gentooer

joined 1 year ago

Google is testing the ‘impact’ of removing EU news from search results in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] gentooer@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This has "Brazil, neighbouring country to France" energy.

Anon has a lucid dream in c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

[–] gentooer@programming.dev 30 points 2 months ago

He did. It was just a poor choice of reality check.

Google has been blocking many tools/IP ranges that try to synchronize with YouTube in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] gentooer@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've actually never looked into yt-dlp's default behaviour, as I've always been happy with the video and audio quality of the downloaded video. Probing the downloaded video from the command in my comment above yields for the video Video: vp9 (Profile 0) (vp09 / 0x39307076), yuv420p(tv, bt709), 1920x1080, 3751 kb/s, 25 fps, 25 tbr, 16k tbn (default), and for the audio Audio: aac (LC) (mp4a / 0x6134706D), 44100 Hz, stereo, fltp, 128 kb/s (default).

Google has been blocking many tools/IP ranges that try to synchronize with YouTube in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] gentooer@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The basic command is just yt-dlp 'www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ' tho.

Microsoft is enabling BitLocker device encryption by default on Windows 11 in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] gentooer@programming.dev 18 points 3 months ago (5 children)

These are valid complaints tho.

Which country pirates movies the most? in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[–] gentooer@programming.dev 7 points 3 months ago

When the resolution of so low you can't find your own country

Decentralised YouTube alternative Odysee no longer serving ads in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] gentooer@programming.dev 70 points 3 months ago

I remember liking the idea of Odysee, but that turned rather quickly

Outsourcing emotion: The horror of Google’s “Dear Sydney” AI ad | The company suggests using AI to write a child’s fan letter and the ad is so bad that Google turned off comments for it on YouTube in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] gentooer@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

I've been watching quite a lot of Olympics coverage on TV, but never seen any ads. Is there an official Olympics TV channel with these ads?

Anon has a question in c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

[–] gentooer@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

Blasphemy!

Anon has a question in c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

[–] gentooer@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Here in Belgium nearly every household has a friteuse to make fries.

Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit | Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] gentooer@programming.dev 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

OCR is a form of AI.

Gen Alpha will elect MrBeast president and there's nothing you can do to stop it in c/memes@lemmy.ml

[–] gentooer@programming.dev -1 points 4 months ago

As someone from not America, I hope you don't elect Trump, and we all move away from this authoritarian movement. One can only hope.