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19·2 days agoImage? The entire site feels ai guided.
I have never see this movie but could instanly hear the classic blunders line in the voice of Grand Nagus Zek.
Did they reference that line in ds9?
13·6 days agoA lot depends on your daytime obligations.
If you have a job during the weekdays, go to bed earlier that evening.
If you are un or self-employed and don’t need to be anywhere there is nothing inherently wrong with having a unique schedule. Some people do have a biorhythms that makes them more awake and focused at night. Sleepy around noon, evolved from our ancestors needing people who stay on watch at the fire.
Then there is also a long list of famous historic people who had very unique schedules with multiple smaller sleep times around the day.
The tricky part thou is when you suddenly do get daytime obligations and have to conform back to societal sleep standards.
Since the meme the other day that showed the difference between eyes-to-the-side prey and eyes-to-the-front predator i can no longer unsee it!
15·7 days agoI am concerned but is there enough information here to know it’s bad?
Braves Adblock is generally very good as i recall. Traditional adblockers block content that is already downloaded while brave blocks it from using bandwidth at all. (Please correct if wrong)
Its the other toxic and malicious crap it does and the far right sympathies that are its real problems.
This is gonna be controversial but to give this another perspective…
A long time ago me and my buddy role-played racist police in gta (not against other real people though) we are generally into really dark humor, the more evil and horrible the joke the bigger the contrast with how we actually are on the inside and we laugh at the absurdity of that which makes the experience funny while the joke itself never is.
But context is everything, we are about as anti racist as it gets irl, roleplaying the absurdity of racist police it is a way to process that this fucked up thing happens in our reality.
It affirms what we already know, racist behaviour is not just wrong but also incredibly stupid and there is no reasonable explanation on why a person would be like that besides some irrational and dangerous mental illness.
There is a story that gets passed down in my family from the time a pocket watch was considered luxury.
Allegedly to know whether it was time for a break, end of work. The boss would just look at his watch and say nope. Without anyone able to verify.
So my ancestor saved up their money and bought a silver pocketwatch to call the boss out when he cheated, a fancy one presumably because a cheap one could cause an argument that it doesn’t keep time as well as the one the boss had (it might have been the exact same one as the boss idr)
We still own the watch.
Just purchase some blood plasma from young people and inject it.
Unironically this is my strategy playing chess. L
Id much prefer this series was focused on a non trademarked version and was telling new stories with new rather than recycle Rowlings tale.
But they didn’t make that series, they made the one thats coming. As much as i hate i do recognise they had resources to do new things that i would like to know about.
Besides the worst witch and that one Netflix anime i have not seen much tv that explores this setting.
Its the same with the hogwarts legacy game, sure some indie titles explore similar worlds but there is only one that explores such a big world as a beautiful 3d rpg.
Absolutely Fair, they are quite a major source in the accelerated enshitification of modern life, thats why I provided examples so people can still learn without one.
But it would also be ignorant for me to not recognise how much i managed to learn about linux/open source from these same tools in the last few years. The traditional ways of learning things were never compatible with my personal neurology.
Without llms, id probably still be stuck on windows.
I recon this is a fringe opinion but i would much prefer embrace and transform the fandom into something explicitly inclusive and progressive, many aspects of the wizarding world have so much whimsical potential to explore human expression and identity. This is also why so many (ex) potterheads are queer.
I reject Rowling as the creator, most of it builds on pre existing ideas (The worst witch, existing folklore). All she really did was stumble on a good mix and then copyrighted it.
The fandom took that mix and have expanded it much further then Rowlings tiny brain can handle and it brought them together, i hate to lose what we had because of some corporate leech that sucks money out of it.
Now about this series, obviously she is going to profit from any profit its gets, so giving them profit is unethical, likewise hyping up the show without a critical perspective is also bad because others may then buy it or merch.
But it’s still that same mix of potential. The people who make the show may not all agree with Rowlings and reflect their own visions into it. Just like the original cast distance itself from her and also managed to project more than Rowling could even comprehend that world could contain. It’s at least worth a pirated watch to celebrate what it could be, while holding a critical perspective of the flaws it will certainly have.
Hatsune Miku wrote Harry Potter
There is always piracy though.
2·17 days agoScam site?
Url tunnels you trough different sites before ending on a fullscreen foced yt looking video that you cannot click away
As long as the platform can pretend there are no children it doesn’t need to provide safety features for them. Thats what this is about.
Adults can be exploited more freely and legally. As a bonus they are getting more personal information of having you provide proof that you are of exploitable age.
That kids will fake it will be blamed on the parents and not them.
Yes and no,
Yes because i am doing it, no because it’s just one part of the process.
Newpipe is cool but it doesn’t run on my phone so i needed something else.
You may have heard of plex, “run your own netflix”, i much prefer its competitor jellyfin but that doesn’t matter here.
Point is i download my YouTube videos on a schedule/script straight to the library folder of jellyfin, from which i can login from any type of device.
part 2
# ======================================================================== # Step 4 (Pass 1): Download at best quality, with a size cap # ======================================================================== # Tries: best AVC1 video + best M4A audio → merged into .mp4 # If a video exceeds MAX_FILESIZE, its ID is saved for the fallback pass. # Members-only and premiere errors cause the video to be permanently skipped. echo "[$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')] [$Name] Pass 1: best quality under $MAX_FILESIZE" yt-dlp \ "${common_opts[@]}" \ --match-filter "!is_live & !was_live & original_url!*=/shorts/" \ --max-filesize "$MAX_FILESIZE" \ --format "bestvideo[vcodec^=avc1]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[ext=mp4]/best" \ "$URL" 2>&1 | while IFS= read -r line; do echo "$line" if echo "$line" | grep -q "^ERROR:"; then # Too large → save ID for pass 2 if echo "$line" | grep -qi "larger than max-filesize"; then vid_id=$(echo "$line" | grep -oP '(?<=\[youtube\] )[a-zA-Z0-9_-]{11}') [[ -n "$vid_id" ]] && echo "$vid_id" >> "$SCRIPT_DIR/.size_failed_$Name" # Permanently unavailable → skip forever elif echo "$line" | grep -qE "members only|Join this channel|This live event|premiere"; then vid_id=$(echo "$line" | grep -oP '(?<=\[youtube\] )[a-zA-Z0-9_-]{11}') if [[ -n "$vid_id" ]]; then if ! grep -q "youtube $vid_id" "$skip_file" 2>/dev/null; then echo "youtube $vid_id" >> "$skip_file" echo "[$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')] [$Name] Added $vid_id to skip file (permanent failure)" fi fi fi log_error "[$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')] ${Name} - ${URL}: $line" fi done # ======================================================================== # Step 5 (Pass 2): Retry oversized videos at lower quality # ======================================================================== # For any video that exceeded MAX_FILESIZE in pass 1, retry at 720p max. # If it's STILL too large, log the actual size and skip permanently. if [[ -f "$SCRIPT_DIR/.size_failed_$Name" ]]; then echo "[$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')] [$Name] Pass 2: lower quality fallback for oversized videos" while IFS= read -r vid_id; do [[ -z "$vid_id" ]] && continue echo "[$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')] [$Name] Retrying $vid_id at 720p max" yt-dlp \ --proxy "$PROXY" \ --download-archive "$archive_file" \ --extractor-args "youtube:player-client=default,-tv_simply" \ --write-thumbnail \ --convert-thumbnails jpg \ --add-metadata \ --embed-thumbnail \ --merge-output-format mp4 \ --max-filesize "$MAX_FILESIZE" \ --format "bestvideo[vcodec^=avc1][height<=720]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/bestvideo[height<=720]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/best[height<=720]/worst" \ --output "$DOWNLOAD_DIR/${Name} - %(title)s.%(ext)s" \ "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%24vid_id" 2>&1 | while IFS= read -r line; do echo "$line" if echo "$line" | grep -q "^ERROR:"; then # Still too large even at 720p — give up and log the size if echo "$line" | grep -qi "larger than max-filesize"; then filesize_info=$(yt-dlp \ --proxy "$PROXY" \ --extractor-args "youtube:player-client=default,-tv_simply" \ --simulate \ --print "%(filesize,filesize_approx)s" \ "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%24vid_id" 2>/dev/null) if [[ "$filesize_info" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]]; then filesize_gb=$(echo "scale=1; $filesize_info / 1073741824" | bc) size_str="${filesize_gb}GB" else size_str="unknown size" fi if ! grep -q "youtube $vid_id" "$skip_file" 2>/dev/null; then echo "youtube $vid_id" >> "$skip_file" log_error "[$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')] [$Name] Skipped $vid_id - still over $MAX_FILESIZE at 720p ($size_str)" fi fi log_error "[$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')] ${Name} - ${URL}: $line" fi done done < "$SCRIPT_DIR/.size_failed_$Name" rm -f "$SCRIPT_DIR/.size_failed_$Name" else echo "[$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')] [$Name] Pass 2: no oversized videos to retry" fi # Clean up any stray .description files yt-dlp may have left behind find "$DOWNLOAD_DIR" -name "${Name} - *.description" -type f -delete done
This and just act mature about it with a critical judgement.
Regardless what Rowling says the wizarding world, which is a mix of common mythology and has folklore huge queer potential. Its hard to find media that portrays something like it this well.
The series will have its flaws, the writer will make sure of that, but she will also be too shortsighted to recognise the extension and personal touched by everyone else involved that may not agree with her viewpoints.