Migrating here (or maybe keeping both) from @ArcaneSlime@lemmy.ml

Will put an eternal curse on your enemies for a Cinemageddon invite.

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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Well,

    A) “Let’s dissuade people from participating in radical politics” is only during presidential election season, when’s the last time you saw an ad for midterms? The DNC barely participates themselves. Be real.

    B) So? The comment you replied to chose to talk about the presidential election which is no less valid of an interpretation. Maybe they didn’t want to dox themselves more locally than “US,” you are the one who chose to reply to that comment specifically instead of making your own top level comment about midterms.

    C) Almost everyone in this thread interpreted it to be directly about Kamala. It doesn’t mention her by name, no, and yes, all the rest in the DNC are just as incompetent of candidates, but people get mad when you remind them of that and if you agree with me, we’re the outliers here, as sad as that is for a supposed anarchist community. That said, it was likely OP’s intent even without naming her (or it’s an old meme about Biden or Hillary because tbh they KEEP doing it for presidential elections especially like they want to lose.)


  • I mean when talking about presidential candidates running for a presidential election, it does kinda make sense to use “next” even though there is technically another one before then, because the “true next” one doesn’t involve presidential elections. It’s called context. That doesn’t mean that they’re not voting at midterm elections, it just means that they understand that presidents aren’t elected until presidential elections and we can disregard midterms when talking about presidential candidates.

    It’s like saying “I’ll see you at the next baseball game” to your friend when leaving the stadium, and him understanding that you mean the next home game not flying to Chicago to see them play at Wrigley on Tuesday.



  • It’s blocked by all of Australia, Comcast and other US companies, and more, apparently.

    Yeah.

    Imgur, OTOH, hates VPNs. You can get to þe main website, but þeir image server will not serve up images to any Mullvad or ivpn exit node.

    Nah

    7638

    7639

    Not that I’d use imgur anyway, I prefer catbox. Imgur is blocked in the UK too though iirc.

    Also with a VPN it wouldn’t matter if your ISP did block catbox, you’d still see it with your VPN unless maybe their ISP blocks it.


  • Shit even years ago that “open source” part was true. I switched to all open source programs (when possible) even though I was still on windows the second I found out how much better VLC is than everything. That was like '07 lmao. And it indeed was a big reason I stopped being scared of switching to linux, someone told me “dude almost everything you use already runs on linux, you won’t even need to find alts.”

    That’s a good point about WSL though too because afaik that wasn’t around when I switched and I was indeed still scared of the CLI (until I switched and watched a few “linux CLI basics” and “bash basics” youtube videos.) I’ll have to remember to recommend that for those in my old shoes, thanks!






  • I mean I’m not donating but

    based in Lake Forest, serving all of Orange County

    That’s like saying it’s in Italy. Not really narrowing it down…

    Well it actually is more narrow than “country.” Unless we’re admitting “Italy and California” are closer than “Italy and The US,” which actually I agree with but people get mad when you remind them that EU countries are as big as individual states.

    But that aside: It’d be more like saying it’s in Florence, serving all of Tuscany. Actually it’s even less than that since Tuscany is 8,900 square miles and OC is 948 sq mi, but I don’t know Italy that well so it’s the closest I could get. Wiki seems to suggest it may be analogous to the province of Pisa at 945 sq mi.

    “Lake Forest, CA” itself (which is a part of OC) is only 16.79 sq mi, that seems fairly narrow to me. To narrow it down further, the Lake Forest resident responsible for this is “Natalia Boiko,” seems she is a Ukrainian who went to college in Kharkiv, she has a DV case against someone named Oleksii Boiko. It’s not exactly some anonymous thing here I found all this through wiki, linkedin, the 5013c’s website, duck duck go, and unicourt.



  • It’s blocked by all of Australia, Comcast and other US companies, and more, apparently. Found another site through litterbox’s faq (“Are you based on uguu.se?” section). That worked, but then the video seems unplayable from an iPhone even though it’s just an HVEC H.265 MP4 so idfk, I found what I asked for but gave up one step later lol.

    For anyone else with my same OG question however: uguu.se, files last 3 hours. Seems to work in so far as “not blocked,” even if the video in my case is unplayable on an iPhone.






  • I agree for sure. Especially after having so many sent to my old phone number lmao. I have one government thing I can’t even sign up for because “they don’t have a record of me at (current number)” and what am I supposed to do, text my old number “hey bro this used to be my number can you text me the verification code you just received real quick?” It’s madness!




  • This one is good, but one issue (and I hope someone has a fix for me please I’ll love you forever):

    GrayJay

    Authentication
    [YouTube] P:Login required (No fallback)
    Reason: Sign in to confirm your age
    

    NewPipe

    This video is age-restricted. Due to new YouTube policies with age-restricted videos, NewPipe cannot access any of its video streams and thus is unable to play it.
    

    Ytdlnis

    ERROR: [youtube] OC49ZUiuidc: Sign in to confirm your age. This video may be inappropriate for some users. Use --cookies-from-browser or --cookies for the authentication. See  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/FAQ#how-do-i-pass-cookies-to-yt-dlp  for how to manually pass cookies. Also see  https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Extractors#exporting-youtube-cookies  for tips on effectively exporting YouTube cookies
    

    (Note, using these cookies requires an acct, not an effective bypass.)


  • Linux user chiming in as we do: Windows isn’t my back up plan, I’m forced to use it sparingly at work, and rarely vendor lock in forces me to borrow a friend’s pc to update my garmin maps (for example), but it’s not my “plan” and I’m pissed about it. My plan is that vendors develop at least passable linux options for updating shit like that other than “fuck you, use windows loser.”