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ZDNet reports this is part of a larger action:

"RIAA blitz takes down 18 GitHub projects used for downloading YouTube videos"

aand isn't a DMCA 512 takedown:

Although GitHub classified the RIAA letter as a DMCA takedown request, it is not one. As Public Knowledge Legal Director John Bergmayer pointed out today on Twitter, RIAA isn't alleging the library infringed on its rights, but that the library is illegal in itself.

This isn’t really a DMCA request. I don’t see an assertion that youtube-dl is an infringing work. Rather the claim is that it’s illegal per se https://t.co/vQ16nVleCf

— John Bergmayer (@bergmayer) October 23, 2020

https://www.zdnet.com/article/riaa-blitz-takes-down-18-githu...
I've switched most of my projects to golang these days, but even as recently as a couple of years ago I was writing pretty big sites with Perl.

Using https://metacpan.org/pod/CGI::Application to provide the framework, along with similar small frameworks - e.g. a perl version of sinatra.

Golang managed to persuade people to write tests, by making it easy and self-contained. I'd suggest with Test::More that Perl did something similar. Almost all the modules you'd find on CPAN are full of test-cases.

There might well be thinks we can argue about with Perl, but it is definitely true that it has/had one of the biggest and most consistent set of extensions out there. CPAN has held up pretty well, compared to some of the later alternatives (such as node modules, ruby gems, etc). One reason that I was able to work with Perl so easily was because I could find Stripe integrations, and similar with ease.
Delenda RIAA

The whole copyright industry is based on toxic premises that do not hold true anymore in the internet age.

By now, different models have been proven to work. Make them the norm. Abolish copyright. Or turn them back into what they were supposed to be: a TEMPORARY protection of a work since first publication (originally 21 years IIRC).

Old Disney characters, superheroes invented in the 40s and 50s, even the "more recent" Starwars are part of culture now just like Othello or Moby Dick are. Allow to use them as such.
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It's the same for me. Computers, networks, and mice are all used by "criminals" to download copyrighted material without permission, I'm not sure how youtube-dl is any different. I think github simply doesn't want to fight this because basically they weren't making any money off youtube-dl, so they took it down. They'll pry my trackball mouse from my cold-dead hand though. F the RIAA and MPAA.
AZ is the state I'll be watching. Due to the issues around the last election they changed the rules and will begin counting mail-in ballots far earlier and 98% will be counted by the time the polls close. The turnout so far has been massive
Whose biographies did you read and what else did you learn from this study? Sounds like a fun adventure
Your paper does not prove anything in regards to what agent "mis-undestands". "Understanding" is not a mathematical concept in this case. It would still progressively find more and more optimal solutions to this task, so I see no problem there.
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Former chemist, yeah this always bugs me. Laypeople use "plastic" to refer to mostly inexpensive injection molded parts, but it really includes everything from LDPE bags to glass fibre reinforced nylon powertools to Rayon fibers to thermoplastic elastomers.
Academia has historically been oriented toward Divinity, not towards diversity. You’re simply in denial if you think this is the case any longer.
The United States was founded on rejecting a system that vested lawful power with the British government and denied power to the colonists. Were the founding fathers wrong to declare independence to ensure that their 'side' was not denied power?

The entire principle of popular sovereignty, as exercised through representative democracy, is that leaders are selected according to the wishes of the the majority of the people. Minority rule--no matter how it is codified or how long it has been in effect--is incompatible with this principle.

America can be either a country ruled by a Republican party answerable accountable only to rural interests or it can be a democracy. It cannot be both.
Seems a bit silly, you can buy a glass sphere with small closed ecosystem that can last years with indirect sunlight. Surely we can manage something that recycles astronaut poop/pee into something vaguely edible with the help of bacteria, fungus, plants, and algae. Sure some genetic editing (of humans, bacteria, fungus, plants, and algae) might be necessary. Even just some minor tweak like happened in the last 1000s of years to make humans more compatible with cows milk.
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The decisions of a German court would have no impact on a US court.
l> We should be smarter about what foods we "produce". No more meat subsidies, or better yet no more meat at all.

I'm with you on subsidies, but it's worth noting that historically, cattle, sheep, etc. were often raised and grazed on land that wasn't (and mostly still isn't) suitable for growing crops, usually because of some combination of elevation, slope[0], soil, or lack of rainfall. Animals are mobile, so you can move them around on a larger area with relatively sparse vegetation that humans don't consider palatable[1], or even migrate them seasonally on an even larger territory.

So, within some limits, animal husbandry in areas otherwise marginal for agriculture can convert poor ground cover to high quality protein (and other animal products). As long as overgrazing is avoided, this seems to me to be a decent and sustainable arrangement.

[0] Terraces can deal with slopes to an extent and slows erosion, but don't always conveniently lend themselves to large scale mechanized agriculture. Solutions to the other challenges also don't work everywhere.

[1] It's worth noting that the domesticated animal least picky about what plants they'll eat is the goat, many varieties of which, when not moved frequently enough, can completely denude an area by eating plants and bushes down to the ground, climb trees to eat all the leaves they can reach and even stripping the bark, which kills the tree. Which makes goatherding a likely driver of desertification in already stressed ecosystems.
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Aren't all humans consumable resources for today's society?
I think this could actually be one of the best outcome for Google.

Google save $10B per year paying to Apple for the default search engine spot. User continue to use Google anyway as 98% of user simply dont go anywhere else. Their Chrome remain dominant and Firefox is dead.

The only possibility this is actually worst would be the incentive of Apple creating its own Search Engine. Likely without porn or whatever content they deem unfit and enter Web Curation. Of course they would be highly unlikely given the current Anti-Trust issues.
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Set it up with the 5. Run it as long as people pay their shares in advance. If someone is late (and has no defensible reason, like out of country etc) - dump them = ups the share or get a new body to fill in. This is a small enough amount that you should be glad you found out about them for $7. Have nothing more to do with them for the rest of your life - or you would be giving them another chance to cheat you. Shed people when they show they are of bad character or they will wear you down over time.
Why did Java's creators decide to have it do such a thing? Performance? Or just an immediately fail and let the author know philosophy?
In this case, I think the 2 are aligned.
In other words we're still over a quarter of a century away.
Why should they ? YouTube is in the streaming business, not the archival business. If someone wants to make their videos available for download they should post a link on their website, served through their servers and bandwidth.
This makes no sense and if they did this their users would leave in droves. Their non-Chromium browser engine is one of the biggest reasons people use Firefox.
Eh, we had a bifurcation of slave states and free states, and a legacy of that in the segregated south. Do you know what would have happened if the majority of the population lived in those states? You’d have a racist executive branch for decades. Popular vote working exactly as you want, but you wouldn’t be singing the popular vote tune when what’s popular is not stuff you believe in.

Just some quick googling, not a vetted source:
http://inside.sfuhs.org/dept/history/US_History_reader/Chapt...

Those populations looked similar and could have gone either way earlier (hindsight being 20/20, major industrial centers could have emerged in the south). The popular vote in that case may have never led to a Lincoln.

In other words, just because there’s a giant population in South with certain regional values, doesn’t mean you get to win every election. The same is true for coastal cities in America now. I do think certain states need more electoral votes added at this point like New York and California.

The same way you can fuck them with the popular vote today is the same way they can fuck you with it in the future.
I hadn't heard that one, but the freedom-loving Pilgrims executed Quakers for proselytizing in Massachusetts. Not really an environment founded on respect for individual autonomy or other ethical considerations.
The RIAA says the technological measure at issue is YouTube’s “rolling cipher,” which is more than the conspicuous lack of a download button.
Distributing something that downloads copyrighted content isn't the problem though - the problem is "circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access".

If the media provided by YouTube were DRM'ed and youtube-dl would be e.g. extracting the decryption key, this would make sense. Is that what youtube-dl is doing though?
So what? If NextJS doesn't support another router, you're not gonna patch it in unless you want to continually be out of sync with the main branch.
GPM was my first streaming music service. I subscribed when it was still $7.99. It didn’t get too many updates, but it worked fine for years. Then they started pushing me to YT Music, which IMO is garbage.

I’m happy I realized where they were headed and switched to Apple Music awhile back.
Tortious Interference with Contract

To prove tortious interference with a contract, a plaintiff must establish several elements, including that The defendant’s conduct led to a breach of the contract; and The plaintiff suffered damage as a result.

The question would be whether Github users suffered a breach of contract for having any of our repos potentially shut down for a reason that involves a third party's claims of violation of DMCA.
I don't think it's appropriate to say things like "Stop it". Please do me the courtesy of not treating me like a child and acting like you are instructing me.

The QAnon conspiracy is about pedophiles in government. The Rotterham scandal is about pedophiles enabled by government. The Epstein case is a mix of pedophiles and government. It's not crazy to suggest that pedophiles are mixed up with the government. We have multiple contemporary cases of this happening now.

Furthermore, it is exactly the tendency to censor speech which enabled the Rotterham scandal to endure for so long. Because people were censored for fear of causing offense hundreds of children were raped and victims were ignored. That's an extremely relevant example to a case where people are saying we must not permit people to talk about offensive things.
This.

The Bash script actually has more dependencies, it relies on a number of external programs (ps, kill, mkdir, sort, ls, cp, echo). What versions are on your system? What versions on the systems of the people running the script? Do they support the same features? If you're running on a Mac are you using the Mac-shipped programs or the GNU coreutils from homebrew?

Also, that Bash script that the author is defending has a subtle bug in it, because Bash is subtle. The bug is here:

$APP $filename >"${output_dir}/summary_${name}.txt"
if [ $? != 0 ]; then
echo "Error $? in app"
fi

The return value of [ ... ] overwrites the $?, so the inner $? is the result of the test, not $APP.

Which is exactly the kind of crap that everyone's talking about when saying that we should avoid Bash scripts. It's full of landmines like this.

Bash is great for interactive work on the terminal. It is not great for writing correct, maintainable programs.
There's current projects on earth seriously working on getting probes up to 1% of the speed of light. Just a small/light weight probe, a solar sail, and a large (but feasible) array of lasers.
I've gobbled hours of Cspan videos with youtube-dl. Turns out cspan is a hodgepodge of like 3-5 video hosting and codec schemes, but it is able to pull about a 3rd of them no problem.

Definitely forking it, I need this to continue my research.
I think he makes a damn good point.
Hrm. My Windows knowledge is possibly dared, but don't Group Policies simply apply registry values? So, if those are known, they can be applied (and, hopefully, be effective) on non-Pro editions of the OS?
It's certainly possible that we might visit Mars, but colonizing it just isn't possible within the foreseeable future, certainly not within Musk's lifetime. We're not even close to having the technology necessary to survive that kind of journey and the engineering, logistics and medical science required to actually start a colony is far beyond anything we are currently capable of.
Remember that you're able to export your Google Play Music data[1] via https://takeout.google.com

At least there's a silver lining...

[1] "A list of the tracks, playlists, radio stations, uploads, and purchases in your Google Play Music library" Key to me was my playlists, including my "Thumbs Up" playlist, which as others have noted is polluted by "Liked" music videos on Youtube in the migration
Thumbs up for uncommon music. I self host an instance of LMS[0] (lightweight music server) authored by HNer epoupon.

[0]https://github.com/epoupon/lms
This massacre is proof that we must address racism socially. It simply doesn't work to say "Well, who cares that some whites are racist? Just go do your thing and work to be successful and ignore it."

They did that and the result was their stuff was burned to the ground. Afterwards, white people in power tried to pass more stringent building codes nominally on the theory that "They burned to the ground because they weren't built very well." completely ignoring the role that actively hostile racism played.

It didn't "just burn to the ground" due to some accident. It was torched by an invading force.

And that invading force then tried to change the building codes to prevent it from being rebuilt while pretending "it's for your own good -- your stuff burned to the ground because you losers didn't build it well enough."

The same applies to a lot of social justice issues. To some degree, it's helpful to just focus on building your own dream, but there are some very real issues where that's really not sufficient because other people will actively seek to destroy your dream and/or you because of who you are.

This needs to change. This unfortunate truth needs to be something much more in the past than it really is. (There are people who like to claim it is in the past. It's really not and such claims are part of the problem.)
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Google Play Music was my phones default music player, now it doesn't have one and the alternative requires internet to play music stored locally.
this is such bs. i have kids in immediate family and have taught them scratch and html and some other stuff. granted they are only 8-12, they enjoy doing things. one of them is a 4 year old kid who can now fully start his "own laptop", start file manager and run his favorite cartoon episode and endlessly play "Gcompris". this kid can't read anything more than "ABC" but can operate a pc just nice.
I read a short story that explained the explosion of life on earth during a very short period on some alien that didn't follow protocol and dumped some poop.
Here's the browser plugin the researcher team uses to collect data:

https://adobserver.org/

It's been obfuscated and I don't see a public repo of the source anywhere.
I was expecting something dystopian based on the title but was pleasantly surprised by the creative design of the store.
The OP author seems to be conflating multiple things under the "time zone" term too.

Localities (countries, cities, areas) have official standard time that, to interpret, depends on the point in history (calendar adjustments, DST, leap seconds...). Finding official standard time for any given person anywhere in the world and at any point in history is a hard problem. But it seems they are not trying to solve that general problem.

Time zones, specifically, usually refer to a relatively straightforward concept: "zones" where time matches, usually given using a time offset (most commonly hourly) from the UTC+0000 (closely related to GMT). "Eastern Standard Time" is a localised (to the USA) name for a time zone that would sound totally foreign to anyone not regularly setting up meetings with Americans. Most people would probably think "what time is in the USA right now?" is a non-ambiguous question.

But that ambiguity is exactly what OP wants to solve. It's more of a NLP problem where the context is simply missing ("what's Colorado Springs time?" is a perfectly valid question to ask, just like time zone monikers would be translated everywhere English is not a native language: majority of the world). Even if there were any better standards than IANA, they would not help with implementing a better algorithm, since there is no real need for everyone to learn any official timezone names, and they'd still refer to them using whatever local name there is.

It's important to remember what the goal of "time zones" is. It is to simplify time keeping and cross-referencing between people who come in regular contact. The only true time is astronomical time, but if a person 20mi/30km away was up to 1 minute off (depending on the direction), it would make any coordination very hard. Sure, we're seeing changes in how often people come into regular contact across timezones, but I don't think we are at a tipping point where everyone needs to adjust just yet.

Developing tools for those who do is sure welcome, so I invite the author to get their terminology (and goal) a bit clarified :)
It doesn't matter. The bits arrive anyway. You don't get to run roughshod over what other people do with the bits you send them. End of story. If you didn't want me to have it, you probably shouldn't have pointed me at it, told me where to find it, and said go right on ahead. Don't mind if I do.

It's like someone getting angry at a kid or a tinker taking apart a gift. You gave it. It's mine. Thanks much, why are you so bent out of shape?
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Naive question: how often is that collision the same number of bytes as the original?
Just like git, which has much wider impact, considering how many more people use software from git than use pgp or gpg.
It’s not a Facebook service which is an instant plus
> Do you think the lives of black people matter? Then you're part of Black Lives Matter.

Do you think it's okay to be white? Then you are a white nationalist, too [0].

Basically you are insisting that we should interpret the movement at the face-value of its name, and that's it. Are you willing to apply the same standards to other movements? Do "All Lives Matter"? Do "Blue Lives Matter"?

[0] https://www.thefire.org/ohio-universities-involve-fbi-in-inv...
The car accident comparison has got to stop. It is meaningless. What point do you think that reference helps to clarify? I ask that curiously, not hostilely. I fail to understand how it is helpful to compare the number of people shot and killed un/necessarily by police officers to those killed in car crashes. It seems like the goal is to attempt to diminish the severity of the problem of police killing people by finding a bigger number of people dying to a different cause... which is just silly. The two are not comparable problems and each requires completely different solutions. I think a helpful comparison is examining how in other first world countries the police kill almost nobody. Per capita, more people are killed by law enforcement in the US than in any other 1st world country by a huge margin.

Edit: clarity
In this case, it "steals" the ad revenue that the copyright tries to protect, no? Or am I thinking about this incorrectly?
did you do it? is there a demo? i just want to see what it looks like but obviously not using your current "more secure" login
Health nightmare wearing a headset for hours and hours or a full workday.
> There was a lot of analysis after the 2016 election cycle about the "shy Trump voter" hypothesis, and it really didn't hold up, and continues to not hold up with under the data available from this election cycle

I do find it rather humorous that people would claim this isn’t a thread where multiple people have been downvoted (in some cases to death) for stating or implying that they will be voting for Trump. None of the comments I’m referencing are particularly contentious, aggressive, or otherwise offensive, and yet here we are...

I don’t know what it’s effect is on polls, but in some parts of the country there is a definite reticence on the part of one side or the other to admit it.
I think NYU should push them on this. Another high profile case protecting scraping would be great. Also in this case proud to be an NYU alum, great response from the researchers.
What a garbage article with too many cats.
youtube-dl scrapes the website, from what I can tell. The API has rate limits that youtube-dl would bypass in a few minutes if it were to use the official API.

That's primarily what's got the RIAA's panties in a twist, is that youtube-dl is 'bypassing' youtube's protection measures to prevent their site from being effectively scraped.
> Google still does worse but renaming things is pretty common.

Feels like Google has renamed a few things to be too close to Apple's.

Google Wallet became Google Pay. Picasa became Google Photos. also they have Google Drive. Google Messages...
What about the words "with the authority of the copyright owner"? Nothing about doing it manually via Chrome's Network Tools or the Firefox or MS equivalent involves the authority of the video copyrightholder. So to me it doesn't seem within the legal definition.
Hi! I'm the GitTorrent author. It feels strange to have it show up on the front page whenever GitHub does something bad, more than five years later.

Bitcoin and BitTorrent v1 were plausible substrates in 2015, but no longer. I think Radicle (https://radicle.xyz) is the project most deserving of attention at the moment.

The hardest thing about such a project is economic: how do you handle issue/comment spammers? Or someone creating as many accounts as they can? How do you incentivize someone to mirror your repo? Or to build you a delta to satisfy your `git pull`, without making the network fall over when someone realizes they can ask you to spend infinite CPU building packfiles for them? And what happens when someone forgets their password or loses their private key? This space was a humbling experience in the necessity of incentive alignment for me.