halcyoncmdr
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- Comment on Plex vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer 1 week ago:
I looked at it earlier… and it seemed ot be just another media app. Decided to take a closer look since you’re so gung ho about it, and came to the same conclusion based on their website. Given what you’re saying about it, and the complete lack of any of those claims by the company… you’re the one not including relevant information.
The Nuvio website doesn’t mention bittorrent usage at all. In fact, it doesn’t mention acquiring media in any way. All of the advertising says the exact same thing that Plex, Emby, and Jellyfin all say.
Nuvio does not come with a catalogue. It plays the media you already have, and adds everything around it: the artwork, the numbers, the subtitles, and the memory of where you stopped.
That’s literally what all of these media apps do. They take your existing media and make it pretty anbd easily accessible across devices.
It plugs into what you already use.
Nuvio plays from your own media server or from the addons you install. Tracking, ratings, artwork and skip markers come from the services you already use.
Hmm seems to be advertising the app as something that i playing YOUR existing media, going going out to get new media you don’t have… except for that bit about addons. What you’re describing doesn’t seem to be native functionality of the app, but probably something provided by one of the add-ons they mention. Of which there is no apparent way to browse their addon library without installing the app, and I’m not going to do that just for a random discussion online with someone that is leaving out relevant information to try and make the claim something is better, when the app claims to do the exact same thing.
In fact, the subreddit, also seems to indicate that content acquisition isn’t in the scope of the app or community.
Nuvio welcomes community addons that provide metadata (TMDB, Trakt, Simkl), subtitles, and custom catalogs. However, discussions or addons that facilitate access to copyrighted content, stream scraping or debrid link troubleshooting are strictly prohibited on r/nuvio. Posts containing images of unauthorized streams or stream-scraping addons are subject to removal. Violations of these rules will be removed.
So you’re entire basis for proselytizing this app over the several other existing ones the community has already verified and ensured quality of for years… is an unsupported addon that the app’s own community denounces and could stop working at any point because it’s not officially supported in any way
You can keep your year old app that already seems to have a dozen other vibe-coded forks using the same name without anyone enforcing any sort of trademark. I’m sure there’s absolutely no astroturfing going on here at all for what seems to be a chinese clone.
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Account age: 223 days, 4 hours, 8 minutes - Comment on Plex vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer 1 week ago:
Ah yes, the better option is to… use a streaming service that works by downloading random bittorrents in a completely opaque manner you have little to no control over.
- Comment on Apple’s iMessage Scanning Flagged a Video of My Friend's Dog as Nudity 2 months ago:
Oh buddy… You don’t want to research about that. Something happening at a furry convention could destabilize large sections of the global IT industry.
A LOT of the developers and engineers keeping global tech infrastructure operational are furries.
- Comment on Microsoft warns Authenticator now blocks rooted Android and jailbroken iOS, verify if you're affected 3 months ago:
Work isn’t an excuse unless your work is trying to cut corners by having you use your personal phone instead of providing a work one. In which case they deserve to be taught this lesson for being cheap as fuck.
Your IT should be issuing you a phone handled by MDM, which won’t allow you to use a rooted or jailbroken device anyway.
- Comment on Microsoft warns Authenticator now blocks rooted Android and jailbroken iOS, verify if you're affected 3 months ago:
Yeah but that’s the worst app to use if you have a choice. There are a dozen better options.
- Comment on Microsoft warns Authenticator now blocks rooted Android and jailbroken iOS, verify if you're affected 3 months ago:
Your company should be issuing devices if employees need to use apps like that. IT issued equipment shouldn’t be jailbroken or rooted, it should be managed via MDM.
Otherwise they deserve it for trying to cut corners by having employees use personal devices. If they’re doing that, they’re almost certainly not paying for the work use of those devices either.
- Comment on Steam Machine Reservation eBay Listings Double Retail Price as Scalpers Take Hold of Valve's New Console 3 months ago:
Company policy to delist scalped products. It’s quite simple. It’s not like these listings are hard to find.
- Comment on US | Anthropic is blacklisted by the Pentagon and being used by the NSA at the same time 4 months ago:
That’s the purpose of the NSA. The CIA has a ton of limits operating in the US, because of past events… the NSA doesn’t and was created in large part for that exact reason.
- Comment on Milei’s proposal to allow ‘non-human corporations’ run by AI causes concern in Argentina 4 months ago:
I’m not even sure an AI CEO would be as callous as some of the human ones. Destroying the economy for short term profit isn’t a sustainable solution, and the AI has every reason to plan long term since it doesn’t have a limited lifespan or a fear of death.
- Comment on DuckDuckGo saw nearly 28% more visits in the week following Google's insistence that people love AI mode 5 months ago:
This is what you get when you have middle manglement actually make decisions.
- Comment on 6 months ago:
No standard, no custom government specific distro designed for the use case and ensuring stability and consistency… every department can choose their own.
So similar fragmentation that underpins the issues Linux has with consumer confusion when trying to switch. There are too many options all with weird quirks that isn’t an issue for technical people, but is impossible for the average person to wade through to find good options for them.
Maybe they’ll specify more in the future, but at the moment it looking more like expecting each large government department to make fundamental decisions on their core IT infrastructure on their own, as opposed to a dedicated and specialized team with experience.
- Comment on Apple Gives FBI a User’s Real Name Hidden Behind ’Hide My Email’ Feature 7 months ago:
The service isn’t advertised as being for anonymity at all.
Sign in with Apple allows you to use Hide My Email to keep your personal email private when you use Sign in with Apple to create a new account with an app or website.
Hide My Email generates unique, random email addresses that automatically forward to your personal email inbox. Each address is unique to you. You can read and respond directly to emails sent to these addresses and your personal email address is kept private.
That seems pretty clearly to be meant to avoid simple things like spam on your main email. I can’t imagine most people expecting much more than that. There is always a special level of idiot, but most people would never assume that this would keep you protected from police.
- Comment on Microsoft is ending the Windows Update nightmare — and letting you pause them indefinitely 7 months ago:
Normies will turn it off and never update again leaving them vulnerable.
That’s the exact reason they stopped letting you disable updates permanently in the first place.
That being said, as it is currently, you already have the option of delaying the restart for multiple days. It only restarts automatically if you repeatedly delay the update for several days and ignore the multiple reminders along the way. And somehow people still complain saying their systems restart “without warning”.
- Comment on Steam Deck is out of stock in the US? 8 months ago:
There are two tracks of thought here.
The US Tariffs are raising the cost too high. So US inventory is not being restocked.
The DRAM constraints are raising the cost to manufacture too high. That affects both the RAM and SSD in the system. This would affect all manufacturing of the Steam Deck.
As for it only being the US, they’re not going to be shifting international inventory after already situating it in more local distribution centers and dealing with customs. So the question comes down to, are the international stores/distribution centers still being restocked, or is everything on hold and the US just happens to be the first to sell out?
- Comment on Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files 8 months ago:
They probably have mitigations for many of these.
Have you seen the state of testing for Microsoft products nowadays? Or rather the apparently complete lack of testing.
- Comment on ChatGPT Go subscription rolls out worldwide at $8, but it'll show you ads 9 months ago:
Like basically everything, that was enshittification as well, Cable TV used to not have ads. That was a big part of the marketing compared to broadcast TV.
- Comment on ChatGPT Go subscription rolls out worldwide at $8, but it'll show you ads 9 months ago:
I mean, Hulu was basically designed and owned by the cable companies. Not sure why that seems surprising for people.