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spudwart, in Plex starts narcing on its own users' anime and X-rated habits with an opt-out service, and it's going terribly
@spudwart@spudwart.com avatar

Okay, this is obnoxious and all.

But what the hell is ‘narcing’?

DannyMac,
@DannyMac@lemmy.world avatar

Present participle of ‘narc.’

DrinkMonkey,

I’d categorize it as a gerund in this context.

mob,

Old term. Think it was short for “narcotics agent”, used to call someone a snitch basically

echodot, (edited )

I think it’s somehow related to the prohibition era. Perhaps alcohol was under the jurisdiction of narcotics?

It’s odd that above doesn’t know it, I thought its definition was well known and would have had no qualms about using it, I wonder if it’s a regional word now?

frightful_hobgoblin, in privacy seems interesting, i guess I'll see what's it about didn't really think of it much when i moved from Canada to the eu

what

HumanPerson, in Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications: US senator | World DNA

I’ve seen a few posts about this now. Any news on how it effects graphene os?

onlinepersona, in Plex starts narcing on its own users' anime and X-rated habits with an opt-out service, and it's going terribly

So it’s a fork of XBMC aka Kodi now. Does Kodi do this shit too?

CmdrShepard,

It was forked so long ago that people born on that date are now legally able to drive on public roads.

AbsurdityAccelerator,

No, kodi is still true to their roots.

MudMan, in Plex starts narcing on its own users' anime and X-rated habits with an opt-out service, and it's going terribly
@MudMan@kbin.social avatar

I've been seeing this story do the rounds and I feel like we're burying the lede here.

Who the hell is watching porn over Plex? That is somehow simultaneously the most uninformed and the most complicated way to access porn.

CalicoJack,

It doesn’t seem like a huge stretch. If somebody had a stored collection, and didn’t share the server with anybody, why not point Plex at that folder? There’s even an *arr for it, so it fits right into the usual stack.

IronKrill,

Adultarr?

CoolBeance,
@CoolBeance@lemmy.world avatar

No, rated arr

subtext,

You joke, but I think I remember it being called Whisparr

CazRaX,

Whisparr for me.

LilB0kChoy,

Thank you! This is what I was wondering too!

Ruthalas,

People who haven’t yet discovered StashBox.

LastYearsPumpkin,

The original article mentioned “softcore” porn, like old school cinemax movies where it’s porn, but thinly veiled into an actual movie.

Not like hardcore 10 minute porn movies, just semi-skeevy smut that you’d rather not have other people know you’re watching. (50 shades?)

PupBiru,
@PupBiru@kbin.social avatar

yeah it’s only that because for the discover stuff plex has to find it on IMDB

CmdrShepard,

TVDB* or TMDB*

PeachMan, in Plex starts narcing on its own users' anime and X-rated habits with an opt-out service, and it's going terribly
@PeachMan@lemmy.world avatar

Love how the headline equates the shame of viewing porn with the shame of viewing anime

Thteven,
@Thteven@lemmy.world avatar

It’s called hentai, and it’s art.

RampantParanoia2365,

Thanks, Dean.

Pulptastic,

Xart

Omega_Haxors,

They’re subtly trying to hint that it’s that kind of anime porn.

wandermind,

Like the old joke goes, “when I’m watching anime and my mom walks in, I alt tab to porn because it’s easier to explain”

rar, in Best way to get private phone number?

It really depends on where you are located. Some jurisdictions allow activation of SIM cards without personal info, some do not. Then there’s the matter of physical and financial surveillance.

But seriously, unless you are actually that desperate for some reason, why would you have a hobo pay for a burner phone? Wouldn’t that being recorded on camera be more suspicious?

heptagon, in Is YouTube starting another attack on third party clients?

I use FreeTube which seems to still work fine but it seems to me like the browser plugin that opens YouTube links in FreeTube does not work properly sometimes

Sims,

I’ve just started using freetube. I’ve noticed short periods of very low quality stream once in a while. Not sure if the periods match Ad time, tho. Do you experience those low Q periods?

Mnky313,

I usually just switch it from auto to 1080p or whatever is available and that fixes it 90% of the time, sometimes it takes a second or 2 to fix the quality though.

heptagon,

I might but I am not sure. My internet speed is often a bit unreliable so if I had a drop in quality or issues with buffering I ´just attributed it to that.

ArcaneSlime, in Verizon Gave Phone Data to Armed Stalker Who Posed as Cop Over Email

This is why you never comply without a judge-issued warrant (either as a business or a private citizen. Fuck them, if it’s important and there’s enough evidence for a warrant they can get one, if not they can suck rocks) and as a consumer you should be thinking about your privacy.

TheAnonymouseJoker, in La privacy in chat online dal punto di vista legale * Chat è leggi
@TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml avatar

You should probably supply a translated version link.

shortwavesurfer, in A question about secure chats

Technically, yes, it is encrypted. However, Facebook still gets metadata on who you talk to, when you talk to them, how long you talk to them, your contact information, etc. As an example, if you talked to your girlfriend, then you talked to her doctor, and then you talked to your mom. There’s a good chance that your girlfriend may be pregnant, even if I did not know what was said. Or, if I know you are at the top of a bridge and that you contacted a suicide hotline… So just because it is encrypted does not mean it is safe.

remotelove,
@remotelove@lemmy.ca avatar

That’s clever about the pregnancy.

I would have thought it was about a case of herpes that you caught from your girlfriend and then gave to your mom.

nightwatch_admin, (edited )

And that’s why privacy is important - the assumptions and decisions an algorithm makes are not necessarily correct, often not even close.

Edit:before someone wants to be smart: yes, I know it’s a joke.

PupBiru,
@PupBiru@kbin.social avatar

ml doesn’t understand jokes very well, so honestly it’s not a shit example lol

shortwavesurfer,

This made me laugh. Thanks

poVoq,
@poVoq@slrpnk.net avatar

Also WhatsApp requests access to the phone book and is very hard to use if you deny access. This is very likely done because Facebook wants access to the stored numbers to build a social graph. Even if you personally don’t mind, it is a gross privacy violation to share the phone number of other people with Facebook.

DudeDudenson,

Question, how would you use a messaging app that identifies users trough phone numbers without giving it access to phone numbers?

poVoq, (edited )
@poVoq@slrpnk.net avatar

By typing in the numbers, or selectively sharing them from the address book. This works fine on Signal, Telegram and Threema. Only Whatsapp makes it so that you have to share your entire address book with the app.

With some workarounds you can actually use whatsapp also without giving it access to your address book, which shows that it is clearly an intentional dark pattern by Facebook to make people share their entire address book with them to avoid the hassle.

AVincentInSpace,

Well said. I’m saving this comment in case I need to explain this to someone else.

PupBiru, (edited )
@PupBiru@kbin.social avatar

the other important thing with all of this is that even if your girlfriend is taking care, THEY STILL KNOW

people around you (or “you”, in this case) using these services impacts your privacy

is there anything we can do about that? probably not

but it’s worth being aware of

fiat_lux, (edited ) in A question about secure chats

To be frank with you, humans are the weakest security point in any system. Even if you did somehow (impossibly) 100% secure your device... you’re literally sending everything to X other family members who don't care about security anyway and take zero preventative measures. That's sort of the point of a chat app. All they would need to do is target your family instead of you to get the exact same info - this is how Facebook has everyone's telephone number and profile photo, even if they don't have an account. And if it's a WhatsApp data breach... well. Your family is just one in a sea of millions of potentially better/easier targets.

If there's anything interesting about your family chats that is actually secret info, it probably shouldn't be put into text anywhere except maybe a password manager. Just tell them not to send passwords or illegal stuff or security question info via whatsapp. It's all you can realistically do in situations like this.

We literally cannot keep all information private from everyone all the time, you have to pick and choose your battles. And even then, you'll still lose some, even if you're perfect.

Zak,
@Zak@lemmy.world avatar

That’s true in the sense that if a very sophisticated organization directly targets your family chat for surveillance, they’re going to find a way to access its content no matter what communication method you use.

Threat modeling is core to security, and that kind of threat probably isn’t the issue here. Mass surveillance, both government and corporate is, and neither is likely to secretly install malware on a family-members phone that can access the contents of the group chat. Doing that to large numbers of people would get them caught; they save it for valuable targets.

Governments openly forcing the install of spyware, as I’ve read China does in some cases would be an exception; you cannot have a secure conversation involving a device so compromised.

dukethorion, in Proton Drive Camera Backup has Arrived!
@dukethorion@lemmy.world avatar

Doesnt show any photos you’ve already uploaded to Drive (you know, the thousands you’d like to see). Their answer was download everything and reupload it.

Can’t select folders to upload. Defaults to DCIM/Camera.

Only works with a wifi connection, no option for mobile data.

tioute, (edited ) in A question about secure chats

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    Content of the Tweet if you don’t want to click X links:

    What collects and stores:

    1. Unencrypted messages, photos, videos, and files
    2. Encrypted photos and videos from secret chats
    3. Phone numbers and contacts
    4. Metadata such as IP addresses

    What collects and stores:

    1. None.

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    CheshireSnake, in Looks like Facebook is following youtube with anti-adblock measures.
    @CheshireSnake@iusearchlinux.fyi avatar

    Your ad blocker is blocking posts from friends

    Thank fucking god

    Ronnie,

    My Facebook is hardly even friends these days. It’s basically ads, suggested posts, and posts in groups. Maybe because none of my friends really post anymore, I dunno.

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