Don't be reductive, people reading this aren't going to fence their opinion of Deno to the "use in YTDLP" case.

It wasn't worth the extra cost to Apple to support it since the vast majority of consumers didn't care about it one way or the other.

Very few churches in the American suburbs have bells, and most have replaced them with speakers playing recorded bells if they have anything at all :(

A surprising number have bells or refurbished their bell towers in the last 20 years - but many are more gong than bell as the bell is hit with a powered solenoid.

Hand-rung bells do still exist and get installed; offhand I know of one new installation and three old.

Firefox extension to right-click YT links directly to Freetube https://github.com/MStankiewiczOfficial/RedirectTube.

IINA has been around for quite a while, it's a front end for mpv. Pretty much Just Werks, it's my standard video playback client.

Ah, I'll try it out thanks. I tried out https://mpv.io/ but wasn't a big fan.

mpv is a nice piece of tech, a solid foundation for a player. IINA agapts it to feel native on macOS, and it does amazing job at that.

If you've played more than like 10 games :/ Growing up in Chicago, "softball" meant 16" and nobody used mitts for casual games and you could count on at least a jammed finger in any game. The amount of momentum such a large "soft" ball has is deceptive.

Wow I had no idea this was even a thing, or that it could be more common than regular softball in Chicago.

Reminds me a bit of Candlepin bowling [1]. When I was growing up in New England, that was the only type of bowling we had in my town. And even now that both types are available (often in the same bowling alley), we still call regular tenpin bowling "big ball" bowling.

I wonder what other such regional sports variations are out there that I've never heard of.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candlepin_bowling

I'm fairly sure Mike Royko wrote a column denouncing a plan to allow gloves for league games.

Threads barely interchanges with the rest of the Fediverse, it's basically bridged. By this argument you could include Truth Social and Gab, which are directly based on Mastodon source.

Bluesky user count is the same order of magnitude as Mastodon and is centralized. I think your argument is actually that if you are on a minority platform your wants and needs for how that platform operates are irrelevant. I suppose that's true if you aren't on the platform, but I don't think it's true if you are.

I don't want to converse with a 4 year old with the world's photo libraries at its disposal. I spent 10 minutes trying to convince the model to add a watch to a person's left arm instead of the right arm and it would not do it, it apparently could not get the idea on this particular image. If I had a drawing tool I could circle where I wanted it and say 'THERE, stupid'. Next year when we have AGI all of this will be moot of course, but for now Photoshop isn't going away.

Yeah, it doesn't look like the Safety Settings actually do anything, it refuses to edit anything with any words that could be construed to have sexual connotation even with restrictions all turned off.