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ultratiem , 2 days ago

Their claims cannot be verified. So no, you can’t “trust” them on anything more than their claims. Which can’t be validated. So…

ultratiem , 4 days ago

🥱

ultratiem , 5 days ago

It’s DDGs primary search engine

ultratiem , 5 days ago

People still use that malware of a client???

ultratiem , 5 days ago

Tixati, Deluge and Transmission are also good, modern clients

ultratiem , 5 days ago

Interesting theory. A fancy way of saying the press aren’t super sleuths or credible reporters with all the facts.

I’ve been involved in about 4 incidences that made the news. None of them. 0/4 were remotely accurate outside of the total sum of the event (there was a car crash involving two vehicles). The broad strokes are there but that’s about it.

But then the news is a money making enterprise that has no real incentive to report the news impartially or even accurately. It kinda cuts into their profits (real reporting takes time, money, resources).

The take home is the shit you see on the news is essentially “based on a true story”, nothing more.

ultratiem , 6 days ago

Sony has always treated its customers like absolute trash from the get go. As a kid, I had a stereo that ended up dying. They weaselled out of the warranty. Flash forward to my Sony headphones where one ear died and they did the same. Forward again to my Ericsson phone whose screen died due to “water damage” (the markers were triggered by a friend who worked in their repair department said all phones on high humidity zones were always triggered because back then phones weren’t even dust proof). They sent it back refusing to fix it.

Since then they have been on my embargo list. One of the worst companies for caring about their customers.

🖕

ultratiem , 6 days ago

I don’t think it was on purpose, but who knows what their facilities are like. Maybe their phones are built in a literal sweat shop lol.

In any case, it was a ridiculous thing to use to weasel their way out of a repair given how unreliable those markers are. I would definitely have taken as much evidence as possible and reported it to the consumer watchdog in your country.

Again, 🖕Sony

ultratiem , 6 days ago

Yeah another stellar case in point to show Sony would rather you eat glass than have to do anything for you.

Let’s not forget the ridiculous court case against Geohotz for jail breaking the PS3. They pulled out every dirty tactic they could in that suit. Really showed their colours and how they actually “fight” in the court of law.

Scum of the earth.

ultratiem , 6 days ago

We let Google self regulate. We let Facebook self regulate. We let Microsoft self regulate. How did that turn out again??

ultratiem , 7 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

Give it another 10 years, you won’t “own” anything. It’ll be “licensed.” Weird tho. Digital content is endless. But you can’t consume it into extinction; physical things are finite, but we’re like here take it! It’s yours! Call a cop or shoot anyone trying to take it.

Seems backwards to me.

ultratiem , 7 days ago

And a myriad of fake ones piggybacking off the original URL to JavaScript your mouse clicks into link backs so it takes 8 clicks on a link to find the file is dead anyway.

ultratiem , 7 days ago

lol. You give an ad spot way too much credit

ultratiem , 7 days ago

Look man. A private tracker is a bunch of dudes that run a website. That’s it. It just so happens the site hosts torrent links. It’s not Google with billions at its disposal to craft sophisticated surveillance level tech.

Most of the time things like maintaining a good ratio, banning for hit and runs, etc. are automated, done by bots. No person wants to search databases for single users.

With that said, assume admins can and will see things you post, even DMs. But that’s about it. Access to torrents on the tracker are all automatic too.

99% of private trackers use it to generate money. Either they have a deal with seedboxes, VPNs, or find others ways to monetize the site by donations, etc.

That’s it. Just use a VPN to protect yourself from actual legal threats. Don’t worry about the tracker as a vector.

ultratiem , 7 days ago

Using Wipr on iOS, which has no special abilities other than blocking ads using EasyList and don’t have any issues.

Also, I don’t see why thetvdb would be so aggressive given their content is crowdsourced.

ultratiem , 7 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

Right! Google acting like they are losing billions a month due to adblockers when in reality it’s like .2% of their total profits and they STILL foaming at the mouth.

🖕

ultratiem , 7 days ago

Pioneeers in the field 🙃

ultratiem , 7 days ago

I dunno, they seem to always find innovative ways to screw, well, everyone.

Wait…

ultratiem , 7 days ago

Yeah we can all see thru them like my cousins underpants

ultratiem , 7 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

If you want Jellyfin to fetch media from a rapidgator or megaup URL, then nope, haven’t seen anything like that.

It’s a bit old but here’s a pretty thorough list of their plugins: reddit.com/…/list_of_all_known_jellyfin_plugin_re…

And: github.com/awesome-jellyfin/awesome-jellyfin

JF supports all the Arrs suite, so you may be able to do what you want (stream media) in other ways. For example, doing it all on JF yourself and then creating accounts for your family. You would be the admin setting up the content and they would just log in and consume it.

ultratiem , 7 days ago

Lmao Fox News. Who reads their crap

ultratiem , 7 days ago

Shockedpicachu.jpg

ultratiem , 8 days ago

Read your EULA; they aren’t responsible for any data loss.

ultratiem , 8 days ago

Why are people weaving social media and the internet into a single thread? The internet is so vast, social media makes up a tiny sliver of it.

The real problem with the internet isn’t Facebook or Twitter or Reddit, it’s the fact the entire experience is pretty much controlled by Microsoft and Google. As they shape your content, lock you out of areas and generally dictate what’s “legal” or even what gets found during your searches.

It’s no longer an information superhighway but rather turning into a giant storefront. And that’s the problem. I search for anything and the first 3 pages are Amazon link backs. Or fake websites with AI generated content used only for ad impressions.

Facebook and the like definitely erode some parts, but as a whole, there is way more fuckery going on by big tech.

And this isn’t even mentioning the tracking and fingerprinting and violations to privacy and security we are all promised.

ultratiem , 8 days ago

Yeah not saying they aren’t shit. Just that the internet isn’t just social media. I surf with mullvad blocking all nuisances (social media included) and I don’t even really feel its effects unless I actually try to visit facebook.com or equivalent.

ultratiem , 8 days ago

I worry about that shit more than I do what social is doing. The fact Meta, Google, MS, etc can control actual parts of the internet is just beyond wild to me.

Go capitalism 🙃

ultratiem , 7 days ago

Apple is a hardware company. Over 90% of their cash comes from hardware. Latest figures show that about 6-8% are from services. Aside from making a browser that’s quite popular on mobile, they really have little to no control on the net.

Their partners certainly do, but they are not a software company. They have nowhere near the impact Google or Microsoft do because those two are both service companies and both actually control and own giant slices of the net. Google has shaping the net’s infrastructure for decades now.

Not saying Apple doesn’t influence in other ways, but is just a spec compared to the companies that actually own parts of the nets backbone.

It’s going to be like old telecom soon, where the companies that own the physical lines have all the control. And that’s scary. I don’t want kids growing up using Google Internet or Microsoft AllNet to access the web.

ultratiem , 7 days ago

Yeah what a future! Literally everywhere you look or turn, there’s someone yelling in your ear for cash. Can’t wait 🙃

It’s honestly wild that our species has gotten here. When are we setting up on Mars again??

ultratiem , 8 days ago

At this point I’m pretty convinced Zuckerberg eats about 2-3 babies a month.

ultratiem , 8 days ago

Christ who funds them Google? What a farce.

ultratiem , 7 days ago

The entire scientific community isn’t what people think. There is so much corruption or bias, it’s absurd. But I agree, every peer reviewed paper needs to have its top 3 sources of funding right there is the title. And we need to keyword them so every article Google or Microsoft have ever funded are right there in plain sight. And not some forgotten footnote.

Leave it to capitalism to mix everything with money and subsequently greed 👍

But then governments do this on the daily too. My first year bio prof left her job testing water samples for the government because she found things. Bad things. And they didn’t bring them findings to light, they suppressed them and told her to forget about it (applaud her for having the backbone to leave!).

Thanks for coming to my ted talk.

ultratiem , 8 days ago

Hugs mullvad

ultratiem , 9 days ago

I’m sorry when you say most, you mean all right? Right??

ultratiem , 9 days ago

Yeah despite Yahoo trying like hell to kill the platform, its user base has steadily grown since. 2014: statista.com/…/unique-visitors-on-tumblr-in-the-u… (about half of its user base is in the US).

ultratiem , 11 days ago (edited 8 days ago)

It’s more of a long term strategy to reign in control of how people “consume” the internet. Google wants an ad on your desktop. They want your browser to stop, just like YouTube videos, to show you a brief 20s ad spot.

They are embolden now because they have amassed a massive user base with Chrome and all its ill gotten derivatives. Which is sad that everyone trusted this sleazy company.

And yes, when we revenue drops, that tends to focus an ad company. With that said, they have only been increasing ad spots and their length over recent years and that has not had the impact from your data. So…

But yeah, all these companies are just working tireless put locks on the net to force you into more subscriptions, which are what companies are all about. Passive incoming has always been absolute gold.

ultratiem , 11 days ago

Oh they don’t want to kill it, just own it 🙃

ultratiem , 11 days ago

Torrents are registered. Only people who can access the private website get access to the torrent. It’s much harder for the bottom barrel legal teams that just sit on them recording IPs, like they do on public ones.

They can certainly get into a private tracker but will be found before long. This also depends on how the private tracker is run and by whom.

Use a VPN when doing illegal shit. Don’t leave to a shady website.

ultratiem , 11 days ago

My friend worked at Best Buy corporate some ten years ago. He got the corporate discount at stores so we went to check it out. Most of the big name stuff had almost nothing. So their margins were pretty thin there (not to say those companies couldn’t sell their products for less just that BB wasn’t getting most of your cash).

But for their in-house stuff like anything Insignia, the cost of a $20 HDMI cable went to $4. And that was a discount so BB was still making something.

I’ve started to become super jaded about discounts, especially at grocery stores because now I’m not looking at it like “wow I’m saving on eggs” but rather “so you’re probably overstocked and want me to bail you out or you’ll lose a shit on of profits if these go bad”.

ultratiem , 12 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

On Windows 8.1/10/11, right-click on the Windows start menu and select PowerShell or Terminal (Not CMD).

Copy-paste the below code and press enter irm https://massgrave.dev/get | iex

You will see the activation options, and follow onscreen instructions.

That’s all. Registered till you make a sweeping change to its hardware with a real license from Microsoft.

ultratiem , 12 days ago

This guy doing gods work, literally open up a shell, copy pasta, get a full license from Microsoft lol

ultratiem , 12 days ago

MS servers cannot detect the difference as they are issued just like real ones. It’s literally a real, free license lol.

ultratiem , 11 days ago

7s but who’s counting 🙃

🖕Microsoft

ultratiem , 12 days ago

Incredibly shortsighted too

That’s business. Cash now. The rest is fuck you, cash now.

ultratiem , 14 days ago

Or you know have the sense god gave goats and be able to see the neon sign as they have been blowing out Amazon home devices for years. Now they need to recoup that half decade of losses. Buckle up.

Honestly, this is why we are here. I get it if you use their delivery because getting stuff can be hard depending on the area. But this stuff, where there are half dozen competing options… come on.

ultratiem , 16 days ago

The entire “pOePle wIlL CAncEl if itS Ez tho” mentality is the same as “if you don’t keep people in the office at their desk and monitor them, they won’t get work done.”

All it did was force others to adopt the same practice and now no one can’t get out of anything smoothly. Maybe 1 out of 10 as a delete button. And even then, that’s just account deletion on the front end. Nothing about all the data they have stored.

flips water bottle

ultratiem , 16 days ago

I really wish government would crack down on this. Every regulatory entity should be on this because it’s nearly impossible to actually get your data deleted. Let alone even send a request without hurdle or hassle.

And everyone is like ya no this is all fine privacy buy iPhone… *flips water bottle

ultratiem , 16 days ago

Samsung has prep courses that funnel kids from high school into university where they come out with a job. It’s designed to basically fuel Samsung’s employee head count year after year.

Some ten years ago, they swept graduates and through them into rooms with dangerous chemicals. With nothing more than a mask.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Promise

But it pretty much the same here in NA. All of my computer classes were Microsoft heavy. I mean intro Computers spent a third of the course on Microsoft Office ffs.

Companies have educational institutions under their thumb and have for decades.

ultratiem , 16 days ago

You can’t use Facebook privately. There’s no such thing.