196 ThiefUserPermissions • 4mo ago • 93%

if Disturbed wrote "IT WASN'T ME" rule

iv.melmac.space

Rule

196 ThiefUserPermissions • 6mo ago • 99%

How selling on FB marketplace goes for me semi regular. Never contacted me again after this:

FB Marketplace is a strange place.

Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ ThiefUserPermissions • 7mo ago • 94%

I figured out how to make IPTV as easy as using Netflix so you dont have to

Disclaimer: Obviously this is for educational purposes only. I would personally never use my internet connection for anything illegal at all. I simply tested the below setup then deleted everything out of pure interest to understand how things worked and do not use any IPTV service. I love paying Netflix and other streaming platforms and will always support big companies and their profits. So... If you are like me and have a TV, and either a firestick or (in my case) an apple tv, where the users are used to just clicking with a remote into Netflix, switching to IPTV might be quite a struggle. I have found what I now consider the perfect setup, easy enough for an 8 year old to use and required no intervention from users, no moaning "something has broken". Seamless and easy. Impossible? Not at all. And if you don't have an IPTV provider I can hook you up with one if you send me a DM message also (they have trials). **Requirements for this to work.** 1. Access to cryptocurrency (Paypal is an option if privacy is not paramount). 2. An IPTV provider (aka discord access to organise IPTV service on the low - message me if you don't have one) . 3. An apple TV (or firestick) app to play the streams 4. A VPN to hide the traffic. 5. Bandwidth - about 50mbit would be ideal and more than enough. All of the above can be paid for by Paypal if you don't want to use crypto, however if you require to be untraceable then you will need to use crypto for the IPTV and mullvad VPN part. **Costs:** Recommend not subscribing to anything more than 3 months at a time max. This is in case things break/get shut down and so on. IPTV - I use a UK centric provider that costs £30 GBP every 3 months (Equivalent to 10 GBP a month). This gives live TV (sky), Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime and a few other bits and bobs in this price. You also get a backup stream so if the primary goes down you can still use your IPTV. A TV app. You can either use UHF or Snappier IPTV. UHF costs 0.99 per month (recommend only subscribing monthly) and Snappier costs 1.99 per month. They have different layouts depending what you prefer. Both cost a nominal amount so suggest picking the one that's easier to use for you. I use UHF. A VPN. I use mullvad. You will need a 1 time purchase on an app called passepartout on apple TV. This allows you to sync a VPN profile from your iPhone to the apple TV and ensure that when the Apple TV turns on it auto connects to your VPN. This hides your traffic and so on. The basic setup: Once you have organised getting your IPTV streams from a provider and have a VPN, then it is very straightforward. For mullvad you set a country exit point in the account. I just set the same country as I currently reside so the ping is low and speed is fast. Setup Passpartout with your vpn provider and create a profile (Mullvad has an account number and the password "m"), sync this to Apple tv. Ensure apple tv can connect. Reboot and check it stays connected. The Apple tv is now secured for use of the service. Similar setup for a firestick I imagine (maybe you can add a vpn without this app I don't have a firestick to test with so am not 100% sure). Next install an IPTV app like UHF and subscribe for 1 month @0.99. Next add the playlist streams you have to UHF, and the app will have your sections of live tv, series and movies. The correct way to do this is add an Xtream playlist (M3U8 is an older style that I found had issues) and insert the URL, Username and Password. Thats it, dead easy. Super reliable and so simple even kids can use it. There is no fiddling around, and no issues. Just wanted to write this up as there was nothing when I was looking to test this for educational purposes. Now there is something written. And you can trial it too. Its not for everyone but maybe if you need something simple, and easy then give it a go :) * T

No Stupid Questions ThiefUserPermissions • 1y ago • 89%

Follow up post on a question I asked

A short while ago I asked about a youtube alternative. While I was happy to try odyssey a small subset of commenters here were fairly cynical that any solution could be developed that could challenge a big company like YT and some even suggested just paying google. This is the original question: https://lemmy.myserv.one/post/3116340 I am now happy to learn that in fact a solution has been developed which I will be trying. In fact it is presented in a YT video: https://youtu.be/5DePDzfyWkw?si=eMGHNGsxICcLmFOW It warms my heart to see that solutions you difficult problems can be found and that we as thinking people and as humans still have the ultimate ability to change the course of the ship. I will be giving this new video app a try that similar to the messenger apps looks like it has a chance to begin the slow eroding of a single entity having all the content. Many years I am sure but feel like my question was answered even if not on Lemmy. Thanks everyone:)

No Stupid Questions ThiefUserPermissions • 1y ago • 94%

Youtube ads finally got me

Looks like its over for me and youtube. Being told I cant watch because of an ad blocker. Where is everyone moving to and using instead of youtube? I will just move to the same place.

Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ ThiefUserPermissions • 1y ago • 97%

Educate your friends via the wiki.

Its time to share the wiki and get your friends on board the ship as we set sail. We all have to rally together to stop the neverending subscription model. Give them this map; its all the booty they need: https://rentry.co/megathread

Programmer Humor ThiefUserPermissions • 1y ago • 92%

Close to the next unlock in the speedtest app

Maybe some of you can speed it along so we can see what it is.

Debian ThiefUserPermissions • 1y ago • 88%

If there is anyone who wants to help Debian by running testing, here is a guilde I maintain:

If you like Debian and like to help make it better, and also want to use testing please review this guide where I try to cover many common things and improve your experience: https://makedebianfunagainandlearnhowtodoothercoolstufftoo.computer/doku.php?id=start Thanks for being a Debian testing user :)

Server didn’t need more memory but I upgraded the memory anyway to 8gb just because I felt like it.

This server is still very underutilised and I havent even had to upgrade to 8gb ram yet which is something I have been waiting for. Uptime is now continuously above 99% so if anyone has any friends they want to invite please do. The server doesnt take much work and is cheap and simple so no reason to fill it. Any issues let me know. For pictures loading this will be improved when stable version of pictrs is released as I will change to image proxying. This is not currently supported in 4.0 and only arriving in 5.0. Any other performance issues let me know. Im not aware of any.

In order to keep lemmy.myserv.one clean and the rest of the fediverse, it would be helpful to have members who are interested to assist in checking new user accounts that are created are not troll/spam accounts. Currently when a new user signs up, an email is generated to admin staff with their username so that after a suitable delay we can review their comment history/posts and delete any user who is just a spambot or a troll looking to harm communities. So far just one user has had to be removed in this way, but I expect there to be more as time goes on. In addition you may be contacted by other instances admins/mod teams from time to time via DM asking to ban a user if they have egregious behavior. This has never happened yet, but eventually one day I am sure it will. If you are interested in helping please DM me so I can review your account (ie you are a normal person) and have been posting/using the server and have a vested interest in helping out. Kind regards P

Unfortunately there will be some downtime later as I work on optimisation of the database which is a problem for lemmy instances at the moment and will mean the site is inaccessible for an hour at some point later while I take a dig around and aee what O can change.

Maintenance time has been moved from 3AM daily to 3:16AM daily. Maintenance takes about 10 minutes. EDT time. This was done because I needed to script something else first. Tnx.

To combat email issues over the past week I have upgraded the email setup and security so it will hopefully be more reliable. P

Currently this instance is run by just me, however there is currently an effort started to figure out what happens if I am away on holiday and there is an emergency/site down situation with other trusted instance admins. It will be a long work in progress, starting simple but eventually enabling another trusted admin to do everything to get the server back online including start/stop the vps via api calls if it has died. To begin with I am working on this with just 1 other admin for now - the admin from boulder.ly - who is creating a docker image that will allow us to connect to each other instances and resolve basic problems. This will be extended as we have time to add them. Also I am having to create the workflow and documentation on what to do in various scenarios and the commands and processes and procedures to do them. Eventually also (although not being worked on now) we will need to consider how bills are paid if another admin dies/drops off the face of the earth and how that process might look. For now we will have to leave this until the more basic stuff is in place. This is a complex procedure for various reasons especially revolving around access rights and permissions so I will keep you updated as we progress. It will be some weeks before the basic stuff is ready but main thing to know is its a problem being worked on so that we are not in the situation where an instance is run by just 1 person who cant be available 24/7 and there will be eventually some way to protect users if real life happens to the owner of the site. As there is a lot of work to get even a simple setup going please be patient, it is being worked on slowly and will be a constant work in progress for some time.

Have been getting some training from other instance admin on how to configure this. Will require a lot of changes to accomplish this change. So will be looking into setting this up later next week once I have accommodated all the basic stuff that needs to be done first. Once this is ready to be done I will let you know then deploy it to this site and (hopefully) not cause downtime during the change. Pete

You can view server stats here. Updated at 00 and 30 minutes. - P https://publicscreens.q8p0.c17.e2-3.dev/cpu1.png https://publicscreens.q8p0.c17.e2-3.dev/mem1.png https://publicscreens.q8p0.c17.e2-3.dev/uptime1.png https://publicscreens.q8p0.c17.e2-3.dev/fsusage1.png https://publicscreens.q8p0.c17.e2-3.dev/ioact1.png https://publicscreens.q8p0.c17.e2-3.dev/netact1.png https://publicscreens.q8p0.c17.e2-3.dev/ioms1.png For day instead of week, replace the 1 for a 2 eg: cpu2.png

When backing up/maintenance you can open a private window and should be able to access http://lemmy.myserv.one Note: Same website, but not https. Only http. Will need to use a private window or browser will try to access old https site no matter what you do especially on mobile. This will let you check in maintenance is happening. Secret. Dont tell anyone. P