Counterpoint: while high contrast requirements can make the designer rethink the aesthetics approach, it also makes text easier to read for everybody. Of course, website authors can get lazy and just crank up the contrast without considering whether it looks good, but that’s just bad design.
On the other hand, the techniques we see applied to anime releases are just that: quick low effort fixes. Of course, this doesn’t mean the show producers are lazy or incompetent: fixing those issues properly would take extreme effort as at least a lot of re-coloring. Still, the result is that now everybody has subpar experience.
I’d say just release both versions and let people decide.
No one is stopping you from tracking it down and watching it; the request is merely that it not be the version aired on TV, nor the default on streaming media like Crunchyroll. That seems like a pretty reasonable middle ground to me - if you can only host one version, host the safe version. If you want to host multiple versions, feel free to add the unsafe cut as an alternative.
Three’s a lot of stuff on Archive.org that isn’t exactly legal to distribute (and I’m not sure if they have some kind of exception because they are nonprofit or publishers just don’t care to send DMCA notices). I’m glad such a place exists, though.
For sure, and given that the creators of this have refused to release or license it, it’s doubtful that any legal method of viewing it exists or ever will. Yet it has captured people’s curiosity, and that gives some merit to archival, abandoned as it is.
At least the Internet Archive is bereft of advertising and malware that scourges most piracy sites.
I’ve been building a Docker Swarm based server dashboard for a couple years now. It should help with some of problems mentioned in the post: https://lunni.dev/
I like the ideas mentioned though! Docker Compose is pretty good, but something more declarative would definitely be a plus. Would love to see where the project goes (and maybe will borrow some things for the future versions of mine :-)
You might need to explain how a VPN solves the certificate pinning issue; the author is already modifying the phone's HTTP/S traffic via a proxied network connection, and a VPN doesn't (to my knowledge) allow you to forge valid HTTPS responses using the pinned server certificate.
Sorry, should have clarified: instead of faking the response, you can connect to Apple’s servers through a US proxy. They will see you have a US IP address and return the corresponding location code, all over properly signed HTTPS.
There are a few caveats (e.g. using a residential or mobile proxy would look less suspicious, in case Apple looks out for datacenter IP ranges), but I think it should work.
You don't need to modify the HTTPS traffic. You get a VPS that is in the US, and set the device up so that when it requests the domain (gspe1-ssl.ls.apple.com) that the IP address returned is not an Apple IP address, but the VPS IP.
The VPS simply forwards traffic on port 443 to gspe1-ssl.ls.apple.com.
That's exactly what we did in the end—used a commercial VPN and provided internet to the device over the USB cable. Could have probably used a Tailscale on a VPS somewhere too.
Some recordings on the website are RealMedia. I thought most players supported that but apparently quite a few don’t! So if nothing else works for you, try ffplay.
(Curiously enough, Celluloid seems to play this and Haruna doesn’t, although both are wrappers for mpv.)
I knew that, but it always baffles me when I hear it again. Who uses any Real products anymore?
Back in 2007 the only reason I ever used Real stuff was pirated episodes of South Park, and even then I think I was using Real Alternative. Even in 2007 the company seemed like it was dying, and I have no idea 17 years later it's still somehow alive.
It appears they’re mostly buying other companies and their tech, with no apparent whales on either side of the ledger, so they don’t appear to be growing or failing at any great pace.
Wait, people were still using Real back in 2007? At that point I had cycled through DivX, XviD, and then just started holding onto the .VOB file from the DVD.
As I said, the only thing I used it for was pirated episodes of South Park. For whatever reason, a lot of the South Park piracy websites were using .rm files.
For literally everything else, I think I used XviD until MakeMKV came along.
Just a random streaming user :) I could share one link that would seamlessly blend multiple short video clips from 3rd-party servers. Today that requires sharing multiple URLs that each load a heavy web page with separate HTML video player, with no playback continuity. Mini movie editing with a text editor and revision control!
> (Curiously enough, Celluloid seems to play this and Haruna doesn’t, although both are wrappers for mpv.)
I'm not familiar with how they wrap MPV, but it could be that one uses MPV built against a library that provides support and the other uses an MPV that's not built against that library
I’m not sure these structures are exactly like governments, in the libertarian sense. Do they demand taxes from people in their area? Do they set arbitrary laws?
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