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  • SponsorBlock

    Skip YouTube video sponsors (browser extension)

  • I think that those are basically impossible to remove automatically, unless someone makes something like SponsorBlock but for pirated movie/series streaming or perhaps something like a database of common ad clips and a software that detects such clips in a video and removes them. But such software at least as far as I know don't exist unfortunately, although would be a dream. P.S: Removing the ad watermarks on movies/series (Like a casino logo on the top-right of the video) automatically will probably never be possible, because it would be too complex and the only thing you could get from it is blank space instead of the watermark. The only useful thing you could prob get from this is automatic detection that the video source has built-in ads in the video.

  • AdGuardHome

    Network-wide ads & trackers blocking DNS server

  • It's FOSS. https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • homescripts

    Discontinued My Scripts for Plex / Emby with Dropbox and rclone

  • Another cool resource is HomeScripts. Lots of good little tidbits there. One point of interest might be the gmedia service and the file structure used, as outlined in the readme.

  • Cloudbox

    Ansible-based solution for rapidly deploying a Docker containerized cloud media server.

  • Enjoy. Also worth plugging is Cloudbox. Cloudbox is ansible+docker deployment. Cloudbox is ideal for the “gdrive” group moreso than swizzin would be because of it flexible setup. If you’re a nut about everything being done in docker this could be the play for you. Their docs website is Cloudbox.works. Management would be through Portainer in this solution. Netdata for monitoring.

  • cloudplow

    Automatic rclone remote uploader, with support for multiple remote/folder pairings. UnionFS Cleaner functionality: Deletion of UnionFS whiteout files and their corresponding files on rclone remotes. Automatic remote syncer: Sync between different remotes via a Scaleway server instance, that is created and destroyed at every sync.

  • Something else of interest might be Cloudplow or Crop. Cloudplow is a Python implementation of rclone that extends it to a serviceable state for automatic transfer of files. Crop does this similarly but uses the go language.

  • crop

    CLI tool to harvest your media crop and plow the cloud with it (by l3uddz)

  • Something else of interest might be Cloudplow or Crop. Cloudplow is a Python implementation of rclone that extends it to a serviceable state for automatic transfer of files. Crop does this similarly but uses the go language.

  • autoscan

    Autoscan replaces the default Plex and Emby behaviour for picking up changes on the file system.

  • Additionally, you might want to check out Autoscan from the Cloudbox folks.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • gluetun

    VPN client in a thin Docker container for multiple VPN providers, written in Go, and using OpenVPN or Wireguard, DNS over TLS, with a few proxy servers built-in.

  • Can always recommend gluetun as a VPN container too. It works for all the major providers, and has a kill switch built in: https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun

  • AriaNg

    AriaNg, a modern web frontend making aria2 easier to use.

  • aria2-ariang-docker

    🐳 Aria2 downloader and AriaNg webui Docker image based on Alpine Linux

  • multipass

    Multipass orchestrates virtual Ubuntu instances

  • I don't understand why the use of the icon from the Multipass product from Canonical though, since that's a completely different project/product, not mentioned here at all.

  • DietPi

    Lightweight justice for your single-board computer!

  • Though I would recommend installing DietPi as it is very light on ram usage, and comes with optional list of pre-configured softwares that you can choose to install to make your setup easier.

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