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[–] tal@lemmy.today 16 points 6 months ago

Through his online pseudonym, “White Tiger,” the suspect preyed on desperate children in online forums, including those discussing suicide, dpa reported. Investigators believe he exploited their vulnerabilities, forcing them to create pornographic and violent recordings where they injured themselves to the point of bleeding during live chats.

The man made recordings of the acts to keep as trophies, investigators said, and used them as leverage against the victims by threatening to publish them unless the children committed even more self-harm on camera.

The man is suspected of committing 120 crimes against eight victims, ages 11 to 15, who were from Germany, England, Canada and the U.S. Another of the victims, a 14-year-old Canadian girl, attempted to take her own life.

I don't want to make any definitive statements until all the facts are in, but White Tiger seems like a bit of a dick.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 10 points 6 months ago

“Despite repeated requests from the Iranian side for various types of weapons – air defence systems and fighter jets – none of this has been transferred to Iran by Russia to date,” Smagin said.

Partly due to its entanglement in Ukraine and its growing ties with other regional players, including Saudi Arabia, Moscow has shown little urgency on propping up Iran, even as Tehran’s position has weakened after blows against its key proxy, the Lebanese movement Hezbollah.

I think that Russia is probably kind of short on functioning air defense systems herself.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 15 points 6 months ago (4 children)

If it's a removable back cover, I wonder how hard it would be to have a third-party back cover...with a larger battery?

[–] tal@lemmy.today 75 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Almost everyone in the US had an ancestor that immigrated not that long ago, and if people didn't do it within at most a couple generations, you wouldn't see anti-immigrant sentiment.

Puck political cartoon, January 11, 1893, "Looking Backward":

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/3968c98b-d1ce-411d-9c96-7e8d9d81263f.jpeg

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Caption:

They would close to the new-comer the bridge that carried them and their fathers over.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_Brands

In 2008, Robert Wang, Yi Qin, and one other friend, all former employees of Nortel in Ottawa, Canada, started working on designs for the Instant Pot.[4] Wang is credited as the inventor of the Instant Pot.

Apparently, the Instant Pot is out of Canada, interestingly enough.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

If your phone is Android, NewPipe is an open-source, third-party client that permits setting quality. It's on F-Droid (the big open-source app repository) if you use that, and probably on Google Store as well.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks.

EDIT: There isn't an --embed-auto-subs, but there is a --write-auto-subs.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 6 months ago

I'm not really following video DRM, but my understanding is that Widevine won't run in a VM with a virtualized video card like that.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 6 months ago
[–] tal@lemmy.today 23 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

I mean, you don't need anything; it'll work with no flags. I have these:

$ cat ~/.config/yt-dlp/config
--embed-subs
--embed-metadata
--embed-chapters
--embed-thumbnail
--sponsorblock-mark=all
$

That'll just embed some useful metadata in the file.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

You might try again. I was blocked for a couple weeks after I pulled a bunch of videos from a channel using yt-dlp, and for a while YouTube required an account (which I will not get) from that IP. But a couple weeks later, things were working again.

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