i can't even get youtube to load with ublock.. theres a years old thread with hundreds of comments on the github -- what are people actually using today to preserve their sanity on youtube?

edit: the issue with ublock is the black screen - sometimes the video loads after 10 or so seconds, sometimes it doesnt. i dont consider hiding the ad while still having to wait around for it to finsish playing behind an overlay the same as "blocking" :|

Using ublock and umatrix both on firefox with full tracking protection enabled. Don't recall ever having any issues with youtube. Sometimes an alert will pop up "see why you're experiencing playback interruptions" and it clicks through to a page about how this is due to my adblocking extension but the joke is on them because I don't recall it ever actually being interrupted. It's just this erroneous alert that occasionally pops up.

Still using ublock. Recently there's a delay starting vid sometimes, about 3 sec. I can deal with it.

Ublock origin for whatever reason never blocks ads before video for me. IDK what is up with my parameters because I know it works for other people.

I have the same issue. Perma-black loading screen that resolves as soon as I disable ublock origin. Using Firefox on Debian.

Thats interesting. If you’re on Chrome I’d try out Firefox just to see. I haven’t had any issues for a long time.

Works fine for me, FF Win11

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yep, can confirm. we pay for the service, we use an ad-blocker and we are the ones affected. oh the irony... i now have ublock disabled for youtube.

image generation kind of reminds me of video games or any cgi in general.. the progress is undeniable, and yet with every milestone it seems the last gap to "photorealism" is infinitely wide

reminds me of a friend who had IBS and was desperate to try a fecal transplant but no doctor would offer it. so her partner gave her one and it worked

uh ohhh... forgot how to think..

I wrote this project by hand in Sublime Text, which is more of a text editor than an IDE. I don't use ai, even for autocomplete.

All of the code is unminified/unobfuscated in the index.html file, you can right click the page and view-source it.

I do the same as you, except in vim. But increasingly I'm getting the nagging feeling that I'm wasting my time.

You’re not wasting time by being deliberate about what you build and having to choose what to dedicate yourself to. Vibe coding is not synonymous with productivity, and a lot of what we call “productive” today is just a different form of wasting life that is more socially acceptable.

I made this project from start to finish in less than a day, and I feel it was well worth my time and effort.

Thank you for spending your time and effort on something fun you believe in and that explores a point about human nature, and for showing we often underestimate how much we can get done in so little time on our own when we set our attention to it.

Should that be a criteria for deciding whether it's cool or not?

Criterion.

I'm getting fucking sick of it. this bubble can go ahead and burst

most humans share the same core values. values antithetical to war.

nobody demonized afx or idm bro. autotune, yes. but that's different. damn autotune to hell