movie-web always seemed like such a sitting duck for takedowns like this. Any form of piracy that’s grabbing from a few centralized streaming servers is bound to be shut down.
P2P torrents over a VPN is the most resilient way to do piracy.
Wow this is such a clean and snappy Lemmy client, may become my new daily driver!
The “For You” feed looks like it has a similar focus as the one I have on Agora, which is a webapp for following people across the “extended Fediverse” as I call it (Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, Nostr).
The For You feed on Agora utilizes a fork of the open source FediAlgo library to create a feed that combines interesting posts from people you follow, as well as friends of friends, and it learns your preferences based on whose content you like/boost.
YSK: Pro Publica has a tool that lets you request documentation of why your health insurer denied your claim (projects.propublica.org)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/9208209
FCC to propose a minimum 100mbps to qualify as broadband, with a future goal of 1gbps (docs.fcc.gov)
Magic Earth: Privacy friendly maps with turn-by-turn navigation, OpenStreetMap, Crowd-Sourced Traffic, 3D maps, Satellite maps, Offline maps and Transit. (www.magicearth.com)
Movie-web: A self-hostable web app for watching movies and shows by displaying video files from third-party providers (github.com)
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing the first-ever national legally enforceable drinking water standard for PFAS (www.whitehouse.gov)
The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor (arxiv.org)
White House announces $16.4 billion in new funding for 25 passenger rail projects on Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor (www.whitehouse.gov)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/8638019
Kaiteki: a comfy cross platform (web app, android, linux, windows) Fediverse client (github.com)
PSA: The open source Raivo multi-factor authenticator announced they were acquired by "Mobime" (github.com)
BMW, Ford and Honda Agree to Create ChargeScape, a New Company Focused on Optimizing Electric Vehicle Grid Services (www.bmwusanews.com)
Apple TV's tvOS 17 brings VPN support, which Tailscale now supports. (tailscale.com)
In case GitHub starts taking down yuzu repos, I recently came across Radicle. It's an open source, P2P GitHub alternative where repos are hosted and seeded on peoples locally running nodes
Here’s where you can get started: app.radicle.xyz...
Geometric Weather: a light and powerful weather app (iOS/Mac and Android) that provides you with real-time temperature, air quality, 15-days weather forecast, etc (github.com)
Sniffnet: an open source + multi-platform network monitoring tool (sniffnet.net)
The end of movie-web (programming.dev)
I built the first 100% private, on-device "For You" feed on the fediverse
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/16102424...
Overview of the slave trade out of Africa (1500-1900) (i.imgur.com)
Source: slavevoyages.org/…/overview-slave-trade-out-afric…
The Yuzu repo is hosted on Radicle, an open source P2P GitHub alternative where repos are hosted and seeded across peoples locally running nodes (app.radicle.xyz)
How GM Made The $35,000 Chevrolet Equinox EV Into A 319-Mile Range Champ (insideevs.com)
New Renderings Revealed For 'The Coney': a beachfront casino, hotel, and entertainment complex proposed for Coney Island, across the street from Coney Island-Stillwell Av Subway Station (newyorkyimby.com)
iSH: An open source terminal for iOS/iPadOS (github.com)