BartyDeCanter

@BartyDeCanter@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a peaceful life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Relevent XKCD

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Growth⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Updated!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Growth⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not certain, but I wish you the best of luck in finding it. 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Growth⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bisexual - You’re over 35

  Pansexual - You’re under 35

  Omnisexual - You’ve spent way more time thinking about your sexuality than getting laid

  Sapiosexual - You’re a straight guy trying to seem cool and intellectual

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which browser do you recommend for a low-resource PC?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I also run a very low end machine with 4GB ram. The issue often isn’t the browser or even the website, exactly, it’s the tons and tons of advertising and tracking crap that is in the background of most sites nowadays. Tue way around that is to run a solid ad blocker. uBlock Orgin is the best, but Google (and maybe MS? I don’t use windows) has fucked over plugins to specifically make things like it not work. So, what you want to do is run Firefox with uBlock Origin with the more aggressive blocking setting. Extra credit for setting up PiHole to block a different set of crap.

  The one thing is that this will absolutely break certain sites. But fuck those sites, they’re fucking you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened to us Pirates? We used to sail the web and never even thought about reprecussions just sharing. Now it seems like it costs to be a pirate like a VPN and such. WTH happened?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks! I figure all this grey in my beard should be good for something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened to us Pirates? We used to sail the web and never even thought about reprecussions just sharing. Now it seems like it costs to be a pirate like a VPN and such. WTH happened?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh definitely. And it really depends on your ISP. Before the ISP consolidation it took enough work that sending out those letters to every small local ISP that they wouldn’t bother for Jane Rando who downloaded a few episodes here and there. Now that (in the US at least) most people use one of two or three ISPs who all have a cozy corporate relationship, it’s harder to fly under the radar. But if you have a good privacy-forward ISP it’s not a worry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened to us Pirates? We used to sail the web and never even thought about reprecussions just sharing. Now it seems like it costs to be a pirate like a VPN and such. WTH happened?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Piracy Eras:

  1. Pre-DMCA: The golden age of piracy, no one worried about anything.
  2. Post-DMCA: Possible prosecution from big copyright, but also hard to track individuals down, so not a lot of worry.
  3. iTunes Music Store: Did more to end music piracy than any legal action. Cheap enough and easy enough that a lot of people stopped bothering. Pirate Bay for the rest.
  4. Torrent tracking/poisoning and ISP consolidation: More prosecutions against small pirates put more of a damper on it.
  5. Cheap Streaming: Did to everything what iTMS did to music piracy
  6. Expensive Streaming: Now. Bringing back pirates, but people are more cautious due to 4.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Must have apps⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just use M-x M-butterfly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What gaming console you owned disappointed you the most and why ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Looking back… none of them. I had an OG Gameboy, GBA, PS2, Wii, 3DS, and now a Switch 2. My favorite was probably either the first Gameboy or the 3DS. I loved all of the weird streetpass stuff when I was traveling for work. But I have great memories of all of them, and the S2 has been a lot of fun with my kids.