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stifle867, to piracy in Louis Rossman/FUTO's YouTube app, GrayJay, now supports Sponsorblock... and shames you if you use it

Exactly. Could have just said YouTube is closed source from the start when ReVanced is 100% open-source.

stifle867, to piracy in Z-Library Blog: "Unprecedented seizure of our domains with books on rare languages"

Well the rest of us just see two trolls instead of one so don’t expect anyone to treat you favourably when you’re acting just as bad as the original troll.

stifle867, to privacyguides in Privacy friendly Ubuntu antivirus ?

Anyone is welcome to install an AV on their device if they so choose. I was more alluding to the fact that there are many things you should be doing to prevent malicious programs from running on your computer in the first place. By the time it makes it onto your system you’re really just hoping that an AV would happen to catch it.

stifle867, to piracy in E-Books, best places to get them?

oceanofpdf also has a lot of direct downloads for ebooks and they’re very good

stifle867, to piracy in Are movie and show file sizes more efficient than they were years ago?

My understanding is that HDR formats utilise 10-bit color formats rather than being strictly equivalent.

From Wikipedia:

HDR video refers to a video encoded in an HDR format. Thoses HDR video have a greater bit depth, luminance and color volume than standard dynamic range (SDR) video which uses a conventional gamma curve.

As it alludes, HDR is more than just a 10-bit color space. Encoding anime in 10-bit doesn’t take advantage of the greater luminance or dynamic range. It does take advantage of the color space to minimise banding.

stifle867, to privacyguides in Simplifying warrant canaries - Purplix canary

This is a great idea! I wish more websites did warrant canaries, and those that do often fail to maintain them or plan for the case when a gag order prevents them from updating an existing canary. The only thing I would suggest is making it more clear that being in an alpha stage means that the product should not be relied upon in critical situations.

stifle867, to piracy in Swiss copyright law: what can and can’t I download?

I found a number of articles specifically stating that video games and software remain illegal. Unfortunately I couldn’t pinpoint the specific part of the law as they appear to br written in French and was running into hurdles with Google Translate character limits that I couldn’t be bothered to work around.

I’m not sure if it’s explicitly illegal or if music, videos, etc are explicitly exempted, or if software etc is different due to terms of service for example.

Furthermore, it’s illegal for anyone to record your IP address torrenting a work and track you down that way as it violates Swiss data protection laws.

stifle867, to piracy in Advice on blocking Youtube ads.

Last time I had a pi-hole running it didn’t effect YouTube ads and was known not to as pi-hole works at the DNS layer but YouTube ads are served from the same DNS endpoint.

stifle867, to piracy in Advice on blocking Youtube ads.

Do you think you can get Firefox on an LG TV? I don’t know of anyway this is possible.

stifle867, to privacyguides in UK government keeping files on teaching assistants’ and librarians’ internet activity

You definitely have a point with the public facing posts. However, I will disagree with you on two points.

  1. “Harmful content” does not seem to apply here as the article implies that specifically posts criticizing government policies were flagged.
  2. Even so, harmful content could just as well be classified through existing procedures such as members of the public filing complaints rather than simply “keeping score”.

It’s a bit different when your employer is the government as they should be held to a higher standard.

stifle867, to piracy in YouTube on Firefox mobile is awesome

I’m glad it worked for you!

stifle867, to piracy in YouTube on Firefox mobile is awesome

Do you have PiP turned off (picture in picture)? It might not be related but it’s worth a try

stifle867, (edited ) to piracy in Advice on blocking Youtube ads.

Thank you! I’m in the same situation as OP and looking at the homebrew store it even includes apps for the other things I’m missing too! (CrunchyRoll and Jellyfin).

Do you happen to know if there’s any way I can get ChromeCast like functionality from my TV? It’s my last remaining little niggle with the TV.

EDIT: unfortunately LG has patched out the ability for rootmy.tv to work

stifle867, to piracy in Advice on blocking Youtube ads.

The docs do imply this but I’ve had Jellyfin sideloaded via developer mode for a few weeks and I’ve never had to renew anything. It may have changed recently. This is on a C8.

stifle867, to piracy in Ways to pirate albums?

Thank you to everyone who recommended soulseek! I’ve been looking for a platform that has hard to find, high-quality music and after a quick look at the software it looks very promising. I’ll report back if I’ve had any obscure songs I cannot find.

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