anotherandrew

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[–] anotherandrew@mbin.mixdown.ca -1 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Not OP, but interested in right-leaning communities that aren't pants-on-head insane, just like I am interested in left-leaning communities with a similar constraint. /r/conservative generally isn't bad (I find they tend to be a LOT more level headed than /r/politics, for example) but things like /r/the_donald or whatever it was called is way too out there for my tastes.

[–] anotherandrew@mbin.mixdown.ca -2 points 2 days ago (13 children)

the tolerant left, right here on display for everyone.

I actually (as a left leaning Canadian) seek out conservative/libertarian/right-leaning news sources because I believe it's important to take in a wide variety of information, especially from sources which I might not agree with. There is a lot you can learn from anyone not on the extremes.

[–] anotherandrew@mbin.mixdown.ca 34 points 5 days ago (2 children)

It's funny; I recommend Apple stuff for practically all the same reasons you don't. The walled garden pisses me off sometimes but when I talk to friends using Android stuff and their gripes it really reinforces that I made the right decision for my family, just as you have for yours. What I find even more amusing is that I design embedded linux devices, all my servers/vms are Linux based and I really enjoy using Linux... just not supporting/using it as a primary UI.

Not shitting on your choices at all, I know that many people really like/enjoy the Android side as much as I do the Apple side. Chacun à son goût and all that.

[–] anotherandrew@mbin.mixdown.ca 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I've been lucky I guess -- haven't had a failure with force formats before, I always thought if it couldn't download the format I wanted it was spinning the conversion over to ffmpeg. I haven't really paid that close attention to the output. :-)

[–] anotherandrew@mbin.mixdown.ca 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I have two depending on what I'm grabbing is part of a playlist (where I want to maintain order) or not:

--download-archive archive.txt --write-auto-subs --sub-langs en --embed-subs -o "%(upload_date)s_%(title)s_%(id)s.%(ext)s" -S res,vcodec:h264,acodec:m4a

or

--download-archive archive.txt --write-auto-subs --sub-langs en --embed-subs -o "%(playlist_title)s/%(playlist_index)s_%(upload_date)s_%(title)s_%(id)s.%(ext)s" -S res,vcodec:h264,acodec:m4a

that --download-archive archive.txt is a godsend for when I rediscover something I've already grabbed. I often move the files to better locations after, but archive.txt doesn't care. Embedding the subtitles, forcing h264/m4a (because more and more things are webp it seems), and renaming the file to the title + youtube ID are what make up the rest.

Interesting that OpenProject is actually a fork of Redmine -- I've got an old Redmine instance I've been using on and off for well over a decade and now I am going to see how tricky it is to migrate over. It sounds like it used to be straightforward but I don't know if that's still the case.

Thanks for the lead!

it was more about just being able to run it on osx again since they (Apple) removed 32-bit support some time ago.

[–] anotherandrew@mbin.mixdown.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

This makes me sad that the only way I can play Portal (or Portal 2) is in a 32-bit VM. a 64-bit remake would be so awesome.

That's an excellent question. I only know of them because mxtoolbox and other checkers list them.

Kind of a piggyback on this -- is there a favoured "search my saved links from karakeep/linkwarden/hamster.io and show them first before feeding the search terms to google/bing/whatever" extension for your browser?

[–] anotherandrew@mbin.mixdown.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How did you do this? I have only seen the google postmaster tools and they're absolutely useless unless you are sending significant email volume. If you're a little guy they won't even give you basic reporting on deliverability.

[–] anotherandrew@mbin.mixdown.ca 13 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

There was a recent thread on reddit about this, where I wrote this comment (copied here):

I've been hosting my own email for a long time (almost 25 years).

Today it's better than it was, but there are some hurdles:

  • Microsoft has their own system, but it's reasonably easy to get listed
  • Google does their own thing, and it's IMPOSSIBLE to get anywhere
  • UCEPROTECTL3 is just a fucking extortion scam

When I switched providers, I found out I was in a "bad IP neighbourhood". Microsoft wanted a letter from my VPS provider saying that I am in control of the IP I wanted listed, and that was not too hard to get. Also, Microsoft's blacklist management is sane - you can log in, see the status, raise issues and get a hold of people. A little frustrating, but workable.

Google, on the other hand... You can't participate in their spam system unless you have a minimum volume of email, which means little guys like me who send maybe 50-100 emails a day end up in gmail's junk folders by default and there's abso-fucking-lutely nothing you can do about it. There's no one to report it to, there's no way to fight it... they simply don't care. And whether an email gets flagged as junk or not seems completely random. It has nothing to do with the content as far as I can tell. All you can do is contact people from your personal gmail and ask them to check spam/whitelist. It's been years and I'm still waiting for the "eventually your domain will get whitelisted globally" bullshit to happen.

That leaves UCEPROTECTL3. Fuck these guys sideways. They block entire ASes and no, you can't get an exception made. You can pay them to get whitelisted which is why I call them an extortion scam. They're the only blacklist I'm on and I'll be fucked if I'll pay them to get off it. Bunch of fucking pretentious scammers.

Everything else is pretty easy: DNS, DMARC, DKIM, SPF... it's hoops to jump through but not overly difficult. Ensuring you've got SMTPS set up and constraining the encryption protocols to get it tight takes some iterative work, but nothing too difficult.

I totally understand why people give up. This is a huge problem with these gigantic monolithic companies -- they hold way too much power over the internet and there's no way to hold them accountable.

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