Morten J.-J. Zölde-Fejér @[email protected]

An optimist is a man who looks forward to marriage.
A pessimist is a married optimist.

If it wasn't for Newton, we wouldn't have to eat bruised apples.

Fourth Law of Thermodynamics:
If the probability of success is not almost one, it is damn near zero.
-- David Ellis

In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way.
-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when
you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
-- Poul Anderson

Je farfouille dans d’anciens billets du framablog pour écrire mon article et je redécouvre ça…
https://framablog.org/2020/05/09/faire-un-pas-de-cote/

Sarah Andersen
https://twitter.com/SarahCAndersen

Abstruse Goose
https://abstrusegoose.com/

The Meerkatguy
http://www.themeerkatguy.com/

Wow, two-factor authentication on websites without SMS is sure easy these days:

install https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.liberty.android.freeotpplus/
on the website where you want to enable 2FA, go to settings and find where it can be enabled;
you'll be offered to scan a QR code. Do it. A new item will appear in the FreeOTP+'s list of tokens;
whenever you log in, open the app, tap the appropriate token, and enter the code it shows into the input box on the website.

Why did I wait so long to do this? It's e-e-e-easy!

Also if you're generally frustrated with having to strip CSS or do other various odd things to a page to get it to display correctly without JavaScript, try this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/readability-based-reader-view/

It's an addon for Mozilla-based browsers that uses Mozilla's readability library to display only text and images from an article. It effectively achieves the same thing as Mozilla Pocket without relying on proprietary network services (it's all done locally).

GitHub has removed the ability to access youtube-dl's source code due to a DMCA request by the RIAA

... The clear purpose of this source code is to (i) circumvent the technological protection measures used by authorized streaming services such as YouTube, and (ii) reproduce and distribute music videos and sound recordings owned by our member companies without authorization for such use. We note that the source code is described on GitHub as “a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a few more sites.” ...

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-23-RIAA.md

Micah F. Lee (EFF/The Intercept @micahflee https://nitter.net/micahflee/status/1319746131723628544?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

"RIAA blitz takes down 18 GitHub projects used for downloading YouTube videos"
https://www.zdnet.com/article/riaa-blitz-takes-down-18-github-projects-used-for-downloading-youtube-videos/

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24872911

Reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/jgub36/youtubedl_just_received_a_dmca_takedown_from_riaa/
https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/jgtzum/youtubedl_repo_had_been_dmcad/
https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/jgubfx/youtubedl_github_repo_taken_down_due_to_dmca/
https://old.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/comments/jgttnc/youtubedl_github_repository_disabled_due_to_a/

Reddit search: https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/search/?q=youtube-dl+dmca&sort=relevance&t=all

Nitter/Birbsite: https://nitter.net/search?f=tweets&q=youtube-dl+riaa+dmca&since=&until=&near=

Censorship, propaganda, surveillance, and targeted manipulation are inherent characteristics of monopoly: https://joindiaspora.com/posts/7bfcf170eefc013863fa002590d8e506

RMS, "The Right to Read" (1997): https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html

Remember that the RIAA is a bad-publicity-deflection cartel of its major members. These are:
#Sony
#SonyMusic
#UniversalMusic
#AtlanticRecords
#Disney
#ExcelerationMusic
#InterscopeGeffen
#NonesuchRecords
#PartisanRecords
#ProvidentMusic
#SireRecords
#TommyBoy
#WarnerMusic

#DMCA #youtubedl #RIAA #MPAA #github #Censorship #Surveillance #Propaganda #Manipulation #Monoply #CensorshipPropagandaSurveillanceMonopoly #TheRightToRead #EFF