China's Tianwen-2 probe captures selfie with Earth
China's Tianwen-2 probe captures selfie with Earth
China's Tianwen-2 probe captures selfie with Earth-english.news.cn
Tidal playlist downloader?
All these open source options seem to only do the first 60 seconds. What out there can batch do this automatically? I could just rip them in audacity but I'd get a quality drop, which will still be better than the microphone quality video recording I am trying to drop them over.
Am I manually going to have to record each file with audacity which will be a time consuming pita or is there a way to batch download a play list for free?
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Concerned message from CEO of Telegram about privacy and censorship
I'm turning 41, but I don't feel like celebrating.
Our generation is running out of time to save the free Internet built for
us by our fathers.
What was once the promise of the free exchange of information is
being turned into the ultimate tool of control.
Once-free countries are introducing dystopian measures such as
digital IDs (UK), online age checks (Australia), and mass scanning of
private messages (EU).
Germany is persecuting anyone who dares to criticize officials on the
Internet. The UK is imprisoning thousands for their tweets. France is
criminally investigating tech leaders who defend freedom and privacy.
A dark, dystopian world is approaching fast - while we're asleep. Our
generation risks going down in history as the last one that had
freedoms -and allowed them to be taken away.
We've been fed a lie.
We've been made to believe that the greatest fight of our generation
is to destroy everything our forefathers left us: tradition, privacy,
sovereignty, the free market, and free speech.
By betraying the legacy of our ancestors, we've set ourselves on a
path toward self-destruction - moral, intellectual, economic, and
ultimately biological.
So no, I'm not going to celebrate today. I'm running out of time. We
are running out of time.
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I’m turning 41, but I don’t feel like celebrating. Our generation is running out of time to save the free Internet built for us by our fathers.Telegram
Germany is what?
Also the EU voted against chat control.
I partly agree with your point, but please state the facts precisely.
The message (which appears as a banner in the Telegram app, too) is filled with overhyped “news” and generalization regarding freedom of speech. Since him being stopped and investigated in France, he’s gone pretty unhinged on freedom of speech, disregarding the complexity of governing bodies and the real effect of information without bounds.
He makes valid points and I’m not defending anyone, but he oversimplifies and misreads some topics.
Also the EU voted against chat control.
They did not. It was just removed from the agenda for now.
The UK is imprisoning thousands for their tweets.
What an absolute loads of bollocks.
There has recently been 1 woman jailed for her tweets where she admitted to inciting violence, not because of free speech issues.
These libertarian wankers love citing that sole case (and make out that it's "thousands, I tell ya!") but will overlook that several Just Stop Oil protesters were jailed for 4 years just for holding a zoom call and anti-genocide protesters are being arrested and charged with terrorism offences just for writing on a bit of cardboard.
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she admitted to inciting violence
Why would she admit something like that... This sounds sus. You got a link?
Interesting... 2 years for an idiotic post. Interesting use of taxpayer money.
But these people allow pedos go free and live their best lives
"An idiotic post"
She was inciting people to burn down hotels housing vulnerable people. Some of those padeos you bleat about were at the protests while 60% of those arrested at a protest in Bristol have form as domestic abusers
Yes, all about protecting women and kids.
Anti-migrant protester who claimed to want to ‘protect children’ is convicted paedophile
Anthony Styles served four-and-a-half years behind bars for indecently assaulting a girl under the age of 14Holly Evans (The Independent)
I am not sure what point you are trying to make here.
Pedos should be in prison or dead.
uK is like US a place where they got to live their best lives tho
I am not sure what point you are trying to make here.
You should ask that of yourself. Youre the one who brought up paedos. Maybe you get all too muddled in your head and cant make a salient point?
And if you paid any attention to those reports, you would know that the vast majority are where those people have been critical of the UK or other govts actions, especially surrounding Palestine and none have gone further with the exception of Asa Winstanley. The only reason the police have visited those people is because zionist like complaining about nothing until they get their own way.
The one that the commentor here was responding to was a clear case of inciting violence. The same with people like the constantly crashing out Graham Lineham, who was arrested by police because he was inciting violence against a protected class.
So while the UK govt is infringing on peoples free speech, its not the ones who are getting all the publicity. Theyre just a bunch of whining fuckwits who want to be able to threaten people without consequence.
Please do try to keep abreast of the situation rather than stomping in with big boots and looking like a fucking idiot.
Police raid on journalist over Palestine tweets was illegal - Press Gazette
A UK journalist has won a victory against the Met Police over a raid on his home and seized a laptop and mobile phone over tweets.Dominic Ponsford (Press Gazette)
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posessing csam is not "freedom of speech".
nevermind the fact that telegram repeatedly refused to join child protection against csam groups to address the problem of csam on their service.
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It's the people who posted it fault. You think that one human can read everyone's messages lol? They would need to spy on everyone and have millions of employees specifically looking for illegal activity.
People are so righteous but have done nothing to ensure that the Epstein files were revealed.
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If it’s a private group they don’t know what’s happening
This is not true, group chats with more than two members on Telegram are NEVER encrypted. Telegram admins have full access to see the contents of these private chats, and have the ability to respond to court orders, but they were ignoring those requests. This is why he was arrested. Google/YouTube respond to court orders and do take stuff down, and actual encrypted messengers like Signal have no way to see the contents of the messages, which is why the owners and operators of these services have never been arrested.
Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?
This blog is reserved for more serious things, and ordinarily I wouldn’t spend time on questions like the above. But much as I’d like to spend my time writing about exciting topics, som…A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering
They aren't encrypted, hence why I never said they were. This is something your cooked mind imagined so you can argue with yourself.
Private Groups: Only members can see messages. Admins cannot view messages unless they are part of the conversation.
This means if "Crimegroup" has shady stuff in the group if no member snitched it wouldn't be known for them to even delete it. While telegram (the company or workers) could look right in they would need to know it's an illegal group first because luckily they aren't spying on everyone by default
They aren't encrypted, hence why I never said they were.
you did, just with different words. without encryption and with centralized servers how would this claim of yours be the case?
If it's a private group they don't know what's happening.
you know, trust and safety teams aren't looking at the content with the apps when they look for harmful content. they have access to better moderation tools with access to the database, where the messages are readable to them because of the lack of end to end encryption.
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Look up the rest yourself. Google hides most of the news about it. So they are useless to search it up
YouTube’s paedophile problem is only a small part of the internet’s issue with child sexual abuse
The tech giants are consistently failing to protect children.The Conversation
But the point is people need to stop the government censorship.
Only if their were people who weren't slaves that could demand and force the government to stop egregious practices, instead of trying to be smartasses online
Since you are so about unreasoably insulting people, I drew a picture of you.
Get your act together. There are issues out there to be solved but they won't be solved by infighting, especially not by you.
Also, the Telegram billionaire is a lying piece of shit. Anyone barely literate about privacy will avoid that platform, for their private messages, with a 10 foot pole.
Sucking up to a billionaire as much as you just did really makes you sound like you're part of a cult.
JP Morgan staff told they must share biometric data to access headquarters
JP Morgan Chase has told staff moving into its new headquarters in New York that they must share their biometric data to access the multibillion-dollar building.
The investment bank had previously planned for the registering of biometric data by employees at its new Manhattan skyscraper to be voluntary.
However, employees of the US’s biggest bank who have started work at the headquarters since August have received emails saying that biometric access was “required”, according to communications seen by the Financial Times.
JP Morgan staff told they must share biometric data to access headquarters
Investment bank had previously planned for such information from New York workers to be voluntaryMark Sweney (The Guardian)
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Getting nervous about the general public are we?
Sow:reap
Lmao my thoughts exactly. Not just the general public, if enough Republicans get nervous and finally vote to subpoena those files, they might have to be legally taken by force.
Who had "If House Republicans would just fucking vote for accountability, the villain officially breaking the law and protecting pedophiles would be the CEO of a big bank?" on their bingo card. 🙋♀️
Curious why they would want to protect a pedophile protector and those bank files. Unless...?
"Survival of the fittest! It's the natural order of things. Let nature take it's cour... Hey, excuse me! You're not supposed to be here without a biometric scan!"
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I don't think so, these places are ones that have the "yes, actually mossad" threat vector to defend against.
Like the general public already wouldn't get in.
I feel like there’s some kind of middle ground between the notoriously insecure HID style building access card and providing biometrics.
I wonder if this has anything to do with a RTO push and people badging in for others. But then VPN usage would show that…
Maybe I should, to establish a pattern.
But then I’d have to go to the office. Ew. HR is there.
Some companies do "internet only" wifi where there is no routing to internal services for anyone, radius or not. A VPN is required, even when at work, to access anything internal wirelessly. Its a perfectly reasonable config that lowers the risk of breach of your internal network by exposing less of it over the air.
This is also the nominal config for most zero trust networks, but that's more a consequence of the "always on" nature of those VPN connections since you never have unencryted traffic anywhere, regardless of origin point.
Not quite like that. There is an internal wifi that I can't get onto, and a public "guest" wifi that half of the tech staff uses and VPNs from.
Basically the protected wifi only really works on locked-down windows machines, and those aren't usable for most developers. It's mostly mac and linux there, and while the protected wifi is supposed to work on those, the IT staff don't know how.
locked-down windows machines
I've worked in IT since we used Netware with Windows 3.1
While I totally get what's being said, it still makes me chuckle.
Our servers are in a data center and not in the office building. We work remote most of the time and are only in office for important meetings and other things where it's just easier to work together when sitting on the same table. If you don't work with confidential data like HR or top management where you have physical things nobody else should see, you don't have a personal desk because there are more people working than workplaces.
So the office is just "another place to work". Wifi and LAN are just for internet, you can't access internal services without VPN. Makes it way easier to manage instead of having to different routes to maintain.
2FA the access card? Swipe your badge, receive a prompt on your phone "Are you trying to badge in at $BUILDING?", hit allow, be granted access to building.
Another option would be badge + PIN code.
Staff: "But we don't have to if we work remotely, right."
JP Morgan Chase: "No remote work."
You think it’s easy to steal someone fingerprint or iris in a way that will work on scanners?
How?
Biometrics are not usernames. They are physical identifiers and unlike usernames you can’t change them.
I used to work in a datacenter that required you to go through a mantrap to access. It required three things:
- Something you have (a card key)
- Something you know (a PIN)
- Something you are (biometrics)
To get to the datacenter floor you use a card key to open the door to the mantrap. It’s a small vestibule about the size of a phone booth. Once inside the door closes. You then enter your PIN on a keypad and place your hand on a biometric scanner. Once your hand is recognized the inner door opens and lets you into the datacenter. I was told the mantrap also weighed you and compared that with previous trips through to make sure somebody else didn’t sneak through with you.
Biometric access requires staff to scan their fingerprints or eye to gain access through security gates in the lobby instead of swiping their ID badges.
You could not sign me up fast enough to be able to open my office’s door with my fingerprint or eye.
The systems that handle biometric logins for gigantic companies are usually pretty bulletproof and have been audited many times.
I’m guessing people on here will think this is the second coming of the devil though lol. I can only imagine the outrage if FaceID/TouchID didn’t already exist on phones and Apple/google/etc added it in 2025 🤣
MPA Highlights Rapidly Expanding “Hydra Sites” as an Emerging Piracy Problem
Full watch list: torrentfreak.com/images/mpa-us…
Includes domains of the piracy websites.
MPA Highlights Rapidly Expanding "Hydra Sites" as an Emerging Piracy Problem * TorrentFreak
MPA has released its 2025 overview of the world's most notorious piracy markets, flagging Hydra Sites and a new threat.Ernesto Van der Sar (TF Publishing)
Not until they lobby to have governments mandate all VPN services that want to do business in that country
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It would reduce their short term revenue, but would improve their long-term revenue. Netflix used to have a great product, but they fiddled with it to make people watch only certain content that brings them more revenue. Same with Spotify. This then reduces the number of people willing to pay for the service and since there are few competitors that are better and/or have as much content they "piracy" is the only way to get the content you want for a reasonable price, with a good user experience.
So short term these things improve revenue, but not as much as the revenue lost in the long term as people start to dislike the the poor experience or are unable to afford the higher prices. And people don't want multiple services to have to check for new content all the time all with different poor Ux.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - blame Dodge (yes, that Dodge) for setting precedent that shareholder satisfaction legally comes before customer satisfaction.
It is a problem for the profit seek enterprise and the media is shilling their side.
I wish the media had as much concern about my income being suppressed the profit seek enterprise. But it never really happens besides odd lip service.
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Generative AI Ethics
The rise of hyper-realistic deepfakes and AI-generated content is a huge problem. How do we, as a community, push for better provenance and authentication tools to combat misinformation and protect intellectual property?
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I'm curious. Maybe some of our fedizen on the threadiverse use microblog ? Or follow this community from their microblog account ?
Well, let's do a little poll ! 😎
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María Corina Machado Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/10/world/nobel-peace-prize
On the other hand I like to think Trump is fuming that he still hasn't gotten his prize and that he'll abandon the invasion idea just to punish Venezuela's opposition for taking his prize.
I 100% can see him doing this
The fact that Anne Applebaum of The Atlantic is so excited about Machado would seem to suggest that you are correct.
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(Mrs. Erinaceus says that The Atlantic is a make-work project for unemployed neocons).
Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado is one of Trump’s biggest fans
Maria Corina Machado was given the award for promoting democracy in Venezuela and says that the US president is the country’s best chance for regime changeOwen Scott (The Independent)
Stop the steal
Venezuela's Juan Guaido declares himself acting president
Opposition leader Juan Guaido has declared himself acting president after urging supporters to take to the streets in an effort to oust President Nicolas Maduro. The US swiftly signaled its support for the move.Deutsche Welle
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The peace prize is unfortunately used to promote war.
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I can't. She's a puppet for Washington. An heiress of the Venezuelan oligarchic elite whose only intention is to destabilize the government so she and her cronies can sell off Venezuela's natural resources, notably oil, while cutting public services and pocketing the cash for themselves.
This is literally just "Maduro bad, opposition good." This is like putting a healthcare CEO's granddaughter up in the US as we've only begun to recover, 25 years after removing Trump from power, and a powerful enemy state; let's say Russia; sabotaging any recovery, pointing at the results of their sabotage as proof recovery has failed, and awarding Ms. Thompson numerous prizes and recognition for being hated by the public and rightfully prevented from holding power. And that's to say nothing of whatever leader would actually be in power in that scenario.
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The US is planning a regime change in Venezuela. No doubt they would love to use the "we bring Democracy by installing a Nobel peace prize winner" angle.
The USA decided where this prize went.
you mean the proto-fascist opposition?
yeah nobel prizes are bullshit aren't they? now that i remember it, fucking obama got one.
Amazon fires cause record-breaking CO2 emissions | A 7-fold increase means most Amazon greenhouse gas in 2024 came from fires, not deforestation
Amazon fires cause record-breaking CO2 emissions | Climate & Capitalism
700% increase means most Amazon greenhouse gas in 2024 came from fires…Ian Angus (Climate & Capitalism)
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Taiwan unveils 'T-Dome' air defense system
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Do the tears of an innocent child mean nothing to you!?
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/6311985
What is her fault? Why is she crying?She cries because there is no food… she cries out of fear for her father and brother who sleep outside the tent because it is too small, after we were displaced and forced to put the women inside the tents to cover them.
This is my little sister Montaha… Please, donate and extend your helping hand.
I am her brother, unable to provide for her needs. I deprive myself of food just to feed her… Please help us, people of kind hearts, true humanitarians… Make a difference in our lives.
I am dying of grief over my family and the children around me… and I am dying of hunger.
An extremely urgent plea for help
📩 Contact me on Signal:
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Tags vs flairs
The two serve similar, but different purposes. A quick guide:
Post Flair
Post flair are created per-community by the community moderators. Categorizing posts with flair makes it easy for users to just look at posts within that community with just that flair. To see what I mean, try checking out !fediverse@piefed.social and click a post flair in the sidebar there. It will filter all the posts in the community feed to just posts that have that flair. If you are familiar with post flair on reddit, this is intended to work pretty much the same way.
Tags / Hashtags
Within a community
Tags are a thing that can function in a similar way to post flair when we are talking about within a community, so I understand the confusion some people have. For example, if you click on a hashtag in the sidebar of !fediverse@piefed.social, it will similarly filter the community to just posts that have that hashtag. So...same thing, right?
Across communities
Well, hashtags can also serve another role. They can help group similar posts across multiple communities as well. For example, clicking the #Mastodon hashtag in the sidebar of !fediverse@piefed.social community takes you to this page, where all the posts within that community using that hashtag are listed. However, posts in other communities can also use the #Mastodon hashtag...so how do we see those?
The answer to that is that there is a way to search for posts by tag. Here is the page for piefed.social. You can search for a hashtag, and then when you select it, you can see all the posts (across all communities) that use that hashtag. Following up on the example we used earlier, if you want to look at all the posts using the #Mastodon hashtag, here you go.
Across the fediverse
The other thing that hashtags do that post flair doesn't is that microblogging services like mastodon understand them better. So, it helps users on other fediverse software platforms find your posts better. @rimu@piefed.social wrote a bit about that just the other day over here.
I Made a Game for Mobile Linux
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In hopes of helping out mobile linux, I decided to bolster its supply of mobile games. I don't know if mobile Linux needs mobile games, but I make games as a hobby and want to try to help out however I can. The code is open source and the game has been tested on my Librem 5. Code can be found on GitLab.
Fruit Shogun by FriendlyGecko
A slice of life of a fruit shogun. Avoid bombs and slice fruit on your way to the top or just a pretty impressive score.itch.io
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Do normal Linux games not work on mobile Linux?
Does Wine work on mobile Linux?
i require some help to chose an non american is for phone
Hello,
I am European and I want to change phone but I want to avoid OSes maintained by American.
Do you have any suggestion ?
I am on graphene now, I know about postmarket os but it look like it's core maintainer are from US.
Regards
noyb win: Microsoft 365 Education may not track school children
noyb win: Microsoft 365 Education tracks school children
Favorable decision by the Austrian DSB: Microsoft Education 365 may not track school kids and Microsoft is ordered to provide full access to kids' data.noyb.eu
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Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions
Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions
Mozilla is introducing profiles to its Firefox web browser that make it easier to separate and organize your online activity.Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)
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firefox -P profiles into this new kind of profiles, and have them all be synced by firefox with a single account instead of recreating them on all my devices. On the filesystem they seem to be the same, just not in the same place.
Been using it for years.
Been using multi account containers [1] for a couple weeks, complete with per-tab-SSL vpns.
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Firefox Multi-Account Containers – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
Download Firefox Multi-Account Containers for Firefox. Firefox Multi-Account Containers lets you keep parts of your online life separated into color-coded tabs.addons.mozilla.org
Next they’re gonna tell me they haven’t heard of about:processes either
about:config has all the fame…
You can have a whole other instance of Firefox with different settings, extensions, themes, logins, bookmarks, history...
It's really handy imo to have a school/work profile with relevant bookmarks, history, extensions and then have a separate personal profile for all my personal shizz. Not to mention not having my personal stuff pop up in my school/work profile to avoid embarrassing moments and not having work shit annoy me on my personal profile.
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Or just -P "profilename" to launch that profile directly from a shortcut.
You can have as many running simultaneously as you'd want.
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Uhm ... is this perhaps for the android browser then?
The desktop browser has had this for a long long time, though in recent builds a bit hidden.
I still use various profiles, very handy.
I don't need a 3rd ui for switching profiles.
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It works like profiles in chrome now.
Is it gonna pop up obnoxiously every time you start the program?
Is it gonna demand that I create a new profile every time I sign in to Google?
Is it gonna pop up obnoxiously every time you start the program?
Your choice, there's a checkbox to ask every time or not
Is it gonna demand that I create a new profile every time I sign in to Google?
I don't recall anything like that, though I don't recall that in Chrome either.
I wish there was a feature like this on YouTube. I'd love a profile for watching educational videos, a profile for feeding me cool videos when I'm high, and a profile for when my kids want to watch stuff. I'm tired of vibing and listening to music videos only to get hit with a language learning podcast or Disney songs.
It's insane that they have an incognito mode that still serves up ads even though I have premium.
You can create different accounts under different email addresses.
Once you're logged in, you can switch between accounts from the dropdown menu.
I've done this in the past to separate French YouTube recs from English ones.
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They do have categories and I've tried to put different channels in different categories, but the thing is just so hard to use I gave up.
It's quite surprising how bad Google can be at UX.
It really is wild how a company can be so massive yet unable to do basic UI. I got a notification that someone replied to a YouTube comment I made so I clicked the notification and it opened up YouTube's landing page. I tried to find notifications and couldn't so instead I tried to find a page that has my comment history.
I had to look it up and apparently you can't even find it on YouTube, you have to go to a separate website, my activity.google.com.
Youtube > Profile picture > Settings > Add or manage your channel(s) > create a channel
You basically get a new "profile" with your own subs, history, profile picture, and comments and premium/channel subscriptions apply to all of them
I agree, I would love seperate "recommendation profiles" so like if I am in the mood for music, swap to music, if I want education, I can swap to that, feeling lets play? swap to gaming, horror could be creepypasta or horror games.
All under the same parent account so the premium status could apply while google would still be able to leech data off the main profile, the only difference is the curated content given is based off the profile.
edit: HOLY CRAP APPARENTLY THIS EXISTS ALREADY; you just need to make a sub channel under your parent account and the benefits share. I didn't realize recommendations were isolated with that.
Right yes, for when buying a ring for my wife.
Yes they've had that for ages it's called incognito mode or whatever the equivalent name for it is on Firefox. But it definitely has that mode already.
No, this is completely different. Incognito mode deletes all browsing data (locally) once the window closes.
This allows you to say, be logged into Facebook on one profile, logged into Google on a different profile, and logged into your daily browsing in a third profile. Or you can have multiple logged in YouTube sessions in case you're a content creator, you can have a profile for each of your channels.
This way the cookies for each aren't intermixed, and it would make it (slightly) harder to correlate browsing habits from embedded cookies or logged in sessions, or just to keep tabs and browsing history separate.
Yay, a 25 year old feature with a new UI design.
I'm using FF as my daily driver, but I feel my hatred for Mozilla soon reaches the level of my hatred for Google.
I do wonder (just in my head, there's no hint to that in the public) if all that money Google pays to Mozilla somewhere has a no-competition clause which says FF must stay more shitty than Chrome.
I'm not consciously of one Innovation out of Mozilla that made FF a better browser, and a lot of interesting stuff has been canceled.
It's still an OK browser, but it is like it was 15 years ago. While I watch colleagues using chrome reskins which have great tab management (amazing when you use Jira). Only now that we have LLMs people turn browsers into agents - why the fuck is there no cross - request scripting (go to google, search for this, click on 2nd result...). Yeah we have developer tools like puppeteer for that, but having - say python or js to do so would make people use it more frequently.
Browser history. Ah damn, a day ago I saw a page that explained how to do xx with yy while considering zz. How great some decent browse history would be. (And yes, FF, keep it all, but only when I'm at weirdkinkyporn.com/, please just store it for a few hours). A single keyword for history search IS NOT ENOUGH. I need to isolate things by adding a number of things, because if I knew the word I'm searching for, I'd just google it anyways.
Yeah, so much more things you could do (and the above ideas are just half - baked thoughts).
But Mozilla needa tha sweeet CEO payments. There's no money for experimental stuff.
About a month ago, I ranted about that with a few friends, afterwards I rage-contributed to the Servo project.
I just wish Google would cut off that Mozilla money, I really believe that would improve competition.
That no-compete agreement is a product of my imagination, but things really feel like that.
Fuck Mozilla.
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For highly technical users containers are going to do everything we need.
For non technical users who need separation, profiles are a standard known framework.
My non technical spouse prefers profile to separate work and personal. She uses different themes for each profile so it is very obvious which is which.
Also one of the extensions she likes interferes with a work site she is required to use. She has that extension installed in the personal profile but not work profile.
Zen has "workspaces", which I don't get at all. Profiles seems like too much, containers works fine for me.
Crazy all the useless nonsense Mozilla has room for, since they helped kill RSS by dropping browser UI support for it for "simplification". It was the same rationale for removing live bookmarks and Shift+Enter to add .net to an address and Ctrl+Shift+Enter for .org.
I can let my kids play on my computer without them screwing up my personal browser history or getting into any of my accounts without having to teach them how to use yet another extension.
Vivaldi has a great example of profile management where I can literally create a desktop shortcut for each person that uses my computer, complete with their name, and it's their own separate internet profile.
Yes, I'm aware I could solve this problem by using multiple user profiles on my computer, but the overhead and the amount of management would also be a massive headache. It is just far easier to do this.
Ironically, in the article it's pictured running on Windows, which now has a built-in mechanic for automatically screen shotting everything you do and keeping records.
Yay.
The screeshots shows functionality that the current profile/profile launch UI already has. Choose, create, ask on startup.
Right now it's hidden behind a startup parameter. But honestly, I would prefer a UI between the current one and the new one. That screenshot looks like it would reduce usability through big spacing and suboptimal alignment. At least judging by my preferences.
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I guess adding a picture is nice. But does it have to be that huge and prominent?
Profile Manager - Create, remove or switch Firefox profiles | Firefox Help
Firefox stores your personal information and settings in a profile folder. Learn to work with different profiles on Firefox.support.mozilla.org
This only works on Windows. For Macs and maybe Linux, you have to run this command to bring up a different profile:
/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -p
As best I can tell, there's no way to make this into a shortcut that you could just click on. This change will be good and allow me to launch them without invoking that command in terminal several times after rebooting my computer.
In Windows it's the same. Though the parameter is -P (uppercase) not -p. That's why the comment said "it’s hidden behind a startup parameter".
As best I can tell, there’s no way to make this into a shortcut that you could just click on.
I dont know about Mac, but in Linux you can just manually make a .desktop file to have as a shortcut to call firefox -P, or better a shortcut to a specific profile with firefox -P <profile>. Though what I often do is keep a bookmark to about:profiles and open a new window from there.
On Mac:
If you want an icon you can double click on your desktop, you can put you command in a file with the extension “.command” and mark it as executable. Double clicking it will run the content as a shell script in Terminal.
If you want something that can be put into the Dock, use the Script Editor application that comes with macOS to create a new AppleScript script. Type do shell script "<firefox command here>" then find Export in the menu. Instead of Script, choose export to Application and check Run Only. This will give you an application you can put in the Dock.
If you want to use Shortcuts, you can use the Run Shell Script action in Shortcuts too.
Finally, if you want something that opens multiple firefoxes at once, chain multiple firefox invocations together on one line separated by an ampersand. There is an option you have to use (--new-instance I think?) to make Firefox actually start a complete new instance.
It's the same as about:profiles
Just an easy way to separate people's browsing histories, cookes, bookmarks, etc I guess. And you can have them sync independently as well. For if other people want to use the same computer
It was part of Firefox before Chrome was even a thing.
Many people aren't aware of firefox -P and/or about:profiles.. but it's one of the oldest features in firefox.
It's annoying not just having a dedicated button like, for example, chrome has to manage profiles.
Is a hidden feature still a feature?
I've been using this daily for many years. It's behind a CLI flag, is that hidden ?
Feels super strange to read this. They had profiles for what, decades now? It just required a simple command line flag.
I mean, this is better, but... Yeah.
It is a great feature and is the main reason I like Floorp (Firefox fork). But the UX does not look good, I think the way Floorp does is better:
docs.floorp.app/docs/features/…
How to Use and Customize Workspace Features | Floorp Docs
How to use and customize Floorp's workspace featuresdocs.floorp.app
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Questo capitolo 8 sembra avviare il nuovo volume in un modo che prevedo più incentrato su piccole riflessioni, con più capitoli in totale
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Ex-Ilva di Cornigliano. Quale futuro?
Sulla newsletter L'Unica Genova (vedi link sottostante) un approfondimento sul future della acciaieria Ex-Ilva di Genova-Cornigliano.
Lo stabilimento dell’ex Ilva di Genova si estende su un milione di metri quadrati tra il mare e il quartiere di Cornigliano. È il secondo più importante in Italia dopo quello di Taranto, ed è il principale punto di collegamento con gli altri impianti dell’azienda in Piemonte, come quello di Novi Ligure. A Genova, al momento, viene prodotta la banda stagnata, ovvero la latta per usi alimentari. Non a sufficienza, però: Genova ne produce centomila tonnellate all’anno, ma il Paese ne consuma 800 mila. A Genova si producono anche la banda cromata e quella zincata. Il forno elettrico del futuro, in ogni caso, dovrebbe servire non solo per la lavorazione dell’acciaio – che oggi viene spedito dallo stabilimento di Taranto – ma anche per la sua produzione. Con l’obiettivo di tutelare l’occupazione: a Cornigliano i lavoratori sono 1.200 e il piano prevede altri 700 posti di lavoro.
Any way to defeat HDCP for Chromecast recording?
I have my Linux box running my TV and it works great, but I'd like the ability to treat my Chromecast as a desktop window for streaming without switching inputs, multitasking etc. I have an HDMI capture card that works great with a Switch, but the Chromecast detects it's not HDCP (DRM) compliant so it won't work. Is there a way to outsmart that detection with software or hardware?
I've heard some knock off hardware confuses it enough to work but it seems like the info is old and I'd rather not roll the dice on hardware that's otherwise garbage...
Hdcp bypass splitters seem easy to find, have you tried one? There are also hdcp converters so if you have a splitter that only bypasses 1.4, you can try hooking it up to a 2.whatever to 1.4 converter.
I also can't remember how they work exactly but you might need an hdcp compliant display connected to the main output of the splitter so the CC can establish an hdcp handshake. Idk if that's only a thing with some of them. Good luck!
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The whole DRM thing just feels stupid, because it's mostly used to prevent people from sharing movies online, but people who share movies online are generally not tech illiterate, so the only peope who end up being affected by it are normal every day people like OP.
Pretty much same for gaming. DRM tends to mess with your game, framerate even. People who pirate don't have that problem.
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DRM tends to mess with your game, framerate even. People who pirate don't have that problem.
Not necessarily. Often times DRM doesn't get removed or completely bypassed, instead they only make the license check pass. In this case performance should be identical to the licensed original.
Yes. Some cracks don't replace the call to a server entirely, and instead use a local server to return the expected response. In this case, the DRM would run normally, except for it not contacting the offcial remote server.
Obviously if a crack removes a DRM completely, there might be a performance advantage. It depends on several factors.
You kinda have to play the lottery with the HDMI cards; some of the can strip it, some of them can't. And it looks like some of them strip it and get detected.
They can't advertise that as a feature either, so it's a bit of a crapshoot. It may be worth finding the latest reddit post about it to see if anyone has a specific model that was working in the past year.
Arizona sheriff’s office misused millions set aside to remedy racial profiling
Arizona sheriff’s office misused millions set aside to remedy racial profiling
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Is there a community dedicated to anime where sexualization of characters is minimum and strictly no sexualization of minors (or minor looking "adults")?
I'm a casual anime fan, my main references being Ghibli, Full Metal Alchemist, Cowboy Bepop etc, in general, I like good art and good scenario.
So I want to follow discussions about this type of anime.
However, I am very uncomfortable at the countless anime that sexualize minors (and minor looking supposedly adults) or over sexualized women.
Is there a community for this interest?
I am too much of a casual to animate such community myself.
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Famicom Disk Writer Kiosk Advert
Coinciding with the Disk System's release, Nintendo installed several "Disk Writer" kiosks in various toy and electronic stores across the country. These kiosks allowed customers to bring in their disk games and have a new game rewritten onto them for a ¥500 fee; blank disks could also be purchased for ¥2000. Nintendo then decided to make an early form of online gaming; In 1987, they introduced special high-score tournaments for specific Disk System games, where players could submit their scores directly to Nintendo via "Disk Fax" machines found in retail stores. Winners would receive exclusive prizes, including Famicom-branded stationery sets and a gold-colored Punch-Out!! cartridge. Nintendo of America announced plans to release the Disk System for the Famicom's international counterpart, the Nintendo Entertainment System, and began filing patents simultaneously. However, by the time these were approved in November 1988, Nintendo cancelled their plans to release the system stateside.
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Colombian President Petro Says 'Hints Show' Latest Vessel Struck By The U.S. 'Was Colombian': 'It's a War For Oil'
Colombian President Petro Says 'Hints Show' Latest Vessel Struck By The U.S. 'Was Colombian': 'It's a War For Oil'
Colombian President Gustavo Petro said there are "hints" that the latest vessel struck by the U.S. "was Colombian and had Colombian citizens" on it.Demian Bio (Latin Times)
Transportation Sec. Sean Duffy's chat with air traffic controllers was a masterclass in not helping
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Children face unbearable suffering under settler colonial Israel
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/6380338
cross-posted from: ibbit.at/post/77806
Ramez Al-Naouq, a child living in Gaza, was born with a severe congenital deformity in his upper and lower eyelids, which prevent him from closing his eyes even while he is sleeping.His eyes constantly bleed, become ulcerated and inflamed, and put him at risk of permanent blindness.
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Before the Israeli occupation’s genocide on the Gaza Strip, Al-Naouq received ointments and eye drops to keep his eyes moisturised and reduce the inflammation. But his treatment has now completely stopped because of the ongoing blockade and severe shortage of medicines. As a result his condition has dramatically worsened.
Although Ramez urgently needs complex operations to repair his eyelids and protect his vision, doctors in Gaza are not able to carry out the necessary surgeries, because of a lack of medical resources.
Rateb
Rateb is a child amputee in Gaza. He has been trying hard to make a plastic limb for himself, so he can play with other children. He lost his leg after the Israeli occupation forces bombed a car a few months ago.thecanary.co/wp-content/upload…
There are hundreds of children like Rateb in Gaza, who have lost upper or lower limbs, and are left permanently disabled because of injuries sustained during this genocide. These become infected and, because poor nutrition slows healing and antibiotics are intentionally being prevented from entering the Strip, sepsis sets in, leaving no other option but amputation.
Child amputees have a lifetime of disability and a very uncertain future ahead of them. Gaza has the highest number of child amputees per capita anywhere in the world, with 10 children, every single day for the past two years losing one or both of their legs.
Hanna
Hanaa Al-Awdi, was a Palestinian child who developed brain cancer during the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and also suffered from brain atrophy which had already taken away her sight and hearing. The Israeli occupation’s complete blockade of the besieged Gaza Strip meant there was a delay in her travel for treatment abroad, so her condition became significantly worse. This left her body unable to withstand the disease, and although she was eventually able to travel to Italy for treatment, she recently passed away in an Italian hospital with stage four brain cancer, which had spread throughout her body.
These children mentioned here are not unique in Gaza. There are thousands who are suffering and left to die, slowly and painfully, without anyone hearing about them. The Israeli regime has intentionally bombed hospitals to bring about the collapse of Gaza’s health care system, while the ongoing intentional blockade prevents the entry of everything necessary for the survival of the Palestinian population, including medicine and fuel. Dozens of children have also experienced severe deterioration in their health, or have already lost their lives, because of delays in medical evacuation by the Israeli occupation authorities.
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Chicagoans mobilize to demand an end to the federal occupation
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Chicago, IL – On October 8, 7000 Chicagoans mobilized in the Loop to demand an end to the occupation of the city by ICE and the National Guard.
The thousands of people coming out on a Wednesday evening shows that the momentum of the resistance against Trump’s occupation is not slowing down. Chicago is in the center of this country’s fight back against Trump’s reactionary agenda, alongside LA and DC.
“We must build the largest united front against the invasion of our city and state. We need to escalate our defense and go on the offensive! To block the movement of the National Guard and shut down ICE operations,” opened Husam Marajda of the United States Palestinian Community Network (USPCN). He urged people to join the movement and get involved with an organization.
“What we are seeing is an administration that is sending troops in to scare us into silence. To punish dissent. And we will not allow that here in the city of Chicago,” said Jessie Fuentes, the progressive Puerto Rican alderperson of the 26th ward of Chicago. On October 3, Fuentes was violently arrested by racist ICE agents after she had confronted them over planned kidnappings of people in the Humboldt Park Hospital. Fuentes stood in solidarity with protesters and has promised to continue fighting for immigrants in the City Council.
Frank Chapman, executive director of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, spoke last at the rally. He challenged the crowd, stating, “We have to stop these ICE agents.” The ICE occupation has killed Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez. This past weekend, Marimar Martinez, a U.S. citizen, was shot by federal agents, but survived. Chapman addressed these acts, saying, “We have to use every means necessary to stop those who come here to kill us; who come here to occupy.”
Chapman finished with, “We had a peaceful demonstration, but when we’re violently attacked, we have the right to defend ourselves!”
Protesters marched down Michigan Avenue, making it clear that Chicagoans are not licking boots, and they are ready to take down Trump and his long repressive agenda.
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Threadiverse... on ATProto?!
Check this out: nooki.me/
Looks like someone's built a Reddit-like on top of ATProto. Would be really interesting to see whether it could interact with the threadiverse through something like BridgyFed, which currently only works with microblogs (I think?)
Opportunity? Existential threat? You decide...
Re: Threadiverse... on ATProto?!
Re: Threadiverse... on ATProto?!
In a nutshell, it's because you don't have to build the entire kit and kaboodle all at once.
Lots of BlueSky is centralized so you don't have to worry about distribution, user, hosting, scaling, etc. and just focus on the frontend.
It's the same reason why all the Lemmy and Mastodon apps look way better than the web versions, because all those other parts are no longer relevant and the creator(s) can focus on just putting out a polished product.
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I think the most interesting opportunity here is that ATProto's strength is that it was built for a "credible exit", i.e, it allows users to migrate from any centralized network to a decentralized one.
IOW, it would be a lot easier to implement Fediverser on top of ATProto than of ActivityPub.
A Plan for Social Media - Rethinking Federation
This is part of a series of posts about the current state of Social Media. I talked about Mozilla’s failed strRaphael Lullis
On the topic of 'hills to die on', I will say I have gained a significant respect for you over the last 2 years, for sticking to your principles on this and following through on them.
We might disagree on the best way to do things. I'd witnesed you in the past receiving a lot of pushback (to put it lightly) for a well-intentioned but controversially implemented project (the whole Reddit mirroring and account claiming thing you tried). If I had been in your shoes at the time, I would probably have quit Lemmy and the Fediverse entirely for something else in order to try to pursue that vision. Yet, you've stayed with it, with the aim to refine your ideas on how to better bring decentralized social media to the general public. So kudos to you for your resoluteness on this.
I agree with everything. The thing is, I've been thinking about the psychology behind this lately.
When Fedi-Fans complain about Bluesky, it is usually based on the misunderstanding that it also is instance based. It really doesn't seem to occur to many that things might be done differently. But I think it may go a little deeper.
A common complaint is that it's too expensive to run a full relay. People want to self-host it all. They want to feel that they are in control and don't need anyone. It's not particularly rational but people do lots of silly things chasing that feeling. The rational start would be to move somewhere remote and grow your own food. Instead, people buy a pick-up truck or degoogle their phone.
That architecture also appeals to a more tribal mindset. An instance is "our" place. We just pull up the drawbridge when bad people come and we are safe here in "our" castle.
I think to some people that is more appealing than the more open design of atproto.
On Bluesky, there is all this waffle about some people trying to get someone banned. They might find such tribal architecture more appealing.
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Should download whatever you want.
GitHub - exislow/tidal-dl-ng: Multithreaded TIDAL Media Downloader Next Generation! Up to HiRes Lossless / TIDAL MAX 24-bit, 192 kHz.
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in reply to shades • • •Yeah thats to be expected sorry. If you want to use a free option youll need to look into deezer or qobuz downloaders. Streamrip should work, but afaik tidal always requires a paid subscription to download from.
You might need a trial account to use qobuz but it should let you. You can also find 'paid' arls for deezer to allow downloading flac.
There are services that can migrate playlists across services for you also, but i dont know of any free ones.
GitHub - nathom/streamrip: A scriptable music downloader for Qobuz, Tidal, SoundCloud, and Deezer
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in reply to Gravitywell.xYz • • •Yeah I'm just manually downloading them with scdownloader and its quite a pain in the ass. Even if I pumped it full throttle for GPT to skeleton me a code that scrape the info and puts it into scdownloader, that'd still probably take longer than manually typing in the song title and copying a link and pasting it into a another tab and clicking download.
I'm not gonna pay for downloading these tracks. I was just hoping to not have tc spend so much time doing it. FLAC doesn't matter, it just needs to be better than the phone mic quality recording that the video has the audio files into. I'm just dropping them over before I publish the content to my odysee page.
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