chasteinsect

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[–] chasteinsect@programming.dev 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

It was…oh my god. Do you have ANY idea how awful the vanilla youtube experience is?

Whether or not that matters depends on how much and how you watch it.

Ads while I listen to music = annoying

I want to navigate fast to different videos on PC to find something and almost every time an ad appears on a new video = annoying

I'm watching some chill drive or walk while reading a book and a loud ad appears = annoying.

But when I just go and watch 1-3 videos before bed on my ipad? I don't care if I get those 2-4 ads, I just mute and wait those couple of seconds. I have no youtube adblockers or different clients on ipad / phone for that reason.

[–] chasteinsect@programming.dev 45 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

"Based on these reports, users see a message stating “Comments are turned off,” which appears across a wide range of videos"

Seems like a win to me.

[–] chasteinsect@programming.dev 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I haven't been following much of the new developments of these self-hostable AI. Can you actually self-host anything decent?

I have played around these smaller models in the past and honestly anything smaller than LLama 4 Scout was just not very useful. Now Llama 4 Scout was "17B Active parameters, 16 experts and 109B Total parameters" so not sure what that even means.

[–] chasteinsect@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Terry Davis was right...

Edit: For anyone that don't know : https://youtu.be/3HD43lvNvCA?t=2084 He was mentally unwell but he called it !

[–] chasteinsect@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah I noticed the main AUR package was last updated in June 2024. Thought they abandoned it but the GitHub shows the last release was around the same time. Downloaded sioyek-git instead and it works great.

I think I'm sticking with Sioyek. It checks enough boxes for what I need from a pdf viewer. Well documented, no performance issues, and it supports epub too.

The command line tools, portals, ruler for reading, keyboard text selection, searchable highlights, easy file opening, marking. Really vim-like. Need to customize some keybinds but otherwise don't see a reason to look elsewhere for now.

[–] chasteinsect@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Oh Sioyek looks interesting. Also the blog is great !

[–] chasteinsect@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

I personally want something more minimal.

 

I've been using Firefox to view PDFs and it works fine. Recently though I wanted to try something more minimal with vim keybindings. Found two options: Zathura and tdf (terminal pdf viewer).

What I'm curious about is why someone would choose a TUI pdf viewer over a regular one (like Zathura). What are the actual advantages people find in practice. tdf mentions being fast but I wonder if that's something you'd actually notice day to day?

Also I remember seeing screenshots where PDFs looked transparent or matched the terminal colors. Is that actually a feature of some of these viewers ? Maybe someone uses one here?

Tdf seems relatively popular with 1.4k github stars.