Majestic

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Try toggling ErP setting or similarly named EU energy setting in your UEFI. This should resolve the lights being on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The most elite trackers perhaps.

Trackers on /r/opensignups ? Nah they open their doors to the public every now and again.

Would not recommend it to anyone who can’t dedicate a seed box or machine uploading torrents most hours of the day every day. It’s possible to do it without those but difficult. With them it’s merely a matter of using free leech and building a buffer up as well as taking advantage of points systems to get free upload just for keeping torrents seeding even without uploading.

If you only ever grab free leech then all you have to worry about is meeting seed time and activity requirements like logging in every 90 days.

An old computer with an external drive. A raspberry pi, a nas that can run a BitTorrent client. Any would work if one doesn’t want to pay for a seed box. (Most trackers ban shared seed boxes though so you will have to get dedicated)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

Take a look here for some alternatives:

https://dessalines.github.io/essays/why_not_signal.html#good-alternatives

  • Matrix
  • XMPP
  • Briar
  • SimpleX

Also just because there are no alternatives doesn't mean your default position should be we just have to trust whatever exists now because it's good enough. Or that we can't criticize it ruthlessly, distrust it. Call it out and as a result of that build perhaps the desire for something better, a fix as it were.

The evidence and history clearly points towards Signal being very suspicious and likely in bed with the feds. This is not conspiracy thinking. Conspiracy thinking is thinking that the country/empire that gave away old German engima machines whose code they'd cracked to developing countries without telling them they'd cracked it in the late 40s/early 50s, that went on to establish a crypto company just to subvert its encryption. That's done everything Snowden revealed has in fact changed suddenly for the first time in half a century for no particular reason and not to its own benefit. That's fanciful thinking. That's a leap of logic away from the proven trends, the pattern of behavior, and indeed the incentivizes to continue using their dominant position to maintain dominance and power. They didn't back down on the clipper chip because they just gave up and decided to let people have privacy and rights. They gave up on it because they found better ways of achieving the same results with plausible deniability.

Also why is everything "tankies" with you people. Privacy advocates point out the obvious and suddenly it's a communist conspiracy. LOL

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

No.

HDMI does have a feature called Ethernet over HDMI that in theory could allow that.

Thing is though it’s literally never been implemented in anything. It died because cheap WiFi became common.

For it to work you’d need both the TV and Chromecast and HDMI cable all to support it. It’s not uncommon on cables and a surprising amount of them include it in features list (probably to trick low info people).

But I believe that’s a hardware design thing so not something even a software update could enable. It costs extra money and they’re already paying for a WiFi chip so why bother?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Just FYI. Comments nearly exactly like yours on Reddit were used in copyright troll lawsuits against ISPs as evidence they didn’t do enough to enforce copyright and were negligent and legally liable.

Further when that didn’t work the copyright agency sued Reddit to try to unmask the identities of those people to bring legal proceedings against them to coerce them into testifying against their ISP at threat of being in trouble for their activities. Reddit was big enough to fight off the lawsuit luckily but be careful.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes. It’s incredibly powerful but easy to use for a basic purpose like editing a line or converting formats.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Open the web subtitles in subtitleedit. Change format to ass (advanced substation alpha). Save and re-embed using mkvtoolnix.

Positioning of multiple lines works well with ass and VLC shouldn’t have an issue reading and displaying. Not sure if YouTube includes the positioning data in their subtitles though. You could recreate that in subtitle edit (free software btw, dk web domain I believe) but it would be a bit of an annoyance.

edit: Corrected domain name. Not German, but nikse is it as OP has suggested

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That seems like a real problem given they are a people being actively subjected to genocide which is being censored and distorted by western media, who have their land stolen, their existence denied, and been subjected to apartheid sponsored by the most powerful nation in the world (the US no less) in flagrant violation of international law for over half a century. Abuses and genocide carried out by a regime so powerful, so important to US interests that there are multiple states in the US where you can lose your job or your business contract for simply voicing support for boycotting and divesting from the apartheid regime that is an illegal colonization and occupation of stolen land by radical far-right reactionary ethno-fascists operating under the cloak of religion. Most major western media are some degree of complicit in giving one-sided pro-apartheid state slants, omitting key details, and using dishonest framing to attempt to deceive the public and manufacture apathy and complicity.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

It doesn't fucking censor swear words. You can say shit and ass and damn. It censors slurs and offensive terms to historically marginalized groups only. It's just some of them are still so prevalent in our language that people take umbrage to this.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

The problem with this is you just know after they pass it they'll amend it to expand the definition from social media platforms to any platform of a certain size on the internet. Suddenly the whole internet is subject to censorship, review, lawsuits, banning encryption, age-gating and ID demands.

This is just a foot in the door move around kids to get the framework in then later change it to do all the stuff they really want to do like censor and chill speech, clamp down on encryption, mandate log-keeping for VPNs, implement age-gating that requires submitting IDs for anything even vaguely adult, etc, etc. In other words the beginning of an all-out attack on the open internet.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

All the big pirate sites use them though. Even private ones like TL. If they don’t they get DDOSed. They all turned it on over the past year or so after being badly attacked.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Lot of cope and denial in these threads. Yes the same-day is probably a rosy estimate based off people using 6 digit codes or something easy to crack, doesn't mean it's false or that they can't hypothetically target longer alpha-numeric passwords. For all we know they might not even be brute-forcing and could be conducting some sort of exploit that over time reveals the encryption keys themselves in some way.

I'm still very curious about the nature of the mechanisms of action. I assume they manage to bypass the basic lock-out against entering too many passcodes too quickly somehow which is what enables this. If throttling could be properly enforced (to say nothing of something like 10 attempts and it refuses all future attempts and erases the key type of thing) this type of attack wouldn't be practical for anyone using anything above a 6 digit numerical passcode in any reasonable timeframe. I wonder if they exploit wireless radios including cellular, wifi, bluetooth and force some code on the phones via these usually-on chips that enables this via exploiting problems in their architecture. Perhaps something that locks up, prevents functioning or resets certain checks via flooding parts of the hardware/software from these points of access. Or if it really is purely phy/log access to the lightning/usb-c port.

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