On a local site as a teen I sold like 20 books or something and lots of unused crap I no longer needed, including phones, PC’s, keyboards … both by mail and face 2 face.

The government announced it would ban under-16s accessing social media in June this year, with children prevented from accessing 10 of the biggest platforms. YouTube will also be banned for under-16s, but YouTube Kids - a version of the video-sharing app designed to be safe for children - will not be included in the measures. A complete list of affected platforms has not yet been released, but the government said it would cover those “whose purpose is to enable social interaction and which allow users to post material”. That means platforms that have livestreaming or features that enable the potential for strangers to contact children will also be restricted, which includes gaming sites.

Don’t worry they’re on it. They will ban everything, just in case.

Yt-dlp is great! I used it it to download podcasts from Youtube so I could listen on my phone. Only later I discovered I can download straight through Pipepipe(youtube client). I actually even used it shortly for regular videos as well to watch them through VLC just so at the end of the day I wouldn’t get hooked on youtube shorts and the rest of the nonsense on the front page.

Yt-dlp also works for most social media sites. X, Tiktok, etc…

Not sure about the value of downloading videos for the sake of storing them (after you’ve watched them) tho. I rarely rewatch videos.

It doesn’t. Buddhism, for example does not require a belief in gods.

My search engine even labels AI slop websites, that it pulls from open-source lists like https://github.com/alvi-se/ai-ublock-blacklist. So yeah every day I feel like the need for curated lists is getting stronger even for “useful websites”. Too much noise these days.

Like in the pre-search-engine internet you would have indexes, or whatever they were called, listing useful websites.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/NDb5ArWdj1c their youtube short for quick summary of the article to those that want

Running on your hardware is always going to be less efficient than running in a data center. You can run small models on green data centers - best of both worlds (unless you need privacy then run local).

Ever since I switched to Cortecs I’m spending like 20 cents / month for my LLM usage cuz I mostly use small models and try using them responsibly.

I’ve got a pair of Skullcandy Dime 2’s that cost around $25 and I’ve been using for at least four years now

Same. I have some Anker model for 5 years now or maybe even longer. All of the previous wired earbuds (I even bought an expensive pair) didn’t last this long. I use them regularly as well. Battery seems to last ok even now, enough for most tasks.

If it’s for blog posts and sharing some point across in writing, I found https://bearblog.dev/ to be great. It’s not completely “yours”, but it’s a great middle ground.

Things like this radicalize people against all AI.

A bit unrelated, but I wonder if I’m the only one left that is:

• Using small, open-weight models
• Asking it to only write small snippets that I can easily go through, check and understand.
• Copying pasting from good old web frontends instead of integrating it into my editor or whatever else people do with agents nowadays.

I feel like when we’re talking about AI this sort of usage gets lumped into the same pile as agentic vibe coding and it’s not helpful for discussion. Surely most people wouldn’t find this problematic?

but it might be fairly compared to the Cotton Gin in terms of making the field workers more productive in the delivery of market ready code/cotton.

Last i heard was that developers FELT like it made them more productive but actually not so much.

I don’t really understand after reading the article what changed? All they did was quote discords blog post from February and this random twitter account … that also had no sources.

Not to mention the article is AI slop.

Is this like some sort of reminder or something? huh?

Cinny is ok.

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I even have an account and have access to the article.

If you sign up they let you read it for free. But yes archive link is good to provide as most will not bother to sign up

It’s a site where you ask questions and people (hopefully experts) answer. That was the main idea behind it. But it was filled with garbage, unhelpful answers and it just went downhill.

Also yeah the fact that Reddit is more popular than Youtube is really weird to me and I don’t quite believe it.

How the hell is Quora more popular than youtube … huh ? Who in their right mind still uses Pinterest and Quora???

at least it won’t require passport for signing up anymore lol

https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/8/china-s-popular-youtube-alternative-bilibili-relaunches-app-with-english-support-globally/

The popular Chinese alternative to YouTube, Bilibili, with around 376 million monthly active users, has confirmed plans to expand more aggressively outside China. The company has relaunched its international app for Android and iOS, and removed the previous requirement for overseas users to provide identity documents such as a passport.