Makes me miss a time where they couldn't tell if ads were actually watched or not.
Sooner or later, ad blockers should just simulate the ad being played (in the background) with the real content going in the foreground to act as if the ad was watched.
Kind of like going to the bathroom during commercials.
Then again I wish we had a real alternative to YouTube. (Don't point me to the fediverse video stuff ... that's not what I mean.) There is no real competition for a place to freely upload videos ... or on the other side find all that content. No one wants to scale enough to compete. (Very few probably could considering the amount of new content per minute).
If only there was real competition, then YouTube would have to fight over our attention/usage by lowering ad count.
No competition means worse for all.
I would say make laws about data collection, usage, etc. instead of banning TikTok.
Heck, fix more important problems like income disparity, hunger, homelessness, healthcare, our wasteful spending, so many things more important and yet we're wasting time on TikTok.
I don't think people think this is a good use of time.
Seriously, it's government overreach and ignoring freedom of speech, etc.
It's one thing to ask for a high level design graph.. asking for a functioning.. this.. is nuts. They're using you.
I'll just point out that I have a 20 year old Dell business class color laser printer. Got it off Craigslist a few years ago for 40 bucks. It has Ethernet, with a webui. You can disable the toner chips if you want and only lose toner amount estimates and then use any toner you want. We even got the duplex attachment for it a few years ago.
It is literally at least 3 feet tall and weighs at least 50 lbs.
It literally makes all the lights in my house flick when we turn it on. We once blew a circuit when it turned on.
We lovingly call it the Old Ding Dong Printer.
As long as it works, why would I ever replace it? Products have gone downhill.
Why? These are insane people and posts. Seems to fit in. I think other posts are allowed also. Be the change you wish to see.
I had one of the SanDisk flash drives that had some launcher thing on it and I had a password for some reason on it.
In high school, a classmate tried to guess it, 3 times and I lost everything on it forever, since it stupidly locked forever after 3 tries.
I had software projects from back then that I can never get back.. including a web browser. I could have had the next Firefox..
If you're out there, Liz: I'll never forgive that.
I don't get it. Are they more or less saying to bill the CFO for their own bill? How does that even make sense in their heads?
I want a phone with a built in projector.. and a bigger battery.. and something else I haven't thought of yet.
I miss new features and innovation.
Since we have neither, give me modularization to let me have ^
There is a pizza place. We once went in to order food. There was no food, no menu, no drinks. We stood there and asked for a menu. They looked at us like we were nuts. We turned around and left.
Is this actually the reason it's called this? Like dead serious.
Do ya remember photobucket? .. Pepperidge Farm remembers.
.. is there a better way to report?
Hey folks,
This is an update to: https://sh.itjust.works/post/580838
On https://github.com/csm10495/commit-ment, I made it to somewhere around 22 million commits. I can't imagine this is not a world record for commits to a single branch. In the middle of the night, I got an email from GitHub support saying:
A few minutes later, I got another email like so:
I've asked them if the two emails are related (and I guess if the first one is some sort of error since there was no personal info in that repo). I've also asked if they can give any information about what triggered the email and if they can give me more info about what it looks look on their side.
I've also asked if they can re-enable it so I can give one more commit to say the final results on the readme then (public) archive it.
We'll see what they say.
Doing a pull is interesting at the moment, it shows:
git pull origin master --no-rebase -vvv
ERROR: Access to this repository has been disabled by GitHub staff due to
excessive resource use. Please contact support via
https://support.github.com/contact to restore access to this repository.
Read about how to decrease the size of your repository:
https://docs.github.com/articles/what-is-my-disk-quota
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.
Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.
Similar thing happens if you try to clone: git@github.com:csm10495/commit-ment.git
So yeah, I figured this would happen sooner or later. I just hope they can tell me a bit more about what it looks like on their side since managing this repo on my box is a pain, I can't imagine what it could look like on theirs. I'm also curious how pull requests could merge at such a rate given that just doing a pull on my end could take minutes. So many questions!
This whole project was really just for curiosity on my end, so anything I can learn/find out is much appreciated on all ends.
Anyways, just figured I'd update y'all.
I decided to see how many commits GitHub (and git) could take before acting kind of wonky. At ~19 million commits (and counting) to master: it's wonky.
The GitHub API has periodic issues merging/creating PRs. (I use PRs since that is more reliable than keeping a local master up to date via pulling at this point).
GitHub reports... 
infinity commits. Doing a full clone from GitHub Actions is taking around 2 hours.
Using:
git pull origin master
to update my local master hangs for a while before even printing anything.
If anyone has seen a public GitHub repo with more commits to its main branch, let me know.
If anyone wants to see how slow wonky git acts at this scale, feel free to clone.
Edit: Update to this post is: https://sh.itjust.works/post/672069
I was told they'd always be there for me. Then my dad passed away a few years ago.
I still miss him.