reverendz

joined 1 year ago
[–] reverendz@hexbear.net 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] reverendz@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago

Bottom left: Comrade Chad.

[–] reverendz@hexbear.net 3 points 8 months ago (6 children)

What kind of bug?

[–] reverendz@hexbear.net 61 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You know what reduces copyright infringement? Making content available, affordable and accessible.

In the golden days of Netflix, I hardly torrented anything.

[–] reverendz@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago

There’s also a “I’m not going to get some bullshit masquerading as the movie I was looking for.” thing in place.

I belong to a couple private trackers. I use them nearly exclusively and have never once downloaded a bullshit file/virus/whatever. It’s happened a couple times on public ones.

I know who the good uploaders are and know that seeding on the private isn’t going to get me flagged to my ISP, which happened twice before going off public.

I guess what I’m wondering is: why wouldn’t you use one if you can find what you’re looking for?

[–] reverendz@hexbear.net -1 points 9 months ago

Love this story.

[–] reverendz@hexbear.net 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Some real axis of evil shit going down. Anyone who questions if they’re the baddies at this point is intentionally being obtuse.

[–] reverendz@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, that part is super fucked up. I have IoT in my ceiling fans. I had to call their support line to have them remotely turn off the beeping that accompanies a button press.

The feature can’t be deactivated locally. I literally had to have my ceiling fan join my Wi-Fi network so that support could remote in and disable a beep that no one could possibly want.

Oh yeah, my oven has Wi-Fi. What possible reason could there be for my oven to have network access? It’s beyond ridiculous.

[–] reverendz@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago (3 children)

And then there’s the subscription model. Where you don’t own or even license software. You just continually pay rent.