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William Gillis @rechelon.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 19:21 UTC

My comprehensive piece on "Kill Your Local Rapist" is now live.

I held off writing for two years of awful discourse because I didn't want to take credit or central stage. Anything good in this essay should be read as a collective effort. *Every* CW:
c4ss.org/content/59691

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xormetric @tentacle.expert [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 18:09 UTC

would that even work if you did it today

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xormetric @tentacle.expert [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:12 UTC

the rule that you have to upload scene releases as-is in the rars is so ridiculous too pyrescene/srrdb exists now if you really want it to be possible to, what, upload from ggn to topsites????? "unzip and play" home rips, or even raw files uncompressed, are just objectively better

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xormetric @tentacle.expert [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 15:01 UTC

>instance defederates bridgy (@ap.brid.gy) so i wouldn't even be able to ask the user to please opt into the bridge to follow them if i wanted to

why are fedi people like this man
the one and only thing you are doing by defederating it is imposing onto your users that they can't have friends here

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xormetric @tentacle.expert [ View ] Jul 04, 2024 at 02:29 UTC

not entirely sure Promise actually follows the monad axioms but basically yeah if you think of .then as >>= then yeah await is do notation's <- it fucking sucks as a monad cause there's no escape hatch, it would be impossible to get any results out if it was a pure language, but yeah

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xormetric @tentacle.expert [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 01:49 UTC

ok yeah that is a bit high for the first time do a few normal things and you can apply it to absurd situations after

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xormetric @tentacle.expert [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 00:55 UTC

? seems entirely reasonable if you avoid the complexities like SQL and constraints and shit then this is very much doable the first time you do something hard it's never good but you can just rewrite from scratch once in a while and in a few years you'll have something good that's how learning works

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xormetric @tentacle.expert [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 23:08 UTC

i often insist that torrenting isn't a lost art, but more importantly, i *won't let it become one*

whatever your age or skill level, if you want to learn how to pirate, how to do it better, safer, how it's changed with time, or any other piracy-related topic, we'll teach you
discord.gg/dxpkzrwCd3

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xormetric @tentacle.expert [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 21:08 UTC

thats my problem with youtube too though sure it has exmilitary or whatever popular stuff spotify won't but it gets spotty at best for actually obscure stuff if a music service doesn't have clonepa - Ruminations on Corn i'm not interested either sadly that restricts it to basically soulseek and RED

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xormetric @tentacle.expert [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 12:10 UTC

they decided to stop running it a long while ago now, youll just have to use one of the countless alternatives instead

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xormetric @tentacle.expert [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 18:40 UTC

deluge for most purposes, transmission for lots of torrents. except, if you're not a nerd, just go with qbittorrent.

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xormetric @tentacle.expert [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 15:03 UTC

...that's why you go on wikipedia to get the real one consistently? alternatively, use tor/i2p, those don't use domains that can be seized, since they're based on cryptography

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xormetric @tentacle.expert [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 13:46 UTC

it's not gone? you can still go on wikipedia and find the site there as usual

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xormetric @tentacle.expert [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 16:14 UTC

on the reputable private trackers they're safe (they have the moderation capacity to check) otherwise for a lot of stuff you can check srrdb or no-intro/redump checksums, or signature for gog installers but either of those is effort which tbh idk if i can recommend if you don't play games often

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xormetric @tentacle.expert [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 19:05 UTC

those are just the more user-facing names. products, not technologies. even then, there's a lot of stuff missing there. Kademlia? Freenet? in recent memory... i really wish more people would experiment on filesharing like Amoeba5. and within blockchains, penumbra is obviously the most interesting rn

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xormetric @tentacle.expert [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 04:35 UTC

lmaooo tentacle.social

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xormetric @tentacle.expert [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 17:09 UTC

if you want to learn in details and ask questions check out the discord/matrix server in my bio

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xormetric @tentacle.expert [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 17:07 UTC

there's a lot to learn if you want to be efficient and stuff, but really the start of the journey is interviewfor.red
and from there a whole world of possibilities opens, as you can see on inviteroute.github.io/sheet/

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xormetric @tentacle.expert [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 15:03 UTC

(the specific 16 year old i'm referring to was 14 when he started, but of course not everyone can be so lucky. some of us started at 18. just a bit under half the age you claim "nobody under knows what a bittorent is anymore")

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xormetric @tentacle.expert [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 15:01 UTC

"nobody knows how to torrent anymore :( :(" piracy communities are overflowing with teenagers. right now, 16 year olds are on the top private trackers uploading content just for fun, providing orders of magnitude more value to the pirate economy than you ever have.

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xormetric @tentacle.expert [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 14:56 UTC

lol lmao

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xormetric @tentacle.expert [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 14:45 UTC

reporting a user on matrix reports to your own homeserver and not to the reportee's server?? i run a single-user instance and i'm obviously not gonna defederate :matrix.org, so like what's the point of a report feature? if it won't actually make :matrix.org remove the spambots it seems useless.

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xormetric @tentacle.expert [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 14:10 UTC

Right now pretty much all of the public trackers are dying. 1337x.to might be your best bet, there's apparently been malware in some game uploads but for other media it seems to be the most popular.

imo, check TorrentLeech's homepage once in a while to see if they've opened up free registrations.

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xormetric @tentacle.expert [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 13:40 UTC

haha yeah, bridgy fed's weird like that sometimes. i've seen posts just get dropped and never bridged (so sometimes if you reply to me i might just not see it, sorry lol). the usual pains of using beta software.

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xormetric @tentacle.expert [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 13:31 UTC

fwiw right now newshosting (which is on a better backbone than newsgroupdirect) has a deal for $2/mo unlimited if you're fine paying for a year right away
controlpanel.newshosting.com/signup/index...

and usenet absolutely is worth it *if* you don't want to join private trackers.

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xormetric @tentacle.expert [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 13:27 UTC

eh if you're going private you might as well join TL when it's open for free rather than pay for usenet­. drunkenslug just really isn't that good compared to the private torrent trackers.

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xormetric @tentacle.expert [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 01:48 UTC

company atproto pds with sso

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xormetric @tentacle.expert [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 13:55 UTC

right now this is like the only file in the whole implementation that's actually self-hosted lol (the rest is lua) but the goal is to gradually rewrite the lua into daul (which i can of course do because daul transpiles to lua)

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xormetric @tentacle.expert [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 13:51 UTC

itself

github.com/TechnoJo4/lu...

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xormetric @tentacle.expert [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 18:39 UTC

alternatively, this isn't something i'd recommend for high-traffic usecases like a media server, but you might be able to survive with Tailscale Funnel; that'll give you a devicename.randomname.ts.net domain

but if you're only hosting for yourself, there's no need for tunneling, go plain tailscale

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xormetric @tentacle.expert [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 18:35 UTC

you can get a domain for very cheap, for example a .my.id domain costs $1.69 per year according to tld-list.com

and tunneling is basically what VPNs that support port forwarding do, and that doesn't need a domain. idk if you can afford airvpn tho. probably cheapest you can get is a BuyVM $3/mo box.

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xormetric @tentacle.expert [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 18:26 UTC

ethereum maybe but i've lost all hope of bitcoin getting better at this point, bitcoin people are extremely stubborn about not wanting bitcoin to get better in any way

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xormetric @tentacle.expert [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 17:59 UTC

i may be #1 pow hater but honestly bitcoin's energy usage does not worry me pow depends on demand much more than pos, and bitcoin's choice to not scale means that, as more and more people actually use crypto, bitcoin becomes a worse and worse choice. bitcoin can only stay the "top" coin for so long

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xormetric @tentacle.expert [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 11:38 UTC

yeah that's what I meant by "locale's private trackers"

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xormetric @tentacle.expert [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 11:37 UTC

the chinese private trackers are part of those exceptions which are actually easy to join from the english private trackers fwiw but, while I think I might have heard of swedish tracker, I don't think I've ever seen an invite thread... maybe it's pay-to-join? that's not rare for regional trackers.

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