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corvus

@ corvus @lemmy.ml

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  • Can Software Piracy Be Justified?

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  • Stealing revenue it's hypothetical, because it supposes that you were going to pay for the product if it wasn't available pirated. And that is far from being certain.

  • What is your private way of watching YouTube videos when Invidious or Piped are not working?

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  • Excellent.

  • What is your private way of watching YouTube videos when Invidious or Piped are not working?

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  • Another thing that I do is make an alias: alias pvid="yt-dlp $(xsel -b) -o - | mpv -". Install xsel first, xsel -b pastes what's in the clipboard. So you only have to copy the URL and execute pvid, no need to paste. Or even better make an app that executes that command and put it in the taskbar. You only have to click it after copying.

  • What is your private way of watching YouTube videos when Invidious or Piped are not working?

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  • Go to configuration, external player, choose mpv, in custom external player arguments put: --ytdl;--ytdl-format=best audio+bestvideo ( or whatever format you like). For subtitles and equalization you have to download mpv scripts from github.com/stax76/awesome-mpv in the User Script section. There's a lot of cool scripts there. You have to put the script in the mpv script directory of your OS.

  • What is your private way of watching YouTube videos when Invidious or Piped are not working?

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  • Use yt-dlp URL -o - | mpv - This way the video goes directly to mpv without using the disk, avoiding the need to delete. It should work with other viewers as well.

  • What is your private way of watching YouTube videos when Invidious or Piped are not working?

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  • Is there a good tutorial for doing that?

  • What is your private way of watching YouTube videos when Invidious or Piped are not working?

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  • Freetube has an option to watch videos in a external viewer. I set it to be MPV which I set it to use yt-dlp to download which allows me to customize many things like video and audio quality, subtitles, equalize audio, etc. No need to copy and use the command line.

  • A curated list of services and alternatives that respect your privacy

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  • Awanllm.com No KYC and you can ask from the command línea through its API.

  • I'm looking for web mail providers, what do you recommend?

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  • Bluetooth headphones not detected

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  • Yeah that's it! Thanks very much!

  • Watching movies and series from the command line

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  • My bad for asumming that most subscribers know what mov-cli and lobster do. What I'm asking for is a program that takes the title of a movie or series as an input from the command line and start scrapping movie sites and when the movie or series is found it starts streaming it to mpv.

  • Bluetooth headphones not detected

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  • Good point. I was confused because my other headphones when they are in pairing mode a blue light flashes repeatedly, but after reading the manual for the XM5 this means that are not connected not that they are in pairing mode, and as you said for pairing mode you have the press the power button for 5 seconds, the problem is that when I do that the headphones shutdown, May be there is an option to change that, I will check it out.

  • Watching movies and series from the command line

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  • What mov-cli and lobster do is scrapping movie sites and start playing the movie you just typed by streaming.

  • Best Abstract Ever

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  • I would say most funny... but the worst because you have to read the whole paper to know what it is about.

  • I want to finally degoogle my life and install GrapheneOS

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  • You don't need a pixel to degoogle, you can degoogle with lineage OS which supports a lot of phones.

  • "They already have your data"

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  • We are talking about privacy, not security, like when being individually targeted by the state or someone else, that's another topic. Privacy-wise the main source of information about you comes from apps that collect all the information available (which is huge), they sell it to data brokers which in turn sell it other companies that tipically try to sell you something or want to know your habits (like your employers). If you don't use their apps they can't collect information about you and sell it, and that happens when you migrate to free software. Only location will still be collected because mobile service providers log it and sell it, but there are ways to mitigate that too.

  • "They already have your data"

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  • Turns out the older your data the less it is worth

    That's why I think is not the best approach to delete your accounts. Keep an old phone with all your accounts and every now and then watch a random video, make a random search, follow a random profile, and so on with all your accounts. Over time your true profile will become obsolete and buried under fake data.

  • Mainstream social media is incredibly invasive

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  • Yeah, the solution to apps selling your data is using only free software, the only problem that still remains is that your mobile network provider also sells your location data.

  • Mainstream social media is incredibly invasive

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  • Social Media is not the only problem, it's far worse than that and you will not solve it leaving social media. Your employers get all the information about you from what is called 'data brokers' which are the ones who buy the data collected by all the apps that you install in your phone and sell it to everyone interested, not only companies trying to sell you something, but also employers like the case you posted and also state agencies, who dodge in this way breaking the law by spying you. That's the big business of data collection. Here an investigation made by german journalists How data brokers sell our location data