The AI boom is more overhyped than the 1990s dot-com bubble, says top economist
The AI boom is more overhyped than the 1990s dot-com bubble, says top economist
Torsten Slok, chief economist at Apollo Global Management, recently argued that the stock market currently overvalues a handful of tech giants – including Nvidia and Microsoft –...Daniel Sims (TechSpot)
Apple sues YouTuber for alleged iOS 26 trade-secret theft
YouTuber leaked iOS secrets via friend spying on dev's phone, Apple lawsuit claims
: Jon Prosser and alleged accomplice accused of stealing trade secrets from development deviceBrandon Vigliarolo (The Register)
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yt-dlp command on debian to download highest available video and audio, provided that resolution is no higher than 1920 x 1080 p
debian 12.11, yt-dlp stable@2025.06.30.
I used this argument: "-f bv*[ext=mp4]+ba[ext=m4a]/b[ext=mp4]"
and it works: it downloads the best available video, audio and ffmpeg merges both in a single file. Automatically.
Except that the maximum resolution I need is 1920 x 1080 p. Best available video is oftentimes 4096 x 2160 p, too much for the target hardware.
Using -F to check different resolutions to then select one (like -f 299 or -f 148) is tiresome.
How do I do that? Ideally for whole playlists involving between 25 and 50 videos.
The following numeric meta fields can be used with comparisons <, <=, >, >=, = (equals), != (not equals):filesize: The number of bytes, if known in advance
filesize_approx: An estimate for the number of bytes
width: Width of the video, if known
height: Height of the video, if known
aspect_ratio: Aspect ratio of the video, if known
So a height<=1080 should be it.
GitHub - yt-dlp/yt-dlp: A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader
A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader - yt-dlp/yt-dlpGitHub
Others have given good examples for formats you were aiming for.
For bulk download, simply create a list.txt file in your target directory, bulk add all urls in separate lines. Then
Yt-dlp list.txt {your options here}It is noteworthy that, instead of listing urls manually, you can also grab entire playlists from relevant platforms if that’s what you’re after, including preserving the playlist names as directory names. Same even goes for entire channels.
Just combining our answers for a more complete answer
Download from a premade text file
yt-dlp list.txt -f "bv*[height<=1080][ext=mp4]+ba[ext=m4a]/b[ext=mp4]"
Download a playlist
yt-dlp -f "bv*[height<=1080][ext=mp4]+ba[ext=m4a]/b[ext=mp4]" --yes-playlist
Ukrainian Ex-Official Found Dead Near Russian Defector Pilot’s Killing Site In Spain
Ukrainian Ex-Official Found Dead Near Russian Defector Pilot's Killing Site In Spain
A high-ranking former Ukrainian Interior Ministry official, Igor Grushevsky, was found dead under suspicious circumstances in the same Spanish residen...Anonymous103 (South Front)
Polish border guards claim that Ukrainians are increasingly using fake driver’s licenses to avoid being conscripted into the war
Polish border guards claim that Ukrainians are increasingly using fake driver's licenses to avoid being conscripted into the war, - Bild
The Polish Border Guard is increasingly detecting fake Ukrainian C-category driver’s licenses for trucks among those entering Poland from Ukraine.newsmaker newsmaker (English News front)
Instacart’s former CEO is taking the reins of a big chunk of OpenAI
Instacart’s former CEO is taking the reins of a big chunk of OpenAI
Incoming OpenAI executive Fidji Simo, who will start Aug. 18 as its “CEO of Applications” and report directly to CEO Sam Altman, sent a memo to employees Monday.Hayden Field (The Verge)
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Scientists Are Now 43 Seconds Closer to Producing Limitless Energy
Scientists Are Now 43 Seconds Closer to Producing Limitless Energy
The Wendelstein 7-X stellarator in Germany set a record with 43 seconds of plasma, marking a major step toward clean, sustainable nuclear fusion energy.Elizabeth Rayne (Popular Mechanics)
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This is a very good point since tritium is a very limited resource.
The hope is that it will be generated by the fusion reactor itself using tritium breeder blankets iter.org/machine/supporting-sy…
Whether that will work remains to be seen.
Tritium breeding
In the deuterium-tritium (D-T) fusion reaction, high energy neutrons are released along with helium atoms.ITER - the way to new energy
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The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble
The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble
Hey! Before we go any further — if you want to support my work, please sign up for the premium version of Where’s Your Ed At, it’s a $7-a-month (or $70-a-year) paid product where every week you get a premium newsletter, all while supporting my free w…Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
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Palestinians Are Collapsing in Gaza's Streets From Israeli-Imposed Starvation Campaign
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33477630
[can't believe that it keeps getting worse, but it does]Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Jul 21, 2025
Over the past five days alone, more than 550 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, according to ministry of health figures. The confirmed death toll since the beginning of the war crossed 59,000 on Monday in what is widely acknowledged to be a vast undercount. Over the past two months, more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed as they are forced to seek aid in militarized zones in a system mostly overseen by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a shadowy U.S.- and Israeli-backed group.One of the deadliest days for aid seekers came on Sunday, when over 70 people were killed, at least 67 of them in northern Gaza where Israeli troops opened fire on crowds trying to get food from a World Food Program convoy entering through the Zikim crossing.
“The tank came, surrounded us, and started shooting at us and we kept raising our hands,” Ibrahim Hamada, who was wounded in the leg, told Drop Site as he lay on a hospital gurney wincing in pain. “There were many martyrs, no one was able to retrieve them. I crawled on my stomach just to reach a car to take me to the hospital,” he said. “I went there to eat, because there was no food at home.”
Palestinians Are Collapsing in Gaza's Streets From Israeli-Imposed Starvation Campaign
[can't believe that it keeps getting worse, but it does]Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Jul 21, 2025Over the past five days alone, more than 550 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, according to ministry of health figures. The confirmed death toll since the beginning of the war crossed 59,000 on Monday in what is widely acknowledged to be a vast undercount. Over the past two months, more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed as they are forced to seek aid in militarized zones in a system mostly overseen by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a shadowy U.S.- and Israeli-backed group.One of the deadliest days for aid seekers came on Sunday, when over 70 people were killed, at least 67 of them in northern Gaza where Israeli troops opened fire on crowds trying to get food from a World Food Program convoy entering through the Zikim crossing.
“The tank came, surrounded us, and started shooting at us and we kept raising our hands,” Ibrahim Hamada, who was wounded in the leg, told Drop Site as he lay on a hospital gurney wincing in pain. “There were many martyrs, no one was able to retrieve them. I crawled on my stomach just to reach a car to take me to the hospital,” he said. “I went there to eat, because there was no food at home.”
Palestinians Are Collapsing in Gaza's Streets From Israeli-Imposed Starvation Campaign
A frontline report on a people forced to face death from starvation or being shot in a perilous quest to obtain meager rationsAbdel Qader Sabbah (Drop Site News)
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i think lots of people do care. i do. but i cannot do anything
it is not as if anything i do or say makes even a small difference in all this. israel is going mad, like a rabid dog, and does not listen to reason or anything else anymore. there is nothing that i can do, and i guess the same goes for most other agencies.
it would still be nice to see big countries like germany say publicly that israel is stupid and should stop though
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I was assured by many "uncommitted" lemmykins that this wasn't possible.
There was certainly no course change, which Uncommitted tried to promote as an option. It was an attempt to make a public appeal that genocide should be an issue worth making political decisions around.
The lesson the victors over Uncomitted demand is that genocide is not a political enough issue worth acting or voting on.
Palestinians Are Collapsing in Gaza's Streets From Israeli-Imposed Starvation Campaign
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33477630
[can't believe that it keeps getting worse, but it does]Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Jul 21, 2025
Over the past five days alone, more than 550 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, according to ministry of health figures. The confirmed death toll since the beginning of the war crossed 59,000 on Monday in what is widely acknowledged to be a vast undercount. Over the past two months, more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed as they are forced to seek aid in militarized zones in a system mostly overseen by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a shadowy U.S.- and Israeli-backed group.One of the deadliest days for aid seekers came on Sunday, when over 70 people were killed, at least 67 of them in northern Gaza where Israeli troops opened fire on crowds trying to get food from a World Food Program convoy entering through the Zikim crossing.
“The tank came, surrounded us, and started shooting at us and we kept raising our hands,” Ibrahim Hamada, who was wounded in the leg, told Drop Site as he lay on a hospital gurney wincing in pain. “There were many martyrs, no one was able to retrieve them. I crawled on my stomach just to reach a car to take me to the hospital,” he said. “I went there to eat, because there was no food at home.”
Palestinians Are Collapsing in Gaza's Streets From Israeli-Imposed Starvation Campaign
[can't believe that it keeps getting worse, but it does]Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Jul 21, 2025Over the past five days alone, more than 550 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, according to ministry of health figures. The confirmed death toll since the beginning of the war crossed 59,000 on Monday in what is widely acknowledged to be a vast undercount. Over the past two months, more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed as they are forced to seek aid in militarized zones in a system mostly overseen by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a shadowy U.S.- and Israeli-backed group.One of the deadliest days for aid seekers came on Sunday, when over 70 people were killed, at least 67 of them in northern Gaza where Israeli troops opened fire on crowds trying to get food from a World Food Program convoy entering through the Zikim crossing.
“The tank came, surrounded us, and started shooting at us and we kept raising our hands,” Ibrahim Hamada, who was wounded in the leg, told Drop Site as he lay on a hospital gurney wincing in pain. “There were many martyrs, no one was able to retrieve them. I crawled on my stomach just to reach a car to take me to the hospital,” he said. “I went there to eat, because there was no food at home.”
Palestinians Are Collapsing in Gaza's Streets From Israeli-Imposed Starvation Campaign
A frontline report on a people forced to face death from starvation or being shot in a perilous quest to obtain meager rationsAbdel Qader Sabbah (Drop Site News)
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Palestinians Are Collapsing in Gaza's Streets From Israeli-Imposed Starvation Campaign
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Abdel Qader Sabbah and Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Jul 21, 2025
Over the past five days alone, more than 550 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, according to ministry of health figures. The confirmed death toll since the beginning of the war crossed 59,000 on Monday in what is widely acknowledged to be a vast undercount. Over the past two months, more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed as they are forced to seek aid in militarized zones in a system mostly overseen by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a shadowy U.S.- and Israeli-backed group.One of the deadliest days for aid seekers came on Sunday, when over 70 people were killed, at least 67 of them in northern Gaza where Israeli troops opened fire on crowds trying to get food from a World Food Program convoy entering through the Zikim crossing.
“The tank came, surrounded us, and started shooting at us and we kept raising our hands,” Ibrahim Hamada, who was wounded in the leg, told Drop Site as he lay on a hospital gurney wincing in pain. “There were many martyrs, no one was able to retrieve them. I crawled on my stomach just to reach a car to take me to the hospital,” he said. “I went there to eat, because there was no food at home.”
Palestinians Are Collapsing in Gaza's Streets From Israeli-Imposed Starvation Campaign
A frontline report on a people forced to face death from starvation or being shot in a perilous quest to obtain meager rationsAbdel Qader Sabbah (Drop Site News)
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The process as explained in this article has nothing to do with privacy. The problem with privacy is not that I send Google a query, it's they Google is scanning my machine, gathering cookie data, recording every move I make, mixing and matching my data with data from other sites, data from data brokers, also using third party cookies, etc etc etc...
Encrypting the query I make with Google isn't going to change much of that.
Dating Apps Need to Learn How Consent Works
Dating Apps Need to Learn How Consent Works
Staying safe whilst dating online should not be the responsibility of users—dating apps should be prioritizing our privacy by default, and laws should require companies to prioritize user privacy over their profit.Electronic Frontier Foundation
Writing is thinking - On the value of human-generated scientific writing in the age of large-language models.
Writing is thinking - Nature Reviews Bioengineering
On the value of human-generated scientific writing in the age of large-language models.Nature
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UK, France and 23 other countries say the war in Gaza ‘must end now’
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33476377
[now let's see if they do something]By SYLVIA HUI and JILL LAWLESS
Updated 1:05 PM EDT, July 21, 2025
LONDON (AP) — Twenty-five countries including #Britain, #France and a host of #European nations issued a joint statement on Monday that puts more pressure on #Israel, saying the war in #Gaza “must end now” and Israel must comply with international law.The foreign ministers of countries including #Australia, #Canada and #Japan said “the suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths.” They condemned “the drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians, including children, seeking to meet their most basic needs of water and food.”
The statement described as “horrifying” the deaths of over 800 #Palestinians who were seeking aid...
UK, France and 23 other countries say the war in Gaza ‘must end now’
[now let's see if they do something]By SYLVIA HUI and JILL LAWLESS
Updated 1:05 PM EDT, July 21, 2025LONDON (AP) — Twenty-five countries including #Britain, #France and a host of #European nations issued a joint statement on Monday that puts more pressure on #Israel, saying the war in #Gaza “must end now” and Israel must comply with international law.The foreign ministers of countries including #Australia, #Canada and #Japan said “the suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths.” They condemned “the drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians, including children, seeking to meet their most basic needs of water and food.”
The statement described as “horrifying” the deaths of over 800 #Palestinians who were seeking aid...
https://apnews.com/article/europe-israel-hamas-war-gaza-e4062cffa9585790061105236a93d8e5/
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Quali sono i 50 stati europei?
UK, France and 23 other countries say the war in Gaza ‘must end now’
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/33476377
[now let's see if they do something]By SYLVIA HUI and JILL LAWLESS
Updated 1:05 PM EDT, July 21, 2025
LONDON (AP) — Twenty-five countries including #Britain, #France and a host of #European nations issued a joint statement on Monday that puts more pressure on #Israel, saying the war in #Gaza “must end now” and Israel must comply with international law.The foreign ministers of countries including #Australia, #Canada and #Japan said “the suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths.” They condemned “the drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians, including children, seeking to meet their most basic needs of water and food.”
The statement described as “horrifying” the deaths of over 800 #Palestinians who were seeking aid...
UK, France and 23 other countries say the war in Gaza ‘must end now’
[now let's see if they do something]By SYLVIA HUI and JILL LAWLESS
Updated 1:05 PM EDT, July 21, 2025LONDON (AP) — Twenty-five countries including #Britain, #France and a host of #European nations issued a joint statement on Monday that puts more pressure on #Israel, saying the war in #Gaza “must end now” and Israel must comply with international law.The foreign ministers of countries including #Australia, #Canada and #Japan said “the suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths.” They condemned “the drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians, including children, seeking to meet their most basic needs of water and food.”
The statement described as “horrifying” the deaths of over 800 #Palestinians who were seeking aid...
https://apnews.com/article/europe-israel-hamas-war-gaza-e4062cffa9585790061105236a93d8e5/
UK, France and 23 other countries say the war in Gaza ‘must end now’
[now let's see if they do something]
By SYLVIA HUI and JILL LAWLESS
Updated 1:05 PM EDT, July 21, 2025
LONDON (AP) — Twenty-five countries including #Britain, #France and a host of #European nations issued a joint statement on Monday that puts more pressure on #Israel, saying the war in #Gaza “must end now” and Israel must comply with international law.The foreign ministers of countries including #Australia, #Canada and #Japan said “the suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths.” They condemned “the drip feeding of aid and the inhumane killing of civilians, including children, seeking to meet their most basic needs of water and food.”
The statement described as “horrifying” the deaths of over 800 #Palestinians who were seeking aid...
https://apnews.com/article/europe-israel-hamas-war-gaza-e4062cffa9585790061105236a93d8e5/
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Anything less than sanctions and total economic boycott is a stalling tactic aimed at allowing the genocide to finish.
This is no different from if the police show up to a drug house, and one of the residents stands in the doorway opining about how horrible it is that drugs were discovered at their home and how morally bankrupt the illicit drug trade is, in order for their buddy to finish flushing their stash. Except it's even less subtle when countries do it.
VS Achuthanandan, politician who pushed for Linux adoption in India, passed away today
India has one of the highest rates of (desktop) Linux usages in the world - hovering around 10% according to StatCounter. Why is this? One reason is concerns over software controlled by foreign countries - particularly the US and China. But another is cost.
The first major boost for Linux and other free software in India came in 2006, when VS Achuthanandan - who passed away today - was elected Chief Minister of the state of Kerala. His government came up with a policy to shift all government computers to free software, starting with schools and colleges.
When the financial benefits became apparent, other states and the Union government followed suit.
Microsoft Windows to be replaced by Maya OS amid rising cyber threats
Indian government agencies reportedly developed Ubuntu-based Maya OS for more than six months.Vinay Patel (International Business Times UK)
Reverse engineering the mysterious Up-Data Link Test Set from Apollo
cross-posted from: lemmy.bestiver.se/post/507866
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Reverse engineering the mysterious Up-Data Link Test Set from Apollo
Back in 2021, a collector friend of ours was visiting a dusty warehouse in search of Apollo-era communications equipment. A box with NASA-st...www.righto.com
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Interesting things happen when you don't placate the US empire 😁
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"Wait and respect" — Peskov's response to Russophobia in Azerbaijan
"Wait and respect" — Peskov's response to Russophobia in Azerbaijan: EADaily
EADaily, July 21st, 2025. It is important for Russia that Russians are respected in Azerbaijan, Russian Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, answering a question from journalists about the prospects for relations with Azerbaijan amid the confro…EADaily
The Russian army is moving to the Dnipropetrovsk region, there is panic in Kiev
The Russian army is moving to the Dnipropetrovsk region, there is panic in Kiev — summary: EADaily
EADaily, July 21st, 2025. The Russian Armed Forces are reaching the state border in the Dnipropetrovsk direction with a broad front.EADaily
EA daily is among laziest, most obvious russian propaganda channels. Full stop. Whatever you're getting paid to stink up this thread with your propganda, please for your sake, insist on hard foreign currency payments.
Your continuous stream of thread of "uS emPiRe FaiLliNg, rUzZiA $tRoNk!!" variants is admirable for dedication, but could use a little balance and subtlety if you expect actual humans to be influenced by them.
Instant aggressive whataboutism response from a two month old burner account that posts pro-russia slop several times a day! you're a moderatly well programmed bot.
Wailing about the 'empire's propaganda machine' while literally trumpeting Russian talking points with shameless aplomb. <chef's kiss>. Spectacular stuff.
That's okay. Your stream is a constant barrage of propaganda jumping from Kremlin-aligned and China friendly talking points, from "AOC IS A FRAUD", Israel is committing genocide, Zelensky is a fascist. Generalized complaints about Western propaganda, complaining about NATO expansion, celebrating Chinese achievements in high speed rail. Quick scan of your history, this one jumps out re: US sending weapons to Ukraine: "I don’t care. Whatever ends up weakening the US. I’m tired of it turning my region into a shooting range.".
Let's dissect this one for a second - the mental gymnastics to get around this are truly Olympic caliber - complaining about external forces turning your region into a shooting gallery, given that Russia and Iran have funded Hezbollah, Hamas, PLO, Assad's Syria, general terrorist activity and frequent direct military intervention for the last 75 years, and yet implying all blame rests with the U.S. and none with the corrosive, mischievous death cult of Russia and Iran - Spectactular stuff.
So - think whatever you want. It's cool - ths is social media, and you have picked your side, loud and clear. West Bad, Ukraine Bad. Got it. Yawn. Although if you are actually a human being, rather than a paid spammer or bot - it begs the question why you would waste your time picking fights on a Ukraine-sympathetic themed thread.
Especially given that admin’s treatment of various subsections of Russians.
Yessir, and that fact is based on evidence provided by:.....western.....empire controlled....sources....hmmmmmmm
LGBT movement tagged as extremist in Russia — Supreme Court
As the lawsuit pointed out, various extremism-related signs and manifestations, including incitement of social and religious discord, have been identified in the movement's activities in RussiaTASS
Russian Forces Press Multi-Front Offensive: Ukraine’s Defenses Stretched to Breaking Point
Russian Forces Press Multi-Front Offensive: Ukraine's Defenses Stretched to Breaking Point
Russian troops have intensified offensive operations along several key axes in Ukraine, making tactical advances while stretching Ukrainian defenses. ...Anonymous103 (South Front)
HDR Video Playback Lands in Chromium on Wayland
HDR Video Playback Lands in Chromium on Wayland
Chromium adds Wayland color-management-v1 support, allowing HDR rendering on supported platforms with a default-enabled feature flag.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
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Please, FOSS world, we need something like ChromeOS
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in reply to Jaden Norman • • •Apple isn’t a very pro WFH or remote work company from what I learned when I was job hunting, I’m honestly surprised they let a dev iPhone leave their campus.
proudblond
in reply to GhostlyPixel • • •EntropyPure
in reply to proudblond • • •Remember that one, but honestly: not worth much testing a device exclusively in laboratory settings and not in real life situations.
It is a risk but I think not one you can and should avoid. At least if you want your mobile device to perform.
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in reply to EntropyPure • • •sparky@lemmy.federate.cc
in reply to GhostlyPixel • • •scarabic
in reply to GhostlyPixel • • •You can read it two ways:
1) gee they’re so WFH friendly
2) they drive their people hard and they work nights and weekends
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