mpv is just a player; if you really want to use youtube from a terminal install something called "mps-youtube" ("pip3 install --user mps-youtube" should do it).
This is much more of a youtube interface. It in turn can use vlc (what I use) or, I seem to recall, mpv, as the actual player.
You can search for videos, sort them by various criteria, download them via its builtin downloader or anything else you have... it's a very nice tool!
As someone who has tried (and failed) several times to learn Haskell, I cannot describe how much I am in awe of someone like Audrey Tang and her sheer brain power.
I switched to qupzilla when Firefox started this pocket nonsense. Some sites don't render properly but most of them are OK. I do use FF just for those sites, but it's kinda rare...
Very happy with qupzilla. I especially like it's built in "noscript" idea that when you enable JS, it's *per tab* (i.e., all the other tabs where you loaded other URLs from the same site do not start reloading with JS immediately)
Branches as separate file system directories really do suck when you're switching between quite a few. Just because you like it doesn't mean it's the right idea.
And any VCS that touts explicit move/rename as a *positive* will never be able to track bits of code across refactor boundaries (think of a critical 100-line function moving from foo.c to bar.c 3 months ago. Now tell me how a new project dev would find the history of that chunk of code before the refactor).
try ranger instead of mc. It doesn't have VFSs but it is much faster and nicer. I especially like the tree traversal key strokes, and the fact that each directory remembers marked (tagged) files separately, so you don't lose your Ctrl-T tags just because you temporarily dipped into a subdir to see what it contains.
I live in Hyderabad, and I install Linux for a lot of people (friends, relatives, etc) around the place. I don't do windows, but if they're willing to spend a wee bit of time with me showing them the basics I'm sure they'll manage pretty well. Maybe not a scratch+install, but a dual boot would be fine.
Contact me at sitaramc -at- gmail -dot- com if you're interested. I live in the Srinagar Colony area but within reason, I'll go anywhere to help.
Oh, just in case you were wondering: no strings attached. None. (I have a very nice day job thank you! I do this for fun:-)
so one day this will be in a laptop form factor. You have a visitor who comes in, plugs his laptop into a power socket (our security policy doesn't prevent that; it only prevents network access), and bam he's sniffing keyboards from yards away.
exactly, which is why they don't like full disclosure.
As someone said somewhere else, this is a group of people whose revenue source is drying up because too many people (on all 3 sides of the fence -- user/luser/victim, whitehat, skiddie) are finding out what previously only they knew.
They're just protecting a failed business model....sort of like the RIAA, if you don't take the analogy too far:-)
We had an ancient printer (line printer, actually more precisely a band printer I guess). From outside the computer room, listening to the sound pattern of the printer, you could tell what job was printing -- the checks for customer X's brokerage house, the statements for some other customer bank Y's customers, the bills for utility Z, etc (outsourcing during those days meant the computer as well, not just the people!).
Another funny one. The Burroughs B-1200 had hard disks the size of washing machines. When the job went into the sort phase, the entire disk would start shaking like any top loading washing machine doing the spin cycle, from the rapid and almost random head seeks or something I guess.
Someone asked my boss why it did that, and he said: oh this is how we sort -- we shake the disk and all the heavy records fall to the bottom.
jokes apart, you should read the "Barry Trotter" spoofs. Voldemort is called Valuemart, and makes millions selling Barry Trotter merchandise, among other weirdnesses.
I have a job that sometimes involves talking about security in some general terms.
One thing I always say (and I'm not very popular for saying it) is that most security -- information or otherwise -- is more about the job security of the person in charge of the security. He has to keep doing *something*. As long as no bad stuff happens, he gets to say "see, we did all of this, so nothing happened". If something bad happens, he says "look we did **ALL** of this, and still something happened; how could I have prevented it/foreseen it?", possibly followed by "clearly I need more budget!" if he's sure he can get out of that job before the next attack of any kind.
Anyway, this wifi thing is bullshit. It's a just a stupid show of strength by the terrorists ("look we can get into your network"), even if a 14-year old with Kismet can do the same. And the idiot cops are falling for it. What difference does it make who sends what email, when you know where the bullets and the bombs are coming from?
You wouldn't believe how that fellow who "hacked" Heywood got talked up about -- how and where he learned hacking, who taught him, the "ethical hacking" school he enrolled in (the Ankit Faudia type stuff) -- you'd think the guy was Mitnick or something, the way the local lay media went on.
from the last link in TFS: "too weak to be felt by humans for the most part but picked up by the seismometers at the University of Utah", and "the giant caldera we affectionately call Yellowstone has blown every 600,000 years or so..."
Slashdotters, I'm disappointed you didn't make the connection yet...
I have no Windows/Mac machines so that's not an issue.
I "standardised" on openssl for all my ad hoc command line crypto some years ago, based on a speed test I ran. For blowfish, openssl was 8 to 10 times faster (an order of magnitude), though for AES it was only 4 to 6 times faster. Things may be different now; I haven't checked lately.
I also don't particularly like asymmetric (public) key stuff for "personal" data. See, the whole asymmetric key thing was created to solve a key distribution problem, which is all very well and good for enterprisey things or where you need non-repudiation, but it's needless complexity for stuff where only I need to know the password, especially since I am pretty careful in choosing passwords for the really important stuff. So gpg, with all its emphasis on that side of crypto, is the wrong tool or at least an overloaded tool.
Anyway, for the purposes of the post you replied to, all this is irrelevant -- people who prefer gpg can substitute the appropriate gpg command (maybe gpg -d --cipher-algo BLOWFISH)
Make it easier. The safe deposit box only contains a piece of paper with a master password.
All the real passwords are in one text file that I randomly email people with instructions on how to get someone who knows Linux to open it (basically "openssl bf -d -a") once they have the password.
True story: One day I was on a plane journey that almost didn't make it; just switched on my cell phone (couldn't have made things any worse, trust me!) and sms'd the password to my brother... [changed it afterwards when the plane landed OK; not enough sinners on it I suppose]
as for "fair", nothing prevents someone else who is not a "partner under contract" from offering services, so restricting some partners doesn't make a difference......in theory anyway
If all the people making such a big fuss of this would just tell users
(1) dont stay logged in to gmail (1.1) if you have to stay logged in for IM, use Pidgin or something to do that (2) set your browser to clear cookies every time the browser is closed
wouldn't that be a lot shorter and more useful. Google has to do what they have to do for their business model, and if you don't like it, you either stop using their servers or do what you can on your side to limit the damage.
There's a somewhat (sadly) unknown Firefox addon called SecureBrowse (disclosure: my idea, and my colleagues developed it; I don't grok JS!) that does something somewhat similar.
We released an FF3 version, but it was sent back to the sandbox because it clashed with some other extension. We're looking into it but meanwhile you can get the FF3 compatible version from the sandbox (easy enough to find but I'll happily provide instructions if someone asks... sitaramc at gmail dot com or will even send it to you)
...had the same problem. He quit computers and started a night club -- http://dnalounge.com/
[off-topic: even though I love regular expressions, and I use them all the time, I find JWZ's comment about regexes hilarious -- mainly because I can apply it to any technology I hate. He said something like: "Programmer has a problem. He decides to use regexes. Now he has two problems"!]
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mpv is just a player; if you really want to use youtube from a terminal install something called "mps-youtube" ("pip3 install --user mps-youtube" should do it).
This is much more of a youtube interface. It in turn can use vlc (what I use) or, I seem to recall, mpv, as the actual player.
You can search for videos, sort them by various criteria, download them via its builtin downloader or anything else you have... it's a very nice tool!
+1 from me too.
As someone who has tried (and failed) several times to learn Haskell, I cannot describe how much I am in awe of someone like Audrey Tang and her sheer brain power.
Should /. be marking flash videos explicitly? Do people still use Flash -- at least the /. crowd?
I switched to qupzilla when Firefox started this pocket nonsense. Some sites don't render properly but most of them are OK. I do use FF just for those sites, but it's kinda rare...
Very happy with qupzilla. I especially like it's built in "noscript" idea that when you enable JS, it's *per tab* (i.e., all the other tabs where you loaded other URLs from the same site do not start reloading with JS immediately)
yet no one seems to have mentioned Asimov's "last question"... WTF?
http://www.multivax.com/last_q...
> "if the government thinks SHA-256D is the best encryption, I think they are probably right, we got a pretty smart group of guys out there."
Awesome. Best laugh I've had in a while. Who is this crackpot and why is he getting airtime?
Branches as separate file system directories really do suck when you're switching between quite a few. Just because you like it doesn't mean it's the right idea.
And any VCS that touts explicit move/rename as a *positive* will never be able to track bits of code across refactor boundaries (think of a critical 100-line function moving from foo.c to bar.c 3 months ago. Now tell me how a new project dev would find the history of that chunk of code before the refactor).
try ranger instead of mc. It doesn't have VFSs but it is much faster and nicer. I especially like the tree traversal key strokes, and the fact that each directory remembers marked (tagged) files separately, so you don't lose your Ctrl-T tags just because you temporarily dipped into a subdir to see what it contains.
And the multiple tab feature is very nice too...
Ashraya,
I live in Hyderabad, and I install Linux for a lot of people (friends, relatives, etc) around the place. I don't do windows, but if they're willing to spend a wee bit of time with me showing them the basics I'm sure they'll manage pretty well. Maybe not a scratch+install, but a dual boot would be fine.
Contact me at sitaramc -at- gmail -dot- com if you're interested. I live in the Srinagar Colony area but within reason, I'll go anywhere to help.
Oh, just in case you were wondering: no strings attached. None. (I have a very nice day job thank you! I do this for fun :-)
so one day this will be in a laptop form factor. You have a visitor who comes in, plugs his laptop into a power socket (our security policy doesn't prevent that; it only prevents network access), and bam he's sniffing keyboards from yards away.
Cool!
exactly, which is why they don't like full disclosure.
As someone said somewhere else, this is a group of people whose revenue source is drying up because too many people (on all 3 sides of the fence -- user/luser/victim, whitehat, skiddie) are finding out what previously only they knew.
They're just protecting a failed business model. ...sort of like the RIAA, if you don't take the analogy too far :-)
We had an ancient printer (line printer, actually more precisely a band printer I guess). From outside the computer room, listening to the sound pattern of the printer, you could tell what job was printing -- the checks for customer X's brokerage house, the statements for some other customer bank Y's customers, the bills for utility Z, etc (outsourcing during those days meant the computer as well, not just the people!).
Another funny one. The Burroughs B-1200 had hard disks the size of washing machines. When the job went into the sort phase, the entire disk would start shaking like any top loading washing machine doing the spin cycle, from the rapid and almost random head seeks or something I guess.
Someone asked my boss why it did that, and he said: oh this is how we sort -- we shake the disk and all the heavy records fall to the bottom.
I had goosebumps and moist eyes, and thought it was just me being a sentimental idiot...
Nice to know there're others!
Pakistan denies role in terrorist attacks in India
I was looking for some cheap schadenfreude...
from tfa: the spokesman, Wenqi Gao, said. "The Chinese government is opposed to and strictly forbids any cybercrime."
yup -- just like the Pakistan government is opposed to and strictly forbids terrorism...
jokes apart, you should read the "Barry Trotter" spoofs. Voldemort is called Valuemart, and makes millions selling Barry Trotter merchandise, among other weirdnesses.
I have a job that sometimes involves talking about security in some general terms.
One thing I always say (and I'm not very popular for saying it) is that most security -- information or otherwise -- is more about the job security of the person in charge of the security. He has to keep doing *something*. As long as no bad stuff happens, he gets to say "see, we did all of this, so nothing happened". If something bad happens, he says "look we did **ALL** of this, and still something happened; how could I have prevented it/foreseen it?", possibly followed by "clearly I need more budget!" if he's sure he can get out of that job before the next attack of any kind.
Anyway, this wifi thing is bullshit. It's a just a stupid show of strength by the terrorists ("look we can get into your network"), even if a 14-year old with Kismet can do the same. And the idiot cops are falling for it. What difference does it make who sends what email, when you know where the bullets and the bombs are coming from?
You wouldn't believe how that fellow who "hacked" Heywood got talked up about -- how and where he learned hacking, who taught him, the "ethical hacking" school he enrolled in (the Ankit Faudia type stuff) -- you'd think the guy was Mitnick or something, the way the local lay media went on.
from the last link in TFS: "too weak to be felt by humans for the most part but picked up by the seismometers at the University of Utah", and "the giant caldera we affectionately call Yellowstone has blown every 600,000 years or so..."
Slashdotters, I'm disappointed you didn't make the connection yet...
I have no Windows/Mac machines so that's not an issue.
I "standardised" on openssl for all my ad hoc command line crypto some years ago, based on a speed test I ran. For blowfish, openssl was 8 to 10 times faster (an order of magnitude), though for AES it was only 4 to 6 times faster. Things may be different now; I haven't checked lately.
I also don't particularly like asymmetric (public) key stuff for "personal" data. See, the whole asymmetric key thing was created to solve a key distribution problem, which is all very well and good for enterprisey things or where you need non-repudiation, but it's needless complexity for stuff where only I need to know the password, especially since I am pretty careful in choosing passwords for the really important stuff. So gpg, with all its emphasis on that side of crypto, is the wrong tool or at least an overloaded tool.
Anyway, for the purposes of the post you replied to, all this is irrelevant -- people who prefer gpg can substitute the appropriate gpg command (maybe gpg -d --cipher-algo BLOWFISH)
Make it easier. The safe deposit box only contains a piece of paper with a master password.
All the real passwords are in one text file that I randomly email people with instructions on how to get someone who knows Linux to open it (basically "openssl bf -d -a") once they have the password.
True story: One day I was on a plane journey that almost didn't make it; just switched on my cell phone (couldn't have made things any worse, trust me!) and sms'd the password to my brother... [changed it afterwards when the plane landed OK; not enough sinners on it I suppose]
it's legal, as you surmised.
as for "fair", nothing prevents someone else who is not a "partner under contract" from offering services, so restricting some partners doesn't make a difference... ...in theory anyway
If all the people making such a big fuss of this would just tell users
(1) dont stay logged in to gmail
(1.1) if you have to stay logged in for IM, use Pidgin or something to do that
(2) set your browser to clear cookies every time the browser is closed
wouldn't that be a lot shorter and more useful. Google has to do what they have to do for their business model, and if you don't like it, you either stop using their servers or do what you can on your side to limit the damage.
There's a somewhat (sadly) unknown Firefox addon called SecureBrowse (disclosure: my idea, and my colleagues developed it; I don't grok JS!) that does something somewhat similar.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5967
We released an FF3 version, but it was sent back to the sandbox because it clashed with some other extension. We're looking into it but meanwhile you can get the FF3 compatible version from the sandbox (easy enough to find but I'll happily provide instructions if someone asks... sitaramc at gmail dot com or will even send it to you)
...had the same problem. He quit computers and started a night club -- http://dnalounge.com/
[off-topic: even though I love regular expressions, and I use them all the time, I find JWZ's comment about regexes hilarious -- mainly because I can apply it to any technology I hate. He said something like: "Programmer has a problem. He decides to use regexes. Now he has two problems"!]