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Cake day: March 23rd, 2020

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  • Almost certainly not, although fair disclaimer, I don’t actually know. Ads need to be tailored to the user when delivered, so it’s likely the YouTube frontend requesting the next chunk of video to be an ad instead of the next chunk of video from blob storage. yt-dlp likely just requests successive chunks straight from blob storage, passing this.

    If YouTube served ads by saying “point to an ad chunk next” in their blob storage, 1. Everyone would see the same ad and 2. Premium users would still see ads.

    To patch this, YouTube really needs to stop serving video chunks directly from storage, but I forget the reason they haven’t done that already.

    (Technical note; I’m assuming blob storage chunks contain 1-2 seconds of video and metadata pointing to the next one, like a linked list. I’m not sure if this is how YouTube works, but many video platforms do this)












  • Paria admitted they had no rescue plan, citing that they had ‘no legal responsibility to rescue the men’. Further external attempts to save the men were reportedly blocked by Paria. In November 2023, the Commission of Enquiry found that “Paria’s negligence could be characterised as gross negligence and consequently criminal”. They recommended that the Director of Public Prosecutions “consider charging Paria with what is commonly known as Corporate Manslaughter.”

    Looks like nothing came from this… yet?

    A GoPro camera was recovered from one of the deceased divers, Kazim Ali Jr. Audio recording from the camera shows that all five men were alive after being sucked into the oil pipe, and in the audio they are heard praying and comforting each other.

    This is why all of the interclass hatred and debates are stupid at the end of the day. When that’s you, are you really gonna care that you died beside a Tankie or a Confederate supporter? We’re slowly getting worse, while the rich literally let us die to save a couple million pounds.