A guy on the internet who does things sometimes

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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • If you’re in the US our laws would allow you to view the file to check if it does indeed violate the law, so long as you properly delete it and any potential backup of it immediately

    You’re safe from being sued or held liable for hosting it due to the nature of your platform, and the required checking of the content before removal would be allowed (you could also theoretically leave it to the police to send you takedown requests instead, then you don’t even have to subject yourself to the potentially bad material)

    You could also implement some sort of hash scanning against known-bad data, there are datasets of hashes of files you could check against and deny the uploading or auto-delete/report to authorities if you wanted




  • even if you’re already logged in, apps do not find and recognize your local server without internet access.

    You set your server in those app’s settings to not use direct connect and thus they are being routed through Plex’s servers

    When you select your Plex libraries from the drop-down there are usually 2 options, one will be the local IP and say (direct), that’s always the best choice if you’re able

    I just turned off my Internet connection to my Chromecast and tested, no issues with accessing my media


  • who are familiar with technical terminology and several concepts and steps are left out and implied rather than explained.

    Said it before and I’ll say it again: had to manually install some software to make Steam tinker launch work, and the instructions for installing it were to download and prepare the GitHub folder, then “do the usual and move the completed file to …”

    Ive used git in the past and it still took me multiple minutes to figure out they meant the “make && build” command. Why was that so hard to fucking write??









  • Put brand new drive into system, begin clone

    When clone is done, pull drive out and place in a cardboard box

    Take that box to my off-site storage (neighbors house) and bury it

    (In truth I couldn’t afford to get to the 1 off-site in time and have potentially tragically lost almost 4TB of data that, while replacable, will take time because I don’t fucking remember what I even had lol. Gonna take the drives to a specialist tho cuz I think the plates are fine and it’s the actual reading mechanism that’s busted)