freeware

youtube-comment-scraper

2019-10-29

archivism, commandline software, freeware, Linux software, live, loved, macOS software, media software, open-source software, reviews, software, software with Git repositories, Windows 10 software, Windows software, writing, YouTube

(port) > Software > YouTube >

https://github.com/philbot9/youtube-comment-scraper/

Downloads the comments on YouTube videos.

Used to be available at ytcomments.klostermann.ca but that IP got banned because of overuse.

WARNING – Do not overuse this program, or maybe you will get IP-banned. The authors’ GUI website did.
See my youtube-comment-scraper.sh script for how I use it.

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simple-url-shortener

2019-07-15

abandoned, freeware, live, loved, open-source software, PHP software, software, website software

Software >

abandoned original: https://github.com/tylerhall/simple-url-shortener
forked: https://github.com/cargilcm/simple-url-shortener

Make your own URL shortener. e.g. for the owner of example.com links can be shortened like so:

example.com/some-long-url
to
example.com/abcd2

Impressively simple and easy to use. I chose it because it has one single very small script.

2024-08-17 – Abandoned: https://tyler.gd/3qumd is dead; I found a fork which seems maintained.

Comment

Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.warframe.com/landing

Be a robo-ninja and stuff; another one of these “run around and mash buttons” games, but with an awkward wall running mechanic that you ignore and instead run around and mash buttons.

It’s a piece of shit that doesn’t have working controls at all. How did this make it through alpha?

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Wet infrastructure

2019-06-17

archivism, freeware, hackers, hardware, intelligence, internet, my writing, open-source hardware, open-source software, people, software

Writing > Computers, Internet >

Everything is frail to failure. Be it hardware, software, data, business relationships, or people, nothing is immortal and immutable.

Many things are immediately recognized; the hardware and software, but we fail to see people; the wetware. They represent the intellectual backbone of major projects, the “wet infrastructure” upon which our technology relies, and when they cannot contribute, their projects suffer and we suffer. Their influence isn’t just notable, but critical.

For the internet, esr calls them Load-Bearing Internet People.

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