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Cake day: June 19th, 2023

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  • The prices aren’t that bad. What is bad is the direction plex is going as a company.

    I recently tried using the new Roku interface and holy fucking shit I’ve never wanted to buy a new TV and switch off of plex more in my life. Plus no /link or qr sign-in option? I am never. Ever. Going to use that app. Ever. My only hope is that it’s not a sign of what’s coming to other platforms, but if it’s not, then they are ok having inconsistent UX across platforms which is also concerning.

    It’s obvious that plex is actively making user hostile choices in favor of short term profits.

















  • In 1999+ you could sniff people’s passwords in clear text right out of the air on public WiFi networks. tcpdump port 110 and just watch them roll in.

    In the late 90’s you could use a floppy disk to boot nt and dump the password hashes of anybody who had logged in, then run them through a dictionary attack which would take a matter of minutes before learning that your company’s top employees used their favorite football team or cartoon character as their password without even appending some numbers to it. Dude with the football password even had the password emblazoned in his office wall.

    One time in the 90’s I got to a password prompt and just held enter, and eventually was just let past the password prompt.

    In X windows if you managed to kill the screensaver password entry box you were dropped back to the desktop, and people found ways to crash the screensaver by overrunning the password input buffer by pasting input repeatedly using common keyboard shortcuts. (Pretty sure this same exact bug exited in early Mac osx versions.)