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Thats how he got the idea

I wonder if they would allow a vote on when their CEO will die.

It should be okay to power from any phone that supports battery sharing.

The antenna that come with them are usually okay but eventually youll probably want to look into getting a better one. The small ones wont send far, but you should be able to see other far off nodes if they are high enough, they just probably wont see you.

Used pixels go for under $300. I just got a 6a for $140.

Its not "well intentioned”, the silpery slope is the point. Getting porn sites to essentially self censor by restricting what geographic regions have accesss until one day its the majority of places and suddenly banning porn sites in the remaining hold outs doesnt seem like such a hard sell, and then on to other subjects they dont like.

Any phone that runs android gives alphabet money, just buy a used one.

My funkwhale server is thriving.

You can use a service like duckdns.org for free to get a (sub)domain that can be used with funkwhale.

Could be. Ive not come across that format yet myself

Are videos you watched that previously had subs no longer showing them?

On my sererver i use bazaar to try and automate getting missing subs but its not perfect.

You can always manually download the video and look on opensubtitles or another site for subs that work.

One issue i run into is that devices can be very weird about which formats they work with. Some only allow srt and some work with .ass or other formats. vlc supports all of them but other apps might not.

APIs are the compromise that sites have to make if they dont want the much more reasource heavy scrapping methods used.

The most they could do is rate limit IP addresses, and that doesbt work too well when jts individual users who can just request a new IP any time

I use Dockge to manage everything.

By that logic, I could decide that movie studios have to opt out of me watching their movies for free, and if they don’t then it’s legal for me to pirate them. See how insane that sounds?

That sounds perfectly fine to me. This is now the official policy of all the serviced provided by gravitywell.xyz

I just switch between google accounts when my free session runs out of tokens for the moth. Never giving cursor or any of those “Ai” companies a dime but I take full advantage of their free tiers.

Funkwhale is the best option for replacing Spotify. It can be private or public and federated so you can follow users who want to share their playlists and such.

Navidrome is another good option although i don’t use it personally I hear nothing but good things.

Avoid subsonic directly but youll find funkwhale and other services support it as a protocol very well. Its just the subsonic server software itself and all of the forks seem to basically just be reinventing the same wheel over and over so they can charge for “premium” features.

I recommend self hosting, I don’t consider Plex to be shelf hosting since its so heavily depending on a third party corp to facilitate things.

If you aren’t interested in self hosting i don’t have any suggestions for you other than to enjoy it while it lasts.

Edit2: here we go

That makes sense, I appreciate you taking the time. Its certainly not a very big issue for me personally, and i do have other mitigations in place for more general attacks like fail2ban, but not everyone is in the same situation so its a valid concern to mention.

I do think you’re overestimating the risk, Studios are unlikely to go to such lengths when there are bigger, easier targets. Still, it’s not entirely negligible, even if the exploit seems fairly benign to me personally.

My thinking as a sysadmin is if someone has security concerns, they wouldnt be JUST with jellyfin in most cases, you’d be securing an entire server (or paying someone else to handle that part), so its issues to keep in mind sure, but the mitigation would be mainly outside of jellyfin specifically anyway, thus why its not really mentioned in jellyfin’s docs or considered a big concern by the devs.

So I’m not really disagreeing with anything you’ve said, but I you haven’t changed my mind either, I’m still going to recommend jellyfin over plex.

Stolen is loaded… XBMC was open source. All the parts that rely on that are available for free.

Okay so they violated the GPL to produce their product, it started off on good terms and contributing back up stream but then they got greedy and decided to stop giving back, On top of that they also provide nothing upstream to FFMPEG or any other of the open source projects they benefited massively from… basically they are leeches of open source software… but you are technically correct [1] to say its not literally stealing.

[1] The best kind of correct

Well its good to make sure people know about it, but I would think most admins already know and just don’t care. Its certainly not news to me, and doesn’t seem very useful in terms of actually exploiting anything.

I’m curious what youd think a kind of worst case scenario would be for any of the current jellyfin auth issues. Like what would someone with bad intentions be able to do?

I think the Plex issue with emails being stolen is a bigger problem because then those emails can get phished for their Plex accounts and possibility more. I still wouldn’t consider it a huge deal though, Plex handled it correctly.

My real issue with Plex and why I constantly shit on them is that they stole from XBMC and made a business model that monetizes piracy or at least tries to.