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Introduction Playlist IDs All Videos No Shorts Credit Undocumented Introduction I consume quite a lot of content from YouTube, via their RSS feeds, and this was working fine until they added Shorts. I struggled to find a way to get the shorts out of my feed, eventually settling on scraping the YouTube API to query the video, and filtering out any that had a duration that was less than 61 seconds.
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I have a slight problem wherein every time I start up a game of NetHack, I completely loose touch with my surroundings for hours on end. Thankfully The DevTeam Thinks Of Everything and there’s a solution that allows communication with the outside world without breaking immersion: the mail daemon!If compiled with -DMAIL and OPTIONS=mail is set in your runtime configuration (the default on Linux), NetHack will periodically check a user specified mbox file (MAIL) for new mail, and upon receiving an email a mail daemon will spawn in and deliver a scroll of mail to the player.
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Keynote by Christine Lemmer-Webber (@cwebber@social.coop, @dustyweb.bsky.social) at FediForum June 2025.More info: https://fediforum.org/2025-06
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Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a…
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Ian Rush has put his name to a 90-minute, score-settling, AI musical - in the style of Hamilton - about his legal battle against a Surrey scaffolding company and a small Wigan law firm, in so doing attacking, among others, Robbie Fowler and Jamie Carragher. The first thing to say is: don’t panic, you read…
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The English language is no stranger to transformation, particularly in the digital age. While pronouns have long served to navigate the intimate and immediate — I, you, they — a new linguistic…