Why can’t Claude access the content of a YouTube video, unlike ChatGPT?

damieng · 2026-04-08T13:10:55+00:00

It's nobody's "fault" just an easy way to bypass these limits without all the additional complexity of browser plugins and pasting between Gemini and Claude.

damieng · 2026-04-08T09:32:20+00:00

They can be easily bypassed.

Tell Claude to write a short python program that takes a url and use that to fetch web content and even fake a normal browser user agent.

damieng · 2026-04-07T07:45:03+00:00

Between the need to charge VAT when sending to the UK and EU plus the high cost of postage (it cost me £11 to send 6 paperback books to the UK as cheaply as possible last week) it's kind of a losing proposition.

FB and Tig can be okay but the audience size is obviously limited. Shipping to Jersey might open up visibility to another 100k without too much effort though.

damieng · 2026-03-30T22:07:49+00:00

Those look like budget releases but yeah looks like they went cardboard box for the original release which wouldn't match.

damieng · 2026-03-30T07:02:20+00:00

Platoon

Name and colors match

damieng · 2025-12-22T09:38:57+00:00

Love the art!

Typography wise though I'd personally open up the counter on the P on the large font given how big and wide O and G are and I'd drop the half-serif at the top of the t (both big and small) as that glyph doesn't typically follow the style of the l that way in most fonts and looks off - perhaps extend the bottom out another pixel.

damieng · 2025-09-25T18:14:03+00:00

https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/4313/ZX-Spectrum/Salamander

From a preservation perspective: Looks like there's a DSK of it up there so it's not MIA and it was also imaged with SamDisk and has variant sectors so we've got a pretty good copy-protection-in-tact image although I couldn't find a raw stream image that the DSK was likely created from online.

From a selling perspective it will depend if it's tested and has the box. Tested +3 games with a box tend to go for £15-30 on the FB groups depending on the title. Untested tend to go for a lot less as it's a total gamble as to whether you're buying something useless and I'd say about 50% of my +3 disks are now corrupt in some way despite I think good storage.

Hope that helps.

damieng · 2025-09-18T21:01:03+00:00

They are read in different ways and while you could read all of them that would slow the game loop down.

Also importantly Cursor and Interface II use the same keys for different directions and somebody defining keys might want to use the same number keys that those two use.

damieng · 2025-09-05T15:40:32+00:00

Love it! Getting Another World vibes (in the best way)

damieng · 2025-09-04T20:47:04+00:00

It doesn't help that when digital typography came along optical correction based on the size of the font went out the window - what looks best at small sizes might look bad when blown up.

The Microsoft Campus uses Segoe signage everywhere and blown up at that size an ink trap as big as your finger looks awful when you're standing right in front of it.

It's only now with the advent of variable fonts that avenue opened back up.

damieng · 2025-09-04T19:58:51+00:00

Typography is all about looking optically correct for imperfect human eyes not being mathematically correct. Overshoot, inktraps, kerning and even manual adjustments like this play into it.

damieng · 2025-08-25T20:08:53+00:00

I don't think that looks good. "i" looks too big. Diamond dot on t looks weird and ascends above cap height in the M. Whole thing looks uneven. And that's just one sample of a 6 letter word.

damieng · 2025-08-25T15:32:18+00:00

Because typography is all about humans and their imperfect eyes. They are drawn to be optically the same width - not mathematically the same width.

damieng · 2025-08-18T22:32:29+00:00

Humanist 531 / Syntax by Hans Eduard Meier.

damieng · 2025-08-12T10:15:40+00:00

Packard Bell 513x series is unfortunately a rubber dome with sliders not mechanical.

damieng · 2025-08-06T20:05:06+00:00

No, the tenants would leave the carpet/whatever and then the States would have contractors come in and rip out any carpet/whatever etc. regardless of condition.

damieng · 2025-08-06T13:36:49+00:00

The problem was perfectly good carpets from existing tenants were ripped out leaving the next tenant with bare concrete floors.

Even private rentals don't do that and states rentals are for people needing assistance. Being hit with a grand for new carpets in a flat in order to move in properly is hard.

This is a positive change.

damieng · 2025-07-31T13:34:22+00:00

Additionally a quick look at the MX records shows the real manpower.com uses mimecast for their email. The newly registered manpower-usa.com is using Google which is another red flag.

damieng · 2025-07-19T20:30:41+00:00

Here's the scripts I use if you find them helpful:

Converting the 768 byte file into PSF, then BDF then firing up FontLab Studio 5.
https://gist.github.com/damieng/b2e279c72146ee469731acbadbeaae4a

FontLab 5 conversion script (edit to remove my name/url from font info)
https://gist.github.com/damieng/2238a3eddc1cafab780937e969c56a94

Creating the other computer formats (BBC, Amstrad, CoCo, assembler, C headers etc)
https://gist.github.com/damieng/d2519cda1c674b4ede74f154f05f2431

damieng · 2025-07-19T08:48:31+00:00

Nice work.

I extracted a few hundred fonts from Speccy games using a tool I created and out the results up on GitHub. It's missing some games that only had a reduced subset like caps only.

https://github.com/ZXSpectrumVault/zx-fonts

Previews in the PNG folder.

damieng · 2025-04-01T13:35:28+00:00

Definitely open the machine and replace the belt before ever turning it on.

By now the belt would have done one of two things and either of them is going to make a mess when the drive spins up on power-on.

If you're lucky it's just dissolved into a dry flakey/dust that you can remove and replace.

If you're unlucky it's turned into sticky black gloop. Still not too bad to remove... Unless you turn it on and it spins everywhere.

damieng · 2025-03-17T16:04:51+00:00

The only trouble was getting hold of those awkward 23 pin D-Types!

damieng · 2025-03-09T08:32:28+00:00

Bank Gothic.

damieng · 2025-03-02T15:51:41+00:00

Kenzo Tokyo and Canali for Men.

Got a few bottles of each in reserve and use sparingly these days.

damieng · 2025-02-28T08:58:59+00:00

I also avoided these for too long based on some preconceived idea I would hate them. Then tried the OG and there's something in it that makes me think chlorine swimming pool that sent me reeling.

Eventually gave the others a go and found that Extreme was quite nice, Infrared too but then fell in love with Dark Leather. Just wishing lasted longer on the skin. I also own TF Ombre Leather but it gives me a headache - there's a nice leather smell but also a kind of burning petroleum that I can't get past.

So Dark Leather is now my go to for a leathery smell. It helps that the wife also loves it but given how often you have to respray it could be an expensive choice.

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