Yeah look, everyone has to find their own way, I’m not trying to make the case that catch & release is going to be better for everyone, and there’s certainly a case to be made for archiving.

The thing that eventually got me was maintaining a big raid array. Lots of heat, power, drives dying every now and again. When it only takes a few minutes to download something and I never go near my bandwidth quota (or it’s unlimited maybe) going to catch & release made a lot of sense. I’m not religious about it but I generally delete things after I’ve listened / watched.

I’ve been catch and release for 5 years or so now.

Archiving is such a huge drain on time / effort / resources.

Yeah it’s a poorly considered generalisation, but the point is you’re not going to be getting emails from your service provider.

Yeah a lot less for a lot better.

Also, people paying for Usenet subscriptions since forever.

I mostly agree with @shadejinx. I would add that when editing the same note on two separate devices syncthing will at least fail kind of gracefully in that you’ll whatever.md will still be there but you’ll see an additional whatever-conflict-hash.md along side it so you can easily fix it up. Synctrayzor for windows will give you a nice notification and UI with which to resolve.

Nextcloud is great but it’s a real behemoth. Loads of stuff you don’t need.

IDK what you mean exactly but I sync between computers and devices just fine.

This opinion contradicts the polls though right?

I mean it’s a shitty headline and I dislike the use of the term “inevitable”, but polls suggest that voters are eager for a Trump dictatorship.

Aparently not?

There’s plenty of logical reasons to deny him another term, but none of it seems to matter.

Yeah honestly ebooks and audiobooks are a solved problem thanks to MAM.

I guess there are exceptions, it’s unknowable but one wonders how long it would’ve taken you to discover nebula some other way.

If you didn’t know of it, then you didn’t need or want it.

This is such a bizarre concept to me.

Why would I want someone to convince me to buy something with a “good pitch” ?

Yes but you watching the ad doesn’t make money for the creator.

1. Write blog spam with titles like “5 things …”

Yes absolutely.

Pro tip: choose an appropriate annual budget, divide that amongst different projects in a logical way.

I don’t really read ebooks, MAM has been supremely adequate for audiobooks for me though. I’ve never gone looking for an audiobook and been unable to find it there.

I don’t really have any more faith in Mercedes than I do with infotainment systems.

I don’t doubt that they have amazing org knowledge around integrating data systems, but how are they with… any of the myriad of other components of operating systems?

First party operating systems always seem to be terrible.

It never ever seemed to work for me.

Out of curiosity, can I ask what it was that made mastodon click?

I had two or three goes before realising that choosing the right instance can give you an engaging “local” feed. That seems dramatically less important on lemmy though.

There’s no need to answer.

Stop whatever it was they detected. Don’t do that any more.

WDYM “block your account” exactly?

You’re being paranoid. Google isn’t going to dick around blocking individuals.

Imagine being convinced that giving away what little money you have to a huge corporation was “right”.

Configure auto download. RSS is ok but IRC announce is better.

Getting up on torrents in the first few minutes is the key to building ratio.

I appreciate your interest in me, but I prefer not to continue this conversation

For some reason this sentence makes me deeply uncomfortable, like I’ve said something inappropriate and offended someone.

It sure is annoying, but it’s understandable. With these first few iterations you can imagine opponents frothing at the mouth about skynet if a chatbot can be used for something even vaguely inappropriate.

How do you find Rust for the frontend?

This looks rad. Sadly I don’t have time to pay around with it right now but will def come back to this.

Yeah good point. Even when they offered port forwards, they would only do it with the once off payment accounts. If you set up a payment method against your account ID to be used each month then you couldn’t do port forward because the port number shown on the tracker could be linked to your card which could be linked to you.

I mean you’re right in that in practice it might not mean receiving DMCA notices, but it has to identify you.

I mean you’ve been assigned the port, and your torrent client publishes that port on the tracker. Surely the port assignment can’t only be recorded in RAM, you’d have to change the ports configured in your client every few weeks.

Yeah port forwarding through a VPN really isn’t worth it.

It defeats the purpose of using a VPN anyway because the VPN provider needs to know that whatever port number should be routed to your private IP address.

I mean this is true but here in 2023 grey-beards are the only people who do know how anything works. There’s plenty of old people who have no idea how things work but there’s also old people who built the internet.

send me a C&D first

That’s their whole argument though.

Send the subscriber a few notices to say that their service is being used for copyright infringement and if the subscriber doesn’t do anything to secure their service then hold them liable.

they have the same make and model and colour of vehicle that was scene at the crime

Not really… it’s more like their car was at the scene of the crime but they claim to have no idea who was driving.

The article doesn’t really frame the problem apache is causing… I think it’s really just that someone might install OpenOffice thinking that it’s LibreOffice.

It’s definitely a dick move by Apache but… the reality is that they’re entitled to cling to the OpenOffice trademark if they wish, and it’s really LibreOffice’s branding problem.

Also the article doesn’t mention the 14 bug fix releases since 4.1, which seems kinda disingenuous.

I can understand your position but I don’t see it that way.

I think lemmy is a fairly early iteration of the fediverse and it’s still finding its own format and associated culture.

For example, maybe more people will start using multiple accounts, or use accounts only for a few months before discarding them.

A lot of redditors treated accounts like some kind of alternate self, to be manicured and maintained indefinitely, which might not be the right move in the fediverse.

Also, a lot of things aren’t really communicated to users on most platforms. The information is there if anyone cares to invest even the briefest moment in understanding the fediverse

It’s always going to come down to trusting someone though right ?

Even with a larger corporation who tells you they don’t sell your data, it would only take 1 employee to see the opportunity to sell 1 billion email addresses or something.

Also in the fediverse your data is pretty much freely available to everyone. Instances need to publish the list of users who have upvoted a given post or comment. Anyone so inclined could build a profile of comments and posts you’ve liked from freely available data.

Lemmy still feels a bit wild - with lots of instances springing up in the last few months and not really any time for admins to demonstrate their attitudes to different issues.

Mastodon is a little more mature though, I’ve been at fosstodon.org for a few years now. The admins there are regular participants in the community. I think I’m on the “Elon” tier in their patreon - $11 a month.

No it’s not.

WD-40 may have referred to the formulation at one time, now it’s just marketing.

Well if they’re detecting active ad blockers then presumably they’re running some client side js to decode the url if certain conditions are met.

I don’t think think they’ve been playing cat & mouse with newpipe, they just break it by accident.

They don’t need to splice ads in, they could just render NewPipe inoperable. I’m sure it would be fairly trivial to detect which page loads are from NewPipe.

I wonder if there’s actually any benefit to ads. Like if you could magically ban advertising, would people spend any less money?