Zoos secretly buy rejected 1-day-old male chicks from egg farms: it’s the cheapest live meat for carnivores. I wonder if that’s how the chick got near the tortoise.

There’s 6 colors ⬜🟨🟧🟥🟦🟩 like on a standard Rubik’s cube, albeit in different shades. It’s unsolvable because there are blue squares at the center of two faces. Also, the frog/fossil and feather/mountain cubelets can’t coexist.

That’s insane… Can’t a website owner require bots (at least those who are identifying themselves as such) to prove at least they’re affiliated with a certain domain?

I don’t know what “12,181+181” means (edit: thanks @Thunraz@feddit.org, see Edit 1) but absolutely not 1.2181 × 10¹⁸⁵. That many requests can’t be made within the 39 × 10⁹ bytes of bandwidth − in fact, they exceed the number of atoms on Earth times its age in microseconds (that’s close to 10⁷⁰). Also, “0+57” in another row would be dubious exponential notation, the exponent should be 0 (or omitted) if the mantissa (and thus the value represented) is 0.

Don’t sort by top if you want a high comment/upvote ratio. There are very good posts in the “Active” section with lots of upvotes.

The first word cannot be “SHE” because E has been revealed

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Unlike most, this title was not translated.

I tried to find the YouTube video but failed. I think everything is the same but the text is replaced with Czech (Československá televize uvádí at the start, and v hlavních rolích before the “starring” credits). Since they likely didn’t have a textless copy (those get licensed separately), they had to replace scenes with text like “Written by” with others, with no regard to lip syncing because it’s a dub anyway. They really despised covering text with opaque rectangles, which is what I wish ČT avoided at the “Česká televize uvádí španělský seriál” card of the Willy Fog intro linked above (I purposefully set the start time of the link to 39 seconds to avoid that awful edit at 00:30 obviously done with a 90s character generator and not meticulous hand-made lettering and film like the rest). Speaking of, they obtained textless scenes by cutting in parts of musical intermissions in certain episodes, which are all missing in the Czech dub (no idea what’s so bad about this, Dick Is My Name, America, America or Looking 'Round For Better Land, two of which can be heard elsewhere, so is the dance number so problematic? And how about the somewhat absurdist scenes that were cut from credits? Couldn’t they use a mask to remove the original Spanish text?)

That makes for great anime fansubs but good luck explaining that to kids in 5 seconds of audio. Or finding another joke that starts with Bill crying. At least in my country, localizers don’t get to make edits to the video despite doing a great job otherwise (licencing issues? In communist Czechoslovakia, they could: they replaced lettering in the M*A*S*H and Willy Fog: Around the World in 80 Days theme songs, for example, and even changed the melody in The Smurfs with Johan and Peewit’s; also note the repeated scene and the well-executed smurf walking in front of and through the “ŠMOULOVÉ” text animation)

I wonder how this got translated into other languages…

yt-dlp is a program that downloads videos from various sites.

catbox.moe can then be used to host the raw file, playable without JS and embeddable.

A bot could search for new posts with 𝑥 upvotes hosted on a list of “annoying” sites and post a comment with an embedded video rehosted on catbox. However, that is out of my currebt capabilities.

Example output:

I can see the URL before clicking. A yt-dlp+catbox.moe bot might be a better solution.

Not Instagram please, I only have 2 GB of RAM on my phone and too little BS tolerance.

MP4 is decent at this, it’s the camera’s fault for writing critical information at the end and not retrying on SD write errors. A bad couple of frames is still preferrable to losing up to 20 minutes (yes, that’s the split size, and it loses 5 seconds in between).

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My camera shat out an MP4 without a moov atom and VLC nor anything else could play it :( Not even when inserted in the middle of a valid file of the same format.

Yes, ffplay can interpret it as rawvideo when asked but so can it /dev/random

Eww, that’s a kitschy video

The bill could be a playable CD too if you don’t care about folding, or add bends around the central square. The widest rectangle that can be cut out of a CD and still retain a bit of the data area is about 108×51 mm, as opposed to approx. 156×66 mm of a $1 bill.

But yeah, NFC or just printing the data is more viable.

I have a 2013 phone running Android 13. Sony Xperia Z, found in e-waste in 2023 in great condition (except for dust in the camera). I used it a lot and even replaced the battery, although that didn’t make much difference, it just kept overheating and discharging like crazy on modern websites. The notification LED broke in a peculiar way (likely shorted driving transistor, burning it out within hours) and so did the vibrator. Recently, I dropped it and the back shattered but I still carry it every day, although now it’s a secondary phone (can’t get some apps running on my primary one although both are degoogled). It has a 32-bit processor, noisy camera and no fingerprint reader, but a 5" 1080p LCD, MHL (HDMI over microUSB), NFC and headphone jack. And a mediocre FM transmitter that can be enabled with custom drivers for the Qualcomm chip. It was covered in Janus Cycle’s video on monoliths.

Maybe it’s my preference of using older mid-range devices but unlocking the bootloader has been fine, the problem is some banking apps and inferior hardware drivers (worse wireless performance, stretched camera image, no control of flashlight brightness etc.)

Me too. Stadiums are notoriously full of photographers.