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[–] bigfoot@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For newbies qbitrorrent's search is more than adequate enough to replace steps 5-7. But this is a great guide!

[–] bigfoot@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Friendly reminder that the goal behind posting memes like this is to instill a sense of cynicism and discourage political participation from people who hold progressive values. A key indicator here is the use of the nefarious-but-nebulous "they" which is commonly used in antisemitic-coded "globalist" or "cabal" conspiracy theories.

Democracy in America is unequal and unfair but the "deep state" the way conspiracy theorist portray it is simply not real.

[–] bigfoot@lemm.ee 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

I gotta admit that I enjoy seeing America crumbling down like this.

The fuck is the matter with you? The CIA overthrew some governments in the 70s and now you "enjoy" seeing the crumbling of what little right trans people had? You enjoy seeing the crumbling of habeus corpus where students are being kidnapped off the street by plainclothes officers? Do you enjoy seeing the crumbling of due process and the people deported to El Salvadorian prions for autism awareness tattoos?

You don’t have to be a tankie to admit the U.S. has been a shitty ally and overall a toxic country.

Even if your assessment were accurate, and it's just patently, obviously not, enjoying sitting back and watching a government openly bully trans teenagers because the US helped Isreal or didn't provide the aid to Ukraine you would have preferred (or whatever!), is just a horrible, horrible, ignorant and harmful perspective. If you truly cared about "progressive and peaceful values" values, you would be advocating for the US to change, not cheering it's "crumbling".

[–] bigfoot@lemm.ee -5 points 1 month ago (11 children)

This thread is an amazing honeypot for any instance admins looking for a well organized list of accounts to ban.

[–] bigfoot@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] bigfoot@lemm.ee 41 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (33 children)

Americans (especially non white Americans) tend to speak very frankly about race in a way that can make Europeans uncomfortable. In this context "white" is simply meant to conjure an image of someone with disposable income.

(See "black twitter")

[–] bigfoot@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

We agree that spending one's time typing internet comments is less effective than voting.

[–] bigfoot@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What people want will have little to do with it, unfortunately. The "hope" is that contraception bans combined with misleading/nonexistent sex ed will maintain a population.

[–] bigfoot@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

~~Reddit~~ Lemmy users love their internet slacktivism. These mfers will type out a 10,000 word comment on a five year old post before they will vote.

[–] bigfoot@lemm.ee 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

Any discussion/advice community that allows low-effort meme slop will inevitably become choked out by it. I understand I am in the minority and the mods like having the memes, but eventually we'll need /c/piracydiscussion if content of this formatting is permitted.

Obviously 99% of people here would agree that Aaron Swarts' story is a tragedy. But simple low-hanging fruit content is not what I want this place to have. And like it or not this community is likely to become the single biggest place to discuss piracy as Reddit inevitably cracks down on it.

[–] bigfoot@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I would transfer the playlist to Tidal (there are services out there that will import everything for a few dollars), then use Tidal-dl. The quality is much higher.

 

Has this ever happened before? I don't think I've ever seen Reddit "temporarily" ban a subredit like this.

 

The Fediverse is a great system for preventing bad actors from disrupting "real" human-human conversations, because all of the mods, developers and admins are all working out of a desire to connect people (as opposed to "trust and safety" teams more concerned about user retention).

Right now it seems that the Fediverses main protection is that it just isn't a juicy enough target for wide scale spam and bad faith agenda pushers.

But assuming the Fediverse does grow to a significant scale, what (current or future) mechanisms are/could be in place to fend off a flood of AI slop that is hard to distinguish from human? Even the most committed instance admins can only do so much.

For example, I have a feeling all "good" instances in the near future will eventually have to turn on registration applications and only federate with other instances that do the same. But it's not crazy to imagine that GPT could soon outmaneuver most registration questions which means registrations will only slow the growth of the problem but not manage it long-term.

Any thoughts on this topic?

 

A lot of internet publications today have videos in the middle of their articles that have nothing to do with the actual content. Example in this WIRED article here.

I'm wondering if there is an active blocklist for this kind of content? I already have uBlocks "annoyances" all subscribed. These videos slow down the pages and are too numerous to block individually.

 

I want to use myanonymouse to download/seed books but it requires you to download from the same IP as you use to browse the website. My qBittorrent is in docker container on my home server, using gluetun with a VPN.

I tried both of these instructions to no avail I think there is something I'm missing. Shadowsocksqt5 latency just says "error" and using the chrome extension suggestion just simply doesn't load anything.

The reason I don't want to seed from my workstation pc is because myanonymouse requires you to seed to maintain your account and the workstation is mostly off. My home server is always on. Any ideas?

 
 

A search for this only brings up adapters to plug M.2 drives into a PCIE slot which is not what I want because I don't have a PCIE slot.

What I want is M.2 > M.2 (2x, 3x, etc). Does this exist?

 

Direct link to the original Tweet with some pictures a very impressive collection and sad story.

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