Correct me if I’m wrong, but wouldn’t you also end up exposing the IP of every peer on that torrent to anyone who joins the swarm, even if you masked the tracker and stats or whatever?
Like, IIRC that’s kind a requirement for how torrents work in general, and so this idea would be making all activity on private trackers public, and I’d have to say that seems like a really, really stupid thing to want to do given the current situation where corpos are going after infringers again.
You talking modern stuff, or are we talking 90s Tiger Electronics games here?
80% of all BSODs I’ve traced back have always had a root cause because of some shit piece of software fucking around in the kernel
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I’d like to second the ‘manufacturer doesn’t matter, all drives are going to fail’ line, but specific models from manufacturers will have a much higher failure rate than others.
Backblaze, for example, publishes quarterly(ish?) stats showing the drives with the highest failure rates in terms of percentages, so you can kind of get a good view on if there’s a specific drive model you should maybe avoid.
Or just buy an actual enterprise drive, avoid SMR, and have backups is also a sane approach.
The problem is that if you’re working in any of the big tech companies we’re talking about, at basically any level, a substantial portion of your compensation is stock.
The dude writing the code and the CEO are sharing the same set of incentives, if not the same value ($) of incentive.
It’s shockingly good at taking otherwise decent people and flipping the moral center off because now you’re deeply deeply invested in value extraction via stock prices, regardless of what you have to do to get there.
I’ve had more than a few friends turn utterly unrecognizable and defensive over shit they absolutely would have thought was gross as fuck in the past, except now they look to make six or even seven figures from it, so whatever, it’s fine. If not them, then someone else, and they might as well be the ones to cash in.
So you’re not wrong, but stock options are shockingly good at getting everyone’s goals and desires aligned and while I don’t have enough of a supply of tinfoil to think that might actually be the point of giving everyone options, eh, I’d be shocked if it wasn’t at least an understood outcome.
Well, I don’t think all the guys writing the code and building the servers are dismissing it outright: there’s no question the MBAs and c-suite are, but they’re worthless fucks in general. (Sorry MBA havers, but it’s true and you know it.)
The tech bros just want the money and are willing to be as amoral as they have to be, but that’s going to last only and exactly as long as they’re getting overpaid and are being bribed into not caring.
Ultimately these guys (probably) have sufficient power to force change if they really really wanted to, but it’s firmly a case of change-will-hurt-them and so… they listen, but do nothing.
tech community isn’t listening
I know I’ve posted basically this comment before, but they’re listening.
They just don’t care.
Nothing that’s been enshittified has hurt their stock options or base pay or caused massive layoffs, and until all (most?) of those become true, they’re not going to care.
Their customers keep eating the shit sandwich, they keep making $300k a year, and getting option refreshers, so nobody is going to rock the boat.
So as someone who grew up in a very very Republican family, that’s only half true.
They’re not pro-life or anti-life, they’re sublimely indifferent because they’re certain they’re immune to the consequences.
They’re not going to have a pregnancy that risks the life of their wife. They’re not going to end up unemployed and without health insurance. They’re not going to get arrested for a crime. They’re not going to have a shooting kill their kid. And so on.
It’s a weird mix between ostrich syndrome and just plain denial of reality: they live in a zone where nothing bad will happen to them, but on the off chance it does, it happened because they deserved it.
Being republican requires a lot of the same worldview that being abused by a narcissist requires, which makes the fact Trump is STILL popular a lot easier to understand, IMO.
And, to make it worse, even if a horrible thing happens, they’ll STILL refuse to change their views, because well, what are the odds it’d ever happen again? They’re sure it won’t, so they’re safe.
As a far too personal experience, my 13 year old cousin got his uncle’s gun, and ended up shooting and killing himself accidentally.
Now you, a normal rational person, might go ‘holy fuck! we shouldn’t have guns left laying around where any kids could possibly ever get them!’, and I’d agree.
I’ll let you guess exactly what the rest of my family did, instead.
You can’t change their minds, because you cannot argue against blind faith that nothing bad will happen, or at least it won’t happen twice.
So yeah, their policies will kill lots of people, but it won’t kill their family, so that’s not even a factor in their thinking because you don’t matter to them.
Doesn’t look like they went to an Office Max/Depot or Staples either, which honestly, would be my first stop for printers and printer accessories these days, since printers have very much fallen into just office-use shit and that one damn thing a year you have to print because some jackass is still stuck in 1988.
I mean, the first thing my grandfather told me about guns - the very first thing - was that you never, ever, under ANY circumstances ever fucking point it at something you do not want to kill. Ever. Period. For any reason.
Now, I might not expect some random person to maybe have any sort of proper handling training, but a fucking ex-cop? C’mon.
Eh, going to disagree that Aliexpress == Temu.
Not that I’m saying Aliexpress is a paragon of virtue, but Temu is full of dark patterns, scammy “discounts” and just nonstop playing games trying to get you to buy now, refer people, and “win” shit. It’s a gambling app that happens to sell toxic trash as a side gig.
Aliexpress really has cleaned their shit up and basically sends you what you expect to get, when you expect to get it, and has made refunds for blatant bullshit (I had to return some clearly counterfeit remarked chips) if not easy then at least something you could actually accomplish.
So, the moron pointed a gun at her head and pulled the trigger?
I mean, uh, yeah, this outcome seems exactly like what you’d expect to happen.
Hopefully he doesn’t manage to avoid all the much-deserved consequences because cop.
It’s the only actually consistent thing they do.
Evangelicals are big into the redemptive suffering bit, so making their own lives miserable at least aligns with their stated beliefs. (Nothing else does, though.)
knock off garbage these days
Yep. I actually order more junk from AliExpress than Amazon now, because it’s the same shit except AliExpress is half the cost so if I’m going to get junk at least I’m paying junk-level prices.
(This is mostly components and other hobby-related stuff where there never really was any difference between AliExpress and Amazon, other than faster shipping.)
So politely, how does Amazon offering a better price on a niche paper product conflate into them having a monopoly on the “tech industry”?
I’d posit the real thing here is that Amazon’s warehouses allow them to keep less-purchased products around in stock that a brick-and-mortar retail store simply wouldn’t bother with at all, but that’s been the case for decades at this point.
And, yes, printing out images has become an uncommon activity and I can’t say I’d blame any of the larger stores for only having a single expensive option available, but that’s their decision, not Amazon’s.
I think there’s been some confusion here. They’re pro-life, but only their life. For everyone else, you get a thought and maybe a prayer and a “well, it must have been god’s will”.
And after a good rain, the real estate listing can start talking about how it’s newly lakefront property.
The other dumb thing here is X pushing back via the first amendment when multiple district courts have ALREADY ruled and thus set case law and precedent that copyright infringement does not qualify for first protections.
Like I’m not sure why they’d take a tact they probably knew wasn’t going to work other than to preen about protecting user rights, but doing it in a way that wouldn’t work?
Blue Cross is also part of the problem
They’re probably your entire problem.
They were my previous insurer, and yeah, they sent letter after letter after letter after letter after letter after letter after letter after…
My current insurance? I get exactly zero letters in the mail about anything: it’s all digital through their portal and email.
Well, given how torrents work, yes, because you have to.
When you’re downloading, you know the IP of everyone you’re downloading from, and they know yours because that’s how the internet works.
If an anti-piracy corpo hops on the swarm, they’ll be able to see the IPs from all the peers as well.
So, TLDR: yeah, public anything is stupid when simply knowing the swarm exists and being able to connect to it is sufficient to provide enough documentation for everyone involved to get screwed.