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Should be on everyone's must download list along with VLC and Showering with your Dad simulator.
Same vibes as the VLC creator. Cheers man!
So instead of 'smut' it's 'esmut'? ;-) Hola de VLC por cierto.
I'm with you here, however > Installers that are hosted on the official websites of any products are bound to be safe If you have verified that the posted checksums match the file you've downloaded, yes. But, yeah, that is up for debate as well - ideally, you don't get the checksums from the webpage that links to the downloads - ideally, the checksum is generated via some build pipeline... > It is pure common sense Yes and no, i mean - how many people click on the first link they found on Google? That may or may not be the official website - just consider how many people have downloaded trojanized software from 3rd party websites, all while being certain they're on the official ones? A few examples that come to mind include VLC or other popular open source software (Torrent clients) - all cases where some shady 3rd party ranks higher in the SERPs than the official site. And don't get me started on download portals such as CNET/Chip.de/...
Of course you can. I'm background mining on Nicehash with the 1660ti laptop that I'm using to type this, watch VLC, YouTube, listen to music etc. and have been for months.
Not too long ago we needed real player and VLC player to watch videos, and now everyone’s got YouTube and Netflix on their phone. I think crypto will go the same way. It will become easier to use in daily life.
I still use Kazaa Lite Codec Pack. It's great, though obviously the alternatives are also good (PotPlayer and VLC).
For iPhone youre good. Apple takes the vetting of apps in the app store very seriously and doesn't allow sideloading of apps. For a Mac if you're willing to spend money I've heard good things about bitdefender. My company uses Crowdstrike which is amazing but that's not really for personal use. If you're not willing to spend money you want to look into ClamXAV. Audio and video file are typically pretty safe. It can be possible to use them maliciously but it requires that you use a vulnerable media player. If you use a big name media player like VLC and keep up to date you should be pretty safe with most audio and video files.
Here in Korea, most official sites (government, banking, etc.) work only on Internet Explorer and they force you to install lots of ActiveX crap. Also people use local software of inferior quality, with ads, spyware, etc. for I don't know what reason. GOM Player instead of VLC, Alzip instead of 7zip/Winzip, etc. It's a weird world!
most open source devs work for free and just donations. You think nerds are getting paid to code Linux, winrar, torrent software, VLC media player, ect. Satoshi made bitcoin for free too, no pre-mine.
Of course I can, VLC player has that option as well. But I would have to manually add those torrents that I want to see for my phone. Which I consider to be a hassle. And the whole point of subscribing to Netflix is to get a practice of "paying my bills" I'm 20 and studying, but I live with my parents so I don't pay any bills. The Netflix subscription is my way to start earning money out of crypto and putting it to real use to improve my family's way of life.
make a very slow video. put on usb drive. leave seed files in a txt and copy VLC renamed as video player and your video to the drive. number these items. 1. install this video player.exe 2. watch this video.mp4 3. these are the passwords.txt
Unfortunately, not very ELI5 in my opinion. "What is Bitcoin" is not the same as "How does Bitcoin work". You could have started without the sea shells analogy, and instead started with the ledger. I love trying to describe it in the least words possible, here's a new attempt: \------------------------ Effectively, like any digital "platform" that can be accessed on the internet, it is a combination of rules (typically software) and data (storage). Facebook is software that consumes your personal data (photos, DOB, posts, friends and comments) and provides a way for you to communicate with your friends based on that data. Google is a platform that collects information about other websites and stores it as data, then allows you to search for websites and content across the internet using that data. Better than software though, Bitcoin provides a specific "protocol" which is a set of fool proof rules that is small enough to be followed, and robust enough to withstand rule breakers. A protocol is like a blueprint that can be followed by many different programs; for example, many video players follow a protocol in order to read and write video files. I can create a video and play it on a Macbook using QuickTime, I can then send it to you, and you can watch it on an Android phone using VLC or a Windows laptop using "Windows Media Player" because even though we aren't using the same software, the software follows the same set of well defined rules about how to read and interpret the file. When Bitcoin was run for the first time, it started building a record of minted coins and transactions as per the protocol, and became a "platform" on the internet. It isn't the first platform to exist without a website, BitTorrent is an example of a platform that exists and is accessible without a web browser. Just like Bitcoin, there are many BitTorrent applications, but every application can access the same spectrum of available data. Just like BitTorrent, Bitcoin operates on a network run by peers; people with computers like you and me who keep a copy of the data and run an application following the protocol. The more people join the network, the more secure Bitcoin becomes. Bitcoin's data comes in "blocks", and every block of Bitcoin's data comes with proof of how big and powerful the network was and a clever rule: "the chain of blocks that were created using the most powerful network is Bitcoin's data". This allows more people to join the network everyday and be confident that they have the same data as everyone else. Today, the network is made up of users all around the world, and no individual, company, or government could build a network large enough to abuse this rule. Bitcoin today operates across phone lines, wireless networks, satellite, and possibly other mediums, making it the most robust network in the world and it is already the most secure platform of any kind in the world, getting stronger as more people join the network every day. Summary: Bitcoin is the most secure platform in the world, used to build and maintain a unit of account for its users. It is more secure than all banks combined, and it relies on no individual, company, or government to function securely. It has all the properties of sound money and can be used by anyone around the world. It has progressively been fulfilling its potential as a global monetary platform and is still growing.
Way to miss the point dude. My point is not that I, a lone developer, is able to rapidly clone all the functionalities of Facebook that have been in development by a huge team for over a decade now, it's that if I were to make a Facebook clone, it would be worthless anyway because of network effects. If that's too hard for you to imagine, just imagine cloning something opensource, like Firefox, VLC, LibreOffice, GIMP or whatever.
So-- cameras a always a value game. Even if your budget lets you spend a lot, it's good to get more cameras unless you are securing a very small space. You want adequate resolution, good performance in low light, and the right (usually narrow) field of view. It's good to get cameras with adjustable zoom, so you can zoom them in as tight as your positioning allows. I use the wired dahua cameras and can strongly recommend buying them from Empiretech andy on ipcamtalk. Now to be clear: Like most other chinese internet connected devices their firmware is pretty crappy and they are full of backdoors and god knows what else. They should be put on a firewalled (or totally isolated network). They have POE cameras for under $150 that have phenomenal low light performance (checkout reviews on ipcamtalk). The hikvision products are roughly similar, though they seem to have a somewhat worse human rights track-record and I don't have a good of a source for them. You can view/record them with anything that read a RTSP stream (e.g. VLC), or use a dahua NVR (which is an embedded PC you stuff disks in to record the video). They recently announced a new line of low cost cameras which are hybrid thermal (with a 400x300px thermal sensor), I have a couple on order, and unless they're total crap they're probably going to become my recommended outdoor camera anywhere the higher cost ($475) is tolerable simply because how much better thermal cameras are in distinguishing irrelevant background shadows/trees from stuff that is alive. (I have a couple dahua thermal security cameras now but they were amazing ebay finds, thousand dollar cameras I got for much cheaper).
It also sometimes works by sharing it with VLC. Then you can turn off a browser.
In the future you wont have access to things like VLC or simple files. Just use your biometrics to sign into your Disney cloud server and all the entertainment you own is there on their blockchain as long as there is an internet connection. Having media you own as NFTs means you can no longer share files with people or give others access by password sharing.