John

“The technology is really simple,” he told ABC7. “A car drives by, we take a picture. It’s a static picture of a car, and then we read the license plate. That’s what the technology is – it’s actually not that complicated, it’s pretty simple.”

100% lying: https://www.404media.co/flocks-ceo-says-its-alprs-dont-do-video-after-repeatedly-announcing-they-can/

If you need to watch content on it get an appropriate device. If you want to watch BluRays buy a BluRay player. If you want to do streaming buy a streaming device at a price point and privacy level to your liking.

This is what we’re currently doing. I unplugged tv from internet, and only use Roku stick or plex.

As to librelec and “sucking”. If you’re trying to do yo-ho stuff with free streaming sites and services it isn’t going to be great.

Yea I assumed the free services like Pluto, Tubi, even PBS stuff would work great. Not really…

Frankly if you want some quality and good experience either pay for a commercial streaming service (or a good IPTV one*)

It sounds cool but it also sounds like those would be totally jank. I did something like this years ago for watching hockey games, and is was ok…, but like you said it just disappeared one day.

If you need to watch content on it get an appropriate device. If you want to watch BluRays buy a BluRay player. If you want to do streaming buy a streaming device at a price point and privacy level to your liking.

Any tips for Libre+kodi? I just installed it on my pi and man it friggin sucks (and I’m a linux user used to things sucking). Can’t get any streams to work correctly. I guess it would be great to play videos from my PC, but that was already working with plex…

Basically, just pirate everything and play it on kobi?

Everybody in this thread: “Instead of that, just do this incredibly complex techy thing and build up your own library with multiple PBs of stolen media”

I’d love to ditch my Roku stick (already unplugged LG tv from internet). I use plex for some stuff…

I probably will set up a raspberry pi but most people cannot do this

EDIT: just set up LibreELEC and tried a few streams … this sucks lol.

At the end of the day, Proton is good enough for 99% of people. If your risk profile necessitates something even more robust, then go find it. I’ve been generally very happy.

yea. I guess I’m just a dick. Websites fingerprint everything about you. This should be comically obvious to people now.

But yea, reddit doesn’t like VPNs.

There would be no way they could tell, I say.

You would be wrong

you can say this about literally every tech company these days.

I don’t pay for plex so I don’t really care, at this point in time.

https://cyberpress.org/hackers-exploit-keepass-password-manager-to-distribute-malware/

https://thehackernews.com/2023/05/keepass-exploit-allows-attackers-to.html

The one that has had multiple hacks. I’m good mate.

Should have just been the Roku City haha

Every company is basically evil at this point.

https://lemmy.ml/post/45007584/24779562

You have to read between the lines. This just gives them the option to label anybody they want as a “bot” with virtually no way to challenge them. They can now ban anybody they wish for posting content they don’t agree with (pro-gaza, anti-israel, anti-capitalist, etc).

You have to read between the lines. This just gives them the option to label anybody they want as a “bot” with virtually no way to challenge them. They can now ban anybody they wish for posting content they don’t agree with (pro-gaza, anti-israel, anti-capitalist, etc).

It’s always a catch 22 with crypto-skeptics, in my experience. I try to be vague enough so people simply understand the use cases and why there’s excitement for the tech, but then if I get too technical it “gets nebulous” since there’s lots of jargon. Very difficult to find the middle ground. In most cases, simply using the tech will clear up 99% of people’s questions … at least that’s how I got into it as a former skeptic myself.

What did I say that was nebulous?

Great response. Blocked

NFT-haters love to point out that the thing you ‘own’ is the blockchain token, not the actual art asset itself. I always find this argument silly since:

1. the token is the whole point. The NFT revolution (or mania, if you want to call it that) is because the tokens are the enabling technology. Where the art itself actually lives is just secondary. Nobody is getting excited about the JPEGs themselves, not really (let’s be real, most of the “art” is dogshit). People got excited about what the tokens enabled. Just one example, I can send all owners of my photos (the tokens) additional art as a bonus thank you. I know exactly who has my tokens. I can also gate premium features (similar to Patreon) to token holders. This functionality is how Ticketmaster is exploring NFTs

2. If I buy my digital wedding photos, or something on DeviantArt, or wherever, and if I lose that asset (computer wiped, whatever), I can just go and redownload it. It’s a copy. Of course it is. We live in a digital age. I don’t really understand why NFT-haters rave all the time about owning copies of the assets. Of course it’s a copy. Even onchain art assets are just ‘copies’ since it’s decentralized over 1000s of computers

Isn’t that like owning an original photo?

Anybody who’s ever used the technology will understand this immediately. Anybody who has actually bought/used NFTs understand how silly these ‘well technically…’ arguments are.

What a good argument would be would be the distinct between ownership and possession:

ownership = rights (human law, rulings/opinions, enforced top down. i.e. titles)

possession = control (physics laws, math, enforced bottom up i.e. car keys)

crypto IMHO was never about the former. “Ownership” will always live in the layer of social agreement. What crypto gives is “possession”: control above the TOS and paper rights that web 2 gave us. The first time the user can possess the keys to his stuff on a database that’s shared with other people (and not just the illusion of). This distinction is the reason why even though you do “own” your digital song/videos/game loot on amazon or PS5 via their TOS, you cannot trade it, swap it with a friend, resell it… The key never left your digital landlord, they just let you in to play. You had the papers for your car, but not the key. You never possessed what you owned.

In your opinion, how is that functionally different than when I sold photos on DeviantArt, and they got an email instead of a token? Are NFT-haters upset that art is being sold at all? Or are they upset about the delivery system?

bought art and also given out/received pointers to the receipts as NFTs.

I have NFTs with assets on chain as well, so in fact those ones aren’t just “pointers”.