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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I haven't used this extension before but it seems like what it does is find the URLs of active videos. You can do the same manually by F9(or right click > inspect) > Network > Media > Sort by size (larger files will probably be video). This will give you the URL of the video (same as if you right clicked and chose "open video in new tab", but some sites disable this).

This approach usually works for me, but many sites take steps to prevent it.

  1. Send several smaller video files. They basically cut it up into short videos so you can't access the whole thing at once. ffmpeg or a download manager (I use TurboDownloadManager) should be able to combine them relatively easily. Until recently, YouTube used this sort of method. The URL had a "range" tag that specified which frames of the video to show. Deleting this tag gave the whole video. They've since changed it and I don't know any similar tricks (just use yt-dlp for YouTube). Other sites may do something similar, like changing a number or keyword in the URL will get you the whole video.

  2. Serve a preview of a full video (that you have to pay for). Many sites have very similar URLs for free and paid videos. On some sites you might be able to guess what you need to change to get the full video. Some sites have their previews named "preview.mp4" whee the full vudeo is the same URL but named "video.mp4" or something like that. You can spend some time messing around if you find something like this, but really the chances of guessing correctly are pretty low.

  3. Encrypted keys. This is basically impossible to crack. Some URLs will have long strings of letters and numbers in them. I assume this is some sort of encrypted password that needs to match up for you to access the video. Don't even try with these ones.

TL;DR usually it'll work. Sometimes it won't but you might be able to get around it.

Also, yt-dlp works on much more than just YouTube. If I can't figure out how to download a video, I'll just give the URL (the webpage, not the direct video URL) to yt-dlp and it'll often work.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

That makes no sense. Division is just multiplication by an inverse. There's no reason for one to come before another.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Firefox doesn't explain how to do this at all, but it is possible. Make a bookmark with the URL you want, and set the keyword to whatever symbol you want ti start it with.

For example,
Name: Scryfall (or whatever you want)
URL: https://scryfall.com/search?q=%s&unique=cards&as=grid&order=name
Keyword: s
Then type "s Birds of Paradise" to get the result you want.

I did the same with Reddit and it worked on my end. If it doesn't work for you I'd be happy to help you figure it out.

It's also possible on mobile, and it's actually even easier: Settings>Search>Default Search Engine>Add Search Engine. Then you can type your search and choose the engine from a dropdown menu.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I don't know exactly what Chrome does but Firefox lets you sync tabs, history, bookmarks, and saved logins and card information.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Albert Einstein is dead. You couldn't run at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Mark NSFW please!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Screen record a video of the process? Then you'll have a video guide, plus you can take screenshots of the video for a written guide.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Dude, what the fuck, you can't say that on the Internet!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They actually had this in Europe and just discontinued it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably Sectograph. I've used it for a couple years and I like it a lot. You can even have it on your smart watch.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The point is that GMT isn't changing, the region is switching to an entirely different time zone, BST (British Summer Time). If your time is based on GMT, it won't change due to British daylight saving time because GMT never changes.

For a similar example, in the part of the US that uses Mountain Time, states observe MST (Mountain Standard Time) in the winter, and most switch to MDT (Mountain Daylight Time) in the summer. However, Arizona doesn't observe daylight saving time, so they remain on MST. MST always stays the same (GMT-7), the time is only changing because the states are observing a different time zone. The same happens with GMT and BST, it's just harder to see because you can't pick out areas that remain on GMT all year.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, although I recommend against using /c/ because it doesn't actually link to the community. I also recommend against typing out the full URL (e.g. https://lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy) because it might cause issues for people in different instances.

The proper way to link to a community is [email protected]. For example, [email protected]

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