zabadoh

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[–] zabadoh@ani.social 1 points 1 week ago

Haha, point taken.

Back in 1991, when the first Civilization game came out, Madonna wasn't the "elder statesman" that she is today.

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

This reminds me of that feature in the first Civilization game where the portraits of your advisors change, depending on what type of government you have: Democracy, Republic, Communism, etc.

Under Anarchy, your foreign minister was Madonna, your military advisor was a banana republic general, science advisor a drug dealer, etc. https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Advisor_(Civ1)?file=Advisors_%28Civ1%29.png

This is like that.

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 13 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 1 points 1 month ago

I've always found Super Video Converter to be very useful and easy to use for video conversion.

https://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 1 points 1 month ago

Bad news: The OpenSignup Telegram channel hasn't been updated since October 2023

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 4 points 2 months ago

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..

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 5 points 2 months ago

You have at least 10 years from when your tapes were written.

Hope the device you have to read them still works ..

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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?

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 32 points 2 months ago (8 children)

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?

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

How to cut off PS online verification: https://www.reddit.com/r/GenP/comments/1624ybw/how_to_fix_photoshop_we_cant_verify_your/

But the tool they recommend using, GenP, does trigger Windows Defender warnings because it modifies binaries, so read the installation instructions carefully.

Or migrate to FOSS software, or pay Adobe to use their product.

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 10 points 2 months ago

There are some specialty content, such as British TV and Asian TV and movies, or complete archives of porn sites, that don't appear regularly on public torrent sites, or streaming sites for that matter.

If you never watch that kind of thing, then you don't need to sign up for a private tracker.

 

cross-posted from: https://ani.social/post/4576908

Popular Pirate Site Animeflix Shuts Down 'Voluntarily' * TorrentFreak

No explanation given, no successor or backup domains reported.

 

I'm considering getting Google Fiber for internet service, because it's about to become available in my area.

Are the Google Fiber admins cool with filesharing protocols?

Or do they strangle traffic, ban people for filesharing, etc?

 

For reasons that I don't understand to this day, my empornium account was locked years ago, and I have never found anything else close to having the depth of archives of BDSM/fetish material that it had.

Are there any alternatives out there?

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