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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • IMHO video links should always be YouTube first, then third party mirror second, in the body or comments. Here are the reasons:

    1. YouTube is the primary source. Always prioritize the primary source when you’re sourcing.
    2. Think of the URL being shared as the primary key to a database record. Lemmy can use it to detect dupes. With YouTube URL there’s like 3 forms, discounting timestamps. With piped links the possibility expanded to 3+(number of piped instances on the web). This massively increases the likelihood of accidental reposts.
    3. Give people a choice of whether they want to watch on the original site, or on a piped instance of their own choosing. When you link to a piped instance link you rob people of that choice.
    4. A piped instance can choke or go offline at any time. YouTube is close to 100% uptime.
    5. Userscript wise, it’s trivial to map YouTube URLs to a user’s piped instance of choice, but it’s so much more tedious to detect and map every single piped instance.







  • Most disingenuous post ever.

    The image shown is a dude with a browser dev console, probably measuring a div for the its CSS size (which do support centimeters and inches).

    In python, 4 spaces is just enough spacing between indent levels. And if your levels get too deep it’s a sign that you’re not being pythonic. Nesting too deep is the problem, not the whitespacing being significant.