Software Endorsements

[Flaming Dumpster]

Does anyone have a Twitch adblocker that actually works?

Alternate Player for Twitch.tv has been working flawlessly for me

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/alternate-player-for-twit/bhplkbgoehhhddaoolmakpocnenplmhf

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/twitch_5/

It also removes all the cancer.

 

[Civillian 18]

Does anyone have a Twitch adblocker that actually works?

TwitchAdSolutions is the one that I see recommended a lot around the place, primarily in relation to the uBlock Origin section.

 

[Unstable Diffusion]

Any recommendations or ideas about any way to tighten the privacy of Discord on Android?
I've gotten a new phone with GrapheneOS, and so far I just have Xitter, Matrix, games, and Brave, which I use to access Discord. Issue is that Brave eats up more battery, consumes more bandwith as it has to load the entire site + scripts instead of being a client and doesn't foward me notifications, which I deem important on a phone as it might pass days until I get back on my PC.
I previously used Aliucord (github) which is an "Android Discord client modification", but I don't have enough trust on it to think its good enough.

I'm no way in hell using the default client as it's a telemetry machine which records every single action you do.
I can't just "not use discord". Every motherfucking faggot on this planet uses discord. If I could I'd put everyone I need on a matrix server but they are just simply too fucking retarded to do so, it's kinda like how you must use WhatsApp or Instagram for your retarded normalfag friends and family.

What's my best coping mechanism here? Should I just fucking keep using Brave?

I am actually impressed how decent Firefox on mobile has become. Hell I switched to Firefox on desktop to and I honestly like it more then Brave. Think the latter is trying to do too much.
It's criminal how some sites require you to have a chrome-based browser.

I'm been using Firefox on my phone for the last 6 years or so, and while I'll admit that it got really good thanks to that update from the beta version years ago, when I got around to installing it on my new phone (before GrapheneOS), every single motherfucking icon / tooltip / tutorial material icon shit however-you'd-call-it at the first bootup sequence displayed a black hand / black woman, that along with how fucking gay Mozilla has been behaving as of the last couple of years made me decide not to install it again which is why I'm using a Chromium based browser.
Real shame there's no LibreWolf for Android.

 

[Pikanic]

Can someone recommend a good photo metadata/tagger editor? I have thousands of photos from my trips and would love a quick way to tag them like how PhotoSift works to quickly sort images into folders (which was a recommendation from this thread I think, so thanks!)

I've found what looks like would suit me perfectly - fastphototagger on SourceForge. It requires installing Java on my computer, but I don't know enough about if that's a sensible idea or not in current year.

Personally I usually have a Java version or two but never use a plugin that allows it to run in a browser under any circumstances, and obviously be really careful about what you run with it. It's a sandbox but it seems like every few months there's yet another bit of malware that jumps out of the sandbox and fucks shit up.

Cheers for that. I did a bit more digging and found "photo management" is what I'm actually after, and is a much more fruitful search string. I ended up downloading digiKam, which is open source and coded in not java, and it's working a treat so far.

 

[clipartfan92]

Real shame there's no LibreWolf for Android.

Give Mull a try. Firefox fork from DivestOS.

This is a privacy oriented and deblobbed web browser based on Mozilla technology. It enables many features upstreamed by the Tor Uplift project using preferences from the arkenfox-user.js project. It is recommended to install 'uBlock Origin'.

https://f-droid.org/packages/us.spotco.fennec_dos/

 

[Banana Hammock]

Does anyone have a Twitch adblocker that actually works?

If you watch on your phone, you can also use PurpleTV.

 

[Banana Hammock]

Anyone have any recs for Google Maps alternatives? Something that gives you more control over your route. I hate driving through busier towns, and I'd like to be able to avoid them, even if it adds another ten minutes to my drive.

 

[Betonhaus]

Anyone have any recs for Google Maps alternatives? Something that gives you more control over your route. I hate driving through busier towns, and I'd like to be able to avoid them, even if it adds another ten minutes to my drive.

What about HERE? i think it was on my old Blackberry https://wego.here.com/

 

[Dante Alighieri]

Anyone have any recs for Google Maps alternatives? Something that gives you more control over your route. I hate driving through busier towns, and I'd like to be able to avoid them, even if it adds another ten minutes to my drive.

https://f-droid.org/packages/net.osmand.plus/ might be what you're looking for

 

[Banana Hammock]

What about HERE? i think it was on my old Blackberry https://wego.here.com/

https://f-droid.org/packages/net.osmand.plus/ might be what you're looking for

These both look pretty promising. I like the "change the constructed route, taking into account the exclusion of certain roads" part of OsmAnd. Thank you.

Edit: Yeah, OsmAnd looks perfect. In addition to the usual "no tolls/highways/ferries/dirt roads/etc" stuff, you can add in specific road names. I'll need to see how it is when you're driving. I kinda doubt that it works with Android Auto (apparently there's an app that mirrors your screen to AA, but it's only for rooted devices), but that's not a huge deal. Worst case, I can buy one of those things you stick on your dashboard.

 

[TETRABAX]

I can't recommend the jet brains suite license enough if you do software development in different languages. Jetbrains is a Russian company and I think cutting them out is wrong and cuts into my personal software preferences. I didn't care if s Russian developed my f favorite ide. It's a really good ide

 

[Stalphos Johnson]

These both look pretty promising. I like the "change the constructed route, taking into account the exclusion of certain roads" part of OsmAnd. Thank you.

Edit: Yeah, OsmAnd looks perfect. In addition to the usual "no tolls/highways/ferries/dirt roads/etc" stuff, you can add in specific road names. I'll need to see how it is when you're driving. I kinda doubt that it works with Android Auto (apparently there's an app that mirrors your screen to AA, but it's only for rooted devices), but that's not a huge deal. Worst case, I can buy one of those things you stick on your dashboard.

It's pretty good for the most part, but it has some issues with addresses. Someone here mentioned a database you could download with updated addresses for the US, but I haven't been able to find it.

 

[Flaming Dumpster]

I can't recommend the jet brains suite license enough if you do software development in different languages. Jetbrains is a Russian company and I think cutting them out is wrong and cuts into my personal software preferences. I didn't care if s Russian developed my f favorite ide. It's a really good ide

In 2022 they closed their Russian offices, liquidated their Russian entity and moved a bunch of their staff to neighboring companies. https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2022/12/06/update-on-jetbrains-statement-on-ukraine/

JetBrains' shit is pretty good and if you've held an annual subscription for a while then they provide a 40% discount that makes it half as expensive as monthly renewals.

That having been said they are starting to make the product retarded. Rider is still buggy, occasionally having schizophrenic episodes where it decides perfectly good code is actually filled with errors. These schizophrenic episodes can only be resolved by using the invalidate caches & restart item in the File menu which makes my CPU go thermonuclear as it rebuilds the cache. (this wasn't always there, but the issue of the IDE going schizo is so common they added it).

Their redesigned UI is absolute shit, too. Heavily VS Code inspired with all the features stripped out and replaced with giant retard buttons. Lucky it's easy to go back to the actual usable functional UI, but I dread the day they altogether remove it. They also somehow made a "polyglot IDE" VS Code clone that is actually more resource hungry than VS Code!

Worst thing about that new editor (Fleet) is that its language support massively overlaps the other products. They're literally just making a reskinned JetBrains Ultimate for retards. Why not add languages that are only supported via janky plugins or not at all? I'm mainly thinking of PowerShell, I'm just sick of the status quo where you either have to deal with VS Code or the plugin which uses the same heap of shit PowerShell Editor Services backend or pay $550 for a bloated mess. (PowerShell Studio).

 

[Brabbit Narp]

Hey, is there any offline GIF extractor available for Linux distros? I could have sworn that there were some out there, but most of my search results are just turning up online converters that I rather not use if I can help it. Bonus if it's available for Linux distros.

 

[DavidS877]

Hey, is there any offline GIF extractor available for Linux distros? I could have sworn that there were some out there, but most of my search results are just turning up online converters that I rather not use if I can help it. Bonus if it's available for Linux distros.

What do you mean by GIF extractor? Split into frames?

ffmpeg -i source.gif frame_%d.png

ffmpeg is the Swiss Army Chainsaw of video and related file types.

 

[Brabbit Narp]

What do you mean by GIF extractor? Split into frames?

ffmpeg -i source.gif frame_%d.png

ffmpeg is the Swiss Army Chainsaw of video and related file types.

Exactly. I was on the hunt for something GUI related, but FFMPEG could do. Just somewhat cumbersome to deal with a command line. I'll test it out on my end to see if it works well.

On that note, I think XNViewMP may have had a similar function in the past, but if so, I can't find it.

 

[Brabbit Narp]

What do you mean by GIF extractor? Split into frames?

ffmpeg -i source.gif frame_%d.png

ffmpeg is the Swiss Army Chainsaw of video and related file types.

Tried it out a few different ways, but it kept spitting out one frame.

I am presuming that I am being an utter retard here, so I'll paste it the command sequence used in the attempt.

ffmpeg -i 'example.gif' -vf fps=1 output%03d.png

From my reading, -vf fps=1 is supposed to extract one frame at a time. "output%03d.png" meanwhile is supposed to output each frame as a png. From there, my understanding if you so chose, you can either leave it as is to extract in the destination where the GIF is located, or you can specify as per usual.

Obviously, I fucked up here, but I don't know *where*.

 

[DavidS877]

Tried it out a few different ways, but it kept spitting out one frame.

I am presuming that I am being an utter retard here, so I'll paste it the command sequence used in the attempt.

ffmpeg -i 'example.gif' -vf fps=1 output%03d.png

From my reading, -vf fps=1 is supposed to extract one frame at a time. "output%03d.png" meanwhile is supposed to output each frame as a png. From there, my understanding if you so chose, you can either leave it as is to extract in the destination where the GIF is located, or you can specify as per usual.

Obviously, I fucked up here, but I don't know *where*.

It appears that fps=1 does exactly what it says, extracts one frame per second. If the gif is only one second then it will output 1 frame. I tried omitting the -vf fps* and it seemed to work fine on my one sample gif with a uniform frame rate

$ ffprobe file.gif
  Duration: 00:00:09.10, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 9979 kb/s
  Stream #0:0: Video: gif, bgra, 600x338 [SAR 64:64 DAR 300:169], 10 fps, 10 tbr, 100 tbn
$ ffmpeg -i file.gif foo%03d.gif
....
$ ls foo*.png | wc -l
91

So, 91 frames from a 9.1 second video at 10 fps. Ok, just tried the hamster.
You need "-vsync 0" instead of "-vf xxxx" if your gif isn't a uniform frame rate.

$ ffmpeg -i hamster.gif -vsync 0 foo%03d.png
...
$ ls -l foo*.png | wc
9

Without vsync or fps then it extracts at the base rate, even if there are duplicates. vsync off says "just output the input frames"

 

[Maverick Vile]

Well, the glowniggers in Washington are assmad that Kaspersky catches their malware so now it's banned. Anyone know any good alternatives?

 

[Major Discord]

Well, the glowniggers in Washington are assmad that Kaspersky catches their malware so now it's banned. Anyone know any good alternatives?

It generally depends where you expect your threats to come from. I would personally say that Windows Defender is unironically ok. Coupled with a website adblock and maybe VPN/DNS content blockers (like what Mullvad provides) should be enough for the majority. I also just use https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/upload if I am suspicious of some file/link.