[-] zabadoh@ani.social 17 points 5 days ago

Language is much more than words in a dictionary.

Each language carries its original cultural concepts and ways of thinking.

[-] zabadoh@ani.social 4 points 6 days ago

The first couple of weeks on a private tracker are always pretty rough, until you can build up your ul/dl ratio high enough to get some breathing room.

Some sites make things easier on newbs than others.

If possible, look for recent freeleech torrents, especially popular ones, download them even if you aren't really interested in the content, and seed them 24/7 to build your ul stats..

[-] zabadoh@ani.social 5 points 1 week ago

You have at least 10 years from when your tapes were written.

Hope the device you have to read them still works ..

[-] zabadoh@ani.social 5 points 1 week ago

Light and medium roasts are finicky and vary by the bag.

The lighter the roast, the easier it is to brew too long, resulting in astringency.

If a brew is astringent, keep reducing brew time until the astringency goes away.

[-] zabadoh@ani.social 5 points 1 week ago

I just signed up for Matrix because you mentioned it.

I installed the Element front end, because that seems to be the most popular.

It looks like IRC, which is fine if that’s all you need.

It also appears that anything beyond text has to be hotlinked, which is understandable, given that the amount of data transmitted for redundancy between home servers is exponential with the number of home servers.

Really very similar to Lemmy, where the identity of each group is tied to a particular server, e.g. lemmy has !anime@ani.social but Matrix has #anime:matrix.org

So what happens if matrix.org goes away or decides the server admin wants to be hostile to #anime?

[-] zabadoh@ani.social 32 points 1 week ago

What kind of system that depends on centralized servers can ever be secure from government snooping?

That kind of architecture is completely hopeless in that regard.

Is a encrypted, distributed, P2P architecture realistic though?

[-] zabadoh@ani.social 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

How to cut off PS online verification: https://www.reddit.com/r/GenP/comments/1624ybw/how_to_fix_photoshop_we_cant_verify_your/

But the tool they recommend using, GenP, does trigger Windows Defender warnings because it modifies binaries, so read the installation instructions carefully.

Or migrate to FOSS software, or pay Adobe to use their product.

[-] zabadoh@ani.social 3 points 1 week ago

Now that the sticker has made national headlines, it's now a collectible, so collectors, maybe even speculators, are going to pay money to get these...

[-] zabadoh@ani.social 10 points 2 weeks ago

There are some specialty content, such as British TV and Asian TV and movies, or complete archives of porn sites, that don't appear regularly on public torrent sites, or streaming sites for that matter.

If you never watch that kind of thing, then you don't need to sign up for a private tracker.

[-] zabadoh@ani.social 6 points 3 weeks ago

Didn't you watch Doogie Howser?

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[-] zabadoh@ani.social -1 points 3 weeks ago

Zelensky should have piledrived Modi while he had the chance a couple of days ago.

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Just when you thought it was over...

Redstone/Paramount to consider a competing bid for the company...

[-] zabadoh@ani.social 45 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Or credited writers even...

Who wouldn't want to work with him to finish ASOIAF for a co-author credit?

Or a mention in the foreword even...

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Apologies for the slightly off-topic post...

It's not looking good, folks...

George R R Martin confirms he hasn't written anything for the 2 remaining A Song Of Ice And Fire books since 2022.

He wishes that they were finished.

The last published book in the series, A Dance With Dragons, was published in July 2011, now 13 years ago.

Obligatory song that's now 12 years old... https://youtu.be/j7lp3RhzfgI

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by zabadoh@ani.social to c/startrek@startrek.website

Skydance founder David Ellison (son of Oracle founder Larry Ellison) will lead the combined company as CEO, while (RedBird’s Jeff Shell, the former NBCUniversal CEO) will serve as president.

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submitted 2 months ago by zabadoh@ani.social to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

cross-posted from: https://ani.social/post/4576908

Popular Pirate Site Animeflix Shuts Down 'Voluntarily' * TorrentFreak

No explanation given, no successor or backup domains reported.

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submitted 2 months ago by zabadoh@ani.social to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world

This happens on Android and iOS

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submitted 2 months ago by zabadoh@ani.social to c/coffee@lemmy.world

Hello out there, fellow caffeinated Lemmings!

Got anything new in your brew?

Did you make a mess-o of your espresso?

Did you French pull instead of French press?

Tell us about it for those valuable Internet points!

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by zabadoh@ani.social to c/startrek@startrek.website

The Paramount Skydance merger talks have been halted by the Paramount side.

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submitted 3 months ago by zabadoh@ani.social to c/world@lemmy.world
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tl;dr ST Discovery is doing well in the ratings, despite cancellation being announced already.

Especially considering it's only on Paramount+.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by zabadoh@ani.social to c/world@lemmy.world

The levels (of glyphosate that the) French researchers found in sperm were four times higher than in the men’s blood

Eating organic produce did not have a clear impact on levels.

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