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Water hound chasing a water hare. above: Psalm 3:5 ’[Voce mea ad Dominum clamavi]; et exaudivit me [de monte sancto suo]’ (‘I cried unto the Lord with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill’). Summer volume of the Breviary of Renaud/Marguerite de Bar, Metz ca. 1302-1305.#medieval #MedievalArt

finally getting back to doing some #wayback development

Making YouTube Work in the Netscape 4.5 Browser on Windows 98The World Wide Web of the 90s was a magical place, where you couldn’t click two links without getting bombarded with phrases such as the Information Super Highway and Multimedia Experience. Of course, the multimedia experience you got on your Windows 9x PC was mostly limited to low-res, stuttery RealMedia and Windows video format clips, but what if you could experience YouTube back then, on your ‘multimedia-ready’ Celeron PC, running Netscape 4.5?Cue the [Throaty Mumbo] bloke over on that very same YouTube, and his quest to make this dream come true. Although somewhat ridiculous on the face of it, the biggest problem is actually the era-appropriate hardware, as it was never meant to decode and display full-HD VP9-encoded videos.Because the HTTPS requirement has meant that no 1990s or early 2000s browser will ever browse the modern WWW, a proxy was going to be needed no matter what. This Python-based proxy then got kitted out with not just the means to render down the convoluted HTML-CSS-JS mess of a YouTube page into something that a civilized browser can display, but also to fetch YouTube videos with yt-dlp and transcode it into MPEG1 in glorious SD quality for streaming to Netscape on the Windows 98 PC.Because the same civilized browsers also support plugins, such as Netscape’s NPAPI, this meant that decoding and rendering the video was the easy part, as the browser just had to load the plugin and the latter doing all the heavy lifting. Perhaps unsurprisingly, with some tweaks even Netscape 2.0 can be used to browse YouTube and play back videos this way, with fullscreen playback and seeking support.Although these days only a rare few modern browsers like Pale Moon still support NPAPI, it’s easy to see how the introduction of browser plugins boosted the multimedia future of the WWW that we find ourselves in today.youtube.com/embed/PGeW-L7UPbM?…hackaday.com/2025/10/31/making…

One of my hands is NOT LIKE THE OTHER

wanted to draw my old frog sprites again #pixelart #frog

#Utah Senator Mike Lee is trying to steal public lands again. This time he's trying to hide his intentions in language about immigration and wildfires, but it's ultimately about making public lands private for extraction industry donors to him.#utpol #PublicLandshttps://www.fieldandstream.com/stories/conservation/public-lands-and-waters/mike-lee-attacks-the-wilderness-act

No NAT November.Can you go the complete month without using NAT (Network Address Translation)?

How to spot a nonconsensual porn account:0. They're posting photos/clips of *someone else*.1. They're not part of the community (they don't reply to posts, and they're hardly following anyone).2. They do a *lot* of hashtag stuffing (30+ hashtags, and they're all NSFW).3. They post nudes with no credit or attribution (some provide a nod to the model or site, but no links to support them).4. They don't provide alt-text (because, again, they don't care about community or accessibility).5. They have wording like "I don't claim to own any of the images I post", and "DM me to have photo removed".6. They have account names like "XXXPornBot", "Hot4Dick", or "BigNaturals".7. Their profile photo looks like it was scraped from OnlyFans (and probably was).8. They post porn photos/clips *prolifically* (and the format is nearly identical).If you see accounts displaying these behaviors, please report them. They're stealing other people's work and posting photos of their nude bodies without the subject's' consent. It's wrong, and in many places, illegal.Mods like actionable reports, so be sure to tag appropriate posts and leave a note like "Reposting porn without subject's consent", so we can quickly determine the best course of action.Lastly, if you like porn, support original content, by local creators. There's plenty of it if you look, and who knows, maybe you'll find some awesome folx and help build a better Fedi in the process.#DamnTheBotsSaveTheBoobies #SexWorkIsWork #SaveSexySelfies #Porn #Bots #Admins #Moderation

Il canto dei telai (libro) @libri - La storia romanzata di un imprenditore illuminato ottocentescohttps://wp.me/p6hcSh-8MI

Il canto dei telai (libro) Livio Galla, a parte fare l’avvocato, è uno scrittore molto eclettico: in questa sua opera si è cimentato nel romanzo storico, partendo dalla storia di Alessandro Rossi che prese l’azienda laniera paterna e la fece diventare la più grande d’Italia (avete presente la Lanerossi?) pensando contemporaneamente al benessere degli operai, perché potessero lavorare più tranquilli. La storia intreccia fatti reali, anche se modificati (l’incontro tra Rossi e Garibaldi, o il soprano Teresita Stolzi la cui nascita è stata anticipata) con altri inventati, come la famiglia Sella e la loro sartoria le cui storie si intrecciano con quella dei Rossi. Sullo sfondo troviamo anche l’occupazione austriaca del Veneto: il lanificio Rossi si trova infatti a Schio. Il racconto è avvincente: unica pecca che ho trovato sono le note sui pensieri e comportamenti dei protagonisti, che sono un po’ troppo di maniera. Livio Galla, Il canto dei telai : L’avventura di Lanerossi, Mondadori 2025, pag. 252, € 19, ISBN 9788804791195 – come Affiliato Amazon, se acquistate il libro dal link qualche centesimo va a meVoto: 4/5

Excuse me sir I was trying to write

If I was a ghost I'd look for other ghosts to kiss. Why be haunting when you could be kissing

Girltober day 31: Dream girl#mastoart #art #girltober #drawtober #CommissionsOpen

My OC Kiri without her hairpin

chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca gaaaaaaaahhhhh

@mnl great photos, very mood precise.

@GeePawHill I keep forgetting that it's based on books. I should check those out, I've really enjoyed the show. Part of it is just that the cast is so great, though, so it's possible the books won't do it for me. Gary Oldman is absolutely brilliant.

@suricrasia to the extent my voice as a fediverse authority matters, keep makin the poasts

Recovering Data from the OceanGate depthsWhen the files on the Titan submersible disaster were published, most people skimmed for drama. Hackers, however, would likely zoom in on the hardware autopsy. [Scott Manley] actually did this. He faced a hacker’s nightmare: three crushed PCs, bent SSDs, and an encrypted SD card from a camera that survived six kilometres under pressure, all sealed in titanium and silence.[Scott] went all in to resurrect data. First came CT scans: firing 320 kV X-rays through a kilo of mangled electronics to hunt for intact NAND chips. When that failed, he desoldered UFS memory by hand, used custom flash readers, cloned NV-RAMs, and even rebuilt boards to boot salvaged firmware. The ultimate test was grafting the recovered chips onto donor hardware in Canada. Like the monster of Frankenstein, the system came to life.In the end, it partially worked. Twelve stills and nine videos were retrieved, albeit none from the fatal dive. The process itself was a masterclass in deep hardware forensics, here covered in a video worth watching.youtube.com/embed/qMUjCZ7MMWQ?…hackaday.com/2025/10/31/recove…

Pixelween 2025 #PixelArt