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[mental health understander mode activates] good habits feel harder to form than bad ones, because you don't notice the good ones that feel natural and the bad ones that you stay away from. what's left are bad ones that you get something out of and good ones you don't yet feel that you do

@CIMB4 oof okay good to know - thank you. I wonder if I just got unlucky and triggered their “perma”ban during a period when uBlock was detectable. I feel like sooner or later I’m going to learn how to game this system, though

do not tell an autistic person to “be as detailed as you can” on paperwork. that’s how you get multiple extra pages stapled to the back

@tempest I think I vaguely remember something like this! but my memories are incredibly hazy, and I’d love to see it again sometime 💙

@foone the fact that they only had around 29,000 cycles per frame really puts into perspective just how little compute the 6502 had, and just how fast their code had to be

also this was such a cool video - thank you for sharing! normally with these types of videos I have no idea what they’re talking about after a certain point (that always happens to me with Retro Game Mechanics Explained except for their Pacman ghost AI video) but I was able to follow all of this and it was really interesting too

I need more youtube channels where they're going over the code of reverse engineered games

just Displaced Gamers isn't enough, even if super awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G6vkRz-_0I

they should make nametags for plural systems that have a little arrow that slides up and down so they can point to the name of whoever is fronting

Time for another #PSA: Hey, minors, interact. Be part of the community. Ask questions. Learn shit from people who've been there before.

I hate this MDNI bullshit.

Sure, there are some boundaries you should be aware of—for instance, don't tell me you clicked on my nsfw gallery, don't send *anyone* compromising pics of yourself, don't give up personally identifying info to strangers, and so on. You're smart, I believe in you.

But I *wish* I had open, friendly, queer adults around when I was a kid. I had to figure out a ton of shit on my own. There were so many questions I had—and so many more I didn't even know I had until years (or decades) later.

So ask. Participate. Engage.

I'll always try my best to include y'all at the grownup table, and to talk openly and honestly.

All I ask in return is that you keep safe and grow up to be the best you you know how to.

(and maybe save me a seat at the kids' table once in a while, because adults can be boring as fuck 😮‍💨)

I’ve been trial-and-erroring which specific extensions are causing #YouTube to block me (the hope being that I can disable some of them in order to watch videos without ads), and it turns out that it’s none of them? or at least, if I disable uBlock Origin, SponsorBlock, Privacy Badger, and Decentraleyes, I’m still not allowed to watch YouTube videos. the extra confusing thing is that YouTube’s block screen says that all I have to do is disable uBlock Origin and refresh the page and I should instantly be able to watch videos again

I wonder if, after long enough, they just permablock a certain YouTube session. because the interesting thing is that if I open a private window with uBlock Origin enabled, I can watch YouTube videos there just fine

so, I’m going to keep watching YouTube videos in that private window for a while, and if after 24-48 hours I still don’t see the block screen, then that lets me know that uBlock Origin is not what’s triggering the {disable your adblocker to watch this video} screen

@CIMB4 @nol ooh good idea! I hope there is one like that

@nol that definitely makes sense! unfortunately some of the videos that I want to repost are from accounts that are now abandoned, so I won’t be able to ask permission from them

now that I have a fuckton of videos on my hard drive, would it be worthwhile and ethical for me to upload them to a Fedi video-hosting instance? they’re not my videos and I don’t have permission to repost them but I just want to save them from being erased by the megacorps and I want more people to be able to access them

also if you’re unable to watch age-restricted youtube videos with mpc-hc here’s a fix!

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/12676#issuecomment-2747253332

YouTube has been much more aggressive about blocking my access to their videos - to the point that they’ve made it pretty inconvenient to use FreeTube (I have to refresh pages 2-3 times for the video to load or it gets blocked, and some videos just won’t play at all and I have to use MPC-HC instead) and of course they’ve still completely blocked my access to YouTube videos in the browser

so I’ve been backing up all of my favorite YouTube videos to my hard drive using yt-dlp. at this level of enshittification who knows if I’ll still have a workaround for watching YouTube videos in a year or so, or even if YouTube as a website will still exist

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