Comments

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

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

I’m no expert either, this is just what I know from experience and through people smarter than me on the internet. I’ve put together some resources below for you. Apologies for the reddit links, it’s just where this content lives.

encoding 10bit reduces the amount of truncation errors during the encoding, which leads to a much smaller filesize despite the two additional bits. To the point where, despite it storing more information, there being less truncation errors offsets the filesize gain to the point where you get similar or even smaller sizes than 8bit encodes.

source: www.reddit.com/r/animepiracy/comments/…/grm8uq9/

…wordpress.com/…/why_does_10bit_save_bandwidth_-_…

reddit.com/…/ultimate_encoding_test_results_for_a…

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.

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

Also it’s common for anime to be encoded in 10-bit color rather than 8-bit which can also be used to encode files more efficiently.

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

I understand that and wouldn’t have commented if you said that. Instead you said that, quote, ReVanced, end quote, is not open source.

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

I’m confused about your stance on ReVanced. It’s about as open-source as you can get github.com/revanced/revanced-patches

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

Lots of drives 😜 It’s not so unimaginable on servers but less so on personal computers.

stifle867, to piracy in Sailing safely with a VPN

As someone else pointed out, Android has a built in kill switch so you would use that setting for system wide VPN.

stifle867, to privacy in Multiple Adblockers in a row - does it make sense or is it even harmful?

If anything it will make things load faster as you’re blocking a massive steaming pile of ads, trackers, etc

stifle867, to piracy in Sailing safely with a VPN

If your threat model is companies detecting your movie piracy then what you’re doing now is fine. Just ensure any torrent program is bound to the VPN interface and also make sure you’re blocking any trackers if you do happen to log into Facebook, Google, etc as they will be able to track your movements around the web (not that they’re looking to enforce movie copyright)

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

You can find torrents here if you’re willing to seed 181TB for the full dataset, or 43TB for just zlibrary annas-archive.org/torrents

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.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • localhost
  • All magazines
  • Loading…
    Loading the web debug toolbar…
    Attempt #