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  • Oh yeah I don't buy the backwards compat stuff because you can version an API to preserve backwards compatibility to sensible ends.

    I'd be very interested to see cases of streaming or copyright lawyers essentially hacking users to litigate them. The only stuff Ive ever seen on snooping by corps on pirates it's usually collecting PII from public sources like torrent clients without VPN coverage.

  • I know about adblockers but these websites are still usually ass even with them.

    I don't mind battling them for something like an F1 livestream but when you want your own collection of stuff that won't get randomly shit on by domain seizures or ISP blocking, there's a reason I'm self hosting my media.

  • I use a non-rooted docker, reverse proxy, and cloudfare domain. I know Jellyfin has some API security issues but I'm still unconvinced that any of them can be used to escalate to any level that would threaten my server (or even my instance of Jellyfin).

  • You're not paying for software maintenance, you're paying a subscription service to a private company that has already decided to cut back on features that others also thought they were paying to maintain.

    If you want to actually pay for software maintenance, migrate to Jellyfin and pay them instead, rather than filtering your payments through middle managers and shareholders first.

  • to medicine > to crack

    You'd download legit trial versions of adobe shit and use GenP to disable the trial and call home functionalities. Brilliant bit of kit before I moved to Linux.

  • I have it as an unprivileged container behind a reverse proxy and HTTPS/HSTS. I know it's not perfect but I keep backups of important shit and monitor things regularly.

    I agree that Jellyfin needs to improve its API security, though. Their excuse that "it would break clients on old APIs" is moot when C# comes with API versioning features out of the box.

  • It's surprising how slow open source is on replicating Roku. So many manufacturers could be using Linux to bypass androidTV and RokuOS bullshit. I suppose AndroidTV is good enough even despite that.

  • There's a bunch of technical debt passed off as features, too. Like, Nextcloud runs background tasks as a cron job which is something I've never seen with other hosted services. It's probably a holdover from before containerised applications were ubiquitous but honestly it comes off as jank.

    Also, I wonder if there would be an argument for a Nextcloud fork that doubled down on PHP by utilising something like Laravel to put all the rendering on the server side. Right now it uses VueJS which is fine, but PHP is really best suited for server side rendering that you just can't leverage when using a front end framework in JavaScript.

  • Every worker moved is another worker more likely to use Linux at home. In my experience you're most likely to use the computers you work with (school or otherwise) and exposure to Linux is going to demystify it in ways social media cannot.

    Most exciting is probably the IT management side. I wonder how many distros are hardened for end users who do general office work - where people are more likely to tinker and mess about either for fun or to optimise things.