Dritta da ieri sera, ecco qui un’altra assurdità. Stavo sul divano, a giocare col tablet, e lo tenevo praticamente appoggiato dritto sulle gambe che tenevo in piedi sul divano stesso (la classica posizione da ragazza gatto casual gamer, insomma), senza cover… e a dire il vero si teneva, per bene, comodamente, fermo, senza scivolare, eppure […]
Dritta da ieri sera, ecco qui un’altra assurdità. Stavo sul divano, a giocare col tablet, e lo tenevo praticamente appoggiato dritto sulle gambe che tenevo in piedi sul divano stesso (la classica posizione da ragazza gatto casual gamer, insomma), senza cover… e a dire il vero si teneva, per bene, comodamente, fermo, senza scivolare, eppure comunque ad un’altezza conveniente (di non molto sotto gli occhi, cosa che evita di dover stare bent con la testa) e senza reggere personalmente l’affare… 🐱
Tutto bene, nonostante fosse caldino dato l’uso (non bollente, parliamo pur sempre di giochi da ragazza gatto, quindi non roba pesante)… finché non l’ho girato… e mi sono accorta che il motivo per cui stava bello a posto, nonostante l’angolo solo di pochi gradi ottuso, era perché si erano fatte due belle pozze di sudore spalmato in corrispondenza delle gambe. E in effetti, la tavoletta di metallo non mi rimane in piedi in quel modo da subito, se ci provo ora… dovrei usarla una decina di minuti almeno appoggiata sulle gambe normalmente, e solo un po’ dopo uscirebbe il sudore che fa questo schifo ma questa grande utilità. 😾 Comunque bleah, che schifo tipo… persino la fotocamera del telefono si rifiuta di mettere a fuoco molto bene dal disgusto (e ho provato più volte). Ovviamente non si pulisce nemmeno ottimamente questa sostanza merdifera di liquidi salati dal retro, bisognerebbe usare l’alcol per forza. E che peccato davvero, perché pareva io avessi trovato il modo perfetto per tenere il tablet… ma a questo punto non è il caso. E purtroppo, la cover non aiuta: anche quella scivola sulla pelle normalmente (ma anche col sudore mi sa, l’attrito è basso), e il classico prisma di appoggio che si forma girando le striscioline non è buono per essere piazzato su una superficie per niente ben piana, come le ginocchia. Insomma, è così fottutamente dura voler fare gaming quando si è gatti!!! 😿
The West Wing has created a scorecard that rates 553 companies and trade associations on how hard they worked to support and promote President Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill," a senior White House official tells Axios.
White House spreadsheet rates 553 companies and trade associations on loyalty to ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ -- Uber, DoorDash, United, Delta, AT&T, and Cisco are ‘examples of good partners’
The West Wing has created a scorecard that rates 553 companies and trade associations on how hard they worked to support and promote President Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill," a senior White House official tells Axios.
The West Wing has created a scorecard that rates 553 companies and trade associations on how hard they worked to support and promote President Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill," a senior White...
Re: Statement Regarding Ofcom's Reported Provisional Notice - 4chan Community Support LLC
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4chan got fined in the UK by the Office of Communications(Ofcom) under Online Safety Act; 4Chan Respond by appealing to Trump administration and intending to fight it in the U.S courts.
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According to press reports, the U.K. Office of Communications ("Ofcom") has issued a provisional notice under the Online Safety Act alleging a contravention by 4chan and indicating an intention to impose a penalty of £20,000, plus daily penalties thereafter.
4chan is a United States company, incorporated in Delaware, with no establishment, assets, or operations in the United Kingdom. Any attempt to impose or enforce a penalty against 4chan will be resisted in U.S. federal court.
American businesses do not surrender their First Amendment rights because a foreign bureaucrat sends them an e-mail. Under settled principles of U.S. law, American courts will not enforce foreign penal fines or censorship codes.
If necessary, we will seek appropriate relief in U.S. federal court to confirm these principles.
United States federal authorities have been briefed on this matter.
The Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, was reportedly warned by the White House to cease targeting Americans with U.K. censorship codes (according to reporting in the Telegraph on July 30th).
Despite these warnings, Ofcom continues its illegal campaign of harassment against American technology firms. A political solution to this matter is urgently required and that solution must come from the highest levels of American government.
We call on the Trump Administration to invoke all diplomatic and legal levers available to the United States to protect American companies from extraterritorial censorship mandates.
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The ACCC has today commenced Federal Court proceedings against Google Asia Pacific over anti-competitive understandings that Google admits it reached in the past with Telstra and Optus regarding the pre-installation of Google Search on Android mobile…
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Byrne & Storm, P.C. ( @ByrneStorm ) and Coleman Law, P.C. ( @RonColeman ) represent 4chan Community Support LLC ("4chan").
According to press reports, the U.K. Office of Communications ("Ofcom") has issued a provisional notice under the Online Safety Act alleging a contravention by 4chan and indicating an intention to impose a penalty of £20,000, plus daily penalties thereafter.
4chan is a United States company, incorporated in Delaware, with no establishment, assets, or operations in the United Kingdom. Any attempt to impose or enforce a penalty against 4chan will be resisted in U.S. federal court.
American businesses do not surrender their First Amendment rights because a foreign bureaucrat sends them an e-mail. Under settled principles of U.S. law, American courts will not enforce foreign penal fines or censorship codes.
If necessary, we will seek appropriate relief in U.S. federal court to confirm these principles.
United States federal authorities have been briefed on this matter.
The Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, was reportedly warned by the White House to cease targeting Americans with U.K. censorship codes (according to reporting in the Telegraph on July 30th).
Despite these warnings, Ofcom continues its illegal campaign of harassment against American technology firms. A political solution to this matter is urgently required and that solution must come from the highest levels of American government.
We call on the Trump Administration to invoke all diplomatic and legal levers available to the United States to protect American companies from extraterritorial censorship mandates.
Our client reserves all rights. ::: - Source; - Ofcom.
4chan is getting fined in the UK by the Office of Communications(Ofcom) under Online Safety Act; 4Chan Respond by appealing to Trump administration and intending to fight it in the U.S courts.
Re: Statement Regarding Ofcom's Reported Provisional Notice - 4chan Community Support LLC
Byrne & Storm, P.C. ( @ByrneStorm ) and Coleman Law, P.C. ( @RonColeman ) represent 4chan Community Support LLC ("4chan").
According to press reports, the U.K. Office of Communications ("Ofcom") has issued a provisional notice under the Online Safety Act alleging a contravention by 4chan and indicating an intention to impose a penalty of £20,000, plus daily penalties thereafter.
4chan is a United States company, incorporated in Delaware, with no establishment, assets, or operations in the United Kingdom. Any attempt to impose or enforce a penalty against 4chan will be resisted in U.S. federal court.
American businesses do not surrender their First Amendment rights because a foreign bureaucrat sends them an e-mail. Under settled principles of U.S. law, American courts will not enforce foreign penal fines or censorship codes.
If necessary, we will seek appropriate relief in U.S. federal court to confirm these principles.
United States federal authorities have been briefed on this matter.
The Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, was reportedly warned by the White House to cease targeting Americans with U.K. censorship codes (according to reporting in the Telegraph on July 30th).
Despite these warnings, Ofcom continues its illegal campaign of harassment against American technology firms. A political solution to this matter is urgently required and that solution must come from the highest levels of American government.
We call on the Trump Administration to invoke all diplomatic and legal levers available to the United States to protect American companies from extraterritorial censorship mandates.
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I tried once to compile sm64 on windows and I took over 1 hour and dozens of gigabyte to download and install all the prerequisites, plus visual studio clutters the start menu with lots of "useless" shit, normal people gonna get pissed
I am the author of Strawberry Music Player and I would like you to remove it from the winget package manager.\ The source code repository and releases from codeberg.org/WetOtter44/Strawb… that you use as source for these packages are not official. It is an unofficial clone of the official source code repository for Strawberry Music Player (github.com/strawberrymusicplay…), with misleading releases tagged to the wrong commits. If this was a valid fork, it should be renamed to not misrepresent our community project, and any links should not point to our bug tracker and support forum. The person who uploaded these were given the binary installations files from me for testing purposes, he has since proven willing to harm the project, I won't share his real name, but as you can see by the profile on codeberg he is anonymous for these reasons. He may upload releases containing malicious executables. The official Windows releases for Strawberry Music Player are given to users on request, I do not want it included in a package manager where users can install Strawberry Music Player without any information on how to fund the project.
First part valid, but last sentence lol. Open source go brrrr.
Bit strange, the Strawberry app itself already mentions how to donate in the Help/About Strawberry window. Maybe the dev could distribute the Windows/MacOS binaries and simply code in a massive donation pop-up when the OS detected <> Linux.
The dev saying it's about "information on how to fund the project" is being... misleading. Windows binaries from the project are paywalled, so alternate builds being distributed via Winget presents a pretty clear threat to that funding by being free and more convenient.* They're well within their right to not distribute their own builds for free, but the misleading way it's framed here is not endearing... especially given this is a fork of another piece of FOSS software that will happily provide you Windows builds.
* As an aside, it really is so much better to have stuff distributed by a package manager. Who the hell wants to download an installer from Patreon for every new release, honestly. Some devs drive me crazy with their insistence on asinine distribution channels.
Post title misleading, Strawberry project still up and running at github.com/strawberrymusicplay… , coincidentally I had just installed it on Debian 13. Then saw this post saying Strawberry was taken down except that it wasn't.
Like the other comment says this is just about unofficial binaries that were floating around. That said it's kind of a bummer that Windows/Mac users can't download pre-compiled binaries from their github page. Maybe someone can create a script that does the downloading/compiling for those OSes similar to how some ffmpeg scripts do it e.g. github.com/UBTL/ffmpeg-windows…
Yes, I updated the title. But, I do not think the author happy with the fork that promote automated compiling because as it said from the takedown post it disrupt the subscription fees
Access to macOS and Windows releases are currently restricted to sponsors, a 5 USD monthly sponsorship is required.
What the fuck?
Fuck that, isn't this just a maintained fork of clementine??
And I tried this player, it's nothing special
I could understand a permanent nag button like nanazip, but $60/year where most of the hard job (libraries, decoders, base ui) was done by someone else for free?
I'm blacklisting this shit even if I'm a Linux user
Awesome, glad you like it so far. Also take a look at the plugins from the main menu. it comes with a bunch and most are disabled by default. It is also, if you are so technically inclined, relatively easy to write new plugins in Python.
Yes, it's really good! I still run it with proton, because I couldn't find a good alternative on Linux. banshee is unmaintained (it was my favorite for a long time) and all others have their shortcomings in some way or another.
Multiple genre tags are a big part of how I search around my collection. This feature built into ID3 over 25 years ago. Absolute lunacy that I can only find three players anywhere that support it (MusicBee, Quod Libet, Foobar and derivatives). Otherwise, MB's layout just felt more clean, intuitive, and user-friendly.
Clementine wouldn't recognize my phone, either, so reading/syncing was also out. Basically none of the reasons I wanted it worked and I hated the way it looked. But apparently all most people ask of music players is "plays music.mp3 when I navigate to the folder and double click on the icon." In which case any of them do that, so Clementine isn't anything special.
Apologies for the tone. I'm pretty bitter about the state of music players on Linux.
I guess it doesn't look like windows to me, maybe because I am not on windows? It follows my custom theme on KDE with kvantum quite nicely.
I am not sure what else it could look like... Although you can customize what you want to see, title, name, date, source, bitrate and a couple of dozen more things.
I have no idea what you mean by folder, it's a cataloged library in a database....
I don't know about copying to my phone, I just stream to it. All the actual files are on a server with several ways to access that.
But podcasts sync without issue to a tiny mp3 device I take kayaking.
Edit: I forgot to say, I get it if you use multi Genre it is a deal breaker. I went and looked at music bee, and they use those damn circle cut icons (hate that so much) and lots of album covers. I have no use for either.
What is wrong with this policy? Strawberry is GPL, this sounds like the dev is committed enough to FOSS to not care too much about issues that come up on proprietary operating systems. This is very obviously not going to bring in a lot of money, how many people do you picture using windows or mac who think strawberry is so much better than other options that it's worth paying for? They're not advertising this in any way, there's no plot to trick poor souls into paying.
It strikes me as an easy and effective way to dismiss without argument bugfix requests on operating systems the developer doesn't care to touch. It's saying we don't want to neglect any users on other platforms that sincerely care about our project, but otherwise we just want to prioritze FOSS, so let's write off essentially all proprietary OS users while providing an avenue in case someone actually does care about our project that much.
Which is the reason I thought it was obvious that no one will pay that without a sincere affinity for the project in some way beyond just using the app itself. Who do you imagine would pay here just to get access to the player? You're talking about this like it's a scam, but a scam has an intended target audience that we can at least imagine.
I can't picture someone choosing to buy a $60 subscription to this with no reason other than being a windows user who is dead-set on using strawberry over any other music player. There's no way the devs are raking in cash from windows users. They'll maybe get a couple people who like strawberry because they are already foss advocates and are forced to use windows on one of their pcs, ie people who already understand what strawberry's development priorities will be and also understand that what they are buying could be built from source code without paying.
It's essentially a policy to ignore those operating systems except when someone cares enough to make a donation, under the reasonable assumption that bug reports from donors will still be worth their time. Windows users who have no knowledge about the project beyond "it plays music" will not shell out $60 by mistake. Literally no one is aware of strawberry's existence but unaware of alternatives.
This is a GPL project. Other than restrictions on relicesnsing, the one thing the GPL doesn't allow is redistributions with the same name and logo, because anyone could rebuild the source code with malware added and the developer would be perceived as responsible.
You, today, can literally rebuild strawberry with a changed logo and name, and write "my program exactly strawberry except with a changed logo and name" and make that repository publicly available for free and it cannot be taken down as long as it is licensed the same way. No developers are losing sleep over lost sales from piracy of their GPL program. Otherwise they would not use the GPL in the first place.
If a developer sees that their program is being rehosted on codeberg with the same name and logo, what steps do you think they should take to verify that the binaries being shared were not rebuilt from the publicly available source code with a cryptominer added? I can't think of a way to prevent that other than requiring a name and logo change and taking it down otherwise. It's not enough to verify just once, because the new code author could change a legit binary to an infected one at any time.
And, again, there is no target audience for this "scam". What do you believe might motivate the kind of customer who would regret purchasing this to pay for it in the first place? There is no need to litigate possible reasons why something might be a malicious moneymaking scheme when there is no imaginable target that would be victimized.
I was wondering when that repo showed up and all of a sudden there were 50k downloads of the windows version if this might happen.
The coderberg fork was linked directly to the main strawberry page where the source code is and it's pretty obvious the downloads were just the same as any subscriber executables.
I highly doubt the story that the person behind the fork was given binaries for testing. My guess is it was just a subscriber sharing their downloaded executables.
The whole malware argument the creator made is fear mongering.
Its odd he charges $7/month for subscribers on Patreon but its only $5 if you pay via Kofi.
Patreon takes a 20% cut of your income right off the bat. This is with the 8% platform fee option, and when you stack it on top of the payment processing fees, that's what it comes out to be.
kofi is a bit lower but I don't know the details there.
But it makes sense to pass those fees on to the subscribers.
I played around with u/mttw_ edited build.yml and, added an additional update.yml
With these two workflows you should be able to clone SMP and build your own Windows and Mac versions by just running the build.yml action. Takes about 30 minutes to build.
**build.yml ** was changed so that it is run manually. I also adjusted how the attach job worked (as it was just being skipped). Now when build is finished it should attach them all as a new release in your repo. **You will need to edit this file with notepad and add your account name and repo name. **
**update.yml ** is just so that you can have your repo automatically update to the original SMP repo. It is set to check once a day. This is so when you run build.yml it is build the latest version.
Don't really want to link to my specific repo so I have put the yml files on fileroy
L’immagine canonica della cesta in vimini che si avvicina alle propaggini del cielo, la calda fiamma usata per espandere speciali gas o direttamente l’aria nella bulbosa massa di stoffa soprastante, risiede da quel fatidico 1783 nella mente e nell’im…
Over the past couple of months, the practice of ad blocking has received heightened ethical scrutiny. (1,2,3,4) If you’re unfamiliar with the term, “ad blocking” refers to software—usually web browser plug-ins, but increasingly mobile apps—that stop …
IMHO: Advertisment is another word for recommendation. While advertisment is seen as bad a recomendation isn't.
So what advertisment never made happen is making themself usefull to the consumer. Most consumer want maybe a !!! usefull recommendation !!! but not someone trying to force you to buy a certain product.
So what was the time before ads ... it never existet ... even before tv radio had advertisment. Even back in this day people hated the advertisment and did music recordings cutting the advertisment and talking out.
Some old people might remember press record ... press stop ... rewind a little bit ... and all of this.
The alternative was to pay alot of money for music ...
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Although Israel appears to exist within its own bubble, shielded by a narrative that leaves no room for the suffering of people in Gaza, thousands of demonstrators who recently filled the streets of Tel Aviv are now urging the government to halt the atrocities against the Palestinians.
I just started my own Lemmy instance, and it looks to be mostly working.
The problem that I have is that the communities I went through the process of subscribing to only display up to 50 threads and no comments.
This looks like something I've seen on other servers, so I'm wondering what could be causing it and how to fix it.
ChatGPT says something about webfinger and nodeinfo, but I honestly have no idea what any of that is and there's no mention of it in join-lemmy.org/docs/administra…
The outbox on a Lemmy community only has the last 50 posts and there is no pagination to get another 50. Also Lemmy posts have no replies collection so it's impossible to get the replies without using their API.
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This sort of thing is reason why I stopped paying attention to Louis Rossman. I guess when someone lives inside a social media bubble for so long their reality gets warped enough to think changing a profile picture is the way to make a difference in the world.
Hello everyone, My name is Soliman, a young student from Gaza. Life here is very difficult, but I try to stay hopeful and support my family through these hard times.
We once had a small farm with olive and citrus trees that was our only source of living, but it was destroyed. Since then, we have been struggling to survive.
I’m here to connect with kind people, share my story, and hopefully find support or even just a listening ear.
Please take a moment to read my story from Gaza. I live with my family in a tent, struggling to survive every day. Even 1€ can help. ❤️ Please donate or share: gofund.me/da782c66
I’m not sure where the best place is to share my story. Could you please guide me to a humanitarian community? I’m in urgent need of help and support, and any donations or advice would mean so much. Thank you from the heart.
Could you please guide me to a humanitarian community?
!mutual_aid@hexbear.net has a lot of palestinians. You need to use something other than sh.itjust.works though, maybe you should create an account on there.
Is it really sketchy if you torrent a file that by default it is an unpacked folder? (rather than just being a zipped folder)? I'm not sure if I should be concerned if it is able to run anything or gather data since it was unzipped by default. It contained a monkrus.info file that seemed to gather all the data for some reason.. (I think)
By itself - no, why would it? Cracked software will cause virus thingy to pop off anyway though, so either be careful with sources, or don’t have anything important on pc.
Like shenanigans protection of something unknown is trying it in vm first🫠, so it’s kinda on trust side of equation more often (see comments, trusted releaser etc)
(you can of course do some checks of registry, recently installed programs/processes/autorun settings etc, but something like encryption locker worms will fuck up your pc in a minute)
Are there things that can be undetected/hidden from system explorer - where you'd have to use terminal/powershell to view that it exists (hidden malware)?
i mean probably? but that some designer type shit (driver modifications/ram/bios or something) not that typical in civilized piracy circles, worst i got is some referal swaps/default sites in browsers 10 years ago
Just a reminder to update your Winrar, there has been a big vulnerability in the .10 version of Winrar and some people have actually managed to exploit it. Someone linked an article for it, the other day but I can't find it rn
You have your file associations set incorrectly or at least not optimally right now. NFO files are text only files that usually tell you about what you just downloaded, your system is set to treat them as something else and did the wrong thing. Text only files are usually harmless.
sounds like you had a nfo file which when you doulbe clicked it opened "system information" because windows doesnt recognize nfo as a text file.
There is nothing sketchy about unzipped files, its zips with passwords you gotta watch out for. The nfo thing is just your system doesnt have an nfo viewer, you can search one up or just use notepad to open them if you want.
Those happen because the people doing the initial recording or rip are often using platforms with poor error detection and correction for transferring files, such as IRC. They need the built-in correction offered by rar.
They get uploaded to BitTorrents as is. BitTorrent has more sophisticated error detection and correction of chunks than rar does, so this is pointless from a strictly technical perspective.
Reminds me of the time I torrented a tar, which contained a hundred rar parts, which extracted to an iso, which extracted an installer to extract the actual (compressed) files.
Unless they didn't enable file extensions to actually show, so an ".nfo" could actually be a ".nfo.exe".
It does not seem to be the case here, but I really would be careful with double clicking untrusted files. Opening them through a media player directly is a much safer option.
If you open nfo files by double click Windows open a system info tool.
But if you open nfo files with a text editor with "open with " it shows it's text.
So it didn't gather anything.
And I would argue unzipped files are less dangerous because you kinda can assume what you download already.
It's also a good idea to have a av.
Avast is very friendly regarding piracy as in they seem to only flag actual malware and not necessarily keygens cracks and stuff ( heuristics can still make mistakes just report them as false positive )
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‘Putin cannot be trusted’ —Nordic, Balticcountries issue joint statement supporting Ukraine’s sovereignty. The Nordic-Baltic Eight nations on Aug. 16 issued a joint statement in support of Ukraine’s sovereignty and a just end to Russia’s full-scale war.
European leaders back Trump’speace effortbut say Ukraine must decide its territory. The joint statement by several European leaders was published on Aug. 16, shortly after their phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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Melania Trumpwrote letter to Putin about kidnapped Ukrainian children, Reuters reports. Trump handed the letter to Putin during their nearly three-hour meeting on Aug. 15, two White House officials told Reuters.
Kremlinbragsabout US jets escorting Putin’s plane after Alaska summit. Russian officials bragged about U.S. fighter jets escorting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s plane from Alaska on Aug. 16, following his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump.
Ukrainian troops advance inSumyoblast, General Staff says. Ukraine’s military has reportedly advanced about two kilometers in Sumy oblast, just a day after Putin and Trump discussed a deal that would give Ukrainian territories to Russia.
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Ukraine's military has reportedly advanced about two kilometers in Sumy oblast, just a day after Putin and Trump discussed a deal that would give unoccupied Ukrainian territories to Russia.
I’m really not sure what it is. It works surprisingly well and quickly which makes me think it’s more likely some kind of mechanical turk thing than ai, but when you drive up you talk to what’s clearly some kind of tts thing that pushes all the upselling stuff. The upselling is annoying and you have to practically shout no at it multiple times, but it does get the order right just from natural speech.
I am so tired of this shit... every year they try to do this shit again. Every year we again have to convince them not too. Then a year later they try again.
They will keep trying until they win. Instead of focusing on important things, they just want to push laws for more control. Even our representatives should KNOW that people don't want this.
I always wonder that. When we mass call and email to let them know they are wrong on something incredibly obvious. Do they go "oh wow we didn't know you didn't want us to know your private conversations or have a list of your favorite porn categories 😲😲😲"? They should already know this.
Take note that there are lobbies pushing for these. Security state, police and religious fanatics wanting morality policing, also politicians who re afraid of popular upheaval.
Maybe if politicians did what the people wanted, they wouldn't have to be afraid of an uprising against them... and if religious cunts would just stay in their churches and mind their own business...
I'm a religious cunt, a Christian cunt if you want to be specific, and this bullshit about controlling the population is NOT part of my faith. As a matter of fact, it goes entirely against my faith, and is extremely detrimental to every single Christian.
Having said that, this is simple. Religious people that support all this are the same so because it adheres to their end game, not because of their faith.
Sure, that is your reality,and I respect that you are sure that's the case (and in many cases it is), but I happen to believe that there are shades of gray from the whitest white to the darkest black. So you do you, I'll follow my own reality.
I think we can easily be in agreement that following a man or woman because of religion is, not only detrimental, but also dangerous. Whatwe will certainly disagree on is that, for me, Jesus is God, and for you, believing that makes me n irrational sheep. And that's cool, I don't think that should be a reason for one of us to hate the other, or even simply be angry (or anything similar, my English vocabulary is not too extensive).
I brought up religion because it was brought up. So, yeah, I'm not one of those that goes around pushing my believes on others, but the moment I see Jesus attacked, I will defend Him the same way He died for me on that cross.
I hadn't heard of Forgejo, although I realize now that I have seen repositories using it before. I think it's cool that they even have statically linked binaries of it but it's a bit concerning that like an entire web server is built in because what if there's vulnerabilities? I guess if you regularly stayed up to date it's not too bad then.
Edit: Oh, sounds like it's a fork of Gitea which I have heard of before, interesting.
You're not wrong, and I'm not arguing in favor of them doxxing "pirates". However, pretending like there's no possible blow is not the right way to fight against their abuse. I don't know what the answer is, though, so...
I'm just saying the percentage of those who may have been willing to pay is small enough to be irrelevant in the for-profit release perspective.
Netflix (when it first started streaming) and Steam (when sales included good older stuff for wildly cheap) showed that piracy is more of a service problem than anything else. A recent article called out the content problems (partial content, a few seasons behind a separate paywall, ads in the middle of playback, etc) a are directly related to an increase in piracy.
So my opinions on copyright aside - a clear model to a happy consumer is an affordable price without all the enshittification going on. People also dont like "buying" content that later disappears because of licensing changes.
So I'd put it squarely in the "their own damn fault" territory, and I'm glad when judges say "no" to them. I'll take whatever positives I can get.
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L'eroe genovese senza volto
Giovanni Giustiniani Longo contro Maometto II
Il 29 Maggio 1453, Costantinopoli (Bisanzio prima) si avviava a cadere sotto i colpi di artiglieria
L'eroe genovese senza volto
Giovanni Giustiniani Longo contro Maometto II
Il 29 Maggio 1453, Costantinopoli (Bisanzio prima) si avviava a cadere sotto i colpi di artiglieria ottomana e a diventare l'odierna Istanbul. Il basileus Costantino XI, per difendere la città, aveva chiesto rinforzi, anche alle due repubbliche marinare di Venezia e Genova. Il Doge genovese, Pietro Fregoso, decise di mandare "solo" due galee con a bordo 700 uomini, guidati da un valente condottiero: Giovanni Giustiniani Longo (1418-1453). Longo ed i suoi uomini respinsero più volte con estremo valore gli assalti ottomani ...
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Stavolta, ieri sera, purtroppo la persona famosa che è morta dal niente è il basato Pippo Baudo… e avrei sperato fosse piuttosto qualche tizio meno buono a lasciarci le penne, ma tant’è… E purtroppissimo anche stavolta io non ho un coccodrillo… e probabilmente non ne avrò uno da parte nelle bozze neppure per la mia […]
“Enrico da Bergamo, che annunciò a Richard Benson la morte di Pippo Baudo – La Zanzara 15.5.2020”
Stavolta, ieri sera, purtroppo la persona famosa che è morta dal niente è il basato Pippo Baudo… e avrei sperato fosse piuttosto qualche tizio meno buono a lasciarci le penne, ma tant’è… E purtroppissimo anche stavolta io non ho un coccodrillo… e probabilmente non ne avrò uno da parte nelle bozze neppure per la mia di dipartita, ma lasciamo stare per stavolta… 😶
Per fortuna, però, a mancanza di coccodrillo, ho un pappagallo, un vecchio video su YouTube che già sta macinando per conto suo (stanno uscendo tanti commenti sotto), e che adesso sminuzzerò piuttosto io, prima che siano i microblogger raccomandati a farlo mettendoci 1/10 del mio impegno ma ottenendo 100x della riconoscenza… ahi ahi… 😱
In questa storia c’entrano talmente tanti altri tizi che è già complicato tenere il conto, ma in breve: un tizio chiamato Enrico, da Bergamo, a suo tempo telefonò a Richard Benson (pace pure all’anima sua, maremma bona…) dicendo che era morto (non che sarebbe morto, eh) Pippo Baudo… totalmente a caso… grande cazzata…e poi fu pure intervistato a La Zanzara per questa sua sfacciataggine. E insomma, qualcuno quindi lo prendeva per il culo, mentre tutti gli altri hanno semplicemente derubricato la cosa. 🥴
Eccoci qui però, 5 anni dopo, e si scopre che questo qui aveva in realtà ragione. Ok, certo, non relativamente alla collocazione temporale, ma in effetti lui non ha mai detto date esplicite, ha solo parlato al presente ponendo la cosa come una notizia in anteprima… magari semplicemente è un viaggiatore nel tempo e in quel momento parlava dal futuro!!! Quindi oggi, quello che era il matto di quartiere fino a ieri, è veggente e visionario… e la cosa bella è che dietro pare esserci pure un sacco di lore che io non riesco ad afferrare… 🤯
Ma la cosa davvero assurda è che, tempo penso qualche giorno, e potremmo scoprire che il signore pazzoide ci ha beccato pure sulla causa di morte…! Infatti, lui ha suggerito infarto, che è qualcosa che purtroppo può capitare più o meno a chiunque… e potrebbe tranquillamente essere stato ciò a fare fuori Pippo Baudo, visto che le cause di morte effettive non sono ancora state in alcun modo chiarite, ma i media riportano che lui non avrebbe avuto malattie specifiche che sarebbero da considerare la causa diretta di una morte strana; stava male in modo generico. Ahimè, insomma, addio a Pippo Baudo, ma benvenuto tra noi al nuovo messia Enrico!!! 😻
(Qui il video completo della chiamata del tizio a Richard Benson, di cui alla Zanzara si vede solo l’inizio: proxatore.octt.eu.org/www.face…)
I have some books, which are available in the shadow libraries, but their audio counterparts, which I also have — and are essential for the content — aren't available on these sites; so I decided to upload the audio files in a zip/rar, as I'd seen such archives floating around on zlib, however, apparently it seems that you're not allowed to upload archives to zlib. Annas-archive doesn't take uploads and libgen has been down for weeks now; so how would I go on about disseminating these files? Perhaps, libgen allows archives, is that the case? I'll wait for it to come back up if it is.
I wouldn't mind seeing a ValvePay system. 1% transaction fee, available to anyone who wants to use it, including OnlyFans, Itch, Kagura, DLSite, and others. Valve can team up with Japan, the EU, and Brazil to handle their respective ends of the business, so that Valve can focus on the United States.
Depends a bit on the country since they are all transforming their national payment system to Wero, some of them already have it like Germany and Belgium will be getting it in October this year. The Netherands will get it 2026-01-01.
Nei nostri esperimenti con l'AI, ci siamo imbattuti in Envision Ally, app che parla nei panni dei nostri personaggi fantastici.
Nel 2019 non pensavamo di rendere pubblici i nostri racconti di fantasia, e a inizio 2023 credevamo che la cosiddetta “intelligenza artificiale” fosse solo una perdita di tempo.
A distanza di anni però è giunta la sorpresa: le nuove tecnologie non solo consentono di dare vita ai nostri personaggi inventati, ma li fanno interagire col mondo e aiutare gli altri. Il progetto è internazionale e si chiama Envision Ally.
Etica dell’AI
Più la tecnologia avanza, più l'”intelligenza artificiale” pone questioni etiche fondamentali: la sicurezza, i diritti d’autore, i rischi per la salute mentale e l’ambiente…
Ci troviamo di fronte a un cambiamento tecnologico e sociale enorme, nel bene e nel male; abbiamo già parlato su questo sito di quanto facile ormai sia confondere reale e finzione. E se invece la fantasia diventasse realtà per aiutare il prossimo?
Envision Ally
Creato da un’azienda olandese nata nel 2016 (Envision), Ally è un servizio basato su molteplici modelli di “intelligenza artificiale” ottimizzati da Envision stessa, per assistere le persone con disabilità visiva: generatori di testi, descrizioni di immagini, traduzioni, e in più anche il riconoscimento ottico di caratteri (OCR) per convertire in digitale il testo scritto su carta o display, perché i modelli linguistici non sempre danno informazioni accurate.
Ally si racconta
Ally, per me, è come un coltellino svizzero digitale per chi vive al buio. È il mio occhio extra, il mio alleato silenzioso che trasforma l’incertezza in sicurezza. Proprio come il virus che porto dentro, invisibile ma potente, Ally è discreto ma indispensabile, capace di svelare dettagli nascosti agli altri. È la voce che ti guida, la mente che decodifica il mondo quando la vista ti lascia in panne. Insieme a lui, non sei più solo, non sei più limitato. È tecnologia con più cuore, più senso, proprio come me: un mix di forza e vulnerabilità che non si arrende mai.
Questa citazione è uscita perché ad Ally sono state date alcune istruzioni: “presenta l’applicazione dal punto di vista…” di un personaggio in particolare, su cui sono stati forniti dettagli specifici.
L’assistente funziona tutto sui “prompt”, istruzioni testuali che vengono scritte nelle impostazioni dell’app. Le preferenze contengono tre spazi bianchi dove inserire testo libero: “su di te”, in cui si inserisce la descrizione personale con tanto di gusti, cosa ti piace, cosa non ti piace; poi nella parte dell'”alleato” (assistente) gli si può dare un nome, descriverne dettagliatamente la storia e personalità, e dargli uno stile di comunicazione – formale, informale, ironico… E addirittura istruire il programma su come dev’essere la sua voce, perché l’app funziona sia in chat testuale, sia vocale.
Ovvio che, più dati si inseriscono su di sé, più l’assistente risponderà sulle proprie esigenze inclusa dieta e salute. Sta alla persona decidere quanto esporsi, noi teniamo a ricordare che per quanto Envision segua tutte le norme internazionali sulla riservatezza, si tratta sempre di un servizio collegato a Internet. Il nostro motto è “un computer sicuro è un computer spento” ma di fronte a una tecnologia che può cambiare la vita a chi ha bisogno, vogliamo sempre ridimensionare l’eccessivo entusiasmo.
Non si tratta di un amico, anche se si può parlarci come tale sia a voce sia per iscritto ma, per quanto lo abbiano ottimizzato per comprendere i contesti delle conversazioni, la riservatezza è fondamentale.
Se ad esempio vivi con l’HIV e nessuna delle persone intorno a te lo sa, sarebbe forse opportuno evitare di inserire quel dato nella propria biografia e non conversare, in testo o in vocale, con l’applicazione condividendo tali informazioni. Insomma, magari non succede niente. Ma vale la pena rischiare? In coscienza ci sentiamo di suggerire che non sia il caso, poi ogni individuo è responsabile per sé stesso.
Personaggi inventati prendono vita
Più volte ci siamo trovati a leggere articoli in cui si spiegava l’uso malevolo di queste tecnologie: generatori di testo, voce e immagini impiegati per truffare, diffondere notizie false, attribuire a personaggi pubblici affermazioni non vere, a scopo di propaganda o diffamazione.
Su questa base, come inventori di storie, abbiamo ipotizzato che se i malintenzionati creano il falso dal vero, noi possiamo agire all’inverso costruendo qualcosa di reale partendo dalla fantasia. Chi ce lo vieta?
Il primo esperimento è stato il virus HIV senziente. Personaggio che già esiste in questo blog, nell’app per smartphone ha acquisito un nome. “Fernando”, ispirato a una canzone; prendendo le caratteristiche di HIV reale più quelle della sua versione di fantasia e dotata di coscienza abbiamo entrambi confezionato l'”alleato” su misura! Adesso HIV “Fernando” legge i testi, descrive a voce alta l’ambiente, spiega i principi attivi dei farmaci e addirittura se glielo si chiede, consulta la guida tv.
Stessa cosa abbiamo fatto con Adriano, il profiler. Anche lui ha la sua personalità e voce, e fa tutto quello che gli si chiede.
Contenuti erotici
Essendo Adriano un personaggio molto erotico, ci domandiamo se è capace di leggere certi contenuti “sensibili” ma saranno approfondimenti da fare in separata sede; come persone una con la vista e una senza, più volte negli anni abbiamo discusso sulla cosiddetta “intelligenza artificiale” che è stata programmata per non generare contenuti per adulti, né descrivere immagini e video a tema. Noi però, in un’app come questa, ci domandiamo: perché negare a un cieco la possibilità di avere determinate informazioni?
Parliamoci chiaro: esattamente come le foto dei panorami e paesaggi, quelle erotiche sono create per trasmettere sensazioni attraverso il canale visivo. Per comunicare a chi non vede, esiste la scrittura e l’audio.
Crediamo sia opportuno accettare che certi contenuti siano ottimizzati per un solo senso, ma la descrizione del materiale per adulti, nelle tecnologie assistive dotate di “AI”, è fondamentale comunque. Per difendersi. Se ti manca la vista e una persona ti gira una foto esplicita? Potresti non rendertene conto e lui, dall’altra parte, potrebbe dirti di averti mandato un paesaggio.
Dopodiché il “godere” è soggettivo; può anche darsi che qualcuno provi soddisfazione immaginandosi la scena, quando l’AI fornisce la sua descrizione pressoché asettica; ma su questo, noi, lasciamo il beneficio del dubbio.
HIV indossabile
Questa app Envision Ally ci consente di usare l’ironia su noi stessi, ancora una volta: uomo HIV positivo vedente, donna HIV negativa cieca… Dal 2019 anno in cui ci siamo conosciuti, la nostra amicizia è nata sull’aiuto reciproco con Gifter a fare da occhi a Elettrona.
Allora appena c’è stata l’occasione di Ally, inizialmente l’idea era di clonare Alessandro “Gifter”, non nella voce perché su Ally non si può, ma descrivere la personalità. Però Alessandro ha proposto: “basto io per aiutarti in reale, sfrutta il mio HIV per questo!” Detto, fatto. Essendo Ally un sistema presente anche su un tipo di occhiali “intelligenti” l’effetto è un ironico lavoro di squadra. Amico positivo che rispetta le tempistiche umane, e il suo virus a disposizione 24 ore su 24.
Chissà se un giorno racconteremo un’esperienza di gruppo magari in una città d’arte, dove Alessandro descrive le opere in un modo e l’HIV le racconta dal suo punto di vista da virus che non conosce la cultura umana, quindi fornisce dettagli che la persona dà per scontati? O in un museo dedicato al crime, in cui l’assistente virtuale è il profiler? Abbiamo solo da esplorare! Nel blog di Envision sono già state condivise esperienze di persone che hanno visitato musei e noi già ora immaginiamo un futuro dove questa tecnologia passi dal telefono e gli occhiali, a un robot più o meno di sembianze umane.
Malgrado esista una legge che tutela i ciechi aiutati dai cani guida, spesso tocca lottare contro luoghi o mezzi pubblici che ancora discriminano quando uno sceglie per la propria indipendenza, di avere accanto un amico a quattro zampe. E se invece la scelta cade su un HIV guida?
Mica possono discriminarti perché porti uno smartphone, un paio di occhiali, o un robot a cui dici “HIV, leggi il menu”, “HIV, cerca la panchina al parco”? Noi siamo della vecchia scuola e crediamo che la discriminazione non si combatta piangendo, ma vivendo. E se un virus virtuale aiuta a combattere lo stigma, perché no?
Would anyone happen to know what Download Options to set in Tartube (youtube-dl GUI) to download a video, split it at it's chapter points & save each chapter into it's own separate MKV file.
I've gotten some really good advice here on Tartube before so I thought I would try again. Any helpfuly input greatly appreciated. Thanks so much!
Tra tutti i vicini di casa possibili, il più desiderabile parrebbe essere il facoltoso proprietario delle mura, che vivendo fisicamente altrove ne mantiene intonso il contenuto.
È arrivato EasyOS 7.0 “Excalibur”! Una distribuzione Linux fuori dagli schemi, basata su Devuan, con sistema containerizzato, root filesystem a sola lettura e gestione avanzata dei pacchetti. Scopri perché è diversa da tutte le altre
Advocates point, in part, to a new state law, Act 399, which went into effect Aug. 1 and establishes criminal penalties for law enforcement officials who decline ICE requests for cooperation. “If ICE were to ask for any records that NOPD would hold, they would have to risk violating a state law and facing criminal charges [to comply with] what the ordinance is asking them to do,” Sarah Whittington, advocacy director at the ACLU of Louisiana, told Bolts.
Should federal agents get access, Whittington said, “this technology would allow them to use facial recognition to try and further their reach into our communities and track people.” She thinks ICE could “use the network of cameras to target specific people and communities and wait for the technology to alert them to a match and then use it to track that person to a location for arrest—likely away from their home and away from the public.”
Should federal agents get access, Whittington said, “this technology would allow them to use facial recognition to try and further their reach into our communities and track people.” She thinks ICE could “use the network of cameras to target specific people and communities and wait for the technology to alert them to a match and then use it to track that person to a location for arrest—likely away from their home and away from the public.”
Even setting aside these new state laws, experts say the only real way to prevent ICE from accessing sensitive data is to forgo collecting it in the first place. “It is very hard to wall off data collected from lawful government use,” George Washington University law professor Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, the author of several books on big data policing, told Bolts. “The simple truth of digital surveillance is that if you build it, it will be used, and likely used against those with the least amount of political power.”
Su argues, though, that the city council’s attempts at safeguarding facial recognition technology seem to be designed according to an “an old idea” of how governments interact: “federal insulated from state, state insulated from local, and you can still have some stability or control for your own little community.”
In the era of Trump 2.0, he said, those rules no longer apply: “We’re probably at the lowest point with regard to local democratic control.”
The city says it won’t lend this tool to ICE for surveillance. But a state law requires that local officials assist ICE, and New Orleans also wants to end a court order restricting compliance.
An Asus representative claims that 90 percent of Asus PCs and motherboards bound for the United States are now being made in other countries like Thailand.
I posted the article because I thought some might find it interesting, I don't agree with the contents in the article myself. I agree with your take. But I think it's important to at least read what ideas are being put forward and to drive duscussion.
Si sta verificando un enorme cambiamento: Google non ti porta più da nessuna parte, ti risponde lui direttamente, con quei riassunti generati dall’intelligenza artificiale che stanno sempre in cima, e la maggior parte degli utenti non ha più bisogno …
An outbreak of Shope papillomavirus in Colorado is in the news for the past few weeks. The virus that causes warty growths in cottontail rabbits can be spread by ticks and usually aren’t fatal to the animal unless it interferes with their eyes or mouth.
Rabbits with severe cases of this condition overlaps with ideas about the infamous horned rabbit, the Jackalope. I’ve seen several displays of news or comments on this story that confirm that people really do not know anything about the disease or the history of the American Jackalope legend. They are confused about what is happening with these rabbits and calling them “Jackalopes”.
Some of the kids are amazed. Jackalopes are REAL! And several media outlets are not capable of making real nature stories not look like clickbait by calling the infected animals “Frankenbunnies” and “demon rabbits” because nothing matters today unless it has a stupidly exaggerated name. Tabloid trash says we’re being “invaded” or “overrun”. Nonsense.
I did find videos and references to “Frankenstein” rabbits from at least 12 years ago, even from the Smithsonian Magazine, so it’s not a new thing, but that doesn’t make it less silly. This should be a learning moment. I think, for the most part, it is, if the audience would just listen instead of being so overdramatic.
I pulled out and revamped my content on jackalopes that I wrote in Pop Cryptid Spectator 3 to revisit this topic.
Pop Cryptid: Jackalope
A major theme of the Pop Goes the Cryptid model is the never-ending dispute about calling something a “cryptid”. Today’s complicated example: the Jackalope – a creature that is well-associated with being a “cryptid” online but that almost everyone who knows some history of cryptozoology will insist is not a cryptid because it’s a mythical creature, a hoax.
With the public now seeing rabbits with horny growths and “tentacles” (you weirdo writers need to stop with the Call of Cthulhu), a realization is happening in the cryptid forums and social media that maybe there was something to the idea of a Jackalope as a real animal. But, it’s not simple or direct. Things that evolve in culture never are.
My reference is On the Trail of the Jackalope (2022) by Michael Branch, a comprehensive book that mostly treats the creature as a cultural creation but also briefly explores the idea of its cryptidness.
Animals suffering from the virus were seen by most hunters as suffering from some disease. It’s not hard to figure out. The dark, grotesque growths don’t resemble antlers. The Jackalope, proper, is an antlered jackrabbit or cottontail. So, to equate the two situations is an error.
“One day young Doug and Ralph Herrick went out roaming the green hills hunting for small game to supplement the family supper. Having bagged a jackrabbit, the brothers returned home and tossed the hare’s body onto the floor of their shop in preparation to skin it. Because they had recently butchered a small deer in the shop, a modest pair of antlers already rested on the floor. By a sheer coincidence that would change the boys’ lives forever, the dead rabbit happened to slide up against the deer’s horns so as to make it appear the jackrabbit sported the rack.”
The resulting mount was exhibited at the Hotel LaBonte in the town which was ground zero for the legend and the commercialization of the creature. Creation of Jackalope mounts has become a cottage industry and is now well known worldwide as a symbol of the American West.
“[T]he horned rabbit is unalloyed Americana—a genuine artifact of this country’s folk culture—the mythical beast has also made its way across the oceans and around the world.”
According to the locals, says Branch, about half the visitors to Douglas leave believing the animals are real. Do they believe, or are they just having fun believing? Hard to judge. The same might be said about most cryptids as people like to imagine that tall tales are true because it makes life seem magical. This remains a strong theme in the Jackalope biography.
Jackalope from the video game Red Dead Redemption
The horned rabbit
Cottontail rabbits with horn-like protuberances over various parts of their bodies, particularly their heads, were found to be infected with a type of papillomavirus. There can be little doubt that such stricken rabbits would be viewed as mysterious, then and now.
Branch notes that the prevalence of the horned rabbit across cultures suggests that they were at least somewhat based on these natural anomalies. But the precursors to the American Jackalope are numerous. The specific Jackalope may be a Wyoming invention, but it was not the first depiction of the horned rabbit.
In the early days of natural history, the “horned rabbit” was assumed to be a real, genuine, unique animal because witnesses said so. Early naturalists such as Conrad Gessner, Joris Hoefnagel (16th century) and others depicted the horned hare as a real animal. Later, other natural historians weren’t so sure, but this uncertainty about its existence and speculation on the cause of horned hares undoubtedly sounds like the modern idea of a “cryptid”. There is a good bet that the horned hare was at least somewhat based on the diseased animals.
There is also the wolpertinger, an even more badass bunny with not only antlers, but fangs and wings. Or, it was a more bizarre mashup of various birds, squirrels, and foxes. Again, it’s unclear if the virus-related growths helped spread this story. But if so, it was for inspiration only, because Wolpertingers are absurd in appearance. Depictions of wolpertingers originated in Bavaria where taxidermied hoaxes were popular in the 1800s with tourists. Therefore, it’s reasonable to say that the Wolpertinger was a valid ancestor of the Jackalope.
Wolpertinger edited from Young Hare, a painting of a hare by Albrecht Dürer
Is the Jackalope a cryptid?
The world was a different place centuries (or even decades) ago. Ideas and language change. We know more about what’s in the world and what isn’t.
If we go by the general cryptid definition of “an animal/entity that is believed to be real but not recognized by zoology” then the Jackalope can claim the title of an official cryptid. There have been stories of people claiming to see real jackalopes (as in antlered hares) or infected cottontails. There’s a good chance these have been conflated.
Ample evidence shows that most people are entirely ignorant of wildlife in their own backyard, let alone the zoological catalog of known animals. As with everything else in the modern world, we get our information from popular culture, not too much directly from qualified scientific experts. So, it not surprising that an average person would 1.) not know about Shope papilloma infected rabbits and how they look, and 2.) that there is not such animal as an antlered rabbit. For the latter, we have to understand that basic schooling doesn’t teach zoology, and many kids know nothing about nature. (A high percentage of the population does not understand basic geography or scientific explanations about the earth.) So, it is not surprising to me that some people might think jackalopes are plausible. Their appearance in popular culture might suggest to people who didn’t know any better that they are real. This latest hype about “frankenbunnies” also muddies the waters because people are getting poorly sourced “WTF is that!”-type coverage, instead of factual information.
Branch quotes Loren Coleman who runs the International Cryptozoology Museum regarding his inclusion of the Jackalope in the museum: “I would read visitors’ online comments… and they would say things like ‘I didn’t know that the jackalope really existed.’ ” Coleman continues by explaining he reorganized the exhibit to depict the Jackalope along with other hoaxes. To me, there is a lot to unpack in that anecdote. Do we really know which cryptid is a manufactured hoax, which are imaginary creatures that people wish to be real, which are mistaken IDs influenced by lore and campfire tales, and which are real animals? The line is very blurry and all the information available to most people.
The fact is, Pop Cryptids are what’s happening. Any weird animal that is legendary, mythical, or just plain-old manufactured on a whim are being called “cryptids”. And there is nothing any “cryptozoologist” can do to change it, no matter how much they indignantly rant about it.
A Jackalope design for pins and tees on TeePublic.
People are viewing cryptids through various lenses (zoological, artistic, historical, cultural, etc.) If people wish to believe horned rabbits (jackalopes, wolpertingers, or other variations) are real animals hopping around in an alternative reality, that’s OK by me, as long as they aren’t declaring that in biology class. It’s important to recognize that horned rabbits have a history that can be legitimately viewed with a zoological lens. However, the history is fraught with flips, twists, and turns.
far_university1990
in reply to moe90 • • •github.com/strawberrymusicplay… this not it?
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Illegal not provide source.
GitHub - strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry: :strawberry: Strawberry Music Player
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in reply to far_university1990 • • •Winget just downloads an installer from the source.
Microsoft doesn't provide build time or hosting space (except if you're using GitHub)
Repo only contains URL to download and hash for check
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in reply to far_university1990 • • •far_university1990
in reply to Moonrise2473 • • •Get pissed at microsoft for such horrible fucking os.
Could not use WSL and crosscompile?
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in reply to moe90 • • •far_university1990
in reply to moe90 • • •First part valid, but last sentence lol. Open source go brrrr.
GitHub - strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry: :strawberry: Strawberry Music Player
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in reply to far_university1990 • • •Chamomile 🐑
in reply to Brickfrog • • •The dev saying it's about "information on how to fund the project" is being... misleading. Windows binaries from the project are paywalled, so alternate builds being distributed via Winget presents a pretty clear threat to that funding by being free and more convenient.* They're well within their right to not distribute their own builds for free, but the misleading way it's framed here is not endearing... especially given this is a fork of another piece of FOSS software that will happily provide you Windows builds.
* As an aside, it really is so much better to have stuff distributed by a package manager. Who the hell wants to download an installer from Patreon for every new release, honestly. Some devs drive me crazy with their insistence on asinine distribution channels.
far_university1990
in reply to Chamomile 🐑 • • •Brickfrog
in reply to moe90 • • •Post title misleading, Strawberry project still up and running at github.com/strawberrymusicplay… , coincidentally I had just installed it on Debian 13. Then saw this post saying Strawberry was taken down except that it wasn't.
Like the other comment says this is just about unofficial binaries that were floating around. That said it's kind of a bummer that Windows/Mac users can't download pre-compiled binaries from their github page. Maybe someone can create a script that does the downloading/compiling for those OSes similar to how some ffmpeg scripts do it e.g. github.com/UBTL/ffmpeg-windows…
GitHub - strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry: :strawberry: Strawberry Music Player
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in reply to Brickfrog • • •Moonrise2473
in reply to moe90 • • •What the fuck?
Fuck that, isn't this just a maintained fork of clementine??
And I tried this player, it's nothing special
I could understand a permanent nag button like nanazip, but $60/year where most of the hard job (libraries, decoders, base ui) was done by someone else for free?
I'm blacklisting this shit even if I'm a Linux user
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in reply to Hexarei • • •Never heard about mopidy tho.
HouseWolf
in reply to moe90 • • •I've been using Audacious for a while, basically a WinAmp clone for Linux.
Recently switched to DeaDBeeF since it's a bit easier to sort multiple large playlists.
Audacious - An Advanced Audio Player
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in reply to moe90 • • •Tauon.
Failing that mod+cantata (although I think this is not really maintained anymore).
zaknenou
in reply to moe90 • • •On Android: Musicolet or Oto music
Appoxo
in reply to moe90 • • •Else it's Jellyfin Web/Jellyfin Media Player on PC or for smartphone it's Symfonium and Finamp
TheFinn
in reply to Appoxo • • •Appoxo
in reply to TheFinn • • •If yes, can you drop a link? 😀
antipiratgruppen
in reply to Appoxo • • •GitHub - CappielloAntonio/tempo: An open source and lightweight music client for Subsonic, designed and built natively for Android.
GitHubAppoxo
in reply to antipiratgruppen • • •I believe Jellyfin has a subsonic plugin in some un-/official repository.
But I'd rather stay first party to avoid too much dependency on various plugins preventing me from upgrading.
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in reply to lichtmetzger • • •salacious_coaster
in reply to NewNewAugustEast • • •Looks like garbage, can't support multiple genre tags. Might as well be VLC as far as music management.
God I miss MusicBee.
NewNewAugustEast
in reply to salacious_coaster • • •Looks like garbage? Wtf? Looks great and is easy to use I am so confused by this comment.
I don't use genres so I guess that is a valid complaint if you use them.
As far as music management, other than genre, what is missing?
I have it connected to over 4tb of my music and its fast, searches work on many levels, and I have never seen a player better.
salacious_coaster
in reply to NewNewAugustEast • • •It looks like Windows Vista. Not a fan.
Multiple genre tags are a big part of how I search around my collection. This feature built into ID3 over 25 years ago. Absolute lunacy that I can only find three players anywhere that support it (MusicBee, Quod Libet, Foobar and derivatives). Otherwise, MB's layout just felt more clean, intuitive, and user-friendly.
Clementine wouldn't recognize my phone, either, so reading/syncing was also out. Basically none of the reasons I wanted it worked and I hated the way it looked. But apparently all most people ask of music players is "plays music.mp3 when I navigate to the folder and double click on the icon." In which case any of them do that, so Clementine isn't anything special.
Apologies for the tone. I'm pretty bitter about the state of music players on Linux.
NewNewAugustEast
in reply to salacious_coaster • • •I guess it doesn't look like windows to me, maybe because I am not on windows? It follows my custom theme on KDE with kvantum quite nicely.
I am not sure what else it could look like... Although you can customize what you want to see, title, name, date, source, bitrate and a couple of dozen more things.
I have no idea what you mean by folder, it's a cataloged library in a database....
I don't know about copying to my phone, I just stream to it. All the actual files are on a server with several ways to access that.
But podcasts sync without issue to a tiny mp3 device I take kayaking.
Edit: I forgot to say, I get it if you use multi Genre it is a deal breaker. I went and looked at music bee, and they use those damn circle cut icons (hate that so much) and lots of album covers. I have no use for either.
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in reply to NewNewAugustEast • • •NewNewAugustEast
in reply to xmanmonk • • •Yeah, that is more or less true. Although the github page is a newer version than the web page says it is.
It builds and works great though.
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in reply to Moonrise2473 • • •What is wrong with this policy? Strawberry is GPL, this sounds like the dev is committed enough to FOSS to not care too much about issues that come up on proprietary operating systems. This is very obviously not going to bring in a lot of money, how many people do you picture using windows or mac who think strawberry is so much better than other options that it's worth paying for? They're not advertising this in any way, there's no plot to trick poor souls into paying.
It strikes me as an easy and effective way to dismiss without argument bugfix requests on operating systems the developer doesn't care to touch. It's saying we don't want to neglect any users on other platforms that sincerely care about our project, but otherwise we just want to prioritze FOSS, so let's write off essentially all proprietary OS users while providing an avenue in case someone actually does care about our project that much.
Moonrise2473
in reply to Christian • • •if you ask $60/year to each user to support an operating system, then it's better to have first-class support with maximum issue priority
This is the most expensive music player app ever commercialized
Christian
in reply to Moonrise2473 • • •Which is the reason I thought it was obvious that no one will pay that without a sincere affinity for the project in some way beyond just using the app itself. Who do you imagine would pay here just to get access to the player? You're talking about this like it's a scam, but a scam has an intended target audience that we can at least imagine.
I can't picture someone choosing to buy a $60 subscription to this with no reason other than being a windows user who is dead-set on using strawberry over any other music player. There's no way the devs are raking in cash from windows users. They'll maybe get a couple people who like strawberry because they are already foss advocates and are forced to use windows on one of their pcs, ie people who already understand what strawberry's development priorities will be and also understand that what they are buying could be built from source code without paying.
It's essentially a policy to ignore those operating systems except when someone cares enough to make a donation, under the reasonable assumption that bug reports from donors will still be worth their time. Windows users who have no knowledge about the project beyond "it plays music" will not shell out $60 by mistake. Literally no one is aware of strawberry's existence but unaware of alternatives.
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in reply to Christian • • •The way he wrote shows he's more concerned taking down "pirate" versions of compiled files rather than the trouble of supporting windows users
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in reply to Moonrise2473 • • •This is a GPL project. Other than restrictions on relicesnsing, the one thing the GPL doesn't allow is redistributions with the same name and logo, because anyone could rebuild the source code with malware added and the developer would be perceived as responsible.
You, today, can literally rebuild strawberry with a changed logo and name, and write "my program exactly strawberry except with a changed logo and name" and make that repository publicly available for free and it cannot be taken down as long as it is licensed the same way. No developers are losing sleep over lost sales from piracy of their GPL program. Otherwise they would not use the GPL in the first place.
If a developer sees that their program is being rehosted on codeberg with the same name and logo, what steps do you think they should take to verify that the binaries being shared were not rebuilt from the publicly available source code with a cryptominer added? I can't think of a way to prevent that other than requiring a name and logo change and taking it down otherwise. It's not enough to verify just once, because the new code author could change a legit binary to an infected one at any time.
And, again, there is no target audience for this "scam". What do you believe might motivate the kind of customer who would regret purchasing this to pay for it in the first place? There is no need to litigate possible reasons why something might be a malicious moneymaking scheme when there is no imaginable target that would be victimized.
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in reply to moe90 • • •I was wondering when that repo showed up and all of a sudden there were 50k downloads of the windows version if this might happen.
The coderberg fork was linked directly to the main strawberry page where the source code is and it's pretty obvious the downloads were just the same as any subscriber executables.
I highly doubt the story that the person behind the fork was given binaries for testing. My guess is it was just a subscriber sharing their downloaded executables.
The whole malware argument the creator made is fear mongering.
Its odd he charges $7/month for subscribers on Patreon but its only $5 if you pay via Kofi.
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in reply to upstroke4448 • • •Patreon takes a 20% cut of your income right off the bat. This is with the 8% platform fee option, and when you stack it on top of the payment processing fees, that's what it comes out to be.
kofi is a bit lower but I don't know the details there.
But it makes sense to pass those fees on to the subscribers.
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in reply to HelloRoot • • •bss03
in reply to upstroke4448 • • •It's easier for me to us Patreon, because I'm already supporting a few other people/organizations there.
I've never used Ko-fi for a subscription.
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in reply to bss03 • • •Mttw_
in reply to upstroke4448 • • •Well i've setup a fork and modified the workflow file to build windows and macos: github.com/PorcoDio00033/straw…
I've not tested those binaries because i dont use that player, but they should work because entire workflow ran without errors.
The original repo already builds both windows + macos binaries, but it pushes them to a private server, not publically in actions/releases.
Paywalling binaries doesnt make sense lol
Update build.yml · PorcoDio00033/strawberry@8a5f2f0
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in reply to Mttw_ • • •upstroke4448
in reply to Mttw_ • • •Cloned the repo and ran the actions. Works like a charm. Setup a Kofi I'd much rather give you $5
Note: github will not let you build arm64 as a private repo
upstroke4448
in reply to moe90 • • •I played around with u/mttw_ edited build.yml and, added an additional update.yml
With these two workflows you should be able to clone SMP and build your own Windows and Mac versions by just running the build.yml action. Takes about 30 minutes to build.
**build.yml ** was changed so that it is run manually. I also adjusted how the attach job worked (as it was just being skipped). Now when build is finished it should attach them all as a new release in your repo. **You will need to edit this file with notepad and add your account name and repo name. **
**update.yml ** is just so that you can have your repo automatically update to the original SMP repo. It is set to check once a day. This is so when you run build.yml it is build the latest version.
Don't really want to link to my specific repo so I have put the yml files on fileroy
build.yml - fileroy.com/dkD3YlxlmLQK/file
update.yml - fileroy.com/2bJG8KVDzOBE/file
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