there are also a 1000 users that disliked the video, even though there may only be 1 like and 1 dislike from the extension users, which would be very obvious that the estimate is very off.

snug commented on "Return YouTube Dislike" Chrome Extension Injecting Ads chromewebstore.google.com... · Posted by u/snug

ekjhgkejhgk · 2 months ago

You gotta be a bit short sighted to imagine that the kind of people that would download an extension would accept ads.

On the other hand, you also have to be a bit short sighted to be installed gargabage like "an extension so you can downvote" lol.

snug · 2 months ago

You can downvote youtube videos without the extension, the extension just shows how many people downvoted a video since youtube took that visibility away a few years ago. It does help when there are shitty video recommendations and can ignore videos that have a bad ratio

snug commented on "Return YouTube Dislike" Chrome Extension Injecting Ads chromewebstore.google.com... · Posted by u/snug

busymom0 · 2 months ago

> the extension requires quite a large database (~15TB)

Maybe I am missing something but how does a database which just needs to store video ID and a number become 15TB in size?

snug · 2 months ago

The way the plugin works (in my simplified understanding) is that it guesses how many dislikes there are based on the like/dislike ratio of the people that have the plugin installed. So if 100 people that have the plugin installed and there is a 90/10 like/dislike ratio, and the actual video has 1000 likes, it will say that there are 100 dislikes. Youtube not only took away the dislike UI, but stopped publicly giving the number of dislikes even behind the API.

But even then, the database could not get that big, you'd only need a few simple tables, one that tracks every plugin users like/dislike on the video they stored it on, and then a table that does the aggregations. 15TB sounds crazy.

I'm not a youtuber so idk what content creators could see, but it would have been smarter for them to go after the content creators that have the plugin installed instead of youtube users, not sure why we would care about those kinds of analytics

snug commented on "Return YouTube Dislike" Chrome Extension Injecting Ads chromewebstore.google.com... · Posted by u/snug

snug · 2 months ago

Update from the dev:

> Unfortunately the extension requires quite a large database (~15TB) - and it costs money.

> The ad\changelog was supposed to show only on browser restart - i.e. be much less intrusive

> The idea behind paid features was also to cover the costs (since donations became smaller than the hosting costs).

> I messed up with implementation though.

> Sorry.

I do feel for the developer, and I am not anti asking for donations, and the full page pop up on browser restart I don't think is terrible, but it would have been better to maybe have a changelog and have a donation button. The ads injected directly into youtube make me lose a lot of trust

snug commented on "Return YouTube Dislike" Chrome Extension Injecting Ads chromewebstore.google.com... · Posted by u/snug

sieep · 2 months ago

Did you just begin noticing this today?

snug · 2 months ago

Yeah, seems like it just got pushed today, given all the reviews just popped up today too

snug commented on "Return YouTube Dislike" Chrome Extension Injecting Ads chromewebstore.google.com... · Posted by u/snug

sieep · 2 months ago

Thanks for sharing. I haven't noticed anything on the Firefox extension under the same name. ublock may be stopping it. I can investigate and post what I find here in a few hours.

snug · 2 months ago

I also have uBlock as well, and it didn't catch it for me

snug commented on "Return YouTube Dislike" Chrome Extension Injecting Ads chromewebstore.google.com... · Posted by u/snug

snug · 2 months ago

They've added a full page ad that opens a new browser randomly and injecting ads directly into youtube.

I added some photos on this reddit post

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/1of2k7s/return_you...