Matrix is aimed at enterprise sized organizations and it shows.

Actually I think the Bush example is a bad one because I think that aspect of the 2016 election was memory-holed.

Originally the media was pushing Jeb Bush vs. Hillary Clinton, and Clinton herself was so fucksure that was going to be the match up she pushed her media contacts to focus on lunatics like Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, trying to show people how crazy they were. She underestimated two things here.

1. People being tired of both the Bushes and the Clintons. Trump came in as an outsider and shook things up, as no one was enthusiastic for Jeb “please clap” Bush. Clinton used the fact that she was essentially funding the entire DNC apparatus to put the finger on the scale because no one was really excited for her either, although she never had an equivalent “please clap” moment.

2. How people saw politicians like Bush and Clinton as maneuvering and calculating and following the winds of popularity rather than facing difficult problems head on. As much as Clinton was right to peg Trump as a lunatic, she underestimated (I did and still do too, I don’t get it) Trump’s charisma. Her self assuredness that it would be her vs. Bush was a total misread of an era where people were sick of current politicians in general and any kind of outsider became appealing (the explosion of interest in Bernie Sanders is snother example in the same period).

Anyway I think the push for Bush . Clinton alienated a lot of voters from both. I remember it was a common complaint I heard at the time from both people on the left and right.

Why do people keep helping him???

Why does the rest of the world keep rolling over to his idle fucking threats???

I mean Trump is doing roughly the same just not with words.

Windows DNS (I’m sorry)

Lmao. Hey what works for you is what works for you, don’t let naysayers steer you wrong.

It pains me that new achewood is behind a paywall. I understand it, I can’t justify affording it.

Fleet Commander 🚀

• Fleet: More than 10 devices · 21–50 TB
• Motivation: Independence from Big Tech & subscriptions, Fun / the hobby itself, Customization & full control
• My MVPs: Homepage, homelable.net, healthchecks.io, ntfy.sh, WireGuard

My fleet sounds bigger than it is since theyre all small or older and also small underpowered devices (repurposed laptops, low end chromebox, various pis).

This might sound like an off-the-wall suggestion, but waaaaaay back in the day, Trent Reznor was in on the torrent game, he had an account on Oink.UK way way way back. He described it as the best music store in existence.

It’s a shot in the dark, but reach out to him, that’s a person who could really help something like this become a reality who has the money and the knowledge of the music legal system to approach it. He also likely has similar ideology, as evidenced by his joy at Oink.UK. I know he cares about how much artists get paid and wants it to be better, he also understood the value proposition Oink offered. Anyway, perhaps the kind of famous person who could help this project really get off the ground.

https://www.wired.com/2007/10/trent-reznor-on/

** I’ll admit I had an account there and frequented it quiteoften. At the end of the day, what made OiNK a great place was that itwas like the world’s greatest record store. Pretty much anything youcould ever imagine, it was there, and it was there in the format youwanted. If OiNK cost anything, I would certainly have paid, but thereisn’t the equivalent of that in the retail space right now. iTunes kindof feels like Sam Goody to me. I don’t feel cool when I go there. I’mtired of seeing John Mayer’s face pop up. I feel like I’m being hustledwhen I visit there, and I don’t think their product is that great. DRM, low bit rate, etc. Amazon has potential, but none of them get aroundthe issue of pre-release leaks. And that’s what’s such a difficultpuzzle at the moment. If your favorite band in the world has a leakedrecord out, do you listen to it or do you not listen to it? People onthose boards, they’re grateful for the person that uploaded it — they’re the hero. They’re not stealing it because they’re going to makemoney off of it; they’re stealing it because they love the band. I’mnot saying that I think OiNK is morally correct, but I do know that itexisted because it filled a void of what people want.

This is a really interesting idea, sitting here reading the website. The main issue for current artists with deals with record labels would be needing to re-negotiate rights so they are allowed to “distribute” it in such a way.

But yes! I too have had the same thought for years about bittorrent as distributed cloud storage! Thank you for trying to make that a reality!

I will patiently watch this project with great interest. I am sorry to say I am far too broke to contribute at the moment, but I have high hopes that you succeed nonetheless!

Hey at least you can admit it, a lot of folks cant

The word “sovereign” is setting off alarm bells for me.

Yeah needing an account is antithetical to open source and an affront to piracy and if it was a private tracker they shouldn’t and wouldn’t be advertising like this.

No, no they did not. They thought Daddy Musk and Daddy Trump would always be there for them.

I just finished setting up Komodo because I couldn’t find other alternatives that seemed to fit my needs. I didn’t see Arcane amongst those ones I researched. Neat, thanks.

20 years ago a friend of mine mixed that old video with Cadence Weapon’s “30 Seconds” and named it “copy that floppy”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA6TD5iTTKQ

I wonder if they’re using any of the *arrs to do this since its a faster response time to get into the peerlist as quick as possible before anyone can complete the initial download.

A decent copy that someone was kind of enough to remove watermarks from. Still not sure it’s a great thing to be sharing here, but I don’t know how peertube works or if that makes it safer.

Interesting, but it also looks like it might be a paid service.

Those indeed can be fun but be aware they’re almost assuredly doing facial recognition on their users, and the whole system works by always retrieving the files themselves from a remote server, I’m fairly sure they don’t even cache on your phone (I could be wrong there, though). It’s really up to you if you think it’s all fun enough and worth having fun socializing with your friends with the risk of lack of privacy in that respect. Maybe you can keep it to a minimum of anything important being talked about? Unless you have a major reason to worry about being targeted, most people can probably safely dip in just for a handful of throwaway conversations with friends.

Sorry other folk don’t read modern slang.

Boy, George you sure are a cunt.