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Elvis, Freddie, Kurt, Chester. Giga-super-mega-band there in Heaven.

Everything has to end
You’ll soon find we’re out of time
Left to watch it all unwind.

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Meg and Jack, you’ve inspired us all.

Clownflare, sorry, I mean Cloudflare, is down and it took half of the internet with it. Noice.

Cyanide & Happiness back at it. <3

Found on Facebook Marketplace for about 100 euros, unfortunately it’s not working, so I won’t pay that kind of money for it. It looks nice though and I’m sure someone with soldering experience can check it out and make it work.

I thought it’s interesting and dropped the photos here.

Everyone around me is crazy about homebrew. “Omg, the missing package manager for mac OS” and all that shit.

Today I was trying to steal some concert recordings from youtube [1], [2] and discovered that my yt-dlp installation was a bit outdated, so I had to update.

On my Linux server it all went easily:

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[andrei@homeserver test_dir ]$ sudo yt-dlp -U
[sudo] password for andrei: 
Current version: stable@2025.10.22 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Latest version: stable@2025.11.12 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Current Build Hash: 4c8742edceee1529f77078a9ac6a79dde9babdc11bcac9e349ed9f0e4173ebf7
Updating to stable@2025.11.12 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp ...
Updated yt-dlp to stable@2025.11.12 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Easy-peasy lemon squeezy. Now let’s move to my M2 Max running Mac OS Ventura 13.6.2.

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[andrei@Max test ]$ yt-dlp -U       
Current version: stable@2025.07.21 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Latest version: stable@2025.11.12 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp
ERROR: You installed yt-dlp with pip or using the wheel from PyPi; Use that to update

OOKAY, let’s try looking for alternatives. What could have been the other install method? Sure, homebrew!!

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[andrei@Max test ]$ brew upgrade yt-dlp                       

==> Upgrading 1 outdated package:
yt-dlp 2025.7.21 -> 2025.11.12
Warning: You are using macOS 13.
We (and Apple) do not provide support for this old version.

This is a Tier 3 configuration:
  https://docs.brew.sh/Support-Tiers#tier-3
You can report Tier 3 unrelated issues to Homebrew/* repositories!
Read the above document before opening any issues or PRs.

==> Fetching downloads for: yt-dlp
✔︎ API Source yt-dlp.rb                                                                                                                                                                                           [Verifying     4.4KB/  4.4KB]
deno: A full installation of Xcode.app 15.0 is required to compile
this software. Installing just the Command Line Tools is not sufficient.

Xcode can be installed from the App Store.
Error: yt-dlp: An unsatisfied requirement failed this build.

A full installation of Xcode.app 15.0 is required to compile this software.

A full installation of Xcode.app 15.0 is required to compile this software.

A full installation of Xcode.app 15.0 is required to compile this software.

What the shit, this is not good. I mean I usually have Xcode installed, but because I try to keep this laptop as clean as possible, it’s not yet installed here. I guess we’ll have to look for a workaround:

Step one: cleanup

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[andrei@Max test ]$ brew remove yt-dlp 
Uninstalling /opt/homebrew/Cellar/yt-dlp/2025.7.21... (1,969 files, 25.6MB)

Ok, bye. Now time for step two, installing the yt-dlp release binary straight away without the need of a package manager, as described on the project’s wiki:

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curl -L https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp -o ~/.local/bin/yt-dlp
chmod a+rx ~/.local/bin/yt-dlp

And done.

youtube • video ID: 8eIuwthdFOA

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Falling faster through the corners of my mind
I can’t relate cause all you do is hate
I fall away
But I’m finding my way
Burn, I burn my hate

I remember watching the first Harry Potter movie in 2001 or 2002, and being amazed at the universe it opened for us. I was about 15 at the time, worry-free and enjoying high school. By the time the last movie was released, I already had a job (for four years), living on my own, getting ready to move to a new country and face the hardships of life. My generation grew up with these movies, great stories about friendship, courage, trust and finding the magic inside each other. We also learned not to take people at their face values, as the people who seem to despise us might be helping us, while some so-called friends can be treacherous. We grew with these movies and I was happy to rewatch the entire series in less than a week with my ten-year-old niece and her mom and for a few hours be kids again.

Don’t forget to be a kid sometimes.

PS: This didn’t need to be “remade” by Hollywood to tick all the diversity boxes. Now Hermione is an indian while Snape is black. And to add insult to injury, Hagrid is now played by fucking Nick Frost. Can’t wait for this shit to be axed after the first instalment.

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Today marks 10 years since the tragedy that hit Romania, the Colectiv nightclub fire that took the life of 65 young people. Ten years have passed since, and Romania is still barenaked in front of a tragedy.

10 years.

0 hospitals.

Fuck this country.

Remeber when dorks were smart people who used technology in creative ways? Now dorks are just ugly bitches who take photos next to a Macintosh because they’re too dumb or ugly to have an OnlyFans page.

Some people reported that I have some broken links in my RSS feed. Thank you for pointing that out, it’s due to a way hugo works when it’s building sites. I’ve updated my blog deploy script and should be fine from now on. Thanks, frens, for pointing it out!