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I’m late to this party but other than the quote in the post and article, I haven’t seen anything about Star Labs. I never heard of them before or if I have, I probably confused them with Star Tech. I looked at their website and everytihng seems pretty legit to me. If anyone sees this and has had any experience with them, I’d love to hear more, good or bad. I’ve been looking into getting a new laptop as my current one is from 2008 and saw they have an AMD one which is rare in the laptop world it seems. I might need to make my own post about this.

as mentioned in another comment, yt-dlp works great. there are graphical versions of it that i haven’t used. i use it on linux but it has a windows version too. full discolosure, i haven’t used it to download videos in awhile, i mostly use it for music, so this info might be outdated.

the basic premise is you find the video you want to download, copy the URL, paste it into the yt-dlp program and it downloads the video.

there are a ridiculous amount of options however, the github might seem intimidating if you aren’t a programmer or very tech savvy. there are plenty of better written tutorials online. once you get it to work, it’s easy after that.

if you are in the U.S. try pornhub, xvideos, xnxx, xhamster or tblop. the ID requirements vary from state to state, so if the first 4 don’t work, keep trying off tblop until one is found. there’s also streaming archivers like archivebate and peachterbate.

one last thought, if you don’t have ublock origin, get it. if you have it, make sure to go into the options and check the all the ‘annoyances’ boxes. i think it removes the ‘we need a picture of your id’ messages on a few sites.

yt-dlp no longer works on youtube for me personally. i’ve read about workarounds but they are too advanced for me to understand.

however, it works fine on every porn site i have tried so far.

I still have the slide as default and use it a lot. I have it set to slide when I mousewheel on the desktop and keep my taskbar shorter so there’s always some desktop showing in the corners. When I get frustrated with something though, I hit my key to activate the cube and the animation of it pulling away from the normal view works as like a disconnect from whatever I’m doing. Virtually stepping back basically.

Without the cube, I found I would get frustrated and instead of working on something else I would keep going and ultimately make mistakes and end up more frustrated. If I tried switching with the slide or fade to another project, the irritation stayed with me and I’d mess those other projects up too. The cube, for me, just worked.

I did have some success using the overview, however it was a lot more overwhelming with the way it shows everything, while the cube limits it to what’s on each cube face, without showing minimized windows at all.

When I updated KDE and found that I had lost the cube desktop switcher effect I was fairly put off on Wayland and made a lot of effort to get the cube back in various ways which did not go well. Now that it’s on Wayland, albeit slightly different, I am content with staying on Wayland. I can’t thank the people who ported it enough. It may seem like a trivial graphic effect to some but that fraction of a second that it uses when switching desktops is something that helps my ADHD tremendously. If I’m getting frustrated with a project I can switch to something else and something about that visualization helps me keep everything organized mentally. I use 4 virtual desktops, each with it’s own project subject matter, one for each side of the cube, excluding the top and bottom.

This meme imagary is from the movie Seven Psychopaths. It’s a very good movie.

Saying ‘prevention of theft’ is a poor suggestion on my end and an incorrect depiction of his motives and usage of Soulseek. I can’t say for sure really, he passed away in 2021 so I’ll never know his motives. I tried to think of a reason why someone might mark something private and that’s what I ended up with. I probably should have thought this through better.

He used a lot of samples for his music using multitracks, the releases from artists meant specifically for remixing and sampling and I believe searching for multitracks from lesser known artists was his main use for Soulseek, basically networking, not piracy, and that he also had poor file and project management?

I’m not sure how to convey the connection that I saw in my head. I probably should have left this post alone.

A friend of mine kept all his music in the same folder, including music he created. Prevention of theft might be a reason to mark as music, although this is a very niche use case.

Not to mention powered flight was invented in Ohio.

Because people were flying the fuck out as fast as they could, Ohio stepped up its game with other inventions: speeding tickets and stop lights.

It’s no coincidence that cash registers, price sticker affixing machines and barcodes were all invented in Ohio too. You can try to leave, but you’re gonna have to pay and it wont be easy. Ohio is also where vacuum cleaners and chewing gum were invented.

Think I’m being ridiculous? Just wait and see!

There’s a variant of three-ring loose-leaf paper binders invented in Ohio. It’s called a “Trapper Keeper”. Think about it…

The inventions of Ohio tell a bleak, dystopian tale if one reads between the lines. Interesting that Ohio brought the world freon and leaded gasoline along with gas masks…

As someone in Ohio, it only requires an ID to watch porn online. I’ve been saving material since learning about the bill.

I can imagine a couple hundred GB will last me awhile. Also after that, I can imagine. They can’t regulate that yet.

That analogy with the pencil is great! Thanks for the info.

Also the ones who think this is something with even tiny chance of being viable in court anytime soon or will persist as an effective crimebuster for any notable amount of time if they do.

The above comments have already covered many possible variations complicating things, due to the settings and positions of how the machine was used to 3d print something. The article claims 3d printing tech has nozzles that have unique signatures. They would (or at least should) need to make sure it is actually unique by cross checking with other nozzles too. Lots of them really, just to make sure.

That might require finding multiple nozzles made in the same batch as the murder weapon, preferably unused, so they could attempt to recreate the crime version, to rule it out. It might be a nozzle manufacturer causing these imperfections where each batch of 10,000 nozzles is made in an extrusion plant or injection mold or done like solder ball grid array or pipefitters and play-doh (i honestly have no idea how they are made lol) and it turns out every nozzle in the first row has the same ‘fingerprint’ that warps the same way with use.

As technology progresses, parts should (but these days, idk) be made with more durable materials, with greater precision, capable of smaller scales or higher complexity and these unique signatures disappear for any easily detectable method. That’s just the nozzles. In theory, that can apply to many if not all the parts.

I mean, Fabs for CPU are currently producing chips at what, 3 nanometers now? I just learned about electron-beam lithography too. The 3d printed smoking gun fingerprinting will be an anacronism before it’s a specialization, in my opinion.

I haven’t done it much personally but it’s easy, prepend the page name with a colon.

Do you want online or offline? Both? Need online for somethings but not all? The answers however, will only unlock more quests… Oops, I mean they will lead to more questions. Do you want to self host everything or do you need to use cloud storage? Would cloud storage be for sync and back up data for yourself, or will other people need access?

What I’m asking, to put it a different way, is what are you world building for? a novel you are writing? a campaign setting for a tabletop role playing game? Are you making a MMORPG, with its own in-game wikipedia with a group of friends or alone? Trick question, you can’t do the last one alone. it would have to be called a ORPG)

Offline, with just you making the world, Zim. The interface is fairly customizable, although might seen tricky at first if you are unfamiliar with GTK and Gnome or programming in general. However, I have no usable programming skills. I can’t even program the clock on my microwave. Okay, I can but I’m too lazy.

For me, a severely ADHD person, it makes it easy to organize… everything. A picture might show it better than I can describe:

I know, a screenshot of a wall of text. Not cool of me. I hope it works and the image shows or this wont make much sense from here on.

To break it down, I have the preferences dialogue open, it’s on the plugins menu, you can see many are self explanatory. if you know how, you can write your own plugins. i do not know how.

However, i do know how to write simple bash commands, which can be added as custom tools and set to hotkeys. I can timestamp in EST or UTC for logging purposes with a push of a button. Your imagination is the limit! Well, plus the limitations of bash and your computer/tablet/cellphone/etc and probably like a dozen other things.

That preferences menu is open on top of a page in my notebook. The silly magician stuff. It can be ignored (and might not make sense) it is sample text. To the left, you can see my notebook, sorted by subject in my own arbitrary way. The current page is selected, the ‘magic’ page in the ‘written’ chapter.

Also I’ve not had problems with Joplin (which I’ve read is not FOSS, it does not save as .txt files) which has an Android specific App (Zim does not) but I haven’t played with it enough to give a valid opinion.

Zim and Joplin both work on Windows and Linux, both can be cloud synced, like with google drive or dropbox, if you use those (I do not, I use Zim offline, except for backups). If security is a concern, Zim does not encrypt, it’s .txt files. Joplin I believe does. If you backup to cloud, Joplin would be safer from theft I think. I could be wrong. theft meaning your intellectual property, i.e. possibly being intercepted and viewed online by evil hackers, possibly even copied and published under their name. I do not worry about this. I would be honored if someone tried to publish my crap without permission.

My use case is personal organizer and mind map and many other things, including a ‘almost D&D’ campaign setting for a TTRPG, a novel I’ll never publish, pictures of things I know I’ll forget… oh yeah, that reminds me, in my linked image, on the right, there’s a table of contents (ToC), which gets automatically generated if you use the Header tag, for easier in-page navigation of long pages. Next to the ToC tab there’s ‘Attachments’, this page has none. You can attach files to pages, like pdf’s, images, graphs, etc and link to them from other pages in the notebook.

The only problems I’ve had, are likely my own fault for messing with the theme and config files a bunch. This got long. Hope it helps.

Sure you can! See?

Do GIMP, Krita, Kdenlive or Inkscape use AI? I did not think they did, to the best of my knowledge. Maybe I’m missing something about AI assisted compression and correction, which I admit I’m not familiar with.

Does this only apply to digital media used in mainstream sources or does it mean everyone who uses editing software is using AI?

The truck might have had one of their ‘lifetime’ subscriptions.

Sirius sold lifetime subscriptions. Some people who purchased one were led to believe it was for the rest of their life. Sirius worded it to say it was the lifetime of the device. Their ‘lifetime’ service got cancelled on them after a merger with XM Radio, or they’d replace their vehicle which had a different but still a Sirius radio and could not transfer lifetime service.

There was a class action lawsuit filed. The lawsuit was settled in 2021 (subs had been sold as far back as the early 2000’s) and made ‘lifetime’ refer to the subscriber, not the life of the radio. People with inactive subscriptions could cancel it and get $100. An active subscription could pay $35 (instead of $75) to move it to another radio, each time they wanted to move it. Except that settlement was dismissed in 2022 and it’s no longer possible.

Mailing lists for Spotify and Pro Tools, plus you get signed up for a ‘free’ with an asterisk lifetime subscription to sirius radio that can’t be cancelled.

this applies possibly to phone calls, text messages, email, comments on forums and sites like youtube and many other things.

check: does user respond? if yes, user will engage. add to will engage list.

check: how does user respond? delete or reply? if reply, add to repeat text/voice call list. if delete add to spam defender list.

will engage list: continue to send. engagement is attention. they are acknowledging and thus may be able to attract their attention in some way for advertisers.

text/voice list: same as engage list but also opens lines of communication. chance to upsell. chance to phish with support scam.

spam defender list: continue using default spam tactics. add higher level phishing techniques. consider adding to spearphishing list.

spearphishing list: has spam experience and can use computer/phone. possible tech worker. gather more information. attempt to infiltrate. cross reference username with leak db’s. do they reuse their passwords?

all of the above: collect ai training data.

i don’t know how true any of this is, it’s simply how i imagine some of it works. i might be paranoid. how you react is part of how you get classified into a list or group.

I thought I could write something worse and came up with this. it was not really a good idea. (i modified it so no one makes my mistake by blindly copy and pasting it. hopefully.)

if [[ -f ~./kitten.sh ]] #     if the file kitten exists
    then killall -KILL kitten.sh || touch ./kitten #    kill all kittens. if that fails, touch kitten.
fi;
echo "Killed kitten... )"; #    announce the terrible deed.
# bash kitten.sh; #    runs this kitten script again. do not remove # symbol at start of this line, unless you want to have a bad time.
# it will make this run repeatedly. you monster.

First watch these:

• Star Wars Holiday Special
• The Ewok Adventure
• Ewoks: The Battle for Endor

When you have finished those, you should be filled with hate and suffering. You will welcome the dark side. Now you are ready.

Start watching

• The Phantom Menace.

Stop watching before the pod race ends.

Play the videogame

• Star Wars: Pod Racer.

Crash the first pod race, killing little Anakin.

Congratulations!

You’ve stopped the evil Sith lords from rising to power. You’ve saved the Ewoks. You’ve saved Jarjar. Balance in the universe remains balanced. You truly are one with the force. You are ready for the light side.

Watch

• Clone Wars

The animated series that aired on Cartoon Network. Not “The Clone Wars”!!! That’s different. Don’t watch that one. It sucks. You want the one made by Genddy Tartakovski, known for his masterpieces, Samurai Jack and Dexter’s Laboratory and his pivotal work in the series The Powerpuff Girls.

You wont need to watch anything else.

You wont want to watch anything else.

Ever.