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It’s not unsafe. Modern updated torrent clients are effective at patching the code that may leave your system venerable, just stick to modern clients like qbit. The danger is not in the video file, it’s virtually impossible (and not worth anyone’s time) to add a virus to a video file. mp4 is one of the most venerable filetypes. The danger is mostly in the code of the website you are using, data harvesting, site owners can make money. I have a feeling most free trackers are Russian owned sites with their annoying ads, harmless adverts encouraging you To download an even more annoying ad sponsored game, like the one on AN or YouTube. I would encourage people to seek out invite only sites, they have been mentioned here already, most of these places are community run, often funded by the admin or donations from members.
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I’m not here to tell anyone what to do, however, I suggest posters just think about free streaming or download websites. Regular people do not just setup mass streaming servers for no profit, these sites are generally Russian, North Korean or Chinese run, they are flakey at best. They are run to make money from dodgy popups and data harvesting. They are just one part of the tech wing of organized crime groups, the servers are housed in shipping container data centers in Europe. One popular defense is that “I use a popup blocker”. Yes, you can use popup blockers, but the popup and malware still comes to your computer, it is sitting there, I guess it would be in your web cache, it’s just you don’t see it or the button to press. There are still trackers embedded in the website code. You aren’t going to get a virus from the actual video file, but there are reasons that these sites exist. They may be “OK” to use now, but in the future are you have been drawn into a false sense of security, who knows? Would you be happy to let surplus processing power be used by the North Koreans to mine bitcoin in exchange for watching a bit of TV? Streaming servers on this kind of scale use a bandwidth, this isn’t free. To counter this, they reencode the video and audio to lower bitrate. If it works for you, then it’s no problem, but personally I don’t have time for low quality audio and video. There is also talk about malware in the subtitle files from these sites, or when you accept to stream the subtitles, you compromise your network. Tbh, no one cares about torrenting any longer, the music and video streaming platforms have changed the way we consume media - most people just roll over and pay for streaming services, the number of people using torrents offset against the whole world having a Spotify account is minuscule. Music artists and record companies dont need to sell physical media any longer, they can give it away free. TV companies have shifted, and you get their content “free” with your internet subscription. A few years ago BBC was playing cat and mouse with the VPN industry, nowadays, they have given up, imho, they would probably go free to all territories if it wasn’t so tied down with the UK TV license. Anyway, I just wanted to post a warning. Some members may not be so tech-savvy, maybe someone mentioned these free streaming sites as a good way to access content, just be aware they aren’t necessarily safe.
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Retirement Extension 800k method - Phuket.
recom273 replied to CANSIAM's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
Some folks just like to make something more than it is .. I’m on a marriage, I have done 2x firsts (I changed offices 2x), one visit where the officer attended alone and acted in a professional manner, the second two slobs turned up, they got a tip - don’t eat yellow snow, and left. Since then every subsequent extension has been a formality, I hand in the papers, sit in silence, 30 mins later I get the approval stamp. no lectures, no witnesses. -
UK Chaos at Bell Hotel: Migrant Crisis Sparks Violent Protests in Epping
recom273 replied to webfact's topic in World News
Yes, thats correct its the phoenix, same company - I dont get your point. What is the issue in this case? A sex offender who isn't on site now, who is being dealt with in the criminal system. What has that got to do with the remaining asylum seekers? -
UK Chaos at Bell Hotel: Migrant Crisis Sparks Violent Protests in Epping
recom273 replied to webfact's topic in World News
Here is an interesting point of view, the caller, a local resident describes a take over by protesters from outside the areas and a wave of racist posts on social media local community groups, she says her husband didn’t even know the bell was even being used to house asylum seekers. For sure, local residents have a genuine right to protest, but here are two incidents of sexual assaults in or around Epping that haven’t provoked any response. https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/essex-police-release-efit-epping-45597 https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/two-teenage-girls-allegedly-raped-27700663 -
UK Chaos at Bell Hotel: Migrant Crisis Sparks Violent Protests in Epping
recom273 replied to webfact's topic in World News
They don't have to seek asylum in the first safe country - this is a myth. They want to come here, primarily because they hear its a good deal - apparently there's this guy with rotten teeth and no chin on the TV, he's their hero, he announces daily that they will get benefits and hotels, amazing food and they cant wait to get here. They may have family connections to the UK and they may be able to speak English, whereas they dont speak French or Greek, who could blame them. -
UK Chaos at Bell Hotel: Migrant Crisis Sparks Violent Protests in Epping
recom273 replied to webfact's topic in World News
Something has to be done, maybe they should be held in camps, but do we have loads of camps available. They are housed in ex-hotels, no 4* - they have ceased to be hotels, they dont have room service or TVs, the conditions are pretty bad apparently, 3-4 to a room, no real facilities. Asylum seekers dont get houses and be specific about the myriad or benefits, I heard it was 9 quid a week, hardly enough for a packet of tobacco. Like I said, I don't disagree with controlling the asylum seekers, but this is all smoke and mirrors. Looking at news broadcasts, reading the body language of arrivals, they should just be processed in a week and sent back. However, It's all a distraction, you got Farage and his crew pointing out the boats in the channel, while round the back they are building a trojan horse to give their millionaire mates, a leg up in the next election. He and they can't do a damn thing about it the boats, they will have no control over the navy. It's just manipulation, just like he manipulated the residents of Clacton to allow him to walk in to parliament, where he does nothing positive. Let's do away the ECHR that will stop the immigrants but don't mention that at the same time it will strip British workers of rights, lets just tweak the NHS a little, by everyone paying in to my mates private medical insurance company. It stinks. The migrants are just a tool. -
Report Fed-Up Nottingham Dad Moves Family to Thailand for New Life
recom273 replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
I left the UK because I like living here, I liked the language, the food, the culture. I did like the people, not so much now. I thought about the benefits. Thinking about moving here because you think the UK is broken and full of migrants, etc .. will just end in tears. -
I don’t usually give up on shows, even Smoke at the moment interests me, but I couldn’t even get halfway through the first episode of The Waterfront
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Maybe this has been posted before The Eastern Gate
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Things thai people do that make no sense
recom273 replied to angryguy's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
Insisting they cancel swimming lessons because its raining. Also, another raining one I could never get my head around whilst working at a tec college .. "Teacher, we have to go home .. its raining" - Surely if its raining, you want to stay indoors and not chase off down the road on your motorbike? -
I just finished secrets we keep It began as a regular Nordic series, ended up in a pretty dark place. Well worth a wet Sunday aftenoons binge viewing.
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I noticed a recommendation on a reddit sub - Maybe I missed this at the time, but it seems familiar - very slow, seems quite dated, 2016 - The night of Something new, a Danish mini series, Secrets We Keep There are two two-part specials for 24 hours .. first out now, second next Monday - The Butcher of Suburbia and Nightclub predator I thought Smoke got better in e02 The waterfront anyone?
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I struggled through the first last night, time will tell. I searched Dennis Lehane, and a few reactions to yesterdays premiere didn't read so well.
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ChatGPT says no, but Disney+ India does
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It's not an issue to install and setup at all .. it's better suited to some kind of computer / server that you are running 24-7 with all your stored video files, coupled with a media player like plex / jellyfish / emby. But there are plenty of tutorials on YouTube, there is no issue with GitHub software, its just a repo. If you want to use usenet the *rr suite is ideal - you can use nzbget as your client - you will need an indexer, (which is like a torrent site, but for usenet) I have a drunken slug account, but never used it. Its a symbiotic affair - scene, group, whatever - usenet and torrent sites all contribute - the usenet will snatch uploads from torrent release groups within minutes, torrent indexers will auto upload scene and usenet uploads within minutes. For anyone who is interested - A new 24 hour in Police Custody airs on Sunday night. I don't seem to have much time at the moment, but I watched Squid Games S02, the S03 series appears next Saturday night and Nine Perfect Strangers S01, just a bit of a departure from the normal viewing,
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Report Thailand to Reclassify Cannabis as Controlled Substance
recom273 replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
That Thailand now seems well and truly planted on the bucket list for weed smoking chavs. You must be really living under a rock if you haven’t seen the videos of kids fighting in the street, they don’t seem to be the average pattaya retiree. Do you read the comments on social media? It’s ridiculous the constant stupid questions “my mates and me are coming to Thailand, we wanna get some a grade bud ..” Im just saying, there does seem to be an increase of hooliganism as you were asking about - believe it or not. -
Report Thailand to Reclassify Cannabis as Controlled Substance
recom273 replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
There does seem to have been an increase of videos of man bag carrying <deleted> behaving badly over the past six months. Thailand seems to be firmly planted on the chavs bucket list of places to visit, just as a weekend in an hostel in Amsterdam is. -
Now hang on there .. that doesnt fit the narrative! Perhaps people will now start to read the previous reports. A 2013 UK Home Office report on child sexual exploitation concluded that most child sex offenders are white men, reflecting the general UK population demographics. A 2020 independent review led by Professor Alexis Jay (who investigated the Rotherham case) reiterated that group-based exploitation is not confined to any one ethnic group and that most child sexual abuse is committed by individuals, not gangs. However, in certain towns (e.g., Rotherham, Rochdale, Telford), Asian-heritage grooming gangs were overrepresented in high-profile cases. While they are there, could someone ask Richard Tice to ask the guy sitting next to him, why when he was in the Conservative Party at the time, he did nothing?
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I never tried those but I like Prime regular - they indeed also remind me of Tesco sausages too.
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Report Debate Erupts Over Police Chase in Helmet Incident in Bangkok
recom273 replied to webfact's topic in Bangkok News
Couldn’t agree more - but it’s a mess. Trying to enforce a new directive overnight and what purpose does it actually serve. If they were serious about road safety then they should enforce the law all the time, impound the bike and fine the rider. The laws is fine until someone drops the franchise holder a small bribe to continue on their way, what does that solve? Police shouldn’t be touching riders or passengers - they have a database of registration, call to the house in the evening and fine the owner of the bike. Everything is so dramatic with these idiots. Surprised no one got shot in the back tbh. -
Doesn’t have to be new to get mentioned here! If it’s good it’s welcome. If, in your opinion it’s not so .. that’s just as valuable. You just confirmed what I saw in the trailer. Any thoughts on “stick” - seems OK, maybe not hilarious, just feel-good tv.
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not really new - it ran from 2019 until 22. I never really bothered with it, looked a load of tosh to me.
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I think the damage is done by whatever the mother, mamasan and the girls tell her, rather the number of clients. For example, I came across a guy who had to give his missus 1500B every time he had a jump, she wanted the cash to send home to her mum, she came from p2p and continued (1500 wasn’t enough, so she started on the free market too) I have had problems with my wife with other Thai people getting in her ear. Just stupid things, we changed our house number because it wasn’t lucky (ff..) we already had one house number, but when returning to the “farang” wife club with the news she was told that it was unlucky and she should pay 1000B to change it. “Dont tell your husband, he doesn’t have the money and will be angry” - yes, I don’t yet qualify for a fat pension like their husbands, but the cheek to say I would be angry, so she changed the number behind my back, and then told me the story of how she felt belittled by the group of ex-bg’s. We have been married for 20th ears, generally free from these situations, but there have been a couple of times like this over the past years since we moved back to Issan. Living in the south, she worked in a kindergarten, southern women tend not to see the bars as a quick way to make money, and her life was stable, being around normal working people. If people think you can take the bar out of a girl, then they must just be oblivious to the lies.