I played lots of borderlands 2 with my friends back in the day it was pretty fun.
Three came out, played it for a bit, but it was just more of the same and somehow worse. Then I watched that God awful movie.
I think I’m over the franchise, but maybe here in a few years I’ll pick it up for $5 in a summer sale.
I’m fully stopped. Now what?
At some point it is a numbers game. I don’t know if their product is compelling enough to cause people to rise up and demand action. We’re tired.
I’ve been digging Voyager after paying money to sync for their never updated app
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Jfc, this again?
They parse the website for feeds, search, etc. It is a java library and it looks like they are using jsoup to parse the dom.
Using the website and actually establishing a connection to a video are separate things. The search side of things is essentially a headless browser that is just aimlessly looking for videos. As far as YouTube is concerned nothing is played during this process.
When you decide to commit and watch a video, the NewPipe client establishes a connection to the video stream, which doesn’t count for YouTube stats.
YouTube counts a view for long-form content when a viewer watches for at least 30 seconds, while Shorts views count each time a short begins to play or replay, with no minimum watchtime. Valid views must come from human users, with limitations on how often the same person can generate views within a short timeframe to prevent fraud from bots or artificial inflation.
Using the API “correctly” is likely a requirement for the view to be counted. Their media extractor circumvents that by intentionally not using their API and instead parsing their website for content. Then it establishes a connection to the stream using an internal API.
If you want a view to count you need to use an official client (or at least one with a legit API key). It not counting is a feature with NewPipe.
(Google probably knows the content is being streamed, but if you could just create synthetic views with a third party project, that would be bad for YouTube stats)
From the NewPipe FAQ:
Does NewPipe use the YouTube API?
No. NewPipe does not rely on the YouTube API, as using it requires an API key bringing with it specific regulations and restrictions. YouTube would then have more options of tracking your YouTube usage at their disposal. Therefore, NewPipe Extractor gets the information by parsing YouTube websites.
I assume they know who you are and what you are doing if it is online. VPN is a good security measure, but one screw up and they’ve got you. At least for your current connection.
Most people are still going to be logged into sites. Your cookies will give you away if you have any common tracking ones. Browser fingerprinting and other techniques can also be used to figure out who you are, even in incognito.
Then there is chat control, which is how they really want to get you, but that’s another topic.
Schrodinger’s shit
The initial thing that gave me the ick was when Amazon was integrated into their search for money.
Unity is also pretty bad. Laggy, weird, and it just isn’t cool looking
I run kubuntu and Ubuntu server on a couple of my machines, so I am not a total hater, but lately I’ve been moving to other distros.
Divided we fall. Seriously though.
I imagine this is more for productivity apps, where gamers are going to use proton or wine.
It’s a cute idea, but seems like it is just going to generate a bunch of e-waste.
It isn’t as whimsical I guess, but a barcode scanner, NFC tags, or just picking a game from a menu would be my preference. I have actual retro systems, if I want to walk across the room to switch games.
I bought byd stock. It keeps going down. I will never understand investing
I’ll tell little white lies like “why yes, I’d love to work here, your company is very exciting” especially if it is a practice interview. I did that recently where I wanted to test the job market and applied somewhere I wasn’t stoked about to test the waters.
I won’t lie about myself. If/when you get hired you’ll have to maintain the lie and that is exhausting.
You just need to sell yourself. Highlight strengths, know your weaknesses. Don’t bring up some fancy things in your field if you’ve only heard about them.
What is the use-case for fast USB transfer to/from a smart phone?
Are you using your phone as a computing platform / data transfer device? Just honestly curious why this is a showstopper for you.
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