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  • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgtoMemes@lemmy.mlChad VLC
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    5 months ago

    but a video player to run through the command line on a daily drive desktop with GUI and everything?

    I’m not running it from the command line, I open videos with it from my file manager, or through the Jellyfin plugin.

    I mean when I’m on my desktop I just want to click on my media file and launch it right away.

    Yes, that’s what I do. Of course, your desktop environment has to know that you have this MPV and it can open such and such files, but it can work like that.






  • Yes, or more precisely it’s DNS over HTTPS.
    The S at the end stand for Secure, but technically it means that it is HTTP inside TLS. TLS encrypts the traffic, and verifies server responses to be authentic.
    HTTP and HTTPS are most often used by websites, but there are many more common uses of it.

    When a program - like firefox - uses DoH to resolve domain names (that is, find their corresponding IP address, they can have multiple), then instead of asking the DNS server that was configured in the operating system (often automatically set by your router’s “advisory”, though DHCP) through a clear text channel that is prone to inspection and manipulation, instead of that it asks a DNS server that communicates over HTTPS, just like webservers do.
    By doing this, domain name lookups have the protection of TLS, and they look like as if you have just visited a website. It’s harder* to find out which server was that request sent to, what was the purpose of that request, and since the content of the request is encrypted, and the response is encrypted and signed just as when visiting a website, it’s harder to see as an outside observer what was being done, including what website’s IP did you look up, and it’s harder for them to modify this response.

    DoH servers to be used may be set up with an IP address if that is fix and never changes, or through a domain name. If you only have the domain name of a DoH server, then you can’t contact that yet, first you have to look up it’s IP address using either an other DoH server who’s address is fix or the current one is known, or with a plain DNS server.