Unless you’re an independently wealthy jackass, I’m not sure how you can attack non-FOSS software users. I am a software engineer and I get paid to write software. I write some code for fun at home too and if people use any of my projects Im delighted. But if you want bug fixes and reliability and consistent new features and updates to apis and I have to listen to your bullshit complaints about how XYZ is better, you bet your ass I’m gonna charge for that.

It’s like a baker making bread who gives out a few loaves for free at first. You don’t get to complain if 100s of people show up demanding free bread and he starts charging them. Maybe communism is a system that demands people work for free, but elsewhere you’re entitled to whatever wage the market will bear.

Weirdly enough I’ve met a few other people who are weird enough to share their toothbrush with me

There are many people for who working isn’t the meaning of life.

“Woke” means whatever anyone wants it to mean at any time.

Or is the theme of the movie about awareness of systemic racism in the US justice system? Haven’t seen it myself

Yes but the thread would not have made sense if I hadn’t added my follow up questions to your original question

Not really but I do notice that sometimes my ISP with throttle me and it stops when I use a VPN, so I just usually use a VPN (and never torrent local anymore, it’s like waiting for a snail to deliver your amazon package).

Sure, there’s a huge variety among private trackers. Googling “buy private tracker invite” shows 10s of different sellers. some tracker invites can be $150 because they’re gigantic communities full of content and don’t send out invites often. Some of them are cheap enough to throw in as freebies when you buy something else.

What’s really nice about buying an invite is splurging the extra $10 and getting a built in 500-800GB of quota with it (really you’re buying the account itself). Then you don’t have to “work your way” up as long as you keep seeding whatever is popular.

Make an image of your SD card if you haven’t already. Better yet run the OS over USB. sd cards to die.

appreciate the advice, would make it less aggravating. Which one do you recommend? I’m on newshosting and have no problems that aren’t just general usenet problems.

I’m just gonna to invite you to google this and see where it takes you. Might not be up your alley, might be a compete gamechanger: InviteHawk

They’re running in a datacenter in the netherlands with a ridiculous amount of bandwidth. I did find out they’re classified as an “isp and web hosting company”.

All our Dedicated Servers have 1Gbit connections with a dedicated 1GigE uplink.

I’d also guess that many of the seeds on any torrent (on a private tracker) are going to also be coming from seedboxes. That might explain why it’s so fast too, there is tons of bandwidth between the datacenters themselves. I’m definitely throttled at 100MB/s regardless of how many torrents I’ve got running (1 or 100), but if they’re running 50-100+ instances along with dedicated servers they must have tbps of bandwidth.

So long story medium, unless you can install your home server into a datacenter with a multi terrabit link to the backbone, it will be tough to replicate

How did they taste? Hopefully they were still crunchy

I’ve used it for 15+ years and it’s a huge downside. Older content used to be widely available, but more often then not anything popular is removed within a few months of posting. It is actually pretty great for obscure content that won’t get taken down. It’s cheap but a whole new thing to learn. It is faster than torrenting directly to your own computer but a seedbox blows usenet out of the water as far as speed. 50-100 MB/s easily (at least using private trackers).

Usenet was great 10-15 years ago but nowadays it’s flooded with fake / private downloads and retention is shit simply because the few remaining backbone providers comply with takedown requests. Absolutely useless for older content by any major studio. It’s all new stuff which is mostly garbage anyway. We were able to get a ton of “this old house” recently though.

It turns out if you have a library card you can get tons of free audiobooks. I don’t think it counts as piracy but there are other ways to get free books.

No but this isn’t really limiting sales of the book in any way. I buy real used books, I buy new books sometimes. I go through a few audible credits a month. I also pirate books if I feel like it. I’ve had books I bought and gotten rid of, then years later decided to pirate it and read it again. Anyway used books are so ridiculously cheap it’s very rare for me to buy a book new, often it’s a gift for a friend.

I also use ChatGPT almost every day, and while I have asked it for the summary to a book I didn’t feel like reading, it has never once replaced “reading a book” in my life. You can also get the summary to most books on wikipedia if that’s all you want.

My gf got several letters and I started using a VPN. Easy peasy. No problems.

Now I’ve moved to seedboxes (seedhost.eu) and private trackers. First I buy an invite to a private tracker (if you spend like $20 you can get an invite to one of the less prestigious ones and like 500gb of quota). This is kind of a process since private trackers are 1000% against selling invites so it’s kind of a “marketplace” forum type deal. Not a 1 min paypal transaction. Took me a couple days to get my first invite.

Then use that tracker on the seedbox which has a few tb disc. Then I sftp in (I have used the app Forklift for many years and highly recommend if you’re on a Mac, it’s amazing) and transfer down.

I get like 7 MB/s through VPN which is alright for me and even without a VPN, it’s just random traffic coming from a server. You aren’t torrenting from your machine so there’s no issue.

To get quota on the trackers, you can either buy an invite that includes some quota or build it up yourself. The seedboxes I use have like 100 MB/s upload speed so you’d just download some super popular (freeleach if possible) torrents and then seed for a while. If your invite comes with some quota, likely you’ll have more quota than you know what to do with. I bought an invite with a 100gb quota and now I have like 4tb of quota.

The downside is cost which might defeat the point of pricy for some. I pay like $6 a month for my instance. But if you’re willing to pay for a more powerful instance you can run Plex directly and stream everything if you wanted. I download locally and put it on my local Plex server.

My gf says this. But when I eat spicy food, it doesn’t interfere with the taste whatsoever. I also love the taste of really hot coffee when I’m eating something spicy. Something about the double burn really enhances the flavor.

I don’t remember the presentation, but luckily I did remember the concept and here’s an article: https://netflixtechblog.com/reactive-programming-in-the-netflix-api-with-rxjava-7811c3a1496a

It’s called “reactive” programming and that article goes over some of the basic premises. The context of the presentation was in front-end (web) code where it’s a god awful mess if you try to handle it in an imperative programming style. React = reactive programming. If you’ve ever wondered why React took off like it did, it’s because these concepts transformed the hellish nightmare landscape of jquery and cobbled together websites into something resembling manageable complexity (I’m ignoring a lot of stuff in between, the best parts of Angular were reactive too).

Reactive programming is really a pipeline of your data. So the concepts are applicable to all sorts of development, from low level packet processing, to web application development on both the front and back end, to data processing, to anything else. You can use these patterns in any software, but unless your data is async it’s just “functional programming”.

Follow up questions: Were you saving up the shit for 3 days for the sex party? Or was it that you didn’t want to shit at a sex party? Was it a personal decision or a house rule? And was that 3 day shit afterwards more enjoyable than the sex party itself? Sounds amazing

I’m using Memmy and it’s great so far. Now I’m kind of wondering how to get a more diverse feed