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  • DABDA@lemm.eetotechsupport@lemmy.world•"Right-click Save As" download different file type than URL shows in FirefoxEnglish
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    1 month ago

    My tech skills are rusting horribly but I tried to briefly take a look at this…

    I’m seeing the same behavior with the Firefox save-as file extension being .m4a vs the displayed URL showing .mp3.

    Opening either extension in VLC and viewing the codec info (Tools->Codec Info / Ctrl+J) shows the actual encoding to be ‘MPEG AAC Audio (mp4a)’.

    I didn’t try grabbing a file from the torrent, but if I use the media tab in Firefox ‘Page Info’ (Ctrl+I) to “save as” the embedded IA player file it suggests a matching .mp3 extension with the displayed address (but the codec is still mp4a).

    The main thing I’m not following is what you mean by having parse errors in Mp3tag. So far I haven’t seen any metadata included in either the .mp3 or .m4a downloads (I only tested the first file), they both play audio fine, and if I browse to their directory in Mp3tag (vers. 2.57) it doesn’t seem to show anything unusual to me (empty metadata, no error/alert messages). What exactly is the parse error or how is it behaving differently from what’s expected?

    I also just wanted to say “THANK YOU!” for an awesome support post. You posted it to the right community, gave it a short but very descriptive title, gave lots of info about what you’ve tried and the results you’ve experienced – and did so politely :)

  • DABDA@lemm.eetoComic Strips@lemmy.world•How would you like your propaganda served?English
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    3 months ago

    I was mostly referring to the quality being shitty and less-so the content of the edits themselves.

    • To start with, it looks like they used a row-resolution base and then possibly tried to AI upscale it (look at animal faces on the “protect kids” wrap and the artist signature/items on the table)
    • The pointless circular blur near the collar of the box holder
    • The weird clone/stamp action going on with the side of the box - just use a solid box if the goal is efficiency vs quality!

    But also leaving the artist’s signature on an edited comic and not mentioning it’s modified feels shitty too. This isn’t a meme or political community so I’d think posting the original is more appropriate anyway.

  • DABDA@lemm.eetoretrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org•Sealed Windows 2000 Advanced Server floppy disksEnglish
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    4 months ago

    El Torito:

    El Torito is an extension designed to allow booting a computer from a CD-ROM. It was announced in November 1994 and first issued in January 1995 as a joint proposal by IBM and BIOS manufacturer Phoenix Technologies. According to legend, the El Torito CD/DVD extension to ISO 9660 got its name because its design originated in an El Torito restaurant in Irvine, California.

    A 32-bit PC BIOS will search for boot code on an ISO 9660 CD-ROM. The standard allows for booting in two different modes. Either in hard disk emulation when the boot information can be accessed directly from the CD media, or in floppy emulation mode where the boot information is stored in an image file of a floppy disk, which is loaded from the CD and then behaves as a virtual floppy disk. This is useful for computers that were designed to boot only from a floppy drive. For modern computers the “no emulation” mode is generally the more reliable method.

    I vaguely remember fighting with getting burned OS install discs to reliably boot. Another fun thing from around that time is if you happened to plug in the floppy drive cable backwards any disks inserted would be erased. That’s a great way to accidentally nuke your boot disk and be screwed if you weren’t near another working machine with a floppy drive. Lots of little headaches like that really drilled in the concept of redundancies and lots of backups (as well as not mindlessly installing a floppy drive).

  • DABDA@lemm.eetoLemmy.world Support@lemmy.world•Unread Count Says 1, While Inbox is EmptyEnglish
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    4 months ago

    The Piped bot is checking comments for instances of a YouTube domain and video id (I don’t know specifically what it triggers on) and then replies with a link to that video id as a Piped-based one. But what it should also do is check if the initial comment also contains the Piped URL it’s about to post and then not reply with a duplicate of that same address.

    For example I’d post something like

    And the bot would reply offering the exact “Piped mirror” address I had already linked to. This would happen regardless of if I used custom link text or just left it as a raw URL so the bot clearly wasn’t doing a check of either method.

  • DABDA@lemm.eetoLemmy.world Support@lemmy.world•Unread Count Says 1, While Inbox is EmptyEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Awesome, glad I was able to help!

    That bot has long been a thorn in my side, both due to that Lemmy bug but relatedly because I used to include Piped links with all my YT ones but the bot doesn’t(/didn’t?) check for them before replying anyway. I’ve never created a bot but I can’t imagine it’s more than like a single line to do a regex search for the exact link it intends to post and aborting if it’s found.