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by lozf 6y ago
Interesting thanks. Maybe it'll get to Linux one day then. Not that I'm too fussed, I use telegram for larger groups mostly, and secure chats on Signal.
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by lozf 6y ago
Jitsi were using "meet" years before google, way back when Hangouts was still newish and quite good.
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by lozf 6y ago
> E2E is all in the clients But only mobile clients, no E2E on the desktop or for groups sadly.
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by lozf 6y ago
You're right except a few years ago the law was amended to include the licence requirement for watching anything on BBC iPlayer whether live or not. Other streaming services remain free.
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by lozf 6y ago
Both "lifetime", and annual subsciption ring a bell -- I think it may have been platform or location dependent.
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by lozf 6y ago
Same here, floppies and failures! I ended up taking the notebook (a Dell Latitude with 810MB of hard disk) to a friends where we managed to install from a network mounted CD via the parallel port IIRC.
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by lozf 6y ago
noted, thanks
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by lozf 6y ago
Same here back in the early aughts, but it took me a while to really dig in and discover that units also handles times too. e.g. units "sec $(echo $SECONDS)" "day;hr;min;sec"
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by lozf 6y ago
"If privacy coins are outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy coins". (Apologies to Phil Zimmermann.)
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by lozf 6y ago
From a previous discussion I noted that sharedrop.io uses Googles Firebase, and ember.js - this doesn't and has fewer dependencies.
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by lozf 6y ago
Seems Tom Scott's "Oversight: Thank you for volunteering, citizen."[0] (00:02:14) was ahead of it's time. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIuf1V1FhpY
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by lozf 6y ago
It's not necessary to spend to verify, the Bitcoin protocol allows a signed message to demonstrate ownership of the private key for an address.
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by lozf 6y ago
Citizen Eco-Drive (solar powered) available in a range of styles. Mine is also water resistant and keeps better time than any Casio I ever had (including their "radio controlled" version when it was out of range whilst traveling).
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by lozf 6y ago
Pretty sure the only one of those platforms that supports RCS is Android (with Google's newly updated default app, rather than any of the many third party SMS apps).
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by lozf 6y ago
Lossy codecs use psycho-acoustic models designed to encode music so it sounds okay to humans, by discarding frequencies that we're less likely to hear due to masking etc. -- Just need to avoid those frequencies. Having said that the ne
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by lozf 6y ago
Agreed, just mentioning a "technical difference" that could be used to determine if people are watching in real time vs downloading-with-a-tool-that-grabs-everything-as-fast-as-possible. Since this is Google, it's fair to ass
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by lozf 6y ago
Someone already suggested ideas for the future: https://old.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/comments/jktx5b/how_to_an...
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by lozf 6y ago
I just open them with `mpv`, the keyboard controls are great.
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by lozf 6y ago
Apart from bandwidth being used quicker as the HLS/DASH segments are requested from the server at shorter intervals.
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by lozf 6y ago
Youtube only offer audio in either AAC (in a .m4a container) or Opus formats. Since lossy to lossy transcodes always cause some degradation due to the way perceptual codecs discard data, it's always best to use them as-is without conve
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by lozf 6y ago
These days there's the Lightning Network - an off-chain "layer" that enables both fast and small, cheap transactions - perfect for "mundane payments" - and even micro-payments with Bitcoin. It's already usable
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by lozf 6y ago
Bookmarked, thank you kindly!
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by lozf 6y ago
> Can someone remind me which music videos they did not want people to download please? Have a look in your local version at extractors/youtube.py
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by lozf 6y ago
I used to know a German guy that went by Wolf - short for Wolfgang.
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by lozf 6y ago
Yes, they also get location (coarse or fine), media type (text chat, voice or video call), duration, any attachments sent (probably including file type, name and size, and frequency of contact, - all timestamped as you say.
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by lozf 6y ago
Please do!
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by lozf 6y ago
Unfortunately still only 1:1 And on mobile only. E2EE is not available in group chats or on the desktop client.
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by lozf 6y ago
The post at https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/47819/how-can-ph... offers some explanations. I'm pretty sure I've come across different APNs being used before (on the Giffgaff MVNO using O2s UK
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by lozf 6y ago
Serco received 45.8 Million in March (not disclosed until April), and I'm pretty sure they've had more since.
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by lozf 6y ago
Isn't time "merely a man-made method of measuring the motion of the Earth around the Sun?"

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