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I redid my webserver again with the previous confs that may cause Brave not to load (maybe FIPS); I'm not too sure on specifics, but Qualys SSL's test website mentions cert requirements: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=wiki.realmofe...

I believe I was doing something different with SSL algorithms about 5 days ago, but I redid my webserver a couple days ago.

I sideloaded "BraveMonoarm64.apk" from https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/tag/v1.77.10... to a OnePlus 6 (LineageOS 22.2/Android 15) and https://wiki.realmofespionage.xyz/ loaded for me a few mins ago!

I have notes for 2009Scape too :p

Windows: https://wiki.realmofespionage.xyz/servers;windows;games;2009...

Linux: https://wiki.realmofespionage.xyz/servers;linux;games;2009sc...

FreeBSD: https://wiki.realmofespionage.xyz/servers;bsd;games;2009scap...

I play both: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpOPie2s8nI

I've kept software notes on my wiki since around 2016; largely Linux-related, some FreeBSD, and lately Windows. It's self-hosted with reproducible proof!

I'm curious how my wiki looks to employers? I think it's pretty cool and shows what kind of software I'm familiar with, along with how I document: https://wiki.realmofespionage.xyz/

Meh, it makes a convenient chaser with RSO :p

Hah, what are you going to do, change engines? :p

Unfortunately I don't agree with most VR games and apps using Unity; ya'll should be using Unreal for better performance and non-cookie-cutter cartoon graphics! (hint: every VR MMORPG)

I never was a fan of Unity. To me it felt like its selling-point was that it could run on multiple platforms, but not at optimal performance compared to other engines (basically like Android and Java). My introduction to Unity was with Hearthstone (the card game), and even then it didn't natively support Linux.

On that presumption, I found it incredibly surprising people latching onto it for VR dev, and considering most Unity VR games all share the same look (cartoon-y; basically look at A Township Tale and compare it to Orbus and Zenith), that further cements my view of Unity not being a serious high-quality capable engine to be using, unless I want to throw quick non-sustainable projects together.

This news about Unity being even more expensive definitely doesn't help my view :p

Why is this a popular topic all of a sudden? I've seen multiple submissions this past week about wanting to run webservers on phones.

Vultr had a $5/month VPS option that would work much better than trying any method on a phone.

What's stopping anyone today with Android from installing Termux, proot, a distro of their choice, and then hosting a webserver?

Yeah ok; everyone using it in business and multimedia must just like making their life harder; I forgot Linux was the greatest even though it's not notable outside of servers :p

That may have been a hot take on my part, but what makes Debian worthwhile over Ubuntu aside from ideology?

The average person switching from Windows to Linux wants something that works. My general impression is:

- Anything other than Ubuntu and Mint requires involvement with 3rd-party repos for comparable multimedia playback

- Ubuntu has the largest userbase, and thus the largest access to easy tech support; a beginner isn't going to bust out Terminal and go straight to Arch wiki

- Because Ubuntu has the largest userbase, software is more tested on it; check the requirements for most games on Steam and most of them mention Ubuntu, or SteamOS; nothing else

- I remember years ago Debian having some confusion with different images and firmware. I don't exactly remember the problem (maybe missing firmware for netinstall?), but this wasn't an issue with Ubuntu that includes most of the stuff on-disc.

Debian feels like one of those barely-heard of distros. When I think mainstream distros for desktop, it's Ubuntu, Fedora, and openSUSE. For server, it's Ubuntu, RHEL, or SUSE. Arch Linux, Gentoo, Rhino, Cachy (or whatever it's called), Clear Linux, and Debian are distros to use if you have a known reason that they benefit your use case, after trying it from mainstream distros.

I wouldn't recommend Windows users to switch to any of those because of the lower user-base, and that because those distros are more technical there's also that air of harsh discussions and entitlement (Arch forums is terrible with this; RTFM). I don't know about anyone else, but I don't want my recommendation to be for anti-social entitled pricks who think they know better with their obscure distro :p If people want to go that way on their own, go for it!

> OK, and how do you change them so they are more than a few pixels wide? the width is literally 1/3 of Windows 10

Not sure

> you are incorrect.

https://www.howtogeek.com/894996/windows-11-will-finally-let...

> even if thats true, I dont care. I DON'T want edge, and I DEFINITELY dont want forced updates, and I DEFINITELY dont want the uninstall option for it to be grayed out in the settings app, as is the current situation.

C:\"Program Files (x86)"\Microsoft\Edge\Application*\Installer\setup.exe --uninstall --system-level --verbose-logging --force-uninstall

You're welcome :p I found that command months ago instead of just complaining about Edge existing.

You're spreading misinformation and I'm unsure why.

- Scrollbars auto-hiding can easily be disabled from Modern UI settings -> Accessibility

- You aren't using the web search in the start menu correctly; it's like trying to use a Google Mini speaker to write an essay; yeah it'll work but good luck. You know how to use a browser; do that instead of complaining about something that you aren't using as-intended.

- Afaik taskbar can be ungrouped now; it's time to catch-up to 2023 :p

- Great artist copy; macOS is good. Get over it. I doubt they copied any kind of style from it, but citing this as a downside is silly.

- Microsoft Edge is worlds more efficient than Chrome or Firefox and I can personally vouch for this on the latest 11 stable and insider builds. If it's the update process with Edge that's taking up CPU... what is the issue? Updating files takes CPU, RAM, and HDD resources. Windows Update takes resources. Updating Firefox takes resources. Updating iOS or Android, as you may have guessed it by now, takes resources :p Edge updates for security reasons usually.

Debian flat-out sucks in 2023 and that seals that you're only for some kind of bad-intent or are incredibly naive. You may as well recommend Gentoo or Arch Linux for people coming from Windows 11 as those are just as-bad recommendations. People use Windows because it works. Windows 11 works. What Linux distros work? Ubuntu, and to a lesser-extent Mint. Anything else can be discovered over-time.

Closed-source, using Discord, and the air of "we know better than paid Microsoft UX". No thanks.

It's likely disguised malware and/or spyware with pretty wrapping paper.

Downloading implies data persists. AM/FM radio and TV antennas take an active signal and play it on-demand, without persisting the data, and without copy-protection.

The detail is with what's in-between the signal and how you're using it.

- It's fine for me to record antenna TV to VHS; there's no copy-protection and it's for personal-use

- It's probably questionable, but largely fine for me to record songs playing with my phone's sound recorder; you can't copy-protect public audible noise in this context

- It's not fine for me to put a dongle/box in-between a Roku or TV streaming box in order to break HDCP to record content. The problem here is breaking the platform's copy-protection.

- It's not fine for me to go to a torrent site and download a song. I think for archive purposes you have to archive from personally-owned media, but it's likely gray-area if you own the media and pirate content of that media from somewhere else (like if you own a PS2 game disc and download an iso online)

youtube-dl was being used to break/bypass YouTube's copy-protection.

I actually increase to 2GB my mistake. It's still not generally that much but seems fine as long as resolution isn't too high for games (720p seems most ideal for performance).

Two wrongs don't make a right :p

That's between YT and the video uploaders; people using yt-dl are not using it to rebel against YT.

Not a lawyer, but as I understand it's not legal to break copy protection. It's legal to archive media for your own personal use. Recording VHS and even sound recorder from a phone is more-legal than putting a box/dongle between a FireTV stick and your TV in order to break and bypass HDCP.

Outside of straight-up piracy, it could be argued that youtube-dl was bypassing YouTube restrictions.

Also if someone had that attitude towards a service I was offering, I'd go out of my way to block their access; I choose the restrictions on my platform that I offer to others, and people that actively go against that can go use someone else's platform or host their own since they're so sure they must know better :p

You can host videos on any bandwidth and hardware you can get your hands on; old laptops from landfills, SBC Raspberry Pis, $80 decommissioned Optiplex from businesses, and even Android phones and TV sticks if you set the servers up through Termux. You can also use the cheapest VPS option for like $5/month, but that kind of negates not using YT at that point.

It's free in the sense of all the software being available to do so for free (OS, webserver, php, media software), and free as long as you have something to run it on; chances are anyone reading this can use the same device to run the server.

Whether or not the people watching the videos from the server will have a good experience is something different :p But even a low-speed broadband connection in the US today has enough upload to handle small sites and I can vouch for this on measly 1MB/s upload (I've self-hosted videos over years with all the mentioned software).

YouTube is a provider that has the resources to allow people to upload videos, and watch them for free. It's their platform, and they have usage rules.

I can pick specific songs and even download them for offline playback with Spotify. A problem in that case would come if I try to bypass Spotify's copy protection and play the offline songs in a different player.

youtube-dl was bypassing geo-blocks.

I get the point but I've seen some sites even block copy/paste :p

Ok I'm curious; how can a person start their own country and currency?

Video hosting is as easy as hosting Piwigo, GNU mediagoblin, Lychee, Zenphoto, or tossing something together in PHP. All that is free and open-source.

I wonder how specific that ruling is; nowadays you'd have to break HDCP if you want to record from most devices with something in-between, and it seems like that wouldn't be as-legal with bypassing copy-protection

I got a OnePlus 6 this year and it's the best-spec'd phone I've owned; I chose it specifically for having 8GB of RAM. I barely use the thing most days and the most fun I've had with it so far was flashing LOS to it :p

Doom-scrolling and other time-wasting stuff is far more efficient from a PC, and I don't know how people use phones for hours to do that. Typing is also worse even with swipe!

I should try to go without a PC for a bit since I doubt I'd be able to waste time to the same extent from a phone :p

No, people need to stop letting Apple and Google have so much power; such silly victim mentality!

There's plenty of software and means to host your own video platforms.

Yep that'll encourage content creation :p Never mind RIAA became a thing because of content creators.

I can listen to music on the radio, but it's a whole different issue when I pick specific songs to pirate for my own personal listening :p But that's not where the caring comes in; it's the tools I can use to pirate songs; hence youtube-dl going down and not the users who used it.

I wouldn't be surprised if there's a TOS clause about videos on YT not being your property and that you can't export them off the platform unless you own the rights to the specific video. People that watch videos on YT are using someone else's platform; don't like it, don't use the platform, and tell the content creator to upload somewhere else. Nobody is entitled to bypass intentional blocks by YT and use 3rd-party tools to download other people's videos.

Personally I only used youtube-dl to pirate songs from HQ videos :p I can't imaging there being a large percentage of "legitmate" and fair usage.

Google is correct. The site was hosting malicious content, the site was public-facing, and Google took steps to protect its users trying to visit a site that was hosting malicious content which is more than anyone else would do. What else could you ask for?

I can go host malware on my site now, get flagged, take it down, tell Google, get my site un-flagged, and re-host the malware. Google can play cat-and-mouse with me at the expense of its users, or just keep the site flagged until enough time has passed and/or if I make enough noise about it. It's not common for a site to intentionally host malware, and especially uncommon for sites to host malware for non-nefarious purposes.

I guess technically Google flagged the site while the malicious files were still being hosted; it's not that they flagged the site when it wasn't hosting malicious content.

Why do OUL and Rocky exist if not to compete with RHEL?