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Is it possible to double vote this way (once on each account)? On second thought, would it even matter? A malicious actor could have multiple accounts.

Iconic Characters Go Rogue [Grok-2] in c/imageai@sh.itjust.works

[–] cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 months ago

Whatever takes out the mouse is good with me

Samsung delivers 600-mile solid-state EV battery as it teases 9-minute charging and 20-year lifespan tech in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 months ago

Only when we're road tripping and the 20 mins every couple of hours is all our bladders can take anyway.

Kevin Bacon Dons Elaborate Disguise To Experience Life As Non-Famous Person, Concludes “This Sucks” in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

[–] cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Per [Vanity Fair], he was outfitted with fake teeth, a slightly different nose and glasses. When he tested the look at outdoor Los Angeles shopping mall The Grove, “Nobody recognized me,” Bacon said. But the tide evidently soon turned. “People were kind of pushing past me, not being nice. Nobody said, ‘I love you.’ I had to wait in line to, I don’t know, buy a f***ing coffee or whatever. I was like, This sucks. I want to go back to being famous,” he told VF.

The actor, who has been working steadily since the late 70s and became a megastar with 1984’s Footloose, also told VF, “I honestly feel very grateful for where I happen to be. That I can have two totally different movies coming out within a couple of days of each other, and completely different roles. The fact they would both come my way is the thing that I feel the most gratitude for. I’ve fought really long and hard for it.”

To give perspective on the 48k monthly active users on Lemmy, and the 4.5k on kbin+mbin, Discuit has 6787 registered users in c/fediverse@lemmy.world

[–] cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 5 months ago

No they don't, nor will they according to their about page.

YouTube's next move might make it virtually impossible to block ads in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Have you looked at the Unhooked extension. You can choose to hide recommended videos, which was a game changer for me.

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Anyone else not able to create Amazon Prime watch parties? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Sorry, I don't know of a community to post this in. However, anyone else having trouble creating watch parties?

I am no longer able to host watch parties on things that are free on prime. I can however, start a watch party for seasons/movies I "own" through amazon.

Edit: Put own in quotes.

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Downloading Brightcove Videos (www.reddit.com)

submitted 1 year ago by cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Today I found a video series that I was datahoarding... I know...

Anyway, I found this old reddit post from 3 years ago on how to download from Brightcove. So I thought I would repost this here for posterity.

Here's the post below with some small revisions from 3 years ago by u/publiusvaleri_us

I had a short video that I wanted to try to download, but the brightcove style seems to be hard to parse. I was wondering if there's a way to find out the actual URL to do the download, and I started on a hunch.

Of course I visited the webpage with the video and let it play. In Firefox, I use Web Developer Tools, then I selected the Network tab. It listed a lot of the streams of the video (mp2t) that appeared to be a form of streaming. The secret is to look for a file type of "x-mpegurl" which is the key to feeding youtube-dl the correct video URL.

I found this step was made easier by uBlock Origin (I only had to look for the red blocked packets)

Here is my command: (You must use ffmpeg, because of the multiple streams)

youtube-dl --prefer-ffmpeg --ffmpeg-location ..\ffmpeg\bin --restrict-filenames [URL FROM Web Developer Tools->Network.]

The only problem I found out is that some of the x-mpegurl files produce an end result without sound. They were combined in ffmpeg as render-render.mp4. But I found another one that downloaded to a slightly larger file, and it was called "master-master.mp4" when it was done. That video has sound. So if you examine your URL possibilities, look for the word "master" somewhere in it.

...BLAH-BLAH/master.m3u8?fastly_token=BLAH,BLAH

Let me know if anyone has questions or needs a few pointers. I'm surprised I figured it out without a lot of problems. When youtube-dl gave me the error for the main URL, I figured one of you guys knew all about how to do this... turns out that I do.... shocked emoji.