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General Software Discussion / Re: Syncovery - Pro or Premium Version?
« Last post by wraith808 on October 28, 2020, 06:42 PM »
i have pro, and I documented my use case in that same thread.  I haven't had any problems syncing to my external or my NAS
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Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"
« Last post by wraith808 on October 28, 2020, 07:46 AM »


The technology that's replacing the green screen.  Very cool stuff!
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Thanks for highlighting this. I installed it after seeing your post here and am liking it so far. :Thmbsup:


Same here!
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Living Room / Re: Do good mice still exist? Looking for recommendations.
« Last post by wraith808 on October 27, 2020, 09:14 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.


They ruined it with the 603 IMO.  I have a 602 and a couple of backups for when that dies.  Also using a 930 on my gaming desktop.  And still have another old one around in case those fail... can't remember the name of that one though.
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N.A.N.Y. 2021 / Re: Incipitor
« Last post by wraith808 on October 27, 2020, 09:12 PM »
I'll wait until 1.1. and try it.
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He's already limited the size of attachments, so I don't think that size is going to be an issue.  And if you can't set it to autoplay- just that it allows attachments to be embedded and played, doesn't seem like it's too big of a deal if it can be locked down to limit types.
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.. but I thought the link also said BBCode for local video could be specifically enabled, without allowing any and all html embeds.

What they were saying is that you could write a mod to wrap that.

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.

Emphasis mine.
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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

I think he explicitly has html embeds turned off, and for good reason.
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https://www.bleeping...epos-after-takedown/

The Streisand Effect at work!

The funniest one is the fact that someone posted a commit to github's official DMCA repo using an exploit which Github had declined to fix.
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I don't need audio, but mp4 file animations tend to have better quality and smaller filesize.


Just trying to give you a workaround.  There might be a way to embed a gif hosted elsewhere, but the embed that we're using here for images does not (as it is an image embed)

As another workaround, you could upload it to youtube and use the youtube embed here.
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Can you convert it into a gif?  I'm pretty sure that those work.
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Interview with former youtube-dl maintainer (he received a C&D even though he no longer works on the project) - https://news.perthch...removed-from-github/
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Living Room / Facebook tries to block NYU's research into political ads
« Last post by wraith808 on October 25, 2020, 12:54 PM »
Facebook tries to block tool aimed at promoting transparency around political ads


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.”

More at link
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For more on how they found out:

https://octodon.soci...a/105085774214181683

[ Invalid Attachment ]

Who are "they"? And it seems kind of random for that person to accuse Google of doing the takedown. :huh:

They, being the group maintaining the repo.

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.

This is what they want you to think.  The case for it is actually more nuanced.

The RIAA’s fraudulent attack on youtube-dl is not a DMCA §512 infringement/safe-harbour, and the reality is weird

TL;DR:  This is not a 17 USC 512 infringement/safe-harbour, RIAA’s standing is highly questionable, it is threatening a member for an averred nonmember’s §1201 injury, any actual works duplication is not performed by youtube-dl’s developers directly, nor is the work itself or its test suite an infringement of RIAA / members copyrights, and numerous defences exist for routine use or incidental transmission or copies made by developers, hosting services,or others. Further, youtube-dl, digital and information liberties groups, Microsoft, and Google/Youtube should fight the RIAA’s claim.


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General Software Discussion / Re: Virtual desktop tools?
« Last post by wraith808 on October 24, 2020, 04:14 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.

This is the exact situation for me.  I now only use it on Virtual Machines where I'm limited to one screen.  On my other machines, I have more screens than I really use.
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Living Room / Re: So, you really believe Microsoft now loves Linux, huh?
« Last post by wraith808 on October 24, 2020, 01:52 PM »
So how long does the "Embrace" stage have to go on before it's realized as just a new approach?
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This is an example of why I hate using hosted applications that don't interact with files that I control - https://www.yarps.ne.../yarps-is-in-trouble
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General Software Discussion / Re: Virtual desktop tools?
« Last post by wraith808 on October 24, 2020, 01:46 PM »
I used AltDesk when I wanted to do it- http://www.astonshell.com/altdesk/

Hasn't been updated since 2010, but it still works.
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For more on how they found out:

https://octodon.soci...a/105085774214181683

youtube-dl.jpg
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With []() you know exactly how the filename is formatted though.
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Less people around ... but unfortunately the good times are coming to an end as we get closer to exiting Stage 4 lockdown.

My worry is as soon as they stop paying mortgages for people it will create a surge of new and clueless homeless on the streets.  I envisage them crawling over each other like ants.   :down:


They've already found a way to start evicting people for apartments.  A realtor that I knew said that they were expecting inventory to increase significantly once the allowances that people were given during the pandemic started to expire (i.e. people to get foreclosed on).  However, it appears that people are trying to get ahead of the wave- inventory is actually increasing now because people are trying to sell before the allowances expire.

On another note, during the start of the quarantines, the IRS told people that they could borrow from their 401k and defer payments for a year.  New guidance has shortened that to January.  Nice change to policy there...  :-\
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That was To-totally bad...

 ;D That was terrible!  :Thmbsup:
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Working from home, but not comfortable as office setup is missing.

My job actually gave us a work from home allowance.  As I was already working from home, I just upgraded my setup with a nice new monitor, and a very nice chair.  I've never had a $500 chair before... I've always been of the opinion that a more expensive chair is just a luxury, even though I sit much of the day (depending on how much I use my standing station).  I see the allure now.

https://www.steelcas.../steelcase-series-1/

Now I'm wondering what the even more expensive chairs offer...
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Ever notice vampires always come from Europe and never Africa?

I think it's because vampires are afraid of holy water and...

Spoiler
...they bless the rains down in Africa.

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