[-] pensa@kbin.social 43 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

YouTube’s attempts at blocking Adblockers are pathetic

I've long maintained that the majority of programmers working for Alphabet/Google/YouTube spent more time learning how to get the job than how to do the job well. There is a lot more to coding than "Cracking the Coding Interview."

It's not about building cool things over there. Is has not been that way for a long time. They just want the money and reputation.

[-] pensa@kbin.social 14 points 8 months ago
[-] pensa@kbin.social 29 points 8 months ago

I'd really like it if we stopped blaming the corporation and start blaming the people that make the decisions there and the people that implement those decisions. From the CEO's to the programmers. Put their names everywhere, show the world who actually ruined it. Google was the best resource humanity had to access information. Now, more often than not, I can not find anything related to my search. The search algorithm they used 20 years ago was better than this new junk.

[-] pensa@kbin.social 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It is properly called Freedom of Navigation and has nothing to do with one-upmanship. It is international law that pretty much everyone agrees to except China. We, as Americans, are in the best position to counter their territory grabs in the area by conducting Freedom of Navigation operations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_navigation

[-] pensa@kbin.social 24 points 9 months ago

In my experience, Jellyfin is better than Plex in every single way.

[-] pensa@kbin.social 25 points 9 months ago

I wonder how long until facebook adds it to their surveillance stack.

[-] pensa@kbin.social 26 points 9 months ago

Yet, somehow the rich get richer, even in "once in a lifetime" economics crashes.

[-] pensa@kbin.social 14 points 9 months ago

I bet they sold your info to cambridge analytica for a bit more than that.

[-] pensa@kbin.social 37 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I tried the 100 free searches from Kagi and compared the results to DDG. In almost every search the results were the same. Even the order. I think the real benefit to Kagi is the lack of ads and tracking, tha's all.

I think the real reason search sucks these days is the AI they put between you and what your looking for. It's no longer searching for what you typed, it's searching for what it thinks you want.

[-] pensa@kbin.social 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

No.

It ends when we eat our corporate overlords. I look forward to sprinkling Torgo's Executive Powder on my favorite dish.

[-] pensa@kbin.social 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I think the probability of the cops catching you using a net launcher is too high.

I think a diy directional emp would be a better choice. https://techlinkcenter.org/news/heres-the-armys-now-patented-emp-rifle-attachment-for-taking-out-small-drones#!

For the more technically inclined, I would imagine something like a software defined radio with a powerful transmitter could take control of the drone and go park it in the Hudson.

I'm pretty sure all of these options are highly illegal. So this is just for informational purposes only. :)

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