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So don’t?

“Finally”? Barf.

But your point was that this is actively keeping people on Discord? By extension, that must mean that a significant bulk of those 150M users are kept on Discord because it has PluralKit. How do you reconcile that with the group of plurals being, apparently, quite small? To the point where even on Beehaw/Lemmy almost nobody seems to even have heard of it.

Interesting argument. I’d be curious if you know roughly how many plural people there are (let’s say headcounts as there’s only one body) compared to Discord’s user base. (150 million active users per month according to random half-assed google search)

You’d think they were making the damn things themselves.

HDDs can randomly crap out and cause some… interesting… glitches as they do. Can you check SMART stats or something? If there’s been significant malfunction, it should show up there.

This will only apply to some cases, but if everything else fails, a lot of Twitch streamers also upload VODs on youtube. These are mostly unedited streams, but obviously not in real time.

Well, this is certainly one of the takes of all time.

Well, the files are intact, it’s “just” registrar douchiness. Not that that makes it good, by any stretch, but it’s not all Alexandria either

This technically breaks ToS so you could land yourself in trouble. That being said, lots of people do it all the time, so it can’t be that risky.

There’s no such thing as safe safe. While unlikely, even media/data files could contain exploits. They’d need to target specific issues in specific software, but that happens all the time.

WinRAR had a recent high publicity mistake earlier, where a “specially crafted” archive can make executables seem like other files so it’s easy to accidentally run them. Big no.

I also recently saw an (old) exploit analysis: some Linux thing got wrecked specifically because of vulnerabilities in a media player/codec - in fact opening the folder was enough to trigger the exploit, which could give someone unrestricted access to your system. Very, very big no.

Back in the day, I think Windows Media Player had some idiotic license download thing that was also used as an attack vector.

Basically: executables are just a slam dunk malware delivery vector. Media files are safer in general but not safe.

What?