No, I’m not paying for that

The money goes only to the seller, not to the cracker that worked hard just for the glory

Why the fuck are they using a cloud tts on an Android device??? Can’t they use on device tts?? Seems extremely stupid for no reason

1. It’s expensive. They are paying a fee to the third party tts provider each single time someone needs a response. They boast “no subscriptions” - that means those fees are paid only by new customer purchases. Ponzi 2.0

2. It’s fucking expensive. Elevenlabs tts voices costs thousands of dollars per month plus $0.18 per 1000 characters. Ask the history of a monument and the verbose result that the LLM regurgitated costs them $0.15. Are they banking on the fact that most customers would just shelf the device after a day?

3. It’s slower. Each time the device needs to reply, it needs to stream an audio file instead of a few bytes of compressed text

4. For the more realistic voices it’s only cheaper in the short term. I get it - they don’t like the robotic free voices and licensing a good closed source one costs money. But then you don’t need to pay the “cloud” forever. Did they plan to shut down shortly after the launch? Where the money for running each user in a VM is coming out? (I saw from a YouTube video that it looked like they were using a browser automation tool in a VM)

At this point since everything is run on the cloud (=somebody else’s computer) this could not only be a smartphone app, but a smartwatch app.

I wonder if they will just fold and do a rug pull now blaming the hackers or fix the problem.

Fixing the problem seems difficult for them - need to fully rewrite the app and having everything proxied through their authenticated server, increasing their expenses (and a rushed fix isn’t secure/tested). But their money comes only from new investors and new customers, and at this point I doubt that they can sell more units or scam more investors.

While RDP (exclusive to pro) is useful, why you use that for sharing files? Isn’t better to use SMB (available on home)? It should be faster as you wouldn’t need to connect to the whole desktop and use the tiny windows UI to choose the files one by one. Also RDP apps on iOS have full phone access? Seems weird that Apple could approve that, even on Android don’t have that, only a sandboxed folder

Software solutions: streamfab or anystream (RIP)

Hardware solution: a $5 HDMI splitter from AliExpress to remove hdcp (it must be no name chinese AliExpress stuff, branded splitters won’t remove hdcp) + HDMI capture card

wow that looks awesome

From what I saw that you just need to claim it by stating that’s yours, only risking to get sued by the original owner.

I remember fifteen years ago I wanted to pirate new super Mario bros for Wii but Nintendo hired a lot of bad peers on eMule, it was impossible to download it. It would download it super fast thanks to the hundreds of fake peers that would upload garbage data, but then when completed it would check it and fall back to 0.2% completed. Super frustrating.

In the end I just gave up because I hate and suck at platformers, why would I ever pirate something that I would never play, but at the time in the forums someone said that with IP address filters it was possible to complete the downloads, by blacklisting all the commercial ip address space and allowing only residential (or maybe they were just living in the right spot, at the time in select cities in my country there was an ISP that ran a fiber optic MAN - metropolitan area network, and it was awesome for piracy, as they didn’t block the smb V1 protocol between customers so there were peers that shared gold mines)

Also the problem of the algorithm that thinks it knows what you like to see instead of showing your subscriptions

“Six months ago you did a single search of a walkthrough for a Mario 64 level, so here is a feed filled with only Mario 64 speedruns”

I’m always wary of clicking a YouTube link scared it would poison the feed.

Newpipe solved this

why not directly type diskpart clean in an admin command line, at least the computer wouldn’t be infected with chinese malware

imho between the two options, the more ethical is to pirate rather than supporting a shady key reseller. Anyway microsoft gets the exact same amount of money either if you purchase a stolen key from msdn or you install a pirated copy activated via mas

i’m always amused by the reaction of my friends when i tell them that office costs $10 per month. They are all always “whaaaaat?? This POS is this expensive??”

i came across a guide on rentry that said how to permanently activate office 365 downloading from official microsoft servers

don’t have the link

An exception might be nowTV from sky. Being copyright trolls themselves they would spend years in development to reinvent the wheel if there was a 0.1% to block pirates.

In 2018 I was given a 6 months coupon for their service. I wasn’t able to watch a single minute:

1. For Android, at the time it was available on just 5 whitelisted Samsung Galaxy S devices (of course with strong root checks)
2. For windows it required to install Microsoft silverlight even if it was discontinued years before by Microsoft itself, giving users a big security issue (using a discontinued web plugin that has direct access to the os is not a good idea)
3. Linux support was completely missing

The guy contacting the streaming services hoping to hit the jackpot with a bug bounty: they literally don’t care until it’s public, and when it’s public it’s a Microsoft problem.

The only reason they’re using playready it’s to make happy the copyright trolls and being compliant with the content license. The streaming services they just choose a solution that does the job with the minimum amount of work and money.

Seems like he wasted months for nothing. Next time try to do bug hunting on WordPress, it’s easier and more remunerative.

Given the “Oracle style” pricing that’s unaffordable to anyone they are targeting businesses, so they’re going to sue the businesses in order to score a big payout.

Like Oracle is seeing a download for the “free” virtualbox in a Company, they immediately send the lawyer team knocking at the doors

Suing a student or indie creator would be more expensive from a PR point of view

If it’s properly cracked it doesn’t need steam

Well at least finally after three long years Microsoft added the option to combine icons on the taskbar.

Without that option, explorerpatcher was a forced install on w11

Now it’s possible to live without it

Rhetorical question, right?

Didn’t hamachi die 20 years ago when it was purchased by logmein and nerfed the free version to something unusable?

I just saw in the airport someone watching “Gilmore girls” on Netflix and it had ALL CAPS English subtitles. They also seemed out of sync, the mom was speaking with no subs under her figure

So a source of those poor quality subs might be Netflix that just trusted broadcast subs