popman

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by popman 8y ago
> Or look at the Vivian James logo for the site under services. https://sapphire.moe/ Where? I can't see it on that page now.
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by popman 8y ago
`I wrap the entire thing up in some shell script as a .bashrc function which takes a URL, touches the downloaded file (since youtube-dl saves the youtube file modified date), then opens it in vlc. ' Just install mpv, dude. It works rig
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by popman 8y ago
mpv (mpv.io) also has support for using it to stream videos. (play from the internet, rather than downloading) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-with/ is available for firefox and chrom
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by popman 8y ago
Jaywalking isn't a thing here. You can just walk across any road that's not a motorway, as long as you don't get hit by anything. Same with Simple trespass. Although that's the case in a lot of places.
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by popman 8y ago
The UK seems to expect people to panic less in case of a fire, I suppose.
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by popman 8y ago
Thanks for mentioning this. Real nifty.
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by popman 8y ago
The two things I don't see bittorrent utilized for nowadays are livestreaming, and file matching. Sure, there's some demos of bittorrent live, but it's not hit the mainstream yet. 30-60 second stream delay should be plenty of
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by popman 8y ago
Although, this guy did become Nokia's CEO in 2010: http://enwp.org/Stephen_Elop Then, he proceeded to tank the company and make it cheaper to acquire.
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by popman 9y ago
Is there any foolproof way of detecting if some video or audio is a commercial or not? A TV tuner that just replaces commercials with a placeholder image and a countdown to when the break is over would make broadcast TV just about tolerable
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by popman 9y ago
> neither xz nor lzip can correct errors Speaking of which, is there even a unixy way of adding/applying error correction information to a stream or file? Ideally, one should be able to do this in a pipe.
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by popman 9y ago
Personally, I think it should be possible to take a harm-reduction test and get examined by a doctor and get a license to possess certain currently illegal substances. (Taken to it's most extreme, that would also include alcohol and ni
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by popman 9y ago
When I saw this initially, I thought this'd be a bunch of graphs detailing how you would have done to invest using DCA at different times in the past, and at different amounts. I'd be interested in seeing that as well.
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by popman 9y ago
I'm disappointed nobody's made a public version of this yet: https://github.com/jaimeMF/youtube-dl-api-server I'd use the demo server, but its youtube-dl is out of date, and it just feels wrong.
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by popman 9y ago
It's gentoo based. Just because its DE is basically just chrome doesn't make it any less of an OS. Hell, you can even run another OS in a chroot on it. You'll get similar performance if you put your OS on an SSD, and select s