The traffic seems well ranked still. Maybe concerns of algorithmic censorship? As an example, X.com now promotes posts from premium users, and then has an extra promotion mode for premium+ users. (Normal users are now much less visible than premium users)

Do you use any extensions? I hated Gnome when I first started using Linux but now I prefer it over alternatives.

I don’t know what these people are doing who seem to claim it’s wonderful. Every single time I have tried to use one, it’s been completely clueless about the problem and wastes my time producing slop. I almost want to keep my code closed source because of how awful it is at generating anything. Maybe they’re just doing very simple web design or something, I don’t know

I even have started to hate Google and felt like their search engine is becoming very bad. Yandex has been returning more results and Google feels censored and replaced by generative AI answers.

My reaction was this guy is a Microsoft plant, there’s no way someone running arch isn’t using VSCodium if they liked VSCode

Sometimes it’s specific to the application. As an example, yt-dlp is redistributed by Canonical, and they usually maintain stable packages, but their versions seem to lag like 6 months. This might be related to their desire for stability, or maybe just align to their release cycle. I don’t know.

The issue is that yt-dlp needs to be updated more frequently because websites break their methods of downloading, so the version that follows the latest version seems to work better.

I don’t think using PPA’s is usually recommended, (like in the photo) so I think I would recommend flatpaks first if the developer of the application maintains one themselves. (and you want to follow later releases.) Though, the first time I had to use flatseal to fix an application, I felt like flathub was a failed platform.

The 580 drivers might just be the default for nvidia. I have two computers with nvidia GPUs that are like 10 years apart in age, but both look like they’re running 580 drivers.

I don’t really know what’s wrong with the networking though. Maybe try updating from terminal if you haven’t? sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

I have bindings on super + period and super + comma for an emoji flatpak. Usually at least one of them works. This is the flatpak I use. I still have to press ctrl + v afterwards, so the experience isn’t perfect.

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I didn’t realize it at first, but Pornhub has also been requesting device based age verification legislation.

I might add one for scaling. I just don’t use it as frequently as trying to meet a file size limit. The scaling is also much easier to remember

ffmpeg -i  in.mp4 -vf "scale=600:-1" -an out.mp4

It does get complicated though, when scaling many videos and images, I’ve used something like the following in the past

find .  -exec ffmpeg -i {} -vf "scale=1920:1080:force_original_aspect_ratio=decrease,pad=1920:1080:-1:-1:color=black" {}.mp4 \;

Those were the only two that showed up when I typed history | grep scale.

bitrate="$(awk "BEGIN {print int($2 * 1024 * 1024 * 8 / $(ffprobe \
    -v error \
    -show_entries format=duration \
    -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 \
    "$1" \
) / 1000)}")k"
ffmpeg \
    -y \
    -i "$1" \
    -c:v libx264 \
    -preset medium \
    -b:v $bitrate \
    -pass 1 \
    -an \
    -f mp4 \
    /dev/null \
&& \
ffmpeg \
    -i "$1" \
    -c:v libx264 \
    -preset medium \
    -b:v $bitrate \
    -pass 2 \
    -an \
    "${1%.*}-$2mB.mp4"

The version I have was copied from stackoverflow. It doesn’t work very well, it makes a rough estimate to get the video file size under the set value. As an example

resize video.mp4 10

Which then resizes the video to 10 megabytes if possible.

file=$1
target_size_mb=$2  # target size in MB
target_size=$(( $target_size_mb * 1000 * 1000 * 8 )) # target size in bits
length=`ffprobe -v error -show_entries format=duration -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 "$file"`
length_round_up=$(( ${length%.*} + 1 ))
total_bitrate=$(( $target_size / $length_round_up ))
audio_bitrate=$(( 128 * 1000 )) # 128k bit rate
video_bitrate=$(( $total_bitrate - $audio_bitrate ))
ffmpeg -i "$file" -b:v $video_bitrate -maxrate:v $video_bitrate -bufsize:v $(( $target_size / 20 )) -b:a $audio_bitrate "${file}-${target_size_mb}mb.mp4"

I’ll probably replace it eventually.

What does your ~/.bashrc look like? My last change was modifying a playlist command

playlist https://www.youtube.com/@YouTube/videos

playlist /home/username/Videos

playlist

playlist() {
        param=""

        # If the first parameter has a length more than 1 character
        if [ ${#1} -gt 1 ]; then
                param="${@}"
        else
                param="."
        fi

        screen mpv $param --shuffle --ytdl-raw-options-add=cookies-from-browser=firefox --loop-playlist=inf --no-keepaspect-window --no-auto-window-resize
}

alias code=codium
alias files=nautilus
alias explorer=nautilus
alias rust="/path/to/.cargo/bin/evcxr"
alias sniffnet="export ICED_BACKEND=tiny-skia; /path/to/.cargo/bin/sniffnet"
alias http-server='/path/to/.cargo/bin/miniserve'
alias iphone='uxplay'
alias airplay='uxplay'
alias watch='screen mpv --ytdl-raw-options-add=remote-components=ejs:github --ytdl-raw-options-add=cookies-from-browser=firefox --no-keepaspect-window '
alias twitch='watch'
alias timeshift-launcher="pkexec env WAYLAND_DISPLAY='$WAYLAND_DISPLAY' XDG_RUNTIME_DIR='$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR' /usr/bin/timeshift-launcher"
alias update="sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y && sudo flatpak update -y && sudo snap refresh"
alias resize="path/to/resize/videos/resize.sh"

playlist() {
        param=""

        # If the first parameter has a length more than 1 character
        if [ ${#1} -gt 1 ]; then
                param="${@}"
        else
                param="."
        fi

        screen mpv $param --shuffle --ytdl-raw-options-add=cookies-from-browser=firefox --loop-playlist=inf --no-keepaspect-window --no-auto-window-resize
}

gif() { ffmpeg -i $1 -f yuv4mpegpipe - | gifski -o $2 ${@:3} -;}

Your comment is much funnier but it did get him removed from his position at MIT and later the FSF. The creator of the GNU license is an Epstein apologist.

We can imagine many scenarios, but the most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing. Assuming she was being coerced by Epstein, he would have had every reason to tell her to conceal that from most of his associates.

I’ve concluded from various examples of accusation inflation that it is absolutely wrong to use the term “sexual assault” in an accusation.

• Richard Stallman