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Fantastic rebuttal kindergartener, you convinced everyone.

Yes I read it when it first came out, and again after a recent update. It's very opinionated and I remain unconvinced the criticisms amounts to very much. At the least, certainly not to the point where words like nazi and fascist should be thrown around!

For example, I dislike Yarin's and Lunduke's politics but I did at least watched Yarin's interview. (Did you? It was boring, and entirely tech-oriented, nothing controversial at all.) But... trial by association I guess. And anyway, it's not the article itself I have a problem with - it's the borrowing of second-hand opinions as if they should be your own. Sometimes, it's prudent to reserve judgement (until 'verifying every single thing'), or criticise specific ideas, without leaping to ad hominem per consortium.

I find it wild in this day and age how questions like ("why do WE hate" such and such) are being asked in the first place, then answered through one person's opinion piece mindlessly linked from all angles. Please, for gawd sake, stop listening to random fedditors/redditors about what opinions you should adopt!

IMHO (<- there's a novel approach), the criticisms of FUTO are just as biased and political as FUTO themselves, and everyone should be sceptical of bias from all sides. Apparently, focusing on 'privacy, decentralization, and right to repair' - is being too political, and they're not allowed to have a philosophical take on what they imagine successful open source to be. (Incidentally, I'm not necessarily on FUTOs side, just pissed off at the nature of social media to obviate the need of critical thinking and make everything black or white.)

Is this really much of an issue? They provide documentation and a repository of scripts for working with WG for instance. And I've been using this docker container for many years without issue.

Duplicacy

You maybe right about the authoritarian part, but I guarantee you they don't know a thing about technology - evidenced by their unwillingness to listen to experts on matters like the Online Safety Act or on trying to outlaw e2ee. Starmer made Peter Kyle Secretary of State for Science, who said "For everyone thinking of using a VPN, verifying your age keeps a child safe ... so let's not try find a way around, just prove your age, make the internet safer for children." Authoritarian certainly is an adjective to describe these people, but so also is clueless.

Nah. The monarchy absolutely is not part of our identity. More importantly, they don't have any part in making decisions - parliament and the current govt. do.

We have some croaky institutions (the Lords) and a stupid voting system (first past the post - just like the U.S) but the monarchy is just a figurehead with some unfair land ownership laws - but the monarchy itself has no authority on this. Today's bs comes down to heir Starmer's cluelessness/arrogance.

Have 3x such WD Reds 3TBs with average ~100K hours power on each, 34.77 years total.

Spent most of that time in a HP Microserver N54L Windows 2012 R2 server with DrivePool, Scanner and SnapRAID. Now they're in a custom build Proxmox in RAIDZ1. Have no intention of retiring them. :)

Device Model: WDC WD30EFRX-68AX9N0

ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x002f   200   200   051    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0027   179   178   021    Pre-fail  Always       -       6033
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   098   098   000    Old_age   Always       -       2163
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   200   200   140    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x002e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   001   001   000    Old_age   Always       -       110229
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       123
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       35
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       2127
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   115   088   000    Old_age   Always       -       35
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0008   200   200   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0

BiglyBT (aka Vuze previously Azureus) has a decentralised chat feature akin to IRC. It's not very active but it's technically very interesting and still working. Rooms can be based on per-torrent, language, region, general purpose and even custom.

It's a crying shame more people didn't adopt AceStream. It functioned exceptionally well, when the streaming sites put up links (hashes basically) instead of just http5 web streams. The fact it wasn't open source probably didn't help, but it did have a modified VLC client and was truly P2P.

TERF island or the 4th Reich

I get wanting to boycott Israelis due to what their government is doing, but you do realise blocking (the good-ish) half of America is gonna seriously hamper your ability to complete torrents? And if you think the UK is full of TERFs, you probably need to verify your news sources and statistical acumen. You shouldn't always tar with the same brush...

Aside from this, on a technical merit this is gonna have absolutely zero effect - because in a torrent, you're part of a mesh - those bits will instantly funnel through peers one way or another, and you'll never convince enough of the swarm to have an impact. Presumably, the 'content' you're torrenting aligns with your personal ethics anyway, and you're not spreading hate. So why bother?

Complete and utter waste of time.

WTF! How did it hit target already? Hope there wasn't any bot farming involved...

Otherwise, pleasantly surprised!