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  • What a weird thing to argue.

    It doesn’t matter whether the list is part of the video or whether it was created by PewDiePie.

    The list, in the screenshot of OP, is garbage.

    Besides, the same screenshot is of a video that shows the list along with the name of the channel and the video title (which correlates with other news of the creator releasing an anti-Google video). So the list, for all purposes of this discussion, is part of the video.









  • I am an ardent believer in it, given how many times it has saved our assets at work, often to the point of annoying people. That said, I usually end up being right for insisting on more time and/or data, so it’s all good.

    However, my spoonerific brain always gets this twisted to “measure once, cut twice”.

    I unknowingly wrote this once in a comment about asking for more metrics during a design review.

    My colleague (the author of said design document) replied with the relevant metrics and a comment saying “measure never, cut forever”. :D




  • Yes. I was searching for a video about a panda refusing to bathe on YouTube app of a friend’s phone.

    The first 4-6 results were Shorts, and I had no way of knowing if they were what I wanted apart from the thumbnails, since the titles were truncated. The next four were only semi-related videos, in the sense it was about a panda.

    The rest of the videos that followed were absolutely bonkers. From Minecraft clips to random mobile arcade games I have never heard of, and many, many, MANY AI generated Chinese videos featuring a baby doing farm work, masonry, or other kinds of labor.

    In a way, it felt like a display of arrogance. In the sense that YouTube was confident it had already served me what I was looking for in the first 10 results, and then said: “Now that you have seen what you searched for, why not watch this crap?”


  • One glance at the GitHub issues reveals just how much of a struggle it is for the NewPipe developers to keep the app functioning, with YouTube constantly targeting every trick they use.

    It’s draining so much of their time and energy that there’s barely anything left for working on new features.

    The mental exhaustion of the developers is another issue entirely, one that should be obvious to anyone familiar with the demands of maintaining a relatively popular open source project. The fact that it involves YouTube only makes things worse for them.



  • I used to frequent Twitter almost a decade ago then switched to Reddit before dropping it in 2023, so I found this and the previous EW spread quite informative.

    Is there any other way to be on top of DCU news today, which doesn’t require me to visit either of those sites?

    It’s the classic “someone will kill me if I say it”, but he’s the someone.

    That stood out to me as well. :D

    I guess Safran could be that “someone” for Gunn, but they are both equals.

    There is also the bigger problem of someone beating them to the punch if it is truly a novel idea. There is a precedent for similar comic book movies releasing in relative proximity while apparently being developed independently. Civil War and BvS, and No Way Home and The Flash, come to mind.

    Addendum on Reddit

    r/DC_Cinematic and r/DCEU_Leaks subs were wild, when BvS burned and hit the ground. The hysteria continued and worsened as Whedon took up JL. I can only imagine what Twitter was like around those times.

    I checked out from those subs after watching JL in theatre, for obvious reasons.

    I did peek back once more when ZSJL released and saw mass disillusionment in both subs, which made me glad that I checked out earlier.