The intrusive "Ad blocker are not allowed on YouTube" message is annoying. This open-source project aims to address this issue by providing a solution to bypass YouTube's ad blocker...
github.com
Ironically the video is on YT... chicken and egg here.
JSmith
Lordy, I love capitalism.
I have profoundly mixed feelings about stuff like this. YT/Google/Alphabet is in business to make money. They can do whatever they want, within the confines of applicable law. It's the
tactics that hack me off. The big media conglomerates (and some of the smaller media
apparatchiks, too) operate like drug dealers:
the first hit is free.
Ironically...
"In 1906, the American inventor Lee de Forest created an amplifier [i.e., the triode] that made broadcasting possible. Of commercial radio, de Forest said: 'What have you done with my child? You have sent him out on the street in rags of ragtime to collect money from all and sundry. You have made of him a laughingstock of intelligence, surely a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere.' "
Today is the birthday of George Boole (1815), the English mathematician responsible for Boolean algebra, whose three basic operations of AND, OR and NOT, became the basis of comparing sets of things mathematically. He also composed all-important algebraic identities like: (X or Y) = (Y or X)...
www.garrisonkeillor.com
PS I am listening to the Beatles
via a small box of triodes (and one dual-diode HV rectifier) even as I type this. OK, the source is digital (a -
ahem - CD)... but... still...
PPS Credit where credit's due: I saw this quote first at
https://hifihaven.org/index.php?thr...er-peculiar-snippets.8220/page-28#post-246292
PPPS Maybe it's just me, but the photo of de Forest I posted makes him look like one of Gerry Anderson's marionettes. Sorry about that.