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Cake day: November 19th, 2023

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  • Generally, if nothing else works, in a desktop browser, I right click the video area, and Inspect Code or something like that, which brings up the browser’s code inspector.

    Then I look for a string “.mp4” which will be the filename. It might be buried under several layers of html, but be persistent clicking backwards and forwards through the HTML, and it shows up eventually.

    Try to open that URL in a different browser tab and save it from there.

    Sometimes that searching doesn’t work though, especially if it’s passing parameters to a custom media player.

    All I see on that page is a link to YouTube.

    The URL in the OP just sent me to the homepage.

    I think one has to be logged in to see the actual lesson page.









  • Those were the days!

    NES and SNES games fit on a 3.5" floppy disk, and there were piratey disk drive peripherals that you could insert into the cartridge slots on those systems. The peripheral had a cartridge slot on top, so you inserted the cartridge, copied the game to floppy, or floppies, and gave those to your friends, as they gave you their copies. You could rent game cartridges from video stores.

    PS1 games you just installed a modchip and then you could play CD-R copies of game disks

    PS2 they had the flip top cases, and “magic disc” that was a special disk printed with the “official authentication code” but then ran a program to stop the drive, allowing you to lift up the lid, then press a button to load whatever game was on the CD-R/DVD-R copy.

    For PC Games there was the mighty GameCopyWorld that allowed you to patch games to bypass CD/DVD disc checks. If you had the right tools, you could make your own virtual CD, bypassing the risk of viruses from rando downloading.

    Even before that, people could write fully working games by hand, and shareware was fully functional before it all became crippleware or nagware.

    These days, you can’t play tic-tac-toe without the game connecting to a server, and forcing you to log in after watching 30 minutes of ads, and that’s after you’ve paid your monthly subscription fee.