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Online SiliconWizard

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Re: Your pet peeve, technical or otherwise.
« Reply #4550 on: January 21, 2025, 08:26:20 pm »
  YOUTUBE ADs now sometimes repeating 3X before actual video starts.

   Comically,  the 3 repeat plays I saw this morn are hyping some 'Death 'n Burial' benefits available...saying:
   "Last day to ENROLL"!

   I should ask Zuckerbarph;
  Shouldn't that read:
   "FINAL day to enroll,  for your final days."

(Point is,  we don't need 3 advertisements repeating before I play my Doggy on Piano videos...

Just use an adblocker.
Although adblockers are less and less effective with YT due to YT's very aggressive counteractions, but they still manage to cut the ads - they now at worst show you maybe 1 s of the ads, better than nothing.
 

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Re: Your pet peeve, technical or otherwise.
« Reply #4551 on: January 21, 2025, 08:43:46 pm »
Maybe we shouldn't even be complaining about those god-damned YouTube ads.
Yes, we hate them (at least I do). Just another step on the road towards the Total Monetization of Everything in the World.
But then, we've known the reason for this for a long time.
It's contained in that bit of wisdom that should be obvious to everyone by now:

If something is free, then you are the product.
 

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Re: Your pet peeve, technical or otherwise.
« Reply #4552 on: January 21, 2025, 08:58:55 pm »
Maybe we shouldn't even be complaining about those god-damned YouTube ads.


Maybe, I'd love to be student and get Grammerly? and go on air b and b holidays with my 4 mates  :palm:

it is the repetitive foil wearing a bit thin for me
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Re: Your pet peeve, technical or otherwise.
« Reply #4553 on: January 21, 2025, 09:09:16 pm »
Maybe we shouldn't even be complaining about those god-damned YouTube ads.


Maybe, I'd love to be student and get Grammerly? and go on air b and b holidays with my 4 mates  :palm:

it is the repetitive foil wearing a bit thin for me

I wish I understood what you were trying to say there, but I can't.
Care to restate that?
 

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Re: Your pet peeve, technical or otherwise.
« Reply #4554 on: January 21, 2025, 09:47:28 pm »
I wish I understood what you were trying to say there, but I can't.
Care to restate that?

not so hard

... but not easy to quickly replicate
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Re: Your pet peeve, technical or otherwise.
« Reply #4555 on: January 21, 2025, 10:38:06 pm »
I don't know how one can even use the internet in general, let alone youtube specifically, without adblockers. It's literally unusable as is.
 

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Re: Your pet peeve, technical or otherwise.
« Reply #4556 on: January 21, 2025, 10:58:24 pm »
I wish I understood what you were trying to say there, but I can't.
Care to restate that?

not so hard

... but not easy to quickly replicate

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* Is there any way to prevent the board from turning 3 "?"s into ????
 

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Re: Your pet peeve, technical or otherwise.
« Reply #4557 on: January 21, 2025, 11:02:13 pm »
I don't know how one can even use the internet in general, let alone youtube specifically, without adblockers. It's literally unusable as is.
Any specific recommendations? (Windows 7 user here)

I've been binge-watching those Mentour Pilot videos on YouTube--great content there.
I've developed a system for watching them:
  • Start the video with the sound disabled
  • Wait for the "Skip" link to appear, click on it and enable the sound
  • When Petter's embedded sales pitch (for Nord VPN or whatever) comes on, fast-forward to skip over it

I know the adblocker won't do anything about the embedded ads, but it'd sure be nice to avoid those ads at the start.
 

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Re: Your pet peeve, technical or otherwise.
« Reply #4558 on: January 21, 2025, 11:43:43 pm »
I don't know how one can even use the internet in general, let alone youtube specifically, without adblockers. It's literally unusable as is.
Any specific recommendations? (Windows 7 user here)
I don't think it's OS specific, but rather it's about the web browser and/or the extensions/addons. There are network-level solutions too (pfsense with some modules?), which can be installed on a router to serve multiple devices like smartphones and TVs, where installing extra software may be hard or impossible, but I never looked into those.

Here's my combo for a regular computer that works 100% for me, no ads anywhere except obviously the ones that are made part of content by the creators themselves, which I usually don't mind at all, since they are fair play in my opinion:

- Linux
  - Firefox
    - uBlock Origin
    - Enhancer for Youtube (has some adblock functionality I think, but probably not required if uBO is already present)
    - NoScript -- also not required, but good to have. Not for everyone, though: too many websites these days require enabling JS to function. It's only a two-click job, but these clicks still need to be made for each individual website.
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Re: Your pet peeve, technical or otherwise.
« Reply #4559 on: January 22, 2025, 12:11:41 am »
Interesting (and ironic): the first result of a Google search (for an adblocker to use on a Google-owned site, YouTube.com), is--the Chrome web store!

Except it says
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IMPORTANT: uBlock Origin is completely unrelated to the site "ublock.org".

which I suspect is what I really want, right?

Very clever there, Google! Like all those web sites you'll find if you search for a certain piece of malware that tell you "Oh, no, _________ is perfectly OK to use!".
 

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Re: Your pet peeve, technical or otherwise.
« Reply #4560 on: January 22, 2025, 01:35:48 am »
Continuing our sub-sub-tangent on adblockers, when I go to the page for uBlock for Opera, I see lots of comments like these:
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it seems that youtube is starting to crack the code because I now have to refresh the page in order to skip the 30 second blank screen that would have been an advert.
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uBlock Origin Version 1.61.2 No longer working on YouTube
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youtube blocked on 25th Dec 2024, turning off Quick fixes doesnt work
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youtube blocked once again on Dec 20 2024, waiting for update to fix issue
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2024-12-20 No loger works on youtube. Youtube blocked me until I turned it off.
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Please update this, now youtube blocks the videoplayer
 

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Re: Your pet peeve, technical or otherwise.
« Reply #4561 on: January 22, 2025, 02:21:58 am »
My pet peeve today:

Booted up an eBay find: an Agilent 34461a.  Manufactured in 2013 by the serial number, cal'd 2014.

I let it and my DMMCheck Plus r8 warm up and test DC volts accuracy.... after only 11 years since calibration, it's already off by a whole 2 millivolts!

TWO MILLIVOLTS AGILENT, AFTER ONLY 11 YEARS???  I EXPECTED BETTER OF YOU.

/note: humorous sarcasm
/also note: also not sarcastic I EXPECT PERFECTION AGILENT!
 

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Re: Your pet peeve, technical or otherwise.
« Reply #4562 on: January 22, 2025, 02:23:55 am »
A quick smack on the side of the case should fix that.
 

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Re: Your pet peeve, technical or otherwise.
« Reply #4563 on: January 22, 2025, 02:52:57 am »
Percussive maintenance attempted, no visible effect, though I got the strangest feeling of PPMs escaping the device.  I'll try comforting it with a PPM infused warm blanket.
 

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Re: Your pet peeve, technical or otherwise.
« Reply #4564 on: January 22, 2025, 02:58:00 am »
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Continuing our sub-sub-tangent on adblockers, when I go to the page for uBlock for Opera, I see lots of comments like these:

It's a downhill slope and being on W7 you're already a fair way down, but OTOH you're getting used to using obsolete stuff now :)

I think the best bet is a port of Firefox. Not Firefox itself because there are undesirable bits and it is also heading towards the adblock buffers. I use Waterfox (pre-6 for other reasons than ads, but that's a different topic); there are others available. The issue is the upcoming addon API which the adblockers use. Notionally it can be used by malicious code to do all sorts of horrible things to the user, but that's exactly capability adblockers need. Google are pushing the 'fix' that will make life difficult for them, of course. Dunno if it's already in Chrome but Chrome is, well, Chrome.

For Youtube adverts it seems to be a tossup - I never get them whereas my partner, with same OS and almost same collection of adblockers, does. Anyroad, what works for me is

uBlock Origin the classic and simple blocker. Perma-blocked on a global basis are 3rd-party scripts, 3rd-party frames, and Google Analytics.
uMatrix same origin as uBlock but fine control: block by script, frame, image, whatever. You might have a domain mostly OK let through uBlock and then kill frames on there with this one. I guess that technically uMatrix could be used instead of uBlock, but often it is just simpler to block the entire domain. They do things slight differently.
Privacy Badger blocker of tracking domains.
Cookie Autodelete Cookies themselves aren't necessarily bad - it's the remembering them that is. This addon autodeletes them so you can allow cookies for a site so it works properly, and then when you leave (or however you've set it up) they're forgotten, negating the point of them.

Main problem with all of these is the fussiness. Got to a new site and you might end up having to enable this or that to get things working, and my partner just keeps whining about that. But still uses them :). You can, of course, save the setup for a site for when you return if you want (which you will for places you go more than once or twice, probably).
 

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Re: Your pet peeve, technical or otherwise.
« Reply #4565 on: January 22, 2025, 07:58:38 am »
Continuing our sub-sub-tangent on adblockers, when I go to the page for uBlock for Opera, I see lots of comments like these:
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it seems that youtube is starting to crack the code because I now have to refresh the page in order to skip the 30 second blank screen that would have been an advert.
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uBlock Origin Version 1.61.2 No longer working on YouTube
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youtube blocked on 25th Dec 2024, turning off Quick fixes doesnt work
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youtube blocked once again on Dec 20 2024, waiting for update to fix issue
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2024-12-20 No loger works on youtube. Youtube blocked me until I turned it off.
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Please update this, now youtube blocks the videoplayer
Stop using chrome based browsers!
Google has crippled the API required by Adblockers. In the name of security, of course... >:D

So whats left? Essentially only Firefox. Or some very niche browser that have not yet updated to a newer chromium engine. But those are opening a whole other can of security worms...

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Continuing our sub-sub-tangent on adblockers, when I go to the page for uBlock for Opera, I see lots of comments like these:

It's a downhill slope and being on W7 you're already a fair way down, but OTOH you're getting used to using obsolete stuff now :)

I think the best bet is a port of Firefox. Not Firefox itself because there are undesirable bits and it is also heading towards the adblock buffers. I use Waterfox (pre-6 for other reasons than ads, but that's a different topic); there are others available. The issue is the upcoming addon API which the adblockers use. Notionally it can be used by malicious code to do all sorts of horrible things to the user, but that's exactly capability adblockers need. Google are pushing the 'fix' that will make life difficult for them, of course. Dunno if it's already in Chrome but Chrome is, well, Chrome.

For Youtube adverts it seems to be a tossup - I never get them whereas my partner, with same OS and almost same collection of adblockers, does. Anyroad, what works for me is

uBlock Origin the classic and simple blocker. Perma-blocked on a global basis are 3rd-party scripts, 3rd-party frames, and Google Analytics.
uMatrix same origin as uBlock but fine control: block by script, frame, image, whatever. You might have a domain mostly OK let through uBlock and then kill frames on there with this one. I guess that technically uMatrix could be used instead of uBlock, but often it is just simpler to block the entire domain. They do things slight differently.
Privacy Badger blocker of tracking domains.
Cookie Autodelete Cookies themselves aren't necessarily bad - it's the remembering them that is. This addon autodeletes them so you can allow cookies for a site so it works properly, and then when you leave (or however you've set it up) they're forgotten, negating the point of them.

Main problem with all of these is the fussiness. Got to a new site and you might end up having to enable this or that to get things working, and my partner just keeps whining about that. But still uses them :). You can, of course, save the setup for a site for when you return if you want (which you will for places you go more than once or twice, probably).
In my opinion and experience, uBlock Origin is enough. Enable the anti-tracker filters alongside the adblocking, and you will be fine in most cases.
I personally do not fuss about cookies, deleting them everytime creates only a self inflicted hassle. Way better to block the tracking cookies outright. Firefox's default settings in combination with uBlock are already quite good. If you want, you can also block third-party cookies, but that will break some websites.
« Last Edit: January 22, 2025, 08:03:44 am by Ranayna »
 

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Re: Your pet peeve, technical or otherwise.
« Reply #4566 on: January 22, 2025, 11:24:13 am »
God damn it.  InteliJ IDE.

Need to create a new database connection to poke about in the DB.

I have the database connection properties in the application config on screen.

I Click "Add new datasource" and up pops the dialog.

So i click back to the config file.  Screen flashs, dialogue remains focused.

So I click on a completely different instance of InteliJ and another project entirely, so I can copy and paste the DB details from it....  screen flashes.

The god damn database properties dialog is 100% application wide, modal.

This is categorically retarded.

BTW... the solution was to copy and paste the db details into notepad and then copy them from there.  Point still stands.  As dumb as an ashtray on a motorbike.

Devs who simple "close tickets" without giving a fuck should be publicly flogged.
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Re: Your pet peeve, technical or otherwise.
« Reply #4567 on: January 22, 2025, 01:09:21 pm »
I want my back button to work properly again.

I am looking at a list of tickets.  I click a ticket.  I scratch my beard for a while and then hit "back" to view the list again.

Does it go back to the list?

Hell no.  Instead it completely ignores my request and lands me in a completely different ticket board entirely and tell me I have no tickets assigned.
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Re: Your pet peeve, technical or otherwise.
« Reply #4568 on: January 22, 2025, 06:56:55 pm »
...when a 12V power supply doesn't just die dead, but goes down to 7.8 Volts....
   If three 100  Ohm resistors are connected in parallel, and in series with a 200 Ohm resistor, how many resistors do you have? 
 

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Re: Your pet peeve, technical or otherwise.
« Reply #4569 on: January 22, 2025, 07:42:32 pm »
better than going up to 18.3V :)
 

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Re: Your pet peeve, technical or otherwise.
« Reply #4570 on: January 23, 2025, 09:04:36 pm »
better than going up to 18.3V :)

It is a 13.8 supply, 12V for round numbers....turns out "the issue" was the on-off switch. Spraying de-oxit did nothing at all.  Polishing the contacts with fiberglass brush and making them all shiny again did !
   If three 100  Ohm resistors are connected in parallel, and in series with a 200 Ohm resistor, how many resistors do you have? 
 

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Re: Your pet peeve, technical or otherwise.
« Reply #4571 on: January 26, 2025, 03:56:11 pm »
,,,on par with sticky plastic faults are plastic brittle fracture - again name brands not immune from them  :palm:
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Re: Your pet peeve, technical or otherwise.
« Reply #4572 on: January 28, 2025, 06:03:18 pm »
People complaining about the thing they contribute to.

For example, my friend could have purchased higher quality tools, but instead only buys junk, then complains about engineers and 'Enshittification'.
Another friend only plays free cell phone games, refuses to purchase software, yet complains about microtransactions.
Nephew watches stupid celebrity drama online then complains about how dumb Youtube is.
Coworker designs with parts that are obsolete, or without datasheets, or from unknown manufacturers/distributors then complains about manufacturing and quality control.
Neighbor complains about privacy and 'Big Brother', while walking around with an Apple cell phone in his pocket.
Brother purchased 99% of things online then complained about his manufacturing job going overseas. Same with my sister, but she was a programmer who pushed management to let them "work from home".

Basically everyone just pissing into the wind.

 
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Re: Your pet peeve, technical or otherwise.
« Reply #4573 on: January 28, 2025, 09:49:20 pm »
The Microsoft experience now. It sucks balls. A lot of aspects about it have sucked, but it's getting so much worse now. Stupid now like when searching in file explorer, the path gets stuck with Search Results in... and you cannot click the beginning of a path or search field without having to do 2 or three clicks and then hit home or left arrow to the start. And web pages aren't loading - says cannot load but then loads later. And endless pinwheels. I think I watch pinwheels for 1/3 of my days.

And many 3rd party apps suck even more, like loose hairy scrotum skin suck. Can they find any more ways to make me have to click 3 or 4 times to accomplish what once took one click, and rich pop-up tips and new features that make you endlessly have to click Got it?

And get lost with the Cookie BS!

And everyone wants your GD phone number.

And why the hell does everything have to be printed in two point font, or debossed in black on black.
 

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Re: Your pet peeve, technical or otherwise.
« Reply #4574 on: January 28, 2025, 09:52:46 pm »
They only do it to annoy, because they know it teases.
 


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