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  • Invidious is just an alternative frontend, much like Piped. It’s against YouTube’s ToS but that does not need to concern you (in most jurisdictions, you can’t get prosecuted for using or recommending a website that breaches a civil contract). The videos are still being pulled from YouTube’s servers so only those YouTube will serve are available (albeit under conditions YT would not approve of, such as without ads, with free broader playback speed options etc.). However, the server’s location can be used to bypass region-locked YouTube videos, which might be considered priracy.

    Also, there are client-side alternative frontends like NewPipe, Revanced (modified official proprietary Android app) and Grayjay (with optional features like Subscription Exchange and Polycentric integration relying on FUTO servers).



  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgtoSuperbowl@lemmy.worldPeek-a-boo Baby
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    This is about a week before they stopped shrieking and started living on their own, so not really babies anymore. Here’s one of their parents, a shitty 1.6MP photo from a 15-year-old camcorder. I don’t have the storage to process the (720p) videos right now.

    I feel sorry for disturbing it, it clearly needed a rest from 3 weeks of care. And this was a small tree, just some 6 m above me, any recent DSLR with a telephoto/zoom lens could have made a picture as good as the one in the post. The younglings were higher up though (some 15 m diagonal line-of-sight), you can tell they’re in a dense linden as opposed to a bare branch of a walnut tree… And they wanted to take a look at me, bobbing and circling their heads… Unfortunately the real action is at dusk, the only video I have of them eating and flying is a blurry, noisy silhouette…





  • Don’t forget how this cartoon originated:

    • 2021-01-06: Failed coup by pro-Trump degenerates storming the Capitol (Trump denies involvement but his tweets from the day definitely played a role, as decided during the impeachment proceedings in the following week).
    • 2021-01-08 Trump is banned from Twitter in wake of the scandal.
    • 2021-01-08 Donald Trump Jr. tweets: “We are living Orwell’s 1984. […]” (Yes, shown as Jan 9 shortly after midnight but that’s in UTC)
    • 2021-01-09 Conservative artist Gary Varvel publishes this cartoon.









  • We’ve been using Classic Shell since Day 1 of course. I modded it to quit qBittorrent when Mom opens the Shutdown dialog* (yes, she always opens that awful window) because that takes the longest to terminate. I’ll use it plus Explorer Patcher on 10, a semi-transparent taskbar without blur is so handy

    * Classic Shell Start Menu can run arbitrary and predefined commands from buttons but not both at once. The Shutdown dialog can only be triggered with a predefined CSSM command or JS script so I’m using a VBS script (unlike BAT or JS, it can run silently) that runs the JS script and taskkill command.




  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldImage unrelated
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    Our family PC still has 8.1 (parents really don’t like change and Firefox got security updates until recently). I think I’ll upgrade it to 10 when I have time, the amount of debloat required to keep it sane is manageable as opposed to 11. Mom could handle mildly riced XFCE Linux with Firefox and our legal copy of Office 2007 under Wine but dad uses Total Commander and won’t use anything other than drive letters.