rooted or not? I was under the impression that this kind of mods only work on rooted

If when opened with a browser they have the right stylesheet, you can pirate m0nkrus’ acrobat pro, then select all => right click => convert to pdf

for some reason i read xfs instead of btrfs…

their array implementation is stupid and smart at the same time. I love that you can mix and match disks at random, even with different filesystems (you can have one drive in murderfs, one in xfs, one in btrfs and the last one in zfs and all protected with the same parity drive), but i completely hate how my server is locked by a 25% iowait due to how much cpu intensive is their softraid. Maybe when they came out with this system 20 years ago it was groundbreaking, but now it is stupid. Now with unraid 7 released one week ago they’re starting to deprecate it (disabled by default in new install) in favor of native btrfs or zfs arrays

a btrfs “array” in unraid is composed by individual btrfs partitions mounted as /mnt/disk1 /disk2 /disk3 and so on, then there’s a daemon that makes a “unified” view at /mnt/user/, and it uses a different algorithm for parity.

There’s a way to make real btrfs raid arrays, but it has been introduced very recently (1-2 years ago), and it’s not the default that you create when you use the Web UI.

The unraid array it’s not an array, but a bunch of xfs partitions where a third party program is doing softraid. If opened on any other Linux distro, they will mount but parity drives are ignored

If you have new drives: make a zfs array and copy all files there

If you want to recycle drives while temporarily keeping the parity drives: from unraid 7 set a drive as unused, use the mover (or unbalance) to empty it, check if it’s actually empty by going to /mnt/diskX , format it as btrfs, set it as preferred for your shares, choose another disk to empty, use the mover to move all the data from the next disk to the new btrfs one, then remove the empty drive and add it to the btrfs raid. Repeat.

Uncompressed Blu-ray rips are almost the same size when compressed with lossless compression. The binary content of h264 files are almost random bits so deduplication is almost a waste of CPU time. Maybe you can save space from the useless repeated media like trailers and other ads in the bluray isos

spammers they just email info@domain and call it a day, they don’t try to see if you have some custom naming scheme. I bounce all emails sent to that, the rest is catchall, with occasional blacklist to some TLD like .monster .asia .xyz or .su

Every site needs a government license and it’s trivial to detect and flag incoming traffic on web ports on a residential IP address - they are going to be interested in what kind of " subversive propaganda " you’re hosting

wow, really neat design for this price range

It seems like regular people can get a public IPv6 so they can self host at home. Although, technically, everything public facing needs a ICP license so hosting stuff on Port 80/443 can draw a target on the head

Otherwise rent a vps in Singapore/Korea/Japan plus a .com domain and access via cloudflare tunnel as too much traffic over SSH/VPN/rarely used ports to a fresh Ipv4 address leads it to automatic probing and ban https://gfw.report/blog/gfw_shadowsocks/

Somehow in Italy many of this sites ask payment with “ricarica Postepay” which is the stupidest payment method ever because:

1. You can’t do it online but you need to physically go to a post office and waste 30 minutes in an endless queue (ok, you can do it online, but only if you have a checking account with the post office and you enabled all the online services, which not many do because it has higher fees than a regular bank account while not offering the same service level)
2. You need to give your id card to the clerk and he will record it in the database
3. You need to give the tax id (similar to SSN) of the receiver
4. You need to give the debit card PAN of the receiver (except expiration or CVV)

It’s the most traceable payment method that’s available in the country, I have no idea why so many IPTV resellers on forums and telegram channels use it. Just the fact that the reseller has to publicly give all his personal data to strangers is crazy

(It’s not designed to be used as a payment method, but a way to send money to a relative or a close friend)

So I always laugh when the “post police” (yes we have a police corp for post related crimes) or “tax police” (yes we also have a police corp for tax related crimes) say “we arrested a IPTV resellers” because that often just means “a officer just entered in a telegram channel, got all the necessary PII the perpetrator himself, and searched him in the database”

Edit: first result on Google, can only pay with Bitcoin, ricarica Postepay and bank transfer and in order to proceed you need to send a text message to their fucking WhatsApp

All of three methods are ultra traceable (ok, compared to the “ricarica Postepay”, Bitcoin is a bit harder)

This website has the audacity of saying “Sicurezza e Anonimato con protezioni a livello militare con noi sei al sicuro” (safe and anonymous, with military grade encryption) - anonymous what, need to give phone number and tax id in order to proceed…

Edit 2: news from two weeks ago. 23 users paid for IPTV using that stupid ultra-traceable payment method and of course they were caught in seconds with a simple database search. Prosecutor wanted to give them 2-8 years for “fencing”, judge said “personal use isn’t a crime” https://www.fanpage.it/sport/calcio/il-pezzotto-per-vedere-calcio-in-tv-e-illecito-ma-non-reato-13-pirati-puniti-solo-con-una-multa/

So if real users got acquitted, victims of an entrapment site will be too, as there’s no crime at all

Isn’t that illegal? Can’t someone argue that it looked legit and otherwise they definitely wouldn’t have paid for it?

Like undercover police can’t go around asking people if they want to buy some illegal drugs

Automatic photo upload works good, but it’s the album creation (and sharing with other users) that severely lacks in features. 3rd party modules like memories are also better

But for official photos, last time i checked it 3 months ago, you could add photos to an album only at the moment of creation, and not add later

Nextcloud photos is in the “proof of concept” stage, not even alpha.

Why smaller attack surface? Bigger attack surface. For an attacker is way easier to hack a single developer and publish a malicious APK on their GitHub (or alternative) rather than hosting malware on the official fdroid repository.

The first just requires a phishing email (trojanize a random Dev with poor opsec, get his apk signing key and his browser cookies) while the second is way more complex (get full access to fdroid build servers)

the reason OP was thinking of doing this, was saving disk space and avoiding buying another hdd. So if it’s a 1:1 full disk image, then there’s almost no difference with the costs of raid1. Setting exclusions, avoiding certain big files, and so on. In this case he’s talking about restic, which can restore data but very hard to do a full bootable linux system - stuff needs to be reinstalled

i was also thinking like this, then i had to restore everything from a backup when the ssd suddenly died. I wasted so much time setting everything back as before

When I did it, I did it manually with thunderbird, which is a great way to delete clutter meanwhile

Just select 1000 emails at a time and drop them in another IMAP server folder

In the gbatemp thread they wrote that this guy flew too much near to the sun:

1. Reused his username everywhere to the point that his name and the fact that he was from Arizona was public

2. Sent back to Nintendo multiple switches to repair using that name with an Arizona address

It wasn’t hard for them to dox and sue him as he literally gave them his real address multiple times…