RunAwayFrog

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[–] RunAwayFrog@sh.itjust.works 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Broken input sanitization probably.

Issue will thankfully no longer exist in the next lemmy release.

[–] RunAwayFrog@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Because the audiophile is broke, and will have to listen to some music on a lowly device, but the craving for some placebo is still there.

EDIT: btw, the bitrate is missing a k in your command 😉

[–] RunAwayFrog@sh.itjust.works 23 points 11 months ago (9 children)

Not audiophilic enough.

ffmpeg -i in.flac -ar 48000 \
            -af aresample=resampler=soxr:precision=28:cheby=1:dither_method=shibata \
            -c:a libopus -b:a 224k out.opus
[–] RunAwayFrog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

There is no need to talk about an imaginary version of IPFS. GNUnet already exists. You can add that to the list of actually superior technologies that long predates IPFS.

As I mentioned, IPFS is nothing but very basic tech that got overhyped to junior/uninformed developers, and crypto scam victims.

[–] RunAwayFrog@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Besides being overhyped basic tech where way more useful and practical solutions existed for decades (Freenet existed since year 2000 btw, and Tahoe-LAFS since 2007), there is nothing private about IPFS. This is a dangerous message to purport.

IPFS is as practically useful as NFTs. No wonder the two crowds connected well!

iroh is an attempt to create a useful and practical IPFS. But none of the bigger practical features is implemented yet. And the design itself doesn't appear to be finalized. I'm willing to give iroh a chance, although the close proximity to the IPFS crowd doesn't fill one with confidence.

[–] RunAwayFrog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Your aggressive tone is predictably inappropriate considering your failure at applying simple logic. You would only have a partial excuse if you're 11y/o or something.

There is f-droid the app store, and f-droid.org's main repo. See, it's not that hard.

just because they have an app that allows you to add other repos doesn’t mean those other repos are a part of f-droid

And that app is called... get it?

Because those other repos are not f-droid repos

Repos made to work in the f-droid app are not f-droid repos... wow

Is the f-droid.org's archive repo not an f-droid repo, too. lol.

Please tell me you're not an adult!

The thing is, you started on the right track:

Sync is not open source and Fdroid only allows open source.

Here, you are on the right. And you could have followed up later by simply pointing out that "Will it be released to F-Droid" usually means "Will it be on f-droid.org's FOSS-only main repo", but you decided to rant some weird incoherent shit, and insisted on dying on a hell of straws instead!

[–] RunAwayFrog@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

keep in mind that it’s hard to get real numbers on LDAC because decoding is proprietary

I used to think the same. But as it turns out, a decoder exists. Maybe some people don't want anyone to know about it to keep the myths alive ;)

EDIT: Also, as a golden rule, whenever anyone sees the words High-Res in an audio context, they should immediately realize that they are being bullshitted.

[–] RunAwayFrog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or “Hyphanet” as it’s now called.

wtf, I missed that news.

[–] RunAwayFrog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yes. That was what I'm alluding to when I wrote:

that architecture didn’t see large scale success before, except in Japan

Perfect Dark is a major network in Japan. Freenet is a network most people in the globe are not aware of. Hell, Perfect Dark may have a larger Japanese user-base than Freenet's global one.

It's worth mentioning that the former leader of the Freenet project wasn't the most competent. Combine that with him spending years trying (and failing) to cater to the needs of imaginary dictatorships' defectors (anyone of them using Freenet instead of Tor is the imaginary part), instead of focusing on maximizing the reliability and performance of the network to help its actual users. So it's not just the ignorance of the masses that was at fault. The default FN user experience was often a horrible one. And users needed to ignore the officially-recommended microblog/forum applications, and even use a patched FN version, to get a decent performance out of the network.

Anyway, Freenet is the past and the present. And as I wrote in the parent comment, I hope a Freenet-like network would become a major success in the future, but I'm not holding my hopes up.

[–] RunAwayFrog@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I do think it is the future of filesharing

In internet years, Torrenting is old. I2P is old. Even torrenting in I2P is old. Nothing about this is "the future".

Ideally, the future of file sharing would involve a fully/natively integrated anonymous network with content-addressable distributed filesystem.

But this will probably not happen, as that architecture didn't see large scale success before, except in Japan where at least some elements of this architecture are used in their popular P2P networks.

The I2P crowd themselves tried with Tahoe-LAFS, but that was never really a network, even aMule over I2P had more traction, and by traction I mean tens or hundreds of users, not thousands or beyond.

Ironically, the one content-addressable distributed filesystem that gained some attraction (outside Japan) is IPFS, which doesn't offer anonymity, or replication, or anything special really. Yet for some reason, some hype-susceptible techies liked it, together with the NFT crowd, a great fit.

The future of file sharing will depend on where most content will land where it will be easily accessible and quickly grabbable. How those networks will look like? Nobody knows.

[–] RunAwayFrog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Soulseek is an old-style P2P network. It has nothing to do with my parent comment. I personally don't use it (see my other comments in this thread).

If you want to grab a non-reencoded file from YouTube, you can use a tool like yt-dlp

# see what formats are available for a YT vid
yt-dlp -F <youtube-url>
# format 251 is usually available as the highest quality Opus format
yt-dlp -f 251 <youtube-url>

That last command should grab you an Opus stream in WEBM format.

If you're not a CLI guy, others should be able to give you a good GUI recommendation.

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