I’ve been working on a fun little project, similar to the watch party website, where you can enter a YouTube link and have it synchronised so you can watch and chat with a friend. Very basic functionality at the moment, and I’m hoping to add more functionality over time.
I completely agree and can’t recommend this app enough. There’s so many things going for it compared to everything else out there. I use it every day also after churning through all the other ones out there and never feeling satisfied. The total app size is like 25MB and doesn’t even request the internet permission. With not having the internet permission you don’t even have to worry about what data is being sent back to the developer - the answer is none. Despite being incredibly lightweight it’s somehow got more features than many other apps, and implemented extremely well.
It’s free but you do get a couple extra advanced features for a small IAP such as a ChromeCast plugin and auto playlists (Most Played etc). Despite not even needing any of the features I paid for the lifetime access simply because I find that much value in this app and when you come across a diamond like this app it makes you want to give back.
Oh, I’m sorry. I completely missed that! Yes you are completely correct and I will correct the post. Thank you.
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UPDATE: Sorry, this app is not open source. I completely didn’t notice the community. 100% my mistake. I have removed the comment but for reference the recommendation was for Musicolet.
EDIT: sorry that was the wrong page, I meant to link this one: https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.html
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It’s worth a read to have your mind blown about what you can do when you hand optimise assembly.
The logic is that it’s much faster which is important for code that runs on a large portion of the world’s devices. Pretty much anything to do with video is using ffmpeg. From a set top box, to your phone, computer, YouTube & Netflix, even on Mars.
Video processing is hard, and when you’re processing that much data a x10 speedup is huge. That’s why it’s written in assembly. And there’s really no downsides to it because the original implementation is in C (cross-platform), then there are handmade assembly versions for each specific platform (performance). Win-win.
I’m not sure what your comment has to do with mine because I wasn’t discussing anything in the article, simply replying to someone else’s comment.
To be clear I understand that the article was incorrect, and I had my suspicions when I first saw it too (which I posted in another comment).
My comment is in reference to Google Search’s general degradation of user experience and quality of search results over the many years. Sponsored results that are hard for the average people to notice are sponsored, and they take up half the screen. SEO spam, quora spam, specific searches returning general results, etc. There is still a wealth of organic and original content out there. I just never find it through search.
Most people don’t understand how bad Google has become. It’s like not noticing how tall you’ve grown until your grandmother points it out.
My interpretation was this + in terms of the actual “sponsored” results work by matching “kids clothing” with advertisers who match for that term, and Google “changing” it into “$brand_name kids clothing” which seems entirely obvious when spelling it out.
I haven’t used Google as my primary search engine for many years but occasionally I do run a search on it. While the quality of results is extremely low, I never noticed anything obvious like a generic search term only returning results for a specific brand + that search term like the original article implied.
It seemed like a giant misunderstanding of how it all works from the start but made for a great headline.
How does any of this fit into the reality that you can pay $1 per 1000 captchas for a real, actual human to solve them? It seems like so much effort is put into this cat&mouse narrative with bot makers, ignoring the reality that sometimes labour is actually much cheaper.
You can run your own mail server and keep your emails on a device you control instead of e.g., gmail.
It’s non-trivial so most people stick with letting someone else handle it. Just like you’re probably not running your own Lemmy instance, but Lemmy is still decentralized.