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Twitter is behind the login wall and other annoyances. Looks like the vast majority of MSFN members don't even have Twitter accounts. Here's a free, simple to read alternative, no login and/or payment required. https://nitter.net/Tripredacus/status/1744808661153644573

Can be checked here: https://browserleaks.com/ip "Fingerprinting TLS Clients with JA4 on F5 BIG-IP What is JA4? JA4 is a subset of the larger JA4+ set of network fingerprints. JA4+ is a set of simple network fingerprints for a number of protocols that are intended to be both human and machine readable, and replaces the JA3 TLS fingerprinting standard from 2017 (Salesforce is no longer maintaining JA3). Currently, JA4+ includes JA4/S/H/L/X/SSH, or JA4+ for short. JA4+ Fingerprints JA4 — TLS Client JA4S — TLS Server Response JA4H — HTTP Client JA4L — Light Distance/Location JA4X — X509 TLS Certificate JA4SSH — SSH Traffic More fingerprints are in development and will be added to the JA4+ family as they are released." https://community.f5.com/kb/technicalarticles/fingerprinting-tls-clients-with-ja4-on-f5-big-ip/326298

"...Advanced Web Application Firewall (AWAF) to block traffic based on the "reputation"... " https://community.f5.com/kb/technicalarticles/fingerprinting-tls-clients-with-ja4-on-f5-big-ip/326298 https://community.f5.com/kb/technicalarticles/ja4-part-2-detecting-and-mitigating-based-on-dynamic-ja4-reputation/328663

"Amazon CloudFront launches support for JA4 fingerprinting Posted on: Oct 11, 2024 Amazon CloudFront now supports JA4 fingerprinting of incoming requests, enabling customers to allow known clients or block requests from malicious clients. The JA4 fingerprint is passed via the Cloudfront-viewer-ja4-fingerprint header. You can inspect the JA4 fingerprints using custom logic on your application web servers or using CloudFront Functions or Lambda@Edge. A JA4 TLS client fingerprint contains a 38-character long fingerprint of the TLS Client Hello which is used to initiate a secure connection from clients. The fingerprint can be used to build a database of known good and bad actors to apply when inspecting HTTP requests. You can add the Cloudfront-viewer-ja4-fingerprint header to an origin request policy and attach the policy to your CloudFront distributions. You can then inspect the header value on your application web servers or in your Lambda@Edge and CloudFront Functions to compare the header value against a list of known malware fingerprints to block malicious clients. You can also compare the header value against a list of expected fingerprints to allow only requests bearing the expected fingerprints. Cloudfront-viewer-ja4-fingerprint headers are available for immediate use in all CloudFront edge locations. You can enable JA4 fingerprint headers in the CloudFront Console or using the AWS SDK. There are no additional fees to use JA4 fingerprint headers. For more information, see the CloudFront Developer Guide." https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2024/10/amazon-cloudfront-ja4-fingerprinting/

1. Grab the original XP SP3 syssetup.dll file. 2. Using a hex editor, like XVI32, open the dll file. 3. Go to address (offset) 33B7B. 4. Replace 74 with EB. 5. Save changes to syssetup.dll 6. Using modifype -c command or a similar tool fix the PE checksum. 7. To get rid of the "Battery unsigned" issue, you have to perform this additional step: Open the syssetup.inf with notepad. Go to the [DeviceInfsToInstall] section of the INF file. Delete or comment the line with the battery.inf file. Save changes. 8. Use the new syssetup.dll and syssetup.inf files instead of the original ones. Known side-effects: Setuperr.log file reports that syssetup.dll is not properly signed. In addition, SFC does not protect syssetup.dll after installing Windows. However, SFC does not report any problems after Windows installation.

I am planning on getting a new laptop that that will only have the UEFI BIOS. It will be bare-bones without any OS with 2 SSDs. I understand a new partition layout will be required, but that's about all I know about UEFI. I've been living too long in the past. Previously, I would create and format an NTFS partition and apply my customized wim with WinNTSetup. What kind of partition layout do I need now before using WinNTSetup and will windows bootmanger still show a list of systems for multi-booting?

I remember when I use to be able to load YouTube in ~200 MB RAM including K-Meleon 76.1 Goanna, and ~250-400 MB after the switch to the "Polymer" UI. What caused RAM usage to increase to > 600 MB? I also noticed YouTube has much higher CPU consumption than it did 4 years ago.

This is not quite so easy. One thing in advance. The chrome folder and the UC.JS scripts have absolutely nothing to do with the legacy custom buttons. You have to install a legacy Custom Buttons extension in the Quantum browser Mypal 68 which supports natively webextensions only. To do this, the signature check of extensions must be switched off by a special hack, as most of all legacy Custom Buttons extensions are unsigned. The hack then has to be patched again , and a few prefs have to be set. Finally, you have to check whether your legacy Custom Buttons version can be installed at all and properly works under these conditions. All in all, not so easy as it may seem. Right? Furthermore, the code of custom buttons must of course be designed for Mypal 68 in such a way that it takes the newer JavaScript engine into account. Many (legacy) custom buttons that run in the UXP browsers therefore do not work in Mypal 68. And as you already know, even a custom button working in New Moon 28 does not necessarily run, for example, in Serpent 52. However, if all is done correctly, it should look like this way: This is a screenshot taken from the Add-ons Manager in Mypal 68.14.4b. All of these custom buttons are working fine in Mypal 68, and there are more, of course. It's just a test profile. BTW, three of these six custom buttons have been created by me and are also working in all my UXP browsers.

A RAM consumption of round about 700 MB for only one YouTube video?

The old Custom Buttons forum had gone long time ago. Personally, I have the most important things in my archive, which I have been maintaining for decades. So, I need practically nothing from the old forum although it is a great pity that it no longer exists. And you should also be aware that many old custom buttons are no longer compatible with newer Firefox or Firefox-based browser versions. And by that I also mean Firefox 52, which is the origin of many forks.

... The separate standalone mpeg-dash streams are in a media format/container (iso6dash) that IS NOT compatible with old media players (such as mpv from back in 2015 ); when you download via yt-dl and a recent-ish build of ffmpeg is used, the separate media streams are muxed together into a standard iso MPEG4 container that has been supported for at least two decades... The 360p encode is itself by default packaged (and streamed) inside a "proper" MPEG4 container (with its mov atom placed in the beginning of the MP4 file) ...

Thanks for the (dissapointing ) info.

Restart & Purge v2.0 - A custom button for restarting the browser and, if necessary, purging the startup cache, created by AstroSkipper Due to some abnormalities I observed when using my Restart & Purge custom button, I have now updated it to the version 2.0. I have changed and reworked the code considerably, and after a lot of testing, this updated custom button now works perfectly. One of the changes is that this new version of Restart & Purge now calls up the native restart code from the browser inside. The old version wasn't bad though, but the new one is definitely better and more compatible. I think there should no longer be any problems that could have occurred in very rare cases. Restart buttons are available in abundance and are nothing special. However, the most interesting feature of this custom button is the ability to purge the startup cache and restart the browser with one click. There are no corresponding extensions or functions with which the startup cache can be quickly deleted in the UXP browsers. In New Moon 28 not even the command line option -purgecaches works. So, an alternative way to delete the startup cache would therefore only be manually via the Windows Explorer or a file manager. My Restart & Purge v2.0 custom button performes a normal restart when left-clicked and additionally purges the startup cache when middle-clicked. Here is a small screenshot of my custom button Restart & Purge v2.0 and its tooltip taken from New Moon 28: As the code of Restart & Purge v2.0 has to be initialised, you won't find it in the tab "Code" but in the tab "Initialization code" of this custom button. Here is a screenshot of its code: And here is the download link: https://www.mediafire.com/file/1myts3tqkr6lgrv/Restart_%26_Purge_v2.0_10-12-24.xml/file The download link contains an XML backup file of the Restart & Purge v2.0 custom button as the problem with the conversion of custom buttons into XML format has been finally solved by me. Simply open the XML file in the browser and click onto the install button! For the installation of this button, the extension Custom Buttons is required which you can get from this post: https://msfn.org/board/topic/183923-extensions-and-custom-buttons-for-uxp-browsers-corrections-modifications-adjustments-and-special-recommendations/?do=findComment&comment=1226328 My custom button Restart & Purge v2.0 can be used with New Moon, Serpent, Firefox,even with the non-UXP browser Mypal 68 and some other browsers. And most probably also with Pale Moon and Basilisk (the call up of the native restart code should be the same as in the other browsers) which I can't test, though. Greetings from Germany, AstroSkipper

There's a well-known American moron whose saying I'll use here in a modified form anyway: Make old code great again!

Yesterday, I found this old button code in my archive. As the code of the button looked promising, I translated it and modified it completely. I changed the tooltip, totally reworked the menu of the important about: pages and added a help menu. I created a version for New Moon/Pale Moon and a version for Serpent/Basilisk/Firefox as some about: pages are different in these browsers. This button has a special feature. When selecting a string or copying a string to the clipboard, a middle-click onto the toolvar button opens it in the about:config page. All in all, it's a kind of recycling of old code so that it works again in our browsers. Thus, old code is not always useless and lost. And the code of this button is so universal that it seems to run in all Firefox-based browsers. Anyway! I will also post this forked custom button here very soon.

TBH, I can't say anything about the old Reddit Enhancement Suite as I have never used it.

Legacy extensions and the mighty but underestimated custom buttons for UXP browsers are able to do many things that webextensions are not allowed to do. That's why I love them. I see them as a way of customising the browser to the user's preferences. Their tasks are many and varied, and accessing web content is just one of them, albeit an important one. But they can do much more. And new ones are still being developed. There are so many of them that you can always find something useful that still works. Or you try to bring them back to life. That's why I created this thread.

What about modern games? Any benefits from using KexSetup_Release_1_1_1_1375?

New York Autoshow COMES TO A HALT as Climate Activists splash OIL onto Electric Ford Truck during car parade. “NO ELECTRIC VEHICLES ON A DEAD PLANET” action against Electric vehicles https://www.autoshowny.com/ https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1774078145383059456/pu/vid/avc1/1280x720/48ZjsCDLmSlaqUXy.mp4

I highly doubt it, I did a search, no such info, sorry.

Commercial activities such as offering paid services and offering goods for sale is a violation of MSFN rules. https://msfn.org/board/guidelines/

Those artificially boosted requrements of that era were mostly related to PVP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_Video_Path It was in the interests of companies to exclude XP and Vista RTM because "in January 2007 the developer Alex Ionescu announced that he had found a method that allows end users to bypass Vista's Protected Media Path. This would allow digital content to be played on equipment that does not implement DRM restriction measures" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_Media_Path From what I remember, but can't find any articles, those "loopholes" were fixed in XP SP3 and SP1 of Vista in 2008. "These restrictions only apply to DRM-restricted content, such as HD DVD or Blu-ray that are encrypted with AACS, and also apply in Windows XP using supported playback applications."

Climate change deniers aren't common nowadays, and looks like someone can have real hard currency benefits from such opinions.

I can be mistaken, but that requirement is related to DXVA1, that old version will still open up and work on SP2, but no acceleration will be available, so on that Celeron max 360p, 480p at best. On such old hardware no acceleration is possible anyways, like in my case with the ancient Intel Extreme Graphics on Toshiba.

All the same, my neighbour tried some time ago.

Haven't heard any rumours here . On the contrary , they replaced the cables near my house with new and 'advanced' (as the workers told us) , lol.

Whoa! How so ? Is it even legal to refuse you having an ordinary phone ? What about the laws in your country ? In my country , Holland , Koninklijke PTT Nederland (The Royal Dutch landline and mobile telecommunications company) is the largest telecom company providing many business and private connections. Here's the proof. To get a line telephone service : Go to a KPN retail store in any city centre (store finder in Dutch) Or call their customer service Tel: 0800 0402 (free call from anywhere in the Netherlands) Once an appointment has been set up, it should take five working days to get connected. The following are needed to get a telephone connection: Proof of identification , Residence permit , EU bank account details for direct debit payments , People from outside the EU pay a deposit for a telephone number. There are two types of connections available: A normal telephone line, the cheapest option allows one line and one number An ISDN line (more expensive) will provide two lines and four voice numbers https://www.angloinfo.com/how-to/netherlands/housing/setting-up-home/telephone

Well , I didn't even have a cell phone for a very long time ! In the 1990s , when everyone around (including my parents and other relatives, girlfriends , friends and co-workers) had them , I still refused to use it. I do not like to be bothered or distracted . And even now all of them are almost always off.

Well , I did , no crashes so far. I can't post a screenshot because I'm limited . Do you know how to delete the old attachments ? I open the page with them , but there's no "delete" button , only buttons that link to their post and things like "sorting". 2mb total limit is '90s ...

I replaced it a long time ago , but it had an odd (chinese, russian ?) character right before the string and since I do not have any chinese/russian fonts (and my HEX prog. doesn't support any odd languages , only Western European) , I can't say for sure , but it looked like a glitch in my HEX programme , when I was typing , the text was moving in that area : left - right !!! Can you imagine ? So I just typed all of the text in direct HEX mode and never got any glitches .

No , youtube just loads less scripts and bloat if it "sees" older user agents . Try to spoof your UA with something older , while using v.13.1106. And choose x86 UA strings. I know for sure youtube and other sites load less fat to 32-bit systems .