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reggegg··on Bypassing YouTube video download throttling
Mr Beast's videos have at least a spanish audio track, which funnily enough NewPipe defaults to (or did the last I checked) and NewPipe doesn't support changing the track as far as I can tell
reggegg··on Getting around website paywalls with devtools alone
Archive.ph et al is run by a russian fellow so probably the third one, especially now that Russia doesn't seem to care about something like this at all
reggegg··on Ask HN: M1 MacBook Pro/Air users, how is it going?
I have the cheapest M1 Air model for personal use and it's been great. Although I wouldn't have gotten it if my old XPS 13 (Intel i5 gen 8 I think) didn't have such a bad touchpad and a bad feeling keyboard compared to this.

One thing that I didn't see mentioned yet is that for Podman to work there is some fiddling required. At least when installed through Homebrew in a non-standard directory (my homebrew dir is under my user home), qemu just wasn't able to start the container VM and I had to find a way to install Podman with an older qemu version (pre-7.x) for it to work at all which involved downloading the homebrew formula and stabbing it with a fork

reggegg··on Show HN: Caddy-SSH
What's the use case for using your personal unix account on someone else's computer?
reggegg··on Don't ask to ask, just ask (2019)
Also something that goes very well with this is the age old saying, "just ask, don't ask to ask".

I always find it a bit annoying when people approach in chats just to ask if they can ask something.

Especially back in the days (yes) of IRC it was annoying because messages on a channel tend to easily drown in other messages

reggegg··on Ian Cutress leaves Anandtech
Their "LTT Labs" venture is supposed to be a mainly written research/testing articles
reggegg··on 1.1.1.1 for Families
They also blocked all of Finland a few years ago for pretty dubious reasons:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today#Finland

reggegg··on Retro nostalgia and why my new website looks like Window 9x (2019)
Cool, have you looked into getting the original Windows fonts in there as well (title bar, start menu etc)? Helvetica I think?
reggegg··on Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS founder
Fortunately this is a server distro, and there definitely aren't enough of those around (stable trustworthy ones).

While your experiences with the desktop are unfortunate, on most common laptops (cheap and expensive ones) most Linux distros run well, even if some very specific devices have issues with the kernel drivers

reggegg··on Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95
Seems no one has mentioned it yet but what bothers me about most of these stylesheet hacks is that they never get the font right. Granted I don't know what it would take to make the old font (MS Sans Serif?) browser-compatible, possible copyright issues aside(?)
reggegg··on Tell HN: $13K Sales for “The Good Parts of AWS” on Launch Day
For any proper use the AWS console is nothing more than a brochure of what you could be doing.

If you want to use their services properly, read the documentation for the ones you have chosen and use proper tooling that provides repeatability (for the lack of a better word), provided by AWS themselves or by a third party.