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Like… which scene groups or individuals?
Don’t really have a particular favorite, although Subsplease is pretty snappy for anime if you want it as-it-releases.
Otherwise, for groups focused on US/UK/European media, whatever’s got the quality range I’m seeking and preferably a season pack all from the same group/same quality.
For sure, a fridge is a really bad one to be using on an actual ungrounded GFCI, exactly for the reason of risk of expired food.
I like my homeserver but if something trips and its offline for a while it’s not gonna ruin my day.
The battery can be recharged eventually unless it’s already be discharged many times or it’s left alone and dead long enough to kill any ability to recharge it.
Install GFCI plugs. [1]
Buy a small, appropriately sized UPS.
Profit?
Disclaimer: Am not actually electrician. Just know this about GFCI from electrician friends and pointing to a decent explainer.
GFCI plugs can be installed without a ground wire. https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/225370/i-live-in-an-older-home-without-ground-wiring-is-it-safe-to-install-3-prong-gfc ↩︎
Cloudflare can still go bad, but its usually for high-capacity users who are using way more than the average. I haven’t seen any homeserver users get hit with any trouble, but I’ve seen a couple small businesses have bad situations with Cloudflare, although it honestly seems like the minority.
Cloudflare has issues but for most its probably fine.
i always have good success with libgen.is
People like this are jerks who only share their library with people who already have ultra rare shit. They want to trade rare for rare.
They think they are special for their collections and their actions are anti-thetical to the entire piracy ethos.
I would ignore them and keep searching for another source because its unlikely you have anything they will willingly trade for.
It’s dumb and I can’t stand those people.
But it makes me laugh when they have their collections locked up but other people are freely sharing what they have locked up.
The stuff I don’t want to share… I just don’t share at all. No reason to make it frustrating.
Public Libraries are struggling and looking for relevance in the modern world. Libraries brought us the Dewey Decimal System, and early attempt to “categorize all the world’s information and make it useful,” as was Google’s claimed original goal.
A coalition of public libraries and data-scientists seems like the path to me. Libraries are already in the business of categorizing and organizing information, sooooooo.
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/bookworm-the-new-version-of-raspberry-pi-os/
So reading around it looks like Raspberry Pi Foundation now suggests TigerVNC because its optimized for Wayland and the newer version of Raspberry Pi OS (Bookworm) is all Wayland now. RealVNC is not optimized for Wayland and now is pulling this shit on Home users.
I haven’t tested this myself yet, just found it through some quick searching.
How-To Set Up TigerVNC on RPi OS Bookworm: https://picockpit.com/raspberry-pi/tigervnc-and-realvnc-on-raspberry-pi-bookworm-os/
But this How-To seems to recognize the reasons why the changeover is happening and what RPi Foundation suggests to use, so it seems like a good place to start.
TigerVNC also seems to be Open Source and unpaid, so it seems like a valid replacement option for the moment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TigerVNC
It looks like Bookworm is supported all the way back to the Pi 3B+ which is good news for me, specifically. Sounds like its some hoops to jump through in the Raspberry Pi OS Imaging Tool to get it to happen, but it’s there.
I am unsure about TigerVNC support for previous versions of the RPi OS, but its maybe still possible for older models.
I think the main reason this comes as a Fuck You to a lot of folks is that this came with (don’t know if it still does) Raspbian/Raspberry Pi OS as the default VNC software. So a lot of hobbyists might have not thought about this in a long time and are suddenly facing needing to set up SSH suddenly because the VNC they were using is now off the table. (Makes me glad I defaulted to SSH+keys pretty soon after learning how to use it)
It probably should have never been bundled as the default for a hobbyist operating system. I guess we’ve seen the writing on the wall for the Raspberry Pi Foundation making bad moves for a while now.
Related: Some people prefer the Nicotine+ client for Soulseek. I personally prefer the classic one myself, but I’ve met many who prefer Nictone+.
There was just one on May 3rd. Upcoming ones are on September 6th, October 4th, and December 6th.
Unlike Spotify, if I download the music, I get to keep it. It doesn’t disappear from the streaming service because of licensing issues. Even if it disappears from Bandcamp itself, if I already have a local copy, I get to keep that local copy.
For 15 years the only way I could listen to 3 Feet High and Rising by De La Soul was to listen to the rip of a CD I made years earlier, because licensing kept it off of streaming services.
Spotify can and will remove music from their library. Bandcamp can’t remove my files from my PC and various backups. It’s the equivalent of having a physical copy, but in digital format and is transferable and able to be backed up.
Some of us still prefer Bandcamp over Spotify since artists actually get paid worth a shit from it, but that’s just me.
I’ve been trying to find this interview with Mark Hossler for over a decade. It was around 2006-2008, it was pre-youtube and hosted as an mp4 file on someone’s blog… I have been unable to find it, nor have others. If you can find it easily on YouTube… it’s not the interview I’m talking about.
Anyway, it spoke deeply on this point. I’ll try to make my best summation of what Hossler discussed in this interview.
Basically, his position on art and how you can have “control” over your art was this:
If you want to control your art: Keep it in your home, don’t take pictures of it, don’t post it online, keep quiet about it and maybe let people who enter your home view it.
The key is this: All human minds function on copying and memetics. We inherently “copy” ideas that we see in real life, without even thinking about it. Taking this a step further, anyone who wants to “copy” your art can simply do so by viewing it, internalizing the details in their mind, and then (if they’re a talented artist) recreate your art themselves.
In other words, there is no real way to have complete control over your art short of locking it inside of a box and never showing it to anybody. The act of sharing it with others means you’ve put the idea of that art into their mind, and if they wish to do so, they can absolutely copy it. There is no stopping this act, this is innate to how the human mind functions, learns, and adapts.
So if you want “control” over your creations, you better not be sharing them with anybody.
Once you’ve shared your creations (art or engineering) with the world, someone out there will be capable of copying what you did. Further, with billions of people on the planet, someone out there will be capable and willing to do it.
The point I personally think Hossler was making is that in sharing something at all, you’ve already destroyed any of your own attempts to control the use of the idea. Stop trying to control your creations and instead hope society will do it’s best with them.
EDIT: Downloaded and shared on Soulseek, so now there’s at least two people sharing it on Soulseek.
I’m in a queue to download it on Soulseek. m4b format all right? I think that’s the iTunes audiobook format.
I fucking swear people. Soulseek is still ridiculously useful for finding more obscure shit.
I know it’s old and insecure as shit, but holy fuck it still works and you can find shit you just can’t find elsewhere other than maybe USENET.
EDIT II: It’s even good for scene releases if you know the exact title.
Soulseek Download: http://www.slsknet.org/news/node/1
Soulseek Alternative Frontend Nicotine+: https://nicotine-plus.org/doc/DOWNLOADS.html
Please have co-op, please have co-op, please have co-op.
System Shock 2
Need a remake of this waaaaaaaaaaaaay more than System Shock 1.
Someone should download this just to run Wireshark on it to see what it’s actually doing…
Everyone needs a Gary in their life.
I’m happy to be the Gary for my less technically inclined friends. Their lack of knowledge would get me kicked off private trackers if I invited them so they could curate their own collections, so it’s just easier to be the guy who makes it easy for them.
Be like Gary, sharing is caring.