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possiblylinux127, in Plex starts narcing on its own users' anime and X-rated habits with an opt-out service, and it's going terribly

Jellyfin is going to explode in popularity (it kind of has already)

Wogi,

I would love to switch to jellyfin but I can’t get the fuckin thing to work. Same with Emby. Absolutely refuses to find the server.

Lem453,

You install it then go to IP:8096. That doesn’t work?

Wogi,

No. I’ve spent hours googling my problem and trying every solution that popped up. The server is behind a router, and no amount of port forwarding and firewall permissions is getting past it for whatever reason.

tordenflesk,

First-time setup is best done locally

MigratingtoLemmy,

That’s a NAT issue. Are you able to reach anything else besides Jellyfin behind the router?

Wogi,

There are a few things plugged in to that router that I’ve never had an issue accessing, but they just need basic Internet access as far as I understand

Sarmyth,

I had a similar issue in my home where I ran a nighthawk router at the back of my house connected to the ATT router/modem at the front of the house. I let them run as separate networks for a long time, and that prevented anything not connected to the same router as the jellyfin server from seeing it.

I recently got my act together and switched the router to “access point mode” and the house is all 1 network now. The jellyfin server is available on everything in the house as well. After the change, I felt silly I had it the other way for years because it sure helps many of the other wifi objects in my home as well.

Wogi,

This isn’t a wireless router. Like the other guy said, it’s probably a NAT issue.

Sarmyth,

I wasn’t using the wireless functions of my router either.

AlexWIWA,

Are you on apartment internet by chance? You’ve probably got a double NAT. In which case you’ll need a server, outside the network, that can make a tunnel to your server.

rezz,

I did Jellyfin right when I got into this as soon as I saw Plex require an external account.

vithigar,

Same. The need for an account meant I never gave Plex a second glance.

Deiv,

I’d love it if it had native apps on popular devices, especially on samsung TV. There are ways to set it up, but it has issues

pineapplelover,

Yeah I’ve been running Jellyfin for a year now and it’s amazing. The plugins automatically find metadata, cover art, and subtitles for me as soon as I upload them to my nas.

otter, (edited ) in A question about secure chats

My understanding is that it IS encrypted, and its supposed to use the Signal protocol (Signal developed it and released it for others to use)

The problems are with

  • metadata (like the other comment explained)
  • closed source, so we take their word on it for how it works. It’s possible they’re being misleading or doing something shady

See this image from a few years ago: https://i.redd.it/0imry50rxy961.png

Note that signal does require this, which isn’t in the chart:

  • phone number (for now)
  • last active date
  • sign up date (I think)
pylapp,
@pylapp@programming.dev avatar

Interesting! Do you remember where you got this chart?

elvith,

These are just screenshots of the data privacy section from the Apple AppStore of each of the apps. Afaik those are mandatory & self reported by the devs of the app.

otter, (edited )

I think it’s from here :)

forbes.com/…/whatsapp-beaten-by-apples-new-imessa…

Also it does leave out some info, I edited my comment up top

ultratiem,
@ultratiem@lemmy.ca avatar

iMessage definitely has more hooks in than those listed. It’s an integral Apple service that’s hooked into your deeper iCloud account. And because of that, they know a lot more than just a mere “chat” app would get access to. Which likely makes it harder to quantify.

Moreover, Meta and Alphabet also cross reference a lot of data points from all the other sources they have (cookies, IP logs, etc.). Again making actual data points fuzzy or incomplete.

Agent641, (edited )

I do not consent to Signal knowing about my empty box

otter, (edited )

Oh also @Thisfox

Instead of Telegram, consider one of these, it’s easier to switch to the good one now than to try and switch again later.

www.privacyguides.org/en/real-time-communication

Signal works great for my family

Thisfox, (edited )

I have been using Telegram for… A really long time. A decade? Maybe not that long. But yeah, no reason to change from what works for me. You’re right about that.

Signal and Matrix(?) and the others all seem to be a recent development, and although I have downloaded a few, no one else has them or has heard of them, so their directories are empty as I have never found anyone who wants to connect that way. It means I don’t know how to use or teach older people how to use the software. I am trying to find a simple evidence-based way to encourage my family to change their minds, but it appears it will only make me look paranoid, so probably won’t try.

otter, (edited )

That’s fair enough, it’s really location based. Around where I am, telegram isn’t that popular. I’ve met a few people using Signal and I have friends/collegues pop up in the “____ has Signal” section of the app.

We don’t really have a dominant chat app around here, there’s a good mix of messenger/instagram/iMessage, with some groups sticking to Whatsapp/WeChat/Viber.

I am trying to find a simple evidence-based way to encourage my family to change their minds, but it appears it will only make me look paranoid

I think part of it is because it’s hard to convince people without first explaining how things work. Not much use in worrying about it if you can’t, just look out for yourself. What you COULD do is to use the private option when you need to talk about something sensitive. If the app is installed on their phone then they’re more likely to use it, and even if not then you’re looking out for yourself

warmaster, in Plex Discover Together shares a bit too much. ...

From the link:

Plex is a hybrid streaming service/self-hosted media server.

There’s the main problem. You’re partially in control. I encourage everyone to switch to Jellyfin, even if you don’t have anything to hide.

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

Jellyfin is such a PITA to set up for those that aren't more technically inclined.

Contend6248, (edited )

Huh? It’s far easier, throw in your server IP+Port or DNS and quick connect your clients with a short code.

The bullshit claim solution by Plex makes me pull my hair out, especially on remote instances.

Even when running, it managed to break the database 3 times, with no repair tool of working, interestingly there are plenty, community built and official ones, so that problem is common.

Rebuilding takes a whole day with the intro-outro detection.

What a nightmare to administrate.

As someone who has bought a lifetime subscription a year ago i was enraged as my girlfriend told me that she got ads in Plex, turns out they just added their free streaming service in there without even asking, fuck them, Jellyfin evolved great!

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

Most people literally have no idea what you just wrote. I’m not saying jellyfish isn’t the superior option, I’m saying it’s less accessible.

Sightline,

Swim or sink.

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

This is terrible advice when you’re encouraging people to open up their network to the broader public without full understanding of what they’re doing.

Contend6248, (edited )

That is my advice to the people not having a clue what i’ve wrote. You don’t want to tell me that people not able to setup Jellyfin are full aware of anything they are doing with Plex?

Not everyone should self-host, especially not people unable to watch a 10 minute setup tutorial of Jellyfin, or god forbid, reverse proxies.

Dumbing down self-hosting below the bare minimum is dangerous, but to each their own.

BolexForSoup, (edited )
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  • Contend6248,

    You’re free to have your own opinion

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

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    frozen,
    @frozen@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz avatar

    Plex is definitely easier to set up. I’ve done it multiple times over several servers. I’ve literally never heard of the database breaking, and I’ve deleted media that was actively being watched. Meanwhile, Jellyfin fails basic metadata matching on the exact same media set and also lacks built-in SSO. One of the biggest niceties of Plex is inviting people to join and they can just immediately login with Google.

    I’m not saying Plex is better, and I’m not defending their recent enshittification. It’s gotten worse, for sure. And I’m sure Jellyfin is great, but I haven’t had time to put the effort in to fix the metadata issues or create accounts so my users can switch over.

    Skimmer, in Any *good* keyboard recommations?

    Not sure how it hasn’t been said yet, but I really like Helium314’s OpenBoard fork. Can’t recommend enough.

    potemkinhr, in Telegram Android Notifications
    @potemkinhr@lemmy.ml avatar

    I’ve noticed notifications are working sporadically now for quite some time (at least half a year now) for both Android (both Play store version and APK) and iOS from my experience. Only on the deskptop version of it are notifications instant, hope they will fix it at some point

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

    I’m a little shocked at how difficult it seems to be to find instructions on how to disable this feature. Pretty sure I got it, but it wasn’t a feature called discover together but a series of sharing options.

    woodenskewer,
    @woodenskewer@lemmy.world avatar

    The fact that you’re only “pretty sure” and not “entirely sure” is pretty shitty on plex in itself.

    June,

    Yep. I’m not thrilled.

    echodot,

    Plex has been kind of bad for a while though in terms of UI being just hard to use.

    I don’t actually think it’s even intentional I think it’s just they don’t have anybody on staff who really knows what they’re doing.

    June,

    Yea, it’s what all my people use though so I’m a little stuck with it. It’s also dead simple to set up and I don’t feel like learning jellyfin right now.

    sxan, in Any *good* keyboard recommations?
    @sxan@midwest.social avatar

    I’m starting to like Thumb Key. It may have the hardest learning curve I’ve ever seen, but it’s highly configurable, the developer is super active, and it has a ton of nicely implemented features. I feel as if it’ll be like vim: hard to get up to speed on, but once the muscle memory takes hold, I’ll be extremely productive with it.

    Helix, in Any *good* keyboard recommations?

    I like AnySoftKeyboard but it also doesn’t have great predictions. They’re very customizable though, so maybe you can get something out of it?

    phase, in noyb files GDPR complaint against Meta over “Pay or Okay”
    @phase@lemmy.8th.world avatar

    Given that the average phone has 35 apps installed, keeping your phone private could soon cost around € 8,815 a year.

    Nice argument they found.

    Gooey0210,

    Only I have like 100+ apps installed? 🫣

    DeafeningDistance, in Any *good* keyboard recommations?

    I use Unexpected Keyboard

    github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard

    Pyrozo007, in Plex starts narcing on its own users' anime and X-rated habits with an opt-out service, and it's going terribly

    If you’re using Plex for porn and also adding friends on it, what were you thinking in the first place? Like, it was so obvious something like this was going to happen, and that’s besides the already existant risk of accidentally sharing the wrong library with your friend.

    It’s a cool feature, it obviously would have been better if it filtered by age rating or adult film by default to begin with but I really see this as an overreaction.

    Lemmchen,

    Ah sure, blame the victim.

    w2tpmf,

    Stash is far better for xxx than Plex anyway. It was made for it.

    Sprokes,

    Stash? Asking for a friend.

    vortexsurfer,

    Tell your friend to google stashapp.

    jonne,

    It’s a pile of nudie mags out in the forest.

    RickyRigatoni,
    @RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml avatar

    Can I use the porn Stash if I don’t have a porn stache?

    CaptainSpaceman,

    i dont download porn (anymore) but if I did use a plex server for it I would absolutely partition it off from other users on my server

    TheHobbyist, in noyb files GDPR complaint against Meta over “Pay or Okay”

    Are Meta even committing to stop tracking when users pay? Or are they simply not showing targeted ads but still totally tracking?

    RvTV95XBeo,

    Follow-up question, does paying for Facebook do anything about tracking & ads run by Meta outside of their ecosystem?

    MrOxiMoron,

    They claim to not track you then, but just to be sure I finally took the step and deleted both Facebook and Instagram.

    Kinda sucks, because those are the platformed I used mostly to keep informed about local events and businesses.

    TheHobbyist,

    Where do they claim that?

    The article from Facebook I found about the subscriptions is this one: about.fb.com/…/facebook-and-instagram-to-offer-su…

    The only relevant thing I saw related to the topic was “while people are subscribed, their information will not be used for ads”. It does not say that information will stop being collected. Just that it will not be used for ads.

    So by all interpretations, there is in fact no suggestion that they will stop tracking paid users.

    SuckMyWang, (edited )

    Safe to say that even if they did claim that they would stop, they probably wouldn’t. They’re like crackheads for peoples personal info. So fucking creepy

    Norgur,

    Meta has this dangerous mentality that they are above the law anyway, so whatever they say, until a government powerful enough to really make them pay steps up and shows them that they are in fact not above the law, they'll just fucking do whatever they fucking want.

    random65837,

    Well when the governments around the world give them that power when they want them to push their agenda’s all the time, can’t really blame them for acting like the de-facto government they’ve become, thanks to actual govt’s. Govt’s always operate above their own laws, that’s nothing new.

    random65837,

    Kinda sucks, because those are the platformed I used mostly to keep informed about local events and businesses.

    Now you can check actual news instead of internet hive mind biased bullshit.

    Pantherina,

    I literally cant believe them. And would not pay a cent. Meanwhile I donate all the time to peertube, lemmy, mastodon, etc

    Zerush,
    @Zerush@lemmy.ml avatar

    I think that, at least for users out of the EU, the only alternative will be to change to the i2p network or to use more extensions and scripts than bookmarks in the browser to avoid this surveillance crap of these data hogs “to make America great again” I only hope that in the future the EU becomes a little more alert in offering enough software and services to be on level eyes of those in the USA. There are very good products in the EU, but most of them little known and marginal, the few that have made a name for themselves are KDE, Proton, Tuta and Vivaldi, little else…

    Pantherina,

    I was into i2p once. Poorly its like nearly not developed it seemy, there still is no install-and-run Browser like Torbrowser. And the lack of exit nodes makes it really impractical

    Zerush, (edited )
    @Zerush@lemmy.ml avatar

    Well, it’s still poorly used, but this can change in the future with logical improvements. Decentralized products are always poor if there are only few which use it, above with shabby servers. But a decentralized network is at the end the only way to escape the control of these surveillance companies. Tor in the Onion network isn’t really free of this and controled with backdoors by the NSA and others (the Onion was developed by US Defense and Secrete services), entering only with TOR, without also using VPN with several server redirects (startet before starting TOR, to get the tunnel beginning from the VPN server and not from the one of your ISP. Because of this a VPN extension in the browser isn’t a so good idea, only can start after the browser connect to your ISP server), expose you. very fast, not only by the gov services, also by the fauna maligna there. The TOR browser isn’ specially secure, it is only a browser capable to access the TOR network. In the normal open network isn’t more private as FF or any other browser, only slower and less compatible with the current web standarts, it is for what it is.

    Pantherina,

    Yes VPN browser extensins are BS just as Proxies just within the browser I would say. All that nice stuff Firefox offers should just be done on the OS level with systemd resolved.

    But the Tor network is not controlled by the NSA. The NSA is in ways also just a security agency. Tor is open source. Its very likely that the NSA, China, Russia etc. run their own servers though.

    Zerush,
    @Zerush@lemmy.ml avatar

    They are also in the Onion, more nowadays because of Terrorism and the current wars, its anyway a web which you must take with a grain of salt, not only because of its fauna.

    LWD, (edited )

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  • TheHobbyist,

    More notably, what it also does not mean is “we will stop collecting it”…

    vlad76,
    @vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

    Exactly. And then selling it to 3rd parties that then use it for ads.

    SuckMyWang, (edited )

    Well considering if you actively avoid meta products for ethical reasons they still make a ghost profile of you made from photos people upload with you in it and contact lists of people who have you in their phone and allow meta full access to their shit for some reason, “just in case” you ever join Facebook. Fairly sure it’s then used to build a profile of you and your internet use to serve you ads and sell your tracking data. Fuck the modern day internet is just fucking rotten at the core. I’m not sure I answered your question but I think it gives you the gist

    JackGreenEarth, in Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data

    CNN, Goodreads, WordPress blogs, fandom wikis, Terms of Service agreements, Stack Overflow source code, Wikipedia pages, news blogs, random internet comments

    Those are all publicly available data sites. It’s not telling you anything you couldn’t know yourself already without it.

    stolid_agnostic,

    I think the point is that it doesn’t matter how you got it, you still have an ethical responsibility to protect PII/PHI.

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

    piped.video is working fine now, including subscriptions listing (it even shows some privated videos!) and playing a video

    possiblylinux127,

    It just loads indefinitely for me. I’ve tried multiple instances and I get the same result

    ultratiem,
    @ultratiem@lemmy.ca avatar

    Same here. Piped hasn’t worked for since June and even then it was shaky.

    h3ndrik,

    Interesting. For me it has been working fine the last months. Loads and plays now, tested 30 seconds ago.

    ultratiem,
    @ultratiem@lemmy.ca avatar

    Yes as of writing this, the instance works fine. But that’s what I’m saying, within an hour it’ll be down, or just show the thumbnails but not actually load videos.

    The takehome is Google isn’t going to let Piped exist. And constantly does things to interfere which Piped can only do so much to bypass it all.

    h3ndrik, (edited )

    Mmh. They do so much silly stuff nowadays with the ad-blocker detection, handling browsers differently and people from different countries and all the magic that chooses your data rate and quality… I’m not surprised that it’s a different experience for everyone. Hope they don’t take third party frontends away from us for good. (I’d be also happy if every creator switches to a better alternative. But I don’t see that happen any time soon.)

    amanneedsamaid, in Any *good* keyboard recommations?

    I’ve been loving Thumb Key recently.

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