Oh! I should get back to it... Togrther with the winamp skins I had downloaded from internet archive.

Plus projectM from Steam, and Spotube... I could stop using the monthly subscription for (*1) an ugly UI that barely handles drag-and-drop and is a mess to make my playlists with.

(*1) tbh, the recommendation engine got me hooked at first, but my interest has been fading away.

tarnkappe.info in german is great. just translate it automagically.

It's one of the most common biases for historians: anachronicity, it's about looking to people in the past with the goggles from the present (current biases, and/ or values). Furthemore, priests copying books by hand was extremely common before the invention of the printing press.

I wonder if this case is special for its time (the first copyist?) or book (was it protected by any hierarchy?).. Other than that, I agree and fail to see a salient connection to "our" piracy.

I'd rather keep the origins on musical pieces, probably classical music. Which is difficult to get even to this days (too niche, some popular pieces have scanned PDFs tho)

I am very much looking for feedback on this self-proclaimed simple oidc. Authentik is not as bad as Keycloak, but from what I reckon theres still room for improvement! -fingers crossed-

Oh, I have no intentions to join. That's what I meant to say. I find the instant messaging rooms a bit overwhelming. Unless is strictly necessary for moderation, and even then I'd be looking for long-term alternatives (as in, other mods here or whatever)

Ah, now I read that part. Thanks. I was really lost on this meme!

using Tor is enough meta data if you were to use it to safeguard from some actors (e.g. state). I'm just saying from the perspective of some of the hypothetical personas as defined by Tor project itself. If it were to boil this down to me, I would rather live without the correlation attacks (e.g. ISP giving me seemingly random disconnects) and just do my casual reading on cracking on the clear-net.

Perhaps xdotool (assumming X11 and not wayland, there might be a fork? idk). Random self-reference trivia fact: I never used AHK, heard many great things about it and regretted a lot being on Linux by then. This was ~11 years ago. Then, some years later, at a gig I needed to type pre-formatted emails (like every 2 weeks, answering the same) and for that I used xdotool and assigned the commands as custom shortcuts under KDE :) it was one of my proudest moments towards Open Source Software.

And bedbugs deserve better!

You want a bridge. Like Jabagram or Emulsion. But there's a limited set of features that will work. For example, reactions or group admin on telegram can't be easily replicated over xmpp. And, in any case, we are talking more about having messages and media on both rooms, on either side, replicated. That way, users on telegram (e.g. your friend) can talk to users on xmpp (e.g. you). Reliability for bridges is not good, there are glitches and messages that doesn't make it to the other side, whichever that is. I'd say you prefer to self-host xmpp with cherry-picked extensions, like snikket.org

Handbrake software supports many. Perhaps AV1?

I don't know which codec should be used to rip but you can pick whatever is in use by the latest and popular uploaders at whichever public tracker you decide on to use for those swarms