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The free internet might be gone in the next decade. Probably time to buy a few hard drives and do some archiving. I don't just mean piracy. Articles, blogs, any
by everdrive 1y ago
The free internet might be gone in the next decade. Probably time to buy a few hard drives and do some archiving. I don't just mean piracy. Articles, blogs, anything you find precious.
- Fizzadar 1y agoBought some drives recently having come to the same conclusion. Future of the internet looks bleak.
- themafia 1y agoIt's a good time to get an RSS reader and build some direct connections to your sources. They're coming for the "aggregators" next.
- 1oooqooq 1y agorss is dead. and aggregating won't be your main issue anyway.
- themafia 1y agoRSS is alive and well. I use it daily with dozens of sites and authors. It's incredibly useful, widely used, and well supported. Finding content is the issue. Unless I go directly to each site every day and scan for new articles I'm likely to miss them. If not for aggregators and RSS how else would this be accomplished?
- dbg31415 1y ago> RSS is alive and well That's a stretch. https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-rise-and-demise-of-rss/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-rise-and-demise-of-rss/ https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=rss https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=r...
- anthk 1y agoThe Conversation feeds say otherwise.
- colinsane 1y ago> [RSS] is a standard that websites and podcasts can use to offer a feed of content to their users, one easily understood by lots of different computer programs. Today, though RSS continues to power many applications on the web, it has become, for most people, an obscure technology. arguing that RSS is dead because the average person doesn't understand it is like saying HTTP's dead for the same reason. neither are dead: we've just abstracted them to the point that they're no longer the front-facing part of any interaction.
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- nickthegreek 1y agoIf you don’t use rss, just say you don’t use rss. I assure you that many of us do. It continues to deliver me hundreds of articles from dozens of sources day after day, decade after decade. my services that check rss, continue to run their automated tasks. It’s an amazing protocol and even when big corpos try and take it away, hacks come up to restore access.
- 65 1y agoMost news sites have RSS feeds. Wordpress ships with an RSS feed. And for sites that don't you can make your own feeds by selecting links on pages (such as how AP News doesn't have an RSS feed).
- JFingleton 1y agoRSS is the technological backbone that enables the distribution and subscription of podcasts...which by the way is massive at the moment. As others have stated, plenty of websites have RSS feeds.
- bpye 1y ago> As others have stated, plenty of websites have RSS feeds. It’s a bit of a mixed bag though - whilst some big websites still have an RSS feed, you can’t get the full article text, smaller blogs etc seem to be better in that regard.
- crtasm 1y agoThere are RSS readers which can automatically download the full article text. I use Handy Reading on Android which can also do so on-demand.
- account42 1y agoIs that really a problem though? I usually want to read something on the original website anyway as RSS is a lot more limited (or at least inconsistent) in what kind of styling and media is supported. What I care about is getting notified of updates to sites/people I follow without having to rely on a centralized gatekepper and RSS does that really well.
- rauli_ 1y agoThat used to be the case few years ago. Now it seems that all popular podcasts are hidden inside commercial services such as Spotify.
- esseph 1y agoNope Still get all of my podcasts via RSS. Several dozen.
- rhdunn 1y agoPodcasts tend to be available from different sources to extend their reach YouTube and Spotify don't offer RSS feeds, however other services like redcirle.com, megaphone.fm, anchor.fm, and audioboom.com all offer RSS feeds. Even Apple should as it has a set of iTunes extensions for RSS to annotate things like the episode number. I've been able to find RSS feeds for all the podcasts I listen to.
- esseph 1y agoHmm ironically it's how I'm reading this rn
- _Algernon_ 1y agoRSS isn't dead. I use it daily. Most podcasts — all if you subscribe to the philosophy that mp3s without rss aren't podcasts — are built on it. Most websites still provide a feed, even if the owner isn't aware of it.
- account42 1y agoRSS is alive and well.
- bloomca 1y agoI think about the same. Right now we are at the normalizing the ID verification stage and banning specific content in certain countries/states, once we are desensitized, VPNs will come next, and then some government solution to track everything you do online. They can go after hostings as well and everybody can take down a lot of things out of fear.
- black6 1y agoThe Internet was philosophically designed to move information, and for every effort to prevent that there is a workaround. There will always be a free protocol.
- ngcc_hk 1y agoSame as market; anything that does not use it will use less efficient alternatives like politics. Sadly market like tao and politics has no moral either.
- WD-42 1y agoCan we count on ISPs not mucking with stuff at the transport layer? I feel like at some point the only way is to create new networks entirely.
- cesarb 1y ago> Can we count on ISPs not mucking with stuff at the transport layer? That used to be common in the past, many ISPs ran transparent HTTP proxies to reduce the use of their slow upstream links. The current push to use strong encryption and authentication everywhere (for instance, plain HTTP without TLS has become rare) makes it much harder.
- SlowTao 1y agoI suspect that in some places they might start requiring ID when purchasing large volumes of storage. "Only a criminal would need 10 terabytes of storage!" Something stupid like that.
- nmz 1y agoThankfully streaming video games never took off, otherwise we couldn't really use that excuse.
- sneak 1y agoI got casually questioned by the clerk in Berlin Mitte last month when buying 20x 20TB drives for cash. “Industrial-scale piracy” is what I told him, truthfully. I think he thought I was joking. Pretty soon it’ll only be hyperscalers or large enterprises that have data storage. You’ll have the 4TB max in your phone or laptop and that’ll be it.
- Pxtl 1y agoI'm always disappointed that the geometric growth in spinning magnet disks slowed - if the growth curve from the '80s to 2010 had continued to today we'd have petabyte HDDs now.
- SlowTao 1y agoApple hearing they have an excuse not to add more storage, cue happy shareholder noises
- throwaway2037 1y agoI don't get it. What do you need 400TB of storage for? (To be clear: I am not saying that you should not be allowed to buy it.) I assume this is for personal use. I struggle to generate more than a few hundred MBs per year. Isn't the era of music and video piracy hoarding over after Spotify and Netflix went mainstream in most highly developed nations? Also: Why did you pay cash, in the center of Berlin, Germany? Even if you are paying rock bottom used prices around 100 EUR, why carry 2,000+ EUR in cash?
- Flere-Imsaho 1y agoWhat do people think about email as an ever-lasting censorship resistant protocol? It's federated and encrypted at source (in some cases - see Protonmail, etc). I can run my own email server on my own domain, so for example I could have my news letter be an email subscription. Any attempt to censor me would require blocking my domain and/or blocking my email server - both of which could be moving targets. I've always thought email is under-utilized as a distributed, censorship-resistant technology.
- balder1991 1y agoI’m pretty sure I’ve seen an open source project that uses email as an encrypted chat app in the last months. Edit: this one https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44335065 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44335065
- Flere-Imsaho 1y agoInteresting - thanks. It looks like at least the Android and iOS apps have been updated in the last few days - so it is under active development: https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-android https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-ios https://github.com/deltachat/deltachat-ios Doesn't work with all email providers though, from their FAQ: https://providers.delta.chat/ https://providers.delta.chat/ Proton mail isn't supported (I'm guessing because of the way Proton encrypts your email at rest?).
- solstice 1y agoAFAIK they recommend using a dedicated chatmail-enabled provider to avoid problems with using a "normal" email provider. https://delta.chat/en/chatmail https://delta.chat/en/chatmail
- periodjet 1y agoAnd notice it’s not being destroyed by the (largely fantastical) “fascist threats” constantly being whined about; rather, this is all the direct act of a decidedly left-wing government. Shocking to no one who has even a passing familiarity with the history of the 20th century…
- popopo73 1y agoIt's almost like an uneducated public is easier to control.. Praise anti-intellectualism, change the media landscape so that everything is either consumed through short bursts of dopamine or presented in a way to manipulate you, and you'll have a society of people who are driven by their emotions with a very short memory. As for the UK OSA, I think people are waking up to the fact that politicians will do what they want, use the enemy of the day to justify it, and group you in with that enemy if you oppose them, but I'm afraid without significant change to the system that this will continue to occur.
- leobg 1y ago„If I Were The Devil“ (1965) https://youtu.be/jnPE8u5ONls https://youtu.be/jnPE8u5ONls
- notaccboorus 1y agoNot at all according to booru admninistrators. They-re specifically pointing fingers at Russel Vought.
- matheusmoreira 1y agoThis has been brewing for years. The international network will not survive multiple independent governments all attempting to impose their own laws on it. It's bound to fracture into several regional networks with heavy filtering at the borders. I am glad to have known the true internet before its demise. Truly one of the wonders of humanity.
- laughing_man 1y agoThat's my suspicion. An internet governed to the least common cultural and legal denominator will be bland, boring, and useless.
- LeoPanthera 1y agoI've been downloading YouTube videos for the past few years. Not randomly, from specific channels I select. Today I passed 12100 videos. It's getting harder. YouTube keeps making yt-dlp work worse. (And I started when it was youtube-dl!) I limit my downloader script to no more than 2 videos at a time, every 3 hours, hopefully in order not to trip any rate limits. All good so far.
- PUSH_AX 1y agoIsn’t an official downloading functionality part of their premium offering? If you’re a power user perhaps it’s worth just paying.
- Barbing 1y agoOn mobile (iOS), it requires maintaining a subscription… and, once a month at least, internet connection.
- LeoPanthera 1y agoI am a premium subscriber, but "downloaded" videos are trapped inside the app. You can't actually get them out.
- PUSH_AX 1y agoI see I had no idea.
- fluoridation 1y agoWow, what garbage. Good thing to know. It was the single thing that appealed to me about that service.
- totetsu 1y agoWhen I try to capture a few friends videos of events I had run from instagram stories with yt-dlp, I get nice friendly warning that to avoid my account being restricted or deleted i should stop using tools.
- smolder 1y agoThis is really important. It's time to take history into our own hands given the penchant for erasure by the elites and how dumb the elites have become.
- pmdr 1y agoThe free internet is mostly gone already. Most people already only browse the same 5-10 sites belonging to big tech, thus already part of the surveillance apparatus.
- tim333 1y agoI doubt it. As a Brit they "blocked" Pirate Bay and torrent sites about a decade ago and I've hardly had any problems accessing them and torrenting stuff. It's all very half arsed.