Cybersecurity professional with an interest/background in networking. Beginning to delve into binary exploitation and reverse engineering.

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  • If you have files with a bunch of different formats and codecs you don’t want to use anything Roku, your direct play options are extremely limited. This becomes almost a hard requirement when dealing with hevc 4K hdr/dv stuff unless you’ve got a server with quicksync or some oomph.

    I’m probably going to get a lot of derision for this because it’s Lemmy, but for wide direct play coverage you either want an Nvidia Shield or an Apple TV 4K. I like the Apple TV solution, and everyone in my household is familiar with the UI. The Shield is the only one of the two to support Atmos audio if you have ceiling or upward firing speakers. It’s also not apple if you’re ideologically opposed to owning Apple products.

    I’m not surprised you fell back to a Roku box from the built in TV apps, but if you’re going to go for a dedicated streaming box Roku, Firesticks/Firecubes, and Chromecasts should be the last resort due to ads in the experience and codec support.











  • It is pretty easy. There’s tons of tutorials and walkthroughs for doing it, but anyone familiar with UIs will be able to work it out pretty quickly I think. Maybe a friction point in using the filter query, but again there’s tons of walkthroughs and guides for using it online.

    If you can’t conceptualize a packet, or sockets, or network flows, even with the help of online guides/manuals, I guess it wouldn’t be easy. In that case I’d be wondering why someone would want to use those tools in the first place though, as then they probably wouldn’t have the skills necessary to leverage the information gleaned from the tool in any useful way.

    Edit - As we’re in the self-hosted community, I’d argue that anyone who is self-hosting anything would probably be able to easily install wireshark and view http requests, both individual packets and the stream as a whole.


  • Yeah, this is interesting to me. Google and Cloudflare are for-profit companies that have presence in the EU at minimum, and probably France directly as well although I don’t know that for sure. If they refused to comply, France can fine their local EU subsidiary and block their ability to receive payments from eu entities.

    Quad9 is a not-for-profit located in Switzerland. I wouldn’t expect them to need local subsidiaries, as they aren’t doing business in the EU or anywhere else. The France could fine them, but they’d have no way of collecting if Quad9 refused to pay right? It’s a free service, so there’s nothing to block on the payment processor side that would prevent French users from accessing it. You’d have to blackhole all traffic to the quad9 IPs on a national level right?


  • I don’t have a cengage account, so I can’t actually do do anything with the Python and test it, and I’m obviously unaware of the http responses you get from the site or how any of it works.

    Two things jumped out at me while glancing through the script though. First, you close the login tab, then when you try to parse the html content from the ebook tab you reference tab [1]. I usually use the requests library bc I’m posting payloads and stuff so I rarely use selenium, and I’ve never fucked with tabs, but with the first tab closed won’t the ebook tab be first in the index, so [0]? Second, look up how to set a proxy for selenium, download the community edition of burp suite, then proxy all your traffic in the script through burp. You’ll then be able to see all your http requests and all the http responses from the server, which will probably help you debug much more effectively.

    Edit - if you even care anymore haha.


  • Respect for editing your previous comment, while leaving the original text struck through, in light of your newly learned context on this person.

    Side note, as time goes on I realize that a lot of people who I looked up to in my youth, specifically people that espoused a free and open internet, public ownership of knowledge and learning resources, basically all the hacker ethos stuff, wind up having a side to them along these lines. Maybe it’s a racist neo-nazi ideology like Dotcom, maybe it’s the defense of CSA materials like Aaron Schwartz, but it always feels like something.

    With the amount of unmoderated nazi and neo-nazi stuff on Steam I’ve seen since I made the account for HL2 and the recent interest Congress has taken in it, I’m worried this trend is going to continue and we’ll learn some heinous shit about Gabe Newell.