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_a9··on YouTube removed dislike counts, so this guy made Rotten Tomatoes for YouTube
Where do you get 14k from? The chrome store says 4 million users and firefox says 400k. And an unknown amount of users using the many modded mobile youtube clients that have it builtin.
_a9··on YouTube removed dislike counts, so this guy made Rotten Tomatoes for YouTube
I think the youtube algo just serves you what it thinks will get you engaged (hate watching?). In the past I've gotten both right and left extremist content. I eventually set my youtube settings to delete everything that is older than 3 months, my feed has been way more usable since I did that. That plus using revanced to remove all the stupid shorts and news/promo sections from the app.
_a9··on Tunnel via Cloudflare to any TCP service
Ive been using a tunnel to share my jellyfin server to friends for about a year. Its pretty much a proxy for it (add jellyfin:port to the config, start cloudflared, access on jellyfin.my.domain on cloudflare).

I havent had any issues with bandwidth but it depends on how much you push through it. Ive seen stories throughout the years of people pushing 30-50TB before getting a temp ban from using cloudflare services. Of course DNS still works but you just cant use their proxy/cdn/tunnels/etc

_a9··on Come back, c2.com, we still need you
I use browsertrix-crawler[0] for crawling and it does well on JS heavy sites since it uses a real browser to request pages. Even has options to load browser profiles so you can crawl while being authenticated on sites.

[0] https://github.com/webrecorder/browsertrix-crawler

_a9··on Show HN: Avoiding Imgur Link Rot
> Well done, you’ve defeated link rot

Until this site succumbs to the challenges of being a free image host?

FWIW ArchiveTeam is grabbing as much as possible so it could eventually show up in the wayback machine. Though what they have now, 47TB, is a drop to the petabytes imgur probably has now. There was an estimated 376 TiB in 2015.

- https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Imgur

- https://tracker.archiveteam.org/imgur/

_a9··on Colorado becomes first to pass ‘right to repair’ for farmers
Like another commenter mentioned, using archive.today bypasses most paywalls and blocks.

A trick I always use is to just append the url to archive.today[0] to get a page with no ads and bloat. You could also make a bookmarklet to make it a 1-click thing. Sometimes it might not be archived so you will have to click 'archive this url' to make one, but people are usually quick to archive articles that are posted here

[0]: https://archive.today/https://www.wivb.com/news/colorado-bec...

_a9··on DuckDuckGo removed the ability to filter search results
Been using Brave search since they released it. I used to fallback to Google but I've stopped using it recently, it has turned to absoulte crap always returning random spam or nothing at all unless I'm searching for something basic. Been falling back to Phind on dev stuff now if Brave doesnt have anything. Phind is something I would absolutely pay for when the time comes.
_a9··on Who owns history? How historical footage is hidden and monetised [video]
Went digging through the wayback machine to find it and its available here: https://web.archive.org/web/20230117024804/https://www.ahist...

which leads to: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16ATMkf7SAwwjePZZZb0mFrFX5rM...

_a9··on Z-Library to let users share physical books
Open source too https://github.com/inventaire/
_a9··on Z-Library to let users share physical books
You should be able to create an account on that domain here (unless something has changed since I last registered) https://singlelogin.me/registration.php

You get your own personal domain/subdomain of zlibrary after logging in

_a9··on No-cost access to the latest PDF standard: ISO 32000-2 (PDF 2.0)
Thanks, popped into archive.org too https://web.archive.org/web/20230406111824/https://www.pdfa-...
_a9··on Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, locking out some users
Probably a very small amount of people abusing it somehow (How a lot of files can be abused i dont know), like how a small amount of people abused the old gsuite unlimited plan to store petabytes for $12/m
_a9··on Mastodon hit 10M users
safe space = echo chamber
_a9··on The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux
HBO Max is L1 for 1080p+ but revoked L1 keys usually work on there
_a9··on The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux
It's not even private anymore. Anyone can easily find tools on GitHub or other sites[0] that can download widevine'd content. It's easy to find L3 keys on GitHub too. There are public sites[1] that get the decryption keys but using their own keys on the backend if you cant find keys or don't know how to dump the keys. There is an all-in-one tool[2] that lets anyone with 0 knowledge of DRM to dump content from practically any site that uses widevine, costs a leg but it's meant for people who don't want to waste time finding tools and learning how to do it manually.

[0]: https://cdm-project.com/CDM-Tools/

[1]: https://cdrm-project.com/ & http://getwvkeys.cc/

[2]: https://streamfab.com/

_a9··on Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services
Probably just likes Hetzner. I've recommended them here before. They have some of the best priced dedis.
_a9··on Mastodon.lol will shut down on May 9, 2023
[Link 1] Article boiling down to JK having an opinion and 5000 buzzwords and off-topic filler (modern journalism)

[Link 2] 1 Dev makes entire team antisemetic? A developer has different opinions than us, how dare he. The only reason WB did anything is because how dangerous the hate-mob can be with threats an PR. Good on WB for not caring about devs opinions when hiring and only how good they can code (AKA their jobs):

> "I'm happy to say that, even though I disclosed my YouTube channel to WB Games, it didn't appear to be an issue for them. Not that they endorse anything that I've said, of course, but at least they seem more concerned with making good games than with pushing some kind of a social justice agenda, so there is hope."

[Link 3] This is reaching so hard. Terminally online people trying to make up an insane meaning for a meaningless item in a video game.

_a9··on Mastodon.lol will shut down on May 9, 2023
People like that have caused words like nazi and genocide to completely lose their meanings. When you hear someone being called nazi these days you just assume they just mean someone they don't like, same goes with genocide. Not surprised that so many people are now desensitized to real genocide and actual nazi-like regimes/dictators/countries/groups because of terminally online folk.
_a9··on Genesis Filed for Bankruptcy
I only see some crypto and space/nature stuff. It usually has something to do with stuff you've previously viewed on twitter or whatever their algo thinks you do.
_a9··on The Twitter Files Part 2: Twitter's Secret Blacklists
I don't think they even have access to the dashboard. I assumed they were given the prepared data. An earlier tweet by Musk or a journalist mentioned lawyers would deliver the data to them direct from Twitter.

Even if they did it's clear that whoever made the screenshot in the libsoftiktok screen doesn't even have access to see their email. Like all other tech admin panels, there are access controls. Just because the 'delete website' button is visible to you doesn't mean your account has permission to use it.

_a9··on Hetzner continues its growth in the US with a new location
Have a couple seedboxes for myself and friends. Sometimes public torrents are used, some of which are monitored. Hetzner just sends a notice about the report and gives you 24 hours to reply without disabling the server. If you miss it then they null route the offending server. Never had any issues with them denying my responses, they're usually very quick to respond to clear the abuse report after submitting.

Seriously love Hetzner, amazing prices and really fast human support.

_a9··on The Slow Goodbye to Twitter
I'm still getting the same tech company and video game ads. Haven't noticed a difference. I block all the accounts that are ads but even then I still get ads from mainstream companies I haven't blocked. Theres still plenty of companies advertising. I have yet to encounter anything sus apart from some rando paying to promote a meme or shitpost.
_a9··on The Slow Goodbye to Twitter
I don't think moderation has changed at all. I'm not in the gore-y scene but I wouldn't be surprised if it has always been on Twitter, just marked as sensitive. Most social media sites have that 'dark reality' content scenes.

Same goes for NSFW stuff, that stuff has been on Twitter long before Musk bought it and it will still be available just marked as sensitive (like it always has). I doubt they will go the Tumblr route and kill a giant part of the userbase.

_a9··on The Twitter Files
The country is currently being utterly gutted. Many of the things people accused Trump of doing is happening at this moment, under this administration.

But let's ignore that and repeat all the bad stuff the news told us Trump did, and how Biden is a saint for swooping in and saving our democracy.

_a9··on Scaling Mastodon is impossible
KiwiFarms is the perfect example on how that it is still true. The Twitter crew forgot about them after a week and it went back to normal.
_a9··on List of Alternative Shells for Windows
I used Cairo for a couple months and really enjoyed it. I stopped using it because something in my workflow was causing it to freeze and crash. Gonna give it another go, seeing it again made me miss the UI.
_a9··on Command line and local web note‑taking, bookmarking, archiving application
Probably a little hacky but using a userscript & an archive tool could work. I have a userscript[1] that I've been using for years to archive some news sites but it just uses the Wayback Machine. It can probably be modified to wait more time and send the request to something like ArchiveBox[2] (or any archive tool that has a web interface). The downside is you'd need to whitelist specific sites (or whitelist everything and have a keybind or some content matching to activate the archive function? idk)

[1] https://gist.github.com/antiops/00a37a1de289415fa7cbd9b5d1d2...

[2] ArchiveBox, can have full text search: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox

_a9··on How to download all of Wikipedia onto a USB flash drive
Not related to the OP topic or zim but I was looking into archiving my bookmarks and other content like documentation sites and wikis. I'll list some of the things I ended up using.

ArchiveBox[1]: Pretty much a self-hosted wayback machine. It can save websites as plain html, screenshot, text, and some other formats. I have my bookmarks archived in it and have a bookmarklet to easily add new websites to it. If you use the docker-compose you can enable a full-text search backend for an easy search setup.

WebRecorder[2]: A browser extension that creates WACZ archives directly in the browser capturing exactly what content you load. I use it on sites with annoying dynamic content that sites like wayback and ArchiveBox wouldn't be able to copy.

ReplayWeb[3]: An interface to browse archive types like WARC, WACZ, and HAR. The interface is just like browsing through your browser. It can be self-hosted as well for the full offline experience.

browsertrix-crawler[4]: A CLI tool to scrape websites and output to WACZ. Its super easy to run with Docker and I use it to scrape entire blogs and docs for offline use. It uses Chrome to load webpages and has some extra features like custom browser profiles, interactive login, and autoscroll/autoplay. I use the `--generateWACZ` parameter so I can use ReplayWeb to easily browse through the final output.

For bookmark and misc webpage archiving then ArchiveBox should be more than enough. Check out this repo for an amazing list of tools and resources https://github.com/iipc/awesome-web-archiving

[1] https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox [2] https://webrecorder.net [3] https://replayweb.page [4] https://github.com/webrecorder/browsertrix-crawler

_a9··on Users reporting artifacts appearing in old images stored in Google Photos
I started using PhotoPrism a couple months ago. My only gripe with it is that you can't drag-and-drop files directly into folders or any page. You have to manually go to the upload page, change/add the folder then use the file picker to choose the files. Other than that it does the job well and even has face scanning.

https://docs.photoprism.app/

_a9··on Danish Data Protection Agency concludes Google Analytics cannot be used lawfully
And for those that don't want to dive in to VPS/Dedis there are services like PikaPods[1] that spin up services for a good price. I've been running a Matomo instance for a couple months and didn't have to do any backend command line stuff

On some apps they also give a percentage back to the developer so you'd be supporting them.

[1] https://www.pikapods.com/apps#analytics

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