kevincox

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[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

I paid for GPM for quite a while. I then started working at Google and beta tested YouTube Music from very early on and gave lots of feedback about how it sucked. When they shut down GPM I cancelled my YouTube Premium membership and installed an ad blocker. Not just YTM but so many things about YouTube were getting worse and worse and I couldn't find it in myself to keep paying for a service that kept removing features.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Yes, but in my experience it is pretty trash. Unlike Google Play Music which matched the music to known tracks and shuffled it in with recommended playlists and other features on YouTube Music the uploaded songs are basically completely isolated. At that point why use a streaming service?

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What are you running MS-DOS? laughs in multi-tasking.

I just drag my vi terminals to another workspace and launch a new editor.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

A few hundred a month is just a few per day. That is pretty low volume by most standards.

I would say in general if the SMTP server could be replaced by a single human writing and mailing snail-mail letters by hand it qualifies as low volume.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/issues/444 suggests otherwise. Do you have any information about multi-device support.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 month ago

This isn't how YouTube has streamed videos for many, many years.

Most video and live streams work by serving a sequence of small self-contained video files (often in the 1-5s range). Sometimes audio is also separate files (avoids duplication as you often use the same audio for all video qualities as well as enables audio-only streaming). This is done for a few reasons but primarily to allow quite seamless switching between quality levels on-the-fly.

Inserting ads in a stream like this is trivial. You just add a few ad chunks between the regular video chunks. The only real complication is that the ad needs to start at a chunk boundary. (And if you want it to be hard to detect you probably want the length of the ad to be a multiple of the regular chunk size). There is no re-encoding or other processing required at all. Just update the "playlist" (the list of chunks in the video) and the player will play the ad without knowing that it is "different" from the rest of the chunks.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago

That is a pretty weak argument. The issues are minor and in a library that people are moving off of to a better build and stronger validated library. Yes, it should have been like that in the first place, but the problem is minor and being addressed.

I would look more to the various features of Matrix that aren't encrypted like room names, topics, reactions, ... and not to mention the oodles of unencrypted metadata. I really wouldn't call Matrix a high-privacy system.

I like Matrix and use it regularly, but it definitely doesn't have a privacy-first mindset like Signal does. I'm hoping that this improves over time, but without a strong privacy first leadership it seems unlikely to happen.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (14 children)

Simplex doesn't support mutli-device. That's a deal breaker for me. I do 90% of my messaging at my desktop but also want to be able to chat on the go. Using my laptop on the couch is also fairly convenient.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Ah ok. You aren't doing auth. I don't understand how this is relevant.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Are you doing auth in the reverse proxy for Jellyfin? Do you use Chromecast or any non-web interface? If so I'm very interested how you got it to work.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The concern is that it would be nice if the UNIX users and LDAP is automatically in sync and managed from a version controlled source. I guess the answer is just build up a static LDAP database from my existing configs. It would be nice to have one authoritative system on the server but I guess as long as they are both built from one source of truth it shouldn't be an issue.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by kevincox@lemmy.ml to c/rss@lemmy.ml
 

I know the Email isn't everyone's favourite RSS reader but it works really well for me. I wasn't happy with any of the existing services so I started my own.

https://feedmail.org is a low-cost RSS-to-Email service with nice clean templates. I'm happy to answer any questions.

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