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by someonebaggy 4mo ago
IPT has a very bad reputation because it arbitrarily shakes down users for money (suddenly demanded to pay and banned if you don't) and attacks its competitors with DDoS, malware uploads, peer leaks, etc
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by someonebaggy 4mo ago
Well first of all, uBlock is a version that was sold to advertising companies many years ago, which is why uBlock Origin was created. uBlock Origin is the one that Google blocked on Chrome by redesigning how extensions work, creating a big
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by someonebaggy 4mo ago
The Pirate Bay is also like that. Get uBlock Origin.
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by someonebaggy 4mo ago
How to tell if a thing is minor?
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by someonebaggy 4mo ago
I meant emoji reactions
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by someonebaggy 4mo ago
Torrents? I think most of these things still exist, but as a tiny proportion of traffic, because total traffic grew so much while these old protocols shrank somewhat, but they are certainly still there. The focus is now on applications rath
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by someonebaggy 4mo ago
FYI SO is dead. Not dying, dead. The rate of questions now is lower than its first month of existence when barely anyone knew about it, and they've recently tried to rebrand themselves as a forum for agents to talk to each other.
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by someonebaggy 4mo ago
I'm trying to avoid this feeling but how do I tell the difference between nostalgia and things actually getting worse?
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by someonebaggy 4mo ago
It's more specific - the Eternal September concept is also about gatekeeping, and how a moderate barrier to entry is often good for a social space.
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by someonebaggy 4mo ago
Web 2.0 has a few different definitions but one of them is when HTML pages started to contain significant JavaScript, and another is when websites started to be middlemen between users rather than users interacting only with the website ope
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by someonebaggy 4mo ago
eggdrop responds to explicit commands, yeah? Very different from the ones that infest the modern internet.
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by someonebaggy 4mo ago
Wasn't there also some connection between Gamergate and Jeffrey Epstein I remember reading about?
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by someonebaggy 4mo ago
And if you did that now you'd probably have no forum left because everyone has been trained to generate engagement.
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by someonebaggy 4mo ago
This is a great demonstration of how compilers, good as they are, are a leaky abstraction, just like all abstravtions. And sometimes you need to peer below the abstraction.
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by someonebaggy 4mo ago
Is it also possible to speed up lookup? I never used IPFS much as it took several minutes to find a cid.
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by someonebaggy 4mo ago
No legal disruption is possible - these are the terms content holders insist on. Illegal disruption already happened and you already have access to it, but you're not using it because you don't want to break the law.
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by someonebaggy 4mo ago
Class actions are usually not very effective. Each affected individual will receive $0.03 and the company will pay 0.5% of the money it made from this maneuver. What actually works is the opposite, mass small claims lawsuits for refunds, be
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by someonebaggy 4mo ago
There's no overlap. Just pirate.
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by someonebaggy 4mo ago
The Pirate Bay is considered one of the worst pirate sites now. Of course, if you can find what you want, then you can, but any piracy community will recommend against it due to nonexistent moderation (eg. against viruses), poor navigation,
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by someonebaggy 4mo ago
They're always good until they aren't. They can only be trusted if they don't have a way to be bad. Steam could lock down tomorrow and you couldn't do anything about it.
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by someonebaggy 4mo ago
Front page HN 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48717469 One of the two Mullvad founders and shareholders provides 70% of a Swedish far-right political party's funding.
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by someonebaggy 4mo ago
I think it used to be like that but then a lot of people were actually convinced, or people who already actually believed it were attracted to the parody argument.
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by someonebaggy 4mo ago
So basically in order to prevent Kessler syndrome, everyone follows the regulations or the other participants punish them by destroying their satellites, causing Kessler syndrome?
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by someonebaggy 4mo ago
No AI vendor does.
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by someonebaggy 4mo ago
The wealthiest are having no problem acquiring permits for data centers. Why would they want flats when DCs are so much more profitable? Last century it was highways.
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by someonebaggy 4mo ago
Private ownership of the means of production is one salient feature of capitalism, but it's not the definition. Capitalism is when capital controls everything, more-or-less.
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by someonebaggy 4mo ago
The destruction of the environment that has actually occurred in our capitalist countries has been because of capitalism. It's like saying desktop enshittification has been caused by Microsoft. This is true in our timeline, even though
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by someonebaggy 4mo ago
There are many things that are not either capitalism or Russia.
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by someonebaggy 4mo ago
It would be even better if the world didn't burn.
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by someonebaggy 4mo ago
The alternatives to capitalism are a wide spectrum, ranging from totalitarian dictatorship (aka central planning) all the way to free markets with sensible regulations. What they all have in common is not being capitalism, i.e. not putting

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