Let me explain the #OpenSSL #QUIC API move and what it might mean. For #curl and for others.

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We're in an age where important video and audio online may be deleted without warning and without any ability to find it elsewhere. There's a very useful tool which lets you store an offline copy of video and audio called YT-DLP:

github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

I don't normally like command line tools, but this is pretty easy to use. After you've installed it, you just type yt-dlp and then the URL of the video or audio, then it saves it as a DRM-free file on your computer.

It works with a variety of different video and audio platforms.

(This replaces an earlier tool called yt-dl which is no longer maintained.)

#YouTube

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This is something I recommend people do with my videos too, even if I do maintain them locally. Some creators don't want 'anyone to have *my* content, boooo!' I subscribe to a vastly different mindset. If I've put time and effort into making it, I want people to benefit from it if youtube dies, so I actively encourage people to download my stuff. Perhaps I'm just strange like that.

Takže děcka, spustil jsem vstupdofediverse.cz/, který vysvětluje co je Fediverse. #czech #vstupDoFedivese.

@archos dovolil jsem si použít jako příklad mamutovo.cz, pokud nevadí.

Prosím o boost! Díky

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Hallo @Friendica Support mir ist im Monitoring vor ein paar Minuten aufgefallen, dass meine Instanz gerade viel zu tun hat. Also wesentlich mehr, was sonst los ist. Ein Blick im Adminpanel bzw. in die Warteschlange sagt mir, dass aktuell wieder viele "UpdateContact" Jobs am laufen sind. Verstehe ich das richtig, dass diese Jobs einfach nur die Kontakte aktualisiert? Wenn ja, wieso verursacht das so viel Last auf der Maschine? Oder steckt da mehr dahinter?
Cc.: @Michael Vogel

TechCrunch rivela l’esistenza di un altro possibile spyware governativo sviluppato in Italia.

A seguito di una segnalazione da parte di un ricercatore di sicurezza sono infatti state analizzate delle applicazioni Android ed è stata confermata la presenza di uno spyware chiamato Spyrtacus. 🕵️

techcrunch.com/2025/02/13/spyw…

@sicurezza

#UnoTech #Sicurezza

Města na severu USA se připravují na příchod klimatických uprchlíků z jihu země ino.to/YnrOPPr

Question: How many lines of code does it take to get a slider control to expose a text value (i.e. not entirely numeric) to UI Automation (and thus Narrator)?
Answer: more than 200.
Contrast: On the web, we could just do this with a single aria-valuetext attribute.
github.com/jcsteh/osara/pull/1…

I very much welcome quote posts. Despite the fears that some have about it, I believe it’s needed.

What’s important is that the @Mastodon team was mindful about their decision, spending ages simply considering it.

There’s an opt-out, which means those who want it can use it. And those who don’t, can keep it from happening to their posts.

blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/…

#Mastodon #QuotePosts #SocialMedia

Some things to do in the face of what's happening. I think you might like this @GottaLaff

thewhitepages.net/p/thirty-lon…

I contacted ebooks.com to see how I could shop DRM-free ebooks only. They gave me this link: ebooks.com/en-us/drm-free/

I also noticed that if you choose a category when the search results come up, you can turn on a check box in the Filter column to select DRM-Free.

So this looks like it might be a good resource for buying DRM-free books that aren't tied to any app.

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Mueller She Wrote:

⚠️ ATTN FEDERAL WORKERS: I’ll say this again: download all your SF-50s, performance evals, and your eOPF. Now.

Print hard copies.

And make sure you file an informal grievance with your supervisor within 15 days of any adverse action.

Here is a template:
muellershewrote.com/p/informal…

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Trump Official Destroying USAID Secretly Met With Christian Nationalists Abroad in Defiance of U.S. Policy

Now one of the most powerful people in the U.S. government, Peter Marocco’s turbulent tenure during the first Trump administration sheds light on his current efforts to dismantle the American foreign aid system from the inside out.

propublica.org/article/usaid-p…

#News #USAID #Trump #USPolitics #Diplomacy

More "enshittification". This time from Amazon. Amazon is pulling a Google, killing off popular services. Evidently, I have until 25th February to download my 708 books that I have purchased from them. After the 25th you can no longer download YOUR books for backup or transfer via USB

Good job I did this 2 years ago eh? Buy the books from elsewhere.

goodereader.com/blog/kindle/am…

#enshittification #amazon #books #bookstodon

Walmart customer banned from every store in US over self checkout 'watch' trick that let them pay $1 for expensive items
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Now available: Khadas Mind 2s mini PC with 64GB RAM and built-in battery can be transformed into a laptop
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I really enjoyed the first 22 or so chapters of this one. I finished the rest. It got a bit too dark for my taste, though, and the things it was trying to say, combined with the way it was saying them, just didn't quite land for me.

Nemesis Quest [Isekai + LitRPG Satire]by Charmpagne: "Nemesis Engine engaged. Nemesis found... Transporting...
And now that I had EVERYTHING going in the right direction, I'm sucked into another world as a scullery maid because some ex-boyfriend from high school still hates me? Seriously? I was pre-med! I had a family! And a cat!
What do you mean I can have my cat? Well, that's a start...but once I get the hang of this, someone is going to pay because if I'm what you wished for, your genie doesn't like you. Did I mention I can cook?
Finished and Complete" www.royalroad.com/fiction/68328/nemesis-quest-isekai-litrpg-satire

Imagine a free, point-to-point file transfer service with no file size or type limitations. Enter Blip – it's like platform-agnostic AirDrop from anywhere.

podfeet.com/blog/2025/02/blip/

w/ @bart

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The amazing feeling of discovering that The Archive Of Our Own has a character tag for "Fediverse Network/Mastadon Platform (Anthropomorphic)", followed by the disappointment of finding only a single #fanfic using that tag. I wanted to read a bunch of erotic #Misskey#fanfiction about all that forking! Maybe a #GnuSocial#Pleroma slashfic! Or some #GoToSocial and #Mastodon lemons. A #hubzilla and #friendica hurt/comfort fanfic anyone? C'mon, people. The fact a tag exists means we should use it. archiveofourown.org/tags/Fediverse%20Network*s*Mastadon%20Platform%20(Anthropomorphic)/works

Welcome kriztalz as #curl commit author 1343: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1633…
#curl

Minetestbildung ist jetzt auf Matrix Immer wieder haben datenschutzsensible Leute beklagt, dass wir mit einem Open-Source-Projekt discord nutzen. Deshalb haben wir zunächst als Alternative einen öffentlichen Matrix Space gegründet mit verschiedenen Unterkanälen. Auch Videochat ist dort möglich. Erste Anfragen haben uns dort schon erreicht . Beitreten könnt ihr über diesen Link: https://matri… Vollständiger Beitrag: blogs.rpi-virtuell.de/minetest…
##minetest #luanti #matrix
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Hi, Ihr erwähnt die synod.im App mit dem Hinweis, dass sie keine Altersbeschränkung hätte. Soweit ich das verstanden habe, gilt die nur wenn auch synod.im als Homeserver genutzt wird. Euer Space ist doch aber, wenn ich das richtig sehe, auf matrix.org beheimatet...?
Kann sein, dass ich etwas durcheinanderhaue, @csett86@ruhr.social weiss vielleicht Genaueres.

The Gemini protocol is a lightweight alternative to HTTP positioned as a spiritual successor to Gopher. One drawback is that without reuse of TCP connections, every navigation takes several seconds on geostationary satellite Internet.

Read what curl maintainer Daniel Stenberg (@bagder) thinks of Gemini
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/05/28…

#GeminiProtocol #satellite #Gemini #curl

Sheryl Crow sells Tesla in bid to save NPR thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/… thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/…

Did you know that you can easily (re-)setup DAVx5 via QR code by simply using this type of URL to automatically pre-fill the DAVx5 Login screen:

davx5://user@server.example.com/path/

You will need an appropriate QR code scan app like Binary Eye. Read more here: manual.davx5.com/integration.h…

Pro tip: save the QR code somewhere and whenever you want to re-setup simply scan it again ;-). Also great to help other not so tech savvy users by simply giving them a QR code!

  • I knew that, super practical ;-) (4%, 11 votes)
  • Didn't know, that's awesome <3 (95%, 260 votes)
271 voters. Poll end: 10 months ago

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