Gravitywell

It was always going to be a rug pull, they basically took XBMC and ffmpeg, made a “cloud” based front end for it and started asking people for money.

At no point was it anything other then an attempt to cash in on pirates. At some point I guess they realized all those “lifetime” subscription purchases would dry up and they started Partnering with or buying up other streaming content so they could at least pretend to be offering something else but that can only get them so far financially.

It might have been short sighted rather then an intentional rug pull, but obviously running a service like Plex requires an constant stream of funding, and when your loyalist users are the ones who paid a relativly small lump sum early on, it gets harder and harder to keep revenue coming in from new users and monthly subscribers.

I will preface this by saying I think it would be interesting to attempt but I think the end result would be disagreements of all kinds would lead to a lot of degeneration and splitting as we see with Lemmy and with how gab and parlor are in relation to mastodon and such.

There already are “forks” of wikipedia for conspiracy nuts and other sorts.

I think what could work though is similar to how some things are adding AP support that allows for following and sharing, and maybe commenting on articles, having those aspects be federated might not be so bad.

yes most chromebooks if you own them you do what you want because google knows even if they did lock them down more someone out there would be waiting with a soldering iron to figure out how to mod them into running other things. But thats not the same thing as a company that buys devices for their employees and doesnt give said employees permission to open them (without risking their job anyway). The point being, the “demand” for such systems is already mostly met, normal PC users/ gamers wouldnt actually buy a product like that, because if they did it would just be a “Console”. You couldnt force it on users because there isn’t a monopoly of PCs like there is with phones or game consoles

Actually I should have said in my original post, Game Consoles also qualify, because the PS4/5 Xbox whatever, the last 2 generations they’re literally just locked down PCs with very specific hardware.

Such pcs already exist and are used by buinesses and schools all over… Mostly chromebooks and i suppose apple also fits that criteria.

But it would be very hard to stop a determined hacker who has physical access to a device and doesnt mind voiding any warranties or user agreements.

Thanks but i meant the site in the original post https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/debian-netinstall-waf.html

It says

403 Error Your IP address has been blocked. This MAY be because you have made yourself look like a robot by using an unknown VPN or Tor exit node.

I just wish i could read it, it seems to block based on my IP which isn’t really a good way to identify bots.

Well it cant be that good becauase it thinks im a bot.

Anubis works pretty well for me so far in blocking clankers.

Last time i checked “states rights” didn’t mean the right to impose your laws on people or businesses running out of other states.

If anyone from Mississippi wants to use our services I’m totally ready to ignore any and all laws that don’t acknowledge to sovereignty of the net.

The stock price sure seems to think so. Reality may be different, but the shareholders are happy.

After a bunch of free advertising, what a shocker!

Id love to be wrong, but much like how meta patched threads into AP, i see this primarily as a performative gesture to allow them to take credit for “federating” when they have no intention of allowing it to get out of their control.

Thats certainly a choice, people are very good at justifing thier support of corporations if it means even the slightest bit of convenience.

I dont think there is much hope for the majoriy of internet users at this point, its just too easy for corps and oligarchs to control the narrative.

Sure, and the 14b he gave was with no strings attached.

Its not like Jay Garber is any better

So how many people are doing that? I doubt more then 5% of their users are actually using a pds or ever will.

How many times do we have to watch venture capitalists enshittify services before people learn. Do you really think bluesky doesnt have plans to extract every drop of ad revenue and data harvesting at some point, decentralization doesnt work with that business model, sure its fine now in the honeymoon phase but wait till Jack decides ita time to cash out.

Must be nice to start a centrally controlled social network call it decentralized and then just let other people not on the company payroll do all the work for you.

Fuckin corpos

There is no way they connected fiber to router with a freaking phone cord.

Either you misunderstood or they lied but what you need is a standard ethernet cable with the same connection on both ends to connect a router to fiber.

Also if someone is professionally installing hardware they shouldn’t be reusing your existing cables anyway.

You have an XY problem. If what you need is to connect your phillips hue hub then just say that instead.

I setup navidrome but never got around to using it much personally. It seems like a good option for a private collection, but im more about sharing mine these days.

I setup jellyfin with feishin and use finamp on mobile for music.

Im also running the latest alpha of funkwhale which i recommend checking out the stable version for a better impression but the alpha is functional if a bit ugly at the moment. My public service for funkwhale has the most users out of anything else i run so people def seem to like it.

I discovered mstream fairly recently and really like its simplicity.

I have MPD setup to stream as a radio on my homepage.

Overall i mainly just use jellyfin out of convenience because i already use it for shows and movies. But ive tried lots of dedicated music options and every subsonic fork still in existence, i keep coming back to jellyfin though.

I think if you already have jellyfin working navidrome isnt really as useful unless you dont like the way jellyfin handles music (wich objectively jellyfin isnt the best interface for music). Its not really that much extra overhead though tbh so you shouldnt hesitate to give it a try if you want to. Really anything thats just focused on audio streaming isnt going to add much overhead.

And the rest of the world ruled that piracy is officially cool again.

sounds like you had a nfo file which when you doulbe clicked it opened “system information” because windows doesnt recognize nfo as a text file.

There is nothing sketchy about unzipped files, its zips with passwords you gotta watch out for. The nfo thing is just your system doesnt have an nfo viewer, you can search one up or just use notepad to open them if you want.

It sounds like you’ve got the right plan. I use Anubis and fail2ban along with some manual rules on nginx to block AI bots. In my experience Anubis helps a lot, and you can monitor nginx logs over time to for scans and such to make additional ban rules on.