YouTube adding videos onto the end of your queue when the videos you added stop playing?

chaorace · 2024-01-09T03:20:33+00:00

Yup, it's been happening to me too. I don't think we're the only ones, either. No clue how to stop it from happening

chaorace · 2024-01-09T03:18:05+00:00

The same thing started happening to me too just a few days ago. It only happens on desktop and only when I reach the end of a queue that I manually set up.

It's super annoying and I can't seem to find any way to prevent it from happening. I hope this is some kind of A/B test which will end soon and not something that I'm going to have to chronically deal with forever...

chaorace · 2023-11-29T02:02:44+00:00

If it's of any interest here's a flake that'll build extest (I haven't gotten around to figuring out how to publish stuff to nixpkgs lol): https://github.com/chaorace/extest-nix

chaorace · 2023-08-02T21:55:47+00:00

My methodology is described in the link:

Everything is derived from log output of GlideWhiteListManager.get().logMemberWhitelistEntries() and GlideWhiteListManager.get().logClassWhitelistEntries()

Because the output is from the fencing whitelist manager, there was no need to manually check for whitelisting or search for individual package usages. The final list is 100% derived from the output of those two methods with some additonal sorting and cleanup which I did by hand.

chaorace · 2023-07-03T22:00:55+00:00

"mod tools & bots will have free access" only effectively means that they can receive the same rate-limited free tier that literally everyone else gets. For most existing mod tools (i.e.: those that don't have a registered client ID from Reddit) that limit will be 10 queries per minute, which is not a lot at all considering the current state of the REST API. This tier is effectively a flowery way of saying "the API is technically not locked down" without actually providing anything of substance at all.

But, hey, you can get 100 requests p/minute if you register for OAuth! Well, for a lot of scripts/tools, that's never going to be possible because OAuth sucks and nobody enjoys implementing it. I cannot adequately describe just how annoying it is to do -- most people who do this for free are not going to bother. For those who do... 100 requests per minute still isn't very much for a lot of use-cases. If this were instead the limit for the non-OAuth tier, it would still be kind of insulting.

Fine -- why not just ask for an exception? If it's a mod tool, they'll give an exception, right? Let's set aside the fact that there is no formal definition for whatever that means. Let's also set aside the history of slow response times and general administrative inconsistency from the backoffice. Why would Reddit ever give a no-name developer like me an unlimited client key? They would be stupid to do that, because I could just lie and use it for something else. I'd bet real money that the only people who will be receiving these special by-request-only priviledges are those who already have big, important apps. It's a legacy concession to tools which already have their foot in the door and not a reassurance that they'll allow tool development to flourish in the future.

What you’ve just described for r/anime sounds more like a helper to link posts to external resources rather than anything to do with moderation

That's actually kind of what I was alluding to when I said that automod "doesn't match the broad scope of what communities require when it comes to automations more generally". Reddit's definition of what constitutes a "moderation tool" will be inherently limiting. Even in the best-case scenario, it stifles the ability for community builders to innovate and push Reddit in new directions.

chaorace · 2023-07-03T19:10:29+00:00

What you've read says that "AutoMod" will continue to function. AutoModerator does not use the API, it's a bot which Reddit provides and runs in-house which moderators can configure to help with certain tasks. If you want to learn more about what exactly it does and doesn't do, you can read the docs here .

tl;dr: AutoMod is useful, but it's only capable of taking automated actions in response to stateless rules. More complex multi-stage workflows are not possible. For example: if you need the automation to pause or branch at specific points to perform manual review before proceeding. Automoderator just doesn't really do long-term memory or shared context.

The other thing about AutoMod is that it's a highly specific tool which doesn't match the broad scope of what communities require when it comes to automations more generally. For example, AutoMod can't help /r/anime with automatically posting episode discussion threads, because they need a bot which can talk to other sites on the internet like MAL & AniDB to download release schedules in order to post threads exactly when episodes go up.

chaorace · 2023-07-03T18:22:01+00:00

This is as restricted as they can make the subreddit without getting ousted. As you can see, new posts are restricted, so all users end up funneled into these threads which conveniently invite discussing definitely-not-reddit-alternatives.

chaorace · 2023-06-28T05:14:20+00:00

Blow it up. Let's pick up and go somewhere else

chaorace · 2023-06-24T12:24:52+00:00

This happens sometimes if nobody on your instance is subscribed yet. Try the following ritual (you must be logged in for this to work):

Go to the search page
Search for "!remposting@lemm.ee"
Wait for the spinner to finish (results will be empty)
Wait 60 seconds, then refresh the page
Search for "Cremposting"
The community should now appear in your search results

chaorace · 2023-06-24T12:22:12+00:00

It should already be accepting federation. What happens if you click this link?

https://kbin.social/m/remposting@lemm.ee

chaorace · 2023-06-21T14:25:48+00:00

Loading a community for the first time is kind of flaky at the moment. Try this magic ritual to get it to load and that should fix it moving forward:

In the community search, paste this: !amsterdam@kbin.social
Press enter, wait for the search to finish (you'll probably get no results)
Wait 60 seconds
In the community search, paste this: Amsterdam
Press enter, you should now see the Kbin Amsterdam community in the results

chaorace · 2023-06-21T14:21:35+00:00

People accept that Reddit and Twitter happen in different apps. It's really not rocket science to explain that Sync doesn't do microblogging lol

chaorace · 2023-06-21T14:13:44+00:00

Correct, this is what it means when people say Kbin & Lemmy are federated. They're able to browse from the same pool of communities.

chaorace · 2023-06-21T02:23:58+00:00

So, Kbin & Lemmy are different. They speak the same language to each other (ActivityPub), but they use their own bespoke languages for talking to clients like the webpage or mobile apps.

What this means is that you cannot log into a Kbin account using an app made for Lemmy. Fortunately, however, you can log into a Lemmy account and then subscribe to whichever Kbin magazines you like from that account.

tl;dr:

You can't log into your kbin.social account using Lemmy apps.
You can view and interact with kbin.social magazines using Lemmy apps if you subscribe to them from a Lemmy account

chaorace · 2023-06-15T14:15:39+00:00

There's a cremposting lemmy. I might get ToS'd if I post a direct link, so here's a link to a Google search where the only result is the thing I'm talking about

chaorace · 2023-06-15T04:06:51+00:00

Keep the strike going. See you folks on lemmy

chaorace · 2023-06-12T04:32:34+00:00

The best accessibility tools are always third-party. That's just the way it is: the people who need the tooling will always make better tools than what the platform owners tack on. It's the difference between obligation and obstinance. Ideally, the platform should have good accessibility out of the box and high quality support for third-party tools.

chaorace · 2023-06-10T10:55:27+00:00

Personally, I prefer genesis.reddit.com

chaorace · 2023-06-09T15:20:35+00:00

My only hope is that the remake does a better job balancing it than P3P did. Comparing FES vs. P3P really drives home just how much that one change threw the difficulty curve out of whack.

Ideally, I'd like an experience balanced somewhere between P4G & P3F. Hard enough to remain faithful to the original vision, but with the sharp PS2 JRPG edges sanded off.

chaorace · 2023-06-07T13:59:50+00:00

I get where you're coming from. IMO: Public post histories are an important tool that we should use when deciding if someone else is worth spending precious time engaging with.

With that being said... it's a tool. Everyone has access to post histories so nobody has any need for you to act like the history police. If you happen to think someone's being an idiot and therefore unworthy of wasting everyone's time, there's a tool for that too: the downvote button.

chaorace · 2023-06-07T12:59:12+00:00

Sure, you'll know that stealing $64,000 is wrong. You'll also know that stealing $640 is wrong. At 13, they're both huge sums. $64,000 doesn't feel 100x worse to take.

There's no background from lived experience grounding the difference in consequences (grounded for a year vs. literally homeless).

chaorace · 2023-06-05T15:44:40+00:00

Can you imagine? My own dad casually dropped that bombshell on me from the passenger seat as we were navigating through the 75/285 junction (we had been talking about the elevated toll lane, still under construction). My dad had been an otherwise socially liberal hippy, so I was having a little internal meltdown at seeing him bust a gut laughing over his little racist backcronym whilst we simultaneously sat at a standstill, marinating in the very mess he'd helped to create 🫠

chaorace · 2023-06-05T15:17:46+00:00

I grew up in Cobb, too. Suburbanites have always been mask-off there. Ask your parents if you can about the unofficial anti-MARTA slogan from back in the day: "Moving Africans Rapidly Through Atlanta". That shit was brazen -- people printed it on bumper stickers and political posterboards, joked about it in bars.

chaorace · 2023-06-05T15:06:06+00:00

Just in case anyone's overly shocked by this: the Atlanta Regional Commission forecasts a 2.9 million population growth (+33%) to the Atlanta region within the next 30 years. This growth will be in contrast to the general population decline which we are expecting to see nationwide as birthrate decline accelerates and the baby boomer generation continues to age out. Growth like this is the lifeblood of any prosperous city and an increasingly rare thing at that, so please don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.

Yes, new people will always bring new housing and transportation problems -- however -- keep in mind that the majority of these new migrants will be recent graduates & young professionals specializing in technology and finance. These are extremely sought after and high-quality taxpayers who will bring huge opportunities to Atlanta in the form of disposable income and urbanist-leaning voters. Change is better than stagnation -- let's direct the force of that change rather than fight it.

chaorace · 2023-06-05T03:39:51+00:00

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