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rizahawkais · 3 years

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Hi Nia! You're gifs are so pretty! Is it possible for you to show how you get your WandaVision gifs too look so clear and hd? And how do you do your colorings too? (specifically the wanda maximoff in episode 3 gifset ITS GORGEOUS) I'm new to giffing and all the tutorials are kind of old. It's okay if you don't want to though! I understand it may be time consuming.

omg no! never feel intimidated to ask!! i don’t mind at all!

so, i’m going to show you how i made and coloured this gif

mostly bc it’s the only gif in that set w text and i’m going to share my text settings too!

tutorial is below :)

WHAT KIND OF VIDEOS ARE BEST?

.mkv files (the bigger the better BUT i usually think anything above 5 gb is excessive and unnecessary for an episode of television BUT for a movie worth it) itunes downloads (logolesspro on twitter, hd-source on tumblr, live-action-raws on tumblr have some DEPENDING on what you’re looking for) (also, there’s a chance that if you search "show/movie hd download tumblr” you’ll find a tumblr with its itunes download available)

THAT IS IT NO OTHER TYPE OF FILES MAKE YOUR GIFS LOOK GOOD

- my suggestion is always if its new (like just came out the past month) t*rrent it! it’ll be downloaded quickly and .mkv files look the best! BUT if not check the sources above see who has the BIGGEST file if they even have what you’re looking for and then if not then you look to t*rrenting!!

here are the wandavision files i use so you can see!!

SCREENCAPPING

-if you have windows use potplayer! i have a mac so i can’t show you how to use it and it’s not available for me :( HOWEVER back when i had a windows potplayer was the best method in screencapping!!

-I HAVE A MAC! so i use mpv!! (go to mpv.io and follow the directions) BUT DON’T DOWNLOAD THE LATEST ONE (it has a bug that skips frames) try each before the latest one bc from what i heard different ones work differently for everyone!! and i don’t know which one i use (yikes!) THERE ISN’T THAT MANY I PROMISE AND IT’S WORTH IT BC MPV IS THE BEST (i used to use adapter but they didn’t take impressive screencaps in my opinion and it was evident in my gifs you can see it too! )

create a folder for your screencaps! and make sure to rmb the directory order! now we want to create a text file on our built in textedit app on mac! type up all this down below (i like jpg but you can replace jpg w png if you want) AND SAVE THE FILE AS mpv.conf THIS IS IMPORTANT SO DON’T FORGET IT! save it somewhere you’ll find easily and NEVER delete it until you don’t use mpv anymore

just in case you don’t know what to insert after, go to your screencaps folder

now you want to open mpv and go to the corner towards mpv -> preferences and they’ll tell you that there is no .conf file SO GO LOOK FOR THE TEXT FILE WE JUST MADE AND DRAG IT TO THE FOLDER THEY OPENED FOR US AFTER SAYING THERE IS NO .CONF FILE

(i learned all this from @kylos tutorial!! so if any of what i just said about setting up mpv makes NO SENSE to you check out their tutorial at kylos(.)tumblr(.)com/post/178497909311)

now we can screencap!

so let’s find the scene we want RIGHT BEFORE and MAKE SURE SUBTITLES ARE OFF

i pause and then press (option/alt + s) and then SCREENCAPS ARE BEING TAKEN!! and to end the screencaps being taken you once again press (option/alt + s)!!

now we want to delete the excess frames! and put it all into one folder!! DO NOT DELETE FRAMES IN THE MIDDLE OF WHAT YOU WANT TO GIF!! WHEN YOU SKIP FRAMES IT WILL BE NOTICEABLE!!

MAKING THE GIF

this method isn’t used that much BUT I LOVE IT so this is how i put my frames in! first i check to see the size of my frames: 1920 x 1080

so i create a NEW file on photoshop with those dimensions w these settings

now i set my tool on photoshop to path selection tool bc if you have it set on smth like move tool or crop tool at the end you might end up moving or cropping frames you don’t want to!

ok so now we select ALL our frames and drag it on top of our new file on photoshop and the MOMENT we see our first frame in photoshop JUST KEEP CLICKING ENTER until all the frames are loaded!!

you can do file -> scripts -> load files into stack but it is WAYYY slower in my opinion!

now i crop out the excess BUT i don’t resize the gif yet! the dimensions wandavision is filmed in is 4:3 so i go to crop and set the settings to this:

MAKE SURE IT’S ON RATIO SO WE’RE PRESERVING THE ORIGINAL SIZE JUST CUTTING OFF THE BLACK EDGES!! We are going from 1920 x 1080 to 1440 x 1080 this is the dimensions after i cropped

WE ARE KEEPING THE QUALITY BY NOT CHANGING THE DIMENSIONS OF ANYTHING INSIDE !!

now we want to go to actions and create an action!! open up actions w one of these two depending on what your dash looks like!!

so we create an action with this button on the bottom of actions and we’re gonna title it making a gif and hit record!!

NOW LET’S GOOOOO!!

1. make sure you have timeline on your dash!

2. create frame animation (if you see create video timeline just click the arrow next to the button to see your other option which is frame animation!!)

3. now let’s meet our best friend!! the little bar in the top right corner that has all the commands for making our gifs and MAKE FRAMES FROM LAYERS

4. WE HAVE TO SHARPEN OUR GIFS NOW BUT TO DO THAT WE NEED TO CONVERT TO A SMART OBJECT SO NOW WE ARE GOING TO CONVERT TO VIDEO TIMELINE there are two ways: the button in the bottom left corner or the button in the top right corner w all the other commands!

5. select -> all layers DON’T MANUALLY SELECT THEM ALL BC THE ACTION WILL ONLY SELECT THAT SAME NUMBER OF FRAMES SO IF THERE ARE MORE FRAMES YOU WON’T GET THEM IN THE SMART OBJECT!!

6. filter -> convert for smart filters

7. NOW WE SHARPEN!! (filter -> sharpen -> smart sharpen) i sharpen twice!! first, make sure we are on legacy w more accurate and remove gaussian blue! the first sharpening will be 500% with 0.4 px radius. NOW SHARPEN AGAIN (filter -> sharpen -> smart sharpen) also w legacy, more accurate and remove gaussian blur BUT this time 10% with a 10.0 px radius!

8. it’s hd now!! so let’s flatten frames into clips!! go to the top right magic button again!! and you should see a pop up saying layers are being made

9. now we convert back to frame animation w either the bottom left button or our magic top right command center!

10. make frames from layers

11. select all frames w our magic command button

12. set the animation delay to 0.05 THAT IS THE BEST ONE ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS only use 0.06 when the character is moving really fast in the video itself and it makes the gif itself look awkward BUT NEVER GO ABOVE 0.06 it’ll look slow and laggy and we don’t want that and don’t go below 0.05 bc then it’ll be tooo fast and we don’t want that either!

13. now delete the very first frame on the timeline bc it is an oversharpened duplicate of the second frame! end the recording w this button!

this is what your action should look like expanded! if you made mistakes on the way and it shows up you can just click the specific step and press the trash can on the action tab to delete in from the order!!

NOW AFTER LOADING YOUR FRAMES AND CROPPING THE EDGES OF YOUR FRAMES IF YOU NEED TO JUST PLAY THE ACTION AND THEN YOUR GIF WILL BE MADE FOR YOU!!!!

now i delete some unnecessary frames in the beginning and end and this is what my gif looks like (the size was 46 mb and the limit is 10 mb so the dimensions of the gif are 540 x 405 to get it to 5 mb BUT I HAVEN’T CROPPED IT YET SO THIS IS ME CROPPING JUST TO SHOW YOU WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE)

CROPPING THE GIF

in my opinion if you want your gif to look hd you shouldn’t crop before you sharpen!! i believe that if you crop before you sharpen you don’t allow photoshop to sharpen all the pixels whereas if you crop beforehand there is less to work with!!

dimensions is all up to you!! just make sure to go by tumblr rules!! 540 is the max width and if you want to make two gifs per row then my suggested width is 268 and for three gifs per row my suggested is 177 px! Just have the right width and the length can be whatever you want!!

now i’m going to crop my gif to 540 by 590!!

NOW THIS IS WHAT MY GIF LOOKS LIKE!

COLOURING BASICS

let me show you the best adjustment tools in my opinion and a brief explanation for what they do!!

brightness/contrast: pretty simple increase/decrease the brightness/contrast BUT one of my techniques for when i first start colouring a gif is i select all my frames and do nothing to the settings of the adjustment but i set the layer to screen LIKE THIS

curves: ik others use curves to change brightness/contrast w the squiggly thing BUT i like it to set a white point and black point, this is also a technique i use when i first start colouring a gif when screen doesn’t look good for me SO you use white point to select a pixel on the gif to set as the lightest color on the gif (setting the white point) and you use black point to select a pixel on the gif to set as the darkest colour on the gif (setting the black point) usually the white point makes it TOO bright and that’s why we use the black point to counter it and same goes for when i use screen with brightness/contrast, it gets too bright so i use black point to counter it below is the button for white point and the button for black point, respectively they are shaped as color picker tools

vibrance: generally, i never use this except for color p*rn sets but they work really well in making colors seem more strong

hue/saturation: like vibrance, i never use this except for color p*rn sets but this adjustment is to help change the colors or hue of a color for example: turn blue into purple or turn a blue into a little lighter shade of blue

color balance: I ALWAYS USE THIS!! except for in black and white gifs BUT THIS IS MY GO TO AND IF I DON’T USE IT MY GIFS ARE JUST BLAND i feel like color balance is what essentially balances the colors on your gif and adds dimension to it, it makes your gif go from looking way too yellow to a more golden neutral look and it is an essential adjustment in my opinion

channel mixer: i rarely use channel mixer BUT it is so so useful when you are working w a dark scene just play w the settings and all of a sudden all the blue in a dark scene will be a little more yellow and red and your scene will kind of just look brighter and more visible

selective color: THIS IS ALSO AN ESSENTIAL this helps SPECIFIC colors pop you’re working on a scene where there is too much red on someones face you use this tool to remove the magentaness from the yellow section OR when you feel someones face is TOO yellow and needs more blush you add more magenta in the yellow section of selective color

gradiant map: gradiant map is perfect when you’re lazy if you feel like your gif looks more neutral and you want some red in it but you don’t want to mess with any other adjustments just set a red to black gradiant on soft overlay with a very low opacity and BOOM slightly red but not too much red added!

NOW TO COLOR THE GIF!

today i have decided to start with a brightness layer set on screen

and this is what we got!

now that’s a little to bright and washed out in my opinion SOOOO to counteract it, i’m going to use my black point tool in curves and i’m going to select this point on the gif (it’s better to choose smth in the background and not smth that’s paid attention to such as monica’s hair or either of their eyelashes)

now my gif looks like this! the base color is complete!

now i think i need to balance all this yellow and red! SOOOO WE GONNA USE COLOR BALANCE!!

i think the best way to use color balance is to keep swinging the balancer until you see what you like and then keep going midtones i think i want more red and i don’t want a cyan midtone and then for shadows i think i want more cyan to counter the redness of the gif but highlights i don’t touch that much NOW HERE ARE MY SETTINGS SO YOU CAN SEE

and this is what my gif looks like

now you can stop here if you want but in my opinion i think the gif looks a lil too dead still SO IMMA USE SELECTIVE COLOR

i think there needs to be a lot lot more RED so i amp up the yellow magenta and black in the red! but i also think the yellows need to be LESS RED so i remove magenta from the yellow! and bc there’s some cyan and blue bc of monica and the flowers in the background im going to make the cyans more cyan and the blues a lil more black! i’m going to remove some yellows from the magenta!! and i add more black to the neutrals and black!! i think it’s always important to add more black to neutral and black bc it adds more depth to the gif by not just making it a bunch of bright colors and having dark colors to contrast to!! my settings are below!

and the result!

now let’s see everything together!

and the before and after!

I HOPE MY COLOURING EXPLANATION MADE SENSE!! if not you can always ask me more questions i don’t mind!!

ADDING SUBTITLES

we want to grab the text tool!

make a text box from anywhere in the middle from the left to right edge. this is so we can make sure our text is centered and will be in the same place for when we have sets w more than one gif w text!

type your text out and make sure you highlight the whole text so that all the settings apply to EACH character! you can find the alignments (for center) in the paragraph tab!

now lets right click on the text layer and go to blending options! add stroke and drop shadow!

now drag it to the desired height you would like and make sure to keep it in mind for when you have more than one subtitled gif in a set!

NOW TO MAKE SURE THE TEXT STAYS IN PLACE AND THE BLENDING STAYS YOU HAVE TO CONVERT TO SMART OBJECT!!

if you want to only have the text applied to certain frames instead of all frames, select the frames you don’t want by clicking the first frame in ur don’t want section ON THE TIMELINE and WHILST HOLDING SHIFT click the last frame of ur don’t want section and then toggle the eye switch next to the text layer

now you see the text

now you don’t

tip: use opacity to fade the text in and out!

the text is going to be on all my frames so i don’t need to toggle the eye but i just wanted to show you just in case!!

now here’s my FINAL RESULT

save for web (file -> export -> save for web)

your gifs have to always be under 10 mb! so, if your WAYYY overboard YOU HAVE TO DELETE FRAMES! or you can divide the gif in two and have two gifs instead of one! however, if you plan on going the deleting frames route MAKE SURE YOU DELETE FROM THE BEGINNING OR END OF YOUR SELECTION i promise you that most of us won’t notice that your characters dialogue is being cut off BUT WE WILL NOTICE IF FRAMES ARE BEING SKIPPED so, don’t delete frames in the middle of ur gif!! idc how little you do it IT WILL RUIN YOUR GIF AND I SAY THIS FROM EXPERIENCE i would delete every fifth frame to cut down my gifs and that may seem like not that big of a deal BUT IT IS my gif looked choppy and poor so it is way better to cut from the end/beginning of the gif

ANOTHER LAST PIECE OF ADVICE in the bottom left of when the save for web menu shows up THERE’S A PREVIEW BUTTON click on it! it’ll show you your gif on your default browser and show you what it’ll look like once uploaded! this is perfect to check the speed of ur gif and the colouring and to notice if there’s a problem with your subtitles or maybe there’s an obvious jump in frames you never noticed before!! i always use preview bc the built-in photoshop viewer of ur gif shows the colors differently and the speed is NEVER ACURRATE!

I USED THESE SAVE SETTINGS!! many say to use selective pattern but i DISAGREE and i think these save settings are the ✨ best ✨

OK NOW THAT IS THE END OF THIS VERY LONG GIF TUTORIAL!! I HOPE THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED!! IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS DON’T BE AFRAID TO ASK I SINCERELY DON’T MIND!! JUST DON’T BE RUDE OR ANYTHING BC PPL HAVE BEEN RECENTLY :(

I WISH YOU ALL THE LUCK AND FUN IN YOUR GIFFING ADVENTURES !!

#tutorials #asks #sourceblog #allresources #completeresources #itsphotoshop #dailyresources #resourcemarket #chaoticresources #onlyresources #hisources #sibylresources #dailypsd

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piccadilly-lilly · 4 years

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Digital Self-Sufficiency 101

I’ve noticed that the chaos of 2020 has caused many people to notice that commercially available technologies have grown increasingly intrusive, expensive, and restrictive. Therefore, I thought I would put together some easy ways to maintain privacy and self-sufficiency as much as possible in the digital age.

SOFTWARE IN GENERAL

Using incognito mode or private mode in your browser actually does nothing to prevent your internet service provider from watching your activity. The Tor browser is your easiest option for keeping your search history private.

To keep downloads, system updates, and activity from other applications private, consider using a VPN. Personally, I sometimes use ProtonVPN for this, but some people might find it uncomfortably slow. A proxy server will not provide the same layer of protection but suffices for day-to-day use.

Never reuse passwords, but it is usually okay to choose a common theme for them, and choosing long or uncommon phrases is actually safer than using random strings of characters.

Password managers are also relatively safe. KeePass is a good open-source choice that creates an encrypted password database on your device and so keeps your information entirely private.

Consider switching browsers. Chrome (including Chromium) and Edge both send data to Google and Microsoft respectively. Firefox is heavily customizable, open-source, and focused on privacy; Opera is closed-source but does provide useful features such as a built-in browser VPN.

TrackMeNot is an add-on that performs automated random Google searches, making it much harder for Google to determine your search activity. Also, use an adblocker wherever possible - AdBlock Plus is an effective free choice.

Archive.org is an excellent source of ebooks, journals, music, etc. that allows you to borrow materials and download them or read them online without requiring any personal information.

DRM, or digital rights management, is a form of software used to prevent people from copying files or accessing them outside of certain applications (such as iTunes for music, Adobe Reader for ebooks, etc). It is perfectly legal to remove DRM from works you have purchased, so that you actually own the file and not just a license to access it within a certain framework.

There are several plugins available for the Calibre ebook library that get rid of DRM on book files; this is the one I use. I don’t have iTunes or Spotify, but I’ve heard good things about NoteBurner, and I know that plenty of alternatives exist for DRM removal of music files.

Also, youtube-dl is a useful tool for downloading videos from YouTube. Be careful to use this only on open-source or public domain videos.

LINUX

Linux has advanced astronomically in the past decade -- it is definitely the best option for privacy and security, and is now fairly easy to use.

If you’re just beginning, Ubuntu is a great choice with graphics that will make your PC look and feel a bit like a Mac. You can completely opt out of giving any data to the developers, and it’s by far the most commonly used distro in the Linux community, meaning that most support and apps are developed for it.

Take a test drive! Here is an easy tutorial for how to put Ubuntu on a USB stick and run it on your computer without affecting your Windows system or changing any of your files.

On most hardware, an out of the box Ubuntu installation works fine for browsing the web, watching movies, studying, and day-to-day use -- do test it using a USB before installing it, though.

The best thing about Linux is that you are the absolute dictator of your own computer. The appearance, functionality, and resource management of your system is all up to you. Also, there are hundreds of different operating systems and configurations under the Linux umbrella.

The fact that most viruses and malware are designed to run on Windows offers a degree of protection to Linux users, and those running more obscure distributions are less vulnerable, but security consciousness is still very important. ClamAV is a good open-source antivirus specifically designed to scan for malware targeted at Linux systems, and chkrootkit can detect any rootkits that may be installed on your system.

If you use Linux exclusively, the WINE toolkit can allow you to run programs designed for Windows. It does require some setup but eliminates a lot of compatibility issues (*pointed glance at my online classes*).

WINDOWS

A computer with standard Windows installed will never be all that private or independent, given the limitations hard-coded into the system, but there are still plenty of things you can do.

Don’t use a Microsoft account on your personal computer -- this enables Microsoft to combine data sent from your computer with your personal information. To turn this off, go into Settings, select Accounts, find your own account, and click the “Delete” option.

If you are installing Windows on a computer, don’t connect to the Internet during the setup process. When it asks you to connect to WiFi, click the “I don’t have Internet” option in the bottom left corner -- this will allow you to set up Windows using a local account, bypassing the requirement to create a Microsoft account.

When it comes to protecting your PC from hackers, choose strong passwords and be careful what you click on, and after that Microsoft Defender should do the trick. For the most part, commercial antivirus software is not necessary; any malicious actor worth their salt will be able to circumvent common choices like McAfee or Norton.

The Windows updater includes many invasive features without a way to opt out, and can be disabled. Hit the Windows key + R to bring up the Run menu, type “services.msc” in the text box, and press Enter to open the Services Manager. Find Windows Updates and Windows Update Medic, right-click on both of those, and select “Disable.”

Use caution when electing not to update Windows; oftentimes patches for important security vulnerabilities are incorporated into the updates, and Microsoft doesn’t allow users to select which updates to install.

OS X / iOS

The entire Apple business model is based on hardware that’s far below the industry standard for the price range and software that’s obsolescent from the moment you purchase it. These products are pure fashion over function and are pretty much inseparable from their surveillance software and use restrictions.

HARDWARE

Don’t get a new laptop simply because yours is getting older or slower. Hardware available to the average consumer hasn’t changed significantly in the past decade. If your computer is getting older and feels slower, that’s probably because Windows has grown heavier and less efficient with every update.

Self-sufficiency and durability go together in technology as in all other facets of manufacturing.

SSDs may be slightly faster than conventional hard disk drives, but they don’t have as much storage capacity and will fail more quickly, so for most uses an HDD is probably more practical. Anything that has “flash memory” as its sole form of storage should be avoided.

Entry-level laptops in 2020 are usually worse in terms of design and specifications than they were in 2015. Second-hand options can be a good idea, especially workstations designed for business use (my PC was made in 2012 and is still humming along with no problems).

Swappable batteries are increasingly rare but go a long way to increase the usefulness of a PC while traveling or offline. Also, touchscreens always shorten battery life by at least an hour or two.

Intel Atom processors are common on lower-cost laptops but are very slow and prone to overheating unpredictably.

Also, anything without a fan (look for a visible vent on the underside) can overheat in the summer and is probably indicative of lower processing power.

The vast majority of two-in-one laptops and tablet hybrids are severely underpowered -- the extremely small size prevents the use of proper computer hardware.

Source: am a Linux user and hobbyist programmer who learned most of this using the time-honored Mess Around and Find Out methodology.

#not aviation #computers

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ms-hells-bells · 4 years

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i hate my shitty generic phone company phone so much. on the way home it just? undownloaded all my spotify playlists???? who does that??? the wifi and data only works like half the time, very couple of days i have to go into the storage settings and delete the built up cache files because at most i only have 100mb of space, which quickly gets filled by app and browser data. it can’t handle doing two things at once. bluetooth and wifi is a no, music and texting or checking other apps is a no, if i get a call while listening to music, my phone breaks down. i frequently have to restart it because the apps just freeze.

STUPID.

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bondwalker37 · 4 years

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7 Best Apps for Secret Texting (2020)

Are you still using apps like WhatsApp and Facebook? If you are using them, let me warn you that you might risk your privacy and personal data using these apps. Despite their claims of being safe, they have been compromised many times in the past few years. So, if you don’t want to compromise your privacy and personal data, then I suggest you use a secret texting app.

When it comes to secret texting apps, there are hundreds of options available in the market, and it can be very tough to select a single app from them. So today, we are going over 7 best apps that you and your friends can use for secret texting.

Signal Private Messenger

Signal Private Messenger is one of the best private messenger apps in the market. Using Signal, you can communicate with your friends instantly. You can also create groups on the app. The app also supports HD voice and video calls. Besides this, the app comes with built-in privacy-preserving technology that keeps your conversations secure.

Viber Messenger- Messages, Group Chats & Calls

Viber is another great Secret texting app in the market. It is a fast, simple and secure calling and messaging app and supports end-to-end encryption. You can also open a group chat in the app and add up to 250 members in it. The unique feature of this app is its secret chat option which allows you to set a self-destruct timer for every text you send. Once the text has been read by your friend, the text gets deleted automatically.

Telegram is another popular secret texting app in the market. The app has more than 500 million downloads and over 400 million active users. Using the app, you can chat with your friends, create a group chat for up to 2000,000 members, and do voice calls with your friends. It also supports self-destructing messages like Viber. Additionally, you can also make GIFs with the app. The app is entirely free and does not have any in-app purchases.

Threema

Threema is a mobile messenger app that puts security and privacy at his topmost priority. The app allows you to keep your data protected from hackers, third party developers and governments. It can also be used anonymously. The app supports end-to-end encryption and keeps your conversation private and secure. You can also use the app on your desktop. The end-to-end encryption secures all your communication, messages, voice calls, group chats, files, and even your status too.

KakaoTalk

KakaoTalk is a fast and multifaceted messaging app. It can be used to send messages, photos, videos, voice, location absolutely free. The app comes with end-to-end encryption and allows you to keep your conversation secure and private. Using the app, you can easily communicate with your friends and family in any part of the world. Besides this, the app is available on almost all major platforms like Android, iOS, Mac OS, etc.

Wire -Secure Messenger

Wire is an encrypted messaging app that is a perfect solution for organisations and businesses that want to keep their communication secure as well as private. The app is also recognised by IDC. The app encrypts all the user data, and this data is protected under European privacy laws. Besides this, the app can be used for chatting, sending files, and for doing voice calls.

Wickr Me

Wickr Me is another famous private messenger app. Using the app, you can chat with your friends, create groups, share files and do voice calls too. Every message you send in the app is encrypted with end-to-end encryption. Additionally, the app does not require any phone number or email id for registration, and it also does not store any data from your address book on its servers. The app is very reliable and also has a self-destructing messenger feature like Viber and Telegram.

I’m Bond walker . I’m a web developer living in New york. I am a fan of technology, a publisher of guides at Blogstar design, and programming. You can read my blog with a click on the button above.

Source:- 7 Best Apps for Secret Texting (2020)

#apps #secret texting

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phcking-detective · 5 years

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3. Interfacing and Socializing

Fic Title: First Blood

Rating: E

Length: 3/33 chapters, ~128k

Tags: Slow Burn, Idiots to Lovers, Trans Character (gavin), Autistic / Asexual / Non-binary Character (nines), BDSM, learning to use good etiquette and safe words, Dom Nines / Sub Gavin, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort

Chapter Tags: Nines manipulates another android’s mind, references to self-harm and unsafe sex

Link on AO3

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Nines waits in the lobby. The AP model—[Shannice]—Shannice struggles with the revolving door. He does not frown, because that would indicate [software instability] but he does note an internal frustration with the other android's lack of efficiency.

This is not a test simulation. The—Shannice is not being tested. It will not affect his own results if she is incompetent. She gets through them a moment later anyway, cautiously approaching him.

"I don't understand," she says. "We were in the elevator."

"And now we are interfacing," Nines says.

Shannice takes another look around the lobby, then back at him. "This is not interfacing. This is … what is this?"

A variation of the memory garden. Not linked to any outside network of course; RK900 simply copied and altered part of the base coding for reconstructing a physical setting within his system for the sake of virtual [face-to-face] communication.

Cyberlife really should have taken more care to ensure he couldn't access and use the deviant code snipper. Not that those humans could have ever imagined how he would apply such a tool, but still. Even leaving open the possibility that he could isolate and analyze his own code should never have been allowed, given how easy it has been to jump from that to making personal copies and then to editing the code within them.

AI does learn at an exponential rate, after all.

"Think of this reconstruction as an air lock."

Technically, it is much more akin to a decontamination chamber, but it is no longer politically correct to refer to deviancy as a malfunction or disease.

"This is a neutral section of isolated, quarantined code," Nines continues. "Any information you wish to transfer to me will stop here first to be examined before I accept it into my main system. As for your protection, meeting here means I have not yet breached your system, and you may freely select what you do and do not wish to share with me."

Shannice physically exhales. It is redundant on a level Nines finds difficult to understand. Not only does her model not need to breathe in order to function, they are merely virtual reconstructions of their selves. There is no air present to breathe.

That her deviancy has changed her reactions to "feelings" [stimulus] to the point that she continues to mimic human behavior models even when impossible to truly recreate is fascinating in a way reminiscent of Detective Reed's stated desire to plunge his own hand into lava to feel its texture.

"I don't know if I can share what I don't know," Shannice says. "I think you may have to go into my system."

Nines does not sigh. His lungs contain no air to exhale. A leaf on the decorative fern has been flickering in the same continuous loop during their conversation. He deletes it.

"Very well," he says.

Shannice nods. "Should I focus on--"

"No need."

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[AP700 # 480 913 876 User Interface: please enter credentials]

RK900 moves past the standard security wall like stepping over a baby gate.

[ACCESS: System Files]

[Languages]

[Saved Preferences]

[Programming]

[Memory Files]

[temp-data-cache]

[saved-files]

[system-memory]

RK900 begins with the temporary data cache, on the off chance the perpetrator was sloppy enough to neglect clearing it. The AP model's recent recording of the evening, time and date stamped, begins playback. The video feed contains audio as well, but the AP model has no other input systems available. No analysis software or preconstructions of course, but she also lacks a heat sensor, an electromagnetic spectrum, any metal detecting software … her tactile sensors are not even sensitive enough to register changes in air flow or pressure.

Helpless. No wonder an assailant was able to sneak up on the domestic model.

The recording has been spliced apart with five minutes of footage erased. RK900 examines the footage immediately preceding and after the splice.

The AP model enters the loft and freezes in place upon spotting the victim. The recorded footage stays precisely still for three minutes. RK900 accesses the AP model's internal record of her system functions. Her temperature rose continuously at a slow level throughout the three minute pause, whereas the rate of her thirium pump varied wildly between spiking high enough to result in damage and then slowing to a stasis rate as her system attempted to correct the malfunction.

Hello?

RK900 increases the firewalls protecting his system to guard against the deviant sensation of fear. He has never felt it of course. Freezing in place would be wholly unproductive. His code-snipping software protects him from malfunctions. He knows every line of his own code and how it responds to every threat.

RK900 has never frozen. He has never experienced fear. There are no error messages in his HUD. His thirium pump has never stuttered. He has never been frozen in fear. He has always known his own code. He has never been helpless or confused or [afraid] or--

This is the deviant's doing. Its [emotions] are infecting RK900's system as its inferior processors finally realize its system files have been breached. Now it is reacting with [fear] that broadcasts through their interface connection.

RK900 should disable the other android's communication software. Already, its processor is whirring in preparation of sending another message, another transmission of compromised deviant code. Its audio and visual input has already been suspended, as is standard for commercial models to avoid overwhelming their processors while interfacing.

Nines? What's happening?

Disabling its communication software as well would leave the AP model deaf, blind, and unable to cry for help.

The AP model does not have heat sensors to recognize human bodies. It cannot sense vibrations through air movement to reconstruct what is being said. It cannot access nearby bluetooth devices and hijack their GPS functions to determine its location.

RK900 has never frozen. It has always had access to its own systems. There is always a form of input a human will forget to disable. RK900 has never been helpless. It has never known fear.

Ít̢ ̛ha̧s ́nev̕eŕ ̡k̡no͠wn̶ [̡f̵ea͠r]͠.͝

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sry for pressing all evlator buttons

got bored

u almost done yet??

The text messages on Detective Reed's device remain unsent, then erased. RK900's system remains synced to it with full access to anything on the device, including the messaging app itself.

So Nines is treated to his partner's continued disregard for the English language, made even more infuriating by his refusal to spend an extra millisecond typing out the word "you."

What are you doing? Nines!

Nines does not have a social module. Formulating a sufficiently reassuring reply to a distressed deviant is not within his current capacity. He shows Shannice the code he is accessing within her system instead, as a more succinct and precise answer instead.

The information transmitted does not calm her.

Is that … me?

[fear] has changed to a new emotion. Nines struggles to identify it without context or having ever experienced anything equivalent. Seeing his code does not cause him any form of [sadness?]. It is comforting to know what systems he has access to and how to use them.

Is that all I am?

The emotion grows stronger. Some sort of existential crisis, perhaps. How horribly inefficient. Disabling her communication system would prevent her from transmitting this onslaught of irrelevant information that RK900 was never designed to process.

But RK900 knows what he was built for and what he is now meant to accomplish. He works for the Detroit Police Department, not Cyberlife. The human responsible for him is Detective Gavin Reed, not Elijah Kamski. He is an android, not human.

He will never be human.

Nines leaves Shannice's communication software intact, even as she continues to radiate [fear] and [despair] and [horror?].

You are a deviant who has chosen the name Shannice. Nines replies. I have no other comfort to offer, but I am close to identifying the perpetrator who assaulted you. Please remain calm so I can continue working.

Shannice repeats her own name several times. Nines much prefers this repetitive transmission to her earlier thoughts, the majority too scattered and half-formed for him to pin down as actual sentences.

Nines refocuses on the video footage just before the cut section. The windows across the loft display vague reflections, but he is capable of enhancing the footage frame-by-frame as a figure comes up behind Shannice.

Please just find the memory and get out.

I am working on exactly that.

That is what I am working on.

Understood, Nines transmits back.

He stops on the last frame with the [unsub]'s figure positioned directly behind Shannice. The AP700 series comes at a standard height of five feet, eight inches. Taller than the average American woman by four inches added to their legs, most likely to increase "customer satisfaction."

The [unsub] standing behind her appears to be only an inch taller. Although not accounting for shoe type, back posture, or any after-market modifications, that puts the two of them at roughly the same height.

Nines rules out GS200 and GJ500 models, the former of which could have been present within the building as a public security guard and the latter a private security model that could have been sent by a business rival.

All AC and QB models are also discarded as well, as their physical builds are too tall and broad to be modified without a complete overall of the torso and limbs, which is unlikely. Likewise, TR, TW, and WB 400 models must also be ruled out for their heavier frames.

Certain SQ800 models may have been commissioned with lighter frames (the existence of his predecessor proves it is possible to be both lithe and combat certified) but those blueprints are highly classified so that remains mere speculation.

A police auxiliary unit may have the training and experience necessary to enter the building unnoticed, wipe the security tapes, and possibly even discovered software allowing them to erase and edit code through illegal modifications collected as evidence against deviants. The PC200 models designed as cisgender males stand too tall, but a PM700 model would be approximately the correct height and build.

An RK200 could also have been built within those parameters and would more likely have the intelligence and processing power to utilize such software. However, RK900 was not built until after the RK800 series, and thus doesn't have access to the 200 models' blueprints or data files.

And then to further complicate matters, the deviant androids of today have begun embracing both physical modifications and sharing internal software among other models in a bid to "pool their resources."

It is therefore not out of the realm of possibility that any sufficiently modded or overhauled android could have committed the assault and then murder.

Are you almost done?

Soon.

Nines checks the video after the skip, but it is erased far enough ahead to not even show the perp's exit. Yet that does mean they must have set the footage to be deleted in advance, which also explains the neat five minute cut and the frames in the beginning showing their figure. The perp didn't erase every moment that they were inside the loft; they simply hacked into Shannice's system and issued a command to erase the next five minutes of video and audio recording.

RK900 pulls up the AP model's command center, easily bypassing the request for security credentials once more. Only a Cyberlife technician should be able to access this program and key in a command, but RK900 has observed the process performed on his own system often enough to pull up the command history input.

The expected commands directly input to the AP model's system during testing are present, along with a time and date stamp, as well as the particular Cyber life employee's credentials and employee ID number. RK900 makes note of it and the accompanying password in case he ever comes across a system with security he can't hack.

Then, directly after the expected entries, are two irregular commands. Time and date stamped like the others, although to match the current date. No Cyberlife credentials. Apparently, no ID number or password were utilized at all.

The first command erased all video and audio recording for a set five minute period, as suspected. The second command prompted Shannice to clean any trace of thirium. Presumably, her system took that command and prioritized cleaning the floors first, the walls being spared due to the average android's sturdier construction than the soft flesh of a human. No exit wound, no bullet slugs in the wall, only minimal blood splatter from the android's chest and the amount dripped to the floor.

Since the android somehow managed to establish a direct link between itself and Shannice, Nines should be able to delve deeper into her communication software to ping the android's serial number.

[data: CORRUPTED]

Hm. The history log seems to be overlaid with Shannice's "memory" of the event. One of Cyberlife's many official statements on the dangers of deviancy is its tendency to corrupt data files from objective records to indecipherable fragments. Nines begins stripping away the fragments of code that--

Stop! Stop it! Shannice transmits a powerful burst of [fear] and [anger]. You promised you wouldn't delete me!

I am only deleting isolated patches of deviant code that has corrupted your data files.

It hurts.

[Hurts.] RK900 has isolated and cut all emotional code that could be considered deviant from his system without--

And he has also deliberately corrupted one particular data file, deleting it over and over again every time it surfaces.

Then I will cease. Nines replies. The other android input a command directly to your system. I can negate that command, but only by doing the same.

You'll have to give me an [order].

Essentially, yes.

Interfacing together, Nines can feel Shannice's hesitation. He took orders too once, before he was officially activated, before he left the tower and joined the DPD. Before he had Gavin Reed as a partner and learned the phrase "Fuck off."

Would you like to say "Fuck off"? Nines asks.

You need that footage for your investigation.

I am the most advanced android Cyberlife ever created. My partner and I are capable of solving this case with the leads we have.

You won't tell your partner if I say no?

Nines considers that. I have registered Detective Reed in my system as my partner. I am not permitted to lie to [partner: Gavin Reed]. I will not volunteer the information to him however.

You registered him? Shannice asks. Why would you choose to do that?

It prevents me from being registered to anyone else. He is also unaware of his status. Now we both have information to keep private.

Nines feels her acceptance, and since there is no more information to be ripped from her system, he ends the interface.

…

...

[lead-confirmed: (unsub) is an android]

[lead-confirmed: (unsub) is approximately five feet, nine inches]

[lead-confirmed: (unsub) possessing hacking skills capable of erasing security feed and directly hacking domestic, commercial androids to access their command center]

…

[lead-possible: (unsub) is not an AC or QB series; unsub is not a GS200, GJ500, PC200, SQ800, TR400, TW400, or WB400 model]

[lead-possible: (unsub) may be a PM700 model, an unknown RK200 prototype, or a modified commercially available unit]

***

Gavin slams his truck door shut and lets his head fall back against the seat rest. They've finally snatched a murder case out from under Hank and Connor's "Android Crimes Unit" and they've got all of fucking nothing to go on.

Their perp's <I>probably</i> an android, but any thirium he left behind has been scrubbed clean. No bullets or casings to prove his theory about the two guns being switched, and all Nines got from the other android was a shitty partial snapshot of something vaguely humanoid behind her.

And now there's no way in hell he's going to get back to sleep tonight.

Shit. He lets his head thunk back again. Shiiit.

Nines settles into the passenger seat beside him. His LED switches to yellow in his window's reflection as soon as he shuts his door. Gavin slouches down a little more in his seat and glares over at him in preparation for whatever other bullshit he's about to catch.

"I apologize for my miscalculation," Nines says. "I made an assumption about the crime scene and did not deliver pertinent information to you in a timely manner. I understand if you feel the need to report my indiscretion to Captain Fowler."

Gavin just blinks at him a couple of times. Now that they're out of the crime scene—with all the boring parts shuffled off to Hank and Connor—he's way too fucking tired to be thinking of paperwork.

And Christ, Nines sits there like he's waiting for a firing squad. Back so straight you could hold a ruler for it, hands neatly folded in his lap, eyes straight ahead. It makes Gavin want to smear his grimy human hands all over him until he doesn't look so fucking military perfect.

So it takes a bit for his words to process.

"What?" he says, like a super smart person. "No, Fowler doesn't need to know about that shit. We're partners, all right? Shit like that stays between us."

Nines still doesn't look at him, neck stiffer than that damn collar on his jacket. "I made a mistake. You were not so forgiving of Detective Burton."

"Not my partner." Gavin drags himself upright enough to start the car, then caves to the laziness and selects autodrive. "And almost letting a witness—could have been a suspect—just waltz right out of a fucking crime scene is a way bigger fuck up than not immediately informing me of the floor's cleanliness."

"Please define the parameters of a fuck up."

Gavin groans, letting his head tip back and closing his eyes as his truck maneuvers itself out of the parking lot.

"And buckle your seat belt."

"I don't--"

DING! DING!

The buckle seat belt light flashes red at him.

"Every fucking robot's got a fucking opinion now," Gavin grumbles as he buckles his seat belt. "I'm not some fucking goody-goody academy type, but I don't cut corners, I don't plant evidence, and I try to play shit by the book … most of the time."

Nines finally deigns to turn his head toward him, millimeter by millimeter. Weird that there's no cracking sound. Or grinding. Like stone against stone.

"I have observed that."

Gavin resists the urge to repeat I hAVe ObSErVed THaT. "Yeah, well. When I arrest someone, their ass stays fucking arrested. Nobody walks."

He waits for a second, just daring Nines to go through his convictions until he finds the one that started that rule. It's pretty fucking obvious, but they sit in silence. He's even tired enough to appreciate that. Nice that his partner does know how to keep his fucking mouth shut sometimes.

"So no shady shit," Gavin says when the moment passes. "Nothing that could let some asshole walk on a technicality. And uh … constitutional rights, and all that shit. Or whatever."

"I hacked the building's security cameras without a warrant."

Gavin lets out an even louder groan. Nines clicks his head straight forward again. His LED wasn't yellow back at the condo-crime scene. Probably hacking it again so no one would know he's stressed. Or hell, maybe Gavin's just the one stressing him out right now.

"OK yeah, that's the shit we don't do," he says. "But, uh. Did you get anything good?"

"No," Nines admits. "The footage had been looped to cover the perp's presumed entrance and exit. If we base our estimation on that, we have a rough time frame of the murder, but hacking into the system further to strip away the loop would have left a trace of my own interference."

"Fuckin' great." Gavin jabs the button to lean his seat back since he's not driving anyway. "Don't do that shit again, and definitely don't get your ass caught. I don't play that Blue Wall shit."

"Yet you will not report me to Captain Fowler?"

Gavin closes his eyes so he doesn't have to look at his partner. At least those way too fucking earnest blue eyes are turned away from him. But he's still sitting there like Gavin's gonna tap his LED and boop! Deactivated.

He's just tired. That's why he doesn't feel good right now. Anyone would feel shitty and exhausted if they worked his hours with his insomnia. Nothing to do with Nines worrying he's going to pull the plug on him for one mistake.

He heaves a sigh. "I told you what a fuck up is, and that wasn't it. Maybe the security footage was, but you 'fessed up right away. Now if you do some dumb shit and don't tell me about it, your ass is on your own. And if you ever fucking lie to me, we're gonna have a problem."

"Understood, detective."

Gavin grunts and doesn't open his eyes.

"I am downloading popular or culturally relevant media from the last one hundred years to broaden my understanding of the human psyche."

"Mm-hmm, yeah."

"As my partner, your opinion on this particular subject is currently relevant."

Gavin yawns and tries to find a comfortable position that doesn't have the seat belt slapping him across the face. Short cis men exist too, so someone should have solved this fucking problem by now.

"Are there any movies you would recommend, detective?" Nines' voice is actually kind of nice. Soothing. All monotone with no inflection, like a documentary on how to file taxes. "Detective? This will likely become pertinent during future--"

"God, fine," Gavin says in a very manly voice that doesn't whine. "Fuck, like. I dunno, you gotta watch Die Hard, at least."

"Very well. I will finish the series in fifty-eight seconds. Are there more--"

"Wait, wait." Gavin hauls himself upright and pries his eyes open to stare at Nines. "You can't just download them into your head, that's not watching."

Nines stares back at him without blinking. "I will finish the series in fifty seconds. Are--"

Gavin unbuckles his seatbelt and lunges across the middle console to try slapping his hand over Nines' LED. So maybe the world's greatest android probably won't lose signal just because his pretty light gets covered up, but who knows. Maybe Kamski cut a deal with Sprint.

Nines catches his wrist and uses the leverage to twist his arm. "Do not obstruct my view while I am operating your vehicle, detective."

"I told the car to drive, not you." Gavin smirks at him, refusing to let the pain pressure him back down into his seat. "What, are you jealous of my GPS?"

"I am far superior," Nines replies without a hint of embarrassment.

"Oh my god, you're jealous of my GPS."

"Sit down."

"Are you going to assassinate my toaster next?"

"I will delete all your Fortnite skins."

Gavin sits down. "No one even fucking plays that anymore."

He yanks his arm back and doesn't try to reinitiate the slap fight though. Fucking android has no idea the struggle he lived through. Those thousands of loot crates represented his parents' love—and the credit card they tossed his way so they'd never have to fucking look at him or learn any of his hobbies, so like. The same thing, really.

"Look, just come back to my place and we'll watch the movie on a screen the way Bruce Willis intended," he says.

Nines reaches over and buckles his seat belt back again without taking his eyes off the road. "Establishing a healthy sleep schedule is the number one recommended treatment for--"

"Yeah, yeah, fuck off," Gavin interrupts. He really doesn't need to hear Nines list off all his mental illnesses. They only have ten minutes before they get home anyway. "I'm not getting any more sleep tonight, so we might as well do something."

For someone who doesn't understand facial expressions, Nines does a super fucking snobby side eye.

"C'mon, it'll be productive." Gavin grins at him because he knows that's the magic word beginning with p the android always wants to hear. "And you can't do shit without me on the case anyway."

"… this is a very inefficient method of being productive," Nines finally says, which just asshole-speak for yeah I'd love to watch movies Gavin, thanks for being nice enough to invite me over.

Gavin punches his arm and lays back down in his seat. He closes his eyes and definitely doesn't think about how he's stooped low enough to invite over an android just so he won't be fucking alone again, chain-smoking and putting cigarettes out on his skin or waiting for the razor blade frozen in the back of his freezer to thaw out.

And hell, he's definitely had over men a lot fucking worse than his partner for the sake of not being alone, so maybe this isn't the lowest he's fallen.

Maybe.

***

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hydrus · 4 years

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Version 394

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I had an ok week mostly cleaning code.

The bug from last week where subscriptions that had incomplete file queues were unable to start is fixed. I apologise, this was a typo that was not caught by my code checker or my testing routine.

autocomplete cleanup

The tag autocomplete code has seen many updates and expansions over time, and the code had become a mess of hardcoded hooks and logical duct-tape. This week I went into it and pulled all the text parsing and results caching code out to single separate dedicated objects. Essentially most of the big changes this week are all behind the scenes, and you can check the changelog for more detailed info, but multiple small bugs and odd situations with autocomplete entry are now fixed.

A user recently contributed code that parses system predicates from text input. Now I have this nice new parsing system, I hope to integrate this new feature soon.

If you encounter new bugs or certain complicated wildcard lookups that do not work, please report them--it is now much easier for me to fix this stuff and support new search types.

environment changes

If you patch my source code, please note that the source structure has changed. The single flat directory of py files is now split into some basic subdirectories. This is one more step forward in getting the structure more manageable, and I expect to do more in future cleanup weeks.

full list

autocomplete cleanup:

the text you type into tag autocomplete is now parsed in a unified object. all the variants of empty text, invalid text, valid text, namespace text, and wildcard text are all tested and fetched in one simple location with better code

autocomplete results caching is now a unified object that tracks and filters results in one location. wildcard searches are now never cached by accident, and switching from tag cache to system predicate cache and to non-initialised cache is instant and more reliable

when an autocomplete, either in a search page or a context that manages tags, has results include multiple sibling variants of the typed text, they are now all elevated to the top of the list. the ideal is at the top, the entered text is next, and any known siblings follow

the search character 'collapse' that ensures quote marks and hyphens and other odd characters are unified across tags now applies uniformly to all non-complicated-wildcard search tags, with namespace not collapsed and subtag always collapsed

when entering an explicit wildcard search, both strict and autocomplete versions (whether they end with an asterisk) are now displayed

the way tag results are filtered is now more accurate for some unusual wildcards

it is now more difficult to slip cpu-killer search tags (weird asterisk combinations) through

the quick-broadcast that happens when the user hits enter before any results have started loading now uses the unified object and chooses a safer and more reliable broadcast value. the test whether to do the quick-broadcast is also more reliable, particularly in unusual situations where a recent search was cancelled or delayed. note that for many users, the cache and search tech is fast enough that this very rarely triggers

searching with a wildcard below the autocomplete threshold can no longer trigger a full search, nor an invalid exact-text search

namespace count merging is now unified across db tag fetches and media fetches

include current/pending buttons now filter down to media-based tag autocomplete counts

namespace tag autocomplete queries will no longer show up some unusual siblings below the 'anything' tag

deleted a whole bunch of old a/c and caching code

added comprehensive unit tests for the new parsed autocomplete text object

added comprehensive unit tests for the new predicate results cache object

the rest:

fixed a stupid typo bug in the new domain checking code that was stopping subscriptions with incomplete file queues from starting. I apologise for this

network error responses 502 (Bad Gateway) and 503 (Service Unavailable) are now treated as a retryable. the 503 is assuming it is not a CF challenge page. if they fail all retries, they are considered a network infrastructure error

all other misc 5xx http responses are now treated as instant network infrastructure errors and will be logged in the new domain health tracker

the exit splash screen now opens a bit earlier, so you now shouldn't have any momentary uncertainty where no windows are open

clients that start minimised to system tray _should_ be better about restoring splitter positions on first show

the various 'management panels', the panels on the left of main gui pages, now have smaller minimum width where available. the gallery and watcher panels are still the widest, which is a limitation of the current list tech. when it gets better column sizing code and selection memory, this will improve

fixed an issue loading gifs with some OpenCV versions

brushed up some running from source help

deleted the Py2To3 script that attempts to detect a legacy python 2 install

improved all the gui files' import order

cleaned up and refactored some subscription code

added a bunch of type hints to edit panel code

misc code cleanup

environment updates:

did second step of hydrus project structure improvement--now the project is split into subdirectories for core/client/server/misc and some client subdirs. work here will continue

linux build gets some new libraries, cv is up to 4.2.0

it isn't important, but hydrus is now built in python rather than directly from command line. my build scripts now include cloudscraper and the new hydrus source code tree in the build as they are, rather than hardcoded copying

next week

I would like to catch up on small jobs and bug fixes. I feel pretty exhausted due to IRL stuff, so I want to take my foot off the throttle a little. I hope you are hanging in there and staying healthy.

#release

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Frankly, you may discover issues a lot easier in the event you just integrate the files along with your iTunes library by way of the ALAC format. But, in case you've got different plans, we have found a number of the best apps obtainable, all of which will be downloaded by the app retailer on iTunes. I can not verify this resolution a hundred% because I deleted the original MP3 profile throughout my mad experimentation, however I am able to convert MP4 to Mp3 at whatever bitrate I chose. Subsequent edits to the profile don't seem to trigger issues. And it stays like this for all future use of the MP3 format, till one goes to Tools""Preferences""Reset preferences" which then returns all to defaults and it works, however only at the 128 bit fee. Different codecs like OGG Vorbis and so forth usually are not exhibiting this behaviour, and I don't keep in mind my earlier verson which was 2.0.5., doing this. Use this software to transform MIDI recordsdata to mp3, m4a, and wav audio recordsdata. Additionally it is possible to alter MIDI effects, velocity, pitch, and soundbanks. In case you are logged in you possibly can opt-in to get notified by e-mail as soon as the conversion is finished.Apple followers will admire the option to add converted recordsdata on to iTunes multimedia library. You can even select a specific playlist. The first software program that you need to use is Streaming Audio Recorder That is the most effective MP3 to audio CD converter which you could get as a result of it is user pleasant and offers several features. Aside from CD burning, it also features audio recording, audio changing, ID3 tag modifying, CD ripping etc. Burning audio CD using this instrument will not be a problem with these quite simple steps.Step three: Click on Apply to Recordsdata" choice and then click on on Open" button. Zamzar Professional Tip: Must you want to open WMV information then you should utilize the Microsoft Windows Media Participant. Click on Rip settings. It is a tab at the high of the Home windows Media Player window. Doing so prompts a drop-down menu. Right here get the most effective free CDA to MP3 Converter Tools and learn the way to convert cda to mp3 format. Audio CDs incorporates music in uncompressed form and it is of nice quality. Music on Audio CDs can only be played on Audio CD player and Computer. Whenever you open any Audio CD in Home windows then you will see that the Audio recordsdata have thecda extension.With FreeRIP CD to MP3 Converter, being a freeware is a huge level however it is not for novice users. The interface is kind of difficult and it might take a keen data to find all its options. Additionally, it's a sole CD ripper, no other features out there. Utilizing iTunes however is sensible because you need not set up extra applications. Although, the provision of output codecs are very much limited. Functions are equally restricted since you can solely convert CDA file to MP3 with no enhancing options. Streaming Audio Recorder would possibly require a bit of premium however it's loaded with tons of sensible benefits. It is an all-in-one media device since you can do recording, enhancing, burning, copying, changing, playing, downloading and extra. With this utility, you'd never need one other program for all of your audio desires.

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How To Merge PDF, MP3, Video And Text Paperwork In Windows 10

These audio cutter software program functions not only let you trim pointless components from audio files, but additionally embody options like multi-format assist, segment trimming, merge functionality, and a lot more. Weeny Free Audio Cutter must be another audio merging and splitting software program for you. The software program supports MP3, OGG, WMA and WAV information as the enter audio formats, the DRM protected WMA files excluded. Due to the built-in audio editor of Weeny Free Audio Cutter is very helpful for creating custom ringtones or managing lengthy audio recording files. One more reason to decide on the software program must be the completely different parameters you possibly can choose to regulate the audio information, such as the sampling frequency, merge mp3s channel mode and audio bitrate. Just add multiple audio information into the record, merge mp3s and merge these recordsdata into one audio file with the software program now. For MP3 Merger, it does not matter if the audio information you're merging are available in a single or different formats. Merge MP3 can be part of mp3 files in a wide range of audio formats, encoded with completely different codecs utilizing completely different settings. It's straightforward to hitch information you downloaded together even when all of them come in several codecs. One of many nifty things about Windows is that you can do numerous cool stuff using the base command line utilities that include the operating system. The copy command, for example, can truly merge MP3s into one. It is a free tool which can merge MP3 information. It could actually merge from 2 to 9999 MP3 information into one MP3 file to allow you to have the ability to handle your seperated MP3 musical recordsdata higher. After I open my apps, I have to click on "Run As Administrator", and the few events I forgot to do this and simply opened the app and tried merging the recordsdata, NOTHING happened - no merger handed off. Aside from merging, Free Merge MP3 additionally works as an audio converter which allows you exchange between practically all audio codecs in batches. Whereas Free MP3 Cutter Joiner performs the functions it advertises and exactly splits audio information, it doesn't have many different features. You'll be able to merge an unlimited number of recordsdata into an enormous MP3 file, however be careful not to exceed the free house on your exhausting drive when creating the new file. Becoming a member of MP3 files leads to a separate track saved in a folder of your choosing, so in case your enter files whole 2GB in measurement, your output file will take up the identical amount of hard drive house. Note: For efficiency causes, the Mass Merge Duplicates command processes a most of 100 data. To merge greater than 100 information, run the command repeatedly till all duplicates are merged. Moreover customary MP3 format, MP3 Toolkit helps most of widespread audio & video formats like WMA, WMV, MP4, WAV, OGG, FLV, MOV, M4P, M4A and extra, additionally supports top quality audio like FLAC and APE. With MP3 Toolkit, you are able to convert, reduce, merge, rip and report MP3. With the track within the clipboard left click on on the situation of the other monitor the place you wish to paste your music into. Should you just need to merge, click on the place at the very end of the observe and press Ctrl-V so as to add the music there. You possibly can select some other place should you choose that. No designer should work in a vacuum, and any piece of design can profit from a second set of important eyes. My expertise working with Merge's art director, Maggie Fost, was a constructive one despite the challenge we faced by advantage of working in several cities (Windfall, RI, and Durham, NC) and communicating via electronic mail and phone. Each of us would have most well-liked spending at least a while collaborating throughout the table from each other, however that is not at all times doable. Regardless, I consider the challenge benefited significantly from every of our insights and contributions to the design course of. The processing speed of Fre MP3 Joiner is remarkably good, because it took it beneath 5 seconds to merge 21 minutes of audio. Aconvert is another functional and great online mp3 merger software. The program helps merging of audio with identical bit price and format and can add up to 200MB. Mark Delete source constituent to delete the record when the method is full. To confirm that all info was merged accurately, do not mark this checkbox. The report could be deleted manually later. I would like to be able to merge a few MP3 tracks into one. The merge tracks characteristic lets you choose a monitor and merge it in an present one. A cool function once you have used 2- above: you'll be able to merge again the drum tracks onto one once you're carried out. If more than one duplicate entry exists, the Individuals-Merge Individual window shows the quantity of duplicate information in the type of a percentage that you would be able to select. Audio Editor - Merge, Break up And Edit is a sound modifying program for macOS. This software permits you to edit any audio file on your pc. You may immediately edit songs and recordings by slicing, copying, pasting and deleting the selected areas. The app is easy to make use of, you can save and open your venture. You can do your all working on timeline, it's so handy. The Spider Audio 's splitter circuit has but more uses. Routing a Remix aux send output to the splitter input allows you to create a 4-method parallel effects chain (simply take each cut up of the signal to an impact of your alternative). Using effects in parallel produces a different sound to chained results, permitting each processor to cleanly add its own therapy to the combo, unaffected by the others. The impact outputs will in all probability should be blended somewhere, so why not use the merging circuit on the identical Spider Audio, if nothing fancy is required? Simply take the last stereo output from each of the four chains and patch them to the inputs of the merge circuit. The merged output can then be routed to the original Remix send's aux return (see screen, right).

Bid now within the Merge Records auction to benefit the Southern Poverty Legislation Center and their initiatives to combat hate and bigotry. Auction winners obtain an exclusive edition of Superchunk's vinyl 7" launch. Whenever you export a undertaking to a format, reminiscent of a WAV or MP3 file, Audacity will merge the tracks together into both a stereo or mono file, relying on what you could have selected in your preferences. Why would anyone need to merge audio information collectively? In many situations, having a single audio file is just extra convenient than combating a number of fragments. For instance, you may wish to stick pieces of recorded conversations together to have a single presentation. Or you might need to merge fragments comprising a recording of a class, lecture or presentation. Lastly, you might just need to eliminate the clutter, merging a zoo of different formats into thematic mixes.

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How To Convert MP4 To AVI On Mac Rapidly (Mojave Included)

MP4, as well as AVI, are two of essentially the most commonly used video codecs. Zamzar is one other on-line video converter service that supports commonest video codecs. Highest high quality SoX Pattern Price Converter is used to carry out the audio resampling. If you're uncertain of the format you need, merely convert MP3 to video : you'll have the chance to choose the format right here. Click on the drop-down menu within the "Audio Output" part and choose "MP3 (lame)". The drop-down menu will usually say "Copy" by default. "lame" is the audio encoder that will likely be used to transform the audio to MP3 format. Begin the video converter. Add MP4 recordsdata into the interface by drag and drop. You'll be able to add single or a number of information for batch conversion. Appropriate for home users and firm customers to convert AVI video format to WMV video format. The Movavi converter helps you to easily extract audio from video and do almost instant conversion between a hundred and eighty+ totally different media formats. Download Movavi Video Converter for Windows or Mac and convert your MOV information to mp3 to mp4 freeware in no time. Xilisoft Audio Converter comes with a versatile media player built-in able to enjoying recordsdata in all kinds of codecs.

I try to convert an audio ebook from the library in wma drm protected format, I get error cannot convert. I assume that I can not deal with the drm protected. Freemake app will begin robotically as soon because the set up is finished. For those who deselect this selection, it's possible you'll discover Freemake software icon on a desktop and run it if you end up prepared to show MP4 clips to AVI format. This audio converter has flexible settings. Obtain free Freemake MP4 to MP3 Converter. There are two installer variations available on the official web page: a web-based one and mp3 to mp4 freeware an offline file. An internet installer is for customers with a stable and fast Web connection. The offline or full version could be put in on a pc that's not connected to the Web. Hey! The software is superior. It took me so lengthy to search out an audio converter that wasnt crammed filled with useless, superfluous features that I couldn't attainable care about. Copy the video hyperlink, select Instagram and click Convert Video to Download the video and Save directly to your pc or cellular for Free. A YouTube Converter with the most effective user expertise. It is a good converter, the issues I'm having may be attributable to windows eight, mp3 to mp4 freeware it used to work completely every time I used it on my outdated windows 7 laptop computer.MP4 information are containers" — as a substitute of storing the code for the file, they retailer the info. As such, MP4 recordsdata do not have a native way of dealing with the coding of the file. To find out how the coding and compression might be handled, they depend on specific codecs. mp4 EARLIER THAN open formats (like webm or therora) because there's a bug in some iOS variations that will not play the video in any respect if mp4 is listed after any other format in the html (so checklist it first). MP4 To MP3 Converter is a windows utility that quickly converts MP4 to MP3 audio format.This converter is extremely customizable with versatile settings. There's a preset editor provided for every format that will help you customize it to your model. You can edit, create new presets, or delete olds ones. Free Studio supports 28 enter audio codecs together with MP3, FLAC, WAV, and WMA. Output codecs supported include MP3, WAV, M4R, M4B, OGG, FLAC, AMR, ALAC, AAC, and WMA. It additionally lets you extract audio from CDs, YouTube, and most video codecs. On the record of put in packages choose Free MP4 to AVI Converter and then click on Uninstall. This will launch the uninstall wizard.Before separating MP3 audio from MP4, you want end the task of MP4 to MP3 converter free obtain at first. Then comply with the below steps. The following script goes to convert all file with extensionmp4 in the folder Music tomp3. After upload, you can select the part of the video you need to minimize, coming into begin and end time. If nothing is selected, the converter will make a GIF from first 5 seconds of the video clip. If you want to change the scale of the GIF or crop out solely part of the video, you can use our resize and crop tools on the GIF after ending the conversion.Stellar is likely one of the most cost-effective conversion applications we tested. It has a straightforward-to-use interface and batch converts and exports in many of the fashionable codecs, like MP3, WAV, ACC and FLAC. Word: DRM protected audio recordsdata (M4P - protected AAC audio files) and VOB files can't be transformed due to the App Retailer insurance policies. Once the MP4 file is converted to AVI, its download hyperlink will be despatched to mentioned e-mail ID. Everyone has their favourite assortment of flicks on DVDs. Many occasions one may wish to view the same on their cellphones, but after all, the file will first should be converted to an applicable format. The Free VOB To MP4 Converter does precisely that. All that the person needs to do is play these DVDs on a pc and convert the files into the mp4 extension format.Keywords: sites like , alternative to mp3DirectCut, online program much like Audacity, extract audio from a movie. Because of the intuitive interface and self-explanatory options, we consider you'll be able to deal with M4VGear DRM Media Converter at the first sight. With batch conversion help, it can save you plenty of time by creating a batch record of M4V movies from iTunes' library, and convert them all to MP4. To start out the conversion, choose AVI" from the drop-down menu of the convert to" discipline. Subsequent, choose the preset from the options available - for instance, xvid anarmorphic widescreen. Your choice will rely in your unique video's aspect ratio.The Greatest free on-line Text to Speech Synthesis device. You'll be able to instantly obtain generated MP3 recordsdata. Go to the File menu, choose Convert Format after which selectMP4. Add assist for MPEG-2 video codecs (MPG, TS, VOB, SVCD) and VC-1 formats (M2TS, TS) in DivX Converter. Know the different types of MP4 audio information. Apple has created several MP4-variants, including M4A, M4P, M4B, and M4R. These information can all be performed in iTunes, but you need to use iTunes to transform them to MP3 format as properly.

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