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Killingyouguy! posted:A million years ago I had a crunchy roll account and recently they decided I needed marketing emails 3x a day so I clicked unsubscribe and the page is loving broken and won't unsubscribe me from poo poo You can forward those to the FTC at spam@uce.gov or report it at https://www.ftc.gov/complaint to get them fined up to $50k per email for not having a valid unsubscribe link e: assuming they're actually marketing emails covered by the CAN-SPAM act and not one of the allowed email types (e.g. they're allowed to notify you about changes to their ToS) deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 22:02 on Dec 4, 2023 |
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Salt Fish posted:And you can't think of any downsides or other applications for this technology that might not be worth skipping the checkout? It’s way faster than going to a counter and standing in line, the only downside is that it’s a gamble whether the hot dog you get is going to be a just cooked one or one that has been sitting out all day. If you’re talking about having my movements analyzed by a shitload of cameras? I genuinely don’t give a poo poo, there are probably more cameras in the stadium itself doing some sort of bullshit terrorist detection analytics (read: racism)
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skooma512 posted:That's what a VPN is for. 10 years ago I'd only get these if I tried to get something that was from HBO or something, it's more common now. As long as you present an IP address that isn't yours, no more letters and no enforcement actions. I've been using a seed box. I get 6TB of storage, I don't need to manage my own bandwidth and theres no risk from my ISP. Theres no need for a VPN and I don't have to keep my computer running to seed files for trackers that care about that. It's great.
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I haven’t gotten an isp letter since torrents were invented most because I don’t torrent. Get a years worth of Usenet for 30 bucks around black Friday, donate 5-10 bucks to an indexer for a lifetime subscription, and download sonarr and radarr. Please just stop using torrents it’s a bad protocol invented for bad things. Much like self checkout
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It's been a real long time since I've used Usenet so maybe it got better but it used to be a huge PITA. Searching for anything was an annoyance and it was super common for files to be incomplete. Torrents aren't ideal but at least it's usually just the one movie file and not 60000 rar files oh and 3 are missing so it won't unrar.
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800peepee51doodoo posted:I've been using a seed box. I get 6TB of storage, I don't need to manage my own bandwidth and theres no risk from my ISP. Theres no need for a VPN and I don't have to keep my computer running to seed files for trackers that care about that. It's great. How much does this cost per month? I pay 5 bucks for mullvad VPN, but I also don't have any private tracker memberships anymore so seeding isn't a priority ATM.
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skooma512 posted:How much does this cost per month? I pay 5 bucks for mullvad VPN, but I also don't have any private tracker memberships anymore so seeding isn't a priority ATM. I pay 22/mo but do need to seed and the storage is a great part of the deal. If you don't need either, the VPN is probably a better deal. I started using a seed box because my partner at the time hated having the computer running all the time and I just stuck with it because it works well for what I'm doing.
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MrQwerty posted:I worked nights before and through COVID and I'm a night person anyway so I kinda just resigned to the fact that self-checkout was my future a long time ago and didn't care; half the time I can punch TOMATO or BROCCOLI into the lookup just as fast as it takes a cashier to look up the code in their book if they don't have it memorized, and I know how to bag groceries. All I want is to have a better system than, "treat me like a criminal, press a call button that may or may not work, then wait for 15 minutes while one of the three people working responds to unlock 3 different cages because I need to buy shampoo, body wash and toothpaste, then takes all that stuff to the self-checkout so it turns into a negotiation over which contraband is mine, also it's just simply not allowed after 8PM." Preferably one that isn't "drive 10+ miles across town to go shop at a rich white people version of the same Kroger." To me even worse than this is that many less-lovely grocery products are simply not available in poor people grocery stores. The huge selection of Private Selection spices as the Stonebridge Kroger are completely absent from the one in Raleigh. Want actual Parmigiano or Romano cheese in Raleigh? 
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shazbot posted:I haven’t gotten an isp letter since torrents were invented most because I don’t torrent. You're not wrong, but calling torrents a bad protocol is a huge lol: NNTP is hilariously terrible for transferring binary data, and pars/yenc/uuencode/base64 is the nightmare result of that. The only reason it remains in use is the legacy fig leaf of usenet providers being considered ISPs under the DMCA.
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Skinnymansbeerbelly posted:You're not wrong, but calling torrents a bad protocol is a huge lol: NNTP is hilariously terrible for transferring binary data, and pars/yenc/uuencode/base64 is the nightmare result of that. The only reason it remains in use is the legacy fig leaf of usenet providers being considered ISPs under the DMCA. Oh lol no you are absolutely right on that account. I was more meta posting about ratios, and peers, and getting Rick rolled and what have you. But some macguyver protocol that’s been grandfathered into “oh, no, we don’t need to worry about that” is definitely the way to go.
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Rochallor posted:Can't seem to find a source but I recall from back in the day that media companies were able to sue torrenters for huge amounts of money based on the premise that they were seeding pirated material to hundreds or thousands of people. So it's not that direct downloads are legal, it's that they could only sue you for $15 or whatever the cost of the DVD is and that's a complete waste of time. Can they even track direct downloads? Like, in Germany torrenting is potentially a huge risk because there are some law firms that camp public trackers and if they see your IP downloading something they'll send you a fine for like 3000 euros or whatever. However, they don't do poo poo if you illegally stream something or just directly download it, and I assumed that was simply because it's harder to determine if you're doing that. Surely they'd be able to get the ISP to fork over that information if it was readily available, but I don't know if that's how it works
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Kit Walker posted:Can they even track direct downloads? Like, in Germany torrenting is potentially a huge risk because there are some law firms that camp public trackers and if they see your IP downloading something they'll send you a fine for like 3000 euros or whatever. However, they don't do poo poo if you illegally stream something or just directly download it, and I assumed that was simply because it's harder to determine if you're doing that. Surely they'd be able to get the ISP to fork over that information if it was readily available, but I don't know if that's how it works This is a consequence of how torrents work. If someone adds their computer to the swarm they can see your computer connect to them for uploading/downloading. In contrast if you directly download content from a server only you and the server operator have a direct simple record of what you downloaded. Security is a sliding scale not an absolute. If the CIA wants to know what you're doing on the internet they're going to find out; it doesn't matter what VPN you use. However, if the MPAA wants to find out what you're downloading their toolset is a lot more limited. Torrenting on a public tracker is so insecure that even the MPAA can figure it out, but the direct download would require the police/warrent/etc in advance of you getting in trouble, and whos going to bother with that?
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YouTube has been recommending worse and worse videos so I finally deleted my entire viewing history to make a fresh start. The terrible videos immediately got ten times worse. I thought my recommendations were messed up but they were actually holding back the sludge.
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wash bucket posted:YouTube has been recommending worse and worse videos so I finally deleted my entire viewing history to make a fresh start. YouTube has gotten way, way, way worse in general the last few years
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Yeah, the first thing I see when I turn on the TV app is a sticky ad for some weird church. They must be paying a fortune to yt.
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I made a post in another thread about people who complain about self checkouts and was roundly dismissed for making up a strawman but these people exist!!Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Their dream is this shopping experience:
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Self checkout is bad because using computers is bad. The end
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I don't know why but I was thinking "I wonder if any alt-right redditors have issued redubbed Rick and Morty season 7 episodes using an AI Justin Roiland voice" and I googled it and yes they have.
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People complain about what what a hell customer service is and that nobody should have to do it. We got what we wished for as far as I'm concerned.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I made a post in another thread about people who complain about self checkouts and was roundly dismissed for making up a strawman but these people exist!! Thanks for bringing it here too
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Should I not use a free VPN?
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Vpns cost money to run, especially if they have high throughput/traffic. You're paying for it somehow, you should probably figure out how
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iirc in the US, auto parts stores and shoe stores are the last vestige of stuff being behind the counter and you gotta tell someone what you want and they go in the back to pull it from inventory, which is imo the correct right holy and just method of brick and mortar shopping, and automation efforts should be seeking to emulate that experience rather than the sixty or some odd year old supermarket style arrangement that's become the default
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Sentient Data posted:Vpns cost money to run, especially if they have high throughput/traffic. You're paying for it somehow, you should probably figure out how Free ones also like to restrict torrent traffic.
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Cactus Ghost posted:iirc in the US, auto parts stores and shoe stores are the last vestige of stuff being behind the counter and you gotta tell someone what you want and they go in the back to pull it from inventory, which is imo the correct right holy and just method of brick and mortar shopping, and automation efforts should be seeking to emulate that experience rather than the sixty or some odd year old supermarket style arrangement that's become the default
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nice obelisk idiot posted:Purchasing a bunch of stuff at a huge industrial supply store is really satisfying, because it kinda feels like sending someone on a quest. You mean like when you have to get a large amount of foam?
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I was personally thinking of electrical stuff, but a huge quantity of foam would be great.
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Outrail posted:There's a certain demographic who sees this as the deep state trying to sheeplize the populace and will resist it at all costs (until its personal inconvenient). they're enslaved to a car note, gas, insurance, and maintenance, they're already sheeple
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This could be a fluke, but YouTube is showing me more than 6 results again. Ads and shorts and stuff are still baked in there but now it goes from "previously watched" back to actual results for my search going endlessly, instead of just pure algorithm poo poo
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800peepee51doodoo posted:It's been a real long time since I've used Usenet so maybe it got better but it used to be a huge PITA. Searching for anything was an annoyance and it was super common for files to be incomplete. Torrents aren't ideal but at least it's usually just the one movie file and not 60000 rar files oh and 3 are missing so it won't unrar. Yeah old usenet is pretty much a completely different beast from modern usenet. Instead of .torrent you're downloading .nzb instead of trackers they're indexers, instead of paying for vpn and maybe a seedbox, you're paying for a newsgroup/private indexers. Big named popular shows will get taken down, but they get uploaded frequently enough and have enough indexers that if you're using a download file manager such as Sonarr/Radarr it'll catch it. The applications deal with checking and finding a new nbz if the one you have has missing chunks on the newsgroup you're using.
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credburn posted:Should I not use a free VPN? Free VPNs are usually not 'real' VPNs - usually, it's just routing traffic through other free users instead of hosting their own end points to bounce traffic off of. So, while you are getting 'free' service, you are also acting as a routing point for other users on the VPN network which can be Extremely Bad, depending on the circumstance. So yeah, I'd stay far away from anything that markets it as a free VPN.
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mawarannahr posted:They are one of the most likely to be a CIA front. It has received funding from Charles River Ventures and is supported by FONGIT (the Fondation Genevoise pour l'Innovation Technologique) and the European Commission. well, poop. Salt Fish posted:The CIA isn't going to snitch on you for torrenting Breaking Bad. doesn't mean i want to send em money
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Salt Fish posted:This is a consequence of how torrents work. If someone adds their computer to the swarm they can see your computer connect to them for uploading/downloading. In contrast if you directly download content from a server only you and the server operator have a direct simple record of what you downloaded. Cool, that makes sense. I will continue committing crimes in a way that no one really gives a poo poo about. Probably should get a VPN one of these days
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If you want to be extra paranoid some vpn providers let you buy codes. I use Mullvad https://www.amazon.com/Mullvad-VPN-...73-0e5c1a776d5d it has a mole with a helmet. Use to use Surf Shark but canceling involved making a support ticket, and while they didn't jerk me around that is a lovely way to run your business.
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Killingyouguy! posted:I've never used a vpn and I haven't been arrested yet Was in the news in Finland of people who had torrented stuff got sent claims for like 500€ from law firms. It was left unclear as to how legal it was and the people caught were fighting it. But I'd rather not deal with it. I use Mullvad now.
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credburn posted:I rarely pirate anything but occasionally I have. My ex said any time she ever tried, she'd get an e-mail from her ISP basically saying "SAW THAT! Don't do that again!" but I never have. Maybe she did it way more than she let on? I pirate so much, but my ISP doesn't care at all. Local (previously municipally-run, now owned (at least in part) by some private company that owns a few other small, local ISPs) fiber, and tey also don't monitor traffic at all. Honestly, because it's been owned by a private company for so many years now, I keep expecting it to get worse, but...it hasn't. Granted, I know that part of the contract they had to abide to when they took it over was no price increases, speed decreases, etc... for X years, but I'm pretty sure they're past that point. I pay $55/month for dedicated 150 Mbps symmetrical service... if I wanted 1 Gbps, it would only be $70. It looks like they've also recently offered a 300 Mbps plan for $65. I've never felt like my ISP was my chokepoint at just150, so I've never felt a need to upgrade. It's been $55 for the 150 plan for over ten years, I do expect to get a letter one day saying it's going to $80/month for a 10 Mbps plan or something, but fingers crossed hasn't happened yet. https://twitter.com/bubblegumoctopu/status/1731568478505611419 Another result of retailers opening up their online storefronts to third-party sellers.
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Always a treat when people who have never had to use a generator panic about a completely normal piece of equipment being sold
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:Always a treat when people who have never had to use a generator panic about a completely normal piece of equipment being sold There are much better and safer ways to hook up a generator.
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DrBouvenstein posted:https://twitter.com/bubblegumoctopu/status/1731568478505611419 How is this an instant death cable?
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