dan
@dan@lemm.ee
- Comment on DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again 4 months ago:
Yeah I’m not paying for something and it still be illegal. I’d rather stick to piracy. I get your point and if it works for you that’s cool. But it’s not for me.
A good usenet setup with the Arr stack can automatically download basically anything you want and costs tens of dollars per year to run with very little, if any risk. (have there been any prosecutions for people downloading from usenet?)
With a little bit of work and an old computer for a server you can basically run your own automated piracy streaming service.
- Comment on DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again 4 months ago:
Disagree. In order to keep those keys secure they can’t publish them, so they’ll have to license some sort of decryption chip. That just pushes the price up as some manufacturer ends up taking a cut from every player sale.
Also means you can’t do what you want with it. You probably can’t play it on an open source device. Etc etc.
- Comment on DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again 4 months ago:
I won’t. “Copy protection” is much more about restricting and potentially even removing your access to something you’ve paid for than it is about preventing copying. I am not willing to buy something that can be revoked when alternatives are available.
- Comment on DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again 4 months ago:
I know, I modified it to make more sense for video.
- Comment on DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again 4 months ago:
I know. I changed the terms. Pray I don’t change them further.
- Comment on DVDs are dying right as streaming has made them appealing again 4 months ago:
Someone go make Steam for videos and I’ll pay for media again. My stipulations are:
- Once I buy it, it’s mine forever (otherwise piracy is better)
- The file is high quality, DRM free, and in a selection of standard formats (otherwise piracy is better)
- I can redownload it from the service at any time (otherwise piracy is better)
- I can get everything I want to watch (otherwise piracy is better)
- Comment on YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it 1 year ago:
Guaranteed they’d find a way to double dip. Price gouging, restricting content behind further paywalls, adding ads anyway… absolutely they’ve investigated all those and undoubtedly more.
Switch to Firefox, Chrome is their biggest lever to force this kind of stuff onto people. While Firefox exists and it remains uncool for them to block it they’ll have to compete against piracy and adblockers which will limit their ability to aggressively monetise.
Switch to firefox!
- Comment on Do you think VPN companies will start to feel pressure from legal/corporate powers to crackdown on pirating? 1 year ago:
I mean I’m still out here rawdogging usenet without a vpn. I keep waiting for the great crackdown on usenet but it never comes…
- Comment on Reddit’s new Contributor Program will let you cash out gold given to your posts by other users in real money. 1 year ago:
One gold upvote costs $2, the recipient might get either $0.90 or perhaps $1.
- Comment on And now Bezos is trying to inserts ads everywhere 1 year ago:
Yeah that’s totally galling. Shrinkflation for online services.
You know some shiny-suited corporate asshole got a huge bonus for coming up with that though.
- Comment on Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud 1 year ago:
Isn’t the “take it or leave it” approach to consent considered consent bundling? Didn’t google get fined for doing a similar thing?
- Comment on Bluesky sees record signups day after Musk says X will go paid-only 1 year ago:
Hotmail was 2mb.
- Comment on Probe reveals secret Israeli spyware that infects via ads 1 year ago:
Yet more evidence that aggressive adblocking is cyber security.
- Comment on Amazon demands 30% share of ad revenue from TV networks’ apps 1 year ago:
Surely those broadcasters will pull their streams (it’s not like they’re not already hurting), FireTV will get a reputation of having restricted access to broadcast TV, some people will live with it and some will buy a smart TV and not worry about Amazon any more…
- Comment on One of the absolute best features of lemmy is that everyone is simply allowed to post. 1 year ago:
Look while I do agree Reddit can be a bit of an echo chamber, what you’re saying is you struggle to interact with a community in a way that the people in that community are happy with. I’m not suggesting that you are a trolling fuckbag intent on only starting fights and drama for their own amusement, but what you want to be able to do without restriction is the same as what a trolling fuckbag intent on only starting fights and drama for their own amusement would want…
I don’t necessarily disagree with your point, I just don’t think it’s a good enough reason to decide minimum karma limits aren’t valuable.
- Comment on One of the absolute best features of lemmy is that everyone is simply allowed to post. 1 year ago:
Yeah. Karma requirements pretty much just force you to make a few comments without being an asshole to anyone before you can post. This seems like a fairly low bar to me, at least for anyone who’s not an asshole.
- Comment on Streaming Has Reached Its Sad, Predictable Fate | What should I watch? is now a much easier question than How do I watch it? 1 year ago:
One of the best things about Steam is not having to store install ISOs so I can reinstall games when I upgrade.
- Comment on Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history 1 year ago:
Install Firefox Install Firefox Install Firefox!
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- Comment on X is working on ID verification, what’s next? 1 year ago:
Basically the only reason to collect that level of ID if you’re not a bank is so you can fulfil anti-money laundering requirements necessary to allow trading of some commodity.
- Comment on Just picked up DOOM Eternal (2020) for $5 on eBay 1 year ago:
I wanted to play it but even at $5 I don’t think I can justify giving them money after what they did to Mick Gordon.
Perhaps 2nd hand.
- Comment on Microsoft’s new Office default theme and font arrives in September 1 year ago:
All my stuff has it already. Excel last week and today I noticed it in Outlook.
I quite like it tbh. The condensed version in Excel is pretty good. Beats calibre for sure.
- Comment on Order 1 year ago:
Lossless compression algorithms aren’t magical, they make some data bigger and some data smaller, the trick is that the stuff they make smaller happens to match common patterns. Given truly random data, lossless compression algorithms will make the data larger.
A good encryption algorithm will output data that’s effectively indistinguishable from randomness.
Put those two facts together and it’s pretty easy to see why you should compress first then encrypt.
- Comment on Best "workspace" style browser? [e.g. Sidekick, Ferdium, Station, RamBox] 1 year ago:
We heard you like tabs so we put tabs in your tabs. Uh, dawg.
- Comment on Social Media Has Run Out of Fresh Ideas 1 year ago:
Paywalled :/
- Comment on Wish Lemmy Links would target "_blank" aka new tab not the same tab 1 year ago:
This. Websites should use standard mechanisms by default, and optionally layer user preference stuff on top.
Every time you override some default browser behaviour you risk breaking workflows, harming interoperability and accessibility, etc.
OP would be better served with a grease/tamper/violentmonkey script to alter links (or inject a base target tag, whatever) than lobbying developers to change things. (Or, yknow, learning to use the middle mouse button).
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Downvoted because that website is absolute dog shit.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I want to buy one. Since Musk outed himself as a complete nutcase, and Tesla’s quality control either got worse or more people realised it was always bad, I can’t find one I like that doesn’t cost the earth.
- Comment on Google's trying to DRM the internet, and we have to make sure they fail 1 year ago:
Yeah I’ve noticed the same thing. I’ve been deliberately trying to do a bit of Firefox advocacy for a while (cos I honestly believe increasing its userbase is our only chance to avoid google ruining the internet). But yes every time there’s a bunch of people confidently complaining about how bad/slow Firefox is and advocating for brave or chrome.
Initially I thought it was just a bit of historical baggage but it happens very consistently and aggressively so I’ve had the same thought.
- Comment on Insurance Company Flew a Drone to Take Photos of Man's House and Canceled His Policy 1 year ago:
Insurance is supposed to be a service where everyone pays a predictable amount so that they have some protection in the event of something catastrophic happening. It’s reasonable for them to assess risks, and it’s reasonable for them to charge higher premiums for riskier situations.
But there’s a line between that and “it’s fire season, send up a drone so we can cancel the riskiest x% and boost our profits”, particularly if that’s happening mid policy, and particularly if it’s in a situation where those people will find it hard to get new insurance.