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Self-hosted music streaming (and me giving up on it) in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[–] Tregetour@lemdro.id 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Lots of banned artist and album names that will return zero results, unless you do something like search for a song or two that's on the album you want and finding the data that way.

The only objectionable hurdles are the insurmountable ones

What's your experience with the sneakernet? in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[–] Tregetour@lemdro.id 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Last Christmas I gave a family member a flash drive containing ~10 high quality movie encodes, basically a shortlist of the year's personal highlights I think they'd enjoy too. I don't know if they've used it, but I'm going to make a habit of it until I hear otherwise. A drive for a handful movies is cheap enough to not worry about if it's never seen again. Give them a large capacity drive however, or access to a Plex server, and paralysis of choice occurs.

How long do you think reddit will last with the surge of mod-mobs in c/reddit@lemmy.world

[–] Tregetour@lemdro.id 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Data and metadata about you are a kind of digital noose that hangs loose about your neck, until a third party* pulls it tight to hang you.

You're right to feel bitter. You're the victim of an abusive software stack. But it's important that you come away with an understanding of why R_ddit was able to identify you individually, and why the ways in which we interface with the web really do matter, despite normie's typical self-justifying complaints.

*Anyone, identifiable or not, without warning, for any reason, at any time

State of Reddit now in c/reddit@lemmy.world

[–] Tregetour@lemdro.id 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

There are contexts where such a statement is fine. Even in a context where it could be construed as rude and prejudiced, it still doesn't matter, because it's such a milquetoast insult. A shitty throwaway putdown on the level of 'okay, boomer' or 'male, pale and stale'.

Overmoderation on the public web is as much of an issue as its lack.

PayPal implements default data sharing with third parties: users must manually opt out in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] Tregetour@lemdro.id 1 points 1 week ago

Let us share products, offers and rewards you might like to help stores personalize your shopping.

This sentence is a masterpiece of omission.

WIRED: Neo-Nazis Are Fleeing Telegram for Encrypted App SimpleX Chat. in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] Tregetour@lemdro.id 9 points 1 week ago

Smear campaign

A smear campaign, also referred to as a smear tactic or simply a smear, is an effort to damage or call into question someone's reputation, by propounding negative propaganda.[1] It makes use of discrediting tactics. It can be applied to individuals or groups. Common targets are public officials, politicians, political candidates, activists, and ex-spouses. The term also applies in other contexts, such as the workplace.[2] The term smear campaign became popular around 1936.[3] [Wikipedia[

A tip for people struggling to move from Telegram to SimpleX. in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[–] Tregetour@lemdro.id 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Look everyone, it's the season 37 opener of I'm not going to use the great tool because people I don't like are also using the great tool!

*Permanently Deleted* in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[–] Tregetour@lemdro.id 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Australia tried this in the early noughties I believe - running a non-public URL blacklist. After some parliamentary accountability and commmitees got it cracked open, they found that about 10% of the sites met the definition for inclusion, with the remainder being a grab-bag of things various politicians and bureaucrats didn't like.

What if... BitTorrent clients partially ignored the private bit of a torrent? in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[–] Tregetour@lemdro.id 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Private torrent content escapes naturally because it's often shared on other P2P tools in use by the peers.

Reddit is upset about YouTube pause button ads. in c/reddit@lemmy.world

[–] Tregetour@lemdro.id 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Many creators that I follow reached a level of professionalism that comes with significant costs. You need expensive cameras, microphones, lights, high-end computers, drones, personnel costs for cutters and people that help with research. They have travel costs, sometimes rent for offices etc.

None of that bloat is necessary for engaging your audience, only for currying favour with the black-box algorithm. Level1~~Show~~News is three people at a desk with an OBS setup and I've been listening to them for seven years. I could not care less about Canadian Technology Man or Black Technology Man. Store dot Level1Techs.

Signal Piracy group in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[–] Tregetour@lemdro.id 1 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

What makes you think Signal is maintaining relationship maps, and secondly, even if it is, is there any evidence they're included in LEO subpoenas?

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KDE Plasma 6 reboots on video playback (lemdro.id)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Tregetour@lemdro.id to c/linuxquestions@lemmy.zip

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Since about Plasma 6 onward I've been getting system restarts when attempting to play back video files and/or seek through them.

Kernel 6.5.0-41

KDE neon 6

Plasma 6.1.2

Qt 6.7.0

Ryzen 7 3700x CPU

AMD R9 390 GPU

16GB DDR4 RAM

The system will crash and reboot when:

Attempting to play any video with an mp4 container (mpv and vlc tested)
Attempting to seek with the mouse while playing most videos (mp4 and matroska)
Scrolling too fast in a file manager
Clicking and dragging to resize various windows (terminal, browsers, etc)

The system performs fine when:

Playing videos in a webm container
Playing videos in software like avidemux, kdenlive, gwenview, etc.
Streaming video in a web browser

The issue has persisted through these toubleshooting measures:

Update to latest BIOS firmware
Switching between Wayland and X11
Substitution of the PSU to a brand new unit

My assumption so far is that it's not hardware related. Currently I suspect it's Plasma. Below is the journal output of records around one such crash time of 5.19-5.20pm:

Jul 13 17:19:21 pcname plasmashell[1680]: kde.plasmashell: Aborting shell load: The activity manager daemon (kactivitymanagerd) is not running.

Jul 13 17:19:21 pcname plasmashell[1680]: kde.plasmashell: If this Plasma has been installed into a custom prefix, verify that its D-Bus services dir is known to the system for the daemon to be activatable.

Jul 13 17:19:21 pcname plasmashell[1680]: kde.plasmashell: Aborting shell load: The activity manager daemon (kactivitymanagerd) is not running.

Jul 13 17:19:21 pcname plasmashell[1680]: kde.plasmashell: If this Plasma has been installed into a custom prefix, verify that its D-Bus services dir is known to the system for the daemon to be activatable.

Jul 13 17:19:22 pcname plasmashell[1680]: kf.plasma.quick: Applet preload policy set to 1

Jul 13 17:19:22 pcname plasmashell[1680]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.desktopcontainment/contents/ui/main.qml:195:25: QML FolderViewDropArea (parent or ancestor of QQuickLayoutAttached): Binding loop detected for property "minimumWidth"

Jul 13 17:19:22 pcname plasmashell[1680]: Toolbox not loading, toolbox package is either invalid or disabled.

Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.private.systemtray/contents/ui/main.qml:162:21: QML KSortFilterProxyModel: Binding loop detected for property "sourceModel"

Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: qt.dbus.integration: Could not connect "org.cups.cupsd.Notifier" to PrinterFinishingsChanged(QString, QString, QString, uint, QString, bool) :

Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: qt.core.qobject.connect: QObject::connect: No such signal Solid::Backends::Fstab::FstabStorageAccess::repairRequested(QString) in ./src/solid/devices/frontend/storageaccess.cpp:23

Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: qt.core.qobject.connect: QObject::connect: No such signal Solid::Backends::Fstab::FstabStorageAccess::repairDone(Solid::ErrorType, QVariant, QString) in ./src/solid/devices/frontend/storageaccess.cpp:24

Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: kameleon supported false

Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: kameleon enabled true

Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: qml: SystemTray ItemLoader: Invalid state, cannot determine source!

Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (0.000000), must be greater than 0

Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: error getting max screen brightness via dbus: QDBusError("org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject", "No such object path '/org/kde/Solid/PowerManagement/Actions/BrightnessControl'")

Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: error getting max keyboard brightness via dbus QDBusError("org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownObject", "No such object path '/org/kde/Solid/PowerManagement/Actions/KeyboardBrightnessControl'")

Jul 13 17:19:24 pcname plasmashell[1680]: org.kde.klipper: Invalid or non-local url for preview: QUrl("mtp:/Pixel 5/Internal shared storage/Tempfold/archive.zip")

Jul 13 17:19:25 pcname plasmashell[1680]: org.kde.pulseaudio: No object for name "alsa_output.usb-VIA_Technologies_Inc._Audinst_HUD-mx2-00.analog-stereo.monitor"

Jul 13 17:19:27 pcname plasmashell[1680]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.keyboardindicator/contents/ui/main.qml:61:13: Unable to assign [undefined] to bool

Jul 13 17:22:17 pcname plasmashell[1653]: kde.plasmashell: Aborting shell load: The activity manager daemon (kactivitymanagerd) is not running.

Jul 13 17:22:17 pcname plasmashell[1653]: kde.plasmashell: If this Plasma has been installed into a custom prefix, verify that its D-Bus services dir is known to the system for the daemon to be activatable.

Suggestions for next steps would be welcome. Is it worth considering a rollback to the previous/older Plasma versions? Assuming Plasma doesn't like my DAC or keyboard or whatever, is it worth substituting or removing USB devices?