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yt-dlp will soon require a full JS runtime to overcome YouTube’s JS challenges

If you download YouTube videos, there's a real chance you're sing yt-dlp, the long-running and widely-used command-line program for downloading YouTube videos. Even if you're not using it directly, many other tools for downloading YouTube videos are built on top of yt-dlp, a

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TIL there's a brand of bathroom door lock called MUTEX which I guess makes sense. You definitely want to hold the bathroom mutex while using the toilet!

sadly they are only for men and women, leaving us enbies unable to pee yet again

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Market day going well!

Even sold a canvas 🥹. People also found the demo fun hehehe

My laptop did overheat lmao. Zimbabwe got hella sunshine!

Re: perl moment 

@Byte there is really too much to get into. But the biggest thing would be what I would consider normal and sensible scoping rules, unlike earlier versions.

Re: perl moment 

@Byte yeah just for the love of all things holy use perl6

@mayazimmerman KDE Simon is really the only user-facing linux dictation software. You can use the CMU Sphinx speech recognition backend which doesn't use machine learning (low-power, low-spec) and has been around for a while. Not sure if that one is the default though, and the other backends in the settings might be worth trying.

Edit: Got something that works

Looking for dictation software I can use with Linux Mint (Firefox for the browser) that does not use AI or at least doesn't randomly have the AI respond to the things it's supposed to transcribe instead of transcribing them.

This is an accessibility issue that I'm hoping can be solved because I want to write and really just can't currently.

perl moment 

"State of the art technology at the forefront of computing using modern language paradigms adapted to modern demands"

*pokes it with a stick*

*inscrutable perl5 error*

okay.

unfortunate real experience this reminds me of 

@aroacemagicalnerd @so_treu sharing around a blackface clip of a trans woman on facebook who does a minstrel show with each other, at the function.

unfortunate real experience this reminds me of 

@so_treu white gay men watching the white trans woman minstrel show together on Facebook

@VegaHarmonia last week I had a Windows install disk that successfully installed Windows 10 onto itself (instead of the only other storage medium)

Also my roommate asked me to be her girlfriend after this outing which is also pretty fucking cool
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bitching about the anti-academic streak of :ai: crap taking over 

Supercomputers put to the task of AI.

Nuclear plants put to the task of powering AI supercomputers.

Yet none of the top-tier HPC compute can go back to academic nuclear plant research simulations. Those sims gotta run on a creaky old institution cluster.

AI bros claim they are gonna bring about a technocracy or some shit but they can't even conceive of Baconian science 101.

And for what? So we can see AI slop in ads. Cut the last bastion of humanity out of corporate marketing. Fucking great.

I think anyone who fundamentally views an artist as an obstacle to be bypassed ought to be bypassed themselves.

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