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if you have an android phone get newpipe
thank me later.
newpipe is:
- YouTube without ads
- YouTube with downloads (you can even download the audio by itself!)
- YouTube with subscriptions and playlists without logging in
- completely free.
this is not sponsored newpipe just absolutely fucks
newpipe also has a grade A privacy rating on tosdr.org, in contrast to youtube’s grade C
It works with Soundcloud and Bandcamp too holy shit
NEWPIPE DOES NOT HAVE A GOOGLE PLAY ENTRY. GOOGLE PLAY ENTRIES OF NEWPIPE ARE NOT FROM NEWPIPE DEVELOPERS
from the developer github:
“PUTTING NEWPIPE, OR ANY FORK OF IT, INTO THE GOOGLE PLAY STORE VIOLATES THEIR TERMS AND CONDITIONS.”
if you install newpipe from anywhere other than what is listed on their official website, you are not downloading newpipe and may be downloading something malicious. uninstall immediately. I linked the website in the first post because there are people who maliciously insert bad code into all kinds of great apps and then release them somewhere else. there are no ads if you download from newpipe’s github, website, or f-droid entry, through the link in the first post.
if you see someone in this post talking about getting ads on their newpipe install, please consider reaching out to them with this information. I know not everyone will see this, and it really sucks to see so many people finding downloads from somewhere other than the official source I posted and accusing newpipe itself of being malicious.
if you have an older phone, try newpipe legacy, linked at the bottom of the website.
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tiny pogging ferret pictures, for you
*to the tune of the TMNT theme*
Tiny Pogging Ferret Pictures ♪
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20,000 Pounds of Trash Removed From Pacific Garbage Patch: ‘Holy mother of god. It worked!’ becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys:
becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys:
““The Great Pacific Garbage Patch can now be cleaned,” announced Dutch entrepreneur Boyan Slat, the wonderkid inventor who’s spent a decade inventing systems for waterborne litter collection.
Recent tests on his Ocean Cleanup rig called System 002, invented to tackle the 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic pollution, were a success, leading Slat to predict that most of the oceanic garbage patches could be removed by 2040.
Intersections of ocean currents have created the massive floating islands of plastic trash—five slow-moving whirlpools that pull litter from thousands of miles away into a single radius.
The largest one sits between California and Hawaii, and 27-year-old Slat has been designing and testing his systems out there, launching from San Francisco since 2013.
GNN has reported on his original design for the floating device, but his engineering team improved upon it. System 002, nicknamed “Jenny,” successfully netted 9,000 kilograms, or around 20,000 pounds in its first trial.
It’s carbon-neutral, able to capture microplastics as small as 1 millimeter in diameter, and was designed to pose absolutely no threat to wildlife thanks to its wide capture area, slow motion, alerts, and camera monitors that allow operators to spy any overly-curious marine life…
Slat estimates ten Jennies could clean half the garbage patch in five years, and if 10 Jennies were deployed to the five major ocean gyres, then 90% of all floating plastic could be removed by 2040.” -via Good News Network, 10/19/21
How much you wanna bet the State of California will “prohibit” use of this system, because “reasons.”
If it’s in international waters they can’t do anything about it. And I’m pretty sure the federal government decides what can and can’t go on off our coasts too, not local or state.
Slat has been working on this since he was literally a child. I remember the first posts, articles, and I think there was even a fundraising campaign at one point.
I am so, so proud of him holy shit.
^^^ me too!! I remember the first news yeaaars ago that some kid had thought up a brilliantly simple method of cleaning up the oceans, and even that first prototype was amazingly efficient in solving a problem that the grownup world seemed to have given up on. It was so simple I couldn’t believe no scientist or engineer had thought of it before.
And he’s just been refining it and making it better and better? Amazing news!
Well done, sir, well done and thank you <3
My big memory of this is that every time he sent out a prototype, people would overwhelmingly go “AH HA! See? It didn’t work as advertised because a storm broke it/it didn’t filter as much as he predicted/etc.”
And every time, Boyan would analyse what went wrong, tinker with it, and send a stronger version back out.
There are still issues with it, like, but this guy isn’t some shitty billionaire - he’s a normal man walking the walk to clean up an international problem that everyone else is just wringing their hands over. I have no clue why everyone is desperately waiting for him to fail. He’s picked his hill, and he plods along, and if the latest design hasn’t met expectations, he creates a new one.
Their website is here, btw, in case anyone wants to have a look; they still accept donations
Lol whoops THIS is the website
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In case you’re still reflexively on the fence when I proclaim that the conversation about AI has progressed to a truly batshit level of reactionary mythology, people on twitter are currently calling out the animators for Spiderverse for using a digital interpolator to assist with lining, because a documentary used the term “machine learning” to describe it.
Apparently using digital tools is taking work away from real artists. I am excited for 6 months time when the discourse has evolved into “all movies should be hand-inked on the inside of Palaeolithic caves to escape the corrupting labour-stealing influence of the pencil”.
(Yes this is currently a minority opinion in this instance, largely because people just really like Spiderverse. But the fact that these arguments are being seriously made shows how far off the deep end this conversation has gone. These types of arguments for blanket technology bans already made little to no sense due to the double standard applied, and this demonstrates that by removing the double standard and taking them closer to their logical conclusion - all labour saving tools are bad, especially if they involve a spooky computer algorithm).
y'all ever think about how the paint bucket tool on MS paint is stealing jobs because someone could have been filling in those pixels by hand
we need to force artists to do mindless busywork for hours and hours so that technology doesn’t win
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Segment from a documentary about Medialab, the French animation studio that created the first two seasons of the Donkey Kong Country cartoon, showing the motion capture technology used to animate Donkey Kong. In this segment, Donkey Kong announces that he loves military service before marching away.
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Hi !!! I’m taking -only- solo and matching icons commissions to help cover our new rescue kitty’s vet expenses 😺 limited slots
If you are interested here is all the info and prices
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Best trick I ever picked up. Seriously.
I have also learned this is great for [PICK A COOL NAME FOR A SHIP] and [LOOK UP THE FACTS ABOUT OXYGEN LEVELS] and [WHAT’S THE WORD] and [DOUBLECHECK CHARACTER’S EYE COLOR] and ALL KINDS OF THINGS.
Anything that isn’t critical in the moment, and could be filled in later while I’m currently trying to burn through writing pages that will be lost if I don’t get them out right now? Brackets.
This is seriously the best advice, and it really helps put it into perspective that the first draft is just that- a draft. There’s no reason to agonize over a particularly tricky bit of writing when you could just leave it in brackets and skip to the good parts, the parts you’ve visualized. I also use brackets for [fact-check this], [use a stronger verb], [is this in character?] and other notes as I write, just so I don’t forget what I want to work on when I go back and edit.
This works for academic writing too. If you know where you’re going just leave yourself notes to fill in later. I do this all the time,
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Hello! A friend of mine is currently homeless and trying to raise money for basic needs while trying to secure a job and more stable housing. It would mean a lot to help her reach her goal, if you are able to share or pitch in.
currently at 45/2000!
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It has been a week.
I was in the path of the 100 MPH windstorm that blew the midwest down last week. Just got power back yesterday, just got internet back today.
I have lost a week’’s worth of work, all the food in the house, and power outages do not trim down that newly extra-expensive rent. I’m putting Rachel and Harls up right now, so if you can help, that’s a big thank you from all three of us.
- My Ongoing Gofundme
- My paypal.me
- My DrivehtruRPG shore. (d20 and royalty-free fantasy and sci-fi stock art)
Thank you. I am sorry to ask.
Yeah…
Stuff ain’t much better.
Sending up the signal flare again.
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