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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • UBlock origin will let you do this. Come back to this comment in a couple minutes…

    Edit: Add something like this to your uBlock Origin custom filters. (The sites I included are all paywalls, but you can substitute your own)

    feddit.org.##.title:has-text(/theintercept.com|economist.com|military.com|wired.com|theverge.com|theglobeandmail.com|404media.co|nytimes.com|vox.com|washingtonpost.com|theatlantic.com/)

    This will turn something like this:

    into something like this:

    (The “Anker’s Sound” post has had its link and headline hidden)

    Reddit Enhancement Suite had FilteReddit, which had more fine grained controls to block posts linking to specific sites. I’ve been looking for a Lemmy equivalent, but UO is the best I’ve found so far.










  • I start typing in URLs that aren’t linked anywhere on the site, then I’m accessing stuff the site hasn’t explicitly indicated I have access to.

    Doesn’t work like that. With the policy you describe, anyone who ever sees a “404” error is a criminal.

    I don’t have to publish everything I am willing to offer. You are free to ask for something I may or may not have. I get to decide how to respond to your request.

    To use your analogy, I can walk up to your door and request a glass of water. You’ve never explicitly offered a glass of water to anyone; I’m still allowed to ask. If you dont want me to have your water, you can say “No” or you can ignore me.

    When you go ahead and give me a glass of water, you don’t get to claim I stole it from you. It is not theft to ask.

    You have to make some sort of effort to have your web server limit my access, and I have to make some sort of effort to convince your webserver to bypass those restrictions before you can claim I am exceeding my authorization.


  • Terrible analogy. A webserver is not at all like a door. It doesn’t block or allow traffic to and from your file system.

    A web server is more like a receptionist. It handles requests. “Can I have your basic catalog?” “Certainly, here you go.”

    “Can I get this item from your basic catalog?” “Certainly.”

    “I don’t see it in your catalog, but my buddy said he got this other item from you. Can I have this other item too?” “Absolutely.”

    “Can I borrow your stapler?” Sure. “How about a pad of paper?” “Of Course”. “Can I just have the contents of your supply closet?” “Here you go.” “How about your accounting files, can I get those?” “No problem!” “How about your entire customer list?” “Consider it done!”

    When you hire a receptionist and specifically tell them to give customers anything they request, that’s entirely on you. You have to at least make a token effort to restrict access to only authorized users before you can even claim that a particular user was unauthorized.

    This wasn’t burglary. This was putting up signs that say “come in” and labeling everything in your house with “free” stickers.






  • Those letters originate from the rights holders, who have leechers in the swarm, verifying that you are actively uploading data to them. Your ISP doesnt care if you torrent, or who you torrent to. They wont originate a letter unless a rightsholder requires them to.

    The rightsholder has your IP address, and the name of the file you sent them. Data for those files was sent to their leechers by your IP address, perhaps not by you, but by some machine operating on your network, or through it.

    It is possible that the letter to your ISP included a list of both IP addresses belonging to several of their customers, and filenames sent from all of those customers. It is possible that the ISP sent out letters to each of the individual subscribers, and just attached the full list of files from the original complaint.