Software Endorsements

[Fomo Hoire]

It's certainly going to be helpful for keeping track of all the people involved in the various events of Weeb Wars.

It's beautiful. The perfect advertisement.

How tiny does your scrollbar get if you expand all the groups? Are you using all of the pages yet or are they just placeholders?

 

[Bender]

It's beautiful. The perfect advertisement.

How tiny does your scrollbar get if you expand all the groups? Are you using all of the pages yet or are they just placeholders?

TBH I just installed Obsidian and made a ton of folders to make it look like I was doing something productive, but really it was just to be mean and call @AnOminous fat, lol.

Since I've gone through all the effort to make a semi-believable directory layout for a shitpost I guess I may as well do some actual organising, shifting all the Doxemon posts over would be a start. Here's everything fully-expanded and a file being mean to @Dean Pentel.

 

[bippu_as_fuck_ls400]

Can anyone recommend a browser extension or something to get rid of these annoying "accept our cookies" pop ups?

If you're already using uBlock Origin, there's no need to install another extension. In Settings > Filter Lists, there's the Easylist Cookie list which works great. No need to install extra extensions if you don't have to.

 

[Gar For Archer]

Brave’s been talked about already, but I’m going to specifically call out the iOS version (presumably the same applies for Android but I haven’t used it so I can’t confirm) for automatically blocking YouTube ads and allowing videos to continue playing in the background AND in an overlay on top of your screen, both features that Google specifically gimped from the mobile site to scam people into paying for YouTube Red.

Even if you don’t want to use it as your main browser, it’s the most accessible free and easy way to get a non-shitty experience watching YouTube on your phone.

 

[Blood Bath & Beyond]

Not sure if it's been mentioned by anyone else yet, but Youtube-dl is essentially dead (hasn't been updated in months). Just realized this when trying to download something and was only getting download speeds of around 70kb\s. So I looked around a bit and found a fork that seems to be regularly maintained and updated which gave me respectable download speeds. Youtube-dl is dead. Long live YT-DLP!

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

Not sure if it's been mentioned by anyone else yet, but Youtube-dl is essentially dead (hasn't been updated in months). Just realized this when trying to download something and was only getting download speeds of around 70kb\s. So I looked around a bit and found a fork that seems to be regularly maintained and updated which gave me respectable download speeds. Youtube-dl is dead. Long live YT-DLP!

So THAT is why MPV is acting up. Thanks for pointing this out!

 

[bippu_as_fuck_ls400]

TubeUp uploads videos to Internet Archive with the metadata.

Link: tubeup
This software works great. It is very simple to use and employs yt-dlp to download, so it is compatible with a wide variety of sites. There are some privacy issues which need to be mentioned before using it though. Once you mitigate those issues, I'd certainly recommend it. This also runs fine with termux on Android. Thanks for mentioning it so long ago.

WARNING:
Only use this program with a VPN or torsocks! If you are using this program with YouTube (and possibly other sites), the .info.json file uploaded to archive.org and visible to the public contains the IP address of the computer that you are running this on. The IP address is exposed in the link to the video on the google servers in the info.json file:

https://r2---sn-ab5szn76.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=xxx&ei=xxx&ip=000.000.000.000&id=xxx&blahblahblah

The other thing to mention is the email associated with your IA account is publicly visible in the meta.xml file on archive.org. Like all other websites, practice good opsec and use a new email for every site you use online.

There is a mention on the tubeup webpage mentioning the local username being exposed in uploaded info, but I can't find it in any files. Perhaps that bit is outdated (the readme still references youtube-dlc in places, so it is likely). It is always a good idea to name your local user account 'user' to avoid those types of accidental or inadvertant exposures anyway.

 

[DiggieSmalls]

Redis
Omg redis
If there’s anything in this world that makes it easy to be a shit programmer it is redis

PubSubs, fast cache hash sets, data crash integrity. It just works.

 

[mrdk_04]

Does anyone know of a replacement for Areca Backup? Last release dates from August 2015.
I've heard Duplicati is an apt replacement, but would appreciate other (or better) suggestions.

Besides that, I've slated an installation of a program called "Monolith" many months ago, but have no idea what it is.

 

[Miller]

Not sure if it's been mentioned by anyone else yet, but Youtube-dl is essentially dead (hasn't been updated in months). Just realized this when trying to download something and was only getting download speeds of around 70kb\s. So I looked around a bit and found a fork that seems to be regularly maintained and updated which gave me respectable download speeds. Youtube-dl is dead. Long live YT-DLP!

YT-DLP also allows you to download age-restricted videos from Youtube.

 

[AnOminous]

So I looked around a bit and found a fork that seems to be regularly maintained and updated which gave me respectable download speeds. Youtube-dl is dead. Long live YT-DLP!

I can confirm this, I started getting speeds that made me think my VPN had failed.

 

[Frail Snail]

Speaking of youtube-dl, if you want to watch something and archive it at the same time from the UNIX commandline:
yt-dlp https://video.url -o - | tee filename.fmt | mpv -

You can keep your usual flags for it, just don't forget the stdout one at the end.

 

[MysticLord]

Can someone recommend me add-ons or extensions or whatever for Brave that gives me:

• A bookmark menu button?
• The URL bar above tabs?
• A menu bar above the URL bar and tabs?
• The minimize/maximize/close/header bar above the menu bar?
• The ability to turn javascript on and off on a per-site basis?
• Un-fucked-with URLs unlike those found on for instance google search?
• Anything else you like that makes web browsing less asinine and de-mobile-izes the web browsing experience?

 

[Bender]

Can someone recommend me add-ons or extensions or whatever for Brave that gives me:

• A bookmark menu button?
• The URL bar above tabs?
• A menu bar above the URL bar and tabs?

I'm pretty sure all of those are available in the default interface, likely in the settings somewhere

• The ability to turn javascript on and off on a per-site basis?

uMatrix

• Un-fucked-with URLs unlike those found on for instance google search?

ClearURLs (I'm not entirely sure what you mean, so here's my best guess)

• Anything else you like that makes web browsing less asinine and de-mobile-izes the web browsing experience?

Decentraleyes (has local copies of jquery.js and stuff like that, and intercepts requests for remote jquery.js files and uses a local one instead)
Web Archives (useful for archiving pages or, if a page is unavailable, seeing if various websites have a copy)
Desktop Everywhere (handy for m.wikipedia.org links, and the like)
SponsorBlock (practically necessary when watching 90% of big YouTubers)

 

[MysticLord]

I'm pretty sure all of those are available in the default interface, likely in the settings somewhere


uMatrix


ClearURLs (I'm not entirely sure what you mean, so here's my best guess)


Decentraleyes (has local copies of jquery.js and stuff like that, and intercepts requests for remote jquery.js files and uses a local one instead)
Web Archives (useful for archiving pages or, if a page is unavailable, seeing if various websites have a copy)
Desktop Everywhere (handy for m.wikipedia.org links, and the like)
SponsorBlock (practically necessary when watching 90% of big YouTubers)

I go through all the settings once a month or so and I haven't found them anywhere. Brave is a fork of Chrome, it uses the Chrome add-on store though it lacks user.css or whatever that's called in Chrome. There's also no equivalent to aboutonfig.

I seriously doubt that Brave will ever look at desktop as anything but an afterthought, but every Firefox fork except Seamonkey is fucking dead so I need something that I can retrain myself on with the least frustration.

Having a bookmark menu button is the only thing that's non-negotiable, the rest I can do with keyboard shortcuts but I hate clicking twice and having to think to see my bookmarks and edit them.

 

[ditto]

Firefox fork except Seamonkey is fucking dead

REJECT MOZILLA
RETURN TO SEAMONKE

 

[bippu_as_fuck_ls400]

Decentraleyes (has local copies of jquery.js and stuff like that, and intercepts requests for remote jquery.js files and uses a local one instead)

Development has slowed down on Decentraleyes, LocalCDN is a fork that covers a larger number of frameworks and cdns. Give it a try.

every Firefox fork except Seamonkey is fucking dead so I need something that I can retrain myself on with the least frustration.

I've said it before in a number of threads, but ff is still fine if you take the time to setup and use a custom user.js like the one from arkenfox. As long as mozilla allows custom user.js files to be loaded, all of their tranny bloat/calls to home/etc can be nullified. The key is to actually sit down and read how to use the script, how to use the updater, etc. It may be tempting to skip over the steps on the wiki, but it saves a lot of time in the future if you do it right the first time. All of the options in the user.js are extensively commented on and contain suggestions on which to enable/disable if you encounter broken website features. There's no need to give up ff quite yet if you aren't quite ready to let it go.

 

[MysticLord]

I gave up on DIY computing in 2017 and now want things to Just Werk.

 

[Blood Bath & Beyond]

I go through all the settings once a month or so and I haven't found them anywhere. Brave is a fork of Chrome, it uses the Chrome add-on store though it lacks user.css or whatever that's called in Chrome. There's also no equivalent to aboutonfig.

I seriously doubt that Brave will ever look at desktop as anything but an afterthought, but every Firefox fork except Seamonkey is fucking dead so I need something that I can retrain myself on with the least frustration.

Having a bookmark menu button is the only thing that's non-negotiable, the rest I can do with keyboard shortcuts but I hate clicking twice and having to think to see my bookmarks and edit them.

Just use Ungoogled-Chromium and install Chromium Web Store with it. It's Chromium with all the Google creeper shit removed and still provides all the lazy quality of life shit you need. It just works.

It's fairly easy to build it from source if you want, but they also have binaries released by the community if you scroll down the readme and look for the link. Precompiled binaries are available for Arch, Debian, Manjaro, Windows, MacOS, as AppImage and there is also a fork around for Android.

 

[ditto]

Just use Ungoogled-Chromium and install Chromium Web Store with it. It's Chromium with all the Google creeper shit removed and still provides all the lazy quality of life shit you need. It just works.

NOTE: These binaries are provided by anyone who are willing to build and submit them. Because these binaries are not necessarily reproducible, authenticity cannot be guaranteed; In other words, there is always a non-zero probability that these binaries may have been tampered with. In the unlikely event that this has happened to you, please report it in a new issue.

It would be better if they could provide a diff and scripts like GNU Iceweasel used to do for Firefox and then build it automatically with GitHub Actions rather than rely on internet randos to upload binaries.