cupcakezealot

from what i've heard internet archive torrents are automatically generated but does it speed up downloads for others or is it just another alternative form of download? (i like more niche archived vhs things so often times the stuff i like isn't popular anyway). just curious, really. i also donate straight to internet archive because i think they're worth it but it was just a late night thought i had and was curious.

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was watching old nitros and can across this multi segment miniseries which was pretty amazing for the time. someone helpfully posted the whole thing on youtube.

i'm wondering if there was a federated or activitypub based linktree alternative? i current use linktree obviously but i'm growing tired of his bloatedness and would love to support an open alternative.. mostly just since i have a collection of threadiverse accounts for different things and would love to have one place for them all :)

this may be a dumb question but i was reading some articles and trying to understand seeding and peers; i generally pull up a torrent and grab the actual files but uncheck the random txt files like the ones that say where it was downloaded from (just for personal preference to keep my directories clean). does that cause any problems for others? should i not be excluding them from downloading? i generally keep torrents seeding when they're done but if i don't download those small files am i causing problems?

marge: how would you like it if 20 years from now people were laughing at things you did

bart: not likely. come on have a sense of humor about yourself

does the piefed instance get updated automagically?

i was just curious cause i always see changes but the version still says 1.0.1-dev. hopefully you're not having to deploy all the time! i was just curious :3

i was setting up an instance on a new computer and i went to turn it off but i noticed it wasn't there; did they get rid of it (hopefully)? or did they move it someplace?

i absolutely hate how the modern web just fails to load if one has javascript turned off. i, as a user, should be able to switch off javascript and have the site work exactly as it does with javascript turned on. it's not a hard concept, people.

but you ask candidates to explain "graceful degradation" and they'll sit and look at you with a blank stare.

is there a go to stock photography site that is free of anything ai? i remember using istock back in the day but, like everything in the modern web, it seems to be infested with ai slop.

all points will be confiscated by steve.