NewPipe is a YT frontend that blocks ads, allows downloading, can run in the background and is generally great. It's a killer app for Android in my opinion.

https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe

Second recommendation for newpipe. Fantastic app. I love that you can still have "subscriptions", playlists etc without an account. Set it as the default app for youtube.com and related domains and you'll never look back

Potentially related is yt-dlp getting a 403 lately when downloading from Reddit. The extractor uses old.reddit.com. Hopefully they'll find a way to use the regular Reddit gateway instead.

But I can't stand new Reddit so maybe I'll take this as an opportunity to give it up entirely.

Yeah, that would align; this probably also cuts off most of the “download Reddit videos” websites. More textsec, though I guess that’s more like contentsec? CONSEC there we go.

0.3... is just the decimal representation of 1/3. So:

0.3... = 1/3

0.6... = 2/3

0.9... = 3/3 (= 1)

But you are assuming 0.3... is the representation of 1/3. We don't have to make this assumption, it's just the one we are usually taught. Math doesn't really break from making different assumptions, quite the opposite.

Let's make some different assumptions, not following high school math: When I divide 1 by 3, I always get a remainder. So it would just be as equally valid to introduce a mathematical object representing this remainder after I performed the infinite number of divisions. Then

1/3 = 0.3... + eps / 3

2/3 = 0.6... + 2eps / 3

3/3 = 0.9... + 3eps / 3

and since 0.9... = 1 - eps, we get 3/3 = 0.9... + eps = 1

It's all still sound (I haven't proven this, but so far I don't see any contradiction in my assumptions). And it comes out where 0.9... is not equal to 1. Just because I added a mathematical object that forces this to come out.

Edit: Yes, I am breaking a lot of other stuff (e.g. standard calculus) by introducing this new eps object. But that is not an indicator that this is "wrong", just different from high school math.

Seems like a competition that started reasonably and mutated into nonsense over time as the rules were exploited (and never modified, I guess). If it's an established debate style and offered to kids as legitimate you can't blame them. Kids do what is available to them.

Everyone has choices to make in life.

The equivalent would be speed chess, wouldnt it? There is nothing intellectual about speaking as fast as possible.

There is also safe-rm https://adamheins.com/blog/a-safer-rm

I completely disagree with you. Very ideological people might be given to lie about or simply ignore things that challenge their ideology.

It seems very cozy, although filled with people pushing their commercial projects. If people are projecting Bluesky's future on its current cozy state they are fools. The only way to remain cozy is to remain small.

Nearest thing to a name drop is the end, but isnt a name drop (also spoilers):

"And yet, now that I am an old, old man, I must confess that of all the faces that appear to me out of the past, the one I see most clearly is that of the girl of whom I've never ceased to dream these many long years. She was the only earthly love in my life, yet I never knew, nor ever learned, her name."

Sounds like a comfy sequence in a larger game I would anticipate on replay. I put my own $250 on the table (given the prompt and process were forthcoming).