I pay yearly more for IPv4 address space for virtual machines on my dedicated server than for that dedicated server itself _(ツ)_/.

Let that thing die.

Monthly summary:

54.40€ - 30 IPv4 addresses
0.00€ - 18 quintillion IPv6 addresses
38.39€ - whole server for dozens of services

Really bullshit ISP indeed.

Checklist for Migrating to HTTPS:

• Disable all 443 port traffic

Install Linux.

Install Windows 11 LTSC on virtual machine.

Profit.

I can’t even buy a movie anymore, so if I want to keep it I need to pirate.

By making us able to actually buy them, right? Right? 🫠

I still buy DVD and BluRay’s for some reason… Pirate only when I get lazy.

I wouldn’t want to run proprietary software even if it had negative price and the developer paid me.

I wouldn’t install it even if I would be paid.

Torrents: exists
Anonymizing networks: exists

This program: https://xkcd.com/927/

Then why not just turn on I2P on regular torrents on regular clients like qBitTorrent?

I2PD is an implementation is I2P, a way to anonymously share Disney’s IP without showing anyone IP to the ISP.

We need to get more stuff into darknet.

How about fighting the reason why those sites exist in the first place?

This is true. But honestly even if most of media I watch is from “sharing” sources, without seeing nice covers on my Jellyfin instance and Kodi app I would not buy so many movies and music eather.

Not speaking for everyone, this is just how I am but once every a couple of months I order some movies even if already watched because I… like this. Having separated bought and downloaded media is nice and seeing bought directory is satisfying, even if media companies seems to not let me easly buy things nowadays…

Remember kids: If you find a solution to a problem nobody on Google (or your search engine of choice) seems to has, put it as a blog post on your site!

It was mostly made for simple scripts to embed on a website for animations and handling updates without refreshing whole page. Not to make a full portable client (browser) side app.
Hating JavaScript is mostly a meme, it’s just a programming language. But its very loose syntax, fact it’s often someone’s first programming language to learn and how most programs written in it nowadays are a hack build on top of a hack on top a hack makes this language easy to laugh at.

Every programming language has it’s place.

JavaScript’s place is in hell.

Just type any game title to the torrent tracker and you’ll find you this is only for the first crack. After game is cracked by just one person, everybody can pirate it just like if there was no DRM.

DRM-free is exactly the reason I buy on GOG and would never pirate a game that exists on GOG.

Matrix was built by Israeli intelligence

It get some resources from them at the start, but they do not fund it for a long time.

consumes so many resources that it’s not feasible to self-host on most budgets

When you join large rooms like #matrix:matrix.org, it consumes a lot of space. But otherwise it is not that heavy. I hope they fix this, as this can be fixed with better resource planning, the biggest tables on the database are those like state_groups_state that does not hold bare information and just group information together for quick search. (I hosted a server and MatrixHQ room took 100GB…, 95% of the database).

As such it’s highly centralized

Looking at server list it seems very healthy. Also (opinion alert) I think having thousands of public server running by a randoms like there is for big chunk of Fediverse will not be as healthy as dozens of well funded community servers.

the community is still largely being ran by Matrix.org as the keeper of the implementation server

Synapse is not the reference server, there is no one official implementation for a purpose. And old news, it is now hosted by Element under AGPL.