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It only mentions /r/piracy and /r/torrents on the page. Nothing about lemmy, so I assumed it was maintained by somebody in one of those subs.

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Thanks. Which is the canonical one? rentry.co or the wiki?

Also, is the wiki limited to members of the dbzer0 instance or can anybody sign up? And how is quality maintained?

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Is the megathread only maintained by reddit?
>➜ Quality over quantity > > The Megathread is to subject to rigorous 👁️‍🗨️ Quality Control checks, and often updated. > Visit our r/Piracy, r/Torrents communities for all the sailing discussions. How do we contribute from the fediverse?
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Privacy dies in thunderous applause. Good job on voting in the conservatives and ludites everybody (or not voting at all)! A+ participation in democracy.

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So, something the majority of people can never attain. Awesome.

Or are you going to hand me a plot of land that isn’t as big as a thimble? If so, sign me up. I want it.

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PirateSoftware was a blizzard dev, is a current dev, and is just basically lobbying against change. I don’t believe he’s being genuine in his arguments and is misrepresenting the cause or hasn’t understood it. It was possible to make games that didn’t stop working once a server shut down and it still is.

Being given a server binary isn’t a licensing issue unless you make it one. And because publishers and studios sign shitty contracts, doesn’t make it right, nor the only way to do business. If he wants to do business that way, do that shit in the US, but if something meaningful happens in the EU, then don’t sell your games there. Simple as…

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For real, I’d pay for anime, manga, hentai, manhwan, western comics, etc. if there was just one site or a group of sites that:

  • required just one account and/or one subscription for all of them
  • was available worldwide with no restrictions
  • was fast
  • let me pay in any currency
  • translated everything in different languages

Fuck yeah I’d pay for that. Sign me the fuck up for that awesome legal option.

Instead we have whatever the fuck is going on right now. Fan-subs and fan-translations are mandatory because their shit isn’t translated either ever or not in time. I want to give you my money for what I want and so that you make more awesome shit, but you fucking won’t let me.

The ships have to sail 🤷

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Probably not. People will hang onto stuff because “everybody’s there” and “but lemmy doesn’t have enough content” 🤷‍♂

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What? That sounds like absolute hokum. It’s like saying variable names change the data they contain.

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Go is not an option? Zig neither? Even Java would be better (it’s used in high-frequency trading) than C++.

Rust is not the only contender.

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I hope an opensource, non-C/C++ browser will pop up that can claw back from Chrome/Chromium. It’s about time.

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This is what happens when you’re in a walled garden. You lose sight of what exists outside of it.

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it turns out the PS VR2’s Sense Controllers are very flakey when it comes to Bluetooth connectivity. Even though I have the required Bluetooth adapter built into my PC, constant connection losses meant that I couldn’t even make it past the headset’s initial setup process on PC.

Bluetooth has always been a bad experience for me. The connection will always randomly drop. Sometimes I’ll hold the two connected devices right next to each other or lay one on top of the other and the connection will still drop.

Any device that requires bluetooth is an immediate nope for me and life has been easier since.

Why don’t we have anything better? I’d even accept WiFi (802.11) connections over bluetooth. Sure, they aren’t as energy efficient (right?), but at least they are stable.

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Will there someday be an opensource, distributed search engine just because Google stops bringing up piracy in search results? It feels like some pissed of piracy crew might take it upon themselves.

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You can seed anonymously with I2P. It has a built in torrent client. If you don’t want to use it, there’ qtorrent which supports I2P and anonymous mode.

There are open trackers on I2P e.g http://opentracker.skank.i2p/ and http://opentracker.dg2.i2p/ both trackers don’t have a search interface though, so probably people won’t find your torrents unless they are very popular. You can upload the torrents to http://tracker2.postman.i2p which has a good interface.

With qtorrent you can seed in both the clearnet and I2P at the same time. Either just use the open trackers or postman’s, or both. Either way, having them on I2P would be great.

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How high can they appeal? This is just a district court. I bet it’ll take another decade until a decision is reached.

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There are open trackers on I2P e.g http://opentracker.skank.i2p/ and http://opentracker.dg2.i2p/ both trackers don’t have a search interface though, so probably people won’t find your torrents unless they are very popular. You can upload the torrents to http://tracker2.postman.i2p which has a good interface.

Doing so would help with the download speeds for other users.

P.S I’ve enever used XD. So I can’t help you out there, but it seems like a very bare-bones torrent client. qbittorrent recently added support for it but if you’re running a headless server, XD doesn’t seem like a bad option. Github says it has no DHT support? Not sure if that’s the best option, but good luck with it.

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sudo-flix, piracy app hosted on github. Probably will be taken down like popcorn time, that nintendo emulator, and a bunch of other things. Wouldn’t surprise me if they ended up on radicle, or codeberg, or I2P or something…

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I don’t thinkthis community wants the attention of copyright lovers. The server admin will probably have to deal with a bunch of a bullshit otherwise. But maybe if it does get big enough, people might be willing to join an anonymous community hosted on I2P or TOR. Feds won’t be able to take that down.

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She can fuck right off with that. I have a mouse that fell apart because it used soft plastic, another one I threw away because I couldn’t clean properly (taking it apart to clean broke something), and now I have one from logitech. My parents have a mouse from (I kid you not) 1995. Brand is unknown. There were already “forever” mice out there, it’s just that now they voluntarily make them shit for you to buy a new one.

Just make mice like 20 years ago but in different forms (vertical, ball at the thumb), that can be opened to clean and repair, and we’re fine. No need for your dumb-ass subscription. Fuck off.

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AAA really should mean game quality, not production costs. I don’t care how much money is spent on a game, if it’s bad, it’s bad.

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https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmUwS36WN1A5FQ6uiatgyCWYapkm96KACCfxSyrHB2puzs

The gateway is taking too long to fetch your content. This could be due to several reasons:

  • The CID does not exist in the IPFS network
  • The host that contains the CID has gone offline, is on a slow network connection or overloaded

I don’t think what you’re trying to get is still up. You can try another gateway if you like, but I imagine the results will be the same.

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Do both have to run on the host machine or can a remote machine execute the probes (over ssh or something).

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That is incredibly efficient! Thanks for the info 🙂 I’ve wanted to be hoarder, but never thought I could afford it in the long run.

It must be pretty loud though, no? One would need a dedicated room for it, I image.

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Pretty cool that you’re able to use renewable energy. Do you know how much power it consumes? And do you have a backup power supply? Uninterrupted Power Supply I think it’s called.

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It might be worth looking more deeply into. From a cursory glance, it might be usable for my usecase, but many service have configuration examples for NGINX (or Apache if they’re old). I’ve never seen caddy examples. What has your experience been with adapting those examples to caddy?

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Apache still is a pain in the ass. The only guide I found useful were from 20 years ago or so. All “modern” ones I found didn’t explain stuff, but were more like “copy paste this, now you’re done”. They never fit my usecase.

I honestly don’t know why people new to webhosting even bother with Apache when NGINX is around. It’s just so much easier.

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The less diversity you have in any ecosystem, the more vulnerable you become, and there’s zero diversity at the top of the internet supply chain. You can pick any core area of the internet and you’ll find a very short list of companies in control.

That natural conclusion of an absolutely free market is a monopoly. With no regulation, one company will end up dominating everything. I can only hope that over time we will have technologies that allow citizens to make big mesh networks.

CrowdStrike is the closest we’ve come to a full-blown internet shutdown. Even with its unprecedented scale, however, the consequences lasted just a few days.

Indeed. I bet you nothing important will come of this. Crowdstrike will survive, maybe with a scrape or two, but will continue to enjoy unfettered access to critical systems world-wide.

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If companies were really treated like people, they’d be in jail right now - at least in the US. But they wouldn’t come out reformed, just beaten and bruised, ready to commit more crimes.

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Our shareholders can’t buy another private jet to pollute the environment, so fuck off. Jake, you can stay though. You’ve been promoted to hold every job with a 5% raise.

And people will keep buying their games 🤷

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iOS is probably the most locked down option you can pick. The EU even told Malus to open it up and Malus tried to fuck around. Now they might be in for some monetary justice, but that might take a year or two. Emulation was even only recently allowed, but only of old shit like Windows XP.

Android is still the most open, mainstream, phone OS out there. Get yourself a phone that can run a ROM like LineageOS, eOS, FairPhone or (if you want to give Google more money for surveillance) a Pixel to put GrapheneOS on it (easy process, you just need a browser and USB-C cable). That’ll get you more freedom to keep the phone alive longer and optionally become more private (if you can learn to live without Google).

To save money, you don’t even need to buy a new one. Get a refurbished phone. They are often 100-200€ cheaper than new phones and are sometimes as good as new.

iOS will lock you in, give you less options, and cost you loads to boot.

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Can somebody explain why game makers don’t start their own companies together?
It seems like every other week a game studio is massively laying off employees; sometimes after years of development. What I'm reading is that it's a quick way to lower expenses and pad the investors' pockets, flooding the market with developers and reducing their value, to then hire them back a few months later at lower salaries. So, what's holding back gamedevs from banding together to either unionize or start their own companies with better conditions that the purely money-driven studios? Why aren't they trying to be better? Nobody willing to invest in them? Does starting a company together mean they will now be the bosses who have to answer to the investors, ensure returns, and fire employees? Is the world just an entire shit-cake?
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PSA: If you’re going to write software for piracy, put it on I2P!
[movie-web was just taken down](https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/19010102) with all its repos, [Yuzu](https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/15297382) was taken down, then [suyu forked it on gitlab](https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/16942282) and was taken down, countless clones of nintendo games, platform emulators, and a bunch of other things are taken down because they are hosted on the clear web. If you're a dev and planning to write software for piracy, host it on I2P!
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[A firm providing AI drive-thru tech to fast food chains actually relies on human workers to take orders 70% of the time](https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-drive-thru-tech-relies-on-workers-70-of-time-2023-12) [Lemmy link](https://lemmy.world/post/9471377)
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What are your opinions on in-person conferences?
As in where there are talks, people get to chat with the presenters, hackathons, etc. but not necessarily hands-on hardware demos
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Is there a place where you can request code reviews on opensource software?
Many of us write opensource code in a void: nobody ever looks at it, uses it nor reviews it. We are the only users and authors. In order to improve, where can we get our code reviewed? I don't mean professionally, just from like-minded individuals.
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The German government is working on an OSS “Sovereign Workplace”
It was announced about [one year ago](https://www.cio.bund.de/SharedDocs/kurzmeldungen/Webs/CIO/DE/startseite/souveraener_arbeitsplatz.html)
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PSA: Don’t torrent over TOR
1. It doesn't make you anonymous. Torrent protocol wasn't designed with anonymity in mind and there are a million ways you're going to leak your actual IP address. 2. Tor is a TCP only network. 3. While this doesn't give you the anonymity you wanted, it will hurt the network for other users.
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What’s the latest project you discovered that made you go “wow”?
Doesn't have to be from this week or this month. A wow moment can even be years back.
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[Answered] Are there libraries to interface with European banks?
I would like to write my own **read-only** client(s) to pull my transactions from the bank and keep track of my spending. It would be possible to then feed this into other software (either that I write myself or that I can find and trust). In the future, the goal is to actually initiate transfers to European bank accounts. For example an automatic transfer between savings accounts when the interest rates increase for one bank, or transfer from a savings account to a stock exchange instead of letting it sit on a stock exchange waiting to be invested. It's not entirely clear where to start as the banking system seems quite opaque and it feels like I'd have to get a job at the bank to understand how it works. Stock and crypto exchanges have APIs and sometimes even libraries, but banks? Edit: no libs, but PSD2 is the keyword. Banks in the EU must(?) support open banking and provide APIs following that standard.
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Would the world be a better place if Google bought Gitlab?
Large companies don't innovate anymore, they acquire and Google's sourceforge offering is... let's call it underwhelming. If they tried to compete with Github and threw money into Gitlab, what do you think they'd do?
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Is there something better than SQL?
If you're modeling relational data, it doesn't seem like you can get around using a DB that uses SQL, which to me is the worst: most programmers aren't DB experts and the SQL they output is quite often terrible. Not to dunk on the lemmy devs, they do a good job, but they themselves know that their SQL is bad. Luckily there are community members who stepped up and are doing a great job at fixing the numerous performance issues and tuning the DB settings, but not everybody has that kind of support, nor time. Also, the translation step from binary (program) -> text (SQL) -> binary (server), just feels quite wrong. For HTML and CSS, it's fine, but for SQL, where injection is still in the [top 10 security risks](https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/), is there something better? Yes, there are ORMs, but some languages don't have them (rust has diesel for example, which still requires you to write SQL) and it would be great to "just" have a DB with a binary protocol that makes it unnecessary to write an ORM. Does such a thing exist? Is there something better than SQL out there?
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How do you backup your data?
I've been considering paying for a European provider, mounting their service with `rclone`, and thus being transparent to most anything I host. How do y'all backup your data?
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What’s a pirate’s utopia?
Let's say an app came out that allowed pirating without consequences; that it connected every user to a fast, anonymous network, and users could donate anonymously to content creators and/or uploaders. Piracy were so normal that even your grandma could just search "ahoy movie name", be directed to a third party store, download and install the "Ahoy App" and start watching movies and TV shows like on Popcorn Time or listen to music like on Napster and Spotify. It reached mainstream popularity and had download numbers like WhatsApp or TikTok. Is this something we would want? Would the entertainment industry survive?
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Do you use an anonymous network for downloading?
[I2P](https://geti2p.net/) support anonymous torrents [TOR](https://www.torproject.org/download/) is good for direct downloads (DDL) Don't know if others exist...
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What do y’all think about mailing lists and IRC as sole communication channels?
Say you want to contribute to a project and find out the only way to do so is by discussing the issue on IRC or the mailing list, then submitting the patch per email.
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What was your experience climbing the career ladder in tech?
I've seen people call themselves "senior" after 3 years on the job, other become CTOs in the same time, and others still have a senior title after 20(!) years in the industry yet have a fuckton of technical experience. I've heard that they are all just titles and opinions from "if you don't have the technical skill you can't call yourself a senior", to "senior and staff are just a feeling, principal is the actual senior" and "staff? above senior? we call that manager". What's your story? Is there a ladder? Do you feel like you belong on it? Where are you on it? Does it make sense? Did you see major bumps in salary? Did titles count at all?
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The Threads app was downloaded by more than 100M people on launch week. How did the engineering team build the app, and handle an unexpectedly intense launch? Exclusive.
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[Meta] Is it OK to ask questions in here or should there be an AskProgramming community?
ATM, I'm just in an inquisitive mood, but there doesn't seem to be an "AskDevs" community here. Dunno if it's fine to just ask questions here or if the mods would rather those kinds of things be done in another community.
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What would it take for you to move away from Github?
Let's be honest, the majority here probably has a github account. Some of us are happy as a clam and wouldn't switch no matter what happened, but there are some who would and haven't yet. Why?
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Which conditions would make reject or quit your job?
Being forced to use a particular OS, hardware or programming language? Working remotely? Certain company structure?
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What do you do with your idle servers?
Not sure if this is the right place to ask the question, but there doesn't seem to be an "askgeeks" or something.
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