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[–] 71 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Black Mirror had an episode about this.

Surprised it took someone this long to actually make it.

I forget the name of the episode. If you're curious, it's on Netflix, it's in season 3, and it's right before San Junipero. It was bleak AF, which is why the only happy (and arguably the best) Black Mirror episode came right after it.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago*

    It's Shut Up and Dance, my fav

    the only

    I disagree. For starters there's also

    Episodes from the first five seasons with happy endings (the way they're presented, at least), spoilers duhUSS Callister Hang the DJ Be Right Back (though the stakes aren't that high either) Arguably one from Bandersnatch

    Also, I don't like San Junipero as much as others do because the final conflict goes way too fast and the way it was resolved felt abrupt. Still nice though

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, with quite a plot twist. The entire time I was practically yelling at the tv “who cares, then let’s them release the video of you jerking off and own it. We all do it!” Then at the end, “… oh.”

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  • Right, the part I don’t get is, the video of you isn’t going to include what you’re looking at. And if it does you can say they faked it. They could put anything there. They don’t have a shot that includes both you and the screen. They can get sound though, so they can match sound, but that can be faked too. Strip out the audio. Separate the sounds of what you were really watching from the ambient sounds (and the grunts/moans from you) and then dub those sounds over the new audio and it should be passable.

    Also, I just wouldn’t do anything embarrassing with a camera pointed at me. I’d cover the camera or point it away from me. Even sitting on the toilet browsing, back cameras point down at the floor, front camera points up, maybe gets the top of my face? Nothing private is seen by the camera by my best intentions. I just do this naturally. I guess others don’t?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago*

    Yeah, so I have a paranoid (or maybe not) idea that somewhere in 2012 my classmates and teachers played a prank.

    That they were insulted by what I said, and decided to check my words (on Silicon Valley people being more noble than Russian elite class). I thought I was talking to them, but they in fact were recording, translating and sending my words to some of those Silicon Valley people (very improbably high-level). And things pretty normal for me to say as almost a compliment (on democracy and meritocracy and freedom and on racism being bad, and MOST of all - on my privacy being more important than their dreams) insulted those people so much that I've got a lot of such privacy invasions. So - that in the end, eh, someone of said elite class solved the problem by wasting one of those Silicon Valley people (there was the added insult of that someone being blamed for the thing).

    Dunno how to check and whether I should, cause if it happened, I don't have a nuke.

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  • [–] 61 points 1 year ago
    [–] 58 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Been receiving emails about this for years now. Finally can trust those messages.

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  • [–] 51 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I've been trusting them for years. It's a miracle that they were able to setup a webcam I've never owned in my life and have it filming where I always go to spank one out.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    They did the same to me. I think they’ve got cameras set up all through my house. So I started walking around naked so they’ll have something nice to look at. I haven’t gotten a thank you yet though.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    don't stream, download your porn from usenet like a civilised person

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    i get how usenet is better than streaming from a popup filled website, but i fail to see how it is better than torrenting
    qbittorrent has built-in search as well

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    i haven't used it, only read some available documentation, but it seems like a subscription service to access a server with stuff of dubious legality on it, but please correct me if i'm wrong. i kinda want to get into it but, as i was saying, i fail to see how it is better than torrenting

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  • [+] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)
  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Doesn't this also mean that the server can be a single point of failure? Whereas in a torrent swarm it's distributed and more resilient?

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    I was thinking more about legal actions. But then again torrents need trackers and search sites. It seems like it's hard to shut down pirate bay though. I just have a feeling that usenet flies under the radar a bit, but if it became mainstream, it might be easier to shut down a server than a shifting swarm of peers?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    It's also a fscking mess to set up a Usenet downloader, especially since it'd be a bunch of buggy weird stuff ending with -arr in the names and web UIs.

    And no, torrenting isn't outdated and isn't amateur. In Usenet messages are replicated over all services offering that newsgroup. I hope the downsides are clear.

    Some kind of Usenet with global identifiers of messages and posters, and with something like Kademlia to find sources for a specific newsgroup(to get all the other side has in it)/post(to get it specifically)/person(their public key), would be much better than just replicating each message everywhere with a local identifier.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Well you could use the -arr stack but you could also just set up SABnzbd which is the same difficulty to set up as qbit/jackett.

    I haven't touched the -arrs myself, just go to my indexer, click download, it goes into the correct folder which sabnzbd automatically picks up and starts a-downloadin', then it transfers the complete files to another folder.

    But I use both, and slsk, and ytdl. Why limit myself?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Centralization, need to have a big commercial provider which you can pay (as someone in Russia ...).

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I haven’t touched a webcam in years but I just touched myself 5 minutes ago

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    Surprised the UK age verification selfies haven't been used to extort people yet. It'd be so easy (and is such an obvious reason why the law is bullshit).

    SecurAge🛡️
    "Log in with Google to verify your age."

    "Sorry, we weren't able to verify you using your Google Account. Please take a selfie for verification."

    "Now give us £1000, or we'll send your picture and details of the porn you were trying to access to everyone in your contacts."

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That only works if you're ashamed about rubbing one out.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    This is what they would see if I was being targeted.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    Let them watch. Bwahahaha

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    [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Damn, they got a picture of some gaffer tape, that's cool.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The spam messages have been duly ignored for years. LOL.

    "If you have access to my computer, why are you blackmailing me? You could just steal the money from the accounts."

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    hardware camera disablers.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I’ll reply the same way I do to the scam attempts: Do it bitch.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    "Reaction videos" are already too common.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Why am I not surprised that this shit's freely available on GitHub.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Is this a new thing? I remember hearing about this like a decade ago

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    I've got this spam.

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  • well i hope they like ineffable husbands

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    [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Isn't this a super old method

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Idk most of what I heard about was fake stuff pretending to do that and threatening you, just cuz it took less access to show a threat than follow through. Pre-ransomware days shit. "Pay the FBI $300 via wire transfer to avoid criminal penalties" kinda shit.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You mean the one Black Mirror episode that shocked no one?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    That just sounds like a regular Teams meeting

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  • Yeah I'm going to need you to send me a copy that way I can add it to my rotation.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Time to setup a machine that just plays 2 girls 1 cup on loop 24/7.

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