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> Or look at the Vivian James logo for the site under services. https://sapphire.moe/

Where? I can't see it on that page now.

`I wrap the entire thing up in some shell script as a .bashrc function which takes a URL, touches the downloaded file (since youtube-dl saves the youtube file modified date), then opens it in vlc. '

Just install mpv, dude.

It works right out of the box, if youtube-dl is in your PATH.

mpv (mpv.io) also has support for using it to stream videos. (play from the internet, rather than downloading)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-with/ is available for firefox and chrome, and lets you open URLs from the context menu. Massive time saver, as you can just right click on a link to a video, and it'll start playing in a separate media player.

Jaywalking isn't a thing here. You can just walk across any road that's not a motorway, as long as you don't get hit by anything. Same with Simple trespass. Although that's the case in a lot of places.

The UK seems to expect people to panic less in case of a fire, I suppose.

Thanks for mentioning this. Real nifty.

The two things I don't see bittorrent utilized for nowadays are livestreaming, and file matching. Sure, there's some demos of bittorrent live, but it's not hit the mainstream yet. 30-60 second stream delay should be plenty of time to sync video to everybody. File matching would be neat too. Just scan your files against a DHT database and you'll never have to worry about losing them again. Just as long as there's seeds.

Although, this guy did become Nokia's CEO in 2010: http://enwp.org/Stephen_Elop Then, he proceeded to tank the company and make it cheaper to acquire.

Is there any foolproof way of detecting if some video or audio is a commercial or not?

A TV tuner that just replaces commercials with a placeholder image and a countdown to when the break is over would make broadcast TV just about tolerable for me. (time-shift, and skipping past commercials is a better solution, but there's some things you want to see live)

> neither xz nor lzip can correct errors

Speaking of which, is there even a unixy way of adding/applying error correction information to a stream or file?

Ideally, one should be able to do this in a pipe.

Personally, I think it should be possible to take a harm-reduction test and get examined by a doctor and get a license to possess certain currently illegal substances. (Taken to it's most extreme, that would also include alcohol and nicotine) I also don't think they should be government issued either, but rather by certain regulated third parties, in order to ensure privacy.

I don't know of many places aside from china where taking drugs is illegal, normally it's just possession and sale that is. Normally, the sweet-spot for things like this is decriminalizing possession, but keeping sale illegal. Again, I think this is less than ideal, as it makes it harder to limit sale to children.

For the sake of reference, do you have a strategy to keep your kids away from other drugs? I don't have children, but I expect my plan to involve describing what each of the substances do, and why they might want to avoid them. (or wait until they're older)

When I saw this initially, I thought this'd be a bunch of graphs detailing how you would have done to invest using DCA at different times in the past, and at different amounts.

I'd be interested in seeing that as well.

I'm disappointed nobody's made a public version of this yet: https://github.com/jaimeMF/youtube-dl-api-server

I'd use the demo server, but its youtube-dl is out of date, and it just feels wrong.

It's gentoo based. Just because its DE is basically just chrome doesn't make it any less of an OS. Hell, you can even run another OS in a chroot on it.

You'll get similar performance if you put your OS on an SSD, and select services that minimize your boot time.