'No Stupid Questions' (NSQ) Internet & Technology Edition

Roman Gunt Guard said:
It's easier to use obs to capture a live stream, go back a few seconds to what you want to clip on the live stream , start recording on OBS , Stop Recording at the end of your clip, File to REMUX recordings, then find clip and upload to farms.
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I just learned that "clipping" in this context didn't mean what I thought it did. Thanks!
 
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Hepativore said:
So, there was a package of really cool and bizarre screensavers called After Dark that was originally released in the early-90's by a company called Berkeley Systems. At first. After Dark was available exclusively for Macintosh, but eventually it was released for Windows. Unfortunately, the last and final edition of After Dark, 4.0 was released way back in 1998 for Windows NT for PC users and Barkley Systems is no more. I cannot seem to get it to work with Windows 10 no matter how many compatibility options I try, and running the After Dark executable makes Windows 10 bring up the monitor options window instead of running the program.

Has anybody gotten this to work on modern PCs without setting up a Virtual Machine? I am specifically after the Satori screensaver. I know that screensavers are obsolete, but After Dark is very nostalgic for me.

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I've found a couple of articles that could be useful.

www.computerworld.com

Modify classic screensavers to use with Windows 10 and 8.1 for retro fun

How to use and customize old screensavers in Windows 8.1 and 10
www.computerworld.com www.computerworld.com
 
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I'm asking here because I didn't want to scare away the gamerword cattle with the FUD. In the sticky the Feeder says he wants us to use Brave and opt into ads, but my qualm with ads is tracking and datamining. Can any certified Brave™ users comment on whether opting into ads would turn me into the product?
Dr. Octogonapus said:
Is it just me, or do search engines suck shit nowadays? I dunno, I remember back in the ye olden days of the late 2000's - early 2010's, you could search "free photoshop cs3" like you were drunk and still get results. I'm not even looking for pirated stuff, usually I'm trying to find archives or art references. And it only comes up with the most surface level shit. I know Google was censoring the fuck out of it's engine. But god damn.

I tried Yandex but it was kind of a pain getting Russian stuff half the time. I can't remember what I didn't like about DuckDuckGo. And I've been recommended Qwant but the French are cucks and they blacklisted the Farms.
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wrong thread
 
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Dick Justice said:
I'm asking here because I didn't want to scare away the gamerword cattle with the FUD. In the sticky the Feeder says he wants us to use Brave and opt into ads, but my qualm with ads is tracking and datamining. Can any certified Brave™ users comment on whether opting into ads would turn me into the product?

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Ah damn, should of searched it before hand. Thank you!
 
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Are there any good ways of locating unlisted videos on YouTube?

There's a creator that I've been archiving and for some reason he's gotten kind of faggy and unlisted three of his videos because they're too funny. I know the names of the videos and the approximate date they were released, but they are no longer listed in any playlist and I don't think anyone else has archived his stuff. I've even got the URLs for two of them, but they are private and I can't download them with any tools that I know of.
 
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Dammit Mandrake! said:
Are there any good ways of locating unlisted videos on YouTube?

There's a creator that I've been archiving and for some reason he's gotten kind of faggy and unlisted three of his videos because they're too funny. I know the names of the videos and the approximate date they were released, but they are no longer listed in any playlist and I don't think anyone else has archived his stuff. I've even got the URLs for two of them, but they are private and I can't download them with any tools that I know of.
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If videos are privated then that's it, nothing can be done as far as I'm aware. If they're unlisted then it's a bit different, I don't know if they've changed it but Google's video search used to index and link to unlisted youtube videos.
 
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Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
If videos are privated then that's it, nothing can be done as far as I'm aware. If they're unlisted then it's a bit different, I don't know if they've changed it but Google's video search used to index and link to unlisted youtube videos.
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Thanks for the info. Yeah the videos are definitely private, not just unlisted. It's a bummer to see this particular YouTubers do something like this.

While I'm here, anyone have opinion on Tixati? I've got a million-year-old version on my system right now, not sure if I want to upgrade it and start using it again. Or maybe it is better off using the old version.
 
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Dammit Mandrake! said:
Thanks for the info. Yeah the videos are definitely private, not just unlisted. It's a bummer to see this particular YouTubers do something like this.

While I'm here, anyone have opinion on Tixati? I've got a million-year-old version on my system right now, not sure if I want to upgrade it and start using it again. Or maybe it is better off using the old version.
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To be honest, I don't know why you'd use a proprietary torrent client when there are a bunch of good open source ones around. I like qBittorrent, personally.

I'm reading on Wikipedia here that it has encrypted chatrooms where users share magnet links? Are the chatrooms very active? I could see it being a useful way to share torrents and fly under the radar. Torrent traffic is unencrypted and you can see the ip of everyone you are connected to. So someone working for the RIAA, for example, can go on the pirate bay open a torrent, see the IPs of everyone connected and send notices to their ISPs. The person working for the RIAA can't get those IPs if they can't even find the torrent, so in this way I could see Tixati being very useful.

I'd be very wary of some of their claims though. It's closed source and most of the claims on the Wikipedia article either link back to the developer's site or are uncited. Is the chat actually well encrypted?
 
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Never Scored said:
To be honest, I don't know why you'd use a proprietary torrent client when there are a bunch of good open source ones around. I like qBittorrent, personally.

I'm reading on Wikipedia here that it has encrypted chatrooms where users share magnet links? Are the chatrooms very active? I could see it being a useful way to share torrents and fly under the radar. Torrent traffic is unencrypted and you can see the ip of everyone you are connected to. So someone working for the RIAA, for example, can go on the pirate bay open a torrent, see the IPs of everyone connected and send notices to their ISPs. The person working for the RIAA can't get those IPs if they can't even find the torrent, so in this way I could see Tixati being very useful.

I'd be very wary of some of their claims though. It's closed source and most of the claims on the Wikipedia article either link back to the developer's site or are uncited. Is the chat actually well encrypted?
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I don't know anything about chat rooms. That's probably not something I'd ever use for torrenting. I downloaded it years ago and used it to download the files and just rediscovered it. And I use a VPN thing.
 
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Whenever I right click and open a link in a new tab, Brave opens that link in a new tab but it also opens a new window in private browsing (or whatever it's called) mode, with tor. There's an onion link that pops up in there too, something related to Brave as it has that word in the url tab.

Windows 10 //if you know of something quick I can run in powershell to give you more detailed OS info, post it
Brave V1.32.115
 
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Has anyone run into your browser constantly waiting for a url called "meetlookup.com"? Brave randomly started shitting the bed taking forever to load, and I only noticed it even existed because that little "waiting for ###.com" message in the corner wouldn't fuck off. I tried doing a whois lookup, but every bit of info besides that it's (supposedly) hosted in Reykjavik has been "withheld for privacy reasons."

I tried searching for more info, but all I could find was like two StackOverflow threads asking the same thing I am. I'd run a packet sniffer or something to see what it's trying to do, but I'm too tech illiterate to understand anything I'd see, so I wound up redirecting it to localhost in my hosts file and Brave immediately started loading as fast as it used to, probably because the site proper doesn't work right.
 
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cummytummies said:
I think I broke my secondary monitor.

It had a smudge on it, so I wiped it off with a wet rag. I think I got some water on the capacitive buttons because the screen turned on while I was cleaning it. Nothing seemed wrong, though, and I used it for 8 hours after that.
When I got up to leave the computer, I tried pressing the capacitive power button. The monitor wouldn't turn off. I put the computer to sleep, and the monitor did not display the "no signal" message but rather stayed on displaying a black screen.

The monitor has no physical on/off switch so I disconnected the power cord. Now the monitor won't turn on. Windows recognizes it's plugged in, and connecting/disconnecting the Display Port cord briefly flashes another monitor proving something is being detected by the PC. Nothing is displayed on the screen, though, and the backlight isn't on. I'm still able to move windows onto the monitor or take screenshots of it just like it's there and everything's normal.

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Is there anything I can do? What should I try? It's a Dell U2415.
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Did it resolve itself or is it completely dead?
 
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I have no fucking clue what's going on with my internet right now - I can access sites like Youtube and the Farms, but can't open sites like twitter or gmail. Have I fucked something up or is this happening for anybody else?
 
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Coelacanth said:
I have no fucking clue what's going on with my internet right now - I can access sites like Youtube and the Farms, but can't open sites like twitter or gmail. Have I fucked something up or is this happening for anybody else?
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Twitter and Gmail are working fine for me. Did you try a different browser?
 
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