2023-11-15 11:54:22 <KipIngram   > Brave browser does a great job suppressing YouTube ads.
2023-11-15 11:54:48 <KipIngram   > But... YouTube tries to detect that, and when I click on a video in the sidebar it will first tell me I'm offline.
2023-11-15 11:54:56 <KipIngram   > If I refresh the page, then it plays fine.
2023-11-15 11:55:10 <KipIngram   > Kind of a nuisance, but not a show stopper.
2023-11-15 11:55:35 <KipIngram   > I've used some kind of YT ad blocker for years - I don't think I could tolerate having them back on.
2023-11-15 11:55:45 <veltas      > Is there some kind of slow rollout of these ads changes?
2023-11-15 11:55:59 <veltas      > I've not had ads and I'm using ublock origin which is quite common
2023-11-15 11:56:02 <KipIngram   > I have no idea how any of it works.
2023-11-15 11:56:03 <veltas      > On chrome
2023-11-15 11:56:14 <KipIngram   > Yes, i used to use UBlock Origin as well.  Fantastic add-on.
2023-11-15 11:56:27 <KipIngram   > But Brave seems to have built-in capability.
2023-11-15 11:56:34 <KipIngram   > I haven't installed any Brave extensions.
2023-11-15 11:56:41 <KipIngram   > and yet, I still see no ads.
2023-11-15 11:56:59 <veltas      > There are no ads in my forth
2023-11-15 11:57:05 <KipIngram   > Sometimes when i watch something with my wife on her iPad and an ad pops up I actually flinch - I'm that "out of the habit."
2023-11-15 11:57:15 <veltas      > Not much entertainment either though
2023-11-15 11:57:20 <KipIngram   > :-)
2023-11-15 11:57:27 <KipIngram   > Give it time - you'll get there.
2023-11-15 12:00:06 <veltas      > I can't see myself ever prioritising videos but maybe some other kind of entertainment
2023-11-15 12:00:09 <veltas      > games aren't out of question
2023-11-15 12:00:28 <veltas      > Unfortunately I've got no juice left at end of day for programming
2023-11-15 12:00:41 <veltas      > I can sit there and stare at screen but it's like I'm too stupid to do it
2023-11-15 12:01:29 <veltas      > The best time for me is in the morning, but recently I've spent all mornings at work or doing important things at home
2023-11-15 12:02:01 <veltas      > At least my job isn't suffering for it :S
2023-11-15 12:11:48 <KipIngram   > I watch a TON of mostly educational videos.  Been catching up on geopolitics the last week or so - first time in many years.
2023-11-15 12:12:04 <KipIngram   > I've been heavily "unplugged" from that sort of thing for a long time.
2023-11-15 12:12:39 <KipIngram   > I've been watching more entertainment TV the last four or five months than I did before - mostly re-watching shows I enjoyed in the past.
2023-11-15 12:12:47 <KipIngram   > For entertainment I mostly read.
2023-11-15 12:13:26 <KipIngram   > By which I actually mean READ, as opposed to "listenin" - I've noticed a lot of people call that "reading" too, which I object to.
2023-11-15 12:13:36 <KipIngram   > You don't "read" an audiobook.  :-|
2023-11-15 12:14:43 <KipIngram   > I've no objection to audiobooks; I just don't regard it as the same activity as reading.
2023-11-15 12:15:37 <KipIngram   > From what i can tell, though, hanging out in the reddit community for The Dresden Files, more people listen to the audio books than read the print books.
2023-11-15 12:15:57 <KipIngram   > I kind of wonder sometimes if reading is going to become a lost art.
2023-11-15 12:18:49 <Zarutian_iPad> naah, I do not think so.
2023-11-15 12:19:37 <veltas      > You say that but you don't realise that mid-paragraph KipIngram literally wrote "Reply 'Yes I saw this' first if you actually read all these messages"
2023-11-15 12:21:29 <Zarutian_iPad> veltas: I do not read that far back in the buffer though usually.
2023-11-15 12:25:01 <veltas      > I'm kidding :P
2023-11-15 12:27:17 <KipIngram   > That whole exchange completely lost me.
2023-11-15 12:28:27 <veltas      > The problem is I'm far too interactive. People think they can just come in here and have a nice philosophical conversation and then I reach through the tubes and grab them
2023-11-15 12:29:05 <veltas      > If I can do it then worry about AI doing it too
2023-11-15 12:32:15 <veltas      > Now reach into your right pocket and remove the card
2023-11-15 12:32:49 <GeDaMo      > I'm not wearing trousers! :P
2023-11-15 13:27:21 <thrig       > microcode is teh hard https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/reptar.html
2023-11-15 13:30:57 <KipIngram   > Microcode is great.
2023-11-15 13:31:09 <KipIngram   > Not quite as sexy as pure hardware logic, but still very cool.