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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So that the timestamp adjustment can be propagated via uploader or user comments across YouTube clients on all platforms... i.e. to avoid having to hardcode each adjustment for each ad on each video on every client

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Wouldn't that need to be done via some kind of API for cross-platform compatibility? An API which could be exploited to detect ad segments?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Thanks! Got the script from the TwitchAdSolutions GitHub and it seems to work well

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Doesn't work on Twitch for me (using Firefox). I've had some success using 'Purple Adblock', but it works by connecting to a public proxy in an ad-free country for the duration of the ad - so it has issues during peak and can get you stuck in a loop

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

2 simultaneous sessions on different devices/IP's = inconsequential. A 3rd simultaneous session = auth tokens revoked on all authorised devices, and you get a warning that lasts for 1 week. If 3 simultaneous sessions occur again within that time then your account gets removed.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago

Firefox blocks statcounter tracking by default. It's an inherently flawed metric, though Firefox is definitely in the minority still vs Chrome

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

https://archive.is/96Woj

The company made “more than a dozen technical improvements” to AI Overviews ...

... making the feature rely less heavily on user-generated content from sites like Reddit

So it prefers the results that Google normally deprioritizes? I guess we have that in common

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm mostly only using CCWGTV, both the original 4k model and the budget 1080p one. Neither have performance issues for me (except before filtering out 4k releases on the 1080p model)

I'm just aiming for the simplest/smoothest experience as possible, not so much for myself but so that I can mail it out to my mum who lives out in the bush and just tell her to enter her wifi password and open kodi. She's able to manage from there without having to worry about hdr/dv content compatibility with her display, or default audio language/subtitle display etc.

In kodi you can edit settings.xml for IPTV Simple Client addon to point playlist items to a given category in Seren, make a playlist linking to those categories a favourite, and configure Kodi to open to the favourites menu on launch. That way she has a fully on-rails and custom experience based on her preferences from the point that she runs it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I've heard good things about Stremio + Torrentio. Does it have trakt integration or similar equivalent? I think the discovery in addons that have this makes a big difference. I have many different categories to browse that might sound similar, e.g. Trending, Trending New, Most Watched, Most Popular. But each one has a specific and plainly disclosed ranking methodology and that's very useful to avoid constantly being recommended to watch The Office, Breaking Bad, cowboy soaps etc

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (9 children)

Pay for real-debrid and set up a kodi addon like Seren on a streaming box. You'll get an equivalent experience to paid/official streaming platforms without having to pay for them all, including browsing popular shows without having to download them ahead of time or manage a home server. It's still torrenting under the hood, just a lot more convenient

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

It also explicitly states in the posted screengrab that the opting-out user's workspace won't contribute to the underlying models. How would that be separate from using info on their workspace as training data for any kind of model? My interpretation of that is the data would be used to inference on the models, not train them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They'd still resolve via DNS to an address in ASCII though, right? Wouldn't that only be an issue if ICANN didn't have a monopoly on DNS registration? i.e what we already depend on for a semblance of convenience without totally compromising opsec

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