quirzle

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[–] quirzle@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The statement to which you replied wasn't about p2p users; it was about Soulseek. His perspective isn't a matter of his bias, but rather the complete lack of lawsuits against Soulseek users.

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

tl;dr: Yes, but probably takes some effort for most content.

Plex will play the files, but metadata is hit or miss. If it's something that's on thetvdb or themoviedb, it can be matched as a series or movie, respectively. With some effort, you could also probably include all the relevant metadata when downloading the videos, then have plex use local metadata, which could cover anything not big enough for the big metadata providers.

I think it's also possible to find plug-ins/scripts that will pull metadata directly from youtube, but I've had bad luck relying on that stuff and then development stopping, so I avoid it these days.

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Survivorship bias is about surviving/passing a filter or selection process that's actually happened, not one that could theoretically happen one day.

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Got a link to the CVE?

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 2 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I would set the platform as scope but instead peer to peer technology.

The post has a pretty specific question, and including actions taken against users outside that scope is closer to fearmongering than answering the question at hand. Lumping all p2p usage together isn't useful as long as they're specifically targeting BT sharers; they're not going to accidentally gather IPs of Soulseek users with their torrent honeypots.

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago (7 children)

This would possibly be applicable if Soulseek users were having action taken against them, but has that ever happened? Action taken against individual pirates has pretty focused on bittorrent users. I know Soulseek itself has been sued, but have any users?

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 13 points 10 months ago (9 children)

That's more of a cautionary tale about running out-of-date software. A vpn wouldn't have affected it at all, and it's not especially relevant to OP's question. It also doesn't have anything to do with sharing content, not really relevant to your initial comment either.

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 17 points 10 months ago

The Sony rootkit thing happened nearly 20 years ago. They're not just now making dick moves.

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago

Grabbed a year on the Black Friday sale and, holy shit, it's so much better. Actual explanations and lessons is way better than the pointless gamification/leaderboards.

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I've got a bunch of the annoyances filters active and don't know if I could browse most websites without them at this point.

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is the last one still useful if you enable the cookies filter under annoyances in uBlock?

[–] quirzle@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

Now? They've both been lacking (and declining) for years at this point.

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