Glitterbomb
@Glitterbomb@lemmy.world
- Comment on HBO Max’s Password-Sharing Crackdown Will Start in Earnest in September 11 hours ago:
It’s worth it to include a couple extra points on the current ‘meta’ of seed boxes. A lot of these servers that people set up to serve as an inbetween to torrent then watch via jellyfin etc - they are being set up with weak security. Usually read access is left wide open to get all these services working on the same directory where the movies are. They assume there’s a little security through obscurity, but Google WILL manage to index this folder, and now when someone searches for that obscure 90s movie you torrented (with a few fun search arguments like intitle:), they’re now able to access all your downloads.
Sometimes these seed boxes have bandwidth use limits, where they might charge you if you suddenly use a few dozen TB, which will happen if you’re showing up on Google!
If they don’t have bandwidth limits, you still might land in hot water with your hosting co because you’re being a little loud with copyright infringement. You’re showing up on Google.
If you’re not too worried about either of these things, go ahead and be a hero, leave that shit wide open because…
If hosting a seedbox is way over your head or budget, just know a lot of them are left wide open for you to grab bits and pieces with near zero risk.
- Comment on Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics 3 days ago:
I heard the cartels have a sale this weekend on NVIDIA cards
- Comment on California May Ban Lyft And Uber From AI Price Gouging Users With Low Phone Batteries 3 days ago:
Uninstalled uber last week when it told me to take a photo of my ID to ride. Next week I’ll hear about some Brazilian hacker that has 100 million US IDs from an uber leak. No thanks. Lyft will probably do the same thing soon, and I’ll unceremoniously dump their ass too.
- Comment on Israel | An IDF soldier just exposed that Israel deliberately let October 7 happen 3 days ago:
That soldier should steer clear of pagers and walkie talkies.
- Comment on Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30 3 days ago:
Jellyfin. The HDDs were only ~$110 each. Seagate 5400s but w/e it’s mass storage. No raid, drives will just be filled, cloned, and the clone dropped into a second system, also with no windows 🤬
- Comment on Buy HDD on sale now or wait for Black Friday? 3 days ago:
The magnets in HDDs are some of the strongest magnets you can find. I rip those out when I can, but I’m a packrat
- Comment on Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30 3 days ago:
Just finished building a new PC last night, 64GB RAM, 8GB vRAM, 2TB m.2, 8x8TB HDD, and windows will never goddamn touch it. It feels weird, but so far so good.
- Comment on Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display 3 days ago:
Imagine getting a bud light ad while you’re blowing into your ignition interlock device
- Comment on hehe 👉👈 5 days ago:
I’m just spitballing here, I have no clue, but they have a bunch of (used to be pretty toxic) oil inside these and maybe during any sudden impact, making it scoot a little is preferable to the thing busting open and spilling everywhere? Sort of like the telecom cabinet in the other photo that was secured to the ground and shattered when it was hit
- Comment on One Angry Man 5 days ago:
Gone in a second
- Comment on hehe 👉👈 5 days ago:
I couldn’t really tell you why, just that they aren’t typically bolted down.
Also, that’s a telecom crossbox in your photo. Here’s some lawn mowing site warning about the risk of hitting them and moving them:
- Comment on hehe 👉👈 5 days ago:
The door locks, sure, and the entire thing is a good 200lbs+, but it’s often still just resting on top of the concrete pad. Kids probably can’t push it but an adult can probably hip check it an inch at a time.
Maybe a rider lawnmower bumps it and moves it 3 inches and now there’s a crevice between the concrete pad and the transformer that kids can reach into and grab high voltage power lines.
They ARE fairly safe, a lot of things have to go wrong, but bottom line it’s still something that will kill.
I’ve worked around them, and I never shooed or chastised any kids I saw playing on them. I’d just do a quick inspection with them, point out that it’s not crooked or bent or anything so they know what to look out for. I’d really prefer they didn’t play on it, but I get it
- Comment on May as well ride the sewer-slide now SMH my head 5 days ago:
Hi I went to atf.gov but I don’t see the store page anywhere. How do I buy this from them
- Comment on WhatsApp deletes over 6.8m accounts linked to scams, Meta says 5 days ago:
What’s your best guess at how whatsapp manages to generate AI summaries of your private messages without ever reading the private messages?
pcmag.com/…/meta-ai-summarize-your-whatsapp-chats
Even a cursory attempt at defending these companies is a bad joke.
- Comment on Investigation: Israel's Unit 8200 built a system to collect millions of mobile phone calls made daily in Gaza and the West Bank using Microsoft's Azure platform 5 days ago:
to develop a customized and segregated area within Azure that has facilitated the army’s mass surveillance project.
Keeping with the example, the bus company spun up a separate assembly line to make busses specifically designed to rob banks.
- Comment on Play dead 5 days ago:
Looks like Reddit was on the case 6 years ago. I’m not going to link to the thread, and just dump the relevant bits instead. Most of the links appear dead anyway.
From reddit:
So it comes from a webcomic series of short gags with the title: “심심할때 그려보는 K군의 조금이상한 두컷만하”
(edit: correction of 페 per Keppay)
Edit: artist’s gallery www.cyworld.com/kbk74 browse back far enough to 2005-06
edit: kjoonlee put the artist name down as 고병규 or “Byeong-Kyu Ko” and google brings up a profile for him:
Google Translated says that he went into mobile game dev as as a founding member / director of Flint (who developed Dragon Blaze)
more examples of his work here in published comics m.blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?blogId=realnogun&lo…
- Comment on Play dead 5 days ago:
There’s a bit of original writing still on the second panel that looks maybe Korean
꾸어-?
The white V pattern on the bear makes it an Asian Black Bear. Definitely feeling Korean
- Comment on Play dead 5 days ago:
There’s a bit of original writing still on the second panel that looks maybe Korean
- Comment on How did Facebook intercept their competitor's encrypted mobile app traffic? 5 days ago:
Anyone that still uses any Facebook services are flatly a fucking moron. I don’t care about who you want to chat with once a year, you are a fucking moron.
- Comment on WhatsApp deletes over 6.8m accounts linked to scams, Meta says 5 days ago:
How do they know its a scam account if they aren’t able to read your messages?
- Comment on Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet? 5 days ago:
I’ve resigned myself to large monitors for the ‘small TV’ and projectors for the ‘big TV’
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 6 days ago:
Soulseeks recommendation algorithm is top notch, almost organic. You click the ‘browse users files’ button.
- Comment on Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash 6 days ago:
I swear I’m not a tesla fan boy but I’m going to sit here and pull baseless excuses out of my ass for two paragraphs in order to defend this terrible company headed by a literal nazi.
- this entire fucking comment section
- Comment on Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash 6 days ago:
Don’t these keep a video record of every time a squirrel gets too close to the parked car?
Another m.2 under the dash isn’t going to kill the electric vehicles battery, this isn’t an excuse.
- Comment on Are you so young that you have never been in a car with one of these? 1 week ago:
OK I remembered them, but the memories didn’t flood back until I read this. I was definitely stuffing them with my trash
- Comment on I ain't got no time to maintain some stupid little plastic bread clip. I got a landlord to feed. 1 week ago:
This rabbit hole goes a LOT deeper than this if anyone is interested. It gets a lot less funny once you finish wubbys little mini doc on them. This is untreated mental illnesses, multiple.
#prayforjamie
- Comment on You can (probably should) remove personal information from a photo before uploading it to social media 1 week ago:
Frankly I would extend that distrust to this little miscrosoft button too. With no proof or alternative in mind, it just feels like that button would feed the data to an AI before deleting it.
- Comment on OpenAI’s ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through “I am not a robot” verification test 1 week ago:
“Hold on, you gotta wait for another picture of a bus to load. Nevermind that it now inexplicably takes 10 seconds to load the fucking picture”
- Comment on Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals 2 weeks ago:
This shits already used by xfinity
- Comment on Please help 2 weeks ago:
I just pushed the power button, it did that by itself I swear