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24 votes
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IPTV and 'Firestick' hacking
As per the title, is anyone into hacking about with Firestick devices and getting some world free IPTV? Essentially it's just Kodi with plugins and Add-ons, and they're generally just python...
As per the title, is anyone into hacking about with Firestick devices and getting some world free IPTV?
Essentially it's just Kodi with plugins and Add-ons, and they're generally just python scripts anyway.
I've just fallen down this rabbit hole after a friend said he'd gotten a Firestick off a bloke down the pub for £75 for the year. He said its Sky Glass and loads of box sets and what not.
A quick inspection and it's not Sky Glass, it's a custom skin for an IPTV player. The box sets are a mix of Real Debrid links and what looks to be the Eupherium plug in which uses torrents. Straight away I threw a VPN on his stick with the killswitch enabled.
Anyway, I decided to see what I could with basics on my own Firestick for free. I used Kodi, Eupherium, The Crew's Daddy Live, The Loop, and a sports plug in. I managed to set up Electronic Program Guide (EPG) for most of it. I used Surfshark from the get go as this is all dodgy, but it's purely for experimental purposes.
It's great doing this for free but there are some downsides:
Channels are hit and miss whether they are even near HD quality. Streams are often low fps and you need to rely on interpolation on the TV to smooth the stream out.
Kodi often crashes during use or startup requiring a cache clearance.
Steams change often. They can be great one day, the next that IPTV is dead and you need to pick another which may or may not work.
I realise there is a whole underground network for private streams and people are making serious bank selling these for PPV access alone.
What are people's thoughts on all of this? I work in the TV industry and it's bad for businesses, but at the same time, there are far too many fat cats around making this industry drown.
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HaLow Wi-Fi has now been tested at 9.9 miles — new Wi-Fi world record is a near 5X increase over previous best
23 votes -
Is there is any interesting free Json Feeds/ Apis?
I'm familiar with RSS, but I'm becoming increasingly passionate about JSON Feeds. This leads me to ask: Besides NPR News, are there any other interesting JSON Feeds to follow?
4 votes -
The great data integration schlep
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Meet DAVE: Discord’s new end-to-end encryption for audio and video
35 votes -
How to succeed in Mr Beast production (leaked PDF)
38 votes -
Brazilians flock to Bluesky after court bans Elon Musk’s X
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iOS 18 is here with RCS and homepage customization features
36 votes -
The confessions of Marcus Hutchins, the hacker who saved the internet (2020)
38 votes -
Amazon tells staff to get back in the office
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Data security help - SOC2ish
Hi Tilderinos, I head up a small startup and we're looking to get some support for our data security. Up until now we've worked with small mom and pops that didn't have any requirements, but a few...
Hi Tilderinos,
I head up a small startup and we're looking to get some support for our data security. Up until now we've worked with small mom and pops that didn't have any requirements, but a few of our new clients have full data security teams and our infrastructure and policies/protocols aren't up to snuff. We reached out to a few consulting firms and they quotes us between $80-100k to get things set up and run us through a full SOC2 review. As a small company we don't really have that type of budget, more like $40-50k. I stumbled upon Vanta and Drata as alternatives and had meetings with their sales folks last week. Both of their offerings from setting up our protocols to monitoring and getting us through a SOC2 were only $16k.
Are platform based companies like Vanta or Drata enough to get us off the ground while we're still getting set up? Has anyone worked with them before and have any feelings one way or the other? Should we be signing on with a security consulting company - be it at a lower rate if we can negotiate it?
This is all quite new to me and any insight folks here can provide would be incredible useful.12 votes -
The “email is authentication” pattern
39 votes -
Inside Iron Mountain: It’s time to talk about hard drives
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TikTok argues in federal appeals court that US ban would have ‘staggering’ impact on free speech
39 votes -
Computing and sustainability
21 votes -
Does anyone have experience with tools for locally archiving the web, like Archivebox for example?
I found myself on the Archivebox website earlier today. After reading some of it, that's the kind of program I could use. The ephemerous nature of the web is bothersome, so much content is lost...
I found myself on the Archivebox website earlier today. After reading some of it, that's the kind of program I could use. The ephemerous nature of the web is bothersome, so much content is lost for one reason or another. Archivebox seems to be one of the most popular tools, and it can automatically mirror my locally downloaded website to archive.org, which is great. It seems complex though, maybe more complex than I usually tolerate these days. Which is why I am asking if anyone has personal experience with Archivebox or other similar programs. Do you find them useful and reliable? Have you ever found in your local storage a webpage that you really liked, which was gone from the web? How's your setup?
Thank ;)
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How to use tags
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While web browsers warm to AI services, holdouts remain including Vivaldi
21 votes -
IFixit introduces USB-C portable soldering iron
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The Net is a forest. It has fires. (2013)
14 votes -
Inside Elon Musk’s mushrooming security apparatus
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Tapedeck.org is a digital archive that features hundreds of cassette tape designs
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Do you use an RSS reader?
A year or two ago when the decay of social media became a popular topic of discussion, there was a lot of talk about a resurgence in the use of RSS readers. My impression recently was that the RSS...
A year or two ago when the decay of social media became a popular topic of discussion, there was a lot of talk about a resurgence in the use of RSS readers. My impression recently was that the RSS renaissance hadn't really materialised in the end, but I realised that if it had it would be pretty hard to tell.
So, Tildes users: do you use an RSS reader currently? If so, is that a recent decision? Tell me about your experience.
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OpenAI: Introducing o1
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KDE Akademy 2024 - The Akademy of many changes
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Google will now link to The Internet Archive to add more context to Search results
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Google loses €2.4bn EU antitrust case for favouring its own shopping service
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Linux very close to enabling real-time "PREEMPT_RT" support
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How to monetize a blog
44 votes -
Huawei announces phone with tri-folding screen
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On the path to delivering next generation UK weather forecasts
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New York Times tech workers union votes to authorize a strike
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cohost.org to shut down by the end of 2024
36 votes -
My impressions of Bear Blog
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How I built an NFC movie library for my kids
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I could do that in a weekend!
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US Department of Justice attorneys claim Google has “trifecta of monopolies” on day one of ad tech trial
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Top EU court orders Apple to pay €13 billion tax bill
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Jpeg XL
36 votes -
Why GitHub actually won
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The Internet Archive lost their latest appeal. Here’s what that means for you.
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Asking the wrong questions (2017)
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Kagi is announcing AI Assistant
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Microsoft Graveyard: a website for tracking dead and soon-to-be-dead Microsoft products
39 votes -
We found North Korean engineers in our application pile
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Sol eReader headset
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After seeing Wi-Fi network named “STINKY,” Navy found hidden Starlink dish on US warship
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Russian dark web marketplace admins indicted after arrest in Miami
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Chat control is back on the agenda of EU governments. The Hungarian Presidency will collect “guidance for further work”. Take action to stop chat control now!
11 votes