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4·10 days agoNot when the community notes will be written by AI, and voted on by bots.
Whomever has the most AI and bots to swamp the notes with their text and generate votes wins.
Does that sound like a good way to get facts?
9·1 month agoIt could be that your torrent program is firewalled, and unable to fully connect to all sharing peers.
If you’re using qBittorrent, to display the Status Bar, go to the menu item View > (check the box for) Status Bar
The Status Bar should appear a the bottom.
Just right of center, there should be an icon where if you hover your mouse over it, tells you your Connection Status, i.e. whether you’re connected or firewalled.
Good point.
JDownloader is a tool whose continued development is well worth supporting.
- Mastodon’s recommendation algorithm isn’t sufficiently addicting
- Mastodon lacks venture capital to fund an army of PR flacks to plant stories in EVERY FUCKING NEWS WEBSITE IN THE UNIVERSE.
I believe that eD2K was the next P2P to gain wide popularity after those went down.
It’s de-centralized, so unlike Napster/Kazaa, the feds can’t take it down by seizing only one server, which they have tried.
Consider non-torrent P2P platforms like eMule/eD2K. If you know what the name of you’re looking for, there’s a fair amount of obscure material to be downloaded that can be difficult to find otherwise.
eD2K is slow, but effective.
https://forums.mvgroup.org/index.php is my go-to for documentary torrents.
Also trying out Bluesky, and it is a lot like Twitter used to be, but it has the potential to turn out like Xitter is today, because at the end of the day Bluesky is a for-profit startup corporation.
Sooner or later, Bluesky is going to want to make money for its shareholders, and that means any of: 1) Selling advertisements, 2) Selling your personal data, and/or 3) In a classic tech startup play, selling itself to the highest bidder like: Android, YouTube, and yes, Twitter.
And with commercialization, or in Xitter’s case a fool with too much money, comes enshittification.
Lemmy is nothing like a for-profit startup company, as far as I know, but that doesn’t make it enshittification-proof, but at least it won’t take the commercialization route.
Torrenting on Android does exist, but it’s such a battery suck that seeding is unsustainable unless your mobile device is plugged in all the time. Which makes it not-so-mobile.
And then there’s mobile plan data limits.
Gen X here. I still use my eMule client! Because you just share whole directory structures, it’s great for finding and sharing older obscure stuff.
1·3 months agoIt looks like there are 2 kinds of brown things.
One type that is a lighter brown looks spheroid, possibly potatoes or dinner rolls.
Another type is a darker brown, looks like fat cylinders, possibly deep fried breaded fish/salmon/crab cakes, as others have said.
The lighter brown ones could also be fish/salmon/crab cakes, but from a different manufacturer, or just shaped differently.
I’ve always found Super Video Converter to be very useful and easy to use for video conversion.
I guess they can’t use the disparaging phrase “straight to video” anymore.
The first couple of weeks on a private tracker are always pretty rough, until you can build up your ul/dl ratio high enough to get some breathing room.
Some sites make things easier on newbs than others.
If possible, look for recent freeleech torrents, especially popular ones, download them even if you aren’t really interested in the content, and seed them 24/7 to build your ul stats…
You have at least 10 years from when your tapes were written.
Hope the device you have to read them still works …
I just signed up for Matrix because you mentioned it.
I installed the Element front end, because that seems to be the most popular.
It looks like IRC, which is fine if that’s all you need.
It also appears that anything beyond text has to be hotlinked, which is understandable, given that the amount of data transmitted for redundancy between home servers is exponential with the number of home servers.
Really very similar to Lemmy, where the identity of each group is tied to a particular server, e.g. lemmy has !anime@ani.social but Matrix has #anime:matrix.org
So what happens if matrix.org goes away or decides the server admin wants to be hostile to #anime?
What kind of system that depends on centralized servers can ever be secure from government snooping?
That kind of architecture is completely hopeless in that regard.
Is a encrypted, distributed, P2P architecture realistic though?
That was generally happening in the fire area.
I’m sure there are/were a lot of ridiculous homes.