That seems like a real problem given they are a people being actively subjected to genocide which is being censored and distorted by western media, who have their land stolen, their existence denied, and been subjected to apartheid sponsored by the most powerful nation in the world (the US no less) in flagrant violation of international law for over half a century. Abuses and genocide carried out by a regime so powerful, so important to US interests that there are multiple states in the US where you can lose your job or your business contract for simply voicing support for boycotting and divesting from the apartheid regime that is an illegal colonization and occupation of stolen land by radical far-right reactionary ethno-fascists operating under the cloak of religion. Most major western media are some degree of complicit in giving one-sided pro-apartheid state slants, omitting key details, and using dishonest framing to attempt to deceive the public and manufacture apathy and complicity.
The problem with this is you just know after they pass it they'll amend it to expand the definition from social media platforms to any platform of a certain size on the internet. Suddenly the whole internet is subject to censorship, review, lawsuits, banning encryption, age-gating and ID demands.
This is just a foot in the door move around kids to get the framework in then later change it to do all the stuff they really want to do like censor and chill speech, clamp down on encryption, mandate log-keeping for VPNs, implement age-gating that requires submitting IDs for anything even vaguely adult, etc, etc. In other words the beginning of an all-out attack on the open internet.
All the big pirate sites use them though. Even private ones like TL. If they don’t they get DDOSed. They all turned it on over the past year or so after being badly attacked.
There is just no excuse for not even salting or SOMETHING to keep the secrets out of plaintext. The reason you don't store in plaintext is because it can lead to even incidental collection. Say you have some software, perhaps spyware, perhaps it's made by a major corporation so doesn't get called that and it crawls around and happens to upload a copy of a full or portion of the file containing this info, now it's been uploaded and compromised potentially not even by a malicious actor successfully gaining access to a machine but by poor practices.
No it can't stop a sophisticated malware specifically targeting Signal to steal credentials and gain access but it does mean casual malware that hasn't taken the time out to write a module to do that is out of luck and increases the burden on attackers. No it won't stop the NSA but it's still something that it stops someone's 17 year old niece who knows a little bit about computers but is no malware author from gaining access to your signal messages and account because she could watch a youtube video and follow along with simple tools.
The claims Signal is an op or the runner is under a national security letter order to compromise it look more and more plausible in light of weird bad basic practices like this and their general hostility. I'll still use it and it's far from the worst looking thing out there but there's something unshakably weird about the lead dev, their behavior and practices that can't be written off as being merely a bit quirky.
Kind of like Microsoft then. They buy up or spend money trying to break into all kinds of different areas but consistently take bad L's and get pushed back to their core business time and again after face-planting and alienating those who gave them a shot.
Did you reply to the wrong person or do you just have reading comprehension issues?
So first it's client-side scanning for CSAM. Not without some nobility. But the problem is once you wedge open that door it's technically possible to do it for other things and so you become compelled to.
It'll move from just CSAM to stopping and tracking "propaganda" as deemed by them which will be narrow-ish at first (anything pro-Russia, RT links, etc) but gradually expand over time to anything outside the mainstream branded as extremist (and guess what, privacy advocates will definitely fall within that label). And once that's in place the private stake-holders, copyright holders will come knocking, they'll say rightly so "hey you have the capability right now, we demand you implement client-side scanning to detect copyright violations" and then that will be ordered by a court, further enshrined by a law and oh look now you can no longer send political thought that the ruling regime disagrees with, can no longer surf the high seas, and so on and so forth. Congratulations and please enjoy living in the "garden" of Europe.
DVD's max out at about 580p (for PAL, NTSC is 480p), resolutions are measured by the number of horizontal lines of pixels (counted from top to bottom of video/screen), not vertical which at 4:3 square aspect ratio on dvds does tend to be 720 pixels (by contrast full resolution HD video's number of vertical lines is 1920 while it's horizontal lines are of course 1080, hence 1080p). You're not the first person to be confused by this.
Professional encoders who fully understand the encoders and the schemes in use and care about not seeing artifacting or low quality would never intentionally go as low as 300mb for a feature length movie of even an hour. Yes there are people who do such things but they're not well regarded and it won't look even passable on anything larger than a phone screen.
Recognized quality groups that seek low sizes might get an animated feature (less bitrate needed due to lack of fine detail in animation vs real film) in SD quality down to around that. But for most live action content the sizes I see from the best of the best concerned with smaller release sizes are in the 900mb to 1.5GB range for 60-90 minute features.
300mb for a 90 minute live action feature even in SD is just not going to look good, some of the groups who get those sizes make them look even half-passable by running pre-filters in virtualdub that smooth, reduce grain and detail, etc before passing to the encoder. That kind of thing is way beyond anything you're going to learn in a few youtube videos though, that's advanced stuff with scripting.
Think about it this way, if you shoot for 1GB encodes with 265 or AV1 you can store over 900 movies on a 1tb drive which can be had for well under a hundred dollars.
I would like the best and fanciest algorithms to have least dataloss.
There is no magic that will get you where you want. If you want detail preserved you need more bitrate which translates to larger sizes. Modern codecs like HEVC and AV1 mean you need as much as 1/5th the bitrate you needed with old MPEG2/4 encoding schemes used on DVDs, that's darn good savings but it has its limits.
Do as you will but anything live action (non-animated) significantly under 1000kbps average bitrate is going to look awful on a 1080p screen and much worse than what it would look like if you popped your dvd in the disc drive and played it from there.
Opus is fine if you're not worried about compatibility and just playing on a computer.
It's a shame. I'm using Voyager but it has some critical problems for me that make the experience unpleasant.
Biggest one would be it doesn't show the username of the poster of a post in any views but when viewing the post. This is important. Certain posters regularly post good, reliable, interesting, funny, etc content. Some I'm even friendly with. Others I know post frivolous things, post straight up fake-news and "jokes" so seeing their name clues me in I don't need to freak out about something upsetting because it's fake. And so on. Basically having the name displayed saves me a ton of time otherwise wasted going into lots of threads to see who posted it before backing out again and I'm sure there are plenty of threads I'd otherwise engage with which I don't because I can't see the username. There’s also the issue of seeing what instance a user is from. If they’re from a home instance dedicated to a certain thing (perhaps vetted individually) I feel differently than someone from an outside instance.
This was something reddit did on both old and new and it was correct to do so. It's also something I was used to with Apollo which I used for some time. It feels like half an experience without the user-names shown but I'm guessing it's an intentional choice on the part of the Voyager dev.
Second biggest one would be the upvote and downvote colors are reversed and it's messing with me but I could get over it.
If anyone knows any apps like Memmy or Voyager but with usernames always shown or an option to show them in the feed view I'd love to hear of it. I really like the aesthetic design of Memmy best but Voyager is close enough minus that one glaring issue.
You are who you say you are to a network though, at least at layer 2.
If you say you’re one MAC address one time and another next time then so you are.
Let me give you an example. Let’s say I’m a device trying to connect to a network. Among other things I tell it “can I have an IP address, my MAC address is Majestic”. It says in turn, sure and notes down Majestic and routes or switches things to me when another device says it wants to reach my IP. In Wi-Fi it basically shouts out it has a packet for Majestic and sends it out onto the air with my unique encryption key I previously negotiated and I am listening for packets for Majestic and grab and process that packet. Now if I go back and connect again and call myself Dull it’ll do the same thing. Those names being stand-ins for MAC addresses of course.
This is simplified of course. And this is why MAC whitelisting is a futile attempt at security.
You could look into MOCA adapters if the house has existing coaxial cable installed through walls for an old cable TV system. Plug an extra access point or two in and connect back to your main router via a few sets of adapters. It can cost a bit up front but it’s pretty reliable and if you buy old used 2.0 models you can save some money. (Just make sure they’re the same manufacturer)
Otherwise your options would be power line adapters to access points (bad, lots of chance for interference, neighbors adding a heavy appliance could break it).
Or nicer extending units located more closely together though if your walls are masonry or brick that may not help.
Also, inelegant and I hate to mention it but you could buy long, flat Ethernet cables, run them along the baseboards with the special retaining staples and connect that way to access points, though it does require space of a few cm door clearance in every doorway it has to traverse. Also flat cables technically violate Ethernet spec for preventing interference but in most single family homes interfere isn’t a big issue away from power supplies and runs so it would probably be okayish.
Open the web subtitles in subtitleedit. Change format to ass (advanced substation alpha). Save and re-embed using mkvtoolnix.
Positioning of multiple lines works well with ass and VLC shouldn’t have an issue reading and displaying. Not sure if YouTube includes the positioning data in their subtitles though. You could recreate that in subtitle edit (free software btw, dk web domain I believe) but it would be a bit of an annoyance.
edit: Corrected domain name. Not German, but nikse is it as OP has suggested