Popcorn Time Is Back

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  • popcorn-android

    Popcorn Time is a multi-platform, free software BitTorrent client that includes an integrated media player ( Android / AndroidTV ) A Butter-Project Fork

  • overseerr

    Request management and media discovery tool for the Plex ecosystem

  • If you're interested in the discovery or the ease of use part of it, you may be interested in https://github.com/sct/overseerr - it integrates with the mentioned software, and it's beautifully done.

    I have this in combination with *arr stack, and even the non technical family members use it without any issues.

  • 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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  • popcorn-desktop

    Popcorn Time is a multi-platform, free software BitTorrent client that includes an integrated media player ( Windows / Mac / Linux ) A Butter-Project Fork

  • My code still exists in the desktop source[1] but essentially what you need to do is convert an srt to vtt file and start a local http server that will serve the VTT file and point the Chromecast to that

    [1] - https://github.com/popcorn-official/popcorn-desktop/blob/dev...

  • algo

    Set up a personal VPN in the cloud

  • I used Algo to make my own, it builds a VPN server on your host. If you choose to host on digitalocean the script sets everything up via API and you're done in minutes.

    https://github.com/trailofbits/algo

    I recently setup Navidrome (https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome) for listening to my music collection, and it’s pretty good. Kodi/Plex work, but their apps are really built for the video use case, music is different enough that I like having the specialized tool.

    Navidrome supports the Subsonic API, so there are a number of native clients compatible with it. I chose Substreamer on iOS. It’s not free, but it’s a one-time cost that doesn’t try and drag you into any subscriptions or anything. There are free alternatives like iSub, but I found their UI lacking & decided Substreamer was worth the few bucks.

  • 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.

  • Gluetun has an integrated killswitch: https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun

    I used to use https://github.com/dperson/openvpn-client which has a killswitch as well.

    By kill-switch I mean iptables rules that don't let anything out if there's no VPN interface up. So you don't run the risk of leaking torrent stuff through your plain-text connection.

  • openvpn-client

  • Gluetun has an integrated killswitch: https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun

    I used to use https://github.com/dperson/openvpn-client which has a killswitch as well.

    By kill-switch I mean iptables rules that don't let anything out if there's no VPN interface up. So you don't run the risk of leaking torrent stuff through your plain-text connection.

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    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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  • Magnetico

    Discontinued Autonomous (self-hosted) BitTorrent DHT search engine suite.

  • I just get a rickroll gif on your link. Did you mean this project?

    "Autonomous (self-hosted) BitTorrent DHT search engine suite."

    https://github.com/boramalper/magnetico

  • nebula

    🌌 A network agnostic DHT crawler, monitor, and measurement tool that exposes timely information about DHT networks. (by dennis-tra)

  • I also got RR’d when I clicked the other day.

    That repo is archived anyway. Here’s a more modern iteration of the idea: https://github.com/dennis-tra/nebula-crawler

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