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General Software Discussion / Re: youtube downloader?

« Last post by Deozaan on December 09, 2019, 11:16 AM »

What gives?

-holt (December 09, 2019, 03:47 AM)

I don't know. Try pwnyoutube or hooktube or something.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Brave: A new browser with built-in adblock and payment solutions

« Last post by Deozaan on December 08, 2019, 06:32 PM »

Sometimes on Youtube I can't find any date for when the video was made. Is there actually none posted, or how or where do I find it?

-holt (December 08, 2019, 06:26 PM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: IS THERE AN ADJUSTABLE "DARK SCREEN" FOR WINDOWS?

« Last post by Deozaan on November 27, 2019, 04:31 PM »

Windows 10 has this built-in. It's called "night light" mode. I was going to suggest it, but this dissuaded me from mentioning it:

I have some apps which require a natural color environment

-CodeTRUCKER (November 27, 2019, 04:55 AM)

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Free Game on Humble Store

« Last post by Deozaan on November 21, 2019, 02:34 PM »

Serial Cleaner is free for a couple of days, while supplies last:

https://www.humblebu...al-cleaner-free-game

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Stadia Google

« Last post by Deozaan on November 20, 2019, 12:50 AM »

I guess Stadia has launched. And it appears to be a mess.

Here are a few choice excerpts from a Forbes review:

I am genuinely amazed with how shockingly bad Stadia has performed at my home over the course of many sessions.

...

I would only play [Destiny 2] on Stadia if my consoles and my PC and laptop spontaneously burst into flames and I had no other choice.

...

I may have been a Stadia skeptic going into this test run, but I was willing to give it a chance. But this has been a catastrophe from start to finish during my testing phase, and the problem is that even if it did work flawlessly, which it absolutely doesn’t, the entire model seemed doomed from the start. This is an enormous miss from Google, and I am really wondering what the fallout is going to be from this ill-conceived early launch.

-https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2019/11/18/google-stadia-launch-review-a-technical-conceptual-disaster/#4ab6a8ac5ec7

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General Software Discussion / Re: Brave: A new browser with built-in adblock and payment solutions

« Last post by Deozaan on November 17, 2019, 09:09 PM »

Also, it seems to have some of its own adblockers native

-TaoPhoenix (November 17, 2019, 07:29 PM)

See the subject of this thread.

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Living Room / Re: Migrating from Ymail to Gmail

« Last post by Deozaan on November 16, 2019, 04:35 AM »

Is there a way to migrate from yahoo to gmail without losing any data? I need to maintain records of all my emails, more than a decade ago.

-kalos (November 15, 2019, 09:10 AM)

1. Install email client with IMAP support
2. Add your GMail account to it using IMAP
3. Add your Yahoo account to it using IMAP
4. Drag all the messages in the Yahoo account to the GMail account
5. Go make coffee

Which is basically what sphere said above since it's the easiest way to do it.

-4wd (November 16, 2019, 02:34 AM)

I didn't know this was so easy!

Would this work from IMAP to POP? i.e., so I can archive my Gmail (IMAP) to a private account (POP) which I control and have a local copy of?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by Deozaan on November 14, 2019, 11:30 AM »

Windows 10 Version 1909 (Build 18363.476) just came through on my PC. The upgrade was fast and I've had no problems so far.

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General Software Discussion / Re: mystery annoying popup

« Last post by Deozaan on November 13, 2019, 10:53 AM »

It's a notification. Not all programs are well integrated with Windows 10's notification system, meaning that clicking the notification that pops up doesn't always bring the program to focus. It just dismisses it. And sometimes you can still see them in the notification slide-out bar on the side of the screen.

Don't allow notifications just because a website asks you for permission; only allow them if you know you want them, like for a webmail site.


Another possibility is that you enabled Brave Ads, so it is showing you an ad occasionally as per your settings. You can configure the frequency of ads or disable them entirely in the settings: brave://rewards/

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Mouser's Zone / Re: easy screencast recorder?

« Last post by Deozaan on November 12, 2019, 03:06 AM »

You were close: https://www.donation...ndex.php?board=320.0

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DC Gamer Club / Re: GOG Connect - DRM-free access to your Steam library

« Last post by Deozaan on November 06, 2019, 03:08 PM »

Another game on GOG Connect: Hedon.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Steam launches Remote Play Together feature

« Last post by Deozaan on November 01, 2019, 10:41 PM »

Here is a list of a few games I own (in alphabetical order) that should work with the new feature:

BlazeRush
Castle Crashers
Cobalt
Fight the Dragon
FORCED
Gauntlet
LEGO the Hobbit
LEGO the Lord of the Rings
Magicka
Magicka 2
Monaco
Overcooked
PixelJunk Monsters
PixelJunk Shooter
Renegade Ops
Risk of Rain
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
Spelunky
Wyv and Keep: The Temple of the Lost Idol

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DC Gamer Club / Steam launches Remote Play Together feature

« Last post by Deozaan on November 01, 2019, 09:43 PM »

A recent update to Steam comes with a beta release of Remote Play Together.

Put simply, Remote Play Together allows you to play games online with your friends. That is, games that feature local (split screen or "couch co-op") multiplayer only, with no networking capabilities, can now be played online with your friends. And only the host of the game needs to own the game in their library.

Or put another way, if a game supports multiple people playing on the same device simultaneously (usually using gamepads) then it can now work online through Remote Play Together.

Anyone up for some gaming? I have a number of local co-op games that I haven't really played much because I never really had anyone to play with. It might be fun to organize some play sessions.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Hosting photos on your own site

« Last post by Deozaan on November 01, 2019, 02:17 AM »

There's also some open source software called Gallery (which makes it hard to search for...) but it appears as though it has been abandoned for about 5 years now.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive

« Last post by Deozaan on October 29, 2019, 10:48 PM »

Using versioning software requires discipline. And there are many too choose from. Git is the most popular tool among coders. But if you aren't a coder, all the features it has is overkill to the n-th degree. Besides that, you have several free online places that allow you to store public repositories (everyone has access to your repository), while private repositories means you need to fork over cash on a monthly or yearly basis.

Does that not sound appealing? There is GitLab. Well, their Community Edition, to be more precise. This you could host yourself in the house where you live for nada. But again, it is intended to be used with Git and might be overwhelming to set up. Oh, and it doesn't run on Windows. And as Docker appears to be in financial trouble, building a dependence on their container software to make it more or less work in Windows might not be the best of ideas. So you'll need a (virtual) Linux or Mac computer.

-Shades (October 29, 2019, 08:35 PM)

If you're going to be using Git, I believe that both GitHub and Bitbucket offer unlimited free private repositories these days. But if you're concerned about 3rd parties having access to your repository, you could go with Keybase, which has encrypted private git repositories for free, and it works on all major OSes, including mobile devices. The encrypted part means even they don't have access to your repositories.

Personally, I prefer Mercurial (Hg), but it's hard to find any free services that support Hg these days. I recently installed RhodeCode Community Edition (on Linux) and it does the trick for my simple needs. But honestly you don't even need anything that complex. If you don't need to worry about common coding processes like issue tracking, merge requests, forking, branching, etc., then something really simple like TortoiseHg should be adequate for basic version control. TortoiseHg is probably the simplest way to go if you want to use Hg (only on Windows). It will automatically handle installing Mercurial and a useful GUI front-end and explorer integration.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Brave: A new browser with built-in adblock and payment solutions

« Last post by Deozaan on October 28, 2019, 02:19 AM »

One thing Vivaldi has the option for, and I believe Firefox as well, is the idea of "lazy loading" tabs. That is, when opening the browser, it will restore all your tabs, but it won't actually load them until the first time you switch to them. This saves RAM and CPU, etc. And I don't think Brave does this. It seems to just load all the tabs as soon as possible.

-Deozaan (October 26, 2019, 05:41 PM)

I've noticed several times when recovering a session after a reboot, the tabs will have the loading icon until I explicitly click on them.

-wraith808 (October 26, 2019, 09:36 PM)

I was pretty sure Brave didn't do that, but after specifically paying attention to it while testing, I see you are right. I wonder how long Brave has been doing that.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Brave: A new browser with built-in adblock and payment solutions

« Last post by Deozaan on October 26, 2019, 05:41 PM »

What do you mean by tab reloads? If you mean recovering tabs after an unexpected closing/crash of the browser, then I haven't had a problem with it. Then again, I also don't often have things unexpectedly close/crash.

One thing Vivaldi has the option for, and I believe Firefox as well, is the idea of "lazy loading" tabs. That is, when opening the browser, it will restore all your tabs, but it won't actually load them until the first time you switch to them. This saves RAM and CPU, etc. And I don't think Brave does this. It seems to just load all the tabs as soon as possible.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: GOG Connect - DRM-free access to your Steam library

« Last post by Deozaan on October 24, 2019, 02:55 PM »

Here's something a bit unusual... GOG Connect is available for a new game that just left Early Access:

AI War 2

I don't think I've ever seen GOG Connect for a brand new game before.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Brave: A new browser with built-in adblock and payment solutions

« Last post by Deozaan on October 23, 2019, 10:25 PM »

I guess it is new then!

Maybe you don't have the latest version? I'm on Brave Version 0.69.135 Chromium: 77.0.3865.120 (Official Build) (64-bit)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Brave: A new browser with built-in adblock and payment solutions

« Last post by Deozaan on October 22, 2019, 11:53 AM »

The Brave Rewards wallet is managed by Uphold. But the new one I was talking about is different from that one. With this new wallet you can manage any Ethereum-based tokens, or even Ether itself.

I meant to include this link to it in my previous post, but forgot to: brave://wallet

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General Software Discussion / Re: Brave: A new browser with built-in adblock and payment solutions

« Last post by Deozaan on October 22, 2019, 03:00 AM »

I don't know how long this has been here, but I just noticed a "Crypto Wallets" tab along the top of the screen while taking a look at my Brave Rewards.

It looks like Brave now has what is essentially Metamask built-in and integrated with the browser. It's primarily an Ethereum wallet that allows you to interact with decentralized apps (dApps) on the Ethereum blockchain from within your browser. And you may recall that BAT is a token running on Ethereum.

Combined with the fact that you can now withdraw your BAT from the browser-managed Rewards wallet, it looks like you can finally take control of your own BAT and either use it to either tip or pay creators, or cash it out for your own use elsewhere.

This is starting to sound a whole lot like the DonationCredits system we've been using for around a decade on this site, except it's spreading to work all over the internet. I wonder if it's possible and how hard it would be to get DC set up to send and receive BAT tips to individual users, much like Brave has support for individual accounts on Twitter, GitHub, or YouTube to be tipped.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Book synopsis template

« Last post by Deozaan on October 21, 2019, 04:17 PM »

attachment is supposed to be here:

-Shades (October 20, 2019, 11:18 AM)

The trick is to not try to insert attachments into the body of the post unless it's an image.

I modified your posts so the attachments would appear. Now it's up to you to remove the ones that shouldn't be showing up.

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Living Room / Re: DC on Discord :O

« Last post by Deozaan on October 20, 2019, 02:46 AM »

I'm a big fan of Telegram, but Discord has a place and can be better for certain groups and desired features. There are things Discord is better at than Telegram. And there are things Telegram is better at than Discord.

Use the right tool for the right job.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest GOG Giveaway

« Last post by Deozaan on October 18, 2019, 02:00 PM »

GOG is also giving away The Witcher: Enhanced Edition here: https://www.gog.com/gwent-welcome-bonus, but in order to be eligible for that giveaway, you need to have GWENT: The Witcher Card Game in your library. It's their Free-to-Play card game. So you could think of it as two giveaways.



And now for something a little different.

Linus Tech Tips built a console-sized PC and loaded it up with the top 500 best-selling games from GOG.

They're having a giveaway, where you could win the PC with all the games included:

https://gleam.io/t8V...nsole-is-a-gaming-pc

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General Software Discussion / Re: Bittubers - A youtube alternative that pays you for content

« Last post by Deozaan on October 17, 2019, 04:23 PM »

BAT and BitTube may have similarities in design and purpose, but the Brave browser is nothing like the BitTubers video/social platform.

Brave has browser with BAT tokens.
BitTube also has BiTtube firefox browser with Tube tokens.
Bittubers is youtube like clone site alternative for youtube. Where you earn tokens for streaming your content to users.
I have no confusion of any sort on this.

I think the reason I posted about this in another thread is not to create tangent reply or something. My intention was just like mouser signed up donationcoder on BAT publisher dashboard. I wanted him to sign up with bittubers accounts for earning Tube tokens too.

That's all. Rest is just semantic nitpicking going on here.

-mahesh2k (October 17, 2019, 01:04 AM)

It's your job when interjecting into a conversation to make sure people have enough context to understand what it is you're talking about and how it relates to the topic on hand. All you gave was a link to BitTubers.com (which is a YouTube-like website), which you claimed was a similar project to Brave (which is a web browser).

You gave no information about the BitTube cryptocurrency. You gave no information about the supposed BitTube browser.

The only information I got from clicking the link you provided was that it was a YouTube-like website, and that it used a cryptocurrency called BitTube. Even now, going back to the website and looking around, I can't find any mention of the browser. I do see a mention of a browser extension, but nothing about a browser itself.

We are not mind-readers. If your intention in posting about BitTubers in the Brave thread was to encourage mouser to sign up for it, you should have said so, while explaining what it was and the benefits of signing up for it. I'm surprised that you claim my attempt to explain the differences between things to people who are genuinely confused is just semantic nitpicking when a more obvious explanation is the failure on your part--the one person in this conversation who is ostensibly the "expert" on the subject--to properly explain to people who were unfamiliar with the subject what it is you're talking about.

But here's some semantic nitpicking for you:

Brave has browser with BAT tokens.
BitTube also has BiTtube firefox browser with Tube tokens.
Bittubers is youtube like clone site alternative for youtube. Where you earn tokens for streaming your content to users.

-mahesh2k (October 17, 2019, 01:04 AM)

Brave is a browser with BAT tokens.
Maybe BitTube has a Firefox browser. Maybe it doesn't. If so, please provide a link. Additionally, it seems that BitTube may be a cryptocurrency as well as an organization or company or project by the same name. This isn't made clear and it isn't immediately obvious to someone who has never heard of it before and whose only exposure to it is BitTubers.com that it is anything more than a cryptocurrency. You should clarify which one you're talking about.

Furthermore, almost everything you said here (quoted below) is objectively, factually wrong:

BitTube is cryptocurrency like brave. Both of these cryptos value the user retention system. BitTube as a currency is same as Brave.

-mahesh2k (October 14, 2019, 08:28 AM)

Even though I now know that BitTube might refer to either a cryptocurrency or possible some kind of organization, I cannot tell when you say BitTube which one you are talking about.

If by "BitTube is cryptocurrency like brave" you mean BitTube the organization, then... well, an organization is not a cryptocurrency, so that statement is wrong. But no matter which way you mean the word BitTube, Brave is not a cryptocurrency. So maybe you meant BAT instead of Brave. In which case, you were conflating the two as I said and you shouldn't be surprised when you say the wrong thing that people don't know how to read your mind and know what you actually meant to say.

If I start talking about horses and you reply with talk about saddles and farriers and great trails to ride, you might be confused (if not a bit offended) when I claim that you're nitpicking because "I was actually talking about dogs and no I'm not confused at all on the difference between the two but it's obvious that you're just nitpicking semantics here."