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N.A.N.Y. 2021 / Re: NANY 2021: yaydl

« on: October 21, 2025, 06:11 AM »

Major rework: 0.18.0 (and 0.18.1). Fixed YouTube, improved the smoothness of adding new handlers (introducing a yaydl-specific HTTP(S) agent that adds proxy detection automatically), large changeset, small actual changes, basically.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 End of Life: October 14, 2025

« on: October 16, 2025, 03:34 PM »

All Linux distributions are the same kernel with varying desktop themes. Try GhostBSD. It’s Ubuntu without a shitty kernel.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 End of Life: October 14, 2025

« on: September 10, 2025, 07:38 PM »

I was under the impression it was OSS if not FOSS but with optionally paid supporter packs that include extra brushes or something like that.

-Deozaan (September 10, 2025, 07:34 PM)

You might be correct here. My bad.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 End of Life: October 14, 2025

« on: September 10, 2025, 07:26 PM »

I am not deep into graphics/image editing software, but I've recently seen PixiEditor make some headlines

-Deozaan (September 10, 2025, 07:20 PM)

I remember having looked at this tool a few months ago. The web browser version had a lot of bugs (well, a web browser is a crap platform for applications), I haven't tried the desktop version yet. (But that's also because I'm quite happy with the Affinity Suite on macOS.)

If I understand the download page correctly, the "final" version of PixiEditor will also cost a fair bit of money. But if the plan works out, I'm glad that at least this problem will be solved. It only took a few decades. Thanks for reminding me.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 End of Life: October 14, 2025

« on: September 10, 2025, 07:08 PM »

still contemplating switching to Linux (don't want to invest in way too expensive Apple hardware)

-Ath (September 05, 2025, 03:42 PM)

This whole #Endof10 palaver on social media has been annoying me for months. Since I haven't written anything on DonationCoder for a long time, I'm taking this opportunity to elaborate on it:

Anyone who has been following my posts for a while knows that I don't think much of Linux. (There are significantly more options than Windows, macOS or Linux! Haiku and FreeBSD are pretty good alternatives for the end-user, I myself also think highly of OpenBSD, illumos and - in some respects - 9front.) In fact, despite all the activist drumming, you can't simply replace Windows with just any free systems. Sure: good office suites (I recommend SoftMaker Office) are also available for operating systems other than Windows, and if you only need email and a web browser anyway, the system doesn't matter, but when it comes to graphic editing, it gets tricky. What's the Linux alternative to Adobe and Affinity tools? GIMP? Inkscape? Seen it, laughed, deleted it.

It's incomprehensible to me why the Free Software scene, after almost thirty years of development and countless developers, hasn't managed to develop GIMP even remotely into something that would be a serious competitor to Affinity Photo and/or Photoshop. And vector editing? That's not rocket science. Sure, I get it: not everyone needs graphic tools in everyday life. I don't really either, but I like to design funny T-shirts myself. With Inkscape, I'd only manage that with a wagonload of schnapps to calm my nerves.

Linux, the BSDs and other free systems are simply unsuitable for many people as an alternative to Windows and macOS. Sure: there's Wine. So people install Linux to "get away from Microsoft", and then need a Windows simulator for most of the software tools they want to use in everyday life. That would be too daft for me.

But to each their own, right?

By the way: Third-party file management tools on Windows exist, including (but not limited to) KDE Dolphin, praised by some as a "Linux killer application", ironically. Just saying.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: groffstudio: An IDE for the GNU troff typesetting system.

« on: February 16, 2025, 08:03 PM »

FWIW, 0.14.1 has been out for a while:

[Changed] New icon, slightly less awful.
[Bugfix] On macOS, groffstudio printed debug output where it shouldn't.
[Bugfix] Preprocessors did not quite work as well as they should have.

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N.A.N.Y. 2025 / Re: N.A.N.Y 2025: Silencer

« on: December 20, 2024, 06:52 PM »

This is actually quite handy. Thank you.

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N.A.N.Y. 2025 / Re: NANY 2025

« on: December 16, 2024, 03:10 PM »

I am very kind to someone who complains to Mouser about me because he only demands religious tolerance from others but is not prepared to show tolerance towards other people himself.

I have also withdrawn my software for NANY 2025 (see post #2) and I do not wish to have another conversation with you or I will indeed have to become unkind. This is a waste of time for me.

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N.A.N.Y. 2025 / Re: NANY 2025

« on: December 16, 2024, 02:59 PM »

I'm not understanding, I want you to stay on dc.

-relipse (December 16, 2024, 02:53 PM)

I am not - and I never was - interested in a version of DonationCoder where

• commercial software without an exception for home users is tolerated and
• religious fanatics believe that their religion is above artistic freedom.

You can't find it in your heart to change your profile picture?

-relipse (December 16, 2024, 02:53 PM)

I will no longer submit to people who want to turn their own religion into a problem for other people. You stay, I'll go, you have your peace and I have mine.

What do you honestly think of Jesus that you won't change it?

-relipse (December 16, 2024, 02:53 PM)

I couldn't care less about your prophet, my friend. Your religion is not my religion.

Keep up the good work, relipse. Welcome back, I'm out.

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N.A.N.Y. 2025 / Re: NANY 2025

« on: December 16, 2024, 02:48 PM »

And if you do so, I would ask for my account and all posts to be deleted @ mouser.

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N.A.N.Y. 2025 / Re: NANY 2025

« on: December 16, 2024, 02:40 PM »

I will not change my picture.

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N.A.N.Y. 2025 / Re: NANY 2025

« on: December 16, 2024, 02:31 PM »

It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what.

(Stephen Fry, The Guardian, 5 June 2005)

Your religion is not more important than any other religion. Be that as it may: I take note of the fact that you are spreading nothing but anger here, presumably as ‘revenge’ for the fact that I pointed out the essentials of this website to you. If, after all these years, any member of the DonationCoder team suddenly gets the idea that not only commercial software is tolerated here, but also that my established avatar picture has to make way, I would ask for my account and all posts to be deleted. Then this is no longer the DonationCoder I signed up for and enjoyed participating in.

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N.A.N.Y. 2025 / Re: NANY 2025

« on: December 16, 2024, 01:03 PM »

(for < $2)

-relipse (December 16, 2024, 12:45 PM)

The point is that it's > $0.

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N.A.N.Y. 2025 / Re: NANY 2025

« on: December 15, 2024, 08:56 PM »

The whole point of this site is that all our software is free for home users. I'm positive that mouser has actually written (some of) the FAQ I linked above.
You have been here long enough to be familiar with what DonationCoder is, one would think.

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N.A.N.Y. 2025 / Re: NANY 2025

« on: December 10, 2024, 10:28 AM »

Relipse, I encourage you to read the FAQ and then either remove the “freemium” license or both of your NANY submissions. They grossly violate everything DonationCoder stands for.

Quote, highlighted by yours truly:

All of the software hosted on our website can be used freely for personal use without restriction to time or functionality.

(Technically, they are not “hosted” on DonationCoder. But I surely hope that they’re not welcome here either.)

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Find licence key

« on: November 25, 2024, 04:43 AM »

Try this one.

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N.A.N.Y. 2021 / Re: NANY 2021: yaydl

« on: November 12, 2024, 06:25 AM »

0.17.0: Added support for direct downloads of .mp4 and .mpg files.

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N.A.N.Y. 2021 / Re: NANY 2021: yaydl

« on: October 27, 2024, 07:42 PM »

0.16.0: Added pr0gramm.com support.

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N.A.N.Y. 2025 / Re: NANY 2025

« on: September 30, 2024, 06:31 PM »

On the bright side, the runtime is standardized and already installed on the device

-paradisusvic (September 30, 2024, 05:46 PM)

A runtime...

But that'll be better discussed in a separate thread. This is NANY.

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N.A.N.Y. 2025 / Re: NANY 2025

« on: September 30, 2024, 11:14 AM »

Web browsers are an atrocious runtime though.

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N.A.N.Y. 2025 / Re: NANY 2025

« on: September 30, 2024, 04:09 AM »

deleted, this site is over

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N.A.N.Y. 2025 / NANY 2025

« on: September 25, 2024, 06:54 PM »

I hereby start a thread for NANY 2025 projects.

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N.A.N.Y. 2021 / Re: NANY 2021: yaydl

« on: August 27, 2024, 04:31 PM »

I have thought about parallelized downloads. The problem is that

• the package I use for accessing URLs - ureq - is deliberately kept small, and it probably won't work well. I could probably move back to reqwest, increasing the technical dependency debt by quite a few fjerghillion bytes, but I don't think I would like that ..., and
• I'm not sure how reliable my selfmade progress display (using a non-selfmade progress bar renderer, but that's not the point  ) would be with parallel downloads.

Ok, the problems are that...
So, I'm aware of the bottleneck "single-connection downloads", but fixing that is not easy if I want to keep yaydl lean and mean. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Eudora, Hermes and Pandora - also compared to TheBat! and other email clients

« on: August 26, 2024, 05:02 AM »

Wouldn't it make more sense to call it "Eudoramail 9.0"? After all, Eudora 8.0 were the first releases of what later was named Eudora OSE.

Furthermore, it is competitively priced and offers a more affordable alternative compared to options like The Bat! or Pandora.

-nmatavka (October 30, 2023, 01:02 PM)

This, however, is a false statement. Pandora is US$ 14.00 per release (= major versions, not updates). "Eudoramail 8.0" is four Pandoras.

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N.A.N.Y. 2021 / Re: NANY 2021: yaydl

« on: August 19, 2024, 08:45 PM »

0.15.2 supports Vidoza‘s videzz domain. Will be published to Cargo tomorrow, it’s already in the repository.