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Has anyone resorted to borrowing movies and shows from the public library to rip? I'm thinking of doing that for some hard to find content but my local library doesn't have their online database up or holds or branch requests due to a cybersecurity thing (I haven't created a membership yet)

The only headache i can see is that ripped shows don't have their files in order so you have to manually check which is which and experience spoilers.
 
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Betonhaus said:
Has anyone resorted to borrowing movies and shows from the public library to rip? I'm thinking of doing that for some hard to find content but my local library doesn't have their online database up or holds or branch requests due to a cybersecurity thing (I haven't created a membership yet)

The only headache i can see is that ripped shows don't have their files in order so you have to manually check which is which and experience spoilers.
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I have done this, usually I go to the local branch and flip through what they have on the shelf. I do TV shows by loading the disc into vlc, then tracking which files on disc correlate to which episodes on the DVD menu, which takes less time each episode than the opening credits. Never tried ripping episodes off a blue ray, though.
 
Betonhaus said:
Has anyone resorted to borrowing movies and shows from the public library to rip? I'm thinking of doing that for some hard to find content but my local library doesn't have their online database up or holds or branch requests due to a cybersecurity thing (I haven't created a membership yet)

The only headache i can see is that ripped shows don't have their files in order so you have to manually check which is which and experience spoilers.
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The closest I've come to this, though it ended up not happening, was borrowing an old book on Internet Archive with their borrow function and then screencap every page. That would've been tedious to figure out, but I ended up finding the book on Anna's Archive, so moot point.
 
Does anyone know how to download comics/graphic novels from Amazon or kindle without buying them? And how to convert them into PDF or PNG files?
 
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Does anyone know how to download comics/graphic novels from Amazon or kindle without buying them? And how to convert them into PDF or PNG files?
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The first part I’m not sure is possible unless the item in question is on Kindle Unlimited, and you’ll need to pay for that

I’ve been hunting for an answer to the second question myself, their DRM is pretty locked up as far as I can tell
 
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Steve Martin Short said:
I have done this, usually I go to the local branch and flip through what they have on the shelf. I do TV shows by loading the disc into vlc, then tracking which files on disc correlate to which episodes on the DVD menu, which takes less time each episode than the opening credits. Never tried ripping episodes off a blue ray, though.
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The only computers with dvd or Blu-ray drives are my server and a dying laptop in a closet, so I'm not quite sure how I'd use VLC to check. Ill probably end up playing them on an Xbox to check
 
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No cap on my gig internet. Thanks for the info!
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depends on your ISP, they can absolutely see the bandwidth, then either stealth-throttle you and/or put you on a more expensive plan. they also might react differently between up- and downloads (in case you run a torrent), down is usually less of an issue than up.
however these days an hour of netflix can be up to 7GB, if you're not a single-household that number goes even further up. unless you don't max out your pipe 24/7 and stay in the average no one should care.
 
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the term used in that context is "virtualization/sandbox evasion".
sophisticated malware can detect their environment and escape the VM by exploiting vulnerabilities in the hypervisor. which is why it's recommended to turn off unnecessary onboard devices/services such as nested VT-x, vGPU, networking, hyperthreading, etc.
however there is little reason for most devs to risk their valuable 0day on infecting a random instead of selling it for 1$M+ or going for more valuable targets such as AWS and Linode.
which is why ironically most competent malware will refuse to run on VM's in order to slow down potential debugging and reverse engineering of it. instead, in most cases they'll environmentally key payloads and disengage by using execution guardrails to conceal their code (only downloading the second stage payload).

if you still want to run code in a VM, i'd recommend WinOS own solution:
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Lol my ISP doesn't advertise it but they have a 5tb cap wherein after you breach it they automatically move you over to the poor negro internet (i.e. throttled to hell)

I've hit that cap so often they called me last time to ask if perhaps my son or daughter had malware that I didn't know about

On topic, does anyone know of or have experience with anything that can allow Steam games to run without Steam phoning home? My internet has been spotty recently and I want to make sure I can still play my Steam games without the internet

Is it as simple as running offline mode? Ideally I would have a solution to play any games I bought on Steam without using Steam at all, that is to say, bypassing it entirely

I'm sort of familiar with the Goldberg emulator but I'm not sure if that's the correct answer here
 
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The I Scream Man said:
Lol my ISP doesn't advertise it but they have a 5tb cap wherein after you breach it they automatically move you over to the poor negro internet (i.e. throttled to hell)

I've hit that cap so often they called me last time to ask if perhaps my son or daughter had malware that I didn't know about

On topic, does anyone know of or have experience with anything that can allow Steam games to run without Steam phoning home? My internet has been spotty recently and I want to make sure I can still play my Steam games without the internet

Is it as simple as running offline mode? Ideally I would have a solution to play any games I bought on Steam without using Steam at all, that is to say, bypassing it entirely

I'm sort of familiar with the Goldberg emulator but I'm not sure if that's the correct answer here
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Some games can be run directly without steam running but others you would need a crack of some kind like Goldberg or SSE, which that last one is dead iirc. There is https://github.com/BigBoiCJ/SteamAutoCracker but I've used it only once so idk about its success rate
 
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Skink Vendor said:
Some games can be run directly without steam running but others you would need a crack of some kind like Goldberg or SSE, which that last one is dead iirc. There is https://github.com/BigBoiCJ/SteamAutoCracker but I've used it only once so idk about its success rate
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it should still work but if you'd like to check for similar tools in the future or have a reliably clean source, i'd recommend cs.rin.ru releases or tutorials if you want to learn how to manually crack them.
 
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RCE vun in 7zip found.
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of 7-Zip. Interaction with this library is required to exploit this vulnerability but attack vectors may vary depending on the implementation.

The specific flaw exists within the implementation of Zstandard decompression. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of user-supplied data, which can result in an integer underflow before writing to memory. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the current process.

ADDITIONAL DETAILSFixed in fixed in 7-Zip 24.07
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