southsamurai

Die? It’s not going to die any time soon, on a corporate level.

It’s already dead in the ways that made it worth using.

Yeah, that’s been a thing for ages. All the way back to tapes being copied because my parents had the best double tape deck out of anyone I knew. Vhs tapes of skinamax (skinemax? Idk how that should be spelled lol) movies, or regular ones being swapped around.

I still swap files in the same way. Well not the same I don’t use magnetic tape lol. But yeah, if someone wants something, and I have it, all I need is something to put it on. Since I have a disc burner, it doesn’t have to be a drive, though they’d need a drive to access anything on a disc, which gets less and less common. I don’t loan out thumb drives to just anyone, but I’ll usually be glad to copy files to theirs. Hell, that’s actually my preferred method for swapping files. It’s faster and less prone to hassles than p2p methods.

Me and my best friend serve as each other’s off site storage too. He keeps a drive with important/hard to replace files with me, and vice versa. When we visit, we’ll swap out with a second drive that’s updated. Ends up with triple redundancy, since there will be the last drive at each other’s, plus the second drive that’s being updated between swaps, as well as the original files on whatever device is the main source. I have another drive like that that I swap out at my sister’s.

Most of those drives we swap aren’t media, though there is some of that, what with hard to find stuff being easier to keep multiple copies of instead of trying to hunt down again. The media files, those are open to copy off, so it’s a form of sneakernet in that regard, rather than only being backups of stuff of our own.

Well, just glancing at it, it isn’t discord. It doesn’t connect to discord servers at all.

What it does is replicate discord, in a way that allows users to still make use of things that discord users are already into. Bots in particular.

So discord won’t have access to anything that goes on at all, unless you’re using something that also connects to discord.

Pop-ups and fake notifications would have more to do with the client you’re using than the back-end would, so if you use a client that does those things, I wouldn’t bet on that changing.

The caveat: I’m no dev of any kind, so I can’t say anything about the actual code, I’m basing this on their own description. I linked the page to my cousin that sometimes will give a quick scan for hinky shit for me, but there’s no telling if or when he’ll do so nd get back to me.

Tangential.

Kosa would be a huge impact to all internet activity, and that puts the subject under technology laws/politics.

Afaik, the C/ allows tangential tech subjects, it doesn’t have to purely be hardware and software, things that effect our ability to use technology fits.

Edit: double checked, and the rules don’t exclude tangential subjects.

At what point today did you decide to be a dick for no good reason?

Was there something going on in your day that made you so upset you couldn’t just scroll past and only think the snide comment instead of typing it out?

I’m not just telling you that you were a dick, I’m genuinely asking what went wrong. Maybe if you vent a little, you’ll regain the self control and feel better.

Eh, you can, but they’ll eventually catch on if you do anything much other than passively scroll.

You can try getting in via a VPN, but you end up with the ip addresses of those getting obvious after a while, which sometimes means they very banned as a block.

Since you said you want to go back for contact with a group of friends, if you do get back, don’t do anything other than contact them to arrange other means of interaction.

Nah, if you can mod an app in the first place, it wouldn’t take you long to bypass this.

You gotta check torrents, soulseek, and i2p sources. The more obscure something is, the less likely you’ll find it on the one-stop sources.

There’s never any guarantees with any of them, but it you’re patient and willing to check regularly over a few weeks, I find soulseek to be the best bet for the really obscure stuff. The problem is that not everybody that hoards obscure files stays online constantly, so you have to spend the time on finding things before giving up on it.

Yup, that’s how I do it tbh. I’m on mullvad and unwilling to switch at this point. Kinda sucks, but that’s how it is

People answer phones?

It’s a meme among people that know me that you pretty much have to leave a message if a text won’t do. I genuinely can’t remember the last phone call I answered. Thinking back, it was when my dad was having surgery, and they give calls with updates. That was maybe three years ago?

But I’ve been doing that since I got my first answering machine back in the nineties. I fucking hate talking on the phone. Even as a teenager, if it wasn’t someone I was having sex with, it wasn’t going to be a long call. The only exceptions were my two best friends, and my grandmother. One grandmother just didn’t call to chat. The other only called rarely, and you don’t fucking ignore your grandmother. Neither grandfather was going to call either. My mom’s dad would drive over if he wanted to talk about something with one of us. The other was dead.

There are two people I would answer a call from, my wife and my best friend. But they’d never call outside of an emergency because they know I hate phones for talking. I probably would for my dad, but he hates phones almost as much as I do.

Same here lol

You responded to the post as a top level comment, rather than to the comment that was talking about the email

Yup, they’re 100% correct

They also suck

Caught a typo/autocorrect error

It’s throe, not throw. I’ve yet to run across a keyboard with throe in its dictionary. It’s weird what niche words get put in and which ones don’t.

I still regret selling mine.

This particular article and the study it mentions are kinda dubious in conclusion. They just didn’t generate enough data, imo.

But, that’s whatever.

Anyone want some anecdotal shit followed by an opinion? If so, read on. If not, well, don’t.

So, I’m a writer. Not a successful one in the usual sense, but I have a pretty good sized body of work, and I actually have a few fans.

So, I got published years ago, back in the oughts. Didn’t sell for shit. Couldn’t even talk family into buying copies. Total flop, but part of that was the small publisher and lack of support marketing.

So, fast forward to maybe ten years ago? Maybe fifteen, can’t really recall. Point being that I was reworking the old books, writing new stuff, etc. My homie, Spider, wanted to read my stuff, so I just passed him epub versions. Dude moves them into his books folder that grts shared via soulseek.

Now, it was at least a decade since the published books were out. But. A few weeks after he tells me he “fucked up”, I start getting emails from people that actually read my shit, and wanted to read more.

Some of those people actually bought a different book via amazon. I got more sales to pirates than I ever got through normal methods.

My opinion? The zone in which piracy is going to hurt an author is narrow. When you’re small enough, even a 1% conversion of pirates to paying fans is awesome. And, when you’re big enough, even 1% loss of paying customers is a drop in the bucket you’ll never notice.

But somewhere in the middle, there’s a range where the lack of sales that would otherwise happen can be the difference between writing for a living, and not making a living at it.

But I’d still rather piracy exist, because I hold the same philosophy as that game dev that said culture shouldn’t only be available to those who can pay for it. That’s a paraphrase, and I can’t remember the guy’s name. But it’s the same reason I gave copies of my print books to libraries in the area I live. I would rather people be reading, have access to material, than make a little extra.

Fwiw, I barely made enough off of any of the traditional published books, or Amazon sales, to equal about two weeks pay at my job as a CNA. Total, over years lol. I made some damn good money doing custom fiction, and research & reporting back in the day, though.

Eh, I’ll wait for a better version.

I watch things fairly often, and so far, I haven’t lost anything that was oop before I could make a copy (which is why I go through them, even if it’s just background noise while I do other things). That’s the flow chart; pick the next one, check to see if it’s still available, if it isn’t either rip it or download it, then watch to verify the physical.

But, thank you very much for looking out :) That’s a genuinely cool thing to do

Lmao.

Mine is small, since I have a shit ton of physical media going back into the eighties

So, only about 3 tb, most of which is music in lossless formats. But, I also purge video that I don’t watch at least yearly, so it could be bigger.

Preach!

My block list is long enough it lags my browser when I try to scroll through it.