I played ps2 heavily for a couple of years. Fun game.

I remember organizing several squads to play tactics when the main zerg pushes were off doing random stuff. There was a lot of planning and tactics that had to happen specifically around guessing what the public players would end up naturally pushing for. Colloquially known as “the zerg”. Almost treated like a mass of self-organizing players, but in reality they were just individuals who happen to follow each other to random places.

Eg. leadership comms would be flooded with plans of “The zerg is pushing towards Tawrich, We should send Alpha and Bravo over to Zurvan to split the TR forces (maybe recapture that) and Charlie to crown to intercept backup/vehicle spawns. Delta needs to fuck off with pulling those tanks… get in the fucking building.”

Grass is a category of plants (over 10000 species). Americas had grass before Europeans came.

Right but my point is they would just submit the request to the host server. If the original is taken down then all the federated service will lose the comments as well.

Not how federation works. Let’s take a lemmy post as an example. If a server is federated with another and a new post is made, all subscribed servers are notified and a copy of the item is sent in that notification. If the original is “taken down” the copies still exist on the other servers and any deletion event is in ALL of their modlogs. ANY instance can “undelete” or revert the removal, or just ignore the deletion request all together (or roll back the database, or any number of operations to revert a change). The items doesn’t just go away. The “origin” doesn’t have all that much power to force other listening servers to do anything.

This also extends to comments. I run my own small instance with me and a few friends. My server never had serious downtime because it’s just us. Our access to larger instances never “vanished” even as their sites went completely down. The local content is effectively cached regardless of the state of the origin server.

If the host server just straight up ignores turkey then they’ll block all servers that host Mastodon

Good luck with that… There’s a lot of servers that can talk the same federation protocol. You’re not going to get them all. Forget all the normal means of bypassing blocks… you have so many fediverse and threadiverse servers to attach to in order to access largely similar content.

How would being decentralised make any difference

You sign up on a server that isn’t in Turkey and doesn’t give a shit to respond to turkish demands.

Now turkey can only control the servers that are within it’s countries, and has to submit requests to ALL of them rather than just one. And even then can’t remove you from the rest of the federation.

Now that I have a bit more time later in the day…

https://privacysavvy.com/security/torrents/safest-countries-to-download-torrents-and-worsts/

Switzerland Switzerland tops the list of the most torrent-friendly countries. Swiss law gives every citizen the right to download music, movies, books, and all types of copyrighted content as long as it’s for personal use.

Spain Spain is almost as safe a country as Switzerland for torrenting and filesharing users. The legal precedent was set in 2006 when a judge ruled that downloading, keeping, and using copyrighted files was fine as long as no profiting was involved.

Poland The legal status of file sharing is nowhere near as explicit in Poland as in the previous two countries. Instead, it’s more of a nobody’s land. No written law or official legal precedent refers to “personal use” as an acceptable instance of possession and use. However, there seems to be legal consent in legal opinions that point to the private use of copyrighted material as legal and acceptable.

And this is just the EU… You think ANY African or South American government gives a flying fuck? (Really the best you’ll find is that it’s illegal on paper but there’s virtually/effectively 0 enforcement).

You think most of Asia gives a flying fuck?

China as mentioned before only cares if you’re stealing from within China. Russia is the same in that they don’t care about outside companies but only if you hurt another Russia/friendly company.

To be frank, it’s only a handful of countries that actually care about international IP laws. You’re so far out in left field with your claims that it’s actually sad. It’s almost like you live in one particular country and assume the rest of the world is the exact same. When in reality the rest of the world really doesn’t care, like nearly at all.

There are no goalposts.

Yes you did. You switched from “supporting” to “illegal”. Which are two separate and distinct conception. Murder is illegal… How many people around these parts support Luigi? See… two completely separate topics.

This isn’t my opinion. It’s an incontestable fact that stealing IP is illegal in 98% of every country on this planet.

Cool. Then next time don’t talk about “support” when you meant “legality”. And further please cite the 98% claim, as I will definitely contest it. And be careful to fall into the trap for countries that DO care about IP laws, but only within their country (China).

There is no VPN on this planet which “supports” theft of IP.

So you think they setup these torrent help pages and don’t expect people to use torrents in an illegal manner? Do you think that the Windscribe page wouldn’t come up in a lawsuit if they were dragged into one to put some onus on the provider themselves for supporting their users in the process of torrenting illegal content?

You think these companies are just stupid? You think they don’t recognize that capturing this group of customers is valuable to them?

Which is absolutely not the same and you pretending that it is, is disgusting behavior.

I never weighed in on my thoughts on the matter at all. You have no idea if I support torrenting illegal content or not.

Truly infantile.

Says the person who’s failing to comprehend basic language and easy premises while claiming actual things that nobody else claimed.

There are currently 2-3 countries where torrenting IP isn’t illegal.

Why are you moving goalposts? You stated originally:

You’re going to be very hard pressed in finding a VPN that supports torrenting.

MANY support it. Supporting something in of itself doesn’t speak to it’s legality.

I know they’re not popular anymore, but PIA supports it, was taken to court over it, provided nothing (no log service, so couldn’t provide anything) and walked away clean. You don’t get that if what they were doing was illegal. And if they thought the risk actually mattered, they would have changed their policy to keep their company alive. But they didn’t. So they support it (about as much as anyone would care to support it) and have been tested by courts.

The sad part is… if you had read the OP, you could have done 3 seconds of research and found https://windscribe.com/knowledge-base/articles/using-windscribe-with-torrent-clients/… Which is literally the VPN service being discussed EXPLICITLY talking about configuring torrent clients. Wouldn’t creating pages to support users who are looking for configuration for this “illegal” thing be direct evidence that you’re full of shit?

I absolutely fucking beg you to stop embarrassing the dictionary by learning and using words correctly, and to stick to the topic that you literally brought up.

Well… You’ll at the very least wish that you had a car.

But it’s a good game. Try it. Find out. :)

Nope, it wasn’t… Even then though, the game is old enough that we can no longer assume that people have even played the game anymore. Kids are using the internet that would have been born after FO:NV. There are likely some 20 year olds on this site that have never played it because they would have been too young.

Fallout Vegas. Load up the game and go walk through Sloan right at the start.

Exactly, even in nazi Germany soldiers could refuse to kill civilians without very harsh consequences.

Tell that to my dead great uncle. Who was a conscript (german soldier), shot and killed on a train transporting people to concentration camps.

I was going to leave this alone… your original comment was correct enough that it wouldn’t matter and your “dedicated attacker” left it fine when i read it before.

but your edit has a gaping flaw. you assume that all content in the library would be physically released. lots of shows and movies are not physically released now. Can’t claim “backup” for those. The moment a movie studio finds your stuff and can map a few titles and one of them never had a physical release… your in the shit.

but yes you can be much harder to scan overall with a few steps. fail2ban is a great answer that makes it deeply unlikely to be an issue.

but i wish that they’d just fix it.

edit: OR that they wouldn’t try to go after you for distribution…

All of these “vulnerabilities”, require already having knowledge of the ItemIDs, and anyone without it poking around will get banned.

Which are simply MD5 hashes… You can precompile (rainbow tables) those. The “knowledge” here to get a valid video stream is “What path is the file on” which is pretty standardized. This is a good way to have a major movie studio’s process server knocking on your door.

you’ll have to put your Jellyfin server on the Internet.

Don’t.

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/5415

“In the environment you just described”

So wheres the rest of the prompt then?

Why the fuck do we keep acting like this shit is content worth interacting with?

They can also crawl this publically-accessible social media source for their data sets.

Crawling would be silly. They can simply setup a lemmy node and subscribe to every other server. Activitypub crawler would be much more efficient as they wouldn’t accidentally crawl things that haven’t changed, but instead can read the activitypub updates.

No upselling.

Bullshit. Within minutes of registering just to look at some stuff I got spammed with all sorts of bullshit via email. Custom one-off throwaway email alias.

Bush also brought the PATRIOT act to open a lot of authoritarian doors.

What sort of history revisionism are you peddling here? The Patriot act was bipartisan. We have records of the votes. like 75% of dems approved it. And 98-1-1 in the senate… https://www.justice.gov/archive/ll/subs/detailed_vote_2001.htm

Hell if we’re making this partisan, the republicans have a better claim that they’re trying to end it…

In November 2019, the House approved a three-month extension of the Patriot Act which would have expired on December 15, 2019. It was included as part of a bigger stop-gap spending bill aimed at preventing government shutdown which was approved by a vote of 231–192. The vote was mostly along party lines with Democrats voting in favor and Republicans voting against. Republican opposition was largely due to the bill’s failure to include $5 billion for border security.[253]

You using crypto to buy your toilet paper is not a mass scale use case and it is irrelevant.

So then you claim that being able to buy stuff isn’t a “mass scale” use case…

You realize that’s fucking stupid right?

As I said, I can and do buy things regularly (though “rare” comparatively with the normal fiat purchases) with crypto. Other’s can do with me as well as the sites that I do it on do it as well. I can prove that by looking at the block chain and seeing the traffic in their wallets.

So “way to go man!” Unless you actually have something more meaningful than “nuh uh”. You’re kind of full of shit.

Edit: Lack of “big” vendors doing it != not possible at mass scale.

Dell at one point accepted crypto. They stopped because of regulation, not because of technical limitation. And sites like Newegg still accept it.

Over the 15+ years that we’ve had crypto, there have been only two viable uses. All others have failed:

Criminal activity (including brutal stuff like enabling NK/Russia and drug cartels)
Financial speculation (in of itself often a malicious activity where the goal is to dump your worthless bags on a mark)

Huh, Weird… Every use I’ve ever used crypto for doesn’t fall into these two categories. So I guess your assumptions and thus everything you based your logic/responses on must be faulty and incorrect.

I use Crypto much like I use my second language/citizenship. Rarely… However, that doesn’t mean I don’t use it legally. And simply holding onto the crypto != financial speculation. Nobody treats a savings account as “financial speculation”.

I’ve paid for plenty of things from my crypto wallets. Ranging from several to thousands of dollars.

And yes, I would like my payment for toilet paper and bell peppers to be private. Strictly for the fact that I don’t want Mega-corpo stores to be able to track and advertise to me based on my payment method. “Club cards” to advertise/track you are a thing. Large chains can do this same thing with payment methods details. So yes, being “real” here, I not only require it, but demand it.

Your premise is bad. And based on your other responses you don’t care to address it at all.