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  • What’s your most controversial opinion?

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  • You can't eat 1kg of apples, only .5kg before it goes bad. So you give the other .5kg away. Melsaskca also can't eat another .5kg of potatoes, so they give them away.

  • Lemmy.today is absolutely beautiful

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  • Which one?

  • Lemmy.today is absolutely beautiful

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  • Rounded corners, the weird rainbow hue, glossy effects and css animations are like the piss filter of vibe coded websites

  • Lemmy.today is absolutely beautiful

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  • That looks vibe coded

  • I think Lemmy in general is very against AI. I'm rather new here, is it like a fediverse group thing or is this even based on reality?

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  • The issue with "tech-leaning" people who believe AI is the future is that they're in the "peak of mount stupid" part of the Dunning-Kruger curve. Once you get past that, you realize AI was never good at anything and it's harmful to everyone in a million different ways. Most of lemmy's tech-leaning people have already realized that, and are actively trying to avoid AI.

  • I think Lemmy in general is very against AI. I'm rather new here, is it like a fediverse group thing or is this even based on reality?

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  • If it is a productivity boost for you, it is at the cost of someone else who will have to proofread and test everything you do. LLMs (and genAI) are useless.

  • AI blamed again as hard drives are sold out for this year

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  • I got a 16TB HDD for 300€, yesterday I looked at it and it was 800€ (apparently discounted from 1000€ lol)

  • Should I follow Mullvad's qBittorrent suggestions? (disable DHT, disable PeX, etc)

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  • Keep in mind that:

    • Anonymous mode doesn't really do anything, but it also doesn't hurt having it on.
    • Disabling DHT and PeX will make you unable to download torrents from certain platforms, like TPB, unless they are also registered in other trackers.

    In addition, I'd also set it to only allow encrypted connections, which for some reason they don't say there.

    Either way, Mullvad is not a good VPN for torrenting, because it can't do port forwarding anymore. You already know this, but you'll have a lot of issues with low torrent availability, low speeds and a difficulty to seed.

    If you already don't mind paying for a VPN, why not look into seedboxes? They also hide your IP when torrenting, they can have port forwarding and better speeds than your VPN or home internet, they're online 24/7 so you can seed a lot, and you can connect to them with a VPN to get the torrented files if you really want.

    Additionally, you can also buy a VPN with port forwarding and bind only your torrent client to it, so that no other traffic or information is flowing through it. This works if you don't trust any VPN offering port forwarding.

    If you want an explanation on the private tracker logic: Private trackers usually have requirements to join. That way, companies can't plant fake seeds that identify you and snitch to the ISP. They're also relatively small, so not closely monitored. When you get a torrent from a private tracker, DHT, PeX and local peer discovery are disabled on that torrent. As long as you have encryption enabled, you'll be relatively safe from ISP letters. However, this only applies if you're getting your torrents only from private trackers.

  • Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software

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  • Not only that, but both ChromeOS and Android run on top of the Linux kernel

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    A Tesla illegally parked in the Chicago Avenue bus lane at 5pm. Chicago, Illinois.

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  • The bus lane is red! That proves it!

  • House Republicans call to investigate Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show over 'widespread twerking, grinding, pelvic thrusts'

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  • Well, at least one pedophile is orange

  • The same rights

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  • Personally I think it's absolutely batshit insane that people walk on the sidewalk with bikes, if I walk I'm doing it on the... uhm...

  • Musk's X office in France raided by Paris prosecutor

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  • Indeed he is. Had the misfortune of seeing some of it.

  • Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption

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  • Hell, as far as I know, E2EE would be indistinguishable from client to server encryption, where the server can read everything without the need for a secret "backdoor key". You can see that the channel is encrypted, but you can't know who has the other key.

  • Unsealed: Spotify Lawsuit Triggered Anna's Archive Domain Name Suspensions * TorrentFreak

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  • Piracy (and Anna's Archive)'s mission is to share information, especially culture, with everyone, regardless of their ability to pay for it and regardless of the geoblocks. Keeping the service hidden may benefit you and the few people that know about it, but it isn't the purpose of these sites. They felt they were protected enough, and they decided to take another step towards their objective, that's it.

    In practice, nothing's gonna happen. They already have 4 different domains. Even if they managed to seize the servers and cancel every domain, all of Anna's Archive data is out there on public torrents, and their software is also FOSS. Anyone can make a mirror.

  • They removed the like button. What next, they gonna remove videos? It’s just gonna be ads???

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  • Nuclear is not economically feasible and still does have its fair share of problems. It also generates waste, even if at far less scale than fossil fuels. Wind and solar are cheap and very scalable in most countries, which makes them economically feasible (and can also accelerate a move from fossil). Don't be so quick to discard them.

    As a matter of fact, last month, in Spain, we generated more energy just from wind than from nuclear. (31.7% vs 21.4%) source

  • Cork oak trees, S. Spain

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  • They are, and many of them have existed for centuries. Most cork now is probably synthetic, but there are still some places where people harvest cork.

  • “Yo what?” LimeWire re-emerges in online rush to share pulled “60 Minutes” segment

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  • Yeah, but unless you know the hash of a file, you can't look it up. The gnutella network can find files by name.

  • Anna’s Archive Backed Up Spotify, Plans to Release 300TB Music Archive * TorrentFreak

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  • And that's why I think it's an issue. The least popular tracks, which are the most likely ones to disappear from the internet, are the ones they store in the lowest quality. While I'm glad they made this huge effort for preservation, and understand the limitations of storage space, I also wish they would have at least preserved the original 160kbps streams.

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
    black0ut @pawb.social

    But it saves 0.003 seconds!

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    It's missing some railings though

  • Programmer Humor @lemmy.ml
    black0ut @pawb.social

    They had a paid break, right?

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
    black0ut @pawb.social

    A platypus?

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
    black0ut @pawb.social

    🧙‍♂️

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
    black0ut @pawb.social

    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
    black0ut @pawb.social

    The future is now, old man

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
    black0ut @pawb.social

    That road is as smooth as a tetrahedron.

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Birds are even worse...

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    At least it's not a bethesda game...

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
    black0ut @pawb.social

    Plane goes brrrr

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
    black0ut @pawb.social

    Lies, deception