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I'm annoyed. I know there's a thread with tips for uploading videos of different formats on this site, but I can't for the life of me find the fucking thing. I remember seeing it in passing, but now I can't remember what it's called and I don't want to create another thread if there's already one that exists.

I have a bunch of FLV videos I want to upload onto the Spoony thread. Little help?
 
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WebLurker said:
I'm annoyed. I know there's a thread with tips for uploading videos of different formats on this site, but I can't for the life of me find the fucking thing. I remember seeing it in passing, but now I can't remember what it's called and I don't want to create another thread if there's already one that exists.

I have a bunch of FLV videos I want to upload onto the Spoony thread. Little help?
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Probably not what you're looking for, but these threads might help:
https://kiwifarms.net/threads/archival-tools.6561/post-441678
https://kiwifarms.net/threads/how-to-upload-videos-on-kiwi-farms.89480/
 
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Temperance XIV said:
Probably not what you're looking for, but these threads might help:
https://kiwifarms.net/threads/archival-tools.6561/post-441678
https://kiwifarms.net/threads/how-to-upload-videos-on-kiwi-farms.89480/
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Thanks for the response, but these don't help me unfortunately. I downloaded the videos way back in 2010 when mp4 wasn't always a downloading option and now most sites won't allow me to upload them.

I'll have to source a converter or something and reformat them into mp4 somehow. *sigh*
 
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my thoughts are absolutely nonsense, but they make sense to me. Every time I think about her, that fucking song plays on one of the radio presets in my car. It knows.
 
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Quantum Diabetes said:
I caved and bought a shortwave radio, almost immediately I found a conspiracy Alex Jones kind of broadcast on 4840 I think, it was refreshingly insane.
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Welcome to the DXer club! I've encountered plenty of interesting shit on shortwave over the past few years, including the almighty Buzzer, as well as the S06s numbers station. Admittedly, if you're in the US you probably won't find much beyond Alex Jones, HAMs (and probably not the Russian and Ukrainian HAMs that treat 7055 KHz as the designated shitposting frequency) and maybe CB-ers if your radio covers the CB band. And STANAGs ofc. These are fucking everywhere.

And you just chose a great time, as we're approaching solar maximum, so you might hear CB-ers very far away via F2 skip. But you also want a better antenna than the built in telescopic antenna, if your radio has an antenna jack. And it's also a great excuse to go outside in the nature where there's much less radio noise. Been there, done that.
Don't worry if your radio doesn't have single sideband, just get some cheapo Chinesium shortwave radio and put it close to your other radio. The Chinesium one will generate its own weak RF carrier from its local oscillator which can be used to "convert" SSB signals into SSB signals with carrier, which is good enough for even regular radios...so long as the tuning dial is not wobbly and vague like on a shitty Steepletone radio that I have.
 
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I'm pooping again. Cold sweat running down my face. Feelings gone from my legs. There's a faint angelic choir in the distance.
 
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Engine #2102 of the Reading Blue Mountain & Northern has been restored to full operation.

It had been "retired" in 1991 to museum piece status when it's boiler reached the end of it's safe maintenance interval. Fortunately, restoring it was a passion project of the railroad, and they were willing to pay the $1 million price tag over the years to slowly refurbish it in stages.

Last month, they had it pull an actual revenue freight train down the line as a kind of "shakedown cruise" before going back into regular excursion service.

And yes, they threw an old-school caboose on the end, why not?



A 4-8-4 "Northern" type locomotive is no joke here in PA, about the biggest non-articulated large-driver wheel arrangement you could run on Northeastern tracks due to sharp curves and grades.

So, why's that interesting? Well, there's a family connection to that engine. My Grandfather worked in the Reading engine shops and that was the last engine he helped to build and maintain before he and all the other boilermen like him got pink slips when the railroad went to all-diesel locomotives in 1956. It's interesting to think that some of those rivets are ones he helped put in back when my Dad was only a kid and I was only a statistical probability.
 
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