Did… Did you just ask; why creating photo-realistic sexually explicit material of real children, should be illegal?

As far as I understand; it’s not the tools used that makes this illegal, but the realism/accuracy of the final product regardless of how it was produced.

If you were to have a high proficiency with manual Photoshop and produced similar quality fakes, you’d be committing the same crime(s)

creating child sex abuse images

and

offenses against their victims’ moral integrity

The thing is, AI tools are becoming more and more accessible to teens. Time, effort, and skill are no longer roadblocks to creating these images; which leaves very very little in an irresponsible teenagers way…

You only amass that kind of wealth and power by stepping on the backs of those you deem beneath you.

Billionaires are a cancer on society.

The IMEI is potentially useful as it’s a device identifier, but generally doesn’t matter to anyone except your carrier.

On that note; the carrier may be able to tell you when that IMEI first became associated with your phone plan. My phone plan long pre-dates the last like 6 devices I’ve had so they’d have that history for many of them.

That’s not a database you can search whenever you’d like though; that’s a call and ask nicely.

I tend to drop the link into yt1s.com

Sometimes just for audio, sometimes for the full vid.

I’m rarely grabbing more than one video at a time though.

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127.0.0.1 is the loopback address. Ie it’s your computer trying to reach a service its hosting (prowlarr)/talk to itself. Sonarr/Radarr should be using this address as long as prowlarr+sonarr/radarr are on the same machine.

Prowlarr is either not running, or port 8080 is blocked by your firewall.

A paid plex share is a plex server that someone is running + selling access too.

This is against plex’ terms, gets plex accounts banned; and in some cases, Plex (co) has taken rather drastic action by blocking entire VPS providers from reaching plex.tv; thus plex server software no longer functions on those VPS’s at all.

Naturally, people selling shares want to maximize profit, so they use VPS providers on the cheaper end; resulting in cheaper VPS solutions being blocked for everyone.

Drink less paranoia smoothie…

I’ve been self-hosting for almost a decade now; never bothered with any of the giants. Just a domain pointed at me, and an open port or two. Never had an issue.

Don’t expose anything you don’t share with others; monitor the things you do expose with tools like fail2ban. VPN into the LAN for access to everything else.

and using DDNS

As in, running software to update your DNS records automatically based on your current system IP. Great for dynamic IPs, or just moving location.

Sure, cloudflare provides other security benefits; but that’s not what OP was talking about. They just wanted/liked the plug+play aspect, which doesn’t need cloudflare.

Those ‘benefits’ are also really not necessary for the vast majority of self hosters. What are you hosting, from your home, that garners that kind of attention?

The only things I host from home are private services for myself or a very limited group; which, as far as ‘attacks’ goes, just gets the occasional script kiddy looking for exposed endpoints. Nothing that needs mitigation.

Unless you are behind CGNAT; you would have had the same plug+play experience by using your own router instead of the ISP supplied one, and using DDNS.

At least, I did.

Because library patrons are the ones setting military policy ofc… Glad the message is reaching the right people.

The middle-man provides plausible deniability in this case. PornHub can genuinely say they don’t see connections from age-verification states atm. That stops being true if they host the VPN, making them aware of actual client locations.

‘connection refused’

But… I wanted to party… With some lemons…

… Indifferent?

English is the language that beats up other languages in dark alleys then rifles through their pockets for loose phrases and spare grammar.

If they are injecting ads into the actual video stream; it won’t matter what client you use. You request the next video chunk for playback and get served a chunk filled with advertising video instead. The clients won’t be able to tell the difference unless they start analyzing the actual video frames. That’s an entirely server-side decision that clients can’t bypass.

Only if the ads are a fixed length and always in the same place for each playback of the same video.

Inserting ads of various lengths in varying places throughout the video will alter all the time stamps for every playback.

The 5th minute of the video might happen 5min after starting playback, or it could be 5min+a 2min ad break after starting. This could change from playback to playback; so basing ad/sponsor blocking on timestamps becomes entirely useless.