I hope your right too lol.

The indie scene is so much fun.

As a dev the reason pdf is so strange is because it’s a compound format. It can be just images strung together. It can also be pure text with fonts, ect…etc …

If you open the file as a text file, you can see this. It’s many different formats in a trenchcoat.

Very good news!!

It’s a fun project!

A lot of data gets deleted after a while. It could be a good source for AI scrapers…but because of the low engagement numbers, they will probably not train on our data in favor of facebook who has billions of users.

Direct sponsoring has worked in the past with many open source projects (including lemmy.world). Could be closer to what Patreon does.

Give it a couple of years. AI is just getting started.

My wife and I were discussing this. This isnt “slow” to us, its just a tiny bit inconvenient. We were used to the old AOL pictures taking a good minute or two to load.

We would get rid of Youtube before we get ads.

Ok cool! I updated yt-dlp via pip, and it looks like its working again. No warnings or anything. Awesome.

Ublock origin (if your using it) “fixed” the issue shortly after. Im convinced someone at google works on adblock lol. Probably not true but the timing was really fast.

Yeah Peertube is awesome. It already scales very well with its tech. Its been growing too. I think its good to have multiple alternatives. Its a good free option.

Ultimately the platform is the last important part of watching a video. If the creators can get more $$/activity going somewhere else they will. It happened to Vimeo, it will happen to Youtube.

My ip was blocked a LONG time ago by google for using yt-dlp. Works with VPN but nothing else. Fun times. I think I only pulled a couple of videos off for archival services. On my own channel non-the-less.

Ive had issues with personal instances and gotosocial with the bridge but not mastodon.social. Not sure if anyone else is having the issues.

Company policy and MS licensing agreements. Also while devs can work with any OS, most users are “used” to windows and windows based products. We are talking 30+ years at the job. So they just stay there.

Although its changing slowly. More and more apps are just web interfaces with makeup. Theres real talk that getting macs for certain departments. Its just one small step for linux at that point. And as people age out of the workforce, theres a push for newer tools…which dont require windows at all.

FFTactics like others was my favorite.

I quite enjoyed into the breach.

I bought a couple of tactics like games on steam and they all dont seem to be fun to me. I guess I like to grind a bit on fair but punishing tactics titles.

Wait 6 months to a year. See what breaks.

Significantly different in most communities. Much more collab work for one. Plus faster changes in general. Hard to game an algorithm when everyone has a different one and in different places. The people are just nicer here. I feel like I can actually have a conversation without being drowned.

Fedidb should be taken with a grain of salt.

Yunohost is pretty easy all things considered.