mctoasterson @ mctoasterson @reddthat.com

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This is stupid. I will dig further into the real impact to Graphene.

I thought about experimenting with this (Guess it is a good thing I didn't). There are so many low effort "Lo Fi" types of streams and tracklists on Spotify and elsewhere. Who is to say my software generated garbage would be any worse than those?

There are also YouTubers who generate low effort music and ask their normal content subscribers to stream their shit on Spotify even if they aren't legitimately listening. So are those streams fraudulent as well?

It sounds like the thing he is getting popped for is the volume of automated streams.

Ramen was sold out at the ol' warehouse club store. That is my low-tech economic signal that recession is inbound.

Also, when buying bulk ramen, the number of ramen packs you get is approximately half of what they used to include, for the same price.

An earlier story said the door was propped open, as if for airflow or something.

I'm looking around for the giant from the Oldest View.

WTF is wrong with people.

If you are paranoid you can literally just take one of those Ring indoor cameras and put it on top of your safe. The app includes custom notifications on detected motion.

Now, the kid could still go out of their way to disable the home WiFi or something but that level of premeditation is a different problem entirely.

First preference would be educating your kids on the safe handling of guns from an early age and inculcating in them a set of values that shows guns are for defensive purposes and not for interpersonal conflict resolution.

The secondary strategy is storing your firearms in a locked safe the kids do not know the combination to, in a locked room to which they don't have a key.

I haven't seen polls on this exact scenario (doubt there are any) but I sincerely doubt there were that many people waiting on bated breath to see which candidate Liz Cheney was going to endorse before voting lockstep with that choice.

This is a vibe

If that's your preference that's fine. The ridiculous part was them stopping it as a default. It resulted in scenarios like people paying $800 per night to stay in a Disney hotel and having an undersized room that doesn't even get cleaned during the week they are there.

It always irritated me that the most prolific benchy design was a boat that isn't useful for anything (besides being a benchmark itself) and doesn't even float.

The "no daily room cleaning" thing is and always has been bullshit. They used COVID as an excuse for it. It was a way to cut cost and provide less value to the customer.

Chase Oliver is getting some of the lowest poll numbers of any recent Libertarian nominees and that's saying something.

If Chase Oliver costs anyone an election, that campaign fucked up severely.

Journalism was already in a death spiral but this type of article just highlights it.

They're just taking a secondary source with a shitty headline, cherry picking spicy reactions on Twitter and then writing another shitty headline.

I could theoretically do the same thing, cherrypick Twitter and then post the following "article" to my own shit-tier political news blog:

"Mediaite panned for misleading headline about headlines."

The only "sources" I have to cite are random Tweets that I preselected because they already agreed with my point of view.

We are approaching something that is close to the opposite of journalism.

Aix-en-Provence

She posted about this. Basically the party aparatchiks came to her house and told her to stop her "subversive" activities (posting on YouTube, talking about devices useful to protestors, mentioning being a lesbian in public media) or she would not like the consequences. She said she would leave the country entirely, except her romantic partner cannot leave (I assume this is due to political travel restrictions or family reasons).

I think her content was awesome and it showed someone defying expectations of who can do product design, fabrication, electrical engineering, etc.

China should very much get roasted for silencing speech.

POV you are walking down the street when you clip through the sidewalk and find yourself in the Backrooms.

You do have to get an invite, seed, and maybe toss them a small crypto donation occasionally. The ratio thing depends on the tracker but usually it's just a requirement to seed back anything for at least a week. Popular torrents become FreeLeech and they don't count against your ratio.

Because the participants are all vetted, you don't get RIAA and MPAA shills in swarm trying to vacuum up IPs to start sending nasty legal letters out.

A decade ago when I used public torrents I remember getting those stupid ISP strikes. I know shit-tier regional ISPs would even try to embarrass you with the content you pirated. They'd send you a letter like "the Copyright holder for 'Anal Hookers of Beijing' told us they're big mad at you, and if you do it again you'll get your service revoked". Some of these ISPs were integrated with cable companies so they'd freeze your internet and cable, and display the text of the copyright strike on your fucking TV for your girlfriend or grandma to see.

Fuck that noise.

Since using a private tracker I have never received a single cease and desist or ISP warning letter. Then again, I only use Bit Torrent to download Linux ISOs.

Only took her a full month and a week as the nominee before answering any real questions.

Private Trackers are the way forward.