Nitrate55

Nitrate55, 10 months ago

Solution: do stuff with your friends on your computer.

Nitrate55, 10 months ago

You can’t. It isn’t possible right now, but from what I’ve heard they’re working on adding this feature. No indication of when they’ll add it, but it is coming.

For now, you can use Connect to block instances. It only applies when you’re using the app but it’s pretty useful regardless.

Nitrate55, 11 months ago

There’s a tiny ad banner that appears at the top of the discover page on Stremio, but it can easily be disabled by blocking Stremio’s ad domain in the hosts file.

Nitrate55, 11 months ago

I also found Kbin’s interface fairly awkward and all over the place. Lemmy’s Reddit-style interface is more to my preference personally. If you’re concerned about missing out on content from Kbin communities as I was when I first migrated, you can easily subscribe to Kbin magazines through the Lemmy Explorer, that way you’ll still be able to see stuff from Kbin without having to deal with Kbin’s UI.

Nitrate55, 11 months ago

Oh, I know what the issue there is. Apparently because Kbin is based on an older version of the ActivityPub protocol, when Kbin magazines are synced into Lemmy, posts from before the magazine was synced don’t show up. The only posts that show up on Lemmy are ones made after the magazine is synced, unlike the way it works between Lemmy instances where everything is synced all at once. I’m not sure if there’s anything the Lemmy devs can do to fix this. It might take Kbin switching to the latest version of the ActivityPub protocol for this to stop being an issue, but I’m unsure if the Kbin devs are willing to do that. They seem to be focusing on getting their API out right now.

Nitrate55, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Since no one has posted it yet, this site hosts a massive dump of every RARBG release ever, and you can easily search through it. Games, movies, shows, books, everything RARBG ever released is available there. There’s 5 and half petabytes of data there, it’s absurdly large.

Nitrate55, 11 months ago

Can’t really make apps for a site that doesn’t have an API. They did announce recently that Kbin’s API is nearly done, so soon there’ll be a flood of Kbin apps as well, and support for Kbin in all of the Lemmy apps too

Nitrate55, 11 months ago

Yeah I suppose not all of them will want to commit to supporting Kbin, but some definitely will. Honestly though, so long as it’s possible to search for and subscribe to Kbin magazines from Lemmy, that’s all I really care about.

Nitrate55, 11 months ago

I switched to AirVPN a month ago and haven’t encountered a single site blocking me from connecting with my VPN so far. I looked up GoDaddy and connected with the VPN on and it didn’t block me from going on the site. I connected with servers in Canada and the US. GoDaddy appears to be a site that sells domains, so even if they blocked people connecting to their site, I doubt they could force anyone who buys a domain from them to block VPN connections as well. And if they really are one of bigger domain retailers on the internet, I’m sure I would’ve encountered a site registered with them by now that’s blocking me from connecting.

Other than that, my experience with the VPN has been good so far. Page load times are good, port forwarding works, and download speeds reach the max for my internet plan. They appear to have a good privacy track record as well. I’d recommend it.

Nitrate55, 11 months ago

the best thing is to try any VPN service for a few days or a week to see whether anything annoying happens in your use case before jumping into a long term contract.

Agreed, that’s actually what I did with AirVPN myself before switching to it. Got their 3 day plan and used it the whole way through until I knew the service would work for me. It’s too bad not every service offers short plans this way. Fortunately, a lot of them do have 30 day refund policies, so you can just get any plan then cancel and request a refund before the 30 days are out.

Its also possible that the AirVPN servers that you use are not blocked like they are for mine

I think that might be the issue. I almost always connect through Canada servers, since those are always the fastest servers for torrenting and browsing when I sort the servers on the interface by latency vs torrent speeds. I do sometimes connect through their New York servers though, and haven’t really noticed any blocking when I do. Maybe they only block some US servers and not others, or I just don’t connect through the New York servers often enough to notice any blocking.

Nitrate55, 11 months ago

It’s absurd that this got so many downvotes. Some people are just too naive for their own good

Nitrate55, 11 months ago

the railroad actively sends out crews to maintain the tracks.

Damn, the railroad spawns its own crews for maintenance? That’s crazy

Nitrate55, 11 months ago

The hilarious thing is how their own bungling of the last season cost them the Star Wars gig. Maybe if they’d actually put in some effort instead of half assing it, they’d have gotten the job. But then again, the show was on a downward spiral since the end of Season 4, and Dumb and Dumber’s only talent was adapting the books really well (and even then, they still fudged details), so I suppose this was bound to happen.

Nitrate55, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Nobody is denying that the article is clickbait. The post itself isn’t though. This post refutes the article.

Nitrate55, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Another recent example of a horrible adaptation of a massive franchise is what Paramount did to Halo with their show. I can’t understand why they keep hiring writers that actively hate the source material and are only interested in taking existing stories and mangling them into their own shitty “vision”. It’s like Hollywood either hates writers who have actual passion for the franchises they’re adapting, or they can’t find them, which can’t be the case since these are beloved universes with millions of fans, many of whom are bound to be writers eager to work on an adaptation. They always hire talentless hacks interested in nothing more than a paycheck and doing what they want, not what the fans want. It’s infuriating.

Nitrate55, 11 months ago

What is this from?

Nitrate55, 11 months ago

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/f8826320-0a70-4a20-b461-a3111b9b5010.jpeg

Nitrate55, 11 months ago

Go right ahead, it’s not even originally mine lol

Nitrate55, 11 months ago

Just tried out my custom URL and it still works for me. Site is accessible as normal. The app also works just fine as well.

The login site is down, but the Tor site should still be accessible, so all one would have to do is just go there, generate a unique URL, and then use that on their normal browser. Or better yet, just use Anna’s Archive, which isn’t prone to getting taken down like this and was specifically made to replace Zlib.

Nitrate55, 11 months ago

Well for one, they don’t actually host anything on the site itself. Anna’s Archive is technically just a search engine for searching through backups of all the Libgen mirrors and Zlib. Since they made a point of scraping and backing up these shadow libraries, even if those sites themselves (and Anna’s Archive) go down, the backups will still be available. That on its own makes it a thousand times more useful to me than any single shadow library site. The backups are also hosted on IPFS and available via large torrent files, meaning anyone can download everything they have backed up and since their site’s code base is open source, anyone can fork the site and rehost everything should the need to do so ever arise.

They seem to have a very sophisticated system in place for ensuring that everything they’ve hosted will always be available no matter what. It inspires a lot of confidence, in my opinion. I personally don’t think they’ll ever go down, or if they do, a different team can pick up the slack by rehosting everything on a different site.

Nitrate55, 11 months ago

This page on Rentry has instructions for how to crack IDM. I’ve been using this method for a year now, it always works. Be sure to bookmark that page as you’ll need to repeat the instructions whenever IDM updates, but the program only updates rarely so you won’t even need to worry about that happening frequently.

Nitrate55, 11 months ago

Would be nice if there was an option in the settings to turn on the ability to see upvote and downvote counts for every post and comment. It’s pretty much the only reason I keep going back to Jerboa. I really like being able to see the amount of downvotes something might’ve gotten.

Nitrate55, 11 months ago

We referring to teachers as “it” now?

Damn. Underpaid and dehumanized all at once. That’s gotta be rough.

Nitrate55, 11 months ago

People who put yellow text on a white background should be prosecuted.

Nitrate55, 11 months ago

Just the idea of crudely drawn, overpriced pictures of apes needing to be repossessed because of missed loan payments makes me lose it.

It’s so absurd that it reads like a parody.

Nitrate55, 11 months ago

I use a server with low latency when I’m just browsing the internet, watching YT videos, or playing a multiplayer game. When torrenting, I switch to a server with good bandwidth. Fortunately, I just recently started using a VPN that lets you sort servers by latency vs bandwidth, so I can easily switch back and forth depending on what I happen to be doing at the time.

In most cases I don’t even need to do this though, since it’s usually pretty easy to find a server that has both low latency and good bandwidth.

Nitrate55, 11 months ago

It’s not even worth pirating, lol

Nitrate55, 1 year ago

Holy. The people in comments of those posts are completely insufferable. I haven't seen this much concentrated idiocy in one place in a while, and I've been on reddit for close to a decade.

Don't pay attention to these pricks, OP. All the interesting people are leaving reddit even now, and all that's left are the wretches who made that site a terrible place to be even long before the API controversy. It's not worth even trying to invite these people here. They'd only make the fediverse worse with their presence.

Nitrate55, 1 year ago

Yeah, calling him that is an insult to people with cerebral palsy lol

Nitrate55, 1 year ago

You should be looking for a VPN with port forwarding support if you’re going to be torrenting. Good speeds, good prices and robust privacy practices are just as important as well.

I personally switched to AirVPN after Mullvad discontinued Port Forwarding support. It fit all the criteria I was looking for, and the 20 forwarded ports are really convenient if you use more than 1 P2P program.

Nitrate55, 1 year ago

Suggestion: a setting that lets you set default sorting for comments would be great. So if I wanted post comments to be sorted by top by default, I could set that instead of needing to do it manually every time. Been looking everywhere for a Lemmy app that can do this, at least until the functionality is implemented into the site itself.

Nitrate55, 1 year ago

Awesome, thanks!

Nitrate55, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

I hate them both, but I hope Zucc beats the shit out of Musk. Assuming Musk doesn't just back out like a coward, anyway

Nitrate55, 1 year ago

They dance so we can sail.

Poetry.