Software Endorsements

[AnOminous]

Specifically, he apparently runs a VPN:

https://vanwa.tech/vpn
which is stupidly cheap.

Almost glowingly cheap.

 

[7he47r0n]

Wonder if this is worth looking into, or if it's bait so obvious it can be seen from space.

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https://archive.ph/rpX5i

A 23-Year-Old Coder Kept QAnon Online When No One Else Would

Nick Lim provides tech support to the U.S. networks of White nationalists and conspiracy theorists banned by the likes of Amazon.

www.bloomberg.com

Specifically, he apparently runs a VPN:

https://vanwa.tech/vpn

which is stupidly cheap.

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I think that's stupidly cheap, isn't it? I'm not sure if torrenting movies on it would work, but, like I said -- everything about it screams bait to me.

Whenever you encounter a single individual who offers a relatively easy and/or cheap alternative to a problem created by the government, you should immediately become suspicious said individual is in the government's employment, or is allowed to operate in order to draw a large enough pool of "persons of interest."

Wait... this reminds me of something... https://1776hosting.com/

Et tu, Null?

 

[Shoggoth]

Whenever you encounter a single individual who offers a relatively easy and/or cheap alternative to a problem created by the government, you should immediately become suspicious said individual is in the government's employment, or is allowed to operate in order to draw a large enough pool of "persons of interest."

Wait... this reminds me of something... https://1776hosting.com/

Et tu, Null?

It isn't that cheap

 

[HTTP Error 404]

It isn't that cheap

$1 a month VPN isn't cheap? When I looked last most were like $12 a month?

 

[Shoggoth]

$1 a month VPN isn't cheap? When I looked last most were like $12 a month?

I was referring to 1776's hosting offering

 

[Dick Justice]

I feel your pain, recently learned Hollow Knight's OST on Steam no longer contained the FLAC files after an update. Maybe bandcamp can help.

On another note, is there an agreed upon touchstone in regards to (open source) back up software?

For making backups? rsync or robocopy if you hate your computer.

 

[BobbyBriggs69420]

Just a real simple free video editor for windows I can use to join file and trim and rotate video 90 or 180 deg?

Many years ago I used to play around with vegas and premiere and I think I probably still know where to get those and at the same time doubt I remember how to use, I just want very simple that I can use on my laptop or on my work pc without warez concerns or feature overload.

I got a cheap little spycam/bodycam that I'm using as a helmet cam for cycling and it outputs big mjpeg+pcm audio avis in 10 min chunks. I've been using win10 video editor to join them but I can't use that to rotate that I can see and also when I save it, it's mp4 (720p input files to 720p output or 1080p input file to 1080p output) but it ends up somehow bigger than the sum of the mjpeg avis.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Just a real simple free video editor for windows I can use to join file and trim and rotate video 90 or 180 deg?

Many years ago I used to play around with vegas and premiere and I think I probably still know where to get those and at the same time doubt I remember how to use, I just want very simple that I can use on my laptop or on my work pc without warez concerns or feature overload.

I got a cheap little spycam/bodycam that I'm using as a helmet cam for cycling and it outputs big mjpeg+pcm audio avis in 10 min chunks. I've been using win10 video editor to join them but I can't use that to rotate that I can see and also when I save it, it's mp4 (720p input files to 720p output or 1080p input file to 1080p output) but it ends up somehow bigger than the sum of the mjpeg avis.

AviDemux, free, fast and portable. I'm going to pollute the thread with screenshots under a spoiler tag to show you how to do the things you describe.

Spoiler

How to join your videos into one larger video and rotate them.

1. Make sure video/audio output is set to "copy".


2. Open the first video(via file->open or just drag and drop it into the window)

3. To add videos you must use append and then append them one by one in the order they should appear in.


4. Rotate video. Click on configure and choose how it should be rotated. This change won't be reflected in the main window. After that, save it as a new file and check that it works as it should.


It's not actually rotating the video, it just sets a flag telling the player how it should display the output. Not all players respects this flag but most do. Here's the clip above in VLC and MPC after saving it.


Here's a snippet of it in the forum video player that in my experience ignores at least some of these flags. I can't see it while writing this so I'll have to post and play it but I don't expect it to be rotated.

Oh, would you look at that, it actually worked.

If you want to trim or pull out segments that is easy as well.

Those two arrows goes to the next or previous keyframe, the A and B is mark in and mark out. Jump keyframes until you get to the start of the part that you want, press the red A button, jump keyframes until you get to the end of what you want, press the B button to get a blue square showing the start and end of your selection. Then save/ctrl-s and it will save that segment.

You can also press del to delete the selection but it is easier to pull out the parts you want and add them together, it gets awfully confusing trying to more than basic cutting in Avidemux.

 

[BobbyBriggs69420]

AviDemux, free, fast and portable. I'm going to pollute the thread with screenshots under a spoiler tag to show you how to do the things you describe.

Spoiler

How to join your videos into one larger video and rotate them.

1. Make sure video/audio output is set to "copy".
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2. Open the first video(via file->open or just drag and drop it into the window)

3. To add videos you must use append and then append them one by one in the order they should appear in.
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4. Rotate video. Click on configure and choose how it should be rotated. This change won't be reflected in the main window. After that, save it as a new file and check that it works as it should.
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It's not actually rotating the video, it just sets a flag telling the player how it should display the output. Not all players respects this flag but most do. Here's the clip above in VLC and MPC after saving it.
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Here's a snippet of it in the forum video player that in my experience ignores at least some of these flags. I can't see it while writing this so I'll have to post and play it but I don't expect it to be rotated.
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Oh, would you look at that, it actually worked.

If you want to trim or pull out segments that is easy as well.

Those two arrows goes to the next or previous keyframe, the A and B is mark in and mark out. Jump keyframes until you get to the start of the part that you want, press the red A button, jump keyframes until you get to the end of what you want, press the B button to get a blue square showing the start and end of your selection. Then save/ctrl-s and it will save that segment.
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You can also press del to delete the selection but it is easier to pull out the parts you want and add them together, it gets awfully confusing trying to more than basic cutting in Avidemux.

Looks great and exactly what I'm looking for. Awesome write up too, I'm going to check this out tonight been getting all sorts of source footage over the weekend and today and I'm gonna see what I can do with it all.

 

[A-Z0-9]

Just a heads up, Cock.li has recently disabled registration due to 'Glowies' using their services. After a unspecified amount of time has passed, registration will be re-enabled but will only be accessible via invites.

Get ready to suck some dick if you want to use Cock.li in the future.

 

[bippu_as_fuck_ls400]

Just a heads up, Cock.li has recently disabled registration due to 'Glowies' using their services. After a unspecified amount of time has passed, registration will be re-enabled but will only be accessible via invites.

The announcement, for archival purposes:

Registration is currently closed on cock.li. When registration is brought back, it will be on an invite-only basis.

This decision was made to deter the multiple governments who have been using cock.li for e-mail for their foreign intelligence activities. While we're flattered to have shitposted hard enough for glowies to enjoy, their activities place the rest of us at risk, and so we'd like to discourage their use of the service.

When invites are enabled, registration will no longer record your IP address or any other information previously used to prevent bulk registration. This solution provides the most privacy benefit to our users while discouraging abuse, especially from state actors.

In the meantime, we will be continuing upgrades of our infrastructure to provide a more resilient and reliable service to our existing users.
https://cock.li/register (https://archive.ph/d3ycL)

 

[ditto]

Glowies ruin everything

 

[Dr. Geronimo]

I'm in the process of downloading high quality music for a collection, but finding some of it is taking time.

In the interim, what would you guys consider the least woke music streaming service? Currently on a trial for deezer right now.

 

[ditto]

the least woke music streaming service?

youtube with youtube-dl

 

[need shoeonhead nudes]

I'm in the process of downloading high quality music for a collection, but finding some of it is taking time.

In the interim, what would you guys consider the least woke music streaming service? Currently on a trial for deezer right now.

I personally got a lot of value using soundcloud, and I used the Tizonia command line program to stream the search queries / skip next song / open song in browser (when I wanted to like something).

Soundcloud is quite good you'll have years of songs from nobodies, some of it's good, some of it's great, some bad. The tag and genre system is good and I found tons of genres I like. I find a lot of great songs that have like 25 plays on them over 3 years.

 

[mrdk_04]

Been tinkering with fan setup recently, but the ASUS software meant to regulate the curves isn't working as it should. Put simply, it is not detecting certain fans, while the BIOS has no problem doing so. However, BIOS does not allow custom milestones to be set on these curves. Is there any go-to software for regulating fan curves, or should I just stick to the BIOS?

Incidentally, is 47,5 celsius an okay idle temp for nvidia GPUs? Got lucky with the 3080 (practically no extra fee, bought around August 2020) and benchmarking shows it does not exceed 73 c under heavy load. GPU fan speed percentages fall within the 44-70 range. Setup is a desktop, uses an ASUS ROG STRIX Z490-F Gaming mobo.

 

[malt ipecac]

Been tinkering with fan setup recently, but the ASUS software meant to regulate the curves isn't working as it should. Put simply, it is not detecting certain fans, while the BIOS has no problem doing so. However, BIOS does not allow custom milestones to be set on these curves. Is there any go-to software for regulating fan curves, or should I just stick to the BIOS?

Incidentally, is 47,5 celsius an okay temp for nvidia GPUs? Got lucky with the 3080 (practically no extra fee, bought around August 2020) and benchmarking shows it does not exceed 73 c under heavy load. Fan speed percentages fall within the 44-70 range.

Not sure if you're referring to case fans or GPU fans and we don't know whether you're on a laptop or a desktop (or if you're on a desktop, which motherboard you're using). That makes it hard to offer help because the solution will depend on all those factors.

With that said, the nice thing about general advice is that it's generally applicable. Here's what I've found generally works best on my desktop PCs:

• Use BIOS to set fan curves for any fans that are connected to your motherboard's fan headers (typically comprises your CPU fans and case fans).
• If you don't want to overclock, just install the latest driver and be done with it. Avoid as much of Nvidia/AMD's bloatware as you can.
• If you want to overclock, try sticking with Afterburner and RTSS, regardless of your GPU vendor. This is, by far, the most reliable tweaking/monitoring suite, and as long as your graphics card uses the reference PCB design, this should be fine. Even if it doesn't use the reference PCB design, it'll probably be fine

And, most importantly, make sure all fans are blowing in the intended direction.

As far as temperature goes: you probably already know this, but those temperatures are totally fine and good. Nvidia imposes pretty conservative hard limits on what you can do with overclocking software, so it's totally safe to max out the "power limit" and "temp limit" sliders. The only setting that could actually harm your GPU is voltage, but again, the Nvidia-imposed hard limit is so conservative that it essentially renders this slider a placebo.

 

[Bongocat]

I use a lot of sites that randomly scramble/hash video names. You'll download it and it'll just be "5cdb881697976796d149ff41690944755a3bfb82f37260b7e26a09fff62c2424.mp4"

Is there any existing tool to either generate or automatically rename downloads to randomly generated words like gifycat does? eg: BigCatPartyWompus.mp4. That would help a lot with just identifying the files immediately after download so you can throw them somewhere else.

 

[mrdk_04]

Not sure if you're referring to case fans or GPU fans and we don't know whether you're on a laptop or a desktop (or if you're on a desktop, which motherboard you're using). That makes it hard to offer help because the solution will depend on all those factors.

With that said, the nice thing about general advice is that it's generally applicable. Here's what I've found generally works best on my desktop PCs:

• Use BIOS to set fan curves for any fans that are connected to your motherboard's fan headers (typically comprises your CPU fans and case fans).
• If you don't want to overclock, just install the latest driver and be done with it. Avoid as much of Nvidia/AMD's bloatware as you can.
• If you want to overclock, try sticking with Afterburner and RTSS, regardless of your GPU vendor. This is, by far, the most reliable tweaking/monitoring suite, and as long as your graphics card uses the reference PCB design, this should be fine. Even if it doesn't use the reference PCB design, it'll probably be fine

And, most importantly, make sure all fans are blowing in the intended direction.

As far as temperature goes: you probably already know this, but those temperatures are totally fine and good. Nvidia imposes pretty conservative hard limits on what you can do with overclocking software, so it's totally safe to max out the "power limit" and "temp limit" sliders. The only setting that could actually harm your GPU is voltage, but again, the Nvidia-imposed hard limit is so conservative that it essentially renders this slider a placebo.

I'm referring to case fans, edited the initial post to provide more information. I'll stick to BIOS then, the NVIDIA control panel remains a necessity; barring monitor fps, overclocking isn't my thing.
Those NVIDIA hard limits are new to me, good to know. 47,5 c GPU temp at idle it is.

 

[malt ipecac]

I use a lot of sites that randomly scramble/hash video names. You'll download it and it'll just be "5cdb881697976796d149ff41690944755a3bfb82f37260b7e26a09fff62c2424.mp4"

Is there any existing tool to either generate or automatically rename downloads to randomly generated words like gifycat does? eg: BigCatPartyWompus.mp4. That would help a lot with just identifying the files immediately after download so you can throw them somewhere else.

I don't know of a dedicated tool, but I think you could achieve this trivially with a shell script/alias (at least in Linux). You just need to get/make a plain-text file that includes a bunch of dictionary words, one on each line. To rename the file, you could do something like:

mv <video_name>.mp4 "$(shuf -n 1 <dictionary_file>)".mp4

If you use curl to download files, you could make an alias that looks something like this:

curl -o "$(shuf -n 1 <dictionary_file>)".mp4 <file_URL>

Edit: if you want to use multiple words, you could do something like:

curl -o "$(shuf -n 1 <dictionary_file>)\
    $(shuf -n 1 <dictionary_file>)\
    $(shuf -n 1 <dictionary_file>)".mp4 <file_URL>

And that'll give you three random words (with repetition allowed). I guess there's a small chance you'll end up accidentally re-writing a filename if you repeatedly use that code to download videos to the same directory, but you get the idea.

I'm referring to case fans, edited the initial post to provide more information. I'll stick to BIOS then, the NVIDIA control panel remains a necessity; barring monitor fps, overclocking isn't my thing.
Those NVIDIA hard limits are new to me, good to know. 47,5 c GPU temp at idle it is.

NV Control panel is useful, I agree. I was more talking about the "GeForce Experience" and whatever else they try to get you to install.