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Myth #3: 'Retirees aren't targeted because they're cautious' My dad always claimed he was "cautious". But then he'd complain about the ungodly amount of spam he would get because he'd submit his email address to any-and-every web site that asked for it. It took a DECADE into his retirement years for him to finally start listening to advice regarding keeping his email address and phone number OFF OF every retailer's "system". Seriously, why does the local barber need a PHONE NUMBER just to cut your hair? Hint: they don't, you just have to force them to learn how to use DIFFERENT sections of their "system". Myth #4: ‘Credit monitoring will stop identity theft’ Like the article says, nothing but a smoke alarm that tells you there is a fire but can't do anything to prevent the fire. Myth #5: "There's nothing I can do about data brokers" I'm very big into FAKE data. It becomes a bit fun at times. Insurance or something like that needs an "email" on file, so you use a TEMPORARY email that is THEIR email but ADD the word "crap" or "spam" or "bs". They'll claim it isn't real and they need a "real" email. So you make them jump through the hoop, "It *is* real! Email me a 'code' and I'll cite that code back to you right here on the spot!" Personally, I *hate* that I couldn't use a FAKE email here at MSFN - but there is no evidence of it being "misused" or "sold", so no lawsuit pending </sarcasm>.

Thanks ; this does load and function OK under Vista SP2 32-bit : [debug] Python 3.11.14 (CPython x86 32bit) - Windows-Vista-6.0.6003-SP2 (OpenSSL 3.6.1 27 Jan 2026) OTOH , that "XP_x86-backport" is another type of binary mod that uses specialised DLL-wrappers, targeting EXCLUSIVELY NT 5.x ; you haven't disclosed anything about the provenance of that mod, perhaps its creator(s) could be kindly asked for an NT 6.0 compatible variant (???) ; speaking about Node.js on NT 6.0, this relevant issue has stayed disappointingly "calm" for the last 3 months ... 2026 is definitely NOT a good year so far, it seems...

Can someone with SandBoxie also test this tweak: I gave SBieSvc dependency on Windows Security Center so that on multi-core CPU doesn't rush and make a mess when loading. I'm observing more smooth scrolling in Serpent 52.9 and less memory consumption overall. However Windows XP is known to really show effect of a setting after quite a few shutdowns, not just one restart. SBieSvc: DependOnService [Multi-String] wscsvc (maybe RpcSs would also work).

I managed to get OpenSSL 3.6.1 on Windows XP. yt-dlp-XP.zip openssl.7z (32-bit) [debug] Command-line config: ['-v'] [debug] User config "C:\Documents and Settings\Nico\Application Data\yt-dlp\config.txt": ['--rm-cache-dir', '--console-title', '--add-metadata', '--embed-thumbnail', '--convert-thumbnails', 'jpg', '--js-runtimes', 'node', '--ppa', 'ffmpeg:-metadata synopsis=""', '-o', '~/Bureaublad/%(title)s.%(ext)s', '-S', 'res:1080,vcodec:avc,acodec:m4a', '--sponsorblock-remove', 'all', '-N', '6'] [debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, pref cp1252, out cp1252 (No VT), error cp1252 (No VT), screen cp1252 (No VT) [debug] yt-dlp version local@2026.01.28 [5bf91072b] (win_x86_exe) [debug] Python 3.11.4 (CPython x86 32bit) - Windows-XP-5.1.2600-SP3 (OpenSSL 3.6.1 27 Jan 2026) [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-122539-g905a432403-WINXP (fdk,setts), ffprobe N-122539-g905a432403-WINXP, phantomjs 1.9.8 [debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.23.0, brotli-1.2.0, certifi-2026.01.04, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.32.5, sqlite3-3.50.4, urllib3-2.6.3, websockets-16.0, yt_dlp_ejs-0.3.2 [debug] JS runtimes: node-20.19.2 [debug] Proxy map: {} [debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets [debug] Plugin directories: none [debug] Loaded 1856 extractors Removing cache dir C:\Documents and Settings\Nico/.cache\yt-dlp ... Special NodeJS for Windows XP: Node_XP.7z

Yes, without Deno runtime, I get 403. This succeeded however: yt-dlp -v -N 6 --extractor-args "youtube:player_client=default,ios,-android_sdkless;formats=missing_pot" -f "bv[protocol=m3u8_native]+ba[protocol=m3u8_native]/b[protocol=m3u8_native]" "MKjJTjWwD0M" [debug] Command-line config: ['-v', '-N', '6', '--extractor-args', 'youtube:player_client=default,ios,-android_sdkless;formats=missing_pot', '-f', 'bv[protocol=m3u8_native]+ba[protocol=m3u8_native]/b[protocol=m3u8_native]', 'MKjJTjWwD0M'] [debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, pref UTF-8, out utf-8, error utf-8, screen utf-8 [debug] yt-dlp version local@2026.01.28 [5bf91072b] (zip) [debug] Python 3.14.2 (CPython x86_64 64bit) - Linux-5.15.0-164-generic-x86_64-with-glibc2.35 (OpenSSL 3.6.1 27 Jan 2026, glibc 2.35) [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-122567-gf4ca7950d8-Nico-20260128 (fdk,setts), ffprobe N-122567-gf4ca7950d8-Nico-20260128, rtmpdump 2.4 [debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.23.0, brotli-1.2.0, certifi-2026.01.04, curl_cffi-0.13.0, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.32.5, secretstorage-3.5.0, sqlite3-3.37.2, urllib3-2.6.3, websockets-16.0, yt_dlp_ejs-0.3.2 [debug] JS runtimes: none [debug] Proxy map: {} [debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets, curl_cffi [debug] Plugin directories: none [debug] Loaded 1856 extractors [debug] [youtube] [pot] PO Token Providers: none [debug] [youtube] [pot] PO Token Cache Providers: memory [debug] [youtube] [pot] PO Token Cache Spec Providers: webpo [debug] [youtube] [jsc] JS Challenge Providers: bun (unavailable), deno (unavailable), node (unavailable), quickjs (unavailable) [youtube] Extracting URL: MKjJTjWwD0M [youtube] MKjJTjWwD0M: Downloading webpage [debug] [youtube] Forcing "main" player JS variant for player afc53320 original url = /s/player/afc53320/player_es6.vflset/en_US/base.js [youtube] MKjJTjWwD0M: Downloading ios player API JSON [youtube] MKjJTjWwD0M: Downloading m3u8 information [debug] Sort order given by extractor: quality, res, fps, hdr:12, source, vcodec, channels, acodec, lang, proto [debug] Formats sorted by: hasvid, ie_pref, quality, res, fps, hdr:12(7), source, vcodec, channels, acodec, lang, proto, size, br, asr, vext, aext, hasaud, id [info] Testing format 616 [hlsnative] Downloading m3u8 manifest [hlsnative] Total fragments: 35 [download] Destination: /tmp/tmp7jo6ozpf.tmp [download] 100% of 712.00B in 00:00:00 at 2.50KiB/s [info] Testing format 234 [hlsnative] Downloading m3u8 manifest [hlsnative] Total fragments: 35 [download] Destination: /tmp/tmpzt5lsm1h.tmp [download] 100% of 80.05KiB in 00:00:00 at 1.07MiB/s [info] MKjJTjWwD0M: Downloading 1 format(s): 616+234 [debug] Invoking hlsnative downloader on "https://manifest.googlevideo.com/api/manifest/hls_playlist/expire/1769643300/ei/xEh6ab_6Ce2Ci9oPusXE4QU/ip/<REDACTED>/id/30a8c94e35b00f43/itag/616/source/youtube/requiressl/yes/ratebypass/yes/pfa/1/wft/1/sgovp/clen%3D70257329%3Bdur%3D173.633%3Bgir%3Dyes%3Bitag%3D356%3Blmt%3D1769571436466225/rqh/1/hls_chunk_host/rr2---sn-4g5ednkl.googlevideo.com/xpc/EgVo2aDSNQ%3D%3D/cps/397/met/1769621700,/mh/ko/mm/31,29/mn/sn-4g5ednkl,sn-4g5lznls/ms/au,rdu/mv/m/mvi/2/pl/16/rms/au,au/initcwndbps/4130000/bui/AW-iu_qRyHIl0Wd003fh4_bDXzyymGiQFBtbz7QuvIrVen-0TZAMVloWd_VimP74l9DSIcqdtDc_yU1u/spc/q5xjPO4YXM_kb-U2Z4RfI20o20rEr1WR5Q4m8XS7oFMdp1juouG_w0qYrexOJMzD/vprv/1/playlist_type/DVR/dover/13/txp/5532534/mt/1769620278/fvip/3/short_key/1/keepalive/yes/fexp/51552689,51565115,51565682,51580968/sparams/expire,ei,ip,id,itag,source,requiressl,ratebypass,pfa,wft,sgovp,rqh,xpc,bui,spc,vprv,playlist_type/sig/AJEij0EwRQIhALQE-1nY7HuT-h0WimCIB-7yDqo2g5qa3N2LgSL7T-EHAiBjQr5WebC_0JCPO_Uwl3t3rHn4YNNNsyxDkmfqu_bKIA%3D%3D/lsparams/hls_chunk_host,cps,met,mh,mm,mn,ms,mv,mvi,pl,rms,initcwndbps/lsig/APaTxxMwRAIgFVmH1x5Eyyxjo9ollhoXy7cjZkbar4Th5WrMnzPAou4CIDeKtnEwOXqnDBVQkjHbVhWSrQ25JKhjlcUXSM-QmA6-/playlist/index.m3u8" [hlsnative] Downloading m3u8 manifest [hlsnative] Total fragments: 35 [download] Destination: Nebraska at Michigan ｜ HIGHLIGHTS ｜ Big Ten Basketball ｜ 01⧸27⧸2026 [MKjJTjWwD0M].f616.mp4 [download] 100% of 67.03MiB in 00:00:07 at 8.71MiB/s [debug] Invoking hlsnative downloader on "https://manifest.googlevideo.com/api/manifest/hls_playlist/expire/1769643300/ei/xEh6ab_6Ce2Ci9oPusXE4QU/ip/<REDACTED>/id/30a8c94e35b00f43/itag/234/source/youtube/requiressl/yes/ratebypass/yes/pfa/1/goi/133/sgoap/clen%3D2812478%3Bdur%3D173.731%3Bgir%3Dyes%3Bitag%3D140%3Blmt%3D1769568370627241/rqh/1/hls_chunk_host/rr2---sn-4g5ednkl.googlevideo.com/xpc/EgVo2aDSNQ%3D%3D/cps/397/met/1769621700,/mh/ko/mm/31,29/mn/sn-4g5ednkl,sn-4g5lznls/ms/au,rdu/mv/m/mvi/2/pl/16/rms/au,au/initcwndbps/4130000/bui/AW-iu_qRyHIl0Wd003fh4_bDXzyymGiQFBtbz7QuvIrVen-0TZAMVloWd_VimP74l9DSIcqdtDc_yU1u/spc/q5xjPO4YXM_kb-U2Z4RfI20o20rEr1WR5Q4m8XS7oFMdp1juouG_w0qYrexOJMzD/vprv/1/playlist_type/DVR/dover/13/txp/5532534/mt/1769620278/fvip/3/short_key/1/keepalive/yes/fexp/51552689,51565115,51565682,51580968/sparams/expire,ei,ip,id,itag,source,requiressl,ratebypass,pfa,goi,sgoap,rqh,xpc,bui,spc,vprv,playlist_type/sig/AJEij0EwRAIgSRH9tJYP99aXLeZ0RS2ZG2VWJX1ieEK19BBFRePFLssCIGA70lcAMXy9ls_SCgKV7dajB5VlZPFueNSmsjYW8Gfn/lsparams/hls_chunk_host,cps,met,mh,mm,mn,ms,mv,mvi,pl,rms,initcwndbps/lsig/APaTxxMwRAIgcYEj2WVVsqfMeFodEy9iWQ1OjF9LAFAiOaynPR6bwhQCIC56APb_RAwQMmUpmQb8Z_982Hdx3FvwvCCqrlaLRhCN/playlist/index.m3u8" [hlsnative] Downloading m3u8 manifest [hlsnative] Total fragments: 35 [download] Destination: Nebraska at Michigan ｜ HIGHLIGHTS ｜ Big Ten Basketball ｜ 01⧸27⧸2026 [MKjJTjWwD0M].f234.mp4 [download] 100% of 2.70MiB in 00:00:00 at 4.93MiB/s [debug] ffmpeg command line: ffprobe -show_streams 'file:Nebraska at Michigan ｜ HIGHLIGHTS ｜ Big Ten Basketball ｜ 01⧸27⧸2026 [MKjJTjWwD0M].f234.mp4' [Merger] Merging formats into "Nebraska at Michigan ｜ HIGHLIGHTS ｜ Big Ten Basketball ｜ 01⧸27⧸2026 [MKjJTjWwD0M].mp4" [debug] ffmpeg command line: ffmpeg -y -loglevel repeat+info -i 'file:Nebraska at Michigan ｜ HIGHLIGHTS ｜ Big Ten Basketball ｜ 01⧸27⧸2026 [MKjJTjWwD0M].f616.mp4' -i 'file:Nebraska at Michigan ｜ HIGHLIGHTS ｜ Big Ten Basketball ｜ 01⧸27⧸2026 [MKjJTjWwD0M].f234.mp4' -c copy -map 0:v:0 -map 1:a:0 -bsf:a:0 aac_adtstoasc -movflags +faststart 'file:Nebraska at Michigan ｜ HIGHLIGHTS ｜ Big Ten Basketball ｜ 01⧸27⧸2026 [MKjJTjWwD0M].temp.mp4' Deleting original file Nebraska at Michigan ｜ HIGHLIGHTS ｜ Big Ten Basketball ｜ 01⧸27⧸2026 [MKjJTjWwD0M].f616.mp4 (pass -k to keep) Deleting original file Nebraska at Michigan ｜ HIGHLIGHTS ｜ Big Ten Basketball ｜ 01⧸27⧸2026 [MKjJTjWwD0M].f234.mp4 (pass -k to keep)

Just for reading ... these articles posted by this person are usually informative. I just got another notice in the mail that I may have had medical information released by someone no longer working at a large medical organization ... of course not just me but I guess many others are also affected. A few years ago I had the same thing happen, a communications company was involved in a breach. I filled out the forms required online and then got a letter in the mail some time later after the settlement was agreed to. They were sorry but I would be receiving nothing ... there were no 'funds' left to pay anybody. Of course I'm sure the attorneys got paid and then whatever was left was soon exhausted for most of the remaining people ... a waste of time. This new one offers a possible cash settlement or 'one year' of free credit monitoring. Just a 'wild prediction' ... no cash, the attorneys will get most of it. https://www.foxnews.com/tech/5-myths-about-identity-theft-put-your-data-risk 5 myths about identity theft that put your data at risk Why quiet data exposure, not big breaches, is the real driver behind modern identity theft. Kurt Knutsson, CyberGuy Report Fox News / January 28, 2026 Most people think identity theft starts with a massive hack. In reality, it usually starts much more quietly, with bits of personal information you didn't even realize were public: old addresses, family connections, phone numbers and shopping habits. All are sitting on data broker sites that most people have never heard of. During Identity Theft Awareness Week, organized by the Federal Trade Commission, it's a good time to clear up some dangerous myths that keep putting people at risk, especially retirees, families and anyone who thinks they're "careful enough." Let's break them down. ...

FTR, issue #15712 isn't constantly giving me 403s here (but it often does ), so, at this point, I'll say that the avc1 ANDR-S formats are unreliable (YMMV): yt-dlp -vf 136+140 "MKjJTjWwD0M" => [debug] Command-line config: ['--ffmpeg-location', 'FFmpeg', '--downloader-args', 'ffmpeg:-v 8 -stats', '-vf', '136+140', 'MKjJTjWwD0M'] [debug] Encodings: locale cp1253, fs utf-8, pref cp1253, out utf-8 (No VT), error utf-8 (No VT), screen utf-8 (No VT) [debug] yt-dlp version master@2026.01.28.035725 from yt-dlp/yt-dlp-master-builds [5bf91072b] (zip) [debug] Python 3.11.14 (CPython x86 32bit) - Windows-Vista-6.0.6003-SP2 (OpenSSL 3.6.0 1 Oct 2025) [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg n8.1-dev-630-N-121254-g635cb45 (setts), ffprobe n8.1-dev-630-N-121254-g635cb45 [debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.23.0, brotli-1.2.0, certifi-2026.01.04, curl_cffi-0.14.0b2, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.32.5, sqlite3-3.51.2, urllib3-2.6.3, websockets-16.0, yt_dlp_ejs-0.3.2 [debug] JS runtimes: none [debug] Proxy map: {} [debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets, curl_cffi [debug] Plugin directories: none [debug] Loaded 1856 extractors [debug] [youtube] [pot] PO Token Providers: none [debug] [youtube] [pot] PO Token Cache Providers: memory [debug] [youtube] [pot] PO Token Cache Spec Providers: webpo [debug] [youtube] [jsc] JS Challenge Providers: bun (unavailable), deno (unavailable), node (unavailable), quickjs (unavailable) [youtube] Extracting URL: MKjJTjWwD0M [youtube] MKjJTjWwD0M: Downloading webpage WARNING: [youtube] No supported JavaScript runtime could be found. Only deno is enabled by default; to use another runtime add --js-runtimes RUNTIME[:PATH] to your command/config. YouTube extraction without a JS runtime has been deprecated, and some formats may be missing. See https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/EJS for details on installing one [debug] [youtube] Forcing "main" player JS variant for player afc53320 original url = /s/player/afc53320/player_es6.vflset/en_US/base.js [youtube] MKjJTjWwD0M: Downloading android sdkless player API JSON [debug] Sort order given by extractor: quality, res, fps, hdr:12, source, vcodec, channels, acodec, lang, proto [debug] Formats sorted by: hasvid, ie_pref, quality, res, fps, hdr:12(7), source, vcodec, channels, acodec, lang, proto, size, br, asr, vext, aext, hasaud, id [info] MKjJTjWwD0M: Downloading 1 format(s): 136+140 [debug] Invoking http downloader on "https://rr1---sn-4vguioxu-n3bz.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1769639064&ei=Nzh6af79Ouy-mLAPz_-AoAE&ip=redacted&id=o-AN2WuWsCRapljCXx-NzvLk0FJyf3S16eB0eRffxJ72RH&itag=136&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&xpc=EgVo2aDSNQ%3D%3D&cps=378&met=1769617463%2C&mh=ko&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-4vguioxu-n3bz%2Csn-nv47zn7y&ms=au%2Crdu&mv=m&mvi=1&pl=22&rms=au%2Cau&initcwndbps=1185000&bui=AW-iu_oSrgWiRvoggXB19EsSbEPtHVfCQcogYlmRaDLtGwZoDJH0KheHLEPfwVBHMwhe0JzEnxq2r8Rn&spc=q5xjPM2yLwkT426_mKEsW2gKpkLEf5ihhZB3rkj8U4mM-6mfI6I&vprv=1&svpuc=1&mime=video%2Fmp4&rqh=1&gir=yes&clen=21180105&dur=173.633&lmt=1769570849768674&mt=1769616895&fvip=3&keepalive=yes&fexp=51552689%2C51565116%2C51565682%2C51580968&c=ANDROID&txp=5535534&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Citag%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cxpc%2Cbui%2Cspc%2Cvprv%2Csvpuc%2Cmime%2Crqh%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=AJEij0EwRAIgC-5m76CXAtOTZoXORPUm8OFZ4w0Gi5rvEBvznQXpJXICIANjiW3HfY5aQZfdhq-SSF80289rW5gHGfTEF-G6yv6V&lsparams=cps%2Cmet%2Cmh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Crms%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=APaTxxMwRQIgEAcimmDf_-R9YW-Iiz5YVRu0uebhkOjF4kowaCjvzFcCIQCwzO32ij8Aa-cPl0Ss8lgCvF4cSeYIf6B9FCuZSj6-Yw%3D%3D" [debug] File locking is not supported. Proceeding without locking [download] Destination: Nebraska at Michigan | HIGHLIGHTS | Big Ten Basketball | 01?27?2026 [MKjJTjWwD0M].f136.mp4 [download] 100% of 20.20MiB in 00:01:27 at 237.57KiB/s [debug] Invoking http downloader on "https://rr1---sn-4vguioxu-n3bz.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?expire=1769639064&ei=Nzh6af79Ouy-mLAPz_-AoAE&ip=<redacted>&id=o-AN2WuWsCRapljCXx-NzvLk0FJyf3S16eB0eRffxJ72RH&itag=140&source=youtube&requiressl=yes&xpc=EgVo2aDSNQ%3D%3D&cps=378&met=1769617463%2C&mh=ko&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-4vguioxu-n3bz%2Csn-nv47zn7y&ms=au%2Crdu&mv=m&mvi=1&pl=22&rms=au%2Cau&initcwndbps=1185000&bui=AW-iu_oSrgWiRvoggXB19EsSbEPtHVfCQcogYlmRaDLtGwZoDJH0KheHLEPfwVBHMwhe0JzEnxq2r8Rn&spc=q5xjPM2yLwkT426_mKEsW2gKpkLEf5ihhZB3rkj8U4mM-6mfI6I&vprv=1&svpuc=1&mime=audio%2Fmp4&rqh=1&gir=yes&clen=2812478&dur=173.731&lmt=1769568370627241&mt=1769616895&fvip=3&keepalive=yes&fexp=51552689%2C51565116%2C51565682%2C51580968&c=ANDROID&txp=5532534&sparams=expire%2Cei%2Cip%2Cid%2Citag%2Csource%2Crequiressl%2Cxpc%2Cbui%2Cspc%2Cvprv%2Csvpuc%2Cmime%2Crqh%2Cgir%2Cclen%2Cdur%2Clmt&sig=AJEij0EwRAIgCH6ivDbp1B8Kc22SWFu9wo9bCr7bN-boqKP709JpNGcCIGyge-JkcDuKGVKw6PD6Ir0HA_SIk82rnzexFM7ZSxBc&lsparams=cps%2Cmet%2Cmh%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cmvi%2Cpl%2Crms%2Cinitcwndbps&lsig=APaTxxMwRQIgEAcimmDf_-R9YW-Iiz5YVRu0uebhkOjF4kowaCjvzFcCIQCwzO32ij8Aa-cPl0Ss8lgCvF4cSeYIf6B9FCuZSj6-Yw%3D%3D" [download] Destination: Nebraska at Michigan | HIGHLIGHTS | Big Ten Basketball | 01?27?2026 [MKjJTjWwD0M].f140.m4a [download] 100% of 2.68MiB in 00:00:14 at 190.92KiB/s [Merger] Merging formats into "Nebraska at Michigan | HIGHLIGHTS | Big Ten Basketball | 01?27?2026 [MKjJTjWwD0M].mp4" [debug] ffmpeg command line: FFmpeg\ffmpeg -y -loglevel repeat+info -i "file:Nebraska at Michigan | HIGHLIGHTS | Big Ten Basketball | 01?27?2026 [MKjJTjWwD0M].f136.mp4" -i "file:Nebraska at Michigan | HIGHLIGHTS | Big Ten Basketball | 01?27?2026 [MKjJTjWwD0M].f140.m4a" -c copy -map 0:v:0 -map 1:a:0 -movflags +faststart "file:Nebraska at Michigan | HIGHLIGHTS | Big Ten Basketball | 01?27?2026 [MKjJTjWwD0M].temp.mp4" Deleting original file Nebraska at Michigan | HIGHLIGHTS | Big Ten Basketball | 01?27?2026 [MKjJTjWwD0M].f136.mp4 (pass -k to keep) Deleting original file Nebraska at Michigan | HIGHLIGHTS | Big Ten Basketball | 01?27?2026 [MKjJTjWwD0M].f140.m4a (pass -k to keep)

Got things working on Intel PCH platforms! The problem wasn't IRQs at all, it was the HD Audio Controller's PCIe transactions no-snoop bit which wasn't getting properly cleared because of a typo in a type-cast (dereferencing it twice ). With no-snoop enabled, what happens is the audio data is written to CPU cache but not flushed out to main memory unless there is some other activity going on to use the cache and invalidate those pages (like Scandisk). I'm not sure if there is a way to explicitly flush the audio buffer to main memory or some flags to AllocateCommonBuffer which I should be passing but aren't Released Alpha-016 https://github.com/andrew-hoffman/WDMHDA/releases

Most sadly, another end is pretty close : https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/15712 Soon-ish, no more youtube downloads without a JS runtime enabled (and without passing logged-in YT cookies, only the WEB-S client (HLS) formats would become available - these do require the JS runtime, though) ...

Does SuperAntispyware detect anything these days ? In the old days I used it to clean up computers. But later it would only detect cookies. It became a cookie muncher hahah

Thank you I'll check it out when I get home. My problem happens with any software that crashes not just Firefox. I just mentioned it as an example.

Do you have these other drivers not in xp2esd 1.6.2 Generic_ACPITime_6.2.9200.16384 Generic_AHCI_1.0.0.585 Generic_AHCI_6.2.7989.0 Generic_HID_6.2.9200.16384 Generic_UASP_1.0.0.51 Generic_USB2_6.1.7601.24138 Generic_USB3_6.1.7800.0 Generic_USBMassStorage_6.2.9200.23486 Generic_USBParent_6.2.9200.22279 Generic_VGA_6.1.7600.16385 IaNVMe_4.4.0.1003

Need to check only the first and hit apply.

Thanks again! Working fine as far as I can see: [debug] Command-line config: ['-v'] [debug] User config "C:\Users\Nico\AppData\Roaming\yt-dlp\config.txt": ['--rm-cache-dir', '--console-title', '--js-runtimes', 'node', '-o', '~/Desktop/%(title)s.%(ext)s', '-S', 'res:1080,vcodec:vp9,acodec:opus', '--embed-thumbnail', '--add-metadata', '--convert-thumbnails', 'jpg', '--ppa', 'ffmpeg:-metadata synopsis=""', '--force-ipv4', '-N', '6', '--sponsorblock-remove', 'all'] [debug] Encodings: locale cp1252, fs utf-8, pref cp1252, out cp1252 (No VT), error cp1252 (No VT), screen cp1252 (No VT) [debug] yt-dlp version local@2026.01.28 [5bf91072b] (win_exe) [debug] Python 3.14.2 (CPython AMD64 64bit) - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1 (OpenSSL 3.6.1 27 Jan 2026) [debug] exe versions: ffmpeg N-122272-g224b3ff82a-WIN7 (fdk,setts), ffprobe N-122272-g224b3ff82a-WIN7, phantomjs 2.5.0 [debug] Optional libraries: Cryptodome-3.23.0, brotli-1.2.0, certifi-2026.01.04, curl_cffi-0.13.0, mutagen-1.47.0, requests-2.32.5, sqlite3-3.50.4, urllib3-2.6.3, websockets-16.0, yt_dlp_ejs-0.3.2 [debug] JS runtimes: node-20.19.2 [debug] Proxy map: {} [debug] Request Handlers: urllib, requests, websockets, curl_cffi [debug] Plugin directories: none [debug] Loaded 1856 extractors Removing cache dir C:\Users\Nico/.cache\yt-dlp .. Test: yt-dlp-test.zip.

There is no Russian language

Anyone stupid enough to follow the "verification steps" of that fake captcha DESERVES to have his/her hard drive reformatted !!! Certainly NOBODY here at MSFN is that stupid. My parents, on the other hand, they have fallen for fake "download now" buttons on more than one occasion.

Good! Why not?!? Of couse it feels you're still a newbie, but good! Avast Blog: "FakeCaptcha scams—When the "I'm not a robot" button is a trap.." https://blog.avast.com/fakecaptcha-scams How do we know whether Cloudflare is not a scam itself?

I remember, back in 2015, there was a virus that asked to prove whether you're "not" a robot, when someone tried to delete it. The same what Cloudflare does. Conclusion: Cloudflare is a virus. Don't visit. Trying to parrot @D.Draker's conclusions. I know, it's nowhere near the original, but I try.

OpenSSL 3.6.1

@autodidact Thank you for the FFmpeg builds. Now, would you be so kind to update OpenSSL 64-bit dll's to 3.6.1? 🙏 This is an important security update.

"The biggest joke on mankind is that computers have started asking humans to prove they're not a robot."

https://imagenetz.de - 5GB, 30 days after last download

and legacy.com paging issue is still being investigated by issue creator, no ETA for fixing: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=33084&p=269727#p269727 EDIT: mozilla bugzilla entry is found: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1806042

upstream #2895 is fixed with a big help from Mr.Q and better javascript random() will be available on both 32 and 64 bit build later.

Thanks for this. I'll give it a try with the emulated Virtualbox TPM 2.0 to see whether it works or not. Out of curiosity, on XP, what would you use a TPM 2.0 module for? I'm not being sarcastic, it's a genuine question, I'm actually curious. Like, I know that on Windows 11 it's used to save passkeys, to store biometric data used for login like Windows Hello via face or via fingerprint, and to perform full disk encryption via BitLocker, but what about XP? Would enabling a TPM 2.0 module to be recognized by the OS make browsers like Supermium store passkeys safely there? I don't know, I'm genuinely curious.