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Archive for October, 2020

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Thread by @doctorow on the RIAA using DMCA section 1201 to ban youtubedl from GitHub

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/31

A very interesting thread by @doctorow:

Late last week, the @RIAA sent a legal threat to @Github, claiming that the popular (and absolutely lawful) tool #youtubedl (which allows users to download Youtube videos for offline viewing, e……

Source: [WayBack] Thread by @doctorow on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

More on section 1201: [Wayback] Pluralistic: 24 Oct 2020 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow: RIAA kills youtubedl

There is also a great technical analysis at [Wayback/Archive.is] Analysis of the RIAA claims against youtube-dl · GitHub

This write-up follows the code paths in youtube-dl that get executed when you try to run it based on the claims of RIAA has put forward. This is a technical analysis, not a legal one.

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–jeroen

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Two ways to unsubscribe from Booking Email Marketing. – Google Photos

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/30

Album by Kristian Köhntopp: [WayBack/Archive.is] Two ways to unsubscribe from Booking Email Marketing. – Google Photos

Via: [WayBack] Kristian Köhntopp – Google+

–jeroen

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Dutch parcel tracers

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/30

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Making Fujitsu ix500 scanner’s CardMinder Viewer not globally steal the Alt-F3 shortcut

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/30

I hate applications that globally install Windows shortcut keys without the setup/install either warn about it or make it configurable.

In this case it is about CardMinder Viewer that ships with the Fujitsu ix500 scanner and installs a global shortcut, by default Alt-F3.

CardMinder Viewer is especially bad because the “settings” are not in the application: the settings are part of the Windows notification area (usually on the lower left of your screen; many people call it “the tray” as it was called tray in the Cairo research that led to Windows 95 and Windows NT 3.5).

So here is how to get rid of the Alt–F3 shortcut to be stolen:

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Some links on assembling a proper Katalon .gitignore file

Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/29

I used these links to find out what entries a Katalon .gitignore file should contain:

Combining the above, the .gitignore file needs to at least contain:

/.classpath
/.project
/.settings
bin/lib/
Libs/
/bin
/Libs
.settings
.classpath
settings/internal
/.svn
/bin/lib/Temp*.class
Reports/
.project
/libs/Temp*.groovy
bin/lib/
bin/keyword/

(funny that .svn should be in a .gitignore file and that various combinations of casing are used)

–jeroen

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