The Computer/Software/Marketing Help Thread

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A load of shit has affected some (a lot of) Amazon AWS infrastructure, lots of sites down ATM

But not the UKSF, no sir.

Proof I think you’ll find, that we are better than Amazon.

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1091

Fuckin Wordle signed me out and I’ve lost a winning streak of 97

Absolute shitshow

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1092

My doorbell has stopped working! :upside_down_face:

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1093

ah man.

I started playing geoguesser app on my phone while waiting for my youngest at school. Streak of 113 levels, had no idea there was a leaderboard and still don’t know to what degree that means but I was first place.

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Hello all.

Is there a free version of something similar to After Effects anywhere? Wanna make a ramped slow mo, got a rail trick that needs the treatment even if I never use it haha.

Bringing it back. Fish eye ramped slow mo was always much better than 1000x zoom and 1000x slow speed. LOL.

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1096

Cant vouch for it (helpful), but AlternativeTo recommends Natron.

Free / open source.

https://alternativeto.net/software/adobe-after-effects/

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1097

Davinci Resolve might do the job for you there!

It’s legit free and seriously good.

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1098

So I already have that. I’ll do a Google / Chat GPT

1099

I need to get a song to use in an edit.

Don’t wanna download a torrent on this computer.

How do I get it? Is youtube ripper going to be good enough?

Help, I haven’t done this for a long time haha

1100

What’s the youtube url? Feel free to dm.

Using the command line tool yt-dlp can list all the formats it’s available from Youtube in. Usually can get pretty good audio using it.

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1101

DM’d you mate

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1102

I remember using some website like Youtube2MP3 .com from back in the iPod days.

1103

Thanks man, Nav did it for me hahahaha.

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I could do with this information please.

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Pretty straightforward if you’re into command line stuff either on Mac or Linux:

  • Install yt-dlp: GitHub - yt-dlp/yt-dlp: A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader
  • Run it against a youtube video to find all the formats, eg:
    # list all formats: 
yt-dlp -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYbw-Xqvau0

# If you want audio only, 140 is usually the best and will give you an m4a file
yt-dlp -f 140 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYbw-Xqvau0

# convert the m4a to an mp3 using ffmpeg
ffmpeg -i youtube-file.m4a -codec:a libmp3lame -qscale:a 2 output.mp3

There’s a windows version, assume the general principle is the same.

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Got a request for help with a website I used to manage. Basically the person who it was registered to died and the site reg expired, and no-one else has the hosting / log in info. I’m getting confused info as to which company the domain is registered with. How do I find out and is there a way to get access again? Was considering trying fiverr for someone to help

Cheers to anyone who can help

Edit - found the host with whois search

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There’s loads but you get pop ups, be sure to close any pop ups that open

Or dm me and I’ll do it

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1108

Did you sort this out or still need help? DM if you want

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My current website portfolio (currently wordpress) and 5-6 assorted emails are all with a UK provider, Nublue. Every 2 years, it renews and coming up in the coming months, it’ll be close to €500, which is a huge amount. The domain registration is with a different company.

Anybody have any tips or recommendations on cheaper alternatives?