Darkassassin07

Darkassassin07 , 12 days ago to Technology in Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined

I'm gonna need a lot more lotion...

Darkassassin07 , 12 days ago (edited 12 days ago) to Technology in Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined

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 , 12 days ago to Technology in Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined

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 , 12 days ago to Technology in Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined

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 , 12 days ago to Technology in Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined

Storage is expensive :/

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

Darkassassin07 , 12 days ago to Technology in Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined

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 , 14 days ago to Technology in The return of pneumatic tubes

I still want Futurama style human transport tubes

Darkassassin07 , 14 days ago to 196 in Oven rule

They just share a chimney. Extra Smokey flavor.

Darkassassin07 , 14 days ago to Technology in ‘It’s the perfect place’: London Underground hosts tests for ‘quantum compass’ that could replace GPS

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

Darkassassin07 , 14 days ago to Technology in Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws

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 , 14 days ago to Technology in ‘It’s the perfect place’: London Underground hosts tests for ‘quantum compass’ that could replace GPS

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 , 15 days ago to Legal News in Lawsuit Filed Challenging Constitutionality Of Vast Network Of Illinois License Plate Readers

I don't mind the concept of automatic plate readers; but that data should not be retained. (specifically; images that don't match the hot list, should be immediately discarded)

Taking the photos isn't an issue, it's aggregating that info into a long-term searchable database of people's movements that's the problem.

That information will be released/abused; either by leaks/insiders or via systems breach.

Darkassassin07 , 16 days ago to 196 in 196 crayons rule

The smell when I open this thing is magnificent (it's a briefcase)

Darkassassin07 , 16 days ago to 196 in 196 crayons rule

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/a41cf2d1-6e51-48ad-8de8-445a347ca0f0.jpeg

😎

Darkassassin07 , 17 days ago to Technology in DJI drone ban passes in U.S. House — 'Countering CCP Drones Act' would ban all DJI sales in U.S. if passed in Senate

https://www.theverge.com/22985101/dji-aeroscope-ukraine-russia-drone-tracking

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.