[-] brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 week ago

Careful. Almost every Firefox based browser still pings out to various google domains and sends out other telemetry.

Librewolf is fine though.

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I noticed a lot of game repacks provide the installation files, but then require you to get a "free activation" to actually play the game.

What exactly is going on here under the hood and why can't the crack provider supply a traditional crack or keygen?

EDIT: This seems to be specific to Denuvo games. I'm going down the rabbit hole and people are forced to queue up for what I'm assuming is the equivalent of a serial key? that ties directly to their steam account....which seems like a great way to get your steam account banned.

Requirements to download the discord server's proprietary game launcher and bypass all security features on your PC.

Seems insanely sketchy and overcomplicated. Am I completely misunderstanding this?

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For a while I've used a docker image that read a file that gluetun updates with the current open port and then updates qbittorrent to use that port.

It seems that utility is no longer maintained.

Does anybody know of a solid replacement?

[-] brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml 27 points 3 months ago

Most people don't know your photos can be cross profiled and identified by the unique noise signature of your camera.

I've never heard of it being used in practice though. There's a github repo somewhere if you're interested in trying it yourself.

[-] brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml 33 points 3 months ago

This has been such a depressing trend over the last few decades.

Fresh bright-eyed startup with a passionate creator develops some interesting and innovative product.

Gets bought out by FAANG, turns to shit and stops working properly or gets discontinued, and primarily functions as a spyware device.

[-] brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml 78 points 4 months ago

This is fine if the post is something insanely low effort.

But I do worry if this ends up being too aggressive.

One of the things that made reddit so awful is how over moderated it was.

I don't really take issue with dozens of posts by newbies asking the same basic question over and over. I used to be one and am occasionally back there again if I start a new hobby. Hopefully newcomers don't get pushed off by overly sensitive moderation.

It would be helpful if you could provide a hypothetical example of what is considered a "low effort" post.

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Does this or has this existed?

A site where users can post a bounty for a bug fix on something and others can contribute. If the bug is fixed, an arbitrator determines if the solution meets all of the parameters and rewards the programmer with the pooled funds.

Beyond bug fixes, it could be used to fund entire applications or even specific feature requests.

Companies or software packages could have their own official pages, with separate sections for bug fixes, feature requests, or even future versions.

Contributors can pledge an amount with a lifespan attached. If the bug or feature isn't materialized within that window it refunds their account. Otherwise the money is held in escrow until paid out.

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An interesting reflection on how LLMs can manipulate vulnerable individuals into psychosis and how AI tech bros have also drank the koolaid.

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I wasn't a fan of HACS making a github account a requirement.

I understand the reasoning, but IMO it should be optional.

I've been getting by fine manually installing custom components, but some basic automation to this process would be nice., especially for updates.

Before I start on my own barebones addon for maintaining custom components, I figured I would ask around if any such thing already exists.

At the bare minimum an addon that serves as a frontend for git clone/pull plus moving the files into the appropriate folder. A bonus would be to display available updates with change logs attached.

The HACS searchable database is great, but I don't find it particularly necessary. Manually pasting a codeberg/github repo then clicking an Add button seems totally acceptable.

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Running pfsense, I was able to route my entire LAN subnet through a VPN. I have firewall and NAT rules that use an alias to filter outgoing connections to specific domains outside of the VPN gateway.

This works great. But here's the problem. Wildcards are not supported within pfsense aliases, and therefore unless you know the specific subdomain for a service, there's no way to reroute services that use rotating or load balancing subdomains.

Surely this is a big problem in large companies. I'm sure they utilize a paid solution to solve this problem.

Are there any solutions for self hosting that are FOSS or within pfsense?

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I know there's many questions about self hosted Spotify alternatives, but this one has a slight twist.

Does there exist a service or service stack that provides a single sign on web interface where friends/family can login to search for and download music, stream, and create playlists/share playlists (or even their entire library) with other users?

I've always used Spotify to an extent as a social network. Almost all playlists are shared with close friends, and we share essentially a unified library. I'd like to replicate this outside of Spotify.

Essentially what Immich does but for music, podcasts, and audio books.

Some type of iPhone & android compatible app would be necessary as well.

The ability to easily upload purchased music from bandcamp as well as download pirated music from something like soulseek would be needed too.

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We all hate google and youtube, but overall as a community we're all simultaneously lukewarm and non-committal about pushing towards using an alternative. I admittedly cling to invidious frontends for dear life.

It seems like whenever somebody asks for an alternative to youtube, they're offered Odysee and Peertube, but inevitably many others chime in about the shortcomings of both of those platforms.

Can we as a community come to a consensus as to which of these platforms should be pushed forward?

I don't even think it needs to be a binary choice. Obviously youtube cannot be immediately replaced for it's archival of educational and tutorial videos, but we can at least push newcomers towards using invidious frontends for those instances.

Maybe Odysee is better for some type of content over Peertube. Let's discuss which platform works best for what and try to be more active about sharing and promoting them not just to viewers but potential creators as well.

If you go to share a youtube link, try to see if that video exists on an alternate platform first and share that link instead. I think that's a good first step towards getting away from youtube in the privacy community.

But youtube alternatives are still very much on the fringe and I'm hoping this post will at least inspire some discussion about changing that.

[-] brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml 28 points 8 months ago

This frustrates me to no end. I follow piracy and privacy communities that only use discord for discussion. It defies logic.

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Invitation Code: DIVEINTOTL

Stats: • ⁠⁠Torrents Total: 2,275,204 • ⁠Torrents Active: 928,740 • ⁠Torrents Dead: 1,346,464

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Are any of these services trusted? Would a private tracker lock your account as soon as they figure out you bought your way in?

And can anybody vouch for or against [redacted]?

Edit: pretty sure the site I asked about is a scammer so I removed it so nobody goes there. I had completely misspelled the tracker name when contacting them and they didn't correct me.

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I'm trying to improve my spanish by watching my favorite films with spanish dubs.

Im having trouble finding these with the current trackers I'm on. I'd appreciate any help finding or joining a private tracker that does spanish language dubs.

[-] brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml 20 points 11 months ago

I recommend it every time this question pops up and I'm surprised more people aren't privy to it:

Rent a VPS as your public gateway. Connect the VPS to your server with a simple wireguard tunnel.

The only thing on the VPS should be a reverse proxy with SSL/TLS pass through.

Send the traffic at the VPS reverse proxy to a reverse proxy on the main server. Configure this proxy to use letsencrypt certs.

The benefit and importance of the SSL pass through reverse proxy, is that it allows all data in transit to remain encrypted until it reaches your physical server. Traditionally, most would suggest the one and only reverse proxy exist on the VPS but all traffic would then be decrypted on the VPS. This could obviously compromise your traffic if the VPS provider snoops or your VPS is compromised.

Cloudflare tunnels decrypt on their hardware as well, which is why I always recommend avoiding their services.

[-] brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

I've used Tuta for years, paid account with multiple custom domains.

I prefer them for their principles, but their clients are extremely frustrating. Emails load very slowly and their email search is basically unusable.

I've resorted to downloading old emails and using other clients to import and search through them. I really wish they would improve their email search.

[-] brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

The wiki entry has a chart which shows all plans have access to HD content. Is the chart wrong or did the contributor confuse SD with SDR?

Either way fuck HBO.

[-] brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago

FBI, open up!

Jk. Thank you for your service

[-] brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago

Did you use compressed air to clean out the fans?

It's possible to fry circuitry if you artificially rotate the fans too fast, as this generates an electric field more powerful than the fans and their attached components are rated for.

Probably rare to cause damage with modern computers but an old PC might be more susceptible to this type of damage.

[-] brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml 46 points 2 years ago

I operate an invidious instance. Google has really cracked down the past two weeks on YouTube front ends. Its extremely frustrating.

Invidious devs are finalizing a workaround so hopefully things will be working again in the next week or two.

[-] brownmustardminion@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 years ago

ELI5 please. What are the benefits over unbound?

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