I will never tire of pasting this:

https://biggaybunny.tumblr.com/post/166787080920/tech-enthusiasts-everything-in-my-house-is-wired

10-15 meters might be good enough to conduct the attack from a neighboring office or apartment, while actual eavesdropping is not so easy.

So glad I use wired earbuds and refused to buy a phone that didn’t support them.

No need for vaccines with 5g chips when the wearable will have one right on your wrist.

Sometimes they are on a remote server that I sshfs mount and play the same way. Multiple people could use the server at the same time if desired, though for me it hasn’t been an issue. It’s audio, I don’t need a visual UI for it. I still have a fair amount of physical media too including LP’s, though my record player is long gone.

Anyway, be happy that I didn’t mention FORTH :).

I just don’t get it, I’ve seen people struggle with itunes, that stuff is way too complicated and I don’t see any need for it. Maybe I’m missing something but if I want to play some music and it’s in a file, saying “play this file” seems about as direct as it gets.

https://biggaybunny.tumblr.com/post/166787080920/tech-enthusiasts-everything-in-my-house-is-wired

I just have a bunch of media files (.ogg, .mp3, etc.) in directories and play them with mplayer from the command line. Playlist = shell script that plays some group of files. I use old school track numbering (01-whatever, 02-whatsit, etc.) though, so most of the time “mplayer *” is how I play an album and the tracks play automatically in the right order. I don’t understand the purpose of anything fancier. Now get off my lawn.

strip out the HDCP

Interesting, I had figured that was possible in principle but hadn’t kept up with what was actually around.

But still, the HDCP stream is decompressed video, so if you want to save it, you’ll have to either put it through yet another layer or lossy compression, or burn a ridiculous amount of disk space compared to the compressed stream that Youtube sent to your computer.

We’ll see how things go. Google in the past has made occasional modest gestures to get in the way of downloading, but they haven’t made serious effort to prevent it. Who knows whether that will last.

I think I’ve seen some things like that, but you can never stop them from taking a screen shot, with a camera if necessary.

can’t stop us from HDMI capturing

Look up HDCP.

Reddit probably beats Facebook but it’s getting worse all the time. If you want to use Lemmy you might consider running your own instance. Lemmy as far as I can tell has usable photo uploading. Maybe the new thing you mentioned will be better, but idk anything about it. There is also Threads which is a Facebook thing, right?

If you have the time for it I’d say run an independent site. Lemmy is ok for posting photos though.

I didn’t understand the original post. It seemed like someone whining about a switch to AGPL. But that switch certainly sounds like a good thing to me. I didn’t know the old license was Apache but it still seems like a good switch. Redis (with a misstep in between) did something similar.

This almost seems like a leopards ate my face situation. I remember Plex supplanted some other proprietary media server that went evil. I couldn’t understand why people burned by the first one switched en masse to another one like it. Once wasn’t enough? If you’re going to switch at all, go to something that is 100% libre.

I never heard of ircv3 before. TIL. But, some parts of it don’t seem irc-like, and sacrifice the aspects that have made me stay on irc all this time. Hmm. I’ll look at it more later.

https://ircv3.net/

Some very cheap phones with minutes included, here:

https://www.qvc.com/electronics/phones/tracfone/_/N-mlt0Z1z1393y/c.html

OTOH they can probably be traced back to you since you have to order them with your presumably real name. You can buy phones and prepaid cards anonymously in phone stores but it will cost more.

The domain name in the certificate has to match the one in the browser. Does it? You haven’t said.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demurrage_currency

discusses pros and cons of money intentionally designed to expire.

The software part is easy. The hassles are more in dealing with abuse, ddos attacks, inappropriate content, etc. Hosting can also get expensive if usage gets high enough. But, things like this have been done plenty of times and there is lots of such software already available.

I’m not used to shitposting being called “content creation” but whatever.