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It’s wild to see Chrome going from the browser to use if you had any tech sense whatsoever to being universally derided.

Safari also has it built in. This person is just saying shit to say shit I guess.

Exactly this.

@uranibaba@lemmy.world, I self host my media server, my *aars, my Usenet client, Home Assistant, dns server, and have some loud af r710s for standing up test AD and simulated network environments. My website is hosted on Google Cloud, moved from AWS bc free tier ran out and g cloud is like $0.42 a month. It’s just whatever makes sense for the thing being hosted.

I mean if my options were “Roku level ad invasion” and “Let Tim Apple own this ass every time I boot up an Apple TV” I’d be starting my power bottom fiber regimen yesterday, but you do you boo.

Ah. I appreciate the context. Now my confusion is just shifted from Roku to California legislators. I can appreciate future proofing a law, but this seems a bit on the nose.

If you have files with a bunch of different formats and codecs you don’t want to use anything Roku, your direct play options are extremely limited. This becomes almost a hard requirement when dealing with hevc 4K hdr/dv stuff unless you’ve got a server with quicksync or some oomph.

I’m probably going to get a lot of derision for this because it’s Lemmy, but for wide direct play coverage you either want an Nvidia Shield or an Apple TV 4K. I like the Apple TV solution, and everyone in my household is familiar with the UI. The Shield is the only one of the two to support Atmos audio if you have ceiling or upward firing speakers. It’s also not apple if you’re ideologically opposed to owning Apple products.

I’m not surprised you fell back to a Roku box from the built in TV apps, but if you’re going to go for a dedicated streaming box Roku, Firesticks/Firecubes, and Chromecasts should be the last resort due to ads in the experience and codec support.

Super weird. I would assume that olfactory sensors would cost more per TV than Roku would make by collecting the data. Afaik there’s no such thing as electronic olfactory sensors per se anyway. In before labs start buying Roku TVs because they all have gas chromatography machines inside them.

I have an LG GX and have never experienced this. I’d assume the G line and up won’t have this issue, and to my knowledge even the lower tier C models don’t have this issue. A friend of mine recently got a C3 (I think, idk what they’re up to yet, maybe 4? It’s the newest C model) and it doesn’t have this ad issue either.

xxd

In the before times, they did. If you can handle old graphics (which doesn’t seem like something that should be a problem but apparently is) check out the of Brothers in Arms games, specifically Road to Hill 30, Earned in Blood, and Hells Highway.

Those games were Gearbox at its best imo.

Just in case anyone reading this is unaware, this is not a Novalogic Delta Force game. Tencent bought the name/IP, initiated delisting of all the good Novalogic games from Steam etc., and pumped out this stupid ass “game”. Hopefully it dies faster than Concord.

I just max all the volume sliders and use voicemeeter to control the volume levels of the different audio sinks. Although I guess that doesn’t help if you’re trying to leave game sfx audio at max volume but lower in game music or something.

Damn. You’ve given me a vision of a future where people call applications that are installed locally and don’t leverage any cloud/server backend for any functionality “self-hosted” programs and I hate it.

It is pretty easy. There’s tons of tutorials and walkthroughs for doing it, but anyone familiar with UIs will be able to work it out pretty quickly I think. Maybe a friction point in using the filter query, but again there’s tons of walkthroughs and guides for using it online.

If you can’t conceptualize a packet, or sockets, or network flows, even with the help of online guides/manuals, I guess it wouldn’t be easy. In that case I’d be wondering why someone would want to use those tools in the first place though, as then they probably wouldn’t have the skills necessary to leverage the information gleaned from the tool in any useful way.

Edit - As we’re in the self-hosted community, I’d argue that anyone who is self-hosting anything would probably be able to easily install wireshark and view http requests, both individual packets and the stream as a whole.

Yeah, this is interesting to me. Google and Cloudflare are for-profit companies that have presence in the EU at minimum, and probably France directly as well although I don’t know that for sure. If they refused to comply, France can fine their local EU subsidiary and block their ability to receive payments from eu entities.

Quad9 is a not-for-profit located in Switzerland. I wouldn’t expect them to need local subsidiaries, as they aren’t doing business in the EU or anywhere else. The France could fine them, but they’d have no way of collecting if Quad9 refused to pay right? It’s a free service, so there’s nothing to block on the payment processor side that would prevent French users from accessing it. You’d have to blackhole all traffic to the quad9 IPs on a national level right?

I don’t have a cengage account, so I can’t actually do do anything with the Python and test it, and I’m obviously unaware of the http responses you get from the site or how any of it works.

Two things jumped out at me while glancing through the script though. First, you close the login tab, then when you try to parse the html content from the ebook tab you reference tab [1]. I usually use the requests library bc I’m posting payloads and stuff so I rarely use selenium, and I’ve never fucked with tabs, but with the first tab closed won’t the ebook tab be first in the index, so [0]? Second, look up how to set a proxy for selenium, download the community edition of burp suite, then proxy all your traffic in the script through burp. You’ll then be able to see all your http requests and all the http responses from the server, which will probably help you debug much more effectively.

Edit - if you even care anymore haha.

Respect for editing your previous comment, while leaving the original text struck through, in light of your newly learned context on this person.

Side note, as time goes on I realize that a lot of people who I looked up to in my youth, specifically people that espoused a free and open internet, public ownership of knowledge and learning resources, basically all the hacker ethos stuff, wind up having a side to them along these lines. Maybe it’s a racist neo-nazi ideology like Dotcom, maybe it’s the defense of CSA materials like Aaron Schwartz, but it always feels like something.

With the amount of unmoderated nazi and neo-nazi stuff on Steam I’ve seen since I made the account for HL2 and the recent interest Congress has taken in it, I’m worried this trend is going to continue and we’ll learn some heinous shit about Gabe Newell.

You can click on that link and view the changelog if you want. There didn’t seem to be a whole ton related to YouTube specifically, although that version does remove oauth support for YouTube as it’s irrevocably broken by Google apparently.

I just installed it out of curiosity. The watchlist is the page that has your up next stuff in the first line, then like new movies added to your movies library, new shows in your tv library, etc. The discover section is what you’re talking about, and it’s still on its own discrete section.

The Steam community stuff existed well before Lemmy, or even Reddit as far as I can remember. As toxic as it can be, it can also be helpful. The forums are broken down per game, I’ve found answers to getting games working on ultrawide monitors and stuff before, and fixes for other random game-specific issues.

There’s also the steam workshop, as well as the marketplace, I guess you’ve never seen the +rep stuff commented on people’s profiles?

I get what you’re saying, I think every time I’ve landed on a steam community post it’s been from a search page in my browser, never going there directly on Steam lol. You not using it is a completely valid thing, but it exists and it shouldn’t be filled with hate speech and neo nazi bullshit.

Side note, I used to volunteer as a sysadmin, maintaining a Hell Let Loose server for a clan, and wound up running double duty as an in-game admin for them also. The amount of times I’d have to look up somebody’s steam profile because they dropped some suss shit in text chat, only to find full on WW2 nazi shit in their usernames, profile pictures, about section, or groups they were members of was astronomical. It was an everyday occurrence. I get that a “realistic” (used to be, rip) WW2 shooter is going to self-select those people to a certain degree, but after seeing how many people were willing to just put that pathetic bullshit on display in their public profile I wasn’t surprised by this headline at all.

I reported every profile like that I came across, and I almost never got a “user does not exist” page indicating they had been banned when I followed up. The profile was usually just turned to private, and rarely left public but sanitized.