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That's kinda implying that they only got elected because they had money and a good campaign instead of addressing issues that are not addresses in an effective way by the other parties.

This is probably the case of both things being true at the same time.

Welcome to the internet.

Not location based, but movie related: https://www.imcdb.org

Lots of links that get submitted here could qualify for that, it's often a content marketing blog post or a funnel to consulting / a service but that doesn't mean it can't be interesting to read (Hence the upvotes).

That rule is always polarizing, but there's many people who don't like to download FLAC as it's too large, or they don't want to keep seeding FLAC forever if they just convert it to V0 or 320 right away anyway. I'd agree that we don't need that many lossy formats though.

Nice! I've tried to build something similar with Unifi cameras (https://github.com/dewey/birdhomie) and it worked pretty well, the species detection wasn't that accurate but I'll continue on that project in the winter.

There's many ways to shoot yourself into the foot, most things that run in your userspace can do evil things and it's not an LLM exclusive feature. Any npm package you install on your machine can put you in danger already if it executes some scripts.

HN has very little understanding of many things, especially if you are familiar with <specific thing>.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_Amnesia_effect

Most people already run software like that on their computer, even if it's just your coding harness that could just as easily run ssh and use your keys in ~/.ssh to connect to your servers. In my case I'd get a permission prompt from 1Password as I have my keys in there, but with all the prompts that a modern macOS throws at you the chances of it getting approved mistakenly are not zero.

I'd not run OPs software either though.

I take issues with you calling it "antiquated", when it's just a different approach and both are valid and depend on a lot of factors if they are the right one for the specific community.

> The only downside is that it's missing some stuff

Which is literally the reason why trackers that aim at variety use the "antiquated system". Trackers that don't care about the long tail so much because they aim for popular content and accept that old torrents will get stale / unseeded can easily be ratioless. It's a simple case of "can't have it both ways".

There's a lot of content on private trackers that's not available on the public internet, especially when it's more local or obscure content. You'll always find the latest US tv shows or Hollywood movies everywhere, and will for many years but when you want to look for things like Austrian movies from the 80s, a specific country edition of a given CD or a vinyl ripped with a specific turntable and needle you'll need to be on a private tracker or private forum.

If that's not what you are after, it's not worth it. It's just a very specific hobby.

The easiest way to get upload on trackers is to upload your own content, on Red that's not very complicated if you have access to a library or another more obscure source of CDs that might not exist on the site yet.

The other way that requires more storage and longer term commitment is just to seed everything you download forever, including things that you grab on freeleech events or with tokens (A "bonus" given out on Red that you can redeem for a free download).

Thanks, missed that article.

> you know they have them internally...

What makes you think that? There's a lot of data centers that sell you access to colocated Mac Mini's, they have added FileVault unlock via SSH in the boot process which also makes things easier. There's not that many reasons to run a Mac in the cloud unless you have some very specific Mac related workload.

Render page in headless browser with JS, cache challenge solution, re-use on all your non-browser requests. Won't really change anything and it will auto-adapt to any new challenge that is being thrown.

> But rarely from a wget script without a session cookie

If you do scraping on a large scale you emulate a human very well to bypass bot protection. Setting dynamic but accurate user agents, setting proper sessions and persisting it, emulating the TLS handshake (https://fingerprint.com/blog/what-is-tls-fingerprinting-tran...) and emulating mouse movements to be more "human like" (https://github.com/oxylabs/OxyMouse) are table stakes.

Using a dictionary word for your project will never be easy, but what often happens now is to just not get the .com domain (Likely taken), or prefix with "get" and then later hope that you can time it right so that you can afford the clean .com domain...but not be famous enough that the buyer would want to get some crazy amount for it.

The vault of the cloud provider would just inject the value of the environment variable securely so it doesn't have to be stored on-disk. What the parent poster wrote isn't wrong.

I'm not doubting you but I have a hard time believing that, as I see it all the time. Sometimes restaurants even accept it if they don't take card and then ask you to send to their private PayPal account as a fallback. It's even part of many German memes around the German way of always splitting the bills, even if it's just < 5 euros.

We were having a lot of problems with that in Honduras, staff in the branch did not know how to do that, fees are extremely high and sometimes the bank system is just offline and you get sent home. There's a reason all these alternatives like Western Union etc. exist for this remittance use case.

It was a big reality check for me usually living in Germany and having access to a lot of banks and modern neo-banks.

Easy to say when you are in a country where you have a lot of options.

There's some countries with very bad financial sector where your option is PayPal or Western Union as the local banks don't know how to do international transfers, Remitly doesn't support all countries and Wise also doesn't work. PayPal works, even if they charge fees.

They don't really announce new iPads at the iPhone event.

I was curious and just looked it up: Germany reached 36.8% in 2024 (https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/SharedDocs/Pressemitteilung...).

DHH has a large following, so do many people in this network. His blog posts are often discussed here, it's not really surprising that it gets attention and you don't need secret astroturfing or sneaky marketing if people just share / interact with it themselves organically.

Loved Adium and the community was great in building custom smileys (For the young people, that's how we called Emojis back in the days!), themes and dock icons.

Thanks! That was exactly the kind of "hidden usage" I was interested in as it seems to not be publicly used by a lot of people these days (As you can see by the user numbers on https://search.jabber.network/channels/1).

The only place where I regularly stumble upon on it was/is on libgen.

> Matrix reinvented the wheel as a rubber-tyred metro. On paper, it provides real benefits, such as climbing steeper inclines, which are then used to aggressively advertise and lobby local governments to buy in. But in the end, the municipality gets locked into a single vendor.

I stumble upon Matrix from time to time, but Jabber I haven't really seen anywhere in the past decade after my internet friends moved to IRC. Are there any bigger communities still using it? Back in the days Facebook Messenger was backed by it, so maybe there's still some bigger entity using it as a backbone for something?

Don't blame the user for a fault of the market and regulation.

In the real world you'll always only ever see the duopoly of Android / iOS for phones for example. This can be government apps, parking apps, apps for your utilities etc. so it's not like there's an easy choice to opt-out of that. It's not much different for laptops (Will still have some non-free blob in them for some driver), TVs, kitchen appliances.