I find music on YouTube and autoconvert it to MP3 with yt-dlp and ffmpeg. It fetches new music from my personal “Favorite Music” playlist, downloads the highest quality audio source, converts it to MP3, embeds the metadata and cover art and tries to parse the artist and title as best as possible.

yt-dlp -x -f bestaudio --audio-quality 0 --audio-format mp3 --embed-thumbnail --add-metadata --metadata-from-title "%(artist)s - %(title)s" --playlist-start 1 --playlist-end 999 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=123abc -o "./files/%(artist)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" --cookies-from-browser

Needs minimal adjustment sometimes if the title format is weird, but works 95% automatic. What I like most about this is the fact that music vanishes all the time from YouTube, but it doesn’t affect me. No one deletes the files from my harddrive but me.

Land of the free!*

*excluding free healthcare

That sounds more like your drive not being supported by LibreDrive. OP talked about expired beta keys, which is a current problem with makemkv.

Yes.

Regards,
The Movie Industry

I gave in and bought makemkv yesterday. It just works.

There isn’t a CFW for PS4. But what we have is GoldHEN (which enables us to run decrypted games, also called fPKG’s) and various methods to run GoldHEN.

Up to firmware 9.00 (I believe) there is a browser exploit to run it, up to 11.00 you can also hack the console via PPP (pppwn) and up to 12.02 GoldHEN can be loaded with a BluRay you have burned before.

So you basically start the system and put it in a state where it accepts unsigned code. It’s very similar to PS3HEN. There’s also a method of hacking the console with some obscure Japanese games and one with a PS2 game. Some absolute madlads even made it possible to hack the PS4 with an LG Smart TV. 😆

The channel MODDED WARFARE always reports on those methods and makes tutorials, highly recommended.

Well…looks like my employer will have to buy me a Macbook soon.

there’s not a lot that non-Apple users can do with them

Oh, there is.
I am a web developer and I use this to run Safari and the iOS simulator without paying Apple’s “debugging tax”.

And a PS4 BluRay exploit has just been released, so you can crack the whole thing by burning a BluRay (up to a certain software version).

Lots of legitimately obtained backup copies to play!

And depending on how OpenAI tweaked it this time it will either realize its mistake after being made aware of it or double down even harder on it.

I only use it for coding and it once told me my code not working was due to a bug in Webkit, so I asked it which bug specifically. It created links to bug reports but rewrote the titles of them. So initially it looked like it had numerous sources that backed up its statement but when I clicked on them those were bugs about totally different things.

It would not back down even after I specifically told it “You just made all of this shit up and even rewrote the titles” and got stuck in a loop of “I’m sorry, but you’re wrong and I am 100% sure I haven’t made a mistake”.

Kinda creepy. Especially when you think about the system rewriting reality when it comes to much more important things. Let’s just reinvent some history, that would be a good idea, right?

Thought this was an Alien: Earth quote, but that was actually “When is a machine not a machine?”.

I’m sure most of the Germans will continue using their illegal adblockers. This ruling is ridiculous.

Yes, it’s really good! I still run it with proton, because I couldn’t find a good alternative on Linux. banshee is unmaintained (it was my favorite for a long time) and all others have their shortcomings in some way or another.

You shall not pass data!

This is so disturbing lol 😵‍💫

Yep, apart from the bugs that really annoys me, too. To effectively debug an issue on iOS, you need an iPhone and connect it to a Mac (or iPad) to use the debug tools.

Every other browser can be run on a typical PC. You can even emulate Android, run Firefox and Chrome and just get cracking. I’m not getting paid to buy an expensive device to do my work, lol.

Jamba

Wasn’t that a ringtone service in the 90s?

Michael MJD tested the AOL Desktop six months ago. It was surprisingly competent and got regular updates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUsym8iAWHY

Websites won’t be tested properly on Safari anymore

They only have to be tested on Safari specifically, because it’s doing some things differently from Mozilla and Chrome. I guess Apple will finally have to use their money to actually fix those issues with their own engine, so people will prefer using it. Oh no, all of that hard-earned cash! /s

(As a web developer, I despise Safari, sometimes with passion. At least we finally got rid of IE and that non-Chrome Edge shitshow by now.)

Mozilla said last time they don’t want to maintain two variants of their browser. So unless Apple finally decides custom browser engines are allowed worldwide, a real Firefox probably won’t happen.

I doubt the EU and Japan have enough traction to change Apple’s mind on this issue.