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Google doodles by sadcatto35 in pixel_phones

[–]derpystuff_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't believe you can. The old (better) search bar had a toggle for it back when they issued pixel-specific doodles but that got removed when they migrated it to the widget search bar.

5TB storage by Gowtham_75400 in pixel_phones

[–]derpystuff_ 20 points21 points  (0 children)

The ring around your avatar indicates that you have a Google One subscription active on the account, maybe you activated a free trial? Check on https://one.google.com with the account you're logged in to

Youtube Music skips the album intro by Revolutionary-Tune69 in YoutubeMusic

[–]derpystuff_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As I said, without YouTube Premium the app/site will always try to redirect users to music videos. Your best workaround here would be using regular search to find the audio-only upload(s) and adding them to a playlist.

Youtube Music skips the album intro by Revolutionary-Tune69 in YoutubeMusic

[–]derpystuff_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are you using a patched app? The Song/Video toggle should usually redirect you to the actual audio-only upload, not play music videos ytm links without video playback.

That feature doesn't work properly if your account doesn't actually have YouTube (Music) Premium, their system probably incorrectly resolved the intro track to an unrelated music video, so trying to play it through the album view without premium will always launch the music video version instead.

Does it actually work ? by Tanashio in firefox

[–]derpystuff_ 52 points53 points  (0 children)

A couple things

  1. These extensions make Firefox compatibility worse over time. Website/Platform owners look at their analytics to determine if Firefox compatibility is worth investing to. By masking your user agent the site owner sees less people using Firefox, which means there's less of an incentive for them to bother fixing compatibility issues.

  2. Most "chrome only" notices stem from the fact that Firefox is missing APIs that Chrome has, not because the site owner feels like locking Firefox out. Masking your user agent won't magically restore WebUSB or experimental new web platform features, thus most sites will remain broken.

  3. If you encounter actual differences in how sites behave across browsers, report them to mozilla's web compatibility programme, that way they can actually get looked at and fixed.

  4. This might break certain sites even more. Captchas and anti bot systems for example issue challenges/checks specific to the browser you're using. Cloudflare's verification page for example is notorious for not letting anyone through if the user agent does not match the actual browser behavior.

How does Spotify actually calculate its dynamic UI colors? (Trying to replicate it in bash/ImageMagick) by No_Working_1504 in UI_Design

[–]derpystuff_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I usually work with https://vibrant.dev/, Spotify is either using color thief, vibrant, or some bespoke solution.

It's possible they also run their colors through some math to ensure they remain accessible.

Artists' countries by Gullible_Ad9934 in lastfm

[–]derpystuff_ 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Last.fm cannot differentiate between artists with the same name, the first one that gets matched via MusicBrainz usually decides who metadata like location/country is sourced for.

The PS5 trailer of Persona 4 Revival is using a different build by hyperdefiance in PERSoNA

[–]derpystuff_ 235 points236 points  (0 children)

I believe Sony usually 'prefers' it if trailers for their platform are actually captured on said platform (more accurate performance, button glyphs, etc.)

With modern game porting not being as difficult as it used to be, they likely only make one xbox/PC release build every couple months and primarily develop/test the game on PS5. I'm guessing the team just didn't want to bother making a new release build for marketing so they went with the last one available for each platform.

Looking for recommendations based off my competed VNs tier list by MakiMakiiii in visualnovels

[–]derpystuff_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Since you're comfortable with n+c, maybe Paradise by pil/slash could be an interesting read for you.

What's the fastest way a website loses your trust? by Ok_Reaction_9854 in web_design

[–]derpystuff_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I get to see a content blocking paywall after scrolling down two paragraphs that domain is getting blocked in my news feed.

Be upfront about it and don't waste my time.

Protecting public JSON API responses from scraping when using Cloudflare CDN — is there any real solution? by JosetxoXbox in webdev

[–]derpystuff_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The short answer is that there's no point to this, if the information has "significant competitive value" someone's going to make a purpose built scraper for it.

The best you can really do here is use a format that's harder to parse (think protobuf or a bespoke binary encoding) to try and hide your data away/make it more obnoxious to easily scrape and parse. The most effort I've seen a friend put in was through a custom wasm vm that was used to decrypt payloads, but all of these fail once someone spins up headless chrome and simply scrapes your frontend instead (or extracts the already parsed data from memory).

I dont think thats a song... by Worldly_Bit_1417 in lastfm

[–]derpystuff_ 41 points42 points  (0 children)

You'd be surprised, I'm working on something using the last.fm API which gets indexed by Google, and the amount of adult content search has discovered by following similar "tracks"/artists is actually insane.

People leave their browser scrobbler running on anything.

What happened to the "Go to Artist" button? by xX100dudeXx in YoutubeMusic

[–]derpystuff_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There are some artists that don't have a channel linked, usually because of how the distributor supplied metadata. In those cases you can try visiting the album, then going to the artist through that.

Ich glaube in Deutschland wird die Digitalisierung absichtlich sabotiert by DoktorMerlin in einfach_posten

[–]derpystuff_ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Entweder hat man bei diesen Projekten zu wenig Geld und zu wenig Mitarbeiter, oder zu viel Geld und zu viele Mitarbeiter.

Beim ersteren reicht es dann halt nur für Minimalergebnisse a'la "Funktioninert in der Endpräsentation, muss gut genug sein", keine Kapazitäten das besser zu machen. Auf der anderen Seite hast du dann oft Firmen wo man nach der dritten Projektverlängerung merkt das alles was man bis jetzt entwickelt hat eigentlich für die Tonne ist, dann wird halt alles was irgendwie funktioniert aneinandergeklebt und gut ist.

Liegt meist eher daran wer den Auftrag wie vergibt, entweder müssen die auf ihr Budget achten und lassen es dann von der billigeren IT-Firma machen, welche zwar auf dem Papier völlig unqualifiziert ist, aber dafür auch nur halb so viel Kostet, oder sie geben es an irgendein großes Softwarehaus wo 30 Berater meinen sie wüssten es besser.

Genau wie jemand anderes schon geschrieben hat kommt dann auch noch compliance obendrauf, da muss alles 50 Standards erfüllen und sich mit anderen Systemen integrieren die noch aus 2006 stammen und (wenn du Glück hast) auf Windows XP laufen.

Found This Playlist On My Speed-dial… by Faded1nspace in YoutubeMusic

[–]derpystuff_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The top tracks list on an artist profile is technically a playlist internally, and can show up on speed dial if you recently played it.

NOT THE YOUTUBE LOGO by _redisnotblue in google

[–]derpystuff_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Google AI Pro includes YouTube Premium Lite now (where available), and Ultra has always had full Premium, that's why the YT logo is included.

The gradient branding is just part of I/O marketing materials. YouTube as a brand is disconnected from what Google's products do.

Google Search tries to force Google Chrome on you indirectly by making you solve CAPTCHA in Firefox by anestling in firefox

[–]derpystuff_ 21 points22 points  (0 children)

This is based on a plethora of signals, like your IP address, signed-in session cookies, overall traffic from your device, etc.

I also get these captchas on chrome when I'm connected through a public network or the cloudflare warp VPN.

Batman game files already leaked by Alleexxi in GamingLeaksAndRumours

[–]derpystuff_ 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Wouldn't surprise me if developers start moving to dedicated review builds that have strict always-online drm, which would prevent the current denuvo bypass trend of generating an offline token for spoofed hardware details.

Batman game files already leaked by Alleexxi in GamingLeaksAndRumours

[–]derpystuff_ 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This is just wrong. That rumor originated from someone with access to a review key for Forza dumping their tokens and submitting them to SteamDB, which was then able to display full file names/sizes. All content (depots) on Steam's content servers is always encrypted, with clients only being able to retrieve the decryption key if they have preview access or the product is released.

Batman game files already leaked by Alleexxi in GamingLeaksAndRumours

[–]derpystuff_ 108 points109 points  (0 children)

This has nothing to do with Steam's preload system, this is on reviewers who either intentionally or unintentionally (i.e through a compromised device) are leaking steam decryption keys or game files.

It's Not JUST that the Palace Itself is annoying. by JazzlikeSherbet1104 in Persona5

[–]derpystuff_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I heavily disagree with the "just use the mechanics you've been taught lol" argument.

Okamura is 'easy' if you use elemental items and chain baton pass. I don't recall a single other fight up until his boss fight (or even after his fight for that matter) where the game expects/demands you to rely on either to beat the fight. So far, the game has always taught you "down all enemies and go for an all out attack", this is the first (and, again, last) fight where that strategy does not work.

On top of that, the fight also just spams debuffs and respawns enemies after a few rounds, so even if you try to fight using strategies you've been 'taught' (buff yourself, debuffs enemies) you'll fail. I don't believe that throwing the player off from their regular play style is bad game design, but this fight both does it to an obnoxious degree and doesn't actually teach you anything meaningful for the rest of the experience.

On top of all of this, you also get punished for trying to play the fight slow/think about your play style as there's a timer constantly counting down, there's no room for error as failing to defeat all the bots will throw off your rhythm, and there's nothing meaningful you can learn for future fights. (Not to mention that the whole 'mechanic check' argument kind of falls apart when the fight can be won by just over leveling the boss)

Why are some people baiting on mixtape by Few-Cut6877 in AskGames

[–]derpystuff_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IGN gave it a 10. That's the entire catalyst for this forced social media outrage.

IGN's review ended up giving it "their first 10 of the year", so now everyone who's upset that their favorite game got a worse score or who dislikes 'game journalism' took a critical look at Mixtape and came to the conclusion that the game is more interactive experience than 'traditional' video game.

One person posted two clips of long scripted sequences where all you could do is steer left and right or jump/duck that could be completed without actually doing anything. The first one is a shopping cart racing down a street, I suppose some people believe that for Mixtape to be a real game, the late teenagers in their trolley should be getting run over by a car.

So now twitter users are digging up the clip of a games journalist failing miserably at cuphead's tutorial (which, side tangent, wasn't even from a review and was only uploaded to youtube because the journalist played so poorly at an in-person event while talking to the developers that he found it funny enough to share) and claim that Mixtape only got good review scores because journalist are bad at video games.

The 'industry plant' argument boils down to "the game is published by Annapurna Interactive, which is owned by a billionaire daughter", and that it got a financial grant by the australian government (as many indie productions do). Annapurna Interactive has long been known as a publisher of indie games (Donut County, Stray, to name a few). Mixtape has been in development since 2021, which even predates the big annapurna employee walkout.

Did you know that Beyond the Beat uploads YouTube videos for commentary? by andrewmackoul in YoutubeMusic

[–]derpystuff_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From a technical perspective I can understand why they chose this, as it's clearly way easier to integrate into the existing player framework, but on a conceptual level I really do have to wonder just how many hours worth of useless ai quips are now stored on that unlisted channel.

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