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ruario / intro-latest-widevine.md
Last active January 29, 2024 07:53
Fetches the latest Linux Widevine binary so that it can be used by Vivaldi.

With the release of Vivaldi 2.2, this page is now obsolete and unmaintained. Widevine is fetched automatically on post install of our official packages. The information below and the script are left for historical reasons but will not be updated.

If you are using something newer than Vivaldi 2.2, you should not be using this script as there is simply no need. Any need you think you have for it would be a bug IMHO and thus should be logged in a bug report. Before you do so however, you should also checkout the Vivaldi help page on Widevine, on Linux


Summary

A bunch of people asked how they could use this script with pure Chromium on Ubuntu. The following is a quick guide. Though I still suggest you at least try Vivaldi. Who knows, you might like it. Worried about proprietary componants? Remember that libwidevinecdm.so is a b

@Deco
Deco / deepcopy.lua
Created October 31, 2012 05:38
Lua Non-recursive Deep-copy
--[[ deepcopy.lua
Deep-copy function for Lua - v0.2
==============================
- Does not overflow the stack.
- Maintains cyclic-references
- Copies metatables
- Maintains common upvalues between copied functions (for Lua 5.2 only)
TODO
@bradmontgomery
bradmontgomery / dummy-web-server.py
Last active November 13, 2024 16:11
a minimal http server in python. Responds to GET, HEAD, POST requests, but will fail on anything else.
#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
Very simple HTTP server in python (Updated for Python 3.7)
Usage:
./dummy-web-server.py -h
./dummy-web-server.py -l localhost -p 8000
Send a GET request:
@scoffey
scoffey / webtail.py
Created January 15, 2012 20:04
HTTP server that provides a web interface to run "tail" on a file, like the Unix command
#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
HTTP server that provides a web interface to run "tail" on a file,
like the Unix command.
This is a standalone script. No external dependencies required.
How to invoke: