Your welcome! Its good to have a local DRM free backup of your favorite channels especially the ones you come back to for sleep aid or comfort when stressed. I would download them sooner than later while yt-dlp still works (googles been ramping up its war on adblockers and 3rd party frontends). BTW yt-dlp also works with bandcamp and soundcloud to extract audio :)

It depends on how nerdy you want to get.

Generally no, That checkmark is cloudflares multi-million dollar product that protects half of the internet from bot abuse. If there were a quick and easy work around then the bots would quickly learn and adopt it too. Sadly, it has a real penchant for triggering for regular users when you’re using hardened browsers and VPNs as well. It would be nice if network admins cared a little more about sticking it to the man and using bot protection alternatives instead of just proxying through a cloudflare tunnel and calling it a day.

If you’re slightly tech savvy and lucky then the site allows web crawlers/indexers or has RSS feeds. This lets you use an RSS feeder or a text scraper like NewsWaffle

What youre describing with saving a cookie to prove your identity is actually do-able, yt-dlp uses this to download age restricted content but getting that cookie extracted into a text file is a non-trivial nerdy thing the average person cant be trusted to do.

points in a direction your mind can’t understand, with the finger seeming to disappear as it bisects into a higher plane

“over there to the left after the bathrooms”

The defiance thing itself is induced by being a half-sentient talking ape that doesnt like being told things like “No!” “Thats bad, dont do that!” In terms of their actions. The antivaxers also like to layer in government mistrust and religious faith levels of i-must-be-right but the core of defiance is just that people dont like feeling shitty and have poor instinctual coping methods for it.

Its a fairly universal copout for humans to avoid feelings of shame and embarrassment or punishment. Nobody on the planet likes feeling stupid or in the wrong. So when confronted with these feelings some common stategies are out right lying to others or ourselves, or constructing a delusional warped narrative subjective reality in which they’re actually somehow in the right through mental gymnastics, or by rejecting the claim of wrongness through formal argument, or using social dominance plays to forcefully dismiss claims of wrongdoing.

Usually people find a strange mixture of multiple of these strategies in emotional combative arguments and coping with their aftermath.

In an ideal world people would be able to instantly accept blame and fault for wrongdoing, eat he feelings of shame and self improve without trying to weasle their way out of punishment if they think they can get away with it. A properly adjusted adult who has eaten their fair share of humble pie over heir life encroaches on that kind of humility and willingness to update their assumptions given evidence, is able to say “oh shit I was wrong about that, huh? My bad.” Or “the science nerds who study these things probably have more authority on the matter than I do, I’ll default to their ideas.” This however, is not an ideal world.

Children have zero impulse control and are barely sentient enough to construct coherent sentences or internal monologues. Their tiny brains are still developing and so they get a free pass more or less when it comes to being defiant little shits defaulting to instinctual ape copout strategies. all kids have their bad moments and are still learning. The problem is when they never stop defaulting to these things in adulthood.

— try long pressing your phone keyboards hyphen key.

From the post title, description, and other peoples comments, I took away that the meme is m9re about suspecting your ex didnt even write their own breakup message based off the use of em dashes.

Its a cute surface level joke but it touches in a real nerve because Its becoming more and more common for you to be falsely accused of being an LLM and being told to "ignore all previous instructions and (some stupid instruction) based off small writing quirks like using em or markdown and top comments share this frustration too.

I shouldn’t have to feel self conscious about the way I write

Just to pass armchair llm detector wannabe vibe checks 🖕. 

I’m a markdown nerd who likes to use headers to break up longer post and sometimes properly buletpoint or put ASCII art in preformatted boxes. People who thinks they have the magic sauce on LLM generation detection because a post goes out of their way to do more than the bre minimum with punctuation or formatting is an asshole.

The free API is the gateway drug to selling the product to customers (devs). The average consoomers attention and data is the product to be sold to customers (advertisers and big brother)

In the comics Thanos was straight up the right man hand/side hoe of the concept of death made manifest the whole point of offing half of all life was just to make mistress death happy (I think she actually ordered it). A lot of the original plot points of the infinity war and its buildup was lost in translation. Movie thanos motivations werent even half baked, he could have doubled resources and made a paradise for life with his motivations

You can tell because of checks notes “ThE ThIcK LInES AnD Off ColoURinG”

Plot twist: she knew and didn’t care. “Its a doggish canine social enough to accepts the pets, a couple rabies shots and its good enough for me.”

Surely theres someone else on here who remembers the Delta Heavy - Ghost music video from like a decade ago featuring our boy doing just that? Surprised it wasn’t mentioned already.

Electromagnetism and a touch of devil-math from the STEM layer of hell, as is with most technology.

Redshift like screen reddening = piss filter

:)

The people who voulenteer in the irc chats of the Linux mint help I talked with were so chill and helpful

Heres the full song parody from futurama on youtube

My favorite reference for what youve just described is 3blue1browns Binary, Hanoi, and sierpinski which is both fascinating and super acessable for the average non-nerd.

The pressing point is that this recursive method of counting isn’t just a good way of doing it, but basically the most efficient way that it can be done. There are no simpler or more efficient ways of counting.

This allows the same ‘steps’ to show up in other unexpected areas that ask questions about the most efficient process to do a thing. This allows you to map the same binary counting pattern across both infinite paths of fractal geometry with sierpinskis arrowhead curve and solve logic problems like towers of Hanoi stacking. Its wild to think that on some abstract level these are all more or less equal processes.

I’m like 60% sure during the height of subway in mid-2000s-early 2010s the subway commercials actually did advertise the foot long as being 12 inch sub’s for 5$ (goddamn the 5$ foot long ads were catchy). However unlike real measurements that have defined standards, as subway enshitified they weren’t forced to change naming as they slowly shrank the sandwiches. Of course this is long enough ago that an entire generation doesnt know who Jared was so its okay to assume it was never a real foot long.