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Need YouTube help: I don't understand why I can't watch a proper recap of the Nations League match between Germany and Italy, in a language I speak. (En, De, Fr)

I'm in the US, and my search results are:
1. TUDN (Spanish) - 15 minute recap
2. A bunch of horrible screen recordings cut together terribly to avoid getting banned right away

I've tried searching in German, but get the same results.

If I go to the UEFA Nations League site, I can only watch a pathetic 2 minute recap.

I think it's time I ask the fedi hivemind about this...

I am looking for some news outlets about tech and gaming news that avoid politics, don't do clickbait and serve RSS.

I am most interested in both corporate ongoings (so I know what I may need to look out for at work) and noteworthy happenings at major FOSS projects in terms of tech news (but ideally without AI), as well as major game releases and indie projects as well as retro gaming-related news.

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#question #askmastodon #askfedi #software #cloudhosting #recommendation

Hello Fediverse, I would like to ask for some recommendations please:

Does a simple and lightweight alternative to google.drive for use on a Win desktop PC exist, based in EU or New Zealand, for upload, update & tracking of shared files?

1) To update files with unchanged public link

2) To see if and when the file was opened through the external link either for reading or for download, to count the uses

Many thanks ^.^

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@tulsa I have some old books that are library editions. They were never sold as hardback versions but my library copies are hardback and have a sticker on the inside that lists them as "Bound to Stay Books" outside of Jacksonville, Illinois.

It seems like they took soft cover books all over the country and rebound them as hardbacks for libraries so they would be more durable.

As for places local to Tulsa though I have no idea unfortunately.

#question to the solo devs: When have you determined that you are a senior software developer?

My last job as an employee ended around autumn 2020. I've been working solo since. I firmly believe, if you develop the skillset and experience, it doesn't matter whether you reached this in a solo environment or team environment.

What's your stance on that subject?

now that we've figured out that freysa.ai and social.freysa.ai are filled with nefarious bots, how do i block those instances? I've somehow gotten away without having to do this all these years haha. and searching for known bot handles doesn't appear to show any results (like the results are wholly empty)

off-late, I've been feeling like i need to start learning a programming language with practical applications. something I can use to write stuff on my Linux system for my use or something which i can put up on my Sourcehut. and something a little challenging too, because where's the fun in straightforward stuff?

R has been great but, of course, that's just for data analysis. python seemed interesting but more recently Rust is what has been drawing me in.

how does one get started with Rust? what are some good resources for learning and practicing the language? i can figure out the Emacs side of things myself.

I'm reading a manga that has been scanlated in Spanish
While I try to read it, I translate the most difficult sentences with deepl.

I wonder if there's a comic reader that would allow me to add notes with my translations, such that if I hover the mouse where there's a note I could see the text I left there.

I know that pdf readers can do that but I want to do this with cbz files.

Any help / suggestions please?

Question to gamedevs: Do you play your own games for fun or only in the context of development?

Whenever I play my own games, I only see the flaws or compare them to better products.

Though I always wanted to also play my own games for fun, not just when I add a new feature, improvement or fix a bug.

How about you?

Does anyone know why this is? Here's a post from my other account. When I view it from that account, I can see loads of faves and boosts, but when I view it from this account (I followed my old account just in case it was that), it only shows 7? Does this instance have a lot of others that it defederates from? Or is it some other reason?