If you, like me, only discovered today that yt-dlp exists, you might find it confusing. It's a powerful video downloader and converter, but it has a LOT of command line options. Oh, and there's no GUI. I found this page to be a great way to find commands for what I wanted to do and get started more easily: ostechnix.com/yt-dlp-tutorial/

Edit: here's a link to YT-DLP itself: github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

Yt-dlp Commands: The Complete Tutorial For Beginners (2025)

This comprehensive yt-dlp tutorial lists the most common yt-dlp commands for downloading videos and audio from YouTube and various other websites on Linux.

^{sk (OSTechNix)}

“You met me at a very strange time in my life”

-me to everyone i have ever met

Tarmageddon is a great example of why RUSTSEC tracks unmaintained crates/libraries and why such unmaintained projects are very much security-relevant: edera.dev/stories/tarmageddon

#rust

TARmageddon (CVE-2025-62518): RCE Vulnerability Highlights the Challenges of Open Source Abandonware | Edera Blog

Edera uncovers TARmageddon (CVE-2025-62518), a Rust async-tar RCE flaw exposing the real dangers of open-source abandonware and supply chain security.

^Edera

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the very idea of Open Source was always a radical left leaning ideological stance.

You're GIVING AWAY labor to the tune of millions of dollars because of some notion that we'd all be better off together if we didn't have to re-write the same dang components over and over again.

Of course members of the Open Source community are going to get political. We always have been.

The Internet of Things isn't for your benefit

futurism.com/robots-and-machin…

Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House

One man's robot vacuum was constantly communicating with its manufacturer, sending a detailed 3D map of his house halfway across the world.

^{Joe Wilkins (Futurism)}

Explaining why I push back so hard on the question: "Why do you want millions of people on the Fediverse?"

If I ask people "Are there racists on Twitter?" People will say "Yes, lots!"

If I ask, "Does the owner of Twitter have the power to define moderation rules that allow racism but ban criticism of they choose to do so?" People say yes.

If I ask people, "Do the owners of Twitter have the possibility to algorithmically control what people see, and what gets amplified / shadow-banned?" People will also say yes.

If I ask, "Do you believe that the Fediverse offers an alternative to centrally controlled, algorithmically defined, social media?" People agree.

If I ask, "Do you think Black people that don't want to be on Twitter, deserve access to a better form of social media than what is available on Twitter?" People agree.

So far, so good! 👍🏿

But then when I say, "Are you aware that at peak, 1 in 5 Twitter users was Black, and 1 in 5 Black people in the US was a monthly active Twitter user?" Fewer people know that stat.

There were ~300,000 Black trans Twitter users that used the service monthly. Almost none of them are on the Fediverse.

Black people deserve safety. Black people deserve access to more choice in social media.

Decentralized social media is not zero sum. Adding Black people and making the Fediverse safer for them, does not need to take away from your experience.

Your instance doesn't need to go from 100 people to a million people to accommodate the influx of new users.

That's the logical explanation of why we should make the Fediverse safer for everyone. But... why push back so hard?

One of the problems with the world in general, and the US in particular, is that we often prioritize white *feelings* over Black *safety*. I am not gentle about pointing this out. Tiptoeing around this phenomenon is tiring for Black people, and I won't do it.

Black people are not safe on Twitter or Mastodon. The difference is that we as a community of people of all backgrounds, have agency to improve Mastodon.

We can make Mastodon safer without breaking the experience for existing users.

“Hi! Your OS here! See that red badge demanding your attention?”

"What is it?”

"It's sports news! Isn't that great?”

"I don't give a shit about sports. How do I turn it off?”

"If you're not interested in sports, you can customize the alerts to show something you ARE interested in.”

"I'm interested in an OS that does what I tell it. One that works for me. That doesn't track me or try to ‘maximize engagement’ or sell me crap or nag me about using AI or whatever. Got anything for that?”

“…”

Whenever you see one of these terms, or derived ones, stop and think: Does the writer actually know what they mean and use them in their literal meaning, or just to spice up the text or headline? And if the latter, how much else of their text might then just be made up? Sure, the initial use might be ironic, but quotes from the text might spread as factual.

(Edit: I will continue editing this list for a while according to my thoughts and your comments and suggestions.)

equation
exponential
industrial strength
metric
military grade
quantum leap
state of the art
tactical
theory
weapons-grade
zero-tolerance

More? Must be lots of these in Economical Sciences, Psychology, Medicine, etc.

Computer programmers are working class.

Stop. Before you argue, consider:

We labour long hours on machines we don’t own, and the product of our labour is taken from us, no different than a coal miner or machinist.

The Government of Canada is taking a survey about "defining the next chapter of Canada’s AI leadership”.

ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/…

These were my answers. I’m sure they’re career-limiting, and who knows if they’ll change any outcome of anything, but sufficiently advanced spite is indistinguishable from imagining Sisyphus happy.

exple.tive.org/blarg/2025/10/2…

Back when they invented the DHS after 9/11, many of us in the US said "Dept of Homeland Security? That sounds like some dystopian Nazi-ass shit"

And all the Voices of Reason were like "stop catastrophizing, we need to come together in these trying times"

Flash forward two decades and

gizmodo.com/dhs-little-dark-ag…

DHS Posts Video Featuring Song Popular With Nazi Creators

The agency denied making "Nazi propaganda" in a statement that could be characterized as "very online."

^{Matt Novak (Gizmodo)}

Sensitive content Reveal/hide

On Tuesday 10:00 CET I will do a live-stream and record a completely egocentric and very important video showing off and comparing at least six awards that I have received. Two being gold medals.

twitch.tv/curlhacker

curlhacker - Twitch

I'm Daniel Stenberg, maintainer and lead developer in the curl project. I stream curl related stuff. Release presentations, curl development and related topics.

^Twitch

I'm looking for a non-amazon reader for e-books. Does anyone have any recommendations?

Open to all suggestions but ideally something that doesn't tie me into a particular platform and lets me read indie-published as well as mainstream published books.

I'm an author so have no issue paying for ebooks through online bookshops. While I am trying to avoid giving money to amazon, I am very happy to keep paying authors and publishers!

#ereader #bookstodon #books #reading

@Tutanota@mastodon.social
Hallo.
Ich habe momentan den Premium-Tarif, den es offiziell nicht mehr gibt, da kann ich insgesamt nur eine einzige Signatur für alle Adressen verwenden und auch nur eine einzige eigene Domain hinzufügen.
Da ich inzwischen mehrere Domains habe, reicht mir dieser Tarif nicht mehr aus. Bevor ich jedoch zu einem anderen Anbieter wechsle, informiere ich mich HIER über einen größeren Tarif von euch, da es auf eurer Website leider viel zu wenige Informationen gibt.
Euer Forum in Reddit einzurichten ist auch eine sehr fragwürdige Entscheidung in Bezug auf Big Tech, Datenschutz und Privatsphäre.

Wenn ich Revolutionary buche, kann ich dann jeder E-Mail-Adresse, Aliase und Domain jeweils eine eigene Signatur hinzufügen?
Wenn ich auf Tarif Upgrade gehe, zeigt es mir lediglich eine jährliche Vertragslaufzeit an. Wenn ich ohne Anmeldung auf die Seite gehe, kann ich auch monatliche Vertragslaufzeit auswählen. Warum nicht als Bestandskunde?

#mail #email #tutamail #tuta #tutanota #datenschutz #privatsphäre

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