Posted by yesturi 1/23/2026
Penn [Jillette] said "If not for Randi there would not be Penn & Teller as we are today."Booting from a vinyl record - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25177045 - Nov 2020 (157 comments)
Part of the infamous sound of a dial-up connection being established was negotiating the speed of the connection. Now I'm thinking if you'd need a negotiation of 33 1/3, 45, or 78 as an advanced feature.
But like the vinyl it has really terrible random access behavior.
It would be sorta cool if someone used an auto repeat record and several copies in order to do a multi track streaming solution. With six players you can load the file in 1:02 instead of 6:10. Or perhaps 1:33 average if you don’t assume the record begins right when you’re ready to read and you have to wait ~31s average seek time.
It doesn't even say which type of cookies have to be accepted, I tried selecting just functional cookies, that didn't work. Funny how it's an arcane bunch of toggles in a cookie popup, on a page describing an arcane way of booting up a system.
yt-dlp https://youtu.be/bqz65_YfcJg -o - | mpv -
Thanks for the heads up regardless, I'm sure there was others who didn't know, who learned something new! :)
Last time I was passing youtube URLs to mpv, it relied on having an executable named youtube-dl.exe somewhere visible to the mpv executable. To get it to work with yt-dlp, I had to copy and rename the yt-dlp executable.
> has yt-dlp integrated
Have they switched to supplying their own youtube downloader instead of just working with whatever you happen to have in your path?
> Available options: [...] mark_watched: Mark videos watched (even with --simulate). Only for YouTube
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/c8680b65f79cfeb23b342b...
So I'm guessing without that, it doesn't, so would have to add the flag for it to try to count it as a view.
Alternatively you can use the link in GP to grab the video via yt-dlp. Can even do that via tor if you want. (Weirdly at least historically youtube was friendlier to tor exit nodes than it was to a lot of mainstream VPNs. Not sure what was up with that, haven't tested it in a while.)
Youtube has stopped working with privacy plugins on...