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UK Police and FACT Continue IPTV Piracy Whack-a-Mole
  • I've got to be honest, FACT might keep on yammering that they're nailing these "IP" pirates in the UK but all the dodgy firestick sellers I've ever met, all the guys who have pirated since god knows how long I've never ever once heard of someone getting done over here in Britbongland?

    Worst I've had is two emails to one of the 10 email addresses BlueYonder supplied us with (yes, I've had my BY/Telewest that long....) telling me I'm naughty for torrenting two episodes of Animal Kingdom back in 2016/7. And, because they use a Gmail backend for their email stack I didn't even get notified and only noticed them because I got bored, printed them out, and rolled them around my toilet paper roll for shits and giggles.

    Seriously, is there anyone around here from this same land and heard of anyone getting "done"?

  • Best OS for Arr suite, Proton VPN, and Plex
  • remotely is a challenge for me right now

    I've seen you mention this a few times and like mentioned elsewhere in here, set yourself a Tailnet up.

    It's fugging brilliant, the docs are wrote by some very clever people (note, I am best described as a copy / pasta person?) and are through, and you can use a github or even a Google account for authentication.

    Even grabbing a cheapo raspberry pi4 gives you a 1GB port (the rpi3 only has a 100Mbps rj-45 port and would still suffice for lesser needs) for your own VPN Wireguard to home, that is P2P encrypted and can be used as an Exit Node / subnet router

    ie: if you're on someone else's internet/cellular you can simply hit up your exit node to break out of any nanny filters, stop anyone else noseying at your traffic (obv bar your ISP seeing outgoing requests unless you have a another...VPN on your router), and also view and/or manage any devices on your home network/Tailnet by IP address.

    Hell, I dumped a rpi down at a family members house that is part of the "stack" so I can help out remotely but it seems someone has knocked the aerial out of the HAT again :/

    Best thing ever.

  • Farewell RealDebrid
  • They're not services per se, but are a stack of software that you can kinda "clump" together for the lack of a better word.

    For instance I started using qbittorrent client recently instead of Transmission that I was using before as my torrent client because I can't find a way for Transmission to not download malware, and you can also do the very same with the indexer clients such as Jackett or Prowlarr which then talk to other software such as Radarr/Sonarr via API keys and is usually where most get caught out.

    Read the docs, get thoroughly confused, and probably do it in docker too as everyone says if your hardware is sufficient.

  • [SOLVED] Any of you guys solved this crap with the arrr stack downloading ".lnk" ".scr" files?
  • Aye, I have them all from that previous discussion about it but noticed it wasn't working because noobie here didn't think of line separators.

    I wonder if there's a way of making qbit notifying users they need to be that way πŸ€”

    https://forum.qbittorrent.org/viewtopic.php?t=11091

  • [SOLVED] Any of you guys solved this crap with the arrr stack downloading ".lnk" ".scr" files?
  • Separated by a newline

    You brilliant person got it in one! Love you 😘

    https://files.catbox.moe/tda0my.jpg

    Now I haven't tested which of the line separated ones blocked it, but the wildcard *.lnk didn't work when they were comma separated but do when line separated. have tested, and these are the most common so far I've seen

    *.lnk

    *.scr

    *.arj

    *.zipx

    *.exe

    *.cmd

    *.msi

    *.bat

    *.scf


    Again, πŸ‘Œ

  • [SOLVED] Any of you guys solved this crap with the arrr stack downloading ".lnk" ".scr" files?

    I've told qbit to exclude those files and many other extensions from someone's helpful comment on here previously, but the stack keeps on grabbing and seeding them, which the latter I'm a little unhappy about sharing malware.

    While all the boxes on my network have no sign of Windows to get exploited it does worry me about another family members arrr stack because there is a Windows laptop down there, but thankfully not used for media consumption.

    Help?

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    edit: big thanks to kiszkot@feddit.nu for pointing me in line separators instead of comma separated exclusions!

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    Help me find a charging brick
  • I've always gone with Anker chargers and cables and they've always seen me right.

    Saying that thou and even thou my current phone comes with a 90w charger in the box, I simply use my 20w Anker charger since fast charging isn't exactly good for the health of your battery and if I can, I leave it on a trickle charge at home.

  • Thousands of hacked TP-Link routers used in years-long account takeover attacks
  • Ya know this is a really good point and whether the network switch is managed, or unmanaged.

    I've never delved into the black magic of playing with a managed switch before but your comment makes me eager to have a play with one now.

  • Gsam battery monitor has been delisted?
  • Indeed, and is something that not only irks me with newer apps like you say but is also something we have at work with all the HMI / touchscreens.

    They're just now icons with no labels or anything so trying to figure out what some of them do is a game of guesswork 🀬

  • Oops, Apple approved another illegal streaming app
  • The French are very defendant when it comes to VLC or other open sauce apps. I'd usually bring the Willy joke out but I'm with them on this one.

  • Thousands of hacked TP-Link routers used in years-long account takeover attacks
  • edit Gli-net seems nice, but i'm a stickler of using a WAP separate from the router. I know I pay more.

    It's exactly why I bought her two of them. One their main router and the other in AP mode ;)

  • Thousands of hacked TP-Link routers used in years-long account takeover attacks
  • As opposed to, TP-Link, Cisco(Linksys) and other off the shelf routers it seems some will only go for brands with their own proprietary firmware?

    I grabbed that Xiaomi router on the premise it has OpenWRT, but I'd like to see Ubi / Unifi routers put under the same scrutiny instead of just lumping a brand name as a no-go.

    What's your recommendation?

  • Thousands of hacked TP-Link routers used in years-long account takeover attacks
  • Never used them pal, but seen them used in Enterprise environments?

    Something I've found on a SOHO environment though and what I bought a family member?

    Gli-Net mini routers. They come with OpenWRT as a base and then lipstick it with a nice interface. But as always, YMMV

  • Thousands of hacked TP-Link routers used in years-long account takeover attacks
  • No doubt, and I would really love someone with more knowledge than me to poke into why that was going on (*edit: for clarity, this behaviour stopped after installing OpenWRT and is the stock Mi firmware that causes this)

    https://files.catbox.moe/2i5ekl.jpg

    I remember finding this thread where someone said they replaced their entire networking equipment

    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72022569/cannot-find-fixes-to-apt-error-hash-sum-mismatch

    My router is this model for anyone wanting to nosey

    https://openwrt.org/toh/xiaomi/ax3600

  • Streaming music server for YouTube
  • This reminds me of some peeps saying using Newpipe is "(app) piracy". I wholly disagree with them to this day.

    If a website, which YouTube.com is and allows a client to connect and use its services it isn't, piracy per se.

    Much like because I have a UK IP address I can hit up get_iplayer and use that service which IMO should be the norm.

    e: apologies for not been helpful, I'm just ranting.

  • Thousands of hacked TP-Link routers used in years-long account takeover attacks
  • I've had no end of trouble with routers and ones you should choose to be sure of.

    The ones where you can flash OpenWRT seems the only choice if you want some semblance of security. But even my current Xiaomi router with stock firmware creates hash mismatches using apt to download things, and I don't 100% know with confidence that using OpenWRT on it instead is keeping me right.

  • Gsam battery monitor has been delisted?
  • Innit.

    It's silly, and they're nuking devs apps to make them update for the sake of "being active" even thou their app is still like Ronseal and does what it says on the tin, even after all these years and works just fine.

    Might look like Gingerbread but I don't give a fugg since I don't even look at it and love that app.

  • Gsam battery monitor has been delisted?
  • Sucks, I recently just noticed one of my most used apps SMBSync2 got yoinked but thankfully have it installed still, but I also noticed that APKmirror doesn't even have a copy of it like it does for GSAM :/

  • β€˜Giant bronze poop’ statue β€˜honoring’ those involved in Jan. 6 riot appears on National Mall
  • Yeah, I'm a Britbong and apparently we're regarded for knowing satire when it stares us in the face.

    And we've also had the simple truth that the Germans at one point were terribad at it but are now nailing it down, especially when you come to the above users calling it "satire".

    It's a shit joke in very bad taste no matter where you're from or whatever political spectrum you're aligned to. Made me giggle to be honest, and especially so how you downvoted for not getting lel joke.

    Tally ho'

  • Qualcomm patches high-severity zero-day exploited in attacks

    cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/18563178

    > Qualcomm has released security patches for a zero-day vulnerability in the Digital Signal Processor (DSP) service that impacts dozens of chipsets. [...]

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    TIL there's a direct number to your bank via a short code and reporting fraud

    Was aware of the 7726 short code for spammers

    https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/consumer/phone-internet-downloads-or-tv/stop-getting-nuisance-calls-and-texts/

    but never heard of 159 before.

    Heads up?

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    Skylo Connectivity Enables New Satellite SOS Feature on Google Pixel 9 Series
    www.skylo.tech Skylo Connectivity Enables New Satellite SOS Feature on Google Pixel 9 Series - Newsroom - Skylo

    Skylo announced the support of an innovative satellite SOS feature on the new Google Pixel 9 series in the US

    Skylo Connectivity Enables New Satellite SOS Feature on Google Pixel 9 Series - Newsroom - Skylo

    cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/11927852

    > Skylo announced the support of an innovative satellite SOS feature on the new Google Pixel 9 series in the US

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    Skylo Connectivity Enables New Satellite SOS Feature on Google Pixel 9 Series
    www.skylo.tech Skylo Connectivity Enables New Satellite SOS Feature on Google Pixel 9 Series - Newsroom - Skylo

    Skylo announced the support of an innovative satellite SOS feature on the new Google Pixel 9 series in the US

    Skylo Connectivity Enables New Satellite SOS Feature on Google Pixel 9 Series - Newsroom - Skylo

    Skylo announced the support of an innovative satellite SOS feature on the new Google Pixel 9 series in the US

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    Newpipe and using a VPN
    github.com [YouTube] Can't play any video - "Sign in to confirm that you're not a bot" Β· Issue #11139 Β· TeamNewPipe/NewPipe

    Checklist I am able to reproduce the bug with the latest version given here: CLICK THIS LINK. I made sure that there are no existing issues - open or closed - which I could contribute my informatio...

    [YouTube] Can't play any video - "Sign in to confirm that you're not a bot" Β· Issue #11139 Β· TeamNewPipe/NewPipe

    I seem to be suffering from the above bug

    https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/11139

    but it only seems to pervade if I'm using Tailscale to VPN home to my exit node at a family members house?

    Is Google / YT blocking the use of VPN's here / anyone else experiencing this?

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    Bradford stabbing: Victim named as Kulsuma Akter as hunt for Habibur Masum continues
    www.bbc.co.uk Bradford stabbing: Victim named as Kulsuma Akter as hunt for Habibur Masum continues

    Kulsuma Akter, from Oldham, was stabbed to death while pushing her baby in a pram, police say.

    Bradford stabbing: Victim named as Kulsuma Akter as hunt for Habibur Masum continues

    https://archive.is/XVnMk

    update caught in Buckinghamshire

    https://archive.is/wXSmq

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    Loveland vs Darlene Lewis - Let The Music Lift You Up - TOTP - 1994

    Another of the old classics that I'd never seen from TOTP

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    Apple to Wind Down Electric Car Effort After Decadelong Odyssey

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-27/apple-cancels-work-on-electric-car-shifts-team-to-generative-ai

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    Friday Night Posse - Right and Exact Nation

    One of my most favourite mashups from Harry Hard and the FNP crew.

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    Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping Ads from Profobuf
    ericdraken.com Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping Ads from Profobuf

    Apple TV and iOS YouTube ads are not blocked by Pi-hole, so I researched this and discovered a flaw in Protobuf that allows me to restrict YouTube ads.

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    HOLO YOLO, Toshiba.

    Petition to make a wiki page to make a Approved Wiki page of Approved Printers?

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    ladfrombrad ladfrombrad πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ @lemdro.id

    not called Brad but rather a lad, from Bradford in the UK.

    Enjoys breaking apps, escooters, spam rings and sometimes bones, but not my own. That sucks.

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