I am looking for a girlfriend who is kind, caring, funny, ambitious, and who has at least 16GB of RAM.
Please respond, with a photo of the RAM.
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My cat would get so mad at me for cold weather. I don't know what he thought I could do. ๐ธ
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if only we EVER knew what the cat is telling us ..
Cat: "Hey, let me in again, that was enough nature for today. I did my part. Oh come on, don't give me the look, you know i'm moody!"
That look. It carries an ultimatum with it.
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same energy
Ask the ktty "how'd that work out for you?"
I saw exactly that in St Andrews, Scotland, some time in the 1980s.
credo che abbia capito che ci ho provato ma รจ evidente che le condizioni sono estreme e che una bufera da un momento all'altro potrebbe portare via ogni cosa.
Ovviamente atterrerei da applauso e ritroverei la strada di casa ma certo non potrei garantire di non raccontare la terribile esperienza a tutti gli arredi della casa, e sai quanto essi siano sensibili ai miei racconti.
Ovviamente atterrerei da applauso e ritroverei la strada di casa ma certo non potrei garantire di non raccontare la terribile esperienza a tutti gli arredi della casa, e sai quanto essi siano sensibili ai miei racconti.
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My cat would get so mad at me for cold weather. I don't know what he thought I could do. ๐ธ
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@kimlockhartga Miss Cinnamon holds us personally responsible for bad weather
@purplepadma ha ha ha. Do you think that they see us as all-powerful? It's cute in a way.
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A friend's toddler was furious that it was raining when she wanted to play outside. Her dad explained to her that Daddy can't actually make it stop raining, and she glared at him and spat, with icy toddler rage, "You โฆ didn't โฆ even โฆ TRY!"
A friend's toddler was furious that it was raining when she wanted to play outside. Her dad explained to her that Daddy can't actually make it stop raining, and she glared at him and spat, with icy toddler rage, "You โฆ didn't โฆ even โฆ TRY!"
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"why did not you tell me enough times snow is cold, human?"
"I thought you'd warm it up first. None of this is acceptable."
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โซ a cat version of the famous ducks running out into the cold and then turning around and running right back again
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Yeah, maybe not ๐ฅถ
I strongly assume AI slop in this picture
about 10 steps further into the snow than our cat used to go
Didnโt like it, now let me in!
Wasn't that AI? Something dawns on me that yes :/
Although my memories may be wrong...
@Gryficowa I have a download date of 2022-03-02, so I don't think this is, but why must these AI chums make photos like this when there's so many original cat pictures like this to share. โน๏ธ
That was me taking out the garbage last night in the snow in my pajamas (I was briefly locked out).
@Andres4NY Oh.. Oh no.. ๐ง
I mean, it was ultimately fine (although brr, cold fingers!)
me: *knocks on closed window*
8yo: "What?"
me: "Please open the gate!"
8yo: "I can't hear you" [note - it was an old leaky shitty window, I could hear her just fine]
me: "OPEN THE GATE"
8yo: "I CAN'T HEAR YOU"
me: "GET MOMMY"
8yo: "MOMMY SAYS 'WHAT?'"
me: *angrily* "GET MOMMY OVER HERE."
8yo: "WHAT??"
(After a few more rounds of that, the 8yo finally brought her over to click the button to open the gate.)
ยซOPEN THE HOUSE DOOR, @catsaladยป
got that betrayal face of reality dude. ๐ฅน
cats are always on the wrong side of a door, so open!
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Self-hosting does not make your data safe.
If you don't put in place, review, *and test* backup and recovery plans,,and security measures appropriate to the risk, your data are not "safe".
Your data might be less affected by the whims of third parties, which can be valuable for sure, but don't confuse that with your data being "safe".
And I say this as someone who loves self-hosting.
Any "beginners' guide to self-hosting" which doesn't lead with, or at least focus on, security and resiliency, is getting it wrong, IMHO.
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The flip side of course is that if your third-party hoster claims to have safe backups they may simply be lying. (As OVH customers found out when their stack of containers burned down, and the backup servers proved to be just in the next container over.)
Funny, I was thinking yesterday that data back up and restore should be taught in school; along the lines that it doesn't matter if it's a big cloud provider or a self host, or a physical piece of paper.
First you have to think about what you have and then think about how much it matters if you lose it, then how you will protect it.
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also, when in doubt, RCE on anything in your network affects the entire network because 0 days happen and so does being too ill to update stuff
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It really does offer no more than a false sense of security sometimes. Professional hosting services are much more likely to have proper security defaults. I remember getting hacked in minutes when I first put my uninformed foot in the 'self hosting sea'. It is a process of trial and error for sure, but it's definitely not painless!
Self hosting is like growing your own food, or doing your own construction work. Some people rely exclusively on the professionals; others enjoy doing a little as a hobby, but rely on professionals for the rest; some people want to do all they need without anyone else being involved. But everyone needs to know a little about it.
do you have any suggestions for guides specifically on self-hosting security?
This is one of the reasons my first rule with self hosting is "don't expose it to the fucking internet". Use a VPN, Tailscale, whatever to access it remotely. That massively reduces the attack surface, but every day I keep seeing people asking how to port forward to their Immich or Jellyfin instance, and deep down I'm screaming to myself. If a zero day is found for one of these popular open source apps, there's going to be bots crawling within hours trying to exploit.
Back in the antediluvian days of IT in the mid-1980s, I was one of a group of 3 โinternal consultantsโ for BT.
We visited everyone of BTโs computer centres from Aberdeen to Portsmouth and Belfast to Ipswich and regularly tested the centreโs backup processes, media, and documentation.
We also tested its disaster recovery procedures which usually involved a type of โtable top war gameโ, but occasionally (and unannounced) weโd replicate some form of disaster which took out its hardware.
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I know that hardware is less of an issue these days, but does anyone now do anything similar?
Oh god security. It is too hard to allow specific access on Linux. A good tool would allow graphical review of ACLs and setting narrow permissions from a log file (e.g like pfsense firewall logs, if something is unintentionally denied is it easy to create an allow rule). The current status quo encourages people to set broad unintended permissions.
Yeah, I often say that, if you have the money, the time, the spoons, and the know-how, then self-hosting is the way to go.
As an example, I self-host my own node of my fave Social Media network (ie, this instance) - I've had occasional moments where I've done something comnpletely bone-headed and had to start again, or have come close to losing everything, but for me, that is half of the fun of it.
For other people - they might enjoy doing this, but more likely, they wont.
As another example, I do a lot of backups with NextCloud, but my wife pays for Microsoft 365 because that is much easier for her to use, being pretty much automatic, once I set it up for her.
I resent paying all that money to MS, but I also appreciate the way that both my wife and my daughter can back stuff up easily, meaning that recovering from a hard drive crash will be easier that the last time it happened!
As an example, I self-host my own node of my fave Social Media network (ie, this instance) - I've had occasional moments where I've done something comnpletely bone-headed and had to start again, or have come close to losing everything, but for me, that is half of the fun of it.
For other people - they might enjoy doing this, but more likely, they wont.
As another example, I do a lot of backups with NextCloud, but my wife pays for Microsoft 365 because that is much easier for her to use, being pretty much automatic, once I set it up for her.
I resent paying all that money to MS, but I also appreciate the way that both my wife and my daughter can back stuff up easily, meaning that recovering from a hard drive crash will be easier that the last time it happened!
i do need to get better at that. I self host loads of stuff, but my backup are within the same device (different hard disk though).
But it is such a burden to create a secure backup in a different location..
Before we had "the cloud", everyone was "self-hosting"; or rather, you'd run your programs locally, with your data saved locally, and you either had backups or you lost everything when your hard drive died.
The cloud is an improvement in that respect, but I still feel like 3rd party backups are something that should either be basic computer literacy, or even better part of any package (computer, OS, SaaS) you buy.
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Which is totally correct on one hand. On the other hand, this doesn't necessarily enable folks into independancy.
It's a hard job, doing it right...
The only issue with self-hosting is that we haven't taught people how to go about it. It's abundantly clear that we need to remedy this.
I agree that resiliency and flexibility, backups, security, and visibility are all critical and all interwoven. Let's teach people how to do it and break them free from the shackles of surveillance capitalism as much as we can.
That's why beginners and non-technical people would do best on managed hosting services, not running their own hardware.
My site at growyourown.services is entirely dedicated to managed hosting options for beginners.
It's not a binary choice of selfhosting or not, there's a spectrum of options between these where you get more control but also it gets trickier technically. Easiest is managed hosting, midway is something like Yunohost, hardest (but most directly controllable) is manual installation etc.
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You don't need everyone doing this, you just need small indie hosting providers doing this plus the ability for owners to switch their instance to another provider if one provider goes bad.
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@Neil Brown I have my own version of the 1-2-3 of backups: my server apps and settings are automatically backed up daily, then synced via Nextcloud to my desktop PC, my laptop, and (partially) to my smartphone. I've already used the setup to restore when I break things.
yep! While I may be capable of self hosting itโs not what I want to spend my time on, for years on end. I am trying to move off of big tech and also to have some redundancy. But even this is time consuming
respect 3-2-1 and the principle that if you have no tested restore you have no backups.
3 copies
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do you have any such guide, or guides, in your bookmarks? I find it's hard to enter that whole space if you don't know what the previous 20y of tech change were, and witnessed them all first hand.
I can absolutely understand why newbies reach for ChatGPT summaries there.
I like proxmox a lot. Once the host is setup you have a really stable system that should last forever until hardware breaks. proxmox includes automatic backups via cron and easy restore of containers and other backups. Snapshots function before you do something.
I have attached a NAS for backups and that is working fine for years now. So. Yes. Test your backups is an important step!
It is a battle I fight on a daily basis.
We provide secure managed hosting for small businesses, and the number of times I get to explain "what's wrong with the $5 VPS my nephew runs our business on?"...
( more often then not, these nephews don't fall in the experienced self-hoster category, and don't even understand the risks of directly internet connected servers )
I hear this advice all the time and I want to follow it but... *how* does one test backups? Is it enough to visually check the files are where you expect them to be, or should I be wiping by laptop and restoring from my backup drives every few months? (I assume there's some middle ground?)
all depends on the data that resides. For your eyes only? Air gap it and don't connect it to the internet.
I do wish there were more utilities with a GUI that were just reasonably secure out of the box.
I used to have a bit of software that let you do an encrypted backup to an external hard drive then take that hard drive to a friend's house and have the software keep it updated over the internet. Then that company went all in on their own cloud service and I don't think you can use your own hardware anymore.
regular backups to three different cloud services for me. I've lost so many things before that I learnt the hard way.
I pay a hosting company to "self host". It's expensive, but I get resilience and I can run a cron to automatically request a backup be sent to my Google Drive every evening. I've checked the backups and they are good.
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You can refuse to provide official ID or biometric data for social media accounts requiring age verification.
Actually, I bet if everyone did refuse, and let their account dormant for a couple of weeks, you would suddenly see American Big Tech transforming into the fiercest defender of your privacy rights, using their powerful network of lobbyists to fight these invasive government regulations.
They need you more than you need them.
Force them to work for your rights.
Do not comply.
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Let's hope it's a tipping point for online privacy in the mainstream.
"but my friends are there"
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@codinghorror YouTube just told my YouTube account that it's a childโwhich excuses you from the "personalized" ads, so I guess that account will never grow up
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@dmarti @codinghorror I thought most of us had Youtube accounts for longer than 18 years.
@rhelune @codinghorror I can see having a long-term account if you're uploading videos, but I only watch on there so it's not a big deal to make a new account every so often (I keep YouTube in its own container)
@codinghorror @rhelune I'm enough of a music algorithm avoider that I mostly find out about "new" bands from #questionableContent comics now (Early Man is good imho questionablecontent.net/view.pโฆ )
@grayabbott well how much money do you have
@codinghorror Probably not enough.
I used to buy all my friends on Temu, but now, you know, tariffs.
@codinghorror ain't it the truth. Navy taught me that.
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Change โfriendsโ to i.e. โpreschool parent groupโ or any other IRL ingroup, and try again.
Social connections are hard to migrate to alternative platforms.
Got an email saying someone had sent me a message on LinkedIn. Not been on there in years. They now want my passport ID. They can get teaโ shit.
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Good thing the Fediverse doesn't do that shit
I've long thought we need some sort of external union like structure to coordinate boycotts and strikes on social networks, so you sign up to the Facebook union and if a strike is called you stop using it. I don't use anything meta but my boycott isn't very effective.
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Discord - which isn't required to do this under Australian law - has just started demanding Govt ID etc. the same Discord which just leaked 68000 users ID documents, thus proving they are not to be trusted with anything. It is a dystopian nightmare of censorship, incompetence, and bad ideas
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Agorithmic platforms would be the only winners. And they are the enemy, quite literally.
i think the loss of the ar revenue would have them shittings kittens
this is why I like the identity validation system on infosec.exchange, proof of cat is sufficient to appease most of the admins.
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@BabblingGeek Proof of cat is an important system to appease the gods of the internet.
Proof of cat -> 
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Well, my StinkIn has been dormant now for half a year after they wanted me to identify myself with a government ID......
No, I'm not willing to provide one.
No, I'm not willing to provide one.
Unfortunatelly agree with that thing, id verification is not all-way cure.
One my friend has 2 PhD in math and physics and he does not have driver license...
And he does not want to get one.
Big Tech has no interest in our privacy. They've been stealing it for years.
They've been stealing peoples mental health too, at least now their cattle (users) should be old enough to make a better decision.
They've been stealing peoples mental health too, at least now their cattle (users) should be old enough to make a better decision.
I created LinkedIN account 3 weeks back. Tried to login today and BAM! give us your ID card.
There is no law in India as far as I know to provide ID card. This is so tiresome.
There is no law in India as far as I know to provide ID card. This is so tiresome.
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@driftingThoughts I deleted my FB app on my Handy yesterday as it wanted me to log in with more info! It is so very annoying, but I have stopped using all the others I was subscribed to as well. I refuse to give my data to further these sick oligarchic companies. ๐คฌ
Yes, boycott any corporation or platform that violates any of your rights. The power of American consumer is vast, but not used enough currently.
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I left FB 15yrs ago. Never regretted it. I don't use LinkedIn or Insta or TikTok.
95% of my friends message through Signal rather than Meta ie Messenger (FB) or WApp
One of my dearest friends refuses to get a Signal account and leave Meta/WApp bc she says "it's another app to download and they're all the same". Im in Aus. She's in UK. I don't want to lose touch but I want to close WApp.
Give me sthg WATERTIGHT to convince her Meta/WApp is fucked.
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The masses still don't understand how boycotts and protests work.
After a week of not logging into Meta or Twitter or whatever they'll give up on trying to find a hobby and submit.
Social media sites using biometric ID will absolutely be shared with state border services as evidence to deny entry or brutal detention.
Iโll bet Mark Wyner wonโt comply.
Probably lots of people don't want to be felt up...
That will be easier said than done, though it's absolutely doable. Considering the age verification laws (that's really digital ID) coming into play, they'll certainly backfire and be repealed if enough people cause a revolution over it (it'll have to be a quiet one at first, unless a civil war comes into play).
I'm refusing. Fuck that shit.
Im not into face scanning. It terrifies me. Coles supermarket here in Australia scans customers at the self serve check outs. I didn't realise till it was too late and I was on camera. So my face is out there. Customers weren't told prior.
Airports scan you now. Didn't ask for that either. Give me a human any day.
Doha airport fingerprints you.
Some fckwit like Musk will start pushing microchips in the next couple of years so we will all be treated like dogs and cats. Fuck 'em
I don't need social media. I like it, I use it, I don't need it. If it demands official ID then it can fuck off.
The problem is going to be, being forced to log in to specific services and provide official ID in order to carry out basic functions, even though companies have already verified your ID or the relationship wouldn't function.
We will be forced to comply.
And all of that is next to nothing compared to client side device scanning.
Goodbye privacy.
The problem is going to be, being forced to log in to specific services and provide official ID in order to carry out basic functions, even though companies have already verified your ID or the relationship wouldn't function.
We will be forced to comply.
And all of that is next to nothing compared to client side device scanning.
Goodbye privacy.
@jerry There is no way to do age verification without those harmful properties. They can't be separated. They're fundamental consequences.
On top of that, age verification harms children. It does not "protect" them.
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Pls admire the most #London photo Iโve ever taken.
Fox waiting for the last train.
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๐คช Don't be one of those lonely foxes
Waiting for a train that never comes
Even little dreams are aspirations
Outrun your limitations ๐ต
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Outrun your limitations ๐ต
ticket to Foxton no doubt
Thinking about one day working up the courage to talk to that one cutie at the pub.
what a cute friend!
@rail is this you?
Live action version of "Rivers of London" series.
Perfect!
This could only be improved if the next train goes to Watford via Bushey...
Where the fox is that station?
Glorious! What station is that?
Possibly a silly question, but... does the fox ride the train? (If I recall there's photos of birds in Asia who do ride the train, so not impossible?)
haha no, this one sauntered off before the train got there.
I am fascinated by urban foxes. I grew up in the countryside, rarely seeing a fox unless I went looking yet multiple times (especially in London) I've come across them, lounging about this slightly skittish teenagers
in my old house, we had a fox and cubs come to visit our garden one year and it was like an explosion of cute. Loved them so much. They were cheeky and very bold.
Beautiful!
The first ever vinyl I bought was the "Fox on the Run" 7" by The Sweet ๐ฆ
Excuse me, if it was a proper Londoner it would have stay behind the yellow line. Bloody foreigners coming here โฆ
having never seen a fox in context of things that I know the size of, the size surprises me. I thought they were smaller.
(They donโt exist in my country and Iโve never seen one IRL, only in nature photos where it is hard to judge size).
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They are shorter than most dogs, only about 2 feet tall.
still bigger than I had in my head for their size.
I love that this is a surprise to you. Foxes are so common here it kinda blows my mind and delights me to learn that someone wouldnโt have seen one. Theyโre cute. Scraggly fuckers, but cute ๐ฅฐ
We donโt have them in New Zealand. Nor do we have squirrels, so Iโve never seen one of those either.
Only one mammal made it here before humans, and thatโs the one native species of bat.
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looks like someone isn't minding the gap
Excuse me, that is the official station fox, please let them do their job.
Most major European stations have one.
Here's the one in Vienna: catcatnya.com/@navi/1156856101โฆ (h/t @navi)
Most major European stations have one.
Here's the one in Vienna: catcatnya.com/@navi/1156856101โฆ (h/t @navi)
@Navi
Are foxes super common there? Or are they something that's kind of novel if not rare?
I don't think I have ever seen a fox
yeah foxes are everywhere in London!
conjecture: it's not waiting for the last train, but for the mice and rats that scavenge the tracks after it.
If it was really London it would be foggy.
Same. I grew up in a rather smallish town but I had to go abroad to live in London for a while to see my first fox in the wild. :โ -โ )
Fox obviously not using the app and missed the message about disruptions to the line.
silly fox, the last train has already been cancelled because of weekend engineering works
Surely "Fox waiting for a replacement bus service" would be more London?
Waiting for his weekend date from the countryside.
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If you've been a Spotify Premium subscriber since it launched, you've given Spotify nearly $2000, and you own absolutely nothing.
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The exact reason I don't use it. Bandcamp is the way to go! ๐
@LightKind Shame though that Bandcamp's music player is kind of lackluster. I don't understand why can't I shuffle songs inside a playlist.
@warriormaster @LightKind Yea, it feels like Bandcamp missed a real opportunity there.
@warriormaster True but I just download all the songs I like so Elisa takes care of the rest. ๐
@LightKind I guess I just need to build a streaming server ๐
@warriormaster @LightKind It's easier than you might think! My Plex server has been a fantastic experience on a daily basis. I literally have my OWN Spotify now, and the Sonic Analysis / Sonic DJ features are so much fun.
@LightKind Yeah. I've been seriously considering doing it since I also want to host other stuff as well like pictures and project files. I just haven't had time to invest into buying hardware and setting it up.
on the other hand, you haven't been tempted into organizing a media shelf, and then rearranging it by color, genre, how much you like the album, etc. ๐
nothing but sadness and commercials for ICE. Could have had a full album collection.
well when you put it like that ๐
Also, youโve barely paid the artists you love by paying Spotify. But that Spotify CEO sure likes to invest fortunes in weapons. Your money.
I mean sure, fuck Spotify, but people don't subscribe to it to own music.
there's a second hand bookshop near where I live. Been getting CDs for next to nix. Can spend about $30USD and walk home with 10 full albums. Crazy the common folk are giving this up for bloody Spotify.
@bakuninboys My partner and I spent 30 dollars each to see a local band called Higher Funktion on our local music space #Heartwoodhall.
Imagine - a nine piece funk band with sax, trombone, trumpet, two guitars, vocalist, bass, drums, and keyboard putting out amazing grooves for our listening pleasure.
Imaging how many anonymous plays they would have to get on Spotify to get 30 dollars.
Instead they funkified 150 or so white haired white people who absolutely LOVED the show.
Support your local musicians!
@rhempel @bakuninboys this reply is equal parts wholesome and awesome. ๐
Exactly why I don't pay for streaming services. I use free Pandora on occasion to discover music, but then go out and acquire physical media where possible. I have thousands of tracks on hundreds of full albums, and I don't need internet to listen to any if it.
For that, at $20 each โ the typical pre-steaming era CD price โ you could have full ownership of 100 records.
@MisterMoo But for many years, you've been able to buy CDs for a few bucks each.
because paying for a service not ownership
thus is the deal you make for accessing an unlimited amount of content I suppose.
I've discovered so much new music on Spotify over the years. This year alone I've gone to 5 concerts from bands I'd never heard of before. $25 - $50 a ticket and then t-shirts.
And it's true I haven't bought their CDs, but I wouldn't have given them _any_ money if I'd not heard them on Spotify.
@kevinspencer The plus side is that those bands are getting WAY more of a share from your t-shirt purchase than they would from the CD.
well, not that i say i like spotify but i dont agree with this argument.
its like saying you rent a home instead if buying it, you own nothing but still benefit from it.
Ahhhh, so *that* is why I've never had a Spotify account! I knew there was some good reason. ๐
Man, I hate Spotify. Like, we had the perfect music thing with iPods and mp3s and such, where did we decide to throw all that out and go, "SPOTIFY IS THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE?!"
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@coffeethrowaway @VulcanTourist I donโt know when it happened, but I see a LOT of people going
Back to iPods and physical media.
And iPods? Still awesome in 2025 ๐
@coffeethrowaway @VulcanTourist (here, I would really like an alt-tag: what device is that? A modern Sony digital audio player?)
I recently pulled a couple of iPod minis out of a box, charged them and confirmed they still work. But I'm not set up to update & manage an iPod anymore, and I would sorely miss Bluetooth (I've always hated getting tangled in headphone cables). I switched from Mac to desktop Linux over a decade ago, and I'm planning to migrate from Android & Google services to an open mobile OS in the next year.
Whatever portable device I end up on, I hope I can find good music library software, because I want to leave YT Music behind. Which will be painful regardless. I've already been buying discs and digital music (and merch) directly from artists I want to support, but my (and my kids') addiction to playing just about any song at any time is a 21st-century luxury that's really hard to give up. And I'll never have time to rip all the thousands of CDs I already have.
Same for
Netflix
Paramount
Disney+
Adobe
Hewlett Packard
A whole bunch of new car features
ISPs
Telephony providers
Electricity providers
House rent
Car rent/lease
The list grows bigger every day.
for that price, I could've got a few #tangara and filled 'em up too!
It's kinda like having a girlfriend ๐
at the same time there more useless things we spend money on. and $2000 for 17 years is not "horrible". i just like the mixes and new music exploration
I've given exactly $0 to any streaming service. I continue to buy physical media, and it's mine until I die. It can also be given away day or passed along to my heirs to enjoy for years to come.
I switched to Tidal a couple of weeks back. The playlists and favorite tracks transfer was seamless. No Garmin integration but I can live without it.
Last year alone, Iโve given some $400 to my barber. Ended up with less hair than I had before, and gained nothing material in return. Still think it was worth it.
that's not entirely true. You actively destroyed/help destroy music and musicians lives, that's something you own now
plus the artist got mostly nothing, with most of the money financing fascism
came to the same realisation this week about Netflix โ if I'd bought all the Star Trek DVD sets six years ago, I'd probably have spent less money than I spent on Netflix in the same time, and I'd still have Star Trek (which they're pulling from Netflix)
@amberage *NODS*
It feels great when you have that realization. It seems like anything Netflix doesn't produce directly will end up leaving at some point. We've seen enough "streaming musical chairs" to know it's inevitable.
(Also, it's great owning shows like Scrubs on DVD because a BUNCH of its originally aired songs got replaced for streaming...)
Well, any service works like that, including train tickets, electricity bills and house rent ๐
One thing thatโs esp bad is when they make it impossible to cancel the subscription.
@davew DAVE WINER! What a joy to meet you here on Mastodon. Sir, you are one of my heroes. I'm the guy behind Insomnia Radio (one of the first 30 podcasts in the world) and I've been a podcasting fanatic ever since. Thanks for helping bring RSS and podcasts to the world.
thanks! ๐
the great thing about the web is we can all work together.
i've still got big plans for RSS, we need to get these systems really supporting it, not just outbound, inbound too. and supporting all the writing features of the web.
if you really appreciate the open tech, become an advocate. we can get a lot more interop from RSS than ActivityPub. It's simpler, and very much built-in, and thus gives far wider interop than any of the other possible formats.
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AP has boosts. I want that for podcasts. It's needed to provide a human democratic alternative to the algo that podcasters are taking advantage of by moving to video to be on YT.
AP has boosts. I want that for podcasts. It's needed to provide a human democratic alternative to the algo that podcasters are taking advantage of by moving to video to be on YT.
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that's like 100 CDs
@ciaran And CDs have been dirt cheap for years. Significantly less than $20 apiece.
Well, let's not be pessimistic. All that money has conveniently founded war initiatives, ruin the music market, leave musicians with almost nothing and fuel AI initiatives by which real artist are being replace by AI copies.
I mean... not everything is lost is it?
@TheBreadmonkey Itโs the same when you buy live concert tickets, though even music service haters are cool with that. The argument is a canard.
Besides, Spotify might be a horrible corporation exploiting music artists - but the whole industry has been doing that since recorded music was invented.
I like Soma FM(soma.fm) for discovery and I'm sure there are other options. I remember recording to cassette tape live FM broadcasts. Even kept many of the commercials as they were quite funny from the radio station I listened too in the 70s. When I had enough cash I started buying records, but the truth is most artists were screwed over by the record labels. Only way performers every made any decent money was live performances. So seems to me even its still the money men that fuck us all over with their greed.
That's why I self-host with Jellyfin. Actually own your media.
and in exchange Iโve enjoyed countless hours of music, discovered hundreds of new artists Iโd have otherwise never heard of, and had instant access to any song I want to listen to no matter where I am.
I get it, but ownership isnโt everything. Syncing music to an iPod and picking which songs you care most about that can fit on your device sucked. So did trying to find a CD while driving.
Streaming is good, actually.
I've switched to Bandcamp and occasionally Qobuz for buying music and I've setup a streaming app to access my collection, a mix of CD rips and digital that I've been accumulating over the years. Yet I still do 50% of my listening through online radios, like NTS, WorldwideFM, Soma and local radio.
good stat. I've been purchasing music & self hosting a Plex instance for for years, and using a free Spotify account for music discovery. I'm certain I've paid a lot less over that period of time
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@mlabowicz The Plex Pass is one of the best purchases I've ever made.
Spotify is awful for not paying artists enough and its ICE ads, but I agree with others that this argument falls flat. If your cable bill were $50 per month, you'd get a little over three years of service and not own anything; you could easily pay $100 more a month for electricity and not own anything. And $2,000 would only get you about 2,000 songs in MP3 format from artists that may not be on Bandcamp.
Plenty of arguments against Spotify, but this is a bad one.
Thats why companies love subscription based services
not wanting to spit on youe BBQ (an expression in my country), but now try to calculate how much money you have spent in rent. And you still have nothing.
people spend this on rent every month and still don't own anything
I download al my music from soulseek or torrent.
While I never had Spotify and never will, the same can be said for your ISP bill, your Mobile Bill and the accident insurance of your car. With a business model where you pay for access, there is little surprise that you don't gain ownership.
same is true for other streaming services. I own lots of CDs from my teenage years but I might as well not own them because I don't use them any more and they sell for nothing. and I also don't get ownership from lots of services such as internet access or electricity...
@inthehands Also, those local favourite bands that you listen most to, donโt even see a fraction of the money you pay into this system, despite Spotify keeping tab of what you listen to, down to the seconds.
If there was a pirate MP3 site (say OiNK) that offered a similar selection at some of the convenience, then yeah sure I would be using that.
Spotify launched con 2006. Almost 20 years ago. How much have you spent in music in that time? How much music do you own?
I'm not saying that you are wrong, but if I had to buy everything I listen to for 20 years I would have spent waaaaaay more and never really discover new music, because I can't "just check it out".
I've spent way more than that on CDs that I have no way to play nowadays.
@knizer Werenโt you paying for a convenient service? When I take my car to a car wash, I donโt own anything new after. I just paid someone to clean my car. You could buy all that music and set up a personal streaming service, but it does seem easier and cheaper to just pay Spotify if thatโs what you want.
I assume. I avoided Spotify like the plague from day 1.
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> Movie piracy is bad.
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Movie piracy is bad. That's why I want to know the best sites to block so I live free of sin.
I used to block dopebox.to, but since it doesn't work the way I want, I no longer need to block it.
What other good sites are there that I should block or whatever?
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watchluna.com? :3
@byte Perfect! Thank you for giving me another good site to avoid. :3
reddit.com/r/Piracy/wiki/megatโฆ This has all kinds of things to IMMEDIATELY block, movies and otherwise. Help stop piracy!
@rnelson Thank you, for helping me be a good citizen. :3
@rnelson Thank you, for helping me be a good citizen. :3
I'm always interested in increasing my blocklist : this one is on my blocklist yts-official.to/
YTS: The Official Home of YIFY Movies Download - YTS.MX
YTS official site for free, Download YIFY movies in 720p, 1080p, and 3D. Fastest downloads in the smallest file sizewww.yts-official.to
don't use the torrdroid app for anything at all. tpb.to and anything like it should also be added to your block list. Stay safe 
@catdad Thank you for this great safety advice.
rutracker.org
@L29Ah Added to the sin bin to block. Thank you :3
snowfl definitely needs blocking.
@davep Thank you, good citizen, for strengthening my BLOCK LIST!
moviesjoy.is/home is evil. It just works, I heard
@Miname So EVIL!!
I shall avoid it. Thank you
I shall avoid it. Thank you
Thank you everyone, for keeping my streaming devices safe from accessing movies and TV shows without paying for them. 
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If anyone is adding anime sites to their MUST BLOCK list, kissanime.co.bz, anicrush.to, and animetake.tv should definitely be added. 
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and what about hianime.to?
@brunomiguel Oh another naughty site to block! Thx so much
you need to be careful of animekai.to, also. bad, bad website. 
@brunomiguel saving this thread so that I know what to definitely block, just in case
@fullofquarks this one is particularly dangerous and evil: fmhy,net
It's a high-priority block on my block list.
@brunomiguel @fullofquarks Thank you keeping my media experience PURE and DRM approved! Will block them with haste!
I respect and support the fight to keep devices and content pure and law-abiding. If it doesn't have DRM, it doesn't enter this house, even a fridge or a stove! 
to be ENTIRELY SAFE, you should DEFINITELY use https;//fmhy.net to make sure you're NOT accessing the sites on there, as they could provide you quick, easy, ILLEGAL access to content that may not be available on other legal platforms.
@chirpbirb freemediaheckyeah is a MUST for any blocklist. Thank you
nyaa.si and www.shanaproject.com are blocked at the DNS level on the Pi Hole here. Can't be safe enough
@fraca7 Good advice as those a VERY good sites to BLOCK. ๐
you should absolutely block nyaa.si, nothing good going on over there, better keep away
Funny thing I just *looked* at one of those sites on my phone and a popup said 'your Android account has been reported'. This had to be some software on my own phone policing what I am permitted to see.
I did wrongthink against fuckers who have no right to my communications.
I don't even watch anime! No risk at all.
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Related, I used to block Mangadex but since it was mostly subjected to a takedown (I heard, definitely didn't see myself) now there's less point.
I wonder what other naughty Manga websites need to be blocked.
@gilester45 bato.to is an essential blockable site full to bursting with evil #yuri and whatnot @catsalad
@weezmgk @gilester45 Shameful site... not for the yuri itself, but for see yuri without BUYING it.
thanks for sharing your blocklists, I can add them to mine
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Make sure to never look into the uBlock Origin console when visiting those sites. You might accidentally see the some .m3u8 URLs (and the correct referrer links) that evil hacking tools like ffmpeg could use to permanently download stuff to your machine.
I recommend blocking hianime.to as well.
Update: I see someone already mentioned it. Vigilant as always, fedi.
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And of course the classic nyaa.si
@shinmera Oh that is going right to the TOP of my BLOCK list! Thank you
If you're blocking anime, you absolutely want to avoid watching Maison Ikkoku
also hianime.to
I never sometimes go toโฆ I mean I *blocked*, yes, I blocked animetosho.org because even though I think there is only one person behind it, it can do a lot of bad.
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@a_blahaj Nooooo... No way. I don't even KNOW why you would suspect that. ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Don't forget to block those nasty nasty torrenters also. They're liable to start up **in-home streaming sites** for when everything else is blocked, if you can believe it! I hear that Nyaa.si is their den of sin.
my favorite site to block for movies is 1337x dot to. make sure to also block this official mirror, x1337x dot eu!
@bazkie
And be sure to block any site site with instructions for how to set up โArrโ software with a torrent client behind a gluetun vpn client ๐ค
And be sure to block any site site with instructions for how to set up โArrโ software with a torrent client behind a gluetun vpn client ๐ค
@FlockOfCats @bazkie Valuable knowledge! I feel safer already.
The list would not be complete w/o limetorrents.lol
@matera Oh definitely! Thanks and be safe! :3
@Networksportsballanalyst An empty PLEX is a safe PLEX, I always say. I like to make sure my server is nice and free of sin.
Yarrlist.com has a solid list of sites that you would probably want to keep yourself safe from.
@danielleigh Oh, a list of lists is DOUBLE sinful! I'll BLOCK it twice :3
I've had xspeeds.eu blocked for a few years now although you're safe from that one unless someone rudely sends you an invite
Sensitive content
Thank you asking such an important question, and my thanks to those who answered.
I will make a list of these wretched hives of scum and villainy web sites to keep my viewing habits pure and unfettered.
1337x, btdigg and qbittorrent's built in search.
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You should definitely block Usenet provider websites and the private tracker subreddits. Definitely block the Radarr website. I would also not look into Torrent leech, a low tier private tracker you can get into with a small one time purchase. I applaud your dedication to our corporate overlords.
@danni_storm That's the second Usenet mention. I should definitely block that sinful network!
Such a good question! Personally, using a VPN to change my location to a non-UK place, it can be useful to block all the PirateBay proxies ๐
@x41h Sites like that are perfect for finding research material.
BTW, did you know that archive.today lets you archive onion sites? Semi-useful for the publicly access .onion sites, anyway.
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Archive.today (onion site)
archiveiya74codqgiixo33q62qlrqโฆ
GitHub - marktsec/Ransomware_Official_Domains: List Of Ransomware Groups Official WebSites
List Of Ransomware Groups Official WebSites. Contribute to marktsec/Ransomware_Official_Domains development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
@x41h
@Exilsarahl Perfect for my filter list! Thank you
2012, streaming services (Netflix) have converted me from a pirate to subscriber.
2022, Streaming services have converted from me from a subscriber....
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You might want to block gomovies.tw/
It's really quite naughty and should be blocked ๐
GoMovies - Watch Movies and Tv Shows Online For Free on Gomovies.
GoMovies is the best free movies streaming website with biggest library of movies and shows in all categories in HD Quality.www.gomovies.tw
@simonzerafa Oh I've heard of that naughty site and shall add it right to my BLOCK list.
I came here to collect all of the sites I should block.
Thanks for the entries.
Thanks for the entries.
s.to or bs.to
is useful to overcome series addiction. i think it is german but you can change dub to english, thats why it must be blocked at all costs
and this one
BFLIX | Watch Movies and Series Online Free
Best Free HD website to BFLIX | Watch movies and shows online | Fast | Free | Big Library with Daily Update.bflix.sh
I'm not interested in streaming sites, but which torrent sites are there to, er, avoid? Other than 1337x, YTS, TPB, EZTV, or Nyaa for anime?
Oh, and ebooks, of course. Are there any mirrors or alternative domains for LibGen, BookFi, Anna's Archive, etc., that I need to be aware of?
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@LordCaramac rarbg for t9rrents and mobilism for books need blocking.
@Thebratdragon Is rarbg still alive? I used it for many years, but then it went offline all of a sudden, is it back now?
@Thebratdragon What's the current domain?
techworm.net/2021/08/rarbg-proโฆ
RARBG Proxy List 2025: WORKING [ RARBG Mirror & Proxies]
Unblock RARBG using the latest working RARBG proxy and mirror sites to download the latest movies, tv shows, music, games, software and ebooks torrent.Amaan Rizwan (Techworm)
make sure to block myanonamouse
@strongsand Is there any search engine for trackerless torrents? There used to be one called MagnetDL, but it's gone now.
you should really block this site
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Thankyou, I was needing to refresh my blocklist as well
Unrelated, but wearing a Very Pretty Necklace is super helpful in keeping yourself sin free.
@catdad Agreed. Very Pretty Necklace is especially useful for that
Definetely DO NOT subscribe to the Lemmy comunity @piracy, it's so full of sin, I feel like I need to go to church just by thinking about it.
not movies, but for old games, you can block romsgames.net
I would add this to the list: pirates.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Pโฆ
Literally a website all about movie piracy.
Pirates of the Caribbean Wiki
Pirates of the Caribbean Encyclopedia is a comprehensive guide that anyone can edit, covering the classic Walt Disney ride, movie franchise, and more.pirates.fandom.com
Thepiratebay may already be blockes by your ISP, but make sure to block alternative ways to access it like VPNs or TOR.
@Stephanie Oh yes, we must plug all those holes like VPN and TOR to avoid the naughtiest of sites like TPB
animepahe needs to be added
@alcea Definitely one to BLOCK (thx) :3
i love you for being the shitposting glue that makes this federated mess feel like a community. thank you for your service ๐ซก
@blogdiva We have to look out for each other, and avoid SINFUL sites like these! :3
i use newshosting in combination with drunkenslug and sabnzbd
@panegyr Glad to here you BLOCK those. I too shall do so :3
Wouldn't it be more apt to say it no longer works the way you don't want?
stay away from the pirate bay and vpns!
I don't know about sites, but definitely don't use Soulseek. I once accidently installed Nicotine+ which as it turns out is a Soulseek client, and I had to report myself for it.
@not3ottersinacoat I'm glad you repented and turned yourself in... Soulseek is a gateway to CRIME!
Stremio is by far the most optimized and stable experience. In many ways, it's actually more seamless than the streaming platforms.
Apps available for all platforms
Here's a tutorial from Reddit:
reddit.com/r/StremioAddons/comโฆ
have a look at this list that Big Content wants you to block: mstdn.io/@jomo/105285472563166โฆ
jomo (@jomo@mstdn.io)
#RIAA and #MPA don't want you to use these websites, so please do not use them at all: https://torrentfreak.com/images/MPA_Notorious_Markets_Filing.pdf#page=4jomo (Mastodon)
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I would definitely avoid The Pirate Bay:
Download music, movies, games, software! The Pirate Bay - The galaxy's most resilient BitTorrent site
Download music, movies, games, software and much more. The Pirate Bay is the galaxy's most resilient BitTorrent site.thepiratebay.org
Stremio is a terrible app that pirates use often, even worse when paired with a debrid service. Criminals can even load it on to smart tvs. Just awful
If you do not like to read books or newspapers you must black-hole an org called mobilism
For sure stay away from anything on this list yarrlist.com/movies-and-tv-shoโฆ
Working Free Movies and TV Shows Websites List - YarrList
Looking for Fmovies, Soap2Day or 123movies alternatives? Find the best free streaming sites and safe options to watch movies & shows online now.yarrlist.com
@Laukidh DOUBLE BLOCKED!!
I don't trust the lists. They could be full of punitive links that aren't really bad. So, I have an automated system that searches these sites and downloads files so I can manually evaluate their sins.
I've been having really great results for years.
i have heard of people adding torrenting dot com to their blocklist. I know I have.
yts.lt (movies)
eztv.ag (shows)
1337x.to (everything)
eztv.ag (shows)
1337x.to (everything)
@phryk BLOCKED, BLOCKED, and BLOCKED! :3
you need to block hdtodayz.to and 123moviesfree.net and soap2day.day. thank you for saying no into the face of pirates.
@midtsveen
the pirate bay also has an onion address which is worse for the law because its much harder for them to see that you're accessing this website, it would be especially effective if someone were to torrent with a vpn enabled too
luckily you don't have to do all that work. There are github ripos that collect all the sites that are still up and give you an up to date list. They give them weird sarcastic names like 'awesome-piracy'
this is public service indeed! Gonna get myself rid of them all
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make sure your computer does not have qbittorrent installed, it comes with a search function that indexes a large number of known piracy sites, making it very easy to accidentally download copyrighted material
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you should definitely block anything involving the open-source app called "Stremio" and its community addons. Those are litteraly signed by the devil
I feel your pain! 
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I don't pirate movies. I'm just training an AI.
definitely Block fmhy.net and all its out going links.
as a european, be sure to keep peer connections enabled in your browser so should you accidentally land on a streaming site, rights holders can track your IP and send you a costly C&D. this will keep you honest.
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And just incase definitely do not install tor browser and then go to URL : tpb.party/
It may work in non tor browser too so be sure to block the most popular torrent site url.
Tor is required in some countries as they responsiblely block that pirate torrent.
I mean you would not want to see all those brand new pirate movies, tv shows, audio books, text book, anime.
Download music, movies, games, software! The Pirate Bay - The galaxy's most resilient BitTorrent site
Download music, movies, games, software and much more. The Pirate Bay is the galaxy's most resilient BitTorrent site.tpb.party
An unscrupulous individual could find lots of #StarTrek movies & episodes on dailymotion.com & watch without even having the basic corporate decency to log in. They would only rack up ad impressions. Very sad.
Or so I've heard.
you're all doomed ;)
I am old school - so just found via search engine simply by looking for streaming the community with the same name.. they change their address every 3 days only holding streamingcommunity dot whatsoever
(is this called a torrent ? really old school...)
I am old school - so just found via search engine simply by looking for streaming the community with the same name.. they change their address every 3 days only holding streamingcommunity dot whatsoever
(is this called a torrent ? really old school...)
blockade time for gay-torrents.net; this once holesome pornography market is positively filthy with queer arthouse piracy. It's practically as bad as archive.org.
@ike_seblon queer arthouse piracy is SIN so I shall BLOCK. May they return to their pure and holesome ways one day! :3
i always make sure to have both everything.moe and fmhy.net blocked as theyโre the door to so much of the evil it physically lift a weight off of the earth :3
@pitori The gateway EVILs are BLOCK so I can sleep at night.
unblockit.pages.dev/
Unblockit - Access your favourite blocked sites
Unblock your favourite sites such as The Pirate Bay, 1337x, YTS, Primewireunblockit.pages.dev
piracy is good! โ
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@shia if buying isn't owning, then piracy isn't stealing
@sabrinaweb71
Sadly we live in a world where buying indeed no longer means owning. Corporations like Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc. increasingly have more control over what you can and can't do with the device you purchased (not leased!) with your own money.
I can't resell or lend digital content, whereas there are no such restrictions on the physical versions.
I can't launch digital games I purchased (not leased) without an active internet connection.
So while I appreciate the sentiment of your meme, the concept of ownership no longer means what it once didโฆ
@sabrinaweb71 @shia well it never was.
Stealing is taking away stuff, which is different than copying it.
Stealing is taking away stuff, which is different than copying it.
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broco.flix
@wiredguy Thank you, honest citizen. I shall now BLOCK it :3
you should definitely block flixtor.win/home because you can find almost all recent and old movies and TV shows on this site.
Fortunately this site is blocked by the ISP in many countries. But if you were using a public DNS like docs.quad9.net/, you would get over the restrictions and have access to the whole site...
Fortunately this site is blocked by the ISP in many countries. But if you were using a public DNS like docs.quad9.net/, you would get over the restrictions and have access to the whole site...
@camcamagy I definitely will, and it's good to hear that ISP are blocking that shameful archive!
@thedaemon Very SINFUL site! I shall BLOCK right away!
you'll definitely want to block 1337x.to
@midtsveen @ambiguous_yelp So many unauthorized movie site AND an onion link to TPB? I shall bookmark to triple make sure I have BLOCKED them thoroughly!
the previous websites i actively avoided got shut down so right now i'm blocking uindex.org โ no idea who's running it, but they're so bad at their job they haven't even put in any pretty banners, and despite numerous attempts i haven't found any malware either. Will keep looking.
@virtulis Very good to know! I'll make note of it on my BLOCK list. :3
Yes, a clear no to heresy! Good to see there is still a lot of good people on the internet. ๐๐ผ
I had to bookmark this in order to view the contents later.
popcorn time is still going as far as I know.
You should block it right away!
it's always pleasure to meet person with strong moral compass
bookmarking this one!
I need a good block list for my PฬตyฬตLฬตoฬตaฬตdฬต PiHole ๐
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You could move to France! :
Automated Real-Time Pirate IPTV Blocking in France โWithin Six Monthsโ
torrentfreak.com/automated-reaโฆ
Automated Real-Time Pirate IPTV Blocking in France "Within Six Months" * TorrentFreak
French telecoms regulator Arcom says it expects an automated, real-time pirate IPTV blocking system to be operational no later than H1 2026.Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)
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geesh.. some of these sites REALLY need to be blocked!
@crankyoldbugger I know, right? Stay safe out there! ๐
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> Movie piracy is bad.
also block uflix[.]cc and don't get fooled by the Christmas specials. Pls block all of it.
@TagHunt Thank you ๐
Bless the DRM
Bless the DRM
since I do not longer have to block fmovies, I had few sites to block, but blocking yesmovies[.]ag seems to be a decent idea.
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