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    Yes, the Cloudflare just keeps looping with high CPU usage. Maybe my computer is too slow to solve it in time. Cloudflare is on an increasing number of sites now.
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    I believe that the update package is slow because it launches every Microsoft update separately as if they had been applied the official way. This comes with overhead of starting that many individual programs, each doing some housekeeping, enabling uninstallation of each pack. Back in the day, there was the Unofficial Service Pack for Windows 98SE. It was done differently. It combined all the files into a few big packs and copied the selected ones at once. The size on disk was also a lot smaller. Every instaler uses Windows API functions to write to registry. Now time has moved on, computers on average are a lot faster. Same story as with most software. I have never bothered to install the SP4. The size and inclusion of "bloatware" (media player, net framework, internet explorer) we wouldn't put on weaker XP-period machines was an immediate turn-off for me. Having all that defeats the purpose of using Windows XP. Instead I put on a handful of Microsoft updates that brought essential functionality.
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    I just noticed that a Discourse forum can now be scrolled with the mouse normally in New Moon without workarounds.
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    In New Moon, I've noticed that Google autocomplete now only shows 1 line if I have scrolled a bit down the page of search results. The rest of the box is blank. Not that this is important because those autocompletes are very sanitized.
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    The normal registry editor can load hives from other systems and make them generally accessible for reading and editing. I use the TorchSoft Registry workshop, but the loading is the same. I haven't messed with permissions. I guess it is probably fine to edit System or Administrator(?), but maybe other users have their own numbers within the target system. Only old Hiren's Boot CD makes sense to use on XP-grade computers. These developers should have not hijacked the name for their new boot medium (that doesn't fit on a CD). Now everytime I tell people to use Hiren's Boot CD, I have to add an explanation and sometimes face resistance from them to using an old version. Get both 10.6 and 15.2 where they only have free software (apart from Windows).
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    Yes, the icons are badly corrupted also inside the menus. Just use an older version. I have WinHex 12, 17 and 19, and I use 12 on a daily basis.
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    On my small screen this text takes two lines, with the word "Design" pushing everything down. Latest: Beyond Fragrance: The Engineering Behind Modern Perfume Design It took me a while to connect this to the header.
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    I stumbled upon a website that employs a strange, irritating JavaScript that a scrolls the text after a delay of a couple seconds. It wants to collapse a header at the top of the page that promotes "Latest" and sometimes takes 2 lines and other times takes 1 line on a small screen. When I start reading, the view moves out of my grasp relatively slowly and I need to move my eyes to follow it. Lol. This scrolling is even carried through in Opera 12, which doesn't support most current scripts, and in New Moon. Having any kind of scrolling billboard is a distraction in an of itself. Here Opera's ability to disable JavaScript by pressing F12 is essential. No current browser have this; they can only disable JavaScript entirely, causing pages not to build properly. But Opera can stop executing JavaScript later. USC Viterbi School of Engineering https://illumin.usc.edu/the-loudness-wars/
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    What are "mini-filters" for and in what situations would you install many of them?
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    I kept the previous version on Ytdlp around so that I can revert to it if Android VR stops working. So far I see no difference in their workings. Both give me h.264/aac.
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    Oh, it's different again. Probably not. I only saw the error in about 1 out of 20 downloads before.
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    Sometimes an error pops up, but the download is still proceeds normally after 3 failed retries. I saw it twice and thought that the gig was up again.
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    I was not able to enter Quora and of course RateYourMusic (but I don't even try with New Moon for other reasons). But the captcha then got better and let me through again, without me changing anything. It was something temporary. The script is really tough and normally takes several seconds on Core 2 Duo.
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    Pdf printer to xp

    j7n replied to wyf180's topic in Windows XP

    I used to have an XP computer that needed to prepare bills. We used PDF-Xchange Pro, an old version. It worked well, was smaller than Adobe software, but it was not free.
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    Has the Cloudflare captcha become more complex again recently? On my computer it doens't complete in New Moon before the Stop Script dialog appears.
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    10 MB/s is what I have and I am perfectly content with it, I could buy a replacemnt router with a gigabit port and get "up to" 300 Mbit, but I can't afford a decent mikrotik router. Only efficient old software can reach high speeds, not a web browser in typical use.
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    I had selected to not use New Reddit in preferences. Apparently, now adding "old" to the address makes it faster again. Previously there was no difference, and I could get to the old reddit by following someone elses link without old. I see in the network log that it repeatedly loads the same things. And the scripts get processed again and again, causing the whole loading take about 1 minute. https://i.imgur.com/WUe9nev.png Scrolled down a bit, the same: https://i.imgur.com/cyP79MP.png I have talked to a couple websites in the outcome was just them saying to use modern stuff, so it is not really productive. 10 MB/s is the speed of fast ethernet, why the sad face, lol. The limitation as always is the load on the CPU from processing every piece,
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    Something happened to Reddit literally just now. Loading has become slow on an old PC, it fetches about 800 requests and 30 MB to display 100 subscriptions. This is not a problem specifically with New Moon, as Opera 12 is also affected, but I have no other place to discuss old PC and old browser behavior. Seems like they have modernized "Old" reddit. https://i.imgur.com/9xL6uJh.png
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    We are on XP forum. Of course applications working on XP use old DLLs. Are any newer DLLs swappable over libeay32.dll ssleay32.dll by renaming them? Some popular programs included SSL inside them statically and the DLLs were not accessible (ApexDC, Opera 12, FileZilla).
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    In NM the redirect link appears only after clicking on the link (or copying). Of course the HTML is different coming from the server, the anchor element contains different parameters. I am sending a Firefox/140 agent to get the full page from Google instead of a simplified version. It was a surprise to me that the page still isn't completely full doing this. I don't think is needed to jump in and "defend" either browser.
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    Where are these OpenSSL DLLs usable in apart from a YouTube downloader? Legacy applications that I have all depend on libeay32 and ssleay32. And do they support new algorithms to justify their much bigger size?
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    There might be a "JavaScript hook" that sneakily overwrites the link after it is clicked. Initially the true link is displayed on the status bar in New Moon. In New Moon the link anchor has the parameters: href (true link), data-ved, data-sb (google's redirect) In Supermium the parameters are: href (true link), data-ved, ping (google's redirect) It seems that Chromium is able to do something with "ping" that older browsers are not, perhaps connect to Google in parallel with the target. I didn't even know you could write such custom values into HTML.
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    I just noticed that when I copy a link from Google search using Supermium, I actually get the target link. But if I copy with an old browser, such as New Moon, I get the redicted link managed by Google. Why is it that Supermium has access to the true obfuscated link?
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    The latest update to yt-dlp works out of the box again with an "ios downgraded" method. And there no sleep. They recommend it now, but there isn't. I didn't know you could use those conditionals [height<=1080][ext=mp4] which would help with changing format numbers. Can you point me to instructions about how to use a "JS runtime" with yt-dlp on Win Seven? Is this an exe I drop or is there more to it?
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    It stopped working as of today with 403 Forbidden after receiving a little bit of data. From the post above I can use this. It gives me a VP9 video. Is VP9 the only option? --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]" The format codes I previously used with HLS don't work anymore.
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