PiraHxCx

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What do you recommend for batch converting music files? in c/opensource@lemmy.ml
[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago

Oops, I forgot to mention the OS, it's Win11 (I edited the main post now).

What do you recommend for batch converting music files? in c/opensource@lemmy.ml
[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago

thanks, going to try it :)

Against ‘chat control’: we can’t eliminate child abuse by eliminating privacy in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 19 points 3 hours ago

Some government any day now: To fight CP, we are going to make children illegal.

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What do you recommend for batch converting music files? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) by PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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I wonder how much storage I'm going to save converting my mp3 library to opus

edit: Win11

Possible near future or even present. in c/memes@lemmy.world
[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Wait... that's what ml stands for??? I got here because it advertised itself as being for opensource software enthusiasts haha

Possible near future or even present. in c/memes@lemmy.world
[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

I don't know much about Lemmy and I'm new here, but on Mastodon there seem to be just an illusion of federation because it's actually ruled by peer-pressure. Instance A doesn't like instance B so it defederates from it (absolutely fair), then it goes and tell instance C to also defederate from B else its going to tell instance D, E and F to defederate from C, and so on.... remember when people bullied mastodon.lol admin into closing his 18k members instance just because he didn't want to ban users for liking the Harry Potter game?

Possible near future or even present. in c/memes@lemmy.world
Why Signal over Jabber/XMPP? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 9 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

If I could get a single person to use Signal instead of Whatsapp... or even the nerds I know to use matrix instead of Discord...

Opinions on DuckDuckGo Browser and services (search, AI, translate, VPN, email aliases...)? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 2 points 21 hours ago

update: Lumo sucks.

Winded windows become a privacy nightmare? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you use something like simplewall or Portmaster you can block every OS communication with the mothership and make it look like you are offline for them :)
Probably soon they are making it that you can't use Windows offline though lol

Winded windows become a privacy nightmare? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

But up until recently you could download packages and utilities directly from their site, now you are forced to do it through Microsoft Store. I just started this new Win11 laptop and right after debloating the shit out of it I noticed the updates didn't install HEIC and AV1 codecs and there was no way for me to install them without getting Microsoft Store back, so I restored it and downloaded them and then removed Microsoft Store... guess what? Removing it removed the downloads as well lol

How do you all stay calm with all this pressure in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

maybe the guy is just brown and afraid of the ICE?
being brown is a dangerous activity nowadays.

Another L for bigotry in c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My point is that what we fear bible‑thumpers can do, qur’an‑thumpers are already doing in several parts of the world, so they must be treated as an equal threat.

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Opinions on DuckDuckGo Browser and services (search, AI, translate, VPN, email aliases...)? (lemmy.ml)
 

Let's imagine we live in a world the American government is not the American government so you can trust what American companies say when they talk about protecting your privacy and so on...

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What happened to offline installers? (lemmy.ml)
 

Everything on normienet nowadays seems to be just a link you download that will download the file for you...

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Any general-purpose instance with 1000+ character limit? (lemmy.ml)
 

Most instances don't mention their character limit, joinmastodon.org don't mention character limit, mastodonservers.net is outdated (for example, there it says mstdn.social has a 1000 character limit, but you open the link it says 500)... I have to go creating accs in every instance to discover the character limit?

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Snowflake addon = Tor relay? Oo (lemmy.ml)
 

I just installed Brave to have some different accs logged, and then I saw that addon... I'm running it right now but... did I just set a Tor relay? Really? It wasn't that easy before :S

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Benn Jordan doing an amazing work showing the state of surveillance we are living in (invidious.f5.si)
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Proton VPN and Portmaster breaking each other? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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Sometimes they work, and sometimes I have to close one or the other, or every connection gets blocked. I haven't blocked anything from Proton VPN on Portmaster - just some Windows services and domains that don't break the internet when Proton VPN is off.
Do you have any idea what may be happening or how I can discover what's going on?

  • both on the free plan.

Edit: I might have figured it out. It seems like they are fighting over DNS resolving. When I removed the DNS settings from Portmaster (it's already set in the browser anyway), it started working again :)

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Simple and light alternatives to Notepad, Paint and Calculator (Win11 lol) (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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So I was setting up this new laptop, and after security updates I went on cleaning the trash through Powershell, and after removing all unwanted packages I was going to let a note on the desktop and there was no Notepad in the context menu... oops, I messed up I thought, I must have removed stuff I shouldn't, so just to be safe I did a factory reset and this time read very carefully every package before removing, and again no Notepad! And I notice there was no Paint nor Calculator either... so turn out new Win11 is shipped with Outlook, Maps, Solitaire Collection, People (whatever the hell that is), and even some IE, Zune and Skype legacy packages, but not with Notepad?! You actually have to download it from Microsoft Store... and now they all come with Copilot lol
Anyway, this sounds like a great opportunity to look for some FOSS alternatives!
What do you guys use and recommend?

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Like VLC but for images? (Win11) (lemmy.ml)
 

Looking for an open-source alternative for image viewing so I can get rid of the AI‑embedded Windows Photos. I did some research and I'm trying IrfanView, but it needs separate plugins for AVIF, WebP, etc. Nomacs' last update was 2020. I'm going to try ImageGlass and XnView, but I wonder if there is some software that's more widely recommended - like VLC, but for images.

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Like VLC but for images? (Win11) (lemmy.ml)
 

Looking for an open-source alternative for image viewing so I can get rid of the AI‑embedded Windows Photos. I did some research and I'm trying IrfanView, but it needs separate plugins for AVIF, WebP, etc. Nomacs' last update was 2020. I'm going to try ImageGlass and XnView, but I wonder if there is some software that's more widely recommended - like VLC, but for images.

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js image effect script I made for my personal site doesn't work on LibreWolf, what is conflicting with the privacy settings? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml to c/librewolf@lemmy.ml
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There is no CORS going on, the very same script use canvas on two other sections, so I guess that's not the problem... it works on FireFox but breaks on LibreWolf:

https://privatebin.net/?401a54f23eea492d#6hEX1c73DVFHv7MJQaT5j6Nm4C9a29unnd4xzeeURpqU

Any idea what part LibreWolf doesn't like? I'd like to fix it to work.

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