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  • I bet a lot of folks have just quietly given up or moved to lemmy or mbin because they’ve gotten frustrated with all the issues.

    I guess it's not quiet once I post this, but I submitted the account deletion request a couple weeks back and spent some time setting my feedly back up after 1 too many spam posts. I'm already getting my scrolling fix from rss feeds again, and this is the first time I've been on kbin in a week.

    tl;dr: you're right.

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    What is the ideology behind private trackers?
  • Incognito mode has always been intended for prying eyes using the same browser, and it works fine for that.

  • Piracy is so confusing these days
  • Pretty much. You can download images with everything bundled and ready to go (e.g., deploy a new container image instead of upgrading your Radarr version in place) and keep them separate (e.g., Torrent container goes through vpn but your media server doesn't, Radarr upgrade going south won't affect your Sonarr install, etc.)

  • Piracy is so confusing these days
  • Until some legal entity decides to raid the servers. Pray they do not keep logs of IPs. Though usually this may be (to some extent) a gray zone in some countries.

    Can you give an example? I don't think accessing a file somebody makes available has ever been an issue with copyright prosecution. They go after uploaders and hosts.

    Even if they did, an IP in a server log isn't definitive proof of an individual accessing something. However, I'm less confident of worldwide legal systems understanding that. Still, I'd be curious if there's a single example of somebody being charged over accessing publicly accessible copyrighted files on the web.

  • Piracy is so confusing these days
  • I never said they're exclusive; I use both in my workflow. The comment to which I replied made it seem like private trackers were the end-all though, which I took issue with.

    I also think your upsides are a bit misleading. I wouldn't use torrents without a VPN (upfront cash), and the effort to learn how usenet works isn't any more daunting than the effort needed to get into good private trackers and keep up the ratios (e.g., tracking time/ratio based on tracker, working with hardlinks, etc.).

  • Tributes to Alexei Navalny, Putin's greatest foe, removed from Russian cities as police look on
  • Or the weapons. Have to imagine there's a pretty wide disparity between the police and average citizens. If Prigozhin/Wagner couldn't get it done, it's not exactly a simple task for some politically progressive average folks.

  • Piracy is so confusing these days
  • How to pirate movies as a pro

    No mention of Usenet

  • Judge Engoron Takes Parting Shot at Ivanka Trump
  • A few seconds past the timestamp I linked:

    As good as my memory is, I don't remember that. But I have a good memory.

    So you don't remember saying you have one of the best memories in the world?

    I don't remember that.

  • Judge Engoron Takes Parting Shot at Ivanka Trump
  • Seems like she didn’t inherit her father’s “perfect memory”.

    Sure she did.

  • Florida Cop Empties His Gun, Runs For Cover After Acorn Falls On Car and Mistakes It For Shots Fired
  • I got ya. I'm agreeing that he's a coward and an idiot, but disagreeing that he might not have been trying to murder a guy. He might not have believed it was murder, because of the idiot part...but the video convinced me he was intentionally trying to kill the unarmed man in the back of his car.

  • Florida Cop Empties His Gun, Runs For Cover After Acorn Falls On Car and Mistakes It For Shots Fired
  • At an active threat, sure. When the dude's been searched, handcuffed, and trapped in the back of a car...there's some personal responsibility, imo.

  • Florida Cop Empties His Gun, Runs For Cover After Acorn Falls On Car and Mistakes It For Shots Fired
  • Would just be an idiot and a coward trying to kill a man.

  • Florida Cop Empties His Gun, Runs For Cover After Acorn Falls On Car and Mistakes It For Shots Fired
  • You don't mag dump like that if you don't care. He very much was trying to kill him.

  • The CDC may be reconsidering its COVID isolation guidance
  • like we’ve learned absolutely nothing from the experience

    We've learned a lot, it's just what we've learned is about the nature of our employers and our value to them.

  • Broadcom terminates VMware's free ESXi hypervisor
  • vSphere was never available in the free tier.

  • A crowd set fire to a driverless Waymo taxi in San Francisco, as tensions about driverless tech grow
  • No human would be dumb enough to park there.

    There's at least 3 other cars parked there clearly visible in the videos.

  • Broadcom terminates VMware's free ESXi hypervisor
  • The reality is that nobody's learning much useful from Free ESXi, as you need vCenter for any of the good stuff. They want you using the eval license for that, which gives you the full experience but only for 60 days.

    Still, there's a lot of folks running free ESXi in labs (home and otherwise) and other small environments that may need to expand at some point. They're killing a lot of good will and entry-level market saturation for what appears (to me at least) literally zero benefit. The paid software is the same, so they're not developing any less. And they weren't offering support with the free license anyway, so they're not saving anything there.

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