How do one get videos from android apps like we do on web using inspect tools ? I am trying to download some videos from an app before my subscription expires.
I believe VLC can open m3u links (playlists). Not sure about m3u8.
As far as downloading videos from an app, good luck with that. Or if you mean using an app (say, to download from a website), you could probably do it with Firefox?
If you have access to a computer, jdownloader2 is super easy to download from most websites.
I got Macs and an iPhone and I can download stuff so I know you can with Android. (I can also send videos easily between Android and iPhone.)
Yes I want to download video from android app, its not anywhere else only available inside app.
On desktop windows, I use HLS download plugins in chrome or fireFox to download m3u8 streaming videos or manually find links in network inspect mode.
I want to do same but in the android app. This particular app dont download videos in its private folder but streams it, I tried using PCAPdroid and its mitmproxy addon to inspect but it is crashing , also this procedure is little complicated, i couldnt figure it out, maybe i am doing any mistake, or it doesnt work.
The Future of Accrescent App store: "in 3 months, we will no longer have enough resources to continue ongoing feature development without additional funding"
In our recent post about Accrescent’s financial future and sustainability, we announced that to build trust and transparency with our community, we’d be publishing a follow-up blog post about what we’ve been working on lately and where we’ve been set…
They must have a lot of overhead for just a handful of apps. If they provided a better catalogue, it would be more popular and have a greater chance of garnering more donations.
No, the apps they serve are essential to be secure and safe. I get the ambitions but if you get what they offer now almost guaranteed safe, you can build your installed from that
If only they served essential apps (like they are doing now) so you can ease your mind with a fresh install, to build on top other apps you use. It might not be what we have dreamed, but that is still an unpriceable win.
The Future of Accrescent App store: "in 3 months, we will no longer have enough resources to continue ongoing feature development without additional funding"
In our recent post about Accrescent’s financial future and sustainability, we announced that to build trust and transparency with our community, we’d be publishing a follow-up blog post about what we’ve been working on lately and where we’ve been set…
Ever since F-Droid introduced reproducible builds, there isn't really a reason for Accrescent existance anymore. And there is Obtainium for everything else.
The Future of Accrescent App store: "in 3 months, we will no longer have enough resources to continue ongoing feature development without additional funding"
In our recent post about Accrescent’s financial future and sustainability, we announced that to build trust and transparency with our community, we’d be publishing a follow-up blog post about what we’ve been working on lately and where we’ve been set…
The Future of Accrescent App store: "in 3 months, we will no longer have enough resources to continue ongoing feature development without additional funding"
In our recent post about Accrescent’s financial future and sustainability, we announced that to build trust and transparency with our community, we’d be publishing a follow-up blog post about what we’ve been working on lately and where we’ve been set…
It also brings several downsides. The strong focus on security at all costs means there are no third party app repositories, so if a government entity tells them to take an app down, it's just gone with no repercussions or recourse. Gov tells F-Droid to drop an app and its gone until the dev launches a tor onion repo and then its like nothing happened.
That's unfortunate but at the same time the app store is quite lacking. I want to say its still in test phase but its missing so many basic things to make it functional. No app screenshots that, no app descriptions, not much information at all outside of an install button. Then there is the fact that there isn't many apps in there to begin with.
The benefit of this store was to allow both proprietary and open source apps but without any basic descriptions I find it useless. Its more similar to obtainium but without the flexibility.
I'll be honest, I used this store three months ago, and the most polite compliment I can provide is that it "technically works". It's extremely barebones in its current state. IE the bare minimum for a functional app store is the install button, and that does function. But that's pretty much all the thing it has, at least from a user point of view.
I mean, it's a shame that its future is in question, but you know... Spilled milk and all.
But tech and privacy experts have warned that the laws bring with them some unavoidable downsides, including potentially driving people to seedier corners of the web.
Hmm, if only there was something in history (cough Prohibition cough drug bans cough piracy cough) that could've predicted this. It's almost like people will do the easier thing when the legal thing is harder to do.
You don’t have to go back that far, just look at digital music. People were trading files on Napster, and the music industry was having a fit. Steve Jobs opened the iTunes Music Store and started selling all files for .99, people started gobbling them up, and piracy went down. Then along came Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora, etc., and most people are happy to pay. Why, because it’s so much easier and convenient than trying to pirate it and get it on your phone/player.
Don’t get me wrong, people still pirate, but the percentage is low compared to what it was before these easy legal options. People will always take the easiest route, legal or illegal.
What save person would want to get photographed or provide an ID before viewing porn?
If they truly cared about kids they would introduce mechanism where sites could declare their target audience and provide a way to punish if a company does lie.
Parents could then use parental controls.
This mechanism is more about censorship. They are aware that people are trusting less and less MSM so want to make sure they control Internet too.
If, God forfend, Farage gets into power, do you want him or his idiot flunkies having access to any information that could be used to blackmail or harass you?
I think the current bunch and their idiot flunkies are already the kind of people one would not want to have access to any information that could be used to blackmail or harass a person.
People who have old ladies arrested for demonstrating against mass murder of children due to their ethnicity, are NOT morally upright people who when in power would never abuse information about who watches what porn.
Ironically Farage is the only politician I've heard publically oppose it (probably have been a few others but they won't have gotten the same media attention). I'm sure if he does get elected he'll follow through with repealing it, just like we got that extra £350 million for the NHS he promised after Brexit...
We need to start following politicians with cameras, parabolic microphones, and what-not like gargoyles in Snow Crash. Stream video while out in public, posts of their locations when their not.
When the United Kingdom began requiring thousands of websites to verify their users’ ages last month, one group saw an enormous burst of traffic: pornography sites ignoring the law.
Could you please put a short summary of the article in the post body?
Something like:
Porn sites that ignore age-check laws are getting a flood of traffic - The Washington Post
The age-verification laws rapidly expanding across the United States and United Kingdom are bringing with them some surprising downsides, including bursts of traffic to seedy parts of the web. August 31, 2025 at 7:05 a.m. EDT
Sothat users don't have to click the article to get a quick overview of what it's about. Saves you 5 clicks - open article, figure out it's behind a paywall, go to archive.is, paste the article link, read article.
In our recent post about Accrescent’s financial future and sustainability, we announced that to build trust and transparency with our community, we’d be publishing a follow-up blog post about what we’ve been working on lately and where we’ve been set…
It says that certificate on the website has expired, and returns an error. Apparently they're aware and working on the fix - floss.social/@fdroidorg/115122…
A recently elected mayor has brought to light a costly computer systems deal, which was signed, sealed, and delivered by their predecessor. On her Facebook page, Mayor Sally A. Lopez shares photos and documents confirming that her predecessor acquired a “10 million System Server Package.” Assuming we are talking Philippine pesos, that’s equivalent to about USD $175,000. However, the 16 systems look bargain-basement – at best – being based on old Intel 11th Generation processors, with generic case and power choices. According to our calculations, someone appears to have enjoyed a 1,300% markup.
Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst plans to announce that she will not run for reelection in 2026, a senior Republican official familiar with her decision told ABC News.
Ernst was a focus of major attention during the protracted discussion over Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's confirmation. She ultimately cast a vote for him despite her record as a military sexual assault prevention advocate. Hegseth denied the sexual assault allegations and was never charged.
Der Mann stand mit seinem Partner am frühen Samstagabend in der Obernstraße, als ihn eine Gruppe aus fünf jungen Männern beleidigte und attackierte. Die Täter konnten fliehen.
Falls sich jemand fragt, warum ich diese eigentlich regionale Nachricht hier teile: Bremen ist eine der queerfreundlicheren Städten Deutschlands und des deutschsprachigen Raums. Dass auch hier die Angriffe und Queerfeindlichkeit zunehmen, zeigt wie sich der Hass, die Propaganda und die Normalisierung von Queerfeindlichkeit auch auf eigentlich sichere Regionen auswirkt.
Die Obernstraße befindet sich übrigens nicht in irgendeinem sozialen Brennpunkt-Viertel, sondern mitten in der Innenstadt.
That's a direct result of the unfettered accumulation of capital bumping into obstacles and starting to stall, which in turn is because of a system built on a premise of infinite growth colliding with reality. So very much a part of the same polycrisis. The existing and near future use of AI as an oppressive tool is also a result of this, but Skynet isn't real.
This is LandChad.net, a site dedicated to turning internet peasants into Internet Landlords by showing them how to setup websites, email servers, chat servers and everything in between.
Starting a website is something that can be done in a lazy afternoon and costs pocket change.
Most of the internet’s problems could be solved if more people had their own personal platforms, so the objective of this site is to guide any normal person through the process of installing a website.
This is LandChad.net, a site dedicated to turning internet peasants into Internet Landlords by showing them how to setup websites, email servers, chat servers and everything in between.
Starting a website is something that can be done in a lazy afternoon and costs pocket change.
Most of the internet’s problems could be solved if more people had their own personal platforms, so the objective of this site is to guide any normal person through the process of installing a website.
Questo #agosto pareva partito bene, ma lentamente (o forse nemmeno troppo…) è caduto inesorabilmente agli inferi. E oggi, che è l’ultimo giorno di questo mese, è quindi arrivato il momento di fare il resoconto, perché altrimenti vorrei quasi solo piangere. (E anche perché devo finire un altro post, prima ancora di poter fare un altro […]
marini agostini lasciati bloccati, pioggia forzata e vacanza vietata! (la miseria del meteo terribile di agosto)
Questo #agostopareva partito bene, ma lentamente (o forse nemmeno troppo…) è caduto inesorabilmente agli inferi. E oggi, che è l’ultimo giorno di questo mese, è quindi arrivato il momento di fare il resoconto, perché altrimenti vorrei quasi solo piangere. (E anche perché devo finire un altro post, prima ancora di poter fare un altro post qui, ma lascerò stare i miei disastri personali per questa fottutissima volta, visto che ora c’è piuttosto da prendersela solo coi piani alti.) 🏜️
Sorprendentemente, la profezia per cui dal primo di agosto avrebbe iniziato a fare maltempo tutti i giorni, data la precondizione che per mia madre iniziavano le ferie, non si è avverata; e anzi, soprattutto, la settimanina di vacanza fuori non è stata rovinata dal meteo! Certamente bello, ma in egual misura assurdo… e quindi, avendo i potery forty perso l’occasione buona di rovinarci le ferie in un bel colpo singolo ben piazzato, avrei quasi dovuto prevedere che nei giorni a seguire ci sarebbe stata la grande (ma terribilmente diluita) beffa che ci avrebbe impedito di enjoyare per bene il resto del nostro time. 😫
È infatti in quel momento, a vacanze finite ma ferie ancora in corso, che è partita una tendenza meteorologicaampiamente sfavorevole per dire poco — che, curiosamente, per metà replica quasi perfettamente un agosto di svariati anni fa ugualmente disperante. Con mia madre avente ancora le ferie, ha iniziato a piovere letteralmente tutti i pomeriggi (o quasi, ma io ricordo tutti… incluso ferragosto, per chi se lo è perso!)… ma vabbé che non era proprio la fine del mondo, perché in genere la mattina riuscivamo comunque ad andare al mare. Ecco, la vera maledizione si è piuttosto abbattuta questi due ultimi fini settimana, con il caldo assolato tutti i giorni mentre mia madre lavorava… fino a venerdì pomeriggio/sera, in cui puntualmente ha piovuto… ma mai tanto puntualissimamente quanto sabato mattina e pomeriggio, e quindi non si esce. E #mannaggia al carciofo acquatico!!! 🥦
Ma è assurda, spaventosa, la precisione con cui tutto questo mese è venuto a piovere oppure ha evitato; e loro mi vogliono far credere che non esista alcun complotto??? Possiamo solo ringraziare il cielo (letteralmente, visto che da lì altrimenti cadono le gocce) che, almeno la domenica mattina, stranamente non abbia fatto piovere, e infatti anche stavolta sono sulla spiaggia. Sporca di tutta la roba che il mare agitato avrà portato nella notte di tempesta, ma almeno è qualcosa. Il #mare in sé, però, è parecchio agitato… e io non ho più l’età per fare il roleplay di Goku che provoca le onde, quindi resto fuori. Insomma, grandi troiai da questo lato, e dall’altro (cioè domani) inizia settembre, quindi: se Lvi (il meteo) vuole, forse ci spunta fuori qualche altra mattina, ma il grosso è già fuori dalla finestra (e, se parliamo di pioggia, un po’ anche dentro, se ci si dimentica di chiudere i balconi). 🎻 Marini agostini, rimarrai senza spiaggini! Con la faccia tosta di chi odia le ferie, la furia del mare si abbatte sulle nostre vite. Splash! L’acqua sbatte e si lancia per aria. La pace interrotta con greve periodo non è neanche l’inizio. Whoosh! Le gocce ascendono al cielo preparando la definitiva scarica mortale. Milioni non sono pronti ad accettare le conseguenze antispassose. Plic! Il demonio liquefatto così inizia a sperdersi, e non— PLOC! Precisamente militarmente i proiettili sono sparati giù sopra agli esseri condannati. Risulta impossibile godersi il destino. 💔 #agosto #estate #ferie #maltempo #Mannaggia #mare #meteo
The country is taking steps to make room for the next generation of professionals — but needs investment and stability in its relationship with the United States to capitalize on opportunity
They’ve had decades of brain drain because of all the insecurity and corruption. Currently I don’t see that reversing, it’s very ingrained. I hope they find a way of providing better opportunities, demographically it’s a young country so maybe they can make something work for them.
But oof is it gonna be an uphill battle when your government works against you by not supporting education, security, infrastructure.
Yeah, Mexico needs a lot more than tech investment, they need:
functioning law enforcement - bribing officers is very much a thing pretty much everywhere
safe highways - high robbery is very much a thing, and it's highly recommended to hire local drivers who know which roads are safer
crush the cartels
High tech investment needs law and order, and that's not consistent in Mexico. Fix that and maybe people will stop fleeing the country. Education is important too, but the country first needs to be a place foreigners feel comfortable relocating to, because that will be necessary to set up shop.
Have you been to Mexico City or (even more so) Guadalajara since the Pandemic? Multinational techs are investing and building up campuses like crazy. Reminds me of the go-go years of Bangalore in the 2000's.
Mexico has a real possibility of moving up the value chain and gobbling up all the good stuff Trump is pushing away from the USA
I haven't, but I do know Mexico City has been getting a fair amount of investment. That said, I have a friend who has gone back, and there are still the same law enforcement issues in the surrounding area.
They do not need to do this. All they need to do is legalize all drugs and the "evil" cartels will turn into enterprises.
The war on drugs has been going on for over fifty years with no resolution in sight and not much to show for it except wasted tax payer money. A radically different approach is perhaps warranted.
The US needs to legalize drugs, if they don't, there will continue to be a market and cartels will serve that market. That's not something Mexico can control, so the next best option is to drive them out of Mexico.
I wanted to remind that Mexican cartels grew this powerful by using the war on drug of the USA to target only Colombian cartels, so the USA are partly responsible for their growth
I did not have more details, I just love any opportunity to spit on USA international policies.
we are doing this to ourselves and the plan is to make it even worse
What do you mean with this ? From what I know (not a lot, honestly), cartels are as powerful as unofficial country, with a shit ton of money (and weapons from the US), so honestly, I would not know how to deal with them.
(hence my constant complain about lemmy users posting graphics about how cool México is doing while we suffer a different reality)
Lemmy tiene un problema con los apodados tankies. Se oponen a cualquier cosa que este encontrar de EE.UU. y con morena siendo un partido izquierda le hechan porra. Lo irónico es que terminan apoyando el imperialismo de otro partido al vez de simplemente ser anti imperialista.
Yeah, countries should realize that brain drain is much more serious issue than is usually portrayed.
But honestly the issues that lead to brain drain are far beyond what one or a few people in power can fix. It’s usually caused by deep societal issues, things that emerge after little dysfunctions snowball all the way to the large system that is the whole country.
For example, I’ve seen articles like this which in my opinion summarize what is the real issue in Brazilian society. But also one could argue this behavior becomes prevalent because society is already dysfunctional and people normalize the current way of thinking. It’s really a chicken and egg problem to solve when you look at the whole country scale.
Good for them. They capitalized on car and other manufacturing, so why not chips? Once we get past this senseless personal trade war, it could be profitable to both sides of the border. Given the long lead time for chips, the timing might work out
Brandon Johnson’s order directs city police not to collaborate with federal agents in immigration enforcement
The mayor of Chicago has signed an executive order outlining how the city will attempt to resist Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.
Brandon Johnson pushed back on Saturday against what he called the “out-of-control” Trump administration’s plan to deploy large numbers of federal officers into the country’s third-largest city, which could take place within days.
The Chicago police department will be barred from helping federal authorities with civil immigration enforcement or any related patrols, traffic stops and checkpoints during the surge, according to the executive order Johnson signed.
If you want good pictures of protest signs have the protesters walking south when you face north (in northern latitudes). Or walking east in the morning when you face west. Near the equator at noon you're screwed, do whateves.
I thought Uber/Lyft was 1099 employees (Independent Contractors)? I don’t know of any 1099s that received any medical benefits unless they pay for themselves.
Comme précisé dans cette tribune, Extinction Rebellion France appelle à soutenir, amplifier et prolonger la mobilisation du 10 septembre a.k.a. "Bloquons Tout".
Partout en France, rejoignez les initiatives locales ou plus massives, dans les groupes locaux de XR ou chez les collectifs alliés comme "Indignons nous" 💚
Comme précisé dans cette tribune, Extinction Rebellion France appelle à soutenir, amplifier et prolonger la mobilisation du 10 septembre a.k.a. "Bloquons Tout".
Partout en France, rejoignez les initiatives locales ou plus massives, dans les groupes locaux de XR ou chez les collectifs alliés comme "Indignons nous" 💚
One of the biggest challenges in tech education today is moving from theory to hands-on projects. While platforms like GitHub, Codecademy, and Coursera cover tutorials and collaboration, a new category is quietly emerging: project marketplaces.
Some early attempts include:
GitHub Marketplace – extensions, tools, and templates developers can buy.
Codementor & MentorCruise – pairing mentorship with guided coding.
Udemy Project Courses – teaching via real project breakdowns.
The vision is clear:
Beginners could buy projects to dissect and learn from.
With mentorship, they could build their own skills faster.
Eventually, they could sell projects themselves, creating a self-sustaining loop.
This raises key questions for the tech community:
Could project marketplaces reduce the “experience gap” in tech hiring?
How do we balance learning value vs. copy-paste risks?
Will they complement open-source collaboration, or compete with it?
As hiring becomes more portfolio-driven, it will be interesting to see if these marketplaces evolve into a serious part of the developer ecosystem.
A growing challenge for students and early-career developers is bridging the gap between theory and practical, portfolio-ready projects. While platforms exist for tutorials, freelancing, and open-source, a new concept is gaining traction: project marketplaces.
The idea is simple:
Learners can purchase real, working projects to study and build upon.
Mentorship or guided learning helps them understand the “why” behind the code.
Skilled users can then resell their own projects, creating a cycle of learning and contribution.
This approach sits at the intersection of edtech, peer-to-peer marketplaces, and open-source collaboration. It raises some important questions:
How can such marketplaces ensure quality control and originality?
Could they become a bridge for students with little project experience to gain confidence?
Or would they risk encouraging dependency rather than skill-building?
With the demand for practical, job-ready experience growing, it will be interesting to see whether project marketplaces become a legitimate part of the tech ecosystem — or just a passing experiment.
In the tech world, aspiring developers often face the same roadblock: “How do I build real-world projects and gain experience if I don’t already have skills or opportunities?”
Traditional coding bootcamps and online courses try to fill this gap, but they don’t always provide the hands-on project exposure or mentorship that’s needed to feel job-ready.
Now imagine a platform that works differently:
Developers could buy real projects (with code + documentation) to study and learn from.
Educators and mentors could teach by dissecting those projects step-by-step.
And once learners level up, they could sell their own projects on the same marketplace — turning the cycle into a self-sustaining ecosystem.
This approach combines project-based learning, mentorship, and a marketplace model.
🔹 Do you think such a platform could realistically work in today’s developer ecosystem? 🔹 Or would it face the same challenges as other edtech/startup models?
I’d love to hear what this community thinks — is this an idea worth exploring, or just another passing trend?
I’ve been thinking about the gap between learning theory and building real-world projects. What if there was a platform where:
You could buy practical, real-world projects to learn from
Mentorship was included, guiding you through the project ** And once you gain confidence, you could **sell your own projects back on the platform
This could create a cycle of learning → building → teaching → earning . Do you think something like this would actually gain traction in the tech world, or would people not find it useful?
What would make such a platform truly valuable for developers, learners, and mentors?
Hi, I'm new, I'd like to share my new Memory Graph Web Debugger that you can use to visualize and debug your Python data structures with just one click. This is an example of a binary tree implementation. I feel this tool could level up Python education. I'm interested in your thoughts about it, feedback welcome.
In una foto recentemente diventata celebre online, scattata nel parco naturale di Kaziranga, in Assam, un’elefantessa indiana sembra incedere col proprio fanciulletto in un verdeggiante prato punteggiato di attraenti fiori viola.
Marini agostini, rimarrai senza spiaggini! Con la faccia tosta di chi odia le ferie, la furia del mare si abbatte sulle nostre vite. Splash! L’acqua sbatte e si lancia per aria. La pace interrotta con greve periodo non è neanche l’inizio. Whoosh! Le gocce ascendono al cielo preparando la definitiva scarica mortale. Milioni non sono pronti ad accettare le conseguenze antispassose. Plic! Il demonio liquefatto così inizia a sperdersi, e non— PLOC! Precisamente militarmente i proiettili sono sparati giù sopra agli esseri condannati. Risulta impossibile godersi il destino. 💔
cerebralhawks
in reply to Rahul • • •That's 2 different questions.
I believe VLC can open m3u links (playlists). Not sure about m3u8.
As far as downloading videos from an app, good luck with that. Or if you mean using an app (say, to download from a website), you could probably do it with Firefox?
If you have access to a computer, jdownloader2 is super easy to download from most websites.
I got Macs and an iPhone and I can download stuff so I know you can with Android. (I can also send videos easily between Android and iPhone.)
Rahul
in reply to cerebralhawks • • •Yes I want to download video from android app, its not anywhere else only available inside app.
On desktop windows, I use HLS download plugins in chrome or fireFox to download m3u8 streaming videos or manually find links in network inspect mode.
I want to do same but in the android app. This particular app dont download videos in its private folder but streams it, I tried using PCAPdroid and its mitmproxy addon to inspect but it is crashing , also this procedure is little complicated, i couldnt figure it out, maybe i am doing any mistake, or it doesnt work.
I am trying to find Any other easy method?
mogranja
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here is link: f-droid.org/packages/com.junkf…
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