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ah yes, let me just install a browser extension on the kids ipad
Here, this will help with that https://kagi.com/orion/
Only works in iOS
Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
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When Nixon slammed the gold window shut so Congress could keep writing blank checks for Vietnam and the Great Society, it wasn't just some monetary technicality. It was the moment America broke its word to the world and broke something fundamental in us too. Suddenly money wasn't something you earned through sweat or innovation anymore. It became something politicians and bankers could conjure from thin air whenever…
Wow. That was eloquent, and coherent, and depressing. I'd be grateful for someone to counter with something less dismal. Good things are still happening in the world. A positive future remains possible -- but we have to be able to imagine it to bring it into being.
Semi coherent. The greed and corruption is a real theme but would still be 100% possible while on the gold standard.
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What do you mean by signing? Application signing on android is done by the developer, with their own key. Or by fdroid, in the case of apps built by fdroid in the default repository.
Things have changed. Google is doing what Apple does and implementing Gatekeeper-like signature checks to ensure only apps by Google-approved developers can run on Android. Microsoft does something similar with Windows Defender: you need to buy a developer certificate that can be revoked at any time if you want to distribute your app and have users be able to run it. We're at a point where we need permission from tri…
In that case they wouldn't be stopping anything, since they haven't started signing anything yet.
I also haven't seen any specifics on how that system is supposed to work, but have seen a lot of speculation and (perhaps not unwarranted) fearmongering.
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fortunately it is now easier than ever to do small-scale scraping, the kind yt-dlp does. I can literally just go write a script that uses headless firefox + mitmproxy in about an hour or two of fiddling, and as long as I then don't go try to run it from 100 VPS's and scrape their entire website in a huge blast, I can typically archive whatever content I actually care about. Basically no matter what protection mechani…
> fortunately it is now easier than ever to do small-scale scraping, the kind yt-dlp does. this is absolutely not the case. I've been web scraping since 00s and you could just curl any html or selenium the browser for simple automation but now it's incredibly complex and expensive even with modern tools like playwright and all of the monthly "undetectable" flavors of it. Headless browsers are laughably easy to detect…
mozilla-unified/dom/base/Navigator.cpp - find Navigator::Webdriver and make it always return false, then recompile.
Re: Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads
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I'm not waiting for the collapse to fix things - I'm waiting for it so that I won't have any more distractions and I can go back to my books.
As I said, there aren't any collapses like that to be had. Heaven and Earth will be moved to make the smallest change necessary to keep things flowing as they were. Banks aren't allowed to fail. Companies, despite lengthy strings of missteps and billions burned on dead ends, still remain on top. You can step away from the world (right now, no waiting required). But the world can remain irrational longer than you can…
Everything that can't go on forever will eventually stop. On the other hand, the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
The basic governing principles of the economy were completely rewritten in 1971, were completely rewritten again in 2008, were completely rewritten again in 2020 - probably other times too - and there are only so many more things they can try. The USA is basically running as a pseudo-command economy at the top level now - how long do those typically last? - with big businesses being supported by the central bank.
The economy should have collapsed in 1971, 2008 and 2020 (and probably other times) as well, but they kept finding new interventions that would have seemed completely ludicrous 20 years earlier. I mean, the Federal Reserve just buying financial assets? With newly printed money? (it still has a massive reserve of them, this program did not end, that money is still in circulation and it's propping a lot of economic numbers up)
All predictions about when the musical chairs will end are probably wrong. The prediction that it'll end in the next N years is just as likely to be wrong, as the prediction that it won't. Some would argue it already has ended, decades ago, and we are currently living in the financial collapse - how many years of income does it take to get a house now? The collapse of Rome' took several centuries. At no point did the people think they were living in a collapsing empire. Each person just thought that how it was in their time was how it always was.
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My brother sent me a long talk on YouTube and pleaded with me to listen to it. Watching was pointless the video was just talking heads sitting in chairs. However you can’t just play a video and turn off your phone while listening to the audio on headphones. The mobile browser sleeps and the audio stops. So I used yt-dlp to rip the audio and dropped it into my Plex server to listen to with Prologue. It wasn’t even abo…
Firefox Mobile has an extension "Video Background Play Fix" to disable the Page Visibility API anti-feature.
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#567What are folks thoughts on jdownloader2 these days? Hell is that still kicking?
jdownloader2 is one of those weirdly licensed things, it claims to be "open source" but you actually can't find the entire source anywhere. Worse than proprietary, tbh.
https://beta.jdownloader.org/developmentquicktutorial
svn://svn.jdownloader.org/jdownloader/trunk
it's right there on the home page
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Wow. That was eloquent, and coherent, and depressing. I'd be grateful for someone to counter with something less dismal. Good things are still happening in the world. A positive future remains possible -- but we have to be able to imagine it to bring it into being.
Semi coherent. The greed and corruption is a real theme but would still be 100% possible while on the gold standard.
They'd have to physically steal gold from people, and people would notice that. Or they could mine more gold, but that's hard. Or they could publicly and officially change the exchange rate (of dollars to gold), and people would notice that politicians make it go down, the same way that people notice when politicians make taxes go up (they notice way more than when prices other than taxes go up).
With the current system, they (the central bank) can just increase some people's numbers in some spreadsheets, and the effects are extremely indirect. Nominally this is in exchange for assets of equal value so the situation returns the normal after some time, but that hasn't been happening - the amount of money created this way has not been decreasing at any meaningful rate.
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Things have changed. Google is doing what Apple does and implementing Gatekeeper-like signature checks to ensure only apps by Google-approved developers can run on Android. Microsoft does something similar with Windows Defender: you need to buy a developer certificate that can be revoked at any time if you want to distribute your app and have users be able to run it. We're at a point where we need permission from tri…
>Microsoft does something similar with Windows Defender: you need to buy a developer certificate that can be revoked at any time if you want to distribute your app and have users be able to run it. Clarifying: you CAN run an unsigned app just fine on Windows. A lot of freeware/"indie" (for lack of a better term for small software) programs run just fine, the only thing that happens is the user recieves a warning they…
Depends, I ran into this issue[1] a while ago with unsigned binaries.