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NYU.edu Defaced

jeffalo — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:43:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nyu.edu/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43446571

Points: 16

# Comments: 6

The YouTube logo decided to go far away

jeffalo — Wed, 04 May 2022 19:18:11 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/JeffaloBob/status/1521930918952415236

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31264668

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jeffalo in "Making the dislike count private across YouTube"

jeffalo — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 20:27:08 +0000

> Those in the experiment could still see and use the public dislike button, but because the count was not visible to them, we found that they were less likely to target a video’s dislike button to drive up the count.

I don't understand this part. So, hiding the dislike count means less people will dislike.

Then what's the point of disliking a video? It provides much less feedback to a creator than just commenting, it's more often used as a signal to other viewers. If it's hidden, there's really no point of including it at all. In fact, why not remove likes too? And while we're at it, let's remove the view count too.

This is a really strange change, and I'm not sure that I'm happy about it.

New comment by jeffalo in "Fosscord is a free open-source discord compatible chat, voice and video platform"

jeffalo — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 07:47:27 +0000

Looking through the demo site, it really seems like it's just a copy paste of the real thing. It even collects analytics the same way.

This is not how you build a FOSS alternative.

New comment by jeffalo in "Twitch is hacked, and its source code leaked"

jeffalo — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 17:56:42 +0000

Yep, we saw it happen live.

New comment by jeffalo in "Dot Browser – privacy-conscious web browser"

jeffalo — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 18:07:20 +0000

I remember hearing about this a while ago, but back then it was based on Electron for some reason.

Looks like it has been completely rewritten since then?

Edit: https://medium.com/dot-blog/saying-goodbye-to-the-electron-v...

New comment by jeffalo in "Archive.is owner on “continuity of his project”"

jeffalo — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 20:04:43 +0000

Does any one know what's up with all the different domains for archive.is?

The blog is at blog.archive.today, it calls itself the "archive.is blog", but when I visit archive.is or archive.today, I'm brought to archive.vn. When I click the "archive.today" logo in the header, I'm taken to archive.ph

New comment by jeffalo in "What Is a “Now Page”?"

jeffalo — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 19:55:56 +0000

If I made a "now page", I'd probably forget about updating it for a while and then it would become a "then page".

New comment by jeffalo in "Google considers switching FLoC to a topic-based approach"

jeffalo — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 15:27:16 +0000

I am much happier with this system, but I don't really see how this would help Google.. Early web advertising used basic page topic based targeting, but clearly more targeted ads make more money, so what monetary benefit does this provide Google?

New comment by jeffalo in "A video conferencing service – that rickrolls you"

jeffalo — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 07:51:42 +0000

The code "tgif" will now take you to Friday.

New comment by jeffalo in "A video conferencing service – that rickrolls you"

jeffalo — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 07:36:41 +0000

New comment by jeffalo in "A video conferencing service – that rickrolls you"

jeffalo — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 07:43:22 +0000

YouTube should autoplay the video, at least it does on Chrome

New comment by jeffalo in "A video conferencing service – that rickrolls you"

jeffalo — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 07:42:59 +0000

Thanks! I prefer the rickroll, however I can make a special case where if you input a specific code it'll be a "friday-roll". What should the code be?

A video conferencing service – that rickrolls you

jeffalo — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 18:43:54 +0000

With everybody at home, something that is really important is video calling. And thus I show to you, my amazing creation "co-vid"!

But it's not actually a video calling service. It's a rickrolling service! Simply tell someone that you want to call them, and then tell them to use co-vid. https://co-vid.github.io/join then tell them some random meeting code to use and you're ready!

heres a sample conversation. you: "hey wana call" them: "sure, discord? zoom? "ect... you: "how about we try co-vid" them: "sure" you: "https://co-vid.github.io/join the meeting code is blahblah123" them: "alright" ... them: "do not speak to me again"

and there you go, that's co-vid in all its glory.

https://co-vid.github.io/

(ps. it sends the screen name and code to a request bin, so i can see how many people co-vid has gotten)

let me know what you guys think.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22721425

Points: 10

# Comments: 8