Darkassassin07

Darkassassin07 , 2 days ago

I wonder how that compares to my own collection…

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/50ee9fb2-a68e-4c5f-8d0f-6eabb1057fc4.jpeg

I haven’t found a source for the size of Netflix/Amazon/Hulus libraries; but I haven’t looked all that hard either.

Darkassassin07 , 2 days ago

Storage is expensive :/

That’s already almost 36tb, after conversion to HEVC which compressed it ~40%

Darkassassin07 , 2 days ago

Tdarr: (Automatic transcoding of media, can help save you a lot of disk space)

That’s a new one to me, I’ll have to check that out. Thanks!

Been doing conversions via Emby, but it’s not a very powerful tool for that.

Darkassassin07 , 2 days ago

Because the legal options are garbage.

The pirates provide a better service with more content for cheaper than the legal options; and pirating yourself takes effort as well as cost (hardware, trackers, usenet, etc).

Some people are happy to just pay for decent service; others like to learn about the process, then setup and run their own servers.

To each their own.

Darkassassin07 , 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

Up until now, I’ve been using the convert tool in Emby server. You can select a whole library and convert it, or individual items/playlists/collections; with options to automatically convert new media as it’s added.

Tbh, I’ve been having a bit of trouble with it re-converting media it’s already done, so I was looking for another solution.

Someone in this thread mentioned tdarr, so I’m going to be looking into that this weekend. Seems like a much more manageable tool with more powerful options.

/edit; I should also mention, this is a long process. Using an rtx4080, it was almost 3 full months non-stop to convert my entire media library from mostly h264 -> h265.

Darkassassin07 , 2 days ago

I’m gonna need a lot more lotion…

Darkassassin07 , 2 days ago

Cheaper, but it’s still not cheap and I really don’t have a whole lot of disposable income rn.

Darkassassin07 , 1 day ago

they probably made a really good return before it shut down.

Part of the sentence was to forfeit $1million in profits, I’d say they did pretty well for themselves.

Darkassassin07 , 1 day ago

Plex is a privacy nightmare that’s slowly trying to faze out you having a server all together in favor of feeding you commercialized content from other providers; and many people find Jellyfin is far too unpolished/disorganized for a lot of debatable reasons I won’t go into.

I’ve been quite happy with the middle ground: Emby. It’s not FOSS, but is well polished with consistent development, great feature parity across platforms, excellent clients for pretty much every device I’d want to use, and a helpful community ready to assist with any problems you come across. They also have a heavy focus on privacy; with no third party partners collecting your info like Plex, and no telemetry sent from servers/clients.

The lifetime premier license I bought 7 years ago was well worth it.

Darkassassin07 , 1 day ago

The number of people I’ve come across that are absolutely baffled by the concept of port forwarding…

Then you add CGNAT ontop and things can get really complicated for someone unfamiliar.

Darkassassin07 , 1 day ago

Reminds me of the BBC licence fee in the UK.

Darkassassin07 , 1 day ago

Yes. Emby was originally open source, but people would regularly fork it to remove the licensing. When they chose to go closed source; jellyfin forked that final release and has built from there.

Emby has a premier licencing system to support their development, instead of selling user data and making deals with content providers like Plex, or depending on OSS development/contributions like Jellyfin.

As far as I understand almost 80% of jellyfins current code is the original Emby code (called ‘media browser’ or ‘MB’ at the time), though to be fair, I haven’t verified that claim.

Darkassassin07 , 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago)

Both the client and server connect to plex.tv which then brokers the connection between them. They essentially work as a very limited vpn between your clients and server.

This also gives them unrestricted access to the entirety of data passed between devices; and the ability to request any and all info from your server to be handed to whoever they chose.

This is also how they allow you to ‘share’ content/libraries with each others servers; through their public infrastructure that’s collecting your information. Information they then sell to third parties to support their development and broker content agreements.

Darkassassin07 , 4 days ago

It takes more than just a faulty transmission line to take down an entire grid nation wide… There’s more to this story than they are letting on.

Darkassassin07 , 4 days ago

Reddit safes are ALWAYS disappointing

Darkassassin07 , 4 days ago

You’d definitely have to declare it to the IRS minimum. But yeah, a national news story? You’re just asking for someone to ‘find’ proof it’s theirs; if not inviting a mugging/robbery.

Darkassassin07 , 4 days ago

Depending on your financial situation; an exta 100k suddenly appearing in your finances will turn some heads.

Missed sales tax on a small purchase; not so much.

Darkassassin07 , 4 days ago

I still want Futurama style human transport tubes

Darkassassin07 , 2 days ago

As long as you didn’t want to send it whole…

Darkassassin07 , 4 days ago

It will definitely require corrections from GPS or other systems, but if made sufficiently accurate; it could be months or even years before the accumulated errors necessitate a correction.

What seems more concerning to me is a system like this would require 100% up time between outside corrections.

A gps receiver can acquire its position from a completely powered off state. Inertial guidence though, needs to be told its current position; then it can keep track of where it goes from there. If there’s any hiccup with power, you’ve completely lost your location fix and can’t reacquire it alone.

Put the two together though, and the inertial guidence can accurately fill in the gaps between gps service while also getting regular updates/corrections when you do have that signal available.

Darkassassin07 , 4 days ago

It would certainly make jamming of guided weapons quite difficult; missiles, drones, UAVs, etc.

Darkassassin07 , 4 days ago

The middle-man provides plausible deniability in this case. PornHub can genuinely say they don’t see connections from age-verification states atm. That stops being true if they host the VPN, making them aware of actual client locations.

Darkassassin07 , 5 days ago

‘connection refused’

But… I wanted to party… With some lemons…

Darkassassin07 , 7 days ago

theverge.com/…/dji-aeroscope-ukraine-russia-drone…

Something that stuck out to me:

The AeroScope signals are not encrypted, despite what we wrote in a previous version of this post — even though DJI and an independent source both told us they were encrypted, and DJI insisted they were when we did a fact-check, DJI now admits that they aren’t encrypted at all. So they could be picked up by other kinds of receivers.

Darkassassin07 , 8 days ago

Huh, usually they ask ‘jump where?’

Darkassassin07 , 11 days ago

Mmm EULA-Roofies

Darkassassin07 , 11 days ago

Only if the ads are a fixed length and always in the same place for each playback of the same video.

Inserting ads of various lengths in varying places throughout the video will alter all the time stamps for every playback.

The 5th minute of the video might happen 5min after starting playback, or it could be 5min+a 2min ad break after starting. This could change from playback to playback; so basing ad/sponsor blocking on timestamps becomes entirely useless.

Darkassassin07 , 10 days ago

If they are injecting ads into the actual video stream; it won’t matter what client you use. You request the next video chunk for playback and get served a chunk filled with advertising video instead. The clients won’t be able to tell the difference unless they start analyzing the actual video frames. That’s an entirely server-side decision that clients can’t bypass.

Darkassassin07 , 12 days ago

Fun fact: until recently, most airport scanners literally couldn’t differentiate between water and many common explosives. Hence the scrutiny of water based products/possessions.

youtu.be/nyG8XAmtYeQ

Darkassassin07 , 11 days ago

I’d just like to clarify: the new machines aren’t MRI (the magnets in those would prohibit all metal objects being within 100ft).

The new machines are also xray; but the xray emiters and detector are now on a spinning carriage similar to an MRI. This allows you to build a 3d model of the object and calculate it’s volume, which when combined with the density measurements gives much more reliable material detection.

This also means your stuff doesn’t have to be removed from bags to ensure items aren’t blocking each other from the scanner.

Darkassassin07 , 17 days ago

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/5531db9f-89ca-4360-af2b-14aacad8e906.jpeg

Darkassassin07 , 17 days ago

Promise?

Darkassassin07 , 19 days ago (edited 19 days ago)

I setup borg around 4 months ago using option 1. I’ve messed around with it a bit, restoring a few backups, and haven’t run into any issues with corrupt/broken databases.

I just used the example script provided by borg, but modified it to include my docker data, and write info to a log file instead of the console.

Daily at midnight, a new backup of around 427gb of data is taken. At the moment that takes 2-15min to complete, depending on how much data has changed since yesterday; though the initial backup was closer to 45min. Then old backups are trimmed; Backups <24hr old are kept, along with 7 dailys, 3 weeklys, and 6 monthlys. Anything outside that scope gets deleted.

With the compression and de-duplication process borg does; the 15 backups I have so far (5.75tb of data) currently take up 255.74gb of space. 10/10 would recommend on that aspect alone.

/edit, one note: I’m not backing up Docker volumes directly, though you could just fine. Anything I want backed up lives in a regular folder that’s then bind mounted to a docker container. (including things like paperless-ngxs databases)

Darkassassin07 , 19 days ago

I have one more thought for you:

If downtime is your concern, you could always use a mixed approach. Run a daily backup system like I described, somewhat haphazard with everything still running. Then once a month at 4am or whatever, perform a more comprehensive backup, looping through each docker project and shutting them down before running the backup and bringing it all online again.

Darkassassin07 , 20 days ago

It’s funny: I haven’t paid for any streaming/cable/media service in 10+ years; instead choosing to sail the seas, hord media, and host my own streaming service using tools like Emby/Plex/Jellyfin.

Spotify was the one and only service I had been considering, mainly because managing music files is still a PITA; but I keep running into articles like this one and renewing my will to fly the Jolly Rodger.

Darkassassin07 , 28 days ago

The bridge was closer, costs $0 (as long as you’re not caught by law enforcement), and it’s difficult to enforce no-dumping laws as garbage doesn’t ID it’s owner most of the time and you just can’t watch every dumping spot 24/7.

The people that do this are also not particularly wealthy. It’s hard to justify the cost of transport and disposal fees when you struggle to feed and house yourself.

Darkassassin07 , 28 days ago (edited 28 days ago)

… People would be more likely to know the area of their home/floors vs the total volume…

When’s the last time you saw a real estate ad with cubic inches/feet/meters on it?

This makes perfect sense.

Darkassassin07 , 1 month ago

If you’re staying within city limits; the only speed signs you’d see much of the time are in parking lots/private property, explicitly slower than the public roadway speeds.

Darkassassin07 , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Record for Saudi, or record in general…?

'Cause I’m currently paying (CAD) between $109.7 and $140.8 (so USD $79.9 - $102.5) per MWh.

Edit: Damn it, I shifted a decimal in the mental conversion from KWh to MWh. Fixed the values above. (10x)

That Saudi power is much cheaper than I thought…

Darkassassin07 , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Southern BC.

Not sure what you mean by demand charges. Additional cost for peak hours perhaps? Not really a thing where I live.

Energy is billed at the lower of the two numbers I gave for the first ~1.4MWh, then the rest is billed at the higher rate. (metered between two months) It doesn’t matter when you use the energy.

Aside from the energy costs, there’s a ~$0.22/day base charge and 5% gst. That’s it.

Edit: (see the edit in previous comment)

Darkassassin07 , 1 month ago

Yup, but we have quite a few of our own as well. Taking advantage of the Rocky Mountains above and below the border.

Darkassassin07 , 1 month ago

I shouldn’t do math late after work…

(see the edit above)

Darkassassin07 , 1 month ago

Apple’s got one, so does Google, and Microsoft. They’re common tools for scam baiters tracking down call centres and individual scammers. Pretty effective actually.

Darkassassin07 , 1 month ago

Certainly. I’m not saying they’re a good thing; just lending credence to their existence.

Though I’ll note; to use them you need access to the wifi radio carried by the individual you’re tracking. Ie; you’ve already hacked their device.

Darkassassin07 , 1 month ago

God damnit, Hillary’s at it again…

Darkassassin07 , 1 month ago

Do… Do you really think the creators/developers of Stable Diffusion (the AI art tool in question here) trained it on CSAM before distributing it to the public?

Or are you arguing that we should be allowed to do what’s been done in the article? (arrest and charge the individual responsible for training their copy of an AI model to generate CSAM)

One, AI image generators can and will spit out content vastly different than anything in the training dataset (this ofc can be influenced greatly by user input). This can be fed back into the training data to push the model towards the desired outcome. Examples of the desired outcome are not required at all. (IE you don’t have to feed it CSAM to get CSAM, you just have to consistently push it more and more towards that goal)

Two, anyone can host an AI model; it’s not reserved for big corporations and their server farms. You can host your own copy and train it however you’d like on whatever material you’ve got. (that’s literally how Stable Diffusion is used) This kind of explicit material is being created by individuals using AI software they’ve downloaded/purchased/stolen and then trained themselves. They aren’t buying a CSAM generator ready to use off the open market… (nor are they getting this material from publicly operating AI models)

They are acquiring a tool and moulding it into a weapon of their own volition.

Some tools you can just use immediately, others have a setup process first. AI is just a tool, like a hammer. It can be used appropriately, or not. The developer isn’t responsible for how you decide to use it.

Darkassassin07 , 1 month ago

A person (the arrested software engineer from the article) acquired a tool (a copy of Stable Diffusion, available on github) and used it to commit crime (trained it to generate CSAM + used it to generate CSAM).

That has nothing to do with the developer of the AI, and everything to do with the person using it. (hence the arrest…)

I stand by my analogy.

Darkassassin07 , 1 month ago

Reading that article:

Given it’s public dataset not owned or maintained by the developers of Stable Diffusion; I wouldn’t consider that their fault either.

I think it’s reasonable to expect a dataset like that should have had screening measures to prevent that kind of data being imported in the first place. It shouldn’t be on users (here meaning the devs of Stable Diffusion) of that data to ensure there’s no illegal content within the billions of images in a public dataset.

That’s a different story now that users have been informed of the content within this particular data, but I don’t think it should have been assumed to be their responsibility from the beginning.