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We're just throwing straight up piracy on HN now? We're vibing piracy now? Felonies via API?
Seems to be missing some context. What is this used for? Piracy?
I thought the whole point of turnstile was that it detects headless browsers and it's supposed to be "difficult" to bypass. Apparently this just simulates clicking on the checkmark. Is it really that easy?
Docker version on MacOS might not find your TV.
This is interesting, instead of a command line interface it made me wonder what an interface right on the tv could look like.

Comparisons to watching tv, are usually a TV interface, with a TV device/app, be it an Android TV/Apple TV, etc.

Maybe I'm missing it, I couldn't see a tv interface.

The part where it can send video to any kind of tv is a pretty remarkable piece.

Usually piracy software tries to maintain a little plausible deniability, but here this is suggesting it will help you stream this weekend's newly released $250m blockbuster.
For a no hacks alternative, I built TV Explorer. It puts the channel's published HLS stream into your browser with no interim steps. Uses the public GitHub list of more than 10,000 free channels.

https://tvexplorer.live

that's INCREDIBLE! thanks so much for creating and sharing this!
This is super cool. Thanks for building it.

Here are a couple of issues I'm seeing in Brave on Debian:

The player's mute button effectiveness lasts for fractions-to-seconds before the player unmutes itself. I instead need to mute the tab.

Fit Screen doesn't do anything when clicked.

Full Screen doesn't preserve the stream's aspect ratio and instead stretches to the displays' aspect ratio, which on my non-16:9 displays gets weird.

Floating Window has some glitchy draw behavior, among other bugs.

Still, I love it. It's great and I use it daily. Thanks again!

> I built it because I couldn't cast web video from my laptop to my TV: no Chromecast, no AirPlay.

Looks like Claude built it.

- very stupid comment: i still have no idea what this project does even after reading the README

- can someone kindly explain what is the actual problem statement and what the author is trying to solve here?

Can this be used without a TV, lets say if I just want to play the streams with VLC?
>Castor launches headless Chrome with a randomized fingerprint and stealth scripts to hide automation.

you lost me in there.

This situation where bots have to run a headless browser in a new profile is just stupid. Can we have the old internet back? Please? Cloudflare you're not stopping bots, you're just wasting effort on both sides while siphoning access logs and passwords to the NSA.
It's about as much effort as a torrent, so I don't see the point.