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I remember a time where you would get multiple results from a search with no scrolling in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Damn the second image in your post didn't load for me and it turned my Connect into an infinite grey screen

YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'd 100% pay for it if the pricing made any sense.

Malware As A Service in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes but the difference is one of them is also going to help you fix it.

oneteen onety one in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Eleventeen eleventy leven

Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks in c/[email protected]

China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How do you know anything about anything an LLM generates? Presumably if you're the author you would recognize your own work?

China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (3 children)

By comparing it to the original work.

a stupid naive question in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

You commented that it's "super weird and invasive" for an ISP to "firewall" listening ports. It just so happens that CGNAT also has the same effect and is super commonly used right now.

I think I'm good 👍

a stupid naive question in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Does OP really know exactly what technology at his ISP is preventing him from "opening ports"?

a stupid naive question in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (6 children)

They're probably just using CGNAT.

YouTube looks to be testing server-side ad injection to counter ad blockers in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

If skipping is blocked in the ad, the client must know it's playing an ad somehow?

SponsorBlock (and DeArrow): "YouTube is currently experimenting with server-si…" - Fosstodon in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago

The server must have to send some metadata to the client telling when it's running an ad because there are other things that need to happen client side during that like adjusting of the time or making the ad clickable