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stzsch commented on YouTube Is Swallowing TV Whole, and It's Coming for the Sitcom bloomberg.com/news/featur... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

diggan · 3 months ago

> There are multiple ways to get around ads on every other platform.

What about an LG TV, which is where I mostly watch YouTube? Think the platform is WebOS unless I'm mistaken.

stzsch · 3 months ago

You can either root it or enable developer mode to install an ad-free youtube.

stzsch commented on GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP invariantlabs.ai/blog/mcp... · Posted by u/andy99

Aurornis · 3 months ago

We had a bug bounty program manager who didn’t screen reports before sending them to each team as urgent tickets.

80% of the tickets were exactly like you said: “If the attacker could get X, then they can also do Y” where “getting X” was often equivalent to getting root on the system. Getting root was left as an exercise to the reader.

stzsch · 3 months ago

Or as Raymond Chen likes to put it: "It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway".

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060508-22/?p=31...

(actually a hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy quote, but I digress)

stzsch commented on Firefox tab groups are here blog.mozilla.org/en/firef... · Posted by u/TangerineDream

stzsch · 4 months ago

I've been really happy with the winger addon for managing tabs. I really am closer than ever to complete control.

(no relation, just a user)

It adds a dropdown list of windows in the tab bar in which you can name each window, move tabs between windows, and save/restore windows into bookmarks.

Now instead of having 1000 tabs in 20 odd windows and eventually declaring bankrupcy, I have 1000 tabs in 20 _named_ windows alongside 500 bookmark folders of (named!) past sessions. Much better.

stzsch commented on Writing C for Curl daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/... · Posted by u/TangerineDream

sebstefan · 5 months ago

The guidelines feel out of sync with the directions I've seen people push coding styles over the years

"Identifiers should be short" when I've mostly seen people decry how annoying it is to find yourself in a codebase where everything is abbreviated C-style (htons, strstr, printf, wchar_t, _wfopen, fgetws, wcslen)

There's a case for more verbosity and if you look at modern Curl code it reflects that as well, new identifiers aren't short

https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/master/lib/vquic/vquic.c

"Functions should be short" where I've mostly seen very negative feedback on codebases written following the trend of Uncle Bob's short functions. Complaints that hiding code in 10 levels of function calls isn't helpful, and that following rabbit holes is tedious even with modern editors

"Code should be narrow", "we enforce a strict 80 column maximum line length" I don't think I've seen that take lately. I remember seeing a few posts fly by about the number 80 specifically

You want to prevent dragging your eyes. For my IDE on default settings on a 1080p monitor, half of a 15" screen fits 100 characters

If you take away 20 columns to fit your text on less of the screen do you really get any benefits

What about the cascading effects on the code, like worse names, split lines, ...

In the end it's semi-interesting but we're all building sheds and these are mostly debates on what color the shed should be

stzsch · 5 months ago

Seems similar to the linux kernel coding style: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/coding-style....

stzsch commented on Blacksmithing and Lisp funcall.blogspot.com/2025... · Posted by u/aebtebeten

throwawaylsp · 5 months ago

There's one thing I've never understood. Lisp is 65 years old. It's older than any mainstream programming language apart from FORTRAN. It has a bevy of vocal fans in every generation. So...why hasn't it gone mainstream? Or at least, why has it failed to remain there?

stzsch · 5 months ago

The Lisp Curse: http://winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html

stzsch commented on The Wright brothers invented the airplane, right? Not if you're in Brazil washingtonpost.com/world/... · Posted by u/benbreen

stzsch · 5 months ago

Also radio: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Landell_de_Moura

stzsch commented on Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (2022) ericdraken.com/pfsense-de... · Posted by u/udev4096

knowitnone · 5 months ago

The screen is yours, the content displayed is not. Same reason you can "buy" a movie, game, audio, ebook and have it disappear overnight. Same reason your security camera, car, oven may suddenly cease to work if the company shuts down their servers. Do we support it? You do because you paid for it.

stzsch · 5 months ago

> The screen is yours, the content displayed is not.

Sure but traditionally this was a purely legal mechanism. There was no technological measure preventing you from copying a book, only a legal threat looming over _what_ you do with the copy.

Nowadays we have this very corporate-positive situation where copyright holders have their cake by embedding DRM and eat it too by leveraging the DMCA to prevent DRM circumventions. So you can be screwed even if you only want to take private screenshots, make backups, or exercise fair use.

stzsch commented on VLC tops 6B downloads, previews AI-generated subtitles techcrunch.com/2025/01/09... · Posted by u/jmsflknr

Semaphor · 8 months ago

A while ago I used whisper (or rather an OSS subtitle tool that used whisper, sadly can’t remember the name; it also converted burned in subs to proper ones via OCR) to generate subtitles for a season of a Show (4 season DVD set, 1 had proper subs, 2 burned in subs, 1 no subs -.-), too old and not popular enough to have "scene" subs, it worked impressively well. The most memorable thing for me was that a character’s scream was properly attributed to the correct character.

I’d love a feature like that for Jellyfin eventually.

stzsch · 8 months ago

You can setup a bazarr instance to use whisper as a subtitle provider.

stzsch commented on FDA proposes ending use of oral phenylephrine as OTC nasal decongestant fda.gov/news-events/press... · Posted by u/impish9208

winocm · 10 months ago

Fun fact, there (was?) is a isomer of methamphetamine that is actually over the counter, levomethamphetamine was often found in Vicks brand inhalers, though they appear to be discontinued, being replaced with a ‘non-medicated’ version. There are apparently generic inhalers that still do contain it though.

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/other-methamphetam...

stzsch · 10 months ago

See also selegiline, which partially metabolizes to levoamphetamine and levomethamphetamine. Not OTC though (antidepressant).

stzsch commented on AMD's Turin: 5th Gen EPYC Launched chipsandcheese.com/p/amds... · Posted by u/zdw

stzsch · a year ago

For those that dislike their change to substack, there is https://old.chipsandcheese.com/2024/10/11/amds-turin-5th-gen....

At least for now.