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  • How do I torrent safely in the US if I can't afford a VPN?

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  • Torrenting on TOR is actively discouraged for a reason. It will also be slow and exit nodes are probably in many blacklists, so you won't get good seeds.

    If you want to torrent over a shadownet, use I2P. It allows torrenting (the Java I2P client even includes torrent software). It also has its own internal trackers. And due to the way it works, you can tunnel traffic for others without risk of getting flagged for something illegal or other people's torrents (which happens with many other TOR alternatives that allow torrenting).

  • On websites or apps, how often do you tap on something that you didn't intend to ?

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  • Disclaimer: never use Brave browser, it's really bad. The CEO is an asshole, and they promote crypto and scams, while still showing their own ads. They also got caught sneakily adding affiliate codes to URLs. (https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/)

    Use firefox or any firefox derivative with ublock origin (yes, even on android)

  • Webp

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  • Yes, and no. No app will display the image if it wasn't already capable of displaying webp, period.

    However, there are many places (mainly websites where you can only upload certain formats, but it can also be apps) where the underlying infrastructure supports webp, but they do a simple extension check first with a list of file extensions that doesn't include .webp. In those cases, changing the extension to .jpg will get the image through the filter, and the underlying system will detect the format using the magic number at the beginning of the file.

    The same thing can happen when your OS has no associated app to open .webp, but the app it uses for .jpg can also display .webp.

  • The McDonald's employee who called on Luigi has never received their "reward", folks chasing the 100k for Kirk may not either...

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  • It can't be luigi because he was at my house at that time.

  • Discover Hidden Gems: Open-Source Software You Should Know About

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  • Music

  • Does a vpn really matter when torenting? Do people care?

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  • Ask people from your country, or look online to see if torrenting is prosecuted there. If people don't get letters from the ISP, you can just enable encryption in your torrent software and forget about it.

    I've been torrenting without VPN for a decade (Spain), and never had any issues, not even traffic slowdowns.

    Edit: You're probably gonna see a lot of advice to always use a VPN. Most of this advice is from US users, who are not used to torrenting without VPNs. The truth is, as with everything, it really depends. I'm not a fan of generalized answers to questions, and the same advice isn't as good for every situation. VPNs are a barrier of entry, and they also come with a slowdown. If you're starting to torrent and VPNs are not necessary in your country, don't be afraid to torrent without one. But of course, if you're from the US, you'll have to use one!

  • Stop using a browser that violates user freedom and privacy!

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  • Mv2 is not a website API, it's a browser API, only used by extensions. It tells the browser how the extension wants to deal with the sites. No matter what methods and APIs and standards the sites use, Mv2 would still be able to do what it does now.

  • Stop using a browser that violates user freedom and privacy!

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  • Firefox will not drop Mv2 support in the forseeable future. It is a huge burden to keep the standard for all chromium forks, but firefox and firefox forks do not need to carry that burden. In the far future, web standards and technologies might change enough for Mv2 to not be effective, but that is a long time away, and depends on how the technologies and standards evolve.

  • Stop using a browser that violates user freedom and privacy!

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  • Notes worth making:

    • Mv2 will not be deprecated in firefox or firefox based browsers
    • Adblock plus is not the best adblocker extension, even for Mv3. uBlock has made a version that works with Mv3, called uBlock Lite
    • Even though Mv3 adblockers exist, they will always be worse than Mv2 adblockers, because they have a limited set of rules.

  • Cracked minecraft: where the heck is it? How do I obtain it???

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  • TLauncher was caught with malware

  • Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone

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  • Publish schematics with every piece of hardware you make. Paradise for repair technicians and retro tech enthusiasts in a few decades.

  • Hey! Now that Lucida does not work, what should I use for Spotify?

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  • Lucida already didn't rip from spotify, nor does doubledouble. Try to get your songs from another service if they're available (Qobuz and Tidal usually have good availability and high quality)

  • Which distro does Linus Torvalds use?

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  • Last I heard is that he compiles the kernel on an AMD machine (with a threadripper iirc), so he also has a beefy desktop.

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    I use Ubuntu btw

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  • I've been looking for that version for years, but for some reason I can't find it anymore

  • 𝗠𝗲𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 needs to be updated

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  • Probably the port forwarding was automatically set up by UPnP, which is also something that can't be done on a vpn without port forwarding. If you have a tracker, the torrent might also work, but then the tracker itself would have to be port forwarded.

  • What are the modern design trends you hate most?

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    • Rounded corners. Everywhere. They lose so much space, especially on small screens, and everything feels crammed.
    • No personalization anywhere. You used to be able to completely customize social media profiles, to the point of editing your page's CSS directly.
    • Modern OSes (except linux or BSD based ones which are not android) also have no color or personalization. You usually have the slabs of white on light mode, or the slabs of blak on dark mode, with only one color you can choose for some details.
    • JavaScript animations on every. Single. Website. I have an old phone (because I don't like modern stuff), and it struggles with almost every modern, animated site. Is it really necessary to add all that js and animations?
    • No headphone jacks or expandable storage on modern phones. It probably costs cents to add those features. I know phones don't usually have expandable storage because it makes you buy a new one once you fill all your storage, and I know they don't have audio jacks because it makes you buy the company's wireless headphones, but I need those features in my phone.
    • Why does everything have to be a web app now? Have people forgotten about actual softwate, that you own, that doesn't need internet to work, that uses almost no resources and is faster and has more features than a web app? We got everything backward. Sites that should be webs like reddit will ask you to download their apps, while microsoft will try to code Word in javascript and sell it to you as an "upgrade".
    • I hate subscriptions with passion, especially for software.

  • Is that bad?

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  • This is true, especially for games. But for some reason, even though some compatibility features have been removed from windows, others still remain. Hell, if you look into System32, you can still find the dialer app from windows 95 (still with its original icon, btw!), or Windows Vista's "bubbles" screensaver, and they still run.

    Edit: this is not a windows praise, it's a critique. Those parts are dead weight, and windows isn't even that good at offering compatibility for old software

  • Who are some people in powerful positions or 1%ers that are genuinely good people?

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    • How is that good for climate change?
    • Nobody listens to this guy. Have you been recycling just cuz Gates told you to? Also these kinds of yachts pollute so much with a single trip that it outweighs any good that he could have done by convincing millions to save electricity or water.
    • I don't need to know him well. It's not rocket science.

  • Who are some people in powerful positions or 1%ers that are genuinely good people?

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  • What Gates is doing right now is a massive publicity stunt to make people believe he's actually a "good person". He is not. He is still a disgusting billionaire that contradicts everything he preaches.

    • He is constantly buying farmland, to the point where he's the biggest land owner in the whole US. This is seriously harming small farmers.
    • He preaches about climate change and using cardboard straws while in his massive ($650M!) mega yacht
    • The "humanitarian/healthcare" stuff he did, while helpful, was only done because he could use it as a tax writeoff. He wouldn't have done it if it wasn't the case.

  • Lemmy get this straight, the bottom 5-6 files will always get errored out unless I have a fresh installation of this Pre Installed game ?

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  • No. Hardlinks and CoW filesystems are different things.

    I don't know much about hardlinks on windows, but hardlinks usually are two different inodes pointing to the same file. This means, for the user, a single file appears duplicated, but without using any extra space. However, both files are really the same one, so if you modify one, the other one also gets modified.

    CoW filesystems, on the other hand, are a bit more complex. When you store a file, its contents get first stored, and then a file references them. When you copy the file, a copy of the reference is made, and there is no need to copy the content, because it's already there. If you modify one of the copies, the difference between them gets stored (the modified content), but other parts of the file (or files in a folder) that don't get modified are not duplicated.

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    But it saves 0.003 seconds!

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    It's missing some railings though

  • Programmer Humor @lemmy.ml
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    They had a paid break, right?

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    A platypus?

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    🧙‍♂️

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    WD-40 and some tape are the only tools you need in this life.

  • Programmer Humor @lemmy.ml
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    It also smells nice...

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    The future is now, old man

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    That road is as smooth as a tetrahedron.

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    Birds are even worse...

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    At least it's not a bethesda game...

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    Plane goes brrrr

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    Lies, deception

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    Pizza time