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FOSS NEWS

Tor and Tails projects join forces for easier collaboration to reach their common goals:
alternativeto.net/news/2024/9/
(Onion now has some tails lol)

VirtualBox 7.1.2 released with 3D acceleration support on ARM VMs and various bug fixes:
9to5linux.com/virtualbox-7-1-2

MPV 0.39.0 released with NVIDIA RTX and Intel VSR Scaling support, multi-touch support, new select.lua script to select files from a playlist etc.:
9to5linux.com/mpv-0-39-0-relea
(*terminal nerds happy face*)

Noyb (none of your business) digital rights organization claims "Privacy Preserving Attribution" in Firefox (which lets websites track performance of ads without tracking users) goes against GDPR because Mozilla itself still collects sensitive data:
theregister.com/2024/09/25/moz
(They basically do the same as Google with Chrome and Apple with iOS. They don't let anyone else collect data except for them, so they get a massive advantage in the data market...)

Proton Drive desktop and mobile apps get open source:
proton.me/blog/drive-open-sour
(But why weren't those open source until now? 🤔️)

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Sharing this just in case it's useful to other folks doing CLI-driven video editing...

I was looking for a video player to quickly identify accurate cut points in videos. Requirements:

- seek quickly 1 second forward/back in time

- view timestamps in seconds+milliseconds format, e.g. 901.5 instead of 00:15:01.5

VLC does the former but not the latter; MPlayer is the other way around.

Solution: mpv!

mpv --osd-msg2='${=time-pos}' --osd-level=2 --osd-fractions video.mp4

New #VideoPlayer #UIUX updated 'click on a video and get directed to a new content UIUX' feature on the #birb site deteccc'd 🤔

#TwitterTok #TicTokUIUXCopyThat!

Here's a #demo of this with videos that won't play on the 192.x.x.x IP address space, which I block, because, duhhhh. #FinFisher #FinSpy #Finsky IP #firewall logs detect #GammaGroup #Twitter bull💩 easily btw

#TwitterVideoPlayerDemo #infosec_jcp #demos 12-10-2022

@BBCPoppy 🙄😳🤨

Just downloaded #FreeTube!

It's meant to prevent google from tracking your viewing habits, and to prevent you from falling down their algorithmic rabbit holes. Seems like this should become the new normal for YouTube browsing!

freetubeapp.io/

Here's a #reddit discussion of it:

reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/co

freetubeapp.ioFreeTube - The Private YouTube ClientFreeTube is a feature-rich and user-friendly YouTube client with a focus on privacy.