Tech Talk Megathread

[nesman]

I'm honestly been avoiding Roku after their garbage TOS change that forced you to accept it before you would be able to use it. Ended up unplugging my TV and it never got the TOS change and I don't plan on plugging it back in. This pretty much sealed the deal. Long live android boxes with a dumb TV.

Roku Says 576,000 Streaming Accounts Compromised in Security Breach

Roku discovered a second security breach affecting 576,000 user accounts, after investigating a hack last month of 15,000 accounts.

variety.com

 

[nesman]

Renamed this thread so I can just use the same thread. This is a neat video

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmC5TlRYWyc

 

[nesman]

It's funny to watch the shift away from cloud in IT after everyone wanted to shift to cloud.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0w142iNnQY

 

[nesman]

@AsG_Alligator mentioned this one to me https://adnauseam.io/

 

[AsG_Alligator]

Its built on top of uBlock, but with extra functionality of feeding garbage data into the advertising algorithm by faking clicks on every single ad it blocks.

On Firefox you can get it directly from the addon place.

 

[nesman]

Its built on top of uBlock, but with extra functionality of feeding garbage data into the advertising algorithm by faking clicks on every single ad it blocks.

On Firefox you can get it directly from the addon place.

I haven't gotten it to work on firefox yet. But I'm glad it's built off ublock because I can just copy my filters over.

 

[nesman]

For anyone who is into self-hosting and not relying on the cloud. Spotify replacement https://www.navidrome.org/