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I need to amend an earlier comment: Newpipe can't play all restricted videos. Quite a few are coming up "sowwy no can do because new Youtube guidelines" while it can still play plenty of "log in to confirm your age" videos.
'No Stupid Questions' (NSQ) Internet & Technology Edition
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What limits how much a video will buffer? I have shitty WiFi signal in some areas of my house so things are slow to buffer. My thought was that should just mean it takes longer to buffer. Yet, for some reason, when I'm in a shitty signal room It will only buffer a small section regardless of how long I wait. I can then play it and when it reaches the end of the buffer it will stutter and start buffering again. If I go to my office near the router it will buffer fully. I'm just curious what causes this? Is there some memory allocation setting? It seems to be related to the signal strength but I'm not exactly sure why.
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Be an adult and pay for the media you wish to consume. You are not entitled to things that other people have created just because they exist. If you can't afford something you want, find alternatives (we live in a golden age of open-source software and freely-available media) or just suck it up.
https://kiwifarms.net/threads/secret-piracy-clubhouse.25136/ have fun giving your computer canceraids (if that link doesn't work for you get good scrub)
Delta Integrale
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At least for Youtube, they introduced something called Dash Playback back in the early part of the last decade that only downloads the next 30 seconds of a video. I imagine it was designed to reduce bandwidth costs because if you watch the first 30 seconds of a 10 min video before moving on to another video, it'll save youtube the cost of delivering 9 mins of video to you. This doesn't really work with shitty connections because you end up watching the content faster than your video player can download it and dash playback fucks you in the ass by not letting you pause and pre-load the entire video. You might find https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp useful if you don't mind waiting for a video to fully finish loading.
Some other streaming companies may have adopted similar technology for similar reasons.
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Archiving was mentioned on the last page I have a tip that is tangentially related to that but for personal use. Not long ago I broke a usb harddrive(turns out it was a Seagate and not WD...), I just use it to ferry things around so nothing important was lost. And I can say that with absolute certainty and that's where my hot tip comes in. I use VoidTools everything for search and other things, I also unclicked "remove offline volumes". This means I can search or straight up browse a mobile drive without having to go get it and plugging it in.
Like "x![:\](/styles/custom/emotes/svg/chris-confused.svg "Confused :\")
torrent movies\_applications_old\old\desktop_2012\pdf\txt" and nope, my old screenshot of saved Chrome passwords with a filename I can't remember isn't in there, no need to reach behind the monitor and struggle to get that fucking USB cable in there. X: is an encrypted container stored on Y: of course, I'm not stupid.
Like "x
torrent movies\_applications_old\old\desktop_2012\pdf\txt" and nope, my old screenshot of saved Chrome passwords with a filename I can't remember isn't in there, no need to reach behind the monitor and struggle to get that fucking USB cable in there. X: is an encrypted container stored on Y: of course, I'm not stupid.
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Hey wondering if anyone has ever used "Immunet" Antivirus before? I finally lost my patience with AVGs bullshit advertising and wondering if immunet was any good
generally when I get sick of bullshit software I just type in "Open source x" and try it since it won't annoy me with trials or licences
generally when I get sick of bullshit software I just type in "Open source x" and try it since it won't annoy me with trials or licences
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Hadn't heard of it before. Its Wikipedia article says it's published by Cisco, which is a legitimate company, but it also says that the product is designed to be run alongside other antivirus programs, for whatever reason. It's also not open-source.
At any rate, it sounds like it'd be good enough if you just need a casual level of protection.
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Background: I know how to build a computer, I was able to google my way through setting up a crypto mining operation with cpu's, gpu's, and asics. I can get around a cli if I have instructions because I have the memory of a goldfish and can't really remember commands even for the shit I do semi regularly.
Context: I took on crypto mining as a tech challenge a few years back when it wasn't even really profitable to do so. The market was flooded with used gpu's at the time and I wanted a project. Now I know all that I really need to know so I really just have everything cruising with the odd hiccup here and there that I need to rectify. I want a new challenge so I'm moving to AI. I want to feed gpt 2 everything I can gather from Null and see what it shits out. I'll call it The Electric Jewsh. Training gpt 2 seems easy enough. I'll have to upgrade my gpu to train the 1558 or whatever it is model on my daily driver, but so be it. I want to do the best I can on free software. The problem is I need tens of megabytes of text to get a good result and the more the better. I have most of the mati episodes already I'm pretty sure. I'll transcribe those. What would be wonderful to have is nearly 25,000 messages posted to the farms.
Question: Is there a way to build a bot to scape Null's posts. I've had a look at the robot.txt and it looks like I'd have to scrape /threads/ but I don't really know about stuff like that. It's kind of the point of the exercise. I'm just an idiot with a dream. Help pls. @Null you probably have no interest in becoming an AI living on my machine, but if you could help out it would be great.
Goal: Use the output to post occasionally to the forum as "The Electric Jewsh." Shits and giggles basically.
Context: I took on crypto mining as a tech challenge a few years back when it wasn't even really profitable to do so. The market was flooded with used gpu's at the time and I wanted a project. Now I know all that I really need to know so I really just have everything cruising with the odd hiccup here and there that I need to rectify. I want a new challenge so I'm moving to AI. I want to feed gpt 2 everything I can gather from Null and see what it shits out. I'll call it The Electric Jewsh. Training gpt 2 seems easy enough. I'll have to upgrade my gpu to train the 1558 or whatever it is model on my daily driver, but so be it. I want to do the best I can on free software. The problem is I need tens of megabytes of text to get a good result and the more the better. I have most of the mati episodes already I'm pretty sure. I'll transcribe those. What would be wonderful to have is nearly 25,000 messages posted to the farms.
Question: Is there a way to build a bot to scape Null's posts. I've had a look at the robot.txt and it looks like I'd have to scrape /threads/ but I don't really know about stuff like that. It's kind of the point of the exercise. I'm just an idiot with a dream. Help pls. @Null you probably have no interest in becoming an AI living on my machine, but if you could help out it would be great.
Goal: Use the output to post occasionally to the forum as "The Electric Jewsh." Shits and giggles basically.
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You'd need to be familiar with programming and XPath, or at least pretty serious shell scripting, but here's how I'd do it.
- curl https://kiwifarms.net/search/member?user_id=1
- Load HTML into an XML DOM Document; query it for the posts on that page
- Access permanent URL of each post and load the post content (note that you get redirected to a page with multiple posts but you can still use the post ID to find the right one)
- Load post content into database
- Back on post list page, look for a "Show Older Posts" button and request its URL; otherwise look for a "Prev" button and use that URL (why tf this forum script does it that way, who knows)
- Repeat, repeat repeat
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I don't want the funny people for this. This is something I actually want to do and not a meme. Well kinda a meme. I know some of those words you used. I guess I'm actually going to have to learn to code for this one or just spend hours copy pasting. Thank you for your answer. It will give me an actual direction to google towards.
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The issue that I see is that the profile page "postings" only loads 7 pages ish per instance, then you have to click the "view older" which generates a new search instance which makes it a bit more annoying to do. instead of writing out the solution for you id tell you what I would do.
- figure out how to bypass captcha: hint. its not hard
- parse this class to find out who many pages to iterate through "pageNavWrapper pageNavWrapper--full"
- write something simple to handle when a the end of iteration look for a button with the text "View older results"
- iterate through each li class in the ol class "block-body" to get what i wanted which would be: threat title, post blurb, post date and perma link
- optional: write a archive.is hook using the memento api
"How to scrape websites using selenium (insert programming language here)"
Moist Unguentine
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I have an annoying problem that occurs randomly. I'm running an ASRock Z390M-ITX MB w/ 32 gigs of ram, an I5-9600K, and a WD 1 TB SSD. Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa with current updates applied.
The system works great until this happens.
- Suddenly goes to all caps/capslock function reverses
- Gets worse to the point the trackball or mouse refuses to click or select properly
- Restart usually works but sometimes a complete shutdown and power off is the only fix
- Swapping keyboards doesn't help
- I've stress tested RAM with no errors. Have also swapped ram stick positions and blown out the entire PC
- Usually occurs when I'm doing multiple tasks involving a lot of keyboard work like text editing, commenting and creating emails at the same time. Can go for weeks without problems until it blows up
All I can come up with is it's USB related, but is it a hardware or software issue? Thanks in advance and apologies if this is the wrong thread.
The system works great until this happens.
- Suddenly goes to all caps/capslock function reverses
- Gets worse to the point the trackball or mouse refuses to click or select properly
- Restart usually works but sometimes a complete shutdown and power off is the only fix
- Swapping keyboards doesn't help
- I've stress tested RAM with no errors. Have also swapped ram stick positions and blown out the entire PC
- Usually occurs when I'm doing multiple tasks involving a lot of keyboard work like text editing, commenting and creating emails at the same time. Can go for weeks without problems until it blows up
All I can come up with is it's USB related, but is it a hardware or software issue? Thanks in advance and apologies if this is the wrong thread.
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Beautiful soup in python is really user friendly. You can use python to set up a background task to “fetch” from a url and then use beautiful soup to parse the html. Given you just want a single post, the “activity” page here would probably have all the info.
Scraping places like this is easy.
But that’s a python option.
There’s other options but most people are comfortably with python
Beautiful Soup: Build a Web Scraper With Python – Real Python
In this tutorial, you'll walk through the main steps of the web scraping process. You'll learn how to write a script that uses Python's requests library to scrape data from a website. You'll also use Beautiful Soup to extract the specific pieces of information that you're interested in.
realpython.com
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So over the course of the next 2-3 years I need to get all of these certifications:
A+
Network+
Security+
CyberSec+
CISSP
I have to pay for this all on my own- unfortunately. From what I understand each one is an exam that costs $300 to take. How would I go about studying for this? I'm essentially trying to shift my career from Linguistics and Education to Cybersecurity and Forensic Accounting outside of a University setting. Any suggestions/advice?
A+
Network+
Security+
CyberSec+
CISSP
I have to pay for this all on my own- unfortunately. From what I understand each one is an exam that costs $300 to take. How would I go about studying for this? I'm essentially trying to shift my career from Linguistics and Education to Cybersecurity and Forensic Accounting outside of a University setting. Any suggestions/advice?
Delta Integrale
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Are you trying to get all of the certifications before applying for a job? Why 2-3 years? I think CISSP has a hard requirement of 5 years of work experience to get it so 2-3 years won't be possible.
You don't really need A+ for cybersecurity, especially if you're semi-competent with computers already. Most help desk jobs where you're handling end-user devices will give you enough experience to cover A+.
Do Security+ > CyberSec+ > Network+ > CISSP
Personally, I wouldn't worry about the cost because it's well worth the return in investment, especially if you make it to CISSP. Even someone with a Security+ working as a tier 1 analyst (the least experienced) can clear 100k pretty easily.
Being familiar with networking concepts in general is extremely useful/relevant. Even Security+ has questions about basic networking concepts but obviously not as indepth as Network+. I can't really recommend any specific youtube channels because most of the content I've run into was through learning portals through my employer but I would suggest starting with videos on the OSI model and going from there (literally just look up how VLANs/NATs/VPNs/etc and how various networking devices work).
In terms of what to study for each test, I like to look at sample questions directly to get an idea of what I would need to study. You'll find many sites with questions directly from the tests that you can practice with. Just look up "<certification name> practice questions>". You should also be able to find some books on libgen for each certification (they might be a few years old but 95% of concepts will still be relevant).
Most importantly, most security jobs value your experience with various tools over your certifications (most people only bother to get certifications once even though they're only supposed to be valid for less than 5 years, no one really goes out of their way to make sure you have a valid one as long as you took it and passed at some point). The certifications only serves to indicate that you're familiar with concepts. Knowing how to work with specific SIEMs and other forensic tools will get you into positions quickly. There's also the expectation that you pick up any new tools at your employer quickly as well. Most companies bring in new tools/technologies quite regularly.
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Could be a weird memory leak of some kind but software bugs shouldn't survive a soft reboot.
One thing people often forget is tiny electrical problems like static electricity building up*, that can make weird shit happen on a software level. It won't kill the machine but it can cause very strange bugs and behavior. That a complete power cycle is sometimes necessary feels, to me, like it's an electrical problem of some kind. It could be static buildup caused by ??? or it could be your motherboard being wonky and causing electrical problems.
*things are assumed to be grounded but sometimes they're not so grounded. Fun times.
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Can anyone recommend a decent small tablet under $300 that I can install Lineage OS on a similar custom rom on? Something easy to find that came out in the last 4-5 years. I currently have a Nexus tablet with Lineage on it and the digitizer is starting to get bad. It's so old, I'm looking to get something newer instead of repairing it.
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I got a projector and for a while, I was using it as a third monitor on the wall using a display port on the computer end and HDMI on the projector and for a while, it was working fine, but now whenever I try to turn the projector on the entire computer tries to run off wireless when the computer and modem are all hard-wired into the net. Windows 10.
Nothing so far as I know. The only thing I can think might have changed is there was a power outage and the plug the projector is plugged in to needed to be turned back on after it happened.
Nothing so far as I know. The only thing I can think might have changed is there was a power outage and the plug the projector is plugged in to needed to be turned back on after it happened.