Re: [Trisquel-users] Best way to watch Youtube videos?
Thanks a lot for all the hard work omarroth. Great website and great service, much appreciated. I understand the proxy function better now after your answers, but as you've said before, I think it's better not to use it often so as not to burden your server.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Best way to watch Youtube videos?
There's a "Default quality" option in preferences so you don't have to change it manually. You can also use `=medium` as an option if you'd prefer not to use cookies.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Best way to watch Youtube videos?
Hi everyone! There's a lot to respond to. I did my best but feel free to mention anything I missed or if you have any other questions I'd be happy to answer them.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Best way to watch Youtube videos?
The PREFS cookie is URL-encoded JSON and fairly straight-forward, I would recommend looking here: https://github.com/omarroth/invidious/wiki/Preferences for how it works and a list of available options. There are several tools online that will decode it for you so you can understand how it works and allow you to make your own. Invidious also supports adding most options as query parameters, for example https://invidio.us/?dark_mode=true.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Best way to watch Youtube videos?
For comments, search, and most other parts of the site Invidious sends a request to YouTube on the users's behalf. It strips out the user's IP, User-Agent, Cookies, etc. so all YouTube should see is a request from the server's IP. > DO they parse the html code? I think that would require Javascript, right? If so, these apps would be doing the same. You can parse HTML using any language. I'm having a little trouble understanding some of your questions, so you'll unfortunately have to clarify what you mean if you don't believe I properly answered it.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Best way to watch Youtube videos?
YouTube will only know that a video file was requested from your IP address. You can also use `=true` to proxy videos through Invidious, which should limit the amount of information available to YouTube to near zero. I would very much recommend reading this comment[0] as well which I think better answers your question. 0. https://trisquel.info/en/forum/invidious-youtube-redirect-site-agplv3-no-js-required#comment-135176
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel on Arm? Pinebook Pro running Trisquel? Trisquel Touch?
Yes, I should have made it clear in my post about Panfrost working with Tuxcart and Kodi that it will be relevant to the Pinebook Pro, and not the original Pinebook. That could be an interesting laptop for $199, if Panfrost continues to develop quickly this year. This is all stuff I am learning about on the fly, I was not aware of Panfrost before your original comment.
Re: [Trisquel-users] X220 vs T450
Basically, until Lenovo (or any other manufacturer) wants to share (so, maybe never) we have to stick with old computers to have freedom, right? Other question, I tried installing coreboot to my x220 and for some reason, it didn't like it. It'd freeze every once in a while, either after some minutes or a few hours. I tried with and without reducing the IME. The computer is a core i7 with a USB3 port (I wonder if that port is the cause).
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel on Arm? Pinebook Pro running Trisquel? Trisquel Touch?
Okay; so maybe it's relevant for the Pinebook "Pro" then, and not the original Pinebook.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel on Arm? Pinebook Pro running Trisquel? Trisquel Touch?
Hi jxself, yes the Pinebook uses the A64, but from everything I'm reading the Pinebook Pro will have the Pine64 Rockchip RK3399 with MALI T-860 Quad-Core GPU when it is released later this year.
Re: [Trisquel-users] X220 vs T450
T450 "can" be corebooted and have ME cleaned only if you have access to Lenovo's private key to sign the firmware image. With Boot Guard, as soon as the system detects that the firmware image is not signed with the manufacturer's private key, it is immediately forcibly powered off.
[Trisquel-users] Re : Best way to watch Youtube videos?
Try writing to invidio.us' creator through https://trisquel.info/users/omarroth/contact
Re: [Trisquel-users] Why does installing Trisquel 7 updates cancel my sound system?
Yes, sound works perfectly in a guest session.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel on Arm? Pinebook Pro running Trisquel? Trisquel Touch?
That is good news for Panfrost but seems to not matter for the Pinebook? Please let me know if I am following things correctly, with citations: The Pinebook [0] will use the Pine A64 single board computer [1]. The Pine A64 single board computer is made using the Allwinner A64 SoC [2]. The Allwinner A64 SoC uses the Mali-400 GPU [3] [4]. The Mali-400 is part of the Utgard microarchitecture [5]. Panfrost only targets the Midgard and Bifrost versions of Mali, not Utgard [6] and so this news has no impact to the Pinebook. [0] https://www.pine64.org/?page_id=3707 [1] https://www.pine64.org/?page_id=1194 [2] http://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/PINE_A64_Main_Page#SoC_and_Memory_Specification [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali_(GPU)#Implementations [4] http://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/PINE_A64_Main_Page#SoC_and_Memory_Specification [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali_(GPU)#Variants [6] https://panfrost.freedesktop.org/
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquelize script?
Thank you, David! Can anybody confirm me that encrypted home folder (not encrypted disk) will work after running this script on lubuntu 16.04 LTS? I will then do it and report the results. Thanks
Re: [Trisquel-users] X220 vs T450
The 400s, or you could use zerocat.org/shop and send your x220 and have it corebooted and me cleaned. but, I don't know the specfics, so you would have to discuss it with the owner. If it can be me cleaned, you can replace the wifi card. Aka the x220, I myself have an x230 to replace the thinkpenguin laptop that way I can take my thinkpenguin laptop elsewhere... Aka, the whole thing has intel me 100% enabled... I wish it didn't though... ;/ Your best option though if you want full freedom though is the T400s, next best is the x220. Third best is the x230. and like Nadebula said, stay far away from that T450 device. Oddly enough, I think t450 can be corebooted and have the intel me cleaned, but unless your extremely experienced in corebooting a laptop with external flashing, I wouldn't recommend either... and I don't know if you can have both done at the same time. So yeah, "Your best option though if you want full freedom though is the T400s... next best is the x220. Third best is the x230." T400s is librebootable anyhow I think if you have a clue what your doing.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel on Arm? Pinebook Pro running Trisquel? Trisquel Touch?
> PCI vs USB WI-FI results argument is totally void. There is no such thing. > > Check stock TL-WN721N/TL-WN722N or what thinkpenguin/tehcnoetical have. When I began migrating to free software, I bought several ThinkPenguin WiFi dongles and used them for a year. It was extremely frustrating. I lost my Internet connection every few minutes. Other users on this forum have reported the same result. I now install a $6 PCI Atheros card on every laptop I can and get far better results. Many of my friends have MacBooks, and when I install Trisquel on their computer and they see it take 3 tries to get through the installer (for some reason the installer crashes on MacBooks if not connect to the Internet at a certain moment), and several hours to get through the first "sudo apt upgrade" they insist on the proprietary firmware for their WiFi card, or Ubuntu, or they will return to macOS. But maybe this has nothing to do with USB vs PCI, and the $30 ThinkPenguin dongles are for some reason of lower quality than the $6 PCI cards. I'll try Andy's suggestion. If you have ever used a USB WiFi card that wasn't crap, can you tell me what model it was? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [Trisquel-users] Best way to watch Youtube videos?
Ok, I think I found a bug in Invidious but I don't have a GitHub account to report it, if someone would be so kind please report it. The bug is as follows: When accessing the official Invidious Onion Service V3 (the one with 32 characters) if you have Javascript enabled and try to jump ahead in the video (video still hasn't loaded and you click to go to near the end of the video for example) it will make a direct connection to googlevideo.com and retrieve the piece of the video that you asked, instead of retrieving it from the Onion service as well. It was tested in a mobile Android device, but I suspect the issue will happen regardless of which device you use.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Best way to watch Youtube videos?
Yes, that goes to show how much the Tor Network evolved the last couple of years. But hold on, I am unsure if the Onion Service is actually the only connection you make. While the page is loading Tor Browser says in the bottom left "connecting to" and it shows a lot of different addresses. I fear somehow the Onion is merely acting as a mirror and still allows some connections to google servers. As for videos themselves, I tried downloading one and the download link was this http://c7hqkpkpemu6e7emz5b4vyz7idjgdvgaaa3dyimmeojqbgpea3xqjoid.onion/videoplayback?ip=95.216.24.230=video%2Fmp4=22=sn-4g5e6nsk%2Csn-4g5edn7z=5535432=31%2C29=au%2Crdu=0=m=20=1554221380=1554243079=9C37EDCF01CD96E4ABBB2DA5507C81188730F1.60C6BBC1E030717F0A9A63705E39F18787FCB728=WEB=dur%2Cei%2Cid%2Cinitcwndbps%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Clmt%2Cmime%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cpl%2Cratebypass%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cexpire=yes=yt6=1554215898465432=4=yes=3238.696=o-AKKtIgBeGbTzecIwgCxXGJdBUX5cSVMfdTCO_EEqex2A=p4mjXN31LpGw1wK7xqyYAg=youtube=1128750=r4---sn-4g5e6nsk.googlevideo.com So, I the video seems to be hosted in the onion server but at the end it says "host...googlevideo.com" So I don't know again if some connection is made. Of course it is still hidden by Tor, but the way I see it the Onion should allow me to NOT make ANY connection to Google servers. Unsure about this...
Re: [Trisquel-users] Best way to watch Youtube videos?
Nice! The official onion service instance of Invidio.us is running great. This is certainly a new way to listen to music. When I tried some years back, you could not stream videos on Tor without constant buffering issues. So now google has no idea I'm listening to my music - how cool.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Best way to watch Youtube videos?
I just noticed that they also have an Onion Service available even as a V3 Onion Service! Which is great but I wonder... they are actually proxying the videos through their Onion Service, I checked. So, won't Youtube eventually get fed up and try to kick them out of bussiness?? Well, anyway I think this closes the matter for now... If you use the V3 Onion Service you don't even need cookies enabled in order to get the "proxy" option. You can also simply click the Dark Theme button at the top and use it. Only thing that is annoying is to have the need to lower each video's resolution individually. So, yeah, annoying but HIGHLY usable. I will let you guy know that there are also other instances of Invidous running and at least one of them is running an Onion Service. You can use them randomly and avoid that Invidious get's all the information that Youtube gets even when you use Tor (that is "a "a Tor User usually watches topic XXX at HH hour of the day", this is still relevant, especially when you add to that the Javascript fingerprinting your browser and machine).
Re: [Trisquel-users] Best way to watch Youtube videos?
Ok, I have been looking into Invidous again and I noticed that while you don't need Javascript to watch videos, you DO need to enable cookies if you want to have persisten Preferences used (things like which video resolution to watch, whether you want Dark Theme or not, etc). So, I wonder, if I allow cookies will they be able to "track" which videos I have watched? I tried looking into the cookie but I guess it is not a plain text file that I can read. Someone with more experience might be able to tell. Thanks.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel on Arm? Pinebook Pro running Trisquel? Trisquel Touch?
News just today that the community Mali 3D driver, Panfrost, is now running Tuxcart and Kodi: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item=Panfrost-Gallium-Kodi-STK
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel on Arm? Pinebook Pro running Trisquel? Trisquel Touch?
Raptor should be releasing the Blackbird Power9 mainboard soon, an ATX style board for under $1,000, making owning a personal Power9 desktop far more affordable.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel on Arm? Pinebook Pro running Trisquel? Trisquel Touch?
PCI vs USB WI-FI results argument is totally void. There is no such thing. Check stock TL-WN721N/TL-WN722N or what thinkpenguin/tehcnoetical have. Pinebook PRO vs X200 size and weight x4 silent (no fans, no HDD) Ram 4GB LPDDR4 dual-channel vs 4GB/8GB DDR3 Battery life Number of cores: 6 vs 2 apps memory footprint ARM < x86 Screen: 14" 1920x1080 (Full HD) v 12" 1280x800 (WXGA) USB TYPE-C http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:X200 EOMA68 (A20) < Pinebook (A64) < Pinebook Pro (rk3399). Btw what you people need 3D accel for? (games ?, CAD ?) AMD/Nvidia FOSS 3D accel NOT possible. Mali FOSS 3D accell under way. POWER don't have the adoption and scale of ARM. I'm not advocating for the Pinebooks. As I said let's wait for it to ship. rk3399 has PCIe, whether and how it is going to be routed I don't know. WI-FI if you want, Graphics/Display, No boot fimware blobs, WiP 3D accel. WiP VPU accel; All check.
Re: [Trisquel-users] X220 vs T450
T450 has Boot Guard. It's impossible to replace the UEFI firmware. And this renders it also impossible to remove the white list restrictions for WLAN cards. Stay away from it.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Best way to watch Youtube videos?
Yes very interesring. Very useful. Thanks very much.
Re: [Trisquel-users] Best way to watch Youtube videos?
> chaosmonk - how do you feel about the fact that the government was so > heavily involved in creating and financing Tor? I've always been wary of > it - wondering what your opinion is. Are you implying that it could be a honeypot of some kind? If so, that's something I worry about a lot with many VPNs, but less so with a decentralized network running on free software. I would guess that the US military funds Tor because they use it themselves. Their involvement is not something to ignore, but it is also not a reason to reject Tor any more than it is a reason to reject the Internet. If the Tor network did not provide effective anonymity and privacy from the US government, I think that things likely would have gone differently for Edward Snowden. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
