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yt-dlp supports a number of video streaming websites, not just YouTube.

This is now fixed, but you didn't used to be able to filter excluding game tags on Steam.

Though Steam doesn't have a single unified search interface. You're probably referring to the most-comprehensive one, the one used on the Steam Store after you've performed a search. That one does have "exclude tag" functionality now. But there are a bunch more, which have varying levels of completeness in functionality. For example, the list that comes up on the store when you click on a sale. Or the list of games in the sidebar in your library. Or the list of games on the "shelf" in your library, in the large pane. They don't all support the same criteria.

I have before commented to say that I wish that they'd unify all their search interfaces.

data centers and supercomputing facilities, which consume voracious amounts of electricity and water

Memphis is on the Mississippi. Evaporating the volume of the Mississippi at Memphis with graphics cards would be a pretty impressive feat.

kagis

https://snoflo.org/flow/report/tennessee/

TENNESSEE FLOW REPORT

August 22 2025

Streamflow levels across Tennessee are currently 92.0% of normal, with the Mississippi River At Memphis reporting the highest discharge in the state with 354000cfs

345,000 cubic feet of water per second is a pretty substantial amount of water.

EDIT: Water has a heat of vaporization of 2.23 kJ/g.

345k ft³ water is 9.7×10⁹ cm³, so 9.7×10⁹g

That's about 2.2×10¹⁰kJ to vaporize it (disregarding the specific heat of water, just the heat of vaporization).

1kJ ≈ 0.28 Wh.

So 6,160,000,000 Wh to vaporize the water going through in a second.

3,600 seconds in an hour.

So at a flow rate of 345k ft³ that'd sink about 22 trillion watts through vaporization alone.

https://www.e-education.psu.edu/egee102/node/1925

In 2024, the world wide energy consumption was about 186,000 TWhs

8760 hours in a year. So global average power usage is about 21 TW.

If we put the entire world's generated electricity towards heat to vaporize the Mississippi at Memphis, it'd still fall a bit short.

EDIT2: I also inadvertently transposed two digits (should be 354,000 ft³/sec rather than 345,000 ft³/sec) in transcribing the initial flow rate, so it'd fall slightly shorter.

Honestly, while he's at the high end of things, it's not just him. I think that a lot of celebrities having Twitter or similar on a phone in their pocket makes them really prone to making extremely public statements without giving the statements some consideration. I don't remember the level of bonkers statements in 2025 from celebrities constantly flooding conversation in the 1990s.

In all fairness, Trump does do a pretty good job of managing to soak up all possible free media time, which doesn't leave much for Musk these days.

The wealth was meaningless without the attention.

I think that the idea of simplifying a logo is fine, but this drops a lot of the feel.

Frankly, animations in general. Okay, for Web-based video games, maybe I get it. If your website is not a video game, why am I watching visual elements zing around? If I walked up to a bank or a grocery store and then had to stop and patiently wait by the door while some animation involving the store's logo or bank played, how many customers would take that store seriously? Why are you doing it on your website? I don't want fade-ins, fade-outs, buttons that slide in from the side, anything like that.

I'm not really familiar with Firefox's performance analysis tools, but fumbling around with the Network tab, with my browser cache off, I believe that that webpage, including all dependent files, had loaded in ~160ms, sans the favicon (which was another 24ms).

So many expensively-developed websites that aren't even remotely as responsive.

I don't know if it's a good idea for sites to do so, but I personally hate websites having some sort of timeout and then killing the session if they don't detect activity. I never walk away from my system with it unlocked. Sometimes I need to do other things on another desktop, and I don't want to be forced to manually click things to keep the session live. I will grant that probably, there are people who don't do that, but this really is obnoxious.

Also, very short timeouts on 2FA systems that use stuff like email. I've had antispam systems greylist authentication emails and that create problems with sites that have short timeouts.

If your website is light-mode, also have a dark mode. And respect the user's requested dark-mode setting from the browser via prefers-color-scheme. Don't require them to use the site in some default mode to go through the login process and log in and explicitly set the thing in your internal account settings. That's especially annoying for users who may have something like time-based modes on their system (I don't, always want dark mode, but it's extra obnoxious for them.)

I think that the entire "m." convention for forcing use of a mobile site

Wikipedia being a prominent example of this practice

is a terrible idea. It means that mobile users inadvertently send links to desktop users that force a mobile-mode page, which is virtually never desirable for the desktop users. I don't know what the state-of-the-art here is in web dev, but I am very certain that there are better options than that, because lots of sites manage to have a mobile site without doing this. If you want to have a way to force mobile or force desktop mode in your URL, fine. But for God's sake, don't make that the default. I have spent more time manually stripping "m." off Wikipedia URLs on discussion sites so as not to inconvenience desktop users when I happen to be using mobile, or stripping it out of URLs from mobile users when I'm on a desktop...and yes, there are extensions to help with this, but it really shouldn't be a problem in the first place, I think.

I like my browser's back button to work. Some sites maintain session state that cause things to break when moving back to a prior page. Short of some obvious examples, where irrevocable changes to state have occurred (e.g. making a payment at a bank to someone) and it's obviously not possible to back things out, I want to be able to use my browser's features.

I think that you're going to need some context here for a useful answer. Are we talking about a hardware MP3 player? An Android phone? A Linux laptop? Just a recorded audio file where you want to have a period of silence?

No. I think that things have pretty steadily gotten better over time, and that a great deal of people being upset about now for any given now comes from a tendency to focus on negatives. Could be social media or news media tending to bring negatives to the surface because it drives engagement, political activists aiming to drive or leverage upset, or so forth.