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Re:LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer
on Thursday April 02, 2026 @10:24AM (#47614939)
Depends on what lists you use. If you use uBlock Origin, and enable most of the lists, it'll target both.
Show HN: Urban Stats
https://urbanstats.org/index.html
This is a project one of my friends has been working on for a while. The goal is to aggregate data from the U.S. census and some other sources across basically any sort of region/administrative boundary/district/statistical area one could imagine in the United States. This is comparable to (and created somewhat out of frustration with) the U.S. Census's Quickfacts, but with way more types of...
Re:YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git
on Sunday October 25, 2020 @11:06AM (#24886818)
> They don't use HTTP. HTTP is used to bootstrap the player, not to feed the content. The content itself is served over another protocol such as RTMP and that protocol is a streaming protocol (it sends chunked data) and it wasn't intended for downloading files and writing them to disk as a singular binary blob. Obviously it can be used that way but it's fair to say services like youtube-dl are using the protocol in ways it wasn't originally intended to be used rather than content owners serving content on a protocol that was always designed for distributing files.
Not true at all, most YouTube videos are offered as plain webm files.
Also, keep in mind that recording TV's is legal.
Re:Media Owned by Wealthy Are Quick to Tell You Wealth Taxes Are a Bad...
on Thursday October 22, 2020 @01:58PM (#24861028)
Most people are already hit by "wealth taxes", except they are regressive - it's called "property tax".
Re:Gitter is joining Matrix
on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @12:17PM (#24640380)
There's matrix-ircd which exposes Matrix servers as an IRC server. So, I'm pretty sure what you want already exists.
Pleroma 2.1
Re:Mastodon: Add end-to-end encryption API
on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @02:44PM (#23314920)
I run the server busshi.moe, if you sign up there I can manually confirm your account if you use a fake email. Mastodon has no option to disable requiring an email, but Pleroma does.
Re:We Are Trying Out PeerTube
on Sunday May 10, 2020 @11:21PM (#23138615)
That's what PeerTube does already - it uses webseeds. You can pretty easily set it up so videos are served through a CDN.