streamlink-twitch-gui

A multi platform Twitch.tv browser for Streamlink

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What it is

A multi platform Twitch.tv browser for Streamlink

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Nov 9	2020-11-09 00:00:00 UTC	2020-11-16 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
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Nov 23	2020-11-23 00:00:00 UTC	2020-11-30 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
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Mar 29	2021-03-29 00:00:00 UTC	2021-04-05 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
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Apr 12	2021-04-12 00:00:00 UTC	2021-04-19 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Apr 19	2021-04-19 00:00:00 UTC	2021-04-26 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

What Hacker News says

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btdmaster·Apr 19, 2021

Non-solution, but have you seen https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink-twitch-gui? It runs natively using streamlink, and streamlink can use e.g. mpv and use minimal CPU, instead using hardware acceleration (or not run whatever JavaScript Twitch decides to run, at least).

In Firefox 88.0

LockAndLol·Nov 10, 2020

I mean, it looks cool and all, but I'm not quite sure I get it. Let's say I download a GUI application I kinda trust, but not fully. For example streamlink-twitch-gui [1]. It's a crossplatform GUI for Twitch that uses electron. Let's say the binary downloaded has 2 exploits: 1. It zips all dot files in the user's home and sends them to a server. 2. It send the X clipboard to a server. Does firejail protect against either attack? If so, how? For apps like these, I would have a script that creates a new user, copies the app into $newUserHome, starts Xephr [2] a my main user, starts the app as $newUser with DISPLAY=:$xephrDisplay. I'm no security expert, but those 2 issues seem solved that way. Does firejail practically do something similar but with kernel magic? [1]: https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink-twitch-gui [2]: https://en.wikipe

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