freamon

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[–] freamon 1 points 1 year ago

There's a knee for decent news

Gordon Freeman would like to borrow your crowbar.

[–] freamon 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, but you have to be careful - enough people buy the merch for the 2-second appearance and they'll end up dedicating an entire TV show to them, and then you're stuck saying "Oh what this? No, you don't understand, I bought this ages ago ..."

[–] freamon 4 points 1 year ago

Maul never struck as a 'Daryl' (well, not like he struck Qui-Gon)

[–] freamon 1 points 1 year ago

No offense to anyone, but the only line I was interested in was: "Ghosts series 5 starts on BBC One at 8.30pm this Friday", so the 6th October.

[–] freamon 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sorry - I said 'you seem focused', when I should have said something to include the other replies in this thread - I just meant there's a lot of stuff here about adblockers, when you've established for yourself that it's not that, and it's drowning out the actual answer.

I did expand your spoiler tag - I read that you'd cleared 'Browsing History', but that's a different checkbox than 'Cached images and files', so I didn't know if you'd already done that.

Ultimately, this problem is why instances are usually quite 'grabby' when it comes to images that federate across - they tend to make a copy and host it themselves. For whatever reason, feddit.nl isn't doing that for images on here, and startrek.website isn't always quick enough to provide it when a page is loaded, so the local cache ends up with a broken image. So clearing the cache and reloading the page will often fix it, but it's not a 100% solution, and the results will differ by user. I would suggest that the real solution is for startrek.website to upgrade their server, or for its members to host images on a site that is dedicated to serving them.

EDIT: another solution would be to leave feddit.nl, and join startrek.website (depends where you priorities lie, of course)

[–] freamon 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wow, yeah. I just viewed Risa from Brave and it's a wasteland of broken images.

Here's how I fixed it though: Brave=>Clear Browsing Data=>Tick 'Cached Images and Files'=>Click 'Clear Data'. Once I did that, everything loaded normally.

You seem focused on the idea that it's to do with adblocking or shields, and it's not - it's related to caching.

[–] freamon 1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Oh, well, it might be about the issue that the OP makes in a comment on that post.
For me, the URL of that image is https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/ffcc19ac-fb10-4c66-893e-87840bfc62f8.jpeg, which is different from the one in your screenshot.

Viewing https://feddit.nl/c/[email protected] in Private fixed the thumbnail for me in Normal view, so it suggests it's a caching issue. Perhaps try to purge your browser's memory of the community, and see if then comes up with the correct URL.

[–] freamon 3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

The post you've linked to (referring to the problem being 'wacky local caching') explains some of it.

For example, that "TRUST ME. That TV? It's Safe" post - the thumbnail is broke for me on feddit.nl, but it points to a valid image (it expands to a full one, and 'Open Image in New Tab' will display the thumbnail version.
If, however, I view the community through Private Browsing (aka Incognito Mode), the thumbnail displays correctly.

Image to illustrate:

[–] freamon 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I should probably clarify something about what I mean by 'New Entries' - it means Communities that haven't appeared in 'New' or 'Previous' in over a month. So the big piracy Community is getting new subs because of the decision by lemmy.world admins to allow it back, but it hasn't been on these lists since mid-August.

The thinking is to allow for Communities to "re-trend", without getting buried in 'Previous'. A 'Halloween' Community or a 'Cricket' Community was more what I had in mind, but 'Piracy' illustrates it nevertheless.

[–] freamon 16 points 1 year ago

This is often misinterpreted. He was just talking to Bin WoooooHoooooooooooooo over in Mission Control.

[–] freamon 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is the script you posted pseudocode? The 'spotdl' I downloaded with pip doesn't have a --list option.

If we've both got the same program, then I wouldn't bother with any script, and just use spotdl's 'sync' option.

Navigate to your download directory.
Run it once:
spotdl sync https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5qevB6grI6y2SuVcPTelZA --save-file myplaylist.spotdl
Run it in future to download new stuff:
spotdl sync https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5qevB6grI6y2SuVcPTelZA --sync-without-deleting --save-file myplaylist.spotdl

You can see that myplaylist.spotdl is just a JSON file listing everything that's downloaded. When it's run again, it won't re-download anything that's already in there, and the --sync-without-deleting option stops it from deleting local files that have been removed from the playlist.

[–] freamon 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also I can’t see this bonus shot you mentioned.

It was an inline image. Maybe whatever client you're using doesn't display them, or maybe you're blocking postimages.cc. If it's the former, the image is at: https://postimg.cc/fTj1d5NZ

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