MalReynolds

@MalReynolds@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there still anyway to bypass Youtube "Sign in to confirm your age" bullshit in 2026?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I find switching VPN endpoints works, bit whack-a-mole, but works. Actually I run a few with gluetun and just switch proxy port numbers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Their models are free to self host and use, they don’t play by the rules of US LLM companies.

  Jury’s out on that, they may be using the large US company play of undercut your competitors until they crash and burn then seize the monopoly (e.g. Amazon and bookstores…) then ratchet prices up and enshittify, but with the bankroll of a huge country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youlag (v4.3.0) - YouTube viewing in FreshRSS: Improved browsing experience⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pinchflat

  Thanks, looks like it could work, bit more than I want, and it’ll need integrating, but it is what it is. I’ll see if it’s worth the pain to transition.

  Of course there’s this…

  MonkCanatella @sh.itjust.works English

  I just have a somewhat annoying yt dlp script that runs on a schedule on my computer that downloads all my subscriptions. I tried everything else including pinchflat and it wasn’t really much of an improvement tbh.

  TheLeadenSea
  @sh.itjust.works
  English
  
  Could you share that script please? I’d like to set up something similar
      MonkCanatella
      @sh.itjust.works
      English
  
      Give me a bit, I’ll set up a gist with the details!
          TheLeadenSea
          @sh.itjust.works
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          Thanks!
  

  followed by crickets. Such is life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youlag (v4.3.0) - YouTube viewing in FreshRSS: Improved browsing experience⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, cool and all, but I’ve been using freshrss with libredirect and freetube for this for ages, and it’s great when freetube works, which with the cat and mouse with youtube is less often than I’d like (kudos to freetube, great project).

  Honestly what I’d really like is something to download rss yt vid to a cache with yt-dlp (which breaks much less), grab the sponsorblock and pipe to something light and distraction free like mpv or vlc. Clear the cache after a day or whatever.

  Anyone seen anything like this ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iran war cuts off helium from Qatar, and shortages will start to bite in a few weeks, threatening chip supply chains that fuel the AI boom⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or they get destroyed for tax purposes. So much waste.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tinder Plans to Let AI Scan Your Camera Roll⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Passing the shit event horizon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Wants to Put You in a Massive, Secret Government Database⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s already to the point it’s too late.

  Until they overreach, and the backlash cometh. The pendulum of history keeps swinging. Here’s hoping it’s a doozy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Wants to Put You in a Massive, Secret Government Database⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Marketers / advertisers are corrupt psychologists (the competent ones anyway), or to use oldspeak propogandists. Some timeless words for consideration

  “If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.” – Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda, 1933 to 1945

  “Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.” – Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda, 1933 to 1945

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well that’s confidence inspiring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Password manager woes. How have you solved syncing on Android?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For say a keypass db you don’t need even that, Just sshd gets you rsync on your computer with cron or systemd timer / service… Personally I just use an old version of Syncthing-Fork though, security implications for local network are minimal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Sound of Contamination: All Analysed Headphones on the Central European Market Found to Contain Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, you do what you can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Sound of Contamination: All Analysed Headphones on the Central European Market Found to Contain Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Biologically inert, used in surgical implants, I’m going with safe (certainly safer than the alternatives).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amid Crowded Skies, Federal Aviation Administration(FAA) Kills Rule Aimed at Regulating Space Junk⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hello Kessler Syndrome

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  May I introduce you to the concept of ‘natural monopoly’.

  Basically most natural monopolies (power, phone lines, roads etc) in most places were historically run by governments (because it’s bloody sensible) until the neoliberal movement in the 80s privatized them because ‘private enterprise is more efficient’ (at extracting tax dollars as it turned out) and to balance a few budgets.

  Should definitely be ruled a failed experiment and rolled back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Advice on swapping from Synology to a ugreen⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some things to think about.

  Even ZFS now let’s you add a new drive to an array, and the sweet spot for $/TB is ~16-20TB at the moment, so maybe think about 3x16TB and add another later (also less power).

  Consider manufacturer recertified (not refurbished) server drives from serverpartdeals.com or your local equivalent, after all RAID is there to let you survive a disk failure, it’s treated me well, and lets you avoid SMR drives.

  You can mix drives of different sizes if you use Unraid or roll your own with mergerfs+snapraid (+OpenMediaVault perhaps). I do the latter, it’s a bit of a setup, but has the advantage that you can recover accidental deletions, which brings me to ‘RAID is not a backup’.

  For true data safety you should have an offline backup (i.e. drives that mostly live outside your computer, safe from lightning, accidental deletion etc.) and eventually an offsite copy.

  Personally I think the AI bought all our drives from WD is likely BS (seems lightly supported) to goose their product prices, so hopefully it’ll blow over, but prices seldom go down, inflation catches up. Sigh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Labor must stop juicing house prices and make buying a home the Australian dream – not negatively gearing one | Greg Jericho⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But GDP line must go up (even if it’s not production and actively hurts us).

  Anything else is political suicide. /s sort of

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Zen (firefox (gecko) derivative, No AI, focus on decluttered interface) has bloody excellent tab management these days, workspaces, folders, horizontal tab lists (like sideberry), essentials (tab icons pinned to the top), auto unload, all built in, and everything disappears when reading a page.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You know, this is the sort of thing that users should really be made aware of…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fetcharr - a human-developed Huntarr replacement⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I have “Analyze Video Files” on, doesn’t get me a list of substandard files though, just sends the arr after stuff it’s probably already not finding.

  tdarr Hadn’t seen the Property search in here before, might get me most of the way there. Got it around somewhere, might have to spin it back up. Maybe I can raid it’s database as well. Thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fetcharr - a human-developed Huntarr replacement⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, unless I didn’t dive deep enough, Configarr / Trash guides is mostly about setting up quality profiles and media paths and so forth, something I long ago sorted out to my satisfaction.

  What I guess I was after was something to find stuff that has fallen through the cracks, highlighting stuff that doesn’t meet my standards and seeing whether I care enough to go looking for upgrades.

  Strangely there doesn’t seem to be a simple app to run ffprobe over your library and populate a database for querying video quality, maybe I’ll get around to knocking one out one day, but today is not that day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'We've reached a breaking point': Is it time to tax older Australians more?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  See also (often foreign) mining companies paying fuck all for resources. We really need to take a page out of Norway’s sovereign wealth fund book.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yoda voice: Begun the AI Patent wars have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fetcharr - a human-developed Huntarr replacement⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t want to balloon the project

  Fair cop, and no I haven’t really dived into Configarr and the trash guides (although I vaguely remember coming across them), oh joy, another rabbit hole. I do try to keep a simple stack, and what I have has served me well for years. But thanks, no need to reinvent the wheel if that handles my use case.

  Having smaller projects with specific scope that do something well and can be plugged together is always preferable to some sprawling monstrosity. Used to be called the Unix way (pipe sed into awk etc.) and could stand to be revisited today. Best of luck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fetcharr - a human-developed Huntarr replacement⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a quick look, I think I could find a use for it but what I’d most be interested in is a dry run spitting out a list of missing / low res / low bitrate / stereo (I much prefer 5.1+), perhaps old codec, etc. media. Like many I have my own standards for what needs to be how good and so forth.

  Ideally I could edit said list and put it back in as an active search list (perhaps chunking and prioritizing as well and iterating the process). Seems like this is 90% of the way there, any chance of an enhancement ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI promised to free up workers’ time. UC Berkeley researchers found the opposite.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same principle as “your spending will increase to match your income”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Don’t worry about that, you can just run it in the cloud for an eternal subscription” - Microslop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, technically, an eBike is an Electric Vehicle, and not a fucking car. Otherwise, hard agree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Simple inexpensive cloud backup?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And ideally the storage will be encrypted and have basic privacy assurances.

  Why would you trust a company to encrypt for you when Cryptomator exists ?

  Also, a couple of 4TB drives for cold backup (one offsite) avoids another subscription.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big facts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What you are describing maps quite well to the Quantum Memory Model (accessible explanation here) of Physics. Certainly considering information a fundamental quantity that can neither be created nor destroyed is becoming a popular concept.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big facts⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m willing to accept Atheism, ‘I do not believe in God’, as somewhat dogmatic, but as others have said, it’s the null hypothesis and they have Occam’s razor going for them. Pragmatically it is a useful stance in light of the societal harm religion does.

  I am however unwilling to conflate Agnosticism with ‘I can not believe’, always been “I’m waiting for evidence one way or the other” to me, so perhaps the more scientific point of view.