Why would the DNC fix it; I thought your supreme leader had everything under control? Isn’t he going to make America great, or do you need someone else to clean up his mess?

So thaaats why orientation is in the office across the street…

Let me know how it goes, lmao

You heard it here first folks, straight from the horses mouth: it’s all this guys fault the world sucks.

buys cloud storage

uses it as swap space

For me, Usenet isn’t about availability; but speed, risk exposure, and convenience.

Torrents take longer, even with lots of quality seeds and fast network speeds; mostly because of the seeding process. Plus, while you are seeding: you have to publicly expose yourself as a content host, even if just through a VPN. Hosts are what copyright holders target, they don’t GAF about the people downloading, they try to take down the hosts to stop the spread. Finally you have to keep the content you downloaded in the format you downloaded, at least until seeding is done.

I prefer to use Tdarr to automatically transcode downloaded content into h265 (HEVC) to reduce it’s size. Most content is found in h264 (AVC); converting it, on average, reduces its size by ~30% while maintaining good quality. Overall this step has saved me at least ~7TB so far (Tdarr reports it’s saved 4.8TB, but I converted a ton of stuff with Embys convert feature before implementing Tdarr). That conversion can only be done after seeding or the torrent breaks as the original files are no longer available to seed. Usenet removes the seeding step completely, so I can do whatever I want with the files as soon as they’ve downloaded, which in it self only takes 5min.

You’ve done a pretty good job here, so I’ll just add this:

A map of providers and some info on their benefits.

https://www.ngprovider.com/current-usenet-map.php

There’s also a ton of info about usenet, how it works, and what to look for, on that site. (you may have to manually go to the homepage to see the rest)

I don’t have time atm, I’m literally leaving for work rn; but I’ll write up some details later tonight if nobody else has.

This was one of my biggest motivations for moving to usenet. I don’t like exposing myself by seeding. I have a giant folder full of copyright notices forwarded by my ISP because of it, and I don’t want to pay for a vpn as it’s far more expensive than usenet and just moves the problem/target to the vpn provider.

But an ssl connection to a usenet server goes unnoticed… Plus WAY faster download speeds, far more consistency in available files, and less spam/garbage content (at least in my experience, anecdotal).

Torrents took anywhere from an hour to multiple days before either completing or giving up and trying a different torrent. And then there’s the seeding process ontop.

NZBs (usenet) take at the very most, 5min to finish or fail, at which point a new one can be tried automatically by sonarr/radarr if it had failed. Requests for media are now pretty much always ready to watch within 25min of requesting, and most of that is waiting for the library scan to trigger (I’m using SAMBA so filesystem updates can’t trigger scans automatically, they’re on a timer instead)

Humans are just overgrown monkeys, and (at least) one of us already wrote Shakespeare’s plays on a typewriter.

THEN PAY WITH YOUR BLOOD!

Nobody breaks the law on my watch! I’m conficscating your stolen goods. Now pay your fine or it’s off to jail!

Now you can have the satisfaction of smashing it to pieces and then you get to build it, in the end you’ve got a fully constructed set and you didn’t have to build it twice.

Pay the court a fine, or serve your sentence.

THEN PAY WITH YOUR BLOOD!!!

You could say the same about every password entry field; but that’s why there are local/alternative options here.

https://lemmy.ca/comment/21535992

https://lemmy.ca/comment/21535992

For those worried about inputting a password into a tool like this, they’ve actually done a great job keeping your pass secure.

Passwords entered on this site do not get transmitted to the server. Instead, they are hashed, then only the first half of the hash is sent to the server. The server replies with a list of every password hash they’ve found in leaks that match the partial hash you sent them. Your computer then looks through the list and tells you if the password you entered (which was kept on your pc, not transmitted) exists in that list.

From Haveibeenpwneds perspective; they sent you a big list of potential matches, but don’t know which one if any actually matches your password, because they were never given the full hash, let alone the raw password.

There’s even an open-source script you can run that does this within a console instead of a browser. Or, you can download their whole password DB via their github tools, then check it entirely offline.

Nice solid non-cable bike lock. Preferably a large hardened steel u-bolt lock.

I’ve been a big fan of Kryptonites New York Lock as well as their Kryptolok. Both have really nice mounts to attach the lock to the bike when not in use and the kryptolok comes with a robust cable that makes locking up the wheels easier. (do not use the cable to secure the main bike)

Using them correctly is important as well. Lots of people lock one of the wheels and not the frame. You’ve got to lock the frame itself to a solid object that it can’t be slid off of and optionally lock the wheels to the frame using a cable or chain.