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MalReynolds, do piracy w Can Pirate's Bay be considered "safe" if it is used only for non-executable multimedia content?
@MalReynolds@slrpnk.net avatar

It has to be executed to have any danger, so you’d need a zero day exploit for your media player, even then it should be contained at user level rather than system. I’ve not really heard of it happening, but it’s theoretically possible I guess, would take a really bad coding mistake. Keep your players updated and you should be fine.

WeirdGoesPro, do piracy w If all adblocks get deleted, would you still pirate?
@WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I haven’t used a tracker with ads in over a decade.

wutBEE, do games w PSA: If you still have a Mojang account for Minecraft: Java Edition, you have less than a week left to migrate to a Microsoft account to avoid profile deletion

Man, I’d prefer to have this account on my Xbox account but it won’t let me migrate since I have a different Minecraft account there already. Wish it would just let me throw that one away and link this one in.

lazycouchpotato,
@lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world avatar

You will have to request Minecraft Support to delete that existing Java Edition profile from your Microsoft account. Once they do so, you can migrate your Java Edition profile to it. I’m assuming their support’s pretty hammered right now, so I’m not sure if they will get back to you in time.

The easiest thing to do would be to choose a different Microsoft account to complete the migration, despite the inconvenience it might cause later on.

Migrate it to your child’s/spouse’s Microsoft account if you have one. If you’re feeling extremely generous, migrate to a friend’s Microsoft account. You can then swap usernames between the accounts at a later date.

fiat_lux, do piracy w Can Pirate's Bay be considered "safe" if it is used only for non-executable multimedia content?

Not necessarily. For example, I know RAR is a bit out of style, but WinRAR just this week had some articles about malware lurking in otherwise non-executable files

There is no such thing as 'safe' user-generated content, only a spectrum of more or less safe content.

FeelzGoodMan420,

Who the actual fuck still uses winrar?

fiat_lux,

Enough people that the dude is still actively supporting and updating it for new OS versions. The RAR is unkillable.

Historical_General,

I only recently stopped using it. And a lot of content on the internet, expecially ones for download use rar part files to split it up and host freely.

FeelzGoodMan420,

You can just use 7zip tho

Kolanaki, (edited ) do piracy w If all adblocks get deleted, would you still pirate?
!deleted6508 avatar

I mean, there are still private, adfree trackers and things and I’ve been pirating before even Napster was a thing and the Internet was rife with malicious ads and popups. If anything, I’d pirate harder out of spite.

ruination, do piracy w If all adblocks get deleted, would you still pirate?

Even if they do remove them from the official stores, you can always go straight to the source and sideload it.

das, do piracy w Ripping Audible Audiobooks
@das@lemellem.dasonic.xyz avatar

I used Libation. It’s free, it’s open source and it worked great for me

conciselyverbose, do piracy w Ripping Audible Audiobooks

I think there are probably some that were loaned via audible plus or whatever, but audible says I have 440 audiobooks. Backing up the couple hundred I actually bought would be nice.

spencer, do piracy w Ripping Audible Audiobooks

I’m personally a big fan of OpenAudible. It’s not free, but it’s not crazy expensive and it does all the work for you. You sign into your Audible account in the app, it will pull your library, download each book, decrypt it, and convert it to the format of your choice (I usually do M4B). I’ve been using it for years and it makes downloading your Audible library in an ongoing basis a breeze.

all-knight-party, do games w Controllers with paddles?
@all-knight-party@kbin.cafe avatar

Tons of third party controllers for any system clone existing buttons, which is nice when the official controllers don't have that. Something interesting about doing this on a switch is that because each joy con is its own independent controller you can only map each joy con to an input from the same joy con, for example, the left wouldn't be able to map to face buttons, and the right wouldn't be able to map to the d pad.

I use a Steam Controller on PC and really enjoy being able to map anything to it which helps being able to play games how I want. Cloning buttons is great for the whole "retain joystick movement while hitting a face button", but without being able to directly map different game controls to it it's just a copy of an existing function you already have.

I would love for grip buttons to be normalized and allow for more controls in games, it's pretty much the last part of my hands that aren't doing anything on a modern controller layout.

Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever, do games w Controllers with paddles?

I use the 8bitdo

In theory, having a whole new button would be nice. But understand that games are specifically designed around the 18+1 button setup and there is rarely a need for a 19th and a 20th. And if I am going full steam craziness: I tend to prefer modal mappings at that point anyway.

I could see something like a flight sim or an elite game benefiting from ALL THE BUTTONS but… at that point I want the HOTAS form factor. Or we are talking something like the x series where everyone knows the game is meant to be m+kb but we still try to make it work.

SandLight,

That said, I have my 8bitdo grips rebound to be stick buttons, and I have the stick buttons removed.

Even if I don’t get more options, I still get better options.

superkret, (edited ) do piracy w Can Pirate's Bay be considered "safe" if it is used only for non-executable multimedia content?

The data will be safe to play on a linux box.
Whether you’ll be safe depends on where you live and whether you have a VPN in a different country.

I had to fight off a law suit for over 2 years over a single movie I torrented someone on my network allegedly torrented from Piratebay (Germany).

Xirup, (edited )
@Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Fortunately I live in a country where they don’t care about piracy, but maybe I misspelled the question, I meant “sure” it can’t contain some kind of virus.

And I guess you won the lawsuit? On Reddit I remember that people would commonly say they got those law suits but people would always suggest “don’t do anything about it because they were just warnings”.

superkret,

Yeah, “don’t do anything” is horribly advice, at least in Germany.
I managed to avoid the lawsuit by showing the lawyers who wanted to fleece me that I had legal representation and collected enough evidence in my favor to make it difficult.
All they had was a file and an IP address.
It was a back-and-forth of letters between me, them and the court, which eventually refused to formally open a trial.

Appoxo,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Any more advice for a fellow torrenter in Germany regarding linux isos (hey lawyer ;))

Using a seedbox from abroad to avoid local downloads.

superkret,

Torrenting Linux ISOs is legal and doesn’t violate any copyright so there’s nothing to worry about.

superkret,

The way they catch you is by downloading a complete “Linux ISO” you seeded. Their log from that download shows your IP and that’s the evidence.

So either don’t seed a complete “ISO”, or use a VPN from a provider that will laugh at info requests from German lawyers.

Safest way is to make sure you only torrent Linux ISOs that can be legally shared according to their copyright license, of course ;)

Chewy7324,

It doesn’t necessarily have to be a complete iso, but a part of the “Linux ISO” is enough. Since your still helping others complete their “ISO” illegally.

Appoxo,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Well already using a seedbox located abroad.
I will just hope it won’t be linked back to me lol :p

spiderman,

I had to fight off a law suit for over 2 years over a single movie I torrented from Piratebay (Germany).

How serious was it and did you hire a lawyer for that?

superkret,

Yes, I hired a lawyer for consultation.
Since I was very poor at the time, I could get the cost for it reimbursed from the state, after laying bare my finances in front of a judge.

As for the seriousness, the legal firm moving against me had opened a case before a court in Munich (500km from where I lived) and I had to plead my case in writing to the court.
Next step after a lot of legalese back and forth would have been a summons before the court in person, which didn’t happen. The letters just stopped.

In the end, I paid 60€ for fees and postage. They had wanted me to pay 2000€ to settle and my lawyer told me if it goes before a judge, worst probable outcome would have been 600€ in court and lawyer fees.

Chewy7324,

Yes it’s inexcusable in my opinion that they want over 1000€ for a single movie. 600€ is still a lot of money but asking so much more than the “damage” is obviously worth is just…

I heard of some people who actually paid the fine they were asked for, since they didn’t know better (it wasn’t them but an exchange student from a country where torrenting media isn’t an issue, or so they said).

Francis_Fujiwara, do piracy w Can Pirate's Bay be considered "safe" if it is used only for non-executable multimedia content?

If it’s for multimedia content, it’s safe, I guess. I have been downloading movies and series from that page for 5 years, and I have never had any security problems.

Xirup, (edited )
@Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Good to know! I know it’s stupid and not at all the case, but I had read about a virus that ran on an old version of Windows when you open a file because Windows needed to compile the file to open it and the exploit took advantage of a vulnerability in that compiler to rescale to admin permissions, and I think about that when downloaded this serie.

Appoxo,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

You can hide malware in EXIF metadata.
Just let common sense and be always aware of abnormal device behavior.

wildbus8979,

There has also been a number of malwares targeted at codec decoders, VLC was at one time a big target, not sure that is true now a days though

hyorvenn, do gaming w Does anyone know of any kid-friendly "horror" games out there for children ~7 years old?
@hyorvenn@jlai.lu avatar

Métro 2033, the library level will make him shit his pants. And the game is probably not going to make him have nightmares from gorish horror too

pre, do piracy w If all adblocks get deleted, would you still pirate?
@pre@fedia.io avatar

@XeryBlox The first thing I would pirate would be a hacked version of Firefox that had ad-blockers in it.

If I can't get that then I'd think about abandoning the web for Gemini.

Saganastic,

You don't even need a hacked version. Just use an older version. Besides, Firefox is open source, I'm sure someone would fork off an adblock allowed version.

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