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

ATI Escapee said:
Is there any possible way to view someone's facebook without an account? I know it became impossible once they cracked down on the data crawlers but has any autist since then figured it out? Honestly I want to snoop on a family member who went batshit insane and might have gotten into some sort of mail order bride situation without her realizing she is the bride...
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if the person made their profile publich yes, otherwise i havent found a way.
 
I've been working with yt-dlg (gui version) but it's been bugging me about ffmpeg and high quality, which is why many of my downloaded videos since around June 1st have come out looking low-resolution. According to Reddit the solution is to put ffmpeg in the same folder as yt-dlg but it doesn't seem to work. So in my /Program Files/yt-dlg folder I have the application and a folder to ffmpeg, which has the /bin/ and /doc/ folders inside, basically as this Reddit post describes, but still no dice.
 
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Xarpho's Return said:
I've been working with yt-dlg (gui version) but it's been bugging me about ffmpeg and high quality, which is why many of my downloaded videos since around June 1st have come out looking low-resolution. According to Reddit the solution is to put ffmpeg in the same folder as yt-dlg but it doesn't seem to work. So in my /Program Files/yt-dlg folder I have the application and a folder to ffmpeg, which has the /bin/ and /doc/ folders inside, basically as this Reddit post describes, but still no dice.
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Don't put the ffmpeg executables in their own folder. Put them directly in the same folder as yt-dlg.
 
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Blackhole said:
How do I export the raw browser history from Brave and Librewolf?
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If you're comfortable reading sqlite documents then you can find the history and export it in whatever format you want from Brave. Here's an idea of where you'll find the docs: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8936878/where-does-chrome-save-its-sqlite-database-to

If you don't have a favourite SQL IDE already, you can just use the DB browser. https://sqlitebrowser.org/

A quick google shows that Firefox does something similar for history so I expect this is how Librewolf does it also.
 
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In the newest Firefox build it displays rounded corners for every window, including fullscreen video. This is massively distracting once you notice it. I cannot find a setting to turn it back to the square corners it had before. Is there really no way to toggle this setting? It seems insane to me that they would do this without letting you change it back.
 
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Car Won't Crank said:
Can't you just wildcard the file path like this? www.fake.com/*/333.png
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Let's find out.

Edit: No good. For reference, the code I'm using looks something like this
Code: 
forums.website.com##[src*="https://forums.website.com/data/x/y/z/numbers/pridemonthlogo.png"]
The "numbers" part keeps changing.

I wish the android version of Brave had an element blocker like the desktop version.
 
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Bravefart said:
In the newest Firefox build it displays rounded corners for every window, including fullscreen video. This is massively distracting once you notice it. I cannot find a setting to turn it back to the square corners it had before. Is there really no way to toggle this setting? It seems insane to me that they would do this without letting you change it back.
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Which version? I'm on 127.0.1, Windows 10. I see rounded video corners on youtube browser view, but when I go to fullscreen the corners are still proper corners.
 
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this is the closest thing I could find to a general discussion thread I could find here. Didn't feel like it really fit into the linux thread, and I didn't see anywhere better to post it.

I was searching online to find some good custom filter lists to ad to ublock or adnaseum and I stubled onto this persons github.


I can't help but laugh at some of the lists they have. Not to mention the read me.
 
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Banana Hammock said:
Let's find out.

Edit: No good. For reference, the code I'm using looks something like this
Code: 
forums.website.com##[src*="https://forums.website.com/data/x/y/z/numbers/pridemonthlogo.png"]
The "numbers" part keeps changing.

I wish the android version of Brave had an element blocker like the desktop version.
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I see what you're doing. You want to only block a certain image you know whose file name doesn't change. Try selecting the image by the element it's in either by the html id or class name like https://forums.website.com##.banner.gay. I think you can use the adblock context menu to right click the image itself and add to the block list. Ublock does that so adblock should too.
 
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MerelyAPlateOfSpaghetti said:
Which version? I'm on 127.0.1, Windows 10. I see rounded video corners on youtube browser view, but when I go to fullscreen the corners are still proper corners.
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It's Mullvad Browser 13.5 based on 115.12.0esr. I went back to 13.0.14 based on 115.10.0esr and it's still working fine with square corners. Thanks for the info, hopefully that means it will get fixed soon.

I should add that I use and would recommend Freetube for watching youtube videos. This is from me streaming sports and it drove me mental till I gave up and installed the older version.
 
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Car Won't Crank said:
I see what you're doing. You want to only block a certain image you know whose file name doesn't change. Try selecting the image by the element it's in either by the html id or class name like https://forums.website.com##.banner.gay. I think you can use the adblock context menu to right click the image itself and add to the block list. Ublock does that so adblock should too.
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Unfortunately, I exclusively use this website from my phone, so I have to manually add the filters.

That said, you helped me figure it out. I don't need to post the whole fucking link to the png, I can just use the name of the file. Holy shit, I feel so dumb right now. I can't believe that it's not only that simple, but that I didn't try this until now.

Thank you so much. There's only about a week of gay month left, but this will really help out for next year.

For any other dirty phone-posters, use this:
Code: 
forums.website.com##[src*="pridemonthlogo.png"]
 
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Hey, I am trying to do the following:
I want to use pianobar to stream Pandora radio. However, I am outside of the US, so I need a proxy. Pianobar suports a proxy in its config file, where I need to add proxy IP address.

I use Mullvad VPN, so technically I could set myself in US, but I do not want to do it. Instead, I want to stay on a server outside of the US and use the US server *only* for pianobar.

I do not have a good understanding of how this works, however, I am able to achieve this in Firefox browser using the Mullvad plugin. As far as I understood it has to do with SOCKS5 proxy and that I am basically selecting a different exit node (which is in the US) using the SOCKS5 protocol.

So I want to do basically what I can do it Firefox, just for pianobar.

I would like to do it both on Windows and Android.
 
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I installed Wine via Flatpak but when I use any of the wine commands in the terminal it says command not found. Did I mess something up? I'm using Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon.
 
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Blackhole said:
I installed Wine via Flatpak but when I use any of the wine commands in the terminal it says command not found. Did I mess something up? I'm using Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon.
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Why flatpak instead of the regular Mint repo? Grabbing it ought to be as easy as:
sudo apt install wine-installer
 
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Why flatpak instead of the regular Mint repo? Grabbing it ought to be as easy as:
sudo apt install wine-installer
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I tried the wine-installer and it didn't work, so I used the flatpak instead.
The following packages have unmet dependencies: wine-installer : Depends: wine but it is not installable Recommends: wine64 but it is not installable Recommends: wine32 but it is not installable
 
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