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black0ut@pawb.socialto Today I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL BOK Tower in Tulsa, Oklahoma is basically a half scale model of the old World Trade CenterEnglish10·3 days agoThere’s an even smaller scale tower, also built by the same architect, and also using the same design as the WTC. It’s in Madrid, Spain.
Promotes crypto, it’s based on chromium and the CEO is an asshat.
black0ut@pawb.socialto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Does a vpn really matter when torenting? Do people care?English2·13 days agoAsk people from your country, or look online to see if torrenting is prosecuted there. If people don’t get letters from the ISP, you can just enable encryption in your torrent software and forget about it.
I’ve been torrenting without VPN for a decade (Spain), and never had any issues, not even traffic slowdowns.
Edit: You’re probably gonna see a lot of advice to always use a VPN. Most of this advice is from US users, who are not used to torrenting without VPNs. The truth is, as with everything, it really depends. I’m not a fan of generalized answers to questions, and the same advice isn’t as good for every situation. VPNs are a barrier of entry, and they also come with a slowdown. If you’re starting to torrent and VPNs are not necessary in your country, don’t be afraid to torrent without one. But of course, if you’re from the US, you’ll have to use one!
black0ut@pawb.socialto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Techbros invented trains...again. Except much more complex, much more dangerous, and with much less capacity.English3·21 days agoI don’t know why you’re being downvoted. I’d say you’re wrong, because it’s 10/10 times these things don’t work. I’ve seen many similar projects get proposed, funded and abandoned (even some that really did sound more efficient than this to me). The truth is, standard trains are still the cheapest thing you can put on those rails. They’re simple, repairable, predictable, they don’t break easily, can be easily driven by anyone or automated with standard systems that have been around for decades. Even if a small govt can’t buy a new train, they can get second hand trains from other cities, which will still work perfectly for decades.
black0ut@pawb.socialto Memes@lemmy.ml•Stop using a browser that violates user freedom and privacy!2·21 days agoMv2 is not a website API, it’s a browser API, only used by extensions. It tells the browser how the extension wants to deal with the sites. No matter what methods and APIs and standards the sites use, Mv2 would still be able to do what it does now.
black0ut@pawb.socialto Memes@lemmy.ml•Stop using a browser that violates user freedom and privacy!2·22 days agoFirefox will not drop Mv2 support in the forseeable future. It is a huge burden to keep the standard for all chromium forks, but firefox and firefox forks do not need to carry that burden. In the far future, web standards and technologies might change enough for Mv2 to not be effective, but that is a long time away, and depends on how the technologies and standards evolve.
black0ut@pawb.socialto Memes@lemmy.ml•Stop using a browser that violates user freedom and privacy!4·22 days agoNotes worth making:
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Mv2 will not be deprecated in firefox or firefox based browsers
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Adblock plus is not the best adblocker extension, even for Mv3. uBlock has made a version that works with Mv3, called uBlock Lite
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Even though Mv3 adblockers exist, they will always be worse than Mv2 adblockers, because they have a limited set of rules.
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black0ut@pawb.socialto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Cracked minecraft: where the heck is it? How do I obtain it???English2·23 days agoTLauncher was caught with malware
black0ut@pawb.socialto Games@lemmy.world•Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPEEnglish19·29 days agoMinecraft, the game that sold the most copies in history, has a huge infrastructure of community-hosted servers, some with tens of thousands of players playing at the same time. The community has created different flavors of the server software, optimized it, added mod support and even reprogrammed parts of it.
At this point, it’s hard for me to believe how someone could say a community can’t run game servers with a straight face.
black0ut@pawb.socialto Gaming@beehaw.org•Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone20·1 month agoPublish schematics with every piece of hardware you make. Paradise for repair technicians and retro tech enthusiasts in a few decades.
black0ut@pawb.socialto Europe@feddit.org•France bans smoking in parks, beaches and bus stopsEnglish18·1 month agoThe prohibition is not for your health, it’s because everyone else also has to breathe your smoke.
Smoke in private, not in public places, and especially not in public places where children play.
black0ut@pawb.socialto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•*Permanently Deleted*English3·1 month agoLucida already didn’t rip from spotify, nor does doubledouble. Try to get your songs from another service if they’re available (Qobuz and Tidal usually have good availability and high quality)
Linux apps follow simplicity principles. If you don’t have permission to delete a file, why assume you may know the password of the user who has permission?
You can preface
sudo
to any command to execute it with root privileges, which would be similar to running as admin in windows.Graphical apps do tend to ask for authentication if it makes sense. No userland apps should need more permissions than the current user’s in order to run.
black0ut@pawb.socialto World News@lemmy.world•Spain wants exemption from NATO’s 5 percent defense spending targetEnglish201·1 month agoSpain used to have a budget of around 1% of their GDP for the military. It was so much that they actually could not spend it. Now that the budget has tripled almost overnight, they are having an internal crisis because there is no way they can use up all that money, even if they overbought 200% of supplies and overpaid for them.
Increasing military budget is useless, because the service will not improve with it, just the useless spending and inefficiency. And because of the rushed spending, I’m sure the move will increase corruption.
Last I heard is that he compiles the kernel on an AMD machine (with a threadripper iirc), so he also has a beefy desktop.
I’ve been looking for that version for years, but for some reason I can’t find it anymore
black0ut@pawb.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website.English1·2 months agoIt really isn’t that slow, last time I tried to homebrew a working DNS tunnel it maxed my 100mbps card. I never needed the extra speed so I didn’t try to see how fast it could be on a 1gbps card
Don’t use AI slop, please