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klu9
klu9 @ klu9 @lemmy.ca
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Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains

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  • In 8 years, anyone not mainlining Truth Social through their compulsory Neuralink will captured and euthanized.

    • Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains

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    • I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome)

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  • Yeah, me too. Never used it since.

    So I was glad when Opera co-founder von Tetzchner announced Vivaldi, and I did use it for a couple of years. But I don't want to become dependent on something not completely FLOSS, so lately using mainly Firefox mods like Floorp, Zen and Firedragon.

    • I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome)

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  • IIRC it was something to do with the difficulty of getting the browser to use hardware acceleration/GPU in the countless variations of Linux, to the point where they don't even bother trying because of the infinitesimally small market share of each distro.

    But I'm not 100% sure of that.

    • What happened to networks like eMule, WinMX, DC++, and so on?

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  • (Giving me flashbacks to the days of the Slyck forums!)

    As first torrents, then cyberlockers, and then streaming came to dominate, the other P2P networks and programs did one of the following:

    • Shrunk to a much smaller number of users but still linger on.
    • Software stopped being developed, domain name lost
    • Purposely closed down to avoid legal consequences
    • Pivoted to something else (like legal downloads or streaming e.g. Napster, Audio Galaxy, or a different P2P network, e.g. Limewire went from Gnutella to BitTorrent to... web file transfer?)

    Every now and then, I try a Kad/ed2k client but soon return to torrents. E.g. a few months ago I tried out aMule on Linux... and got a LowID. 23 years after I first started using it, I still can't dodge LowID 😂 It does have content, though.

    Compared to previous times I revisited Kad/ed2k, some sites/services with ed2k links have now finally disappeared: MoTV (Ministry of Television), TV Underground, ShareTheFiles. I think VeryCD is still going though.

    Shareaza is still a thing (at least, a fork of it is), still claiming to be the one P2P app to rule all the networks. One of only three clients left (according to Wikipedia) that still access the Gnutella network.

    Just to see what's up, I installed Gtk-Gnutella (last updated March 2024). I can find a few things in searches, but still waiting for them to begin to download. UPDATE: One just started downloading, although the speed is max 50 Kib/s, ETA is at least a few hours.

    I might give a Soulseek client a try, as a hard drive full of music I got from Soulseek in 00s recently died (yes, it lasted 15 years!), and Soulseek seems to be the music P2P that never dies (and has a Linux client).

    PS I don't think Retroshare is a "new iteration"; it's been going since 2006!

    • Is there a federated or open source search engine alternative?

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  • You're welcome. I'm still trying out a few, including Yep and the SearchXNG instance that comes built into Firedragon browser.

    • I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome)

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  • Back when I used to watch Netflix in a web browser, I had a browser extension that gave me lots of different capabilities, including all kinds of playback speeds.

    I can't remember the name of the extension I used then, but I see there are still plenty of extensions available. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/search/?q=netflix

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  • You're welcome.

    I don't know about hosting costs. I do know that Firedragon is a side project of Garuda Linux, a volunteer-developed distro with a Donate page.

    • How Three Alleged Tesla Vandals Got Caught

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  • One thing: Turn off your phone's WiFi and Bluetooth when travelling.

    • Why do news articles and such call the governments of countries/groups of countries after the capital?

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    • "Westminster" specifically for Parliament.
    • "Downing Street" for the prime minister and the cabinet.
    • "Whitehall" for central government as a whole, ministries and departments.

    • Is there a federated or open source search engine alternative?

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    • I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome)

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  • IIRC major streaming services like Netflix and Prime do not offer 1080p or 4k streams to Linux browsers, mainly for technical reasons. You have to use some tricks (special extensions or add-ons?) to get anything above 720p.

    • I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome)

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  • As someone who used Opera 2002-2013 (Presto era), I quibble with the "always".

    But I do not quibble with the "is".

    • I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome)

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  • Firedragon (a Floorp-Firefox mod) has its own sync server by default. But "Share/Send to" from Android Firefox to PC Firedragon works out of the box.

    • I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome)

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  • Have you tried Firedragon? Floorp-based but with some eye candy and privacy enhancements. (Linux only at the moment)

    • My god! Is there an YouTube alternative at all!?

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  • I also have the LibRedirect extension set so that when I click on a YouTube link, it opens in FreeTube.

    • Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene accuses Rep. Jasmine Crockett of terrorism

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    • Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene accuses Rep. Jasmine Crockett of terrorism

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    • Win win

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    • Remember the good old days?

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  • Charles Bronson grew up in a coal mining town. Even though everyone worked their asses off, still so poor he sometimes had to wear his sister's dress to school!

    MAGA would have him arrested for that!