Every streaming service now hordes their decent IP and sprinkles it in amongst a vast pile of shovelware content. They prize exclusives but don't adequately communicate what they have access to or why, or when the rights to that content expire.
There's nothing more ridiculous than paying for two streaming services, having shared access to two more, and then realizing the old movie you want to watch is only available as an ala carte $1.99 rental on a 5th service.
For an ancient venal egotist like Joe, the fact that Kamala lost is close to a best case scenario. He would've gotten completely waxed if he had stayed in... but now he gets to say he was forced aside by the party leaders (Pelosi, the Obamas etc.) and that is completely verifiably true, but he also gets to claim he totally would've won, which is very likely not true, but now we will never know.
I just use ViMusic or RiMusic or one of those types of forks. I believe it uses YouTube and other sources. It is ad-free and has the usual stuff you'd expect like suggestions, playlists, genres etc. Occasionally the source platform will make a change that breaks it, an update comes out fixes it.
That and there are still (probably ancient at this point) desktop clients that scrape your Pandora and download local copies of all the tracks. That's another good way to never listen to ads.
If you have your VPN client and torrent application set up correctly, your traffic would all be routed through the VPN and the network would see your VPN IP and not the actual IP of your machine. If you have a private tracker you can probably test this on their site as many will show you which IP they see as you seed.
A few considerations with this- Some VPN services do not support or allow torrenting. Also some trackers have issues with you using multiple IPs etc. so your account could be flagged if you have used different VPN nodes over time.
It would legitimately not surprise me at this point if Google starts serving precise bra ads to your girlfriend after discerning cup size from her nudes.
Yeah these have basically been ineffective for P2P such as torrenting for many years. The media companies can just outsource their Anti-Sharing campaigns to third parties and it is fairly trivial for them to do discovery from non-obvious or even residential IPs. They just have to open a given torrent long enough to see who is in swarm and start sending nastygrams to those ISPs.
The best way to protect yourself is seedbox/VPS in a jurisdiction with no filesharing enforcement, or at a minimum join a reputable private tracker, because then all participants are vetted and there will never be a snitch in swarm.
I agree that what they did is ridiculous. The macro story should be that the two major parties rig their primary processes in order to sideline potential challengers to the machine apparatus.
The takeaway is you have little to no ability to influence the national candidate selection unless you're a major player in an early primary/caucus state or you're a billionaire PAC donor.
Even if they had a "real" primary the DNC would've cooked it so Kamala (or whoever the DNC elites picked) got the nod. The Obamas, Clintons, Pelosi, Bloomberg etc. already made the decision at that point and what you or I wanted was never a factor.
This is bullshit. There are many people hired with the job title "Software Engineer" who don't sit and generate code, and for a number of reasons.
You could be on a hybrid team that does projects and support, so you spend 80% of your time attending meetings, working tickets, working with users, and shuffling paper in whatever asinine change management process your company happens to use.
I have worked places where "engineers" ended up having to spend most of their time dicking around in ServiceNow/Remedy/etc. instead of doing their actual jobs. That's shitty business process design and shitty management, and not a reflection of the employee doing nothing.
Yeah I was just about to say one obvious flaw in his methodology is that people could show up as "high productivity" by adding thousands of lines of worthless comments.
The Orange Box is one of the last gaming purchases that I actually got my moneys worth out of.