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GitHub Warns Users Reposting YouTube-DL They Could Be Banned:
https://torrentfreak...ld-be-banned-201102/-panzer (November 02, 2020, 07:22 AM)
Github Probably Doesn’t Want to Suspend/Ban Anyone
The new comments from Github’s Corporate Counsel seem designed to serve as a reminder to people who want to protest on Github itself. While dissenting commentary isn’t under any threat of a response, it appears – reading between the lines – that Github hopes people won’t continue to risk their accounts on the platform by reposting material that will only have to be taken down.
If such content is repeatedly taken down by the platform, then Github’s repeat infringer policy will need to be considered under law and as history has shown, that either ends badly for users or for platforms themselves, there is no real middle ground.
I don't like real-time monitoring services on my PC anyway.-brahman (October 28, 2020, 08:11 PM)
Thanks for highlighting this. I installed it after seeing your post here and am liking it so far.-Deozaan (October 27, 2020, 05:30 PM)
On my desktop and my laptop, both Windows, I use a couple of mice.
The desktop, I use the Logitech G603 - Wireless and Razer DeathAdder on the laptop. I have been hearing good reviews of the Razer DeathAdder V2 Wireless, but the price stops me from getting one.-Writer (October 27, 2020, 03:18 PM)
.. but I thought the link also said BBCode for local video could be specifically enabled, without allowing any and all html embeds.-Nod5 (October 27, 2020, 11:49 AM)
Also, if don't want to use the tags, then you can add a new BBCode to use it for the local video files, something like this [video]/path/to/the/video.mp4[/video] and then it will show in the post like the code I added before.That looks super easy to code, I may give that a try Saturday, schedule super booked til then. That is if no one beats me to it.
Found this at SMF on embedding MP4. But don't know what changes to DC would be needed to get something like that working.
https://www.simplema...sg3843100#msg3843100-Nod5 (October 27, 2020, 09:25 AM)
I don't need audio, but mp4 file animations tend to have better quality and smaller filesize.-Nod5 (October 26, 2020, 09:27 AM)
Facebook has told researchers at New York University to stop using a digital tool that tracks how people are targeted with political ads ahead of the Nov. 3 election.
The demand, sent last week and confirmed by NYU on Friday, centers on the academics’ use of a web browser plug-in that gives Facebook users a way to share specific political ads they are seeing on the site.
Political advertisers primarily target their ads to specific demographic groups, so the NYU tool — which collects roughly 16,000 ads each week — allows researchers to see how campaigns and other groups are crafting messages to voters based on race, age, location or other criteria.
In its notice to NYU, Facebook said that the use of the plug-in broke the company’s terms of service, and ordered the academics to stop using the tool by Nov. 30 or face “additional enforcement action." NYU said it will not take it down.
“We’re not going to comply with it,” Laura Edelson, an NYU researcher who is part of the project, told POLITICO. “What we are doing is perfectly legal and is in the public interest.”
For more on how they found out:
https://octodon.soci...a/105085774214181683
[ Invalid Attachment ]-wraith808 (October 24, 2020, 01:41 PM)
Who are "they"? And it seems kind of random for that person to accuse Google of doing the takedown.-Deozaan (October 24, 2020, 08:48 PM)
How is it a surprise that the RIAA are taking down a streaming app they have not specifically allowed? They've been doing this for decades. And while I might dislike the RIAA, as a copyright holder, I'm all in favour of copyright holders' right to close unapproved access to copyrighted content.-Dormouse (October 24, 2020, 06:02 PM)
Most probably started going to multi-monitor, monitors became cheaper, which increased screen real estate allowing you to see it all at once rather than cycle through virtual desktops to the one you wanted.-4wd (October 24, 2020, 04:06 PM)
