Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

I'm aware that this community is not usually happy with the content that's available above-board for-free under-restriction. For instance, free with subscription, or free with ads.

But I have found myself obsessed with library cards recently.

Libraries grant access to pretty expansive collections even online: movies, tv, music, and ebooks are just the beginning. Genealogical resources, vehicle repair manuals, business contact databases, academic journals, and periodicals. One of my libraries granted me access to Udemy Business through Gale. I honestly can't detail every database/collection/resource i've found available through the 4 libraries who have granted me useful access.

But I seem to have hit a wall. The New York Public Library says "visitors" may get a "temporary" card, but the number they gave me expired after 2 weeks and didnt get me access to any of their online offerings anyway.

Paris says they'll happily issue me a card. All I need to do is fill out the form (in french?!) and show up in person with photo ID. /s

Surely, I'm not the only one who has decided to try to collect library cards like pokemon cards. I imagine there are philanthropic libraries or national libraries or something that I just don't know how to look up. I'm looking for any library that will issue me a card regardless of residency, but for reference I am in the US if that's the only residency requirement. Anyone got tips?

To compile optimal video, audio, and subtitle track combinations of videos for my media library, I've found MPC-HC's millisecond counter and frame skip features useful for finding the exact offset between different video and audio tracks. After using MKVToolNix to combine the video track of an MP4 file with the delay-adjusted audio track of an MKV file, I noticed that the resulting MKV file was 0.143 seconds (about 3.5 frames in this case) shorter than the original MP4 file. As the frames of both videos remained in alignment until the end, it seems that the 0.143 seconds were taken off the end of the video.

Is there a difference between the two formats that affects video length?

I was reading a few days ago in a post somewhere that there is an open signups/open invites sub here, can anyone link me to it?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/12810167

Hi I've made a full archive of Yuzu. That would include all their Github issues, the git repo on its last version, the latest available release binaries from the Github page, and all of their progress reports from the Yuzu website. The progress reports are good for understanding the general work and weaving a narrative in your mind about the trajectory of the Yuzu project, and the Github issues can outline resolved issues and outstanding ones.

I do not include any illicit materials in my archive. If you seek keys, roms, firmware, etc, you won't find it here.

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:404295db91d035ae11395ad1755ab7e5dc8b6f19&xt=urn:btmh:1220f2bd7dbfd7ec2e25c9e848cf0b17d771332e57e3ba109368e111c0a45967966e&dn=yuzu-full-archive&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fopentracker.i2p.rocks%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.auctor.tv%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fopen.tracker.cl%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.torrent.eu.org%3a451%2fannounce&tr=https%3a%2f%2fopentracker.i2p.rocks%3a443%2fannounce

While I'm happy to share this torrent for basically as long as possible, I do not have port forwarding available. So if anyone wishes to have these materials and possibly has a seedbox, please assist! Also this is like the first time I've ever created a torrent, but I'm pretty sure I did it right.

P.S. I am completely unrelated to Yuzu team members. I'm just a saddened user like everyone else.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10DOLeR8dG0e-WtnoBt2pP4w7cnh092zX/view?usp=sharing

I can't seem to find them anywhere. I'm especially interested in Workday Recruiting Fundamentals and Workday Advanced Recruiting, but happy to get any workbooks as long as they are searchable rather than printed from VitalSource as pictures with watermark.

First of all a disclaimer: I am not upset about the removal of manual server selection as this is a free service. They don't need to provide such services at all, so something is better than nothing.

What happened:
This morning I opened the ProtonVPN app on my phone and got greeted with a message stating free accounts can now only use automatic server selection and addition of free servers in Poland and Romania.
However, I also noticed split-tunelling is now paywalled as well.

Now, this is rather weird. Split-tunelling is already in the app and is something that works only on the client side, thus not putting any extra load on the servers. Quite the contrary, actually, as it allows some apps to not use the VPN, thus use less bandwidth.
The automatic-selection-only allows for better load balancing, so that makes sense.

Now to the workaround.
They still allow manual OpenVPN and Wireguard setup even for free accounts, at least for now.
To do so, login to ProtonVPN and go to account. There's OpenVPN credentials which are used for OpenVPN authentication. Then go to downloads, select appropriate options including the specific server and download the ovpn config file.
Client: OpenVPN for Android
This app also supports split tunneling (edit config -> Allowed apps).

ProtonVPN has an article on how to set up this app, but it's really just importing the config and adding your OpenVPN ProtonVPN credentials which you grabbed before.

I need help download lectures from https://ww.pw.live . I have the subscription for now but want to keep the lectures for future reference.

It was easier to download before as the link was to be modified a little and it would download through yt-dlp. They have recently changed their cloudfront servers and the old method does not work.

A new method was shared in YouTube but it only allows downloads through 1DM app on Android and through a telegram bot. It uses the following website 'https://psitoffers.store/1dm.php?vid=[VIDEO_ID]' to add some Policy ID, Key pair ID, Signature to the original link. When I paste this link into yt-dlp it throws 403 Forbidden error.

I have checked the DL links in 1DM. The Policy ID, Key Pair ID remain the same while the Signature changes for each lecture. How can I generate my own or get them from the browser, and pass it to yt-dlp for batch downloading? I saw a section named Policy, Key Pair ID, signature in cookies but they don't have any ID value.

I don't know what streaming method they use but it shows as octet-stream in the network tab.

I tried asking the dev of the new method, but he won't reply anything.

Please refer me to any other resources that may help me with this.

All these news about Yuzu made me realized I never tried a switch emulator. For education purposes I am interested in guides with links to prod keys. Anyone have any links?

Thanks in advance!

~~There's still time!!! Get Yuzu and Citra on Flathub now if you don't already have it!!!!~~

https://flathub.org/apps/org.citra_emu.citra

https://flathub.org/apps/org.yuzu_emu.yuzu

~~Edit: Just a note: Yuzu's latest build is mainline-0-1734. The latest build of Yuzu on Flathub is mainline-0-1733.~~

~~Edit#2: As a commenter on this post mentioned: Flathub has now been updated for the latest build of Yuzu -> mainline-0-1734~~

Also: Thank you @Krafting@lemmy.world for providing a link to a post that consults preserving/forking Yuzu’s codebase.

https://lemmy.world/post/12733553

Edit#3: Yuzu and Citra have now been removed from the Flathub website, but are however still available via their flatpak commands:

flatpak install flathub org.yuzu_emu.yuzu

flatpak install flathub org.citra_emu.citra

For more context, A Flathub admin responded to someone on the Flathub Matrix channel saying that Yuzu won't be removed from Flathub completely until they "understand legal implications better"

Flathub Matrix channel: https://matrix.to/#/#flathub:matrix.org

Thank you to ObjectiveJellyfish36 for providing the image and information about the Flathub Admin's response.

God I hope this isn't a stupid question to ask but how exactly do I send out cash? Do i need to add a return address and won't that defeat the purpose? I really just want to try the service for 2-3 months after that I'll probably switch over to the amazon vouchers since I don't want to deal with monero. I think I sent out an actual physical letter maybe twice in my life and all the research I done was for sending it out internationally ~~even though there's a us based address AFAIK~~ so I'm really a noob here and I appreciate any help you can provide.

Edit: Just want to apologize if this is really stupid to ask I feel like an absolute idiot right now, haha

Edit #2: Thank you all for your help think I got an understanding on what to do now

https://web.archive.org/web/20240304185214/https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu-mainline/releases

https://web.archive.org/web/20240304185214/https://github.com/yuzu-emu/yuzu-mainline/releases

Yuzu is being ordered to pay 2.4 million dollars and all things related to the project must shut down. Nintendo got a settlement and a permanent injunction :(.

Other sources:

• https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/4/24090357/nintendo-yuzu-emulator-lawsuit-settlement
• https://www.gamesindustry.biz/nintendos-yuzu-lawsuit-puts-emulation-in-the-spotlight-opinion
• https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-says-tears-of-the-kingdom-was-pirated-1-million-times-pre-release-in-lawsuit-against-emulator-creator

I am looking for a recent working sci-hub instance. any ideas?

🏴‍☠️ AHOY and welcome to the state of global piracy for February 2024! ARRR! 🏴‍☠️

Please let me know if you have ideas about interesting stats, I'll see if I can make it happen.

Enjoy the numbers!

• What is "The Scene"?
• What is a "PreDB"?
• What does "Nuked" mean?

TOTAL SCENE RELEASES BY SECTION

I have a total of 77 sections in my PreDB. The sections in here are combined for a better overview. Numbers in braces are the values from the previous month.

Total: 55.551 (54.960)

TOP 20 GROUPS WITH MOST RELEASES

The sections in here are combined for a better overview, same as above.

TOP 20 MOST NUKED GROUPS

• What does "Nuked" mean?

MOST NUKED SECTIONS

ACCUMULATED RELEASE SIZE FOR FEBRUARY 2024

From the 55.551 scene releases, only 30.661 of them had file + size information.

They total to: 30,25 TB (30.257.808 MB) in 333 thousand files (322.964).

No idea about the size of the missing information, so the real value should be much higher.

ARCHIVES

• Totals in 2023
• January 2024

NOTES

• Only Scene Release Groups, no p2p or individuals.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12671057

Aniwatch has officially rebranded to HiAnime

Hi everyone, I remember I came across an extension from a mega thread I think, I think it was a Russian extension or something, basically it would translate(to English) and then talk in English online videos (eg twitch, YouTube). I lost the extension name. Anyone know what I'm talking about please?