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stifle867 ,

That’s a suspicious defence. There’s always a first time right?

stifle867 ,

They fired him because they made an AI that could do some basic maths. Am I reading that right?

stifle867 ,

“Never been a better time”? What about when IE 6/7 was dominating and Firefox came out with add-ons and speed of updates? I’d argue that was the best time for Firefox.

stifle867 ,

Vague statement. You have any more information or sources?

stifle867 ,

I second what another commenter said about hardlinks. I used to use a program (paid) called Filebot that makes this process pretty easy. You download all torrents to say G:/Downloads then drag the files into Filebot and it will search across internet media databases to match the metadata and automatically rename and hardlink the files to say G:/Movies using a format you specify.

For example: G:/Downloads/Movies/Oppenheimer.2023.BluRay.2160p.HDR.MULTi.5.1.AV1.Opus.DVD5-CAV1aR.mkv

to

G:/Movies/Oppenheimer (2023).mkv

Then you can still seed everything in G:/Downloads while having a nicely organised media library. The actual file on disk does not get deleted until all hardlinks have been deleted.

stifle867 ,

You would probably have to run the hardlink command on the NAS through SSH or something to achieve the same effect but it should still be possible.

stifle867 ,

Filebot supports subtitle downloading and programs like Plex & Jellyfin work better when files are named organised according to convention.

The utility of having a well organised media library is more useful to me than the non-issues of downloading subtitles or figuring out quality.

stifle867 ,

Why were they even paying him $1m per year in perpetuity when he doesn’t even work for the company? Seems like a massive waste of the public investors money on top of a huge exploitation scandal.

stifle867 ,

Exactly the process I went through! The golden parachutes are egregious enough, what can we call this practice of just giving them free money in perpetuity? The golden waterslide perhaps? 🤣

stifle867 ,

Mine is stock and black, not gray

stifle867 ,

Pixel 7 Pro. I think that counts as stock YouTube as you can get (same vendor for device and application).

stifle867 ,

I’m on a Pixel 7 Pro running Android 14, YouTube build 18.45.41 The only YouTube options for the theme are light, dark, and device.

Hopefully that helps you narrow it down.

stifle867 ,

No problem. Btw it’s been like that for a long time so it may not be down to the device. It could be something that is only activated if you have an OLED display? I also think ReVanced can force the black theme AFAIK

It's never been a better time to switch to Firefox (www.androidpolice.com)

• Firefox offers better privacy and security than Chrome, with upcoming support for 200 new add-ons. • While Chrome dominates, Firefox gains ground with user-friendly browsing experience and open-source model. • Mozilla’s focus on user privacy and transparency challenges Google’s ad-centric approach, making Firefox a...

stifle867 , (edited )

I’ve been using Firefox on desktop and mobile exclusively for a number of years now. I will say the experience isn’t perfect but it’s better than using a browser made by a company that is actively hostile to its users.

It is important to take note that you will experience issues with some websites. For example, astro.buildTry scrolling quickly up and down on this page on Firefox vs Chrome (on mobile).

stifle867 ,

It was the distinct lack of autocorrect 😜 For years now I have disabled autocorrect for this reason. Yes, I still make some small mistakes here and there but it forces me to be careful with what I type and to quickly check before I send. That way I don’t have a situation where I’ve typed something expecting autocorrect to save me but it doesn’t.

stifle867 ,

Some websites are much worse than others. astro.build as an example. Try scrolling up and down on that website on Firefox vs Chrome (mobile).

stifle867 ,

I think you mean mull not mullvad :) Mullvad does not have a browser, the privacy hardened Firefox mobile fork available on F-Droid is actually called Mull and is not related to Mullvad in any way. It confused me too at first.

stifle867 ,

You can literally customise it to show the home button. I know because I have done this.

stifle867 ,

Massive lag on scrolling. Are you not seeing this? I’ll record the screen in a minute.

stifle867 ,

Ah I see what you mean. Yeah I even had a quick look at the beta version where you are able to access the about:config and I couldn’t find an obvious config setting for this either. Firefox on mobile definitely isn’t perfect and especially if you have a specific use case. Just a suggestion that may be an alternative for you: if you press settings then add to home screen, does that hone screen shortcut work for you?

stifle867 ,

I think because of the JS framework it’s using is causing performance issues. Ironic because the website claims 98/100 performance score - the highest of all those that they tested. It works perfectly smoothly on Chrome for me. A simple page like that should not lag/hitch at all.

stifle867 ,

video is uploaded here

sorry I wasn’t sure where to upload the video running a pixel 7 pro it’s hard to come across on video but it is there. hitching/jittery/lag on ff, perfectly smooth on chrome

i’m surprised by the comments, everyone has been having mixed results

stifle867 ,

ah okay thank you for the correction!

stifle867 ,

it seems everyone has had completely different results! I’ve uploaded my experience here: video

for me if you look closely, ff hitches and lags on scroll while chrome scrolls perfectly smoothly

stifle867 ,

Yeah I understand. For something you use so actively you want it to be as seamless as possible. Maybe have another look at the “install to home screen” option though! I think you can do it on Chrome too btw. But I believe it should actually open as a seperate “app” on your phone.

So instead of having 1 browser app that contains whatever you’re browsing + your dashboard, you could have 1 app for browsing + 1 “app” for your dashboard. It would allow you to even close down your browsing while always having an open dashboard. Maybe it doesn’t fit your flow but it seems like an option worth considering if you haven’t already.

stifle867 ,

Yeah it’s incredibly annoying. I can’t remember the exact details but a while ago they removed about:config from the stable build and I was using a setting in there. Okay well I can just use the beta build right? Except the beta build took away another different feature that the stable build had!

stifle867 ,

Very strange! Everyone who has replied has had a different experience on this website. It’s probably an issue with the website, not Firefox per se. It simply manifests on Firefox for me personally.

stifle867 ,

What refresh rate is your display running?

stifle867 ,

I honestly have no idea of the root cause. Different users are reporting different things. It seems to manifest differently for everyone. At a high level I would say it’s due to the use of a JavaScript framework as a purely static HTML/CSS only site should not be doing this.

stifle867 ,

Random performance issues

Menu doesn’t open in landscape mode

Tab overview page not working consistently - this one is hard to capture right now but what happens is when you have a large amount of tabs open (say over 30), when you hit the tab overview button it doesn’t take you to the currently open tab in the list, instead it takes you to the very top. This is not the normal behaviour. If you open and close it a few times it will randomly work properly 1/10 times.

stifle867 ,

Could be but I don’t think so in this case. It seems (based on no evidence - purely feel) that there’s some kind of event listener being triggered every time the page scrolls (whether this be touch/scroll event, visible contents, etc idk) and this event listener has different optimisation or performance characteristics depending on the device and rendering engine.

stifle867 ,

Sorry for not clarifying. I tried to on other comments but this is also a post about Firefox Android specifically so I sometimes left that part out.

stifle867 ,

try this link instead and let me know if it works

and yes. while not in the video, I did download the beta ff version to have a seperate/clean environment to test in and the same behaviour is replicated

stifle867 ,

A lot of people have been saying this, some have been saying it lags in chrome, and some have been saying it lags in firefox. I’m interested to know what device you have and perhaps what refresh rate your display runs?

stifle867 ,

Does anyone have/anyone seen commentary regarding the fact that in the days before the firing, OpenAI suspended signups to ChatGPT Plus? It seems relevant but I’ve not seen anyone make that connection.

stifle867 ,

Massive self-own on the part of the OpenAI board and possibly one of the biggest conceivable wins for Microsoft in a long time. Microsoft has it’s hand in both pies (OpenAI and Sam&co) and also has significant developments on the chip side too. Is this the turning point we’ll look back on when Microsoft dominates the AI space?

stifle867 ,

It’s true, but being a close 2nd behind Apple for most valuable public company by market cap is not a bad place to land despite it.

Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and ‘colleagues’ joins Microsoft to lead Advanced AI Research (techcrunch.com)

Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and ‘colleagues’ joins Microsoft to lead Advanced AI Research::Microsoft has hired OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman to head up a “new advanced AI research team,” the software conglomerate’s chief Satya Sam Altman and Greg Brockman and many of their former OpenAI colleagues will...

stifle867 ,

They’ve committed to investing $10B into OpenAI. The engineering cost of swapping out the Bing integration wouldn’t even register.

stifle867 ,

This could have been prevented if there was a good toddler with a gun.

Are movie and show file sizes more efficient than they were years ago?

This may be a stupid question, but I just got back into pirating some shows and movies and realize that many of the QxR files are much smaller than what I downloaded in the past. Is it likely that I am sacrificing a noticeable amount of quality if I replace my files with the smaller QxR ones?...

stifle867 ,

Also it’s common for anime to be encoded in 10-bit color rather than 8-bit which can also be used to encode files more efficiently.

stifle867 ,

I’m no expert either, this is just what I know from experience and through people smarter than me on the internet. I’ve put together some resources below for you. Apologies for the reddit links, it’s just where this content lives.

encoding 10bit reduces the amount of truncation errors during the encoding, which leads to a much smaller filesize despite the two additional bits. To the point where, despite it storing more information, there being less truncation errors offsets the filesize gain to the point where you get similar or even smaller sizes than 8bit encodes.

source: www.reddit.com/r/animepiracy/comments/…/grm8uq9/

…wordpress.com/…/why_does_10bit_save_bandwidth_-_…

reddit.com/…/ultimate_encoding_test_results_for_a…

stifle867 ,

My understanding is that HDR formats utilise 10-bit color formats rather than being strictly equivalent.

From Wikipedia:

HDR video refers to a video encoded in an HDR format. Thoses HDR video have a greater bit depth, luminance and color volume than standard dynamic range (SDR) video which uses a conventional gamma curve.

As it alludes, HDR is more than just a 10-bit color space. Encoding anime in 10-bit doesn’t take advantage of the greater luminance or dynamic range. It does take advantage of the color space to minimise banding.

stifle867 ,

Thank you to everyone who recommended soulseek! I’ve been looking for a platform that has hard to find, high-quality music and after a quick look at the software it looks very promising. I’ll report back if I’ve had any obscure songs I cannot find.

stifle867 ,

Nothing new here, just rehashing all the previous talking points.

stifle867 ,

The bigger wtf is saying the article is only 47 words

stifle867 ,

So theoretically the non-profit board had a disagreement with Sam’s desire to push for higher profits in the for-profit subsidiary. Hence, the disagreement over how to maximise revenue.

stifle867 ,

And most creators want to get paid for the work they put into their videos.

Louis Rossman/FUTO's YouTube app, GrayJay, now supports Sponsorblock... and shames you if you use it

Seriously this was very surprising. I’ve been experimenting with GrayJay since it was announced and I largely think it’s a pretty sweet app. I know there are concerns over how it isn’t “true open source” but it’s a hell of a lot more open than ReVanced. Plus, I like the general design and philosophy of the app....

stifle867 ,

Exactly. Could have just said YouTube is closed source from the start when ReVanced is 100% open-source.

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