LocustOfControl

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LocustOfControl,

It’s a Lemmy feature that happens when you use the crosspost button.

LocustOfControl,

I do miss that really detailed block download page, but that’s only cos I’d watch it instead of doing something useful with my life.

LocustOfControl, (edited )

Perhaps some Youtube’s done a video on it… I feel like I’ve seen a headline or link saying something like “Why Paul is underrated” recently.

I didn’t know there was an extended version, do the extra 6 minutes add anything? Maybe not

LocustOfControl,

This should be be a local link for most: !opencracks

LocustOfControl,

catch and release

Brilliant phrase! I’m an archiver myself partly because it takes me ages to watch things, and partly because some things get returned to again and again. I could definitely do with a cull, but it’s easier to commit to more storage.

LocustOfControl,

It could be that it’s more normalised, or that post-Covid people don’t want to share public transport as much.

Whatever the reason, it’s good news as the more cyclists there are, the more that planners will have to take them into account - making it easier for more to become cyclists. Let’s just hope the momentum continues to fuel this virtuous cycle.

LocustOfControl,

Good question. I assume it’s DHT delivering peers that aren’t in the tracker(s), or maybe a problem with the tracker(s).

The format’s “# connected (# total)” in every client I’ve seen.

LocustOfControl,

Did you mean to link to right at the end? (You can remove &t=422s if not)

LocustOfControl,

I’m out of the loop here, what’s this about?

Question regarding ripping dvds (yes DVDs)

I know the majority opinion is not to do it for various reasons, but basically I started to backup the majority of my dvd collection that I created over the years since I have the time and they were just collecting dust. Turns out though I guess I’m doing it “wrong” or at least not in the original quality since I used...

LocustOfControl, (edited )

Handbrake isn’t recommended any more? That’s what I’d used for my ripping. By original quality, you mean extracting the the mpeg-2 or just that Handbrake did bad transcoding?

LocustOfControl,

Unless you want engagement! 90% of these comments are about the missing comma.

LocustOfControl,

If you have all the original, unedited files you downloaded (this might mean multi-part rar archives) can either point your BT client at the location or move/copy them to where your client expects them.
I tend to add the torrent making sure it doesn’t start, do a manual recheck to check it’s working as expected, then start the torrent.

If you have main file(s) only e.g. .mkv but not the .nfo and there are other seeders you can do the same as above and it’ll re-download - so in my example the block that contains the .nfo along with some of the .mkv will be downloaded. I tend to copy the files over, just in case but I don’t think that’s actually ever been necessary for me.

Another option is to have the file you care about and have the SRR file to restore the files to the downloaded state - adding .nfo files but it can also put the files back into those annoying rar archives. This way you can be the only seeder without having too many extra files hanging around. These are quite rare though.

LocustOfControl,

It’s a study. People are normally paid to participate in studies because otherwise no-one would bother doing them.

It’s not meant to change the city overnight, it’s a study to test how people’s behaviours change if they reduce the number of cars they own, which is what we want (ideally to zero, of course).

In summary, IT’S A STUDY.

LocustOfControl,

I don’t think you read the article. The data shows that walking and cycling went up massively, as well as increasing public transport use. This is good, and the article as a whole politely makes points compatible with this comm.

LocustOfControl,

Yup, this is me with scp. Well, it would be if I didn’t just use asterisks to avoid that PITA.

I might have felt the punchline of this comic more than any other, and I've been reading Dinosaur Comics for MANY years now (lemmy.world)

Alt text (which is actually, and always has been, the title text but we all just call it the alt text: “wipe questions about old star trek episodes from MY mind and there simply wouldn’t be anything left, and i would be as blank as Uhura was when her memory was wiped by Nomad, the space probe created by the collision of an...

LocustOfControl,

I’ve stopped even seeing that - if I were describing it to someone who’d never seen the comic I don’t know if I’d remember to mention it.

LocustOfControl,

I’d missed that, luckily. Or I blanked it out.

LocustOfControl,

Those rules be more of a guideline though.

Hide news websites that won't let you read the article without paying

Hello everyone, I’m tired of having to go bavk to my search results 4 timesnbecause eveyrtime that I search for a news article every single website I get on won’t let mr read it without either subscribing/logging in, how can I hidethese websites from the results OR How do you guys look up news articles, an app or smt?...

LocustOfControl,

If you’re using Kagi, you can rewrite paywalled sites to automatically search on an archive site. Maybe searx or similar has the same functionality?

LocustOfControl,

I can’t believe that there’s never been anyone that didn’t make that mistake. Probably not enough to justify keeping a counter dedicated to it though…

LocustOfControl,

Definitely, unless the original source was very inefficiently compressed, it’s not worth the time, effort and quality loss to save a small amount of space.

LocustOfControl,

There are plenty of projects that take donations/payments that don’t make profit but stay afloat, normally through the team behind it paying the bills. I guess it depends what the running costs actually are, and if it’s for people or e.g. servers.

LocustOfControl,

I have Bitwarden, RES and uBlock Origin, plus Enhancer for Youtube.

My fix was

  1. disable “Block Ads” in Enhancer for Youtube
  2. add this to uBlock under “My Filters”:

<span style="color:#323232;">! from https://gadgetstouse.com/blog/2023/05/15/bypass-ad-blockers-not-allowed-on-youtube/
</span><span style="color:#323232;">youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, [])
</span><span style="color:#323232;">youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)
</span>
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