Youtube’s Anti-adblock and uBlock Origin - And a Dinosaur
YouTube isn’t rolling out the anti-adblock to everyone … there are a bunch of people … spreading misinformation.
The uBO team members are all volunteers … there’s a limit to how much they can take … at some point, they will leave uBO for good. It’s one thing to play cat and mouse with YouTube. It’s quite another to deal with a wave of angry users. Maybe that’s how YouTube will win this war of attrition.
This is a thorough technical article about Ublock Origins and the fight against YouTube.
I’m working on consolidating my reading process on the web. It involves RSS feeds, of course, but also going into more depth and visiting people’s blogs and posts at times.
With the temperature outside in lower 50s, it’s still 80 degrees in my room. Yesterday, it passed it. At this rate, I will run my AC into November. 🔥
I’m turning on cross-posting from micro.blog once again as an experiment.
After organizing my photos, I finally got to edit and work out some of my photos 📷from Bar Harbor in September. More work to do, but progress…!
If You See a Teal Pumpkin This Halloween, This Is What It Means
The teal pumpkins are part of the Teal Pumpkin Project, put on by the non-profit Food Allergy Research and Education (FARE). Non-food items may include glow sticks, pop-up toys, playing cards, pencil toppers and temporary tattoos.
This is a good idea. Plus, the color is nice!
Also, sorting my photos, I’m considering a couple of features I’d like in a future camera 📷:
- GPS tagging (so I can find photos by looking at a map in Lightroom)
- WiFi syncing to Synology / DNS
- Mirrorless Sony (so it fits my current lenses)
- Longer video clip duration
- Higher sensitivity (low light)
One of the things that was holding me back from editing my photos was the mess. I now organized them by week numbers (that’s how I work, and yes, I’m crazy), and I already feel better sorting through them.
Files are organized into folders by year and week; collections reflect events.
After all this time, I still can’t evaluate inches in my head. I bought a new shower head, an “extra long 60-inch hose.” I contacted Amazon to complain about it being the wrong product before I took my measurement tape to it. I imagined it would be twice as long. Wouldn’t happen with centimeters.
No One Will Save You, 2023 - ★★½
You know the taste of a well-done steak left on the grill a bit too long? They add more spices in, some more exotic than others, to make it interesting, but really what it does is to try to compensate for the somewhat burned flavor.
This is not a bad movie. I've seen some horrific movies, and not in the fun Halloween way. It's entertaining and good to watch with a friend - or a few even - with a drink, which is fine. It's fine.
It's just not the kind of movie that fucks with your head. It doesn't have the ability to do so. It starts with familiar tropes, and you can guess what happens quite easily all the way to the end.
To her defense, Dever delivers a good performance. I bet she'd have a couple of good things to say if only the movie would let her (the film is almost 100% speech-free, for "reasons.") the quality of the effects is also alright, but in this day and age when nearly every horny 20 year old can create deepfakes of their most disturbed fantasies, I don't think it's much of an achievement.
The main issue of this film is the plot. It's there, somewhere, a basic and familiar one we've seen before, and it could work well. The film's trying to do this little dance of "maybe it's all in her head?" But it's clumsy, and it gets stepped over by the special effects. Speaking of those - the aliens (it says there are aliens in the description, so I'm not spoiling anything, right?) are a bad joke of monsters you get in horror films. You can't tell if they're messing around or really are that dumb because if they are, how in the world (or Mars, or whatever) can they fly those spaceships?
You want a pizza night with a drink and a couple of friends? This is it. You want good psychological horror to keep you up at night, second-guessing your life? Move on, this ain't it.
I’m at about 60% reading Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane 📚. I somehow picked just the right book for Halloween for me.
A note about location “check-ins” in MB:
You might have noticed a couple of locations posts on my blog, like this one, for example. I’m experimenting with OwnYourSwarm, a tool that exports check-ins from Swarm and posts them to my blog.
I’m not happy with it yet, but hopefully soon.
It’s a small thing, almost unnoticeable, but I do have a bit more willpower and the ability to regulate my thoughts. For example, if I’m tired, I will go to bed for a nap, and I don’t play another round of World of Worships first. I believe it’s thanks to the increase in meditations.
Emacs vent
I know I’m grumpy this morning, but I think I’m getting tired of Emacs. Every time something doesn’t work, you have to dig in and find the one comma you fat-fingered last night or whatever, and sometimes you just don’t have the time and energy for that.
The problem is, because it’s such a huge part of my workflow, I can’t just let it go and deal with it later when I have the time. When something breaks, it’s like someone just tied my arm behind my back, and there’s a good chance I’ll have extra work later.
I don’t know. Just feel a bit lost about this whole thing.
After not sleeping well a second night, nothing is better than the nice calming noise of a leaf blower 🤪
Morningside Park - 113th St. Playground.
Tom’s Restaurant.
I’ve had the MacBook Pro M2 for about two months now, connected to power 24/7, with an external screen, keyboard and mouse.
I was worried it will kill the battery, but then I found out it has a battery saving mode.
Today I worked remote for an hour and a half. I thought it will go down from 80% to like 60%, 65% if I’m lucky.
It didn’t go lower than 77%. The Mac used 3% of it’s battery (at 80% when I left home) for 1.5 hours of work. I’m very impressed.
Dutch Baby Bakery: checking out a new place in the neighborhood to work from. Good stuff here.
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People here who record and edit podcasts, what apps do you use? What is your generic workflow?