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If you’re in the UK, any targeted throttling of your connection is considered traffic shaping and is illegal pretty much always.

Your ISP is required to publish documentation on all traffic throttling that they employ, even if it’s none. Check out their documentation and see what it says, if you’re in the UK.

“the government” - doesn’t bother to mention which government xD

I’m guessing you’re from Finland, right?

I considered buying it, I tried it out on Gamepass first, and alas it crashed 5 times with illegal memory access errors before I could even get past character creation haha.

I’m looking forward to trying out the game, I just can’t afford to buy the full thing at the moment, and will have to wait until they’ve patched out the more serious bugs.

Which is fine of course! I’ll just wait 6 months or so, and come back to it then ^_ If I’d paid money for it I’d have been upset, but as it stands I’m good.

What’s that about only getting 720p though? My TV shows the 4K HDR stuff great from places like Netflix or Prime, has done for years now, and my TV isn’t even new. Surely all modern stuff will show all that high definition stuff just fine.

I think my browser does too, though I only have a 2K screen as of recently on my PC, but I’m certain it’s not playing video in 720p for sure. It’s at least 1080p if not more.

But yeah, these services aren’t giving enough bang for their pound these days, it’s reaching insulting levels, it’s unsurprising people are forced into piracy.

The consumer (or if you prefer, the market) decides what someone is worth, and if it’s being sold for above market value… people won’t buy. Simple as that.

We’ve shown we’re happy to pay a reasonable amount of money for these services, and yet they insist on squeezing exorbitant amounts of money out of us for less and less value. Madness.

They absolutely have to cover everything. The idea of voting a politician into office knowing they aren’t competent in all aspects of their job is wild to me.

Am I going to vote for an MP that has no knowledge of policies on healthcare, welfare, etc? Of course not, that would be deeply irresponsible.

My man, I can barely afford to pay to heat my sick, elderly parents living room (yes just that room, the rest of the house stays cold, can’t afford it).

I’m not donating money to anyone at all and won’t for the foreseeable future. When I do, it’ll be to cancer research <3

But I believe FOSS is a noble cause and if I were wealthy I absolutely would.

I don't even have a 3d printer yet so I don't have a horse in this race, but given how countries are clamping down on 3d printers and such, like that thing I saw from lawmakers in new york (usa) where they want people to pass a background check or such to buy a 3d printer,

wouldn't it be a good idea to have a tracker that does 3d print stuff? Does the thingiverse etc have print files for copyrighted objects and components that breach patents and such? Or dare I say it, weapons and that side of things (which I don't support but it's a thing)?

I think a proper, free from national control resource is the best way. I hope such a thing exists. I can see myself one day needing to replace a part in my coffee machine or something, and thingiverse/etc not having the part file because it breaks the patent/intellectual property of the coffee machine company to host it, you know?

What if the post isn't particularly appropriate for one community, but very good for another? No point having it float to the top of the one it's not the best fit for.

Like, maybe it's still relevant on that community but shouldn't be artificially inflated with votes from an entirely different group of people with different interests.

Nice idea, I just don't think it would be good in practice.

it has devolved into… what’s a torrent? is this site ok?

Ah yes, gatekeeping people who are new and asking for help.

A great way to build a thriving community that will be doing great 10 years from now, by alienating all the new people who are starting to take an interest and ask for some advice.

The big question:

When I try to click on anything on the page, does it try to load pop-unders, or try to redirect me to very dodgy looking URLs?

The smaller question:

Will this be another private tracker, inaccessible without a special invite that’s impossible to get (or having to tie in my personal information, like an email address, just to access it)?

If the answer to all that is no, I’m excited! :-D

P.S Bonus important question: Can it sort the whole database of torrents by most-seeded? You’d think that would be a given, but websites like TPB don’t do this any more and it makes it impossible to simply browse - which is what I do, one must know exactly what they’re looking for. Bummer :-(

Is that like https://criticker.com ? I adore that website, it gives me great recommendations and drilling down into their film database with filters is great.

If you like it, they gave a thing to accept donations to keep it running too :-)

Woah now, who said people over 30 are old? 😮

Anyway, your average internet user in 2023 wants to sign in to a platform with ease (preferably using one tap sign in with their Facebook/Google/whatever account).

They also want that one platform to have everything, in an easy to access and digest format, without having to learn complex rules about how a system works.

The days of needing to understand a bunch of stuff to use the latest social media service are gone, and if we build a website/service that requires us to know and understand more complex stuff, and add more barriers to entry, and MOST IMPORTANTLY if we split it up in to a thousand little corners instead of having it all in one place? People will shy away.

Another issue is consistency. People, myself included, want consistency and accountability. I want the people running the platform to be publicly known figures/companies that are accountable for the platform and how they run it, but with this fediverse stuff, it can be run by any anonymous person, who could be doing anything with the private data in our account back ends. And that could be the case hundreds of times over, with all sorts of groups, from all around the world.

There’s no accountability, no way to ensure they’re meeting requirements of our laws. It’s all very untrustworthy and wild west.

That’s fine for some people, but the majority of normal users? They want security, they want safety, they want simple ease of use.

What’s the deal with this support person being unaware of how to use basic capitalisation and punctuation in sentences?

We learned that when we were 6.

Deeply, deeply unprofessional. If I had an employee that was this bad at presenting themselves to those outside of the organisation, I’d either insist they learn how to write properly in their own time and apply it at work, or possibly let them go.

It may seem harsh, but they write like a child, and that would reflect very badly on us as a team and organisation in every interaction they had, every day.

If you’ve got nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all.

Calling a stranger an ass because they’re not living their life exactly how you would, in such a minor unimportant way, is not nice.

So the image never touches the server side, even in RAM, it always remains only on the client machine, and it’s checked there?

If so, then this could be a pretty neat tidy way to deal with this issue, otherwise the image is on the server, even if you “delete it real fast” or such, and I imagine then you’d still need to be in compliance with the law regarding saving and reporting it.

Damn, talk about antisocial and weird.

What if I just want to say hi to start a conversation, and I don’t have some ulterior motive? Or perhaps I’m waiting to gauge the other person’s mood or something else before asking them something?

What a weird, weird thing for this person to get a stick up their arse about. I’m sure they’re really fun to talk to :-/

local control of my garage door

This is wild. I never imagined I’d even need to control a garage door remotely o.O

Oooh, I’ve never even heard of searx or anything like this, sounds right up my alley though!! :-D Thank you

I’ve been looking for a tool to do this for YEARS, my god! Years!!! ❤️❤️

What country are you in the midwest of? That really sucks, I emphasise :-(

I know they have a lot of data aps like that in developing nations still, like those in Africa, but generally in the western world we moved past those around 15 years ago at least, thank the gods. I’ve not even had a date limit on my phone since 2014, so handy for tethering the laptop when I’m on the move!

I’m in the UK, for reference :-)