John

“The technology is really simple,” he told ABC7. “A car drives by, we take a picture. It’s a static picture of a car, and then we read the license plate. That’s what the technology is – it’s actually not that complicated, it’s pretty simple.”

100% lying: https://www.404media.co/flocks-ceo-says-its-alprs-dont-do-video-after-repeatedly-announcing-they-can/

If you need to watch content on it get an appropriate device. If you want to watch BluRays buy a BluRay player. If you want to do streaming buy a streaming device at a price point and privacy level to your liking.

This is what we’re currently doing. I unplugged tv from internet, and only use Roku stick or plex.

As to librelec and “sucking”. If you’re trying to do yo-ho stuff with free streaming sites and services it isn’t going to be great.

Yea I assumed the free services like Pluto, Tubi, even PBS stuff would work great. Not really…

Frankly if you want some quality and good experience either pay for a commercial streaming service (or a good IPTV one*)

It sounds cool but it also sounds like those would be totally jank. I did something like this years ago for watching hockey games, and is was ok…, but like you said it just disappeared one day.

If you need to watch content on it get an appropriate device. If you want to watch BluRays buy a BluRay player. If you want to do streaming buy a streaming device at a price point and privacy level to your liking.

Any tips for Libre+kodi? I just installed it on my pi and man it friggin sucks (and I’m a linux user used to things sucking). Can’t get any streams to work correctly. I guess it would be great to play videos from my PC, but that was already working with plex…

Basically, just pirate everything and play it on kobi?

Everybody in this thread: “Instead of that, just do this incredibly complex techy thing and build up your own library with multiple PBs of stolen media”

I’d love to ditch my Roku stick (already unplugged LG tv from internet). I use plex for some stuff…

I probably will set up a raspberry pi but most people cannot do this

EDIT: just set up LibreELEC and tried a few streams … this sucks lol.

At the end of the day, Proton is good enough for 99% of people. If your risk profile necessitates something even more robust, then go find it. I’ve been generally very happy.

yea. I guess I’m just a dick. Websites fingerprint everything about you. This should be comically obvious to people now.

But yea, reddit doesn’t like VPNs.

There would be no way they could tell, I say.

You would be wrong

you can say this about literally every tech company these days.

I don’t pay for plex so I don’t really care, at this point in time.

https://cyberpress.org/hackers-exploit-keepass-password-manager-to-distribute-malware/

https://thehackernews.com/2023/05/keepass-exploit-allows-attackers-to.html

The one that has had multiple hacks. I’m good mate.

Every company is basically evil at this point.

https://lemmy.ml/post/45007584/24779562

You have to read between the lines. This just gives them the option to label anybody they want as a “bot” with virtually no way to challenge them. They can now ban anybody they wish for posting content they don’t agree with (pro-gaza, anti-israel, anti-capitalist, etc).

You have to read between the lines. This just gives them the option to label anybody they want as a “bot” with virtually no way to challenge them. They can now ban anybody they wish for posting content they don’t agree with (pro-gaza, anti-israel, anti-capitalist, etc).

Just a brief skim of this and I’m already so lost lol. Thanks for the link though, I’ll have a more detailed read through later.

Hi, I’m john, I use brave. I’m a socialist and I fight for lgbtq and workers rights. I fight against the fascist regime.

Now you’ve met somebody personally who isn’t maga and racist who uses brave.

“you support fascism if you use brave” … Omg come on. This is really ridiculous. I’m a communist and active member in a socialist org. I’ve been in the face of proud boys, I’ve fought with ICE, I’ve marched with strikers… Telling people they support fascism through browser choice is fucking nuts. Everything you do supports the fascist system unless you live off grid in the woods.

There is no ethical consumption under a capitalist system. Do I like the guy? Fuck no. But I like brave search. I liked BAT when it was released; it was an interesting idea on supporting creators that ultimately flopped. I like the ad block. I also use firefox with ad block. I’m capable of both. I’m browsing the web for lifting videos, not planning the revolution.

All browsers suck. I’ve tried them all over the past 30 years. Show me a browser that doesn’t suck and I’ll change, I haven’t seen it. This shaming of people is really getting fucking ridiculous. It’s the most milquetoast lib purity test I’ve seen.

Man, I’m pretty techy. I work in tech. I’ve learned programming, etc, I use Debian. but selfhosting seems so daunting, not to mention inconvenient. I need to get into it though 😓

I found zen to be too busy for me, ironically. Maybe I should give it another go

I like DDG but it just uses bing under the hood.

I actually prefer Brave. (Though brave has been caught fiddling the results)

They all kind of suck in their own way. Brave or DDG gets the job done 99%nof the time.