[YouTube] fopen is Magic! - Find Out What You've Been Missing All These Years! (www.youtube.com)
from qprimed@lemmy.ml to programming@programming.dev on 04 Jun 19:45
https://lemmy.ml/post/48303597

Dave explains the magic of fopen and the multiple ways it can be used that many programmers do not even know about.

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belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org on 04 Jun 20:28 next collapse

Ugh these ai thumbnails just make it look so cheap and clickbait

qprimed@lemmy.ml on 04 Jun 20:40 next collapse

understood. I can upload something generic in place of, but that kinda modifies the author’s presentation. :-(

other than that, I don’t have a good solution to the ai graphic slop - even for mildly interesting pass-time content.

edit: interestingly, jerboa never shows youtube thumbnails and my workflow through newpipe doesn’t either - so I have zero idea what these thumbnails look like.

thingsiplay@lemmy.ml on 05 Jun 08:42 collapse

There is an extension called DeArrow, that replaces video titles from the community. It can also replace thumbnails. Another method is a setting in FreeTube app to set Thumbail Preference to automatically replace with in video screenshot. Maybe those applications does one of those things.

Eldritch@piefed.world on 04 Jun 20:46 next collapse

This is a newer thing for him. Hopefully an experiment that he will let fail. Dave’s content is … fine. Not really for me. He generally knows what he’s talking about. But yeah the “AI” look is just offputting. Actually detracting from anything of substance.

belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org on 05 Jun 01:31 collapse

I like his content a lot which makes this sad to me

refalo@programming.dev on 04 Jun 20:54 next collapse

I have no problems with that particular thumbnail

vext01@feddit.uk on 05 Jun 06:23 collapse

I agree. Lots of youtubers doing this too.

ragingHungryPanda@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com on 05 Jun 06:36 collapse

I had no idea what doing 2> meant when I saw it, and now I know!