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borari , 6 days ago

To level set, Microsoft owns SysInternals, and has since 2006. None of it is “community vetted”, to me that implies FOSS or something.

borari , 6 days ago

Yeah, I use SysInternals stuff every day. Neither myself nor the community has vetted SysInternals tools any more than they have vetted outlook, teams, or word. Unless I’m misunderstanding the meaning of vetted.

Vetting in a program/application context as I understand it is that the code has been vetted, which can only be done by the community at large if the source code is provided. Just like with a person, vetting is doing an actual background check, where as vouching for someone is just one person telling a second person that a third person is chill or something.

borari , 10 days ago

It sounds like you already know what you want to buy, just fucking buy it. Why are you fishing for other people’s approval on what you spend your own money on?

borari , 14 days ago

Bro they’re grabbing links from trackers, not even downloading any copyrighted material. They’re not buying mdma on alphabay.

borari , 13 days ago

I mean you do you, but there’s always a trade off with these types of things (usually security at the expense of usability), so most people would be better served by taking stock of their activities, the risk caused by those activities, then mitigating that risk to an acceptable level. If acceptable to you is cruising around to mcdonald’s parking lots so you can bounce off their wifi like you’re taking the risk of ordering weight more power to you, but just know that from a risk mitigation perspective you’re implementing controls way out of line with the actual risk. Probably, depending on your local laws etc idk i’m not you.

borari , 17 days ago

your autocorrect misspelled debian server in that last line there.

borari , 20 days ago

Medium is the journalistic version of the gig economy apps, mixed with a bit of digital landlording. The correct thing to do here is to bypass any of Mediums paywalls you might run in to.

borari , 20 days ago

I abhor medium, but run across it a little while researching cybersecurity shit. I had no idea scribe.rip existed, so thanks for the plug.

borari , 20 days ago

OP also wanted to know before “buying a membership”. In what world do you buy a membership to a library?

borari , 23 days ago (edited 23 days ago)

I don’t torrent, just usenet. I added Paw Patrol into sonarr and have an ungodly amount of episodes of that show. The only kids show i’ve ran in to issues getting personally was some newish winnie the pooh show, but a new season dropped recently and the backlog filled in basically overnight.

Edit - I’m missing one episode in season 5, fourteen in season 9, and twenty five from season 10. Not really sure why i’m missing so many from the more recent seasons, but with 101.9GiBs of Paw Patrol none of the parents I share my media with care when they can hit shuffle, and their four year olds definitely don’t give a fuck about which episode just dropped. Although I’m probably going to hyperfixate on this now and not sleep until i’ve grabbed everything that’s missing so thanks for that lol.

borari , 1 month ago

You’ve run up against the first thing that seems to really confuse people when they begin learning about networking.

What you thought of as a LAN is a LAN. A VLAN is a Virtual LAN. It’s the same concept but virtualized, allowing more than one LAN on hardware that is just physically a single LAN.

When most people are talking about setting up VLANs they are usually describing the creation of a separate layer 3 subnet and the creation of a VLAN ID that gets tagged to all packets that get sent on that separate subnet. This allows for both layer 2 and 3 separation of the virtual lans on a single physical network.

Conceptually it’s very similar to VM’s running on a single server.

borari , 1 month ago

Does spotify not serve ads from their own domains? I know i’ve noticed more stuff getting through my pihole and when i check the admin panel both the actual video and the ads are being served from the same domain a lot of times.

borari , 1 month ago

As @slickJujitsu said, make sure to set everything up using Docker containers going forward, it makes stuff like this completely painless.

As for your *aars, pretty sure all you have to do is create and export/download a backup in the web GUI, all your stuff including file history, settings, and stuff should follow. Check the documentation for each tool to verify before you do anything destructive though, it’s been a little while since I had to change hardware without everything being Dockerized.

For Plex, read them follow this guide step by step. It’s not generally that painful of a process. I’m assuming your pirated media is not saved locally on the Windows machine, and is on a NAS, in the cloud, or on external drives? If so there’s nothing destructive about copying files and standing up a new instance, so just follow the guide and don’t delete anything from the Windows PMS instance until you’re done setting up the new Dockerized PMS on Linux. That also goes for the *aar services.

Once everything’s Dockerized every time you update you’re effectively migrating servers, the Docker image is meant to be ephemeral. All the config folders, temp folders, media folders, log folders, etc., are mapped to permanent folders on the host that can just be attached to whatever new host you want to use.

One thing I will add is don’t map specific media library folders to your PMS Docker image, like /movies, /tv, /music, etc. Instead, make an inclusive /media folder, nest the Library folders in there, then pass that inclusive /media folder to the PMS Docker image. This way you don’t have to edit your compose yaml file each time you want to add a new Library, you just create the new folder, add the content, and map the Library in the PMS GUI.

borari , 1 month ago

No. As long as you can mount the share on your Linux machine, you then just pass that share to the Docker container the same way you’d pass a mounted SMB share or a locally mounted directory.

borari , 1 month ago

I couldn’t follow your post with all those line breaks at first. If you had preceded your post with “I’m glad i’m not the only one who thought this: a 🧵” I would have understood that each paragraph was related much more easily.

borari , 1 month ago

Oh I was just being sarcastic and trying to make a joke. I’ve seen a ton of people start off with that bullshit on microblogging sites, like “How Threat Actor APT Whatever Implanted Malware In Popular Package Source Code. \n A 🧵”, using the thread emoji instead of just saying thread. Then they go off on like 22 tweets that should have just been a blog post, but Medium is dumb and their employer isn’t fancy enough to have a public blog to post after-action findings on.

Your post was absolutely fine and completely readable on mobile and PC alike, I’m truly sorry I caused any confusion or worry about formatting on your part!

borari , 1 month ago

Based on this interpretation libraries are stealing from book publishers and food banks are stealing from grocery stores.

borari , 1 month ago

What? No. Denying the option to distribute something is not theft.

Your point about Brand A selling something named a derivative of Brand B makes me think there’s a misunderstanding here. This would fall under the realm of trademark violation, which I wasn’t aware was being discussed.

if you wrote the "super personal top secret book" and a library somehow got a copy without your permission and made it public, you'd be pissed too and they'd deny your right to distribute or not distribute.

I’d be pissed that the library somehow stole the physical book from me or that they hacked into my computer and stole the books manuscript file from me, which both would be examples of actual theft. If I sold the library the physical book and an epub version with DRM, the library removed the DRM, then began loaning out the DRM-stripped epub I could potentially be mad, but it certainly would not be because of theft because no theft would have occurred in that scenario.

borari , 1 month ago

They never said it was theft.

My bad, you’re right they did not. In the context of the OP and the quote used in the top level reply, “the owner doesn’t lose anything” clearly means “the owner does not lose a physical good or object”.

Saying grocers have the right to deny food they were going to throw away to those who would eat it is little different than saying Israel has the right to deny the entry of aid in the form or food and/or medical supplies into Gaza.

It's a "right" to FORCE people to starve, and to FORCE others to let them starve. "Right"? It’s no such thing.

Ok, I’m losing the thread here. I’m not really sure what this has to do with piracy or whether piracy constitutes theft at this point. If you’re trying to draw an analogy between two situations I’m just not understanding it.

borari , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I’m with @the_post_of_tom_joad here, I had no idea I had a radical opinion but I also don’t think theft of physical goods is morally wrong.

“If what you seek ain’t free, then steal it. If it ain’t necessity, you don’t need it. Just leave what’s left for those who come next.”

borari , 1 month ago

From your source verbatim, emphasis mine:

A theft is the taking and removal of money or property with the intent to deprive the owner of it. The taking must be illegal under the law of the state where it occurred and must have been done with criminal intent.

Piracy of digital media would not meet that threshold set by the IRS. If any media publisher is deducting this type of “loss” from their taxes it sure reads like they’re committing tax fraud.

borari , 1 month ago

You’re right, it’s not a perfect analogy. I was more pushing back against the supposition that the depravation of a potential sale equates to theft.

That said, media that is pirated comes from somewhere. Many times that content is ripped from streaming providers directly, which means someone has paid for the content initially. Other times the content is ripped off a blu-ray, which also means someone has paid for the content already. Cam recordings require someone to pay for a ticket (or someone to work at a theater but at that point we’re getting in to semantics).

At this point I’ve completely lost the context of what we’re even discussing here. Oh, right. OP said piracy isn’t stealing. Stealing/theft/larceny requires real property to be taken from its owner. Digital piracy does not meet that definition, full stop. OP is technically correct. Is it copyright infringement? Sure. Is that moral? Idk, I can’t dictate your morals but I don’t have any moral objection to it myself.

borari , 1 month ago

For anyone that isn’t aware, this is the logical argument used in Cory Doctorow’s book Information Doesn’t Want To Be Free, which you can get an ebook of for free on his site.

borari , 1 month ago

The legal definition definitely involves physical objects being removed from their owners possession though.

borari , 1 month ago

Again, not seeing how this parallel really applies to the conversation at hand?

borari , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

I know that in my particular field (offensive cybersecurity) many, if not most, places that I’ve heard of, will carve out allowances for personal projects to remain yours. Some companies will even be fine with you setting aside a portion of your time each week to dedicate to developing and maintaining your own open source community tooling or contributing to projects you use regularly, without that whole “your ideas are our IP” thing. With that said, these are all smaller shops that are competing to hire hyper-specialized talent in an industry that until recently wasn’t as overrun with people as the development space is, so maybe none of this is applicable to a place like MS, I don’t really know.