On Android TV, you can use https://smarttubeapp.github.io/ to get rid of ad without giving google money.

Money does go to the creators though, so Hank Green is getting money from my YouTube premium subscription and with your way he's not.

yes, and i do not give a single fuck about that.

Let's say I'm selling concert tickets. How do I prevent bots from buying up all the tickets and scalping them?

Do it like plane tickets do, tie a ticket to an identity + buyback up to a week or so before the concert in case someone wants to cancel (or authorize the transfer and capture only a week before). Ask for ID and ticket at the entrance.

Tie them to the buyer's identity, offer at-value buy-backs until X weeks before event, disallow resale.

I'd simply check filling speed, even with browser's autocomplete humans are slow due needing click submit.

Then when it's "processing", do them in bulk and prioritize slower users. There's huge opportunity do bot checks after checkout without affecting user experience.

Also on product launches you could add unique field which requires user to input, for example that way bots can't prepare for launches.

Yeah, this doesn't even begin to cut it

huh. no wonder my password manager's auto submit triggers bot detection (it's a fairly popular one).

- behavioural fingerprinting - ja4 - IP rep - queue mechanism - card country to IP country checks - app attestation - custom metrics based on knowledge of past scalpers

It's hard but it's not impossible. You can make it very inconvenient for scalpers. They need to poll at volume so their behaviour is very much detectable. A hard stance is required on IP rep, especially for more in demand concerts.

I don't now, a lot of this seems just as invasive as WebGL fingerprinting, if not more invasive.

It's either that or you tie tickets to government ID like in France. If the arbitrage opportunity is more than the cost of automation then someone will exploit it.

Sell them via a Dutch auction. Eliminate the arbitrage opportunity for scalpers and make more money in the process.

That’s how you wind up with only kids of millionaires at your Taylor Swift concert.

So a Taylor Swift concert

Thanks, i did not know about `privacy.resistfingerprinting`

I'll make sure to fail all cloudflare turnshit in the future.

I have it enabled and turnstile works fine.

It breaks Turnstile for me on Android. Had to restart the browser for it to take effect of course.

they have the lowest approval ratings and legitimization in over half a century, because they're making everything shittier and shittier to the benefit of their corporate overlords.

I'm from the EU.

I'd rather China wins this. By a landslide.

I cant wait for the EU finally turns its back on the US and start integrating seriously with China.

too late anyway.

good luck to all of you.

Hello, I am a single dev using an agent (Claude Code) on a solo project.

I have accepted that reading 100% of the generated code is not possible.

I am attempting to find methods to allow for clean code to be generated none the less.

I am using extremely strict DDD architecture. Yes it is totally overkill for a one man project.

Now i only have to be intimate with 2 parts of the code:

* the public facade of the modules, which also happens to be the place where authorization is checked.

* the orchestrators, where multiple modules are tied together.

If the inners of the module are a little sloppy (code duplication and al), it is not really an issue, as these do not have an effect at a distance with the rest of the code.

I have to be on the lookout though. It happens that the agent tries to break the boundaries between the modules, cheating its way with stuff like direct SQL queries.

Unless you are doing stuff that does not need to be maintened, there is still a need for a skilled human to maintain proper software architecture.

It is the managers who are doomed. The future is small team of dev answering directly to the cto.

My guess is this is correct. To the extent coding with agents becomes dominant, the need for non-technical managers to coordinate large numbers of developers will decrease.

I need my bank app to run on it.

I have exactly 0 choice of banks app that would run on a mobile OS that is neither android or google.

At the end of the day, I need a bank account, and access to it, would it only be for buying food, or paying my mortgage.

If you're in Europe, I saw quite a few comments here saying that banks not requiring the duopoly do exist. Otherwise, a dedicated banking phone might be the way.

Actually, a dedicated banking phone is a good idea for security reasons too. No sure how many people are willing to carry around 2 phones though.

Too bad dual boot is not an option, or VMs.