ScratchySoft

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What to do with !retropirates? in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] ScratchySoft@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Maybe? But I can't imagine that would be particularly healthy for the site for legal reasons. I'm thinking maybe trying to do a biweekly to monthly feed of recently dumped ROMs and related media would be nice? Though admittedly I'm not sure how well I'd be able to keep up with doing that.

How do you go about finding specific items when it's prohibited to even ask? in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] ScratchySoft@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Convenience isn't necessarily the only problem with a given service. Maybe their favorite movie got the "50 remasters of Star Wars" treatment over the years and the latest one doesn't look or sound that good, or the company behind it has shitty business practices like using death squads against South American union workers or something.

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What to do with !retropirates? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by ScratchySoft@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I was made a moderator of !retropirates@lemmy.dbzer0.com a while back, but now I'm not sure what to do with it. Direct links to newly dumped titles would be a violation of rule 3 (only reason I left the Grimace's Birthday post up is because the game was free in the first place so who cares). !roms@lemmy.dbzer0.com exists, and it itself is already niche but more popular than !retropirates@lemmy.dbzer0.com...

I'm not sure what to do with it that couldn't already be done in !piracy or !roms@lemmy.dbzer0.com... Do y'all think there's a good place for it on here? What would be a good way to differentiate it from !roms@lemmy.dbzer0.com and !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com?

Tribler - Is it any good? If not, is there anything as private as Tor for torrents? in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] ScratchySoft@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Because I'd rather not get spyware.

Tribler - Is it any good? If not, is there anything as private as Tor for torrents? in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] ScratchySoft@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

Tribler is not Tor, and I know Tor doesn't work. That's why I asked if there's anything like Tor rather than just doing the stupid thing of using Tor immediately. I'll look into I2P.

Tribler - Is it any good? If not, is there anything as private as Tor for torrents? in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] ScratchySoft@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I live in the US, so it is illegal here though not always enforced much, but a lot of trackers also encourage seeding for obvious reasons and it seems like poor form not to.

Tribler - Is it any good? If not, is there anything as private as Tor for torrents? in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] ScratchySoft@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

switched from a client application to a web interface

uuuuuuugh, good to know

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Tribler - Is it any good? If not, is there anything as private as Tor for torrents? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by ScratchySoft@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I am not in a place where I can afford a VPN (do not start suggesting cheap VPNs to me istg), and in addition, you have to place a lot of trust in the VPN. Tribler seems promising, except... For the giant disclaimer that's been on the site for years. That worries me. I am quite worried about getting scary letters from my ISP or something when torrenting.

Do not put yourself in danger. Our anonymity is not yet mature.

Tribler does not protect you against spooks and government agencies. We are a torrent client and aim to protect you against lawyer-based attacks and censorship. With help from many volunteers we are continuously evolving and improving.

Edit: Seems like there are a lot of issues below the surface as well... https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/19118584/10120234

And Lokinet, I2P, and GNUnet have their own massive problems... https://comment.ctrl.blog/discussion/tribler-onion-routed-bittorrent

ngl, kinda depressing that it's like this...

Edit 2: I misread the article a bit, it's not quite as dire as I thought it was initially, but the warning and the fact that only the core file-transferring features are anonymized at all... Is a bit disconcerting.

Google News is indexing and promoting websites that immediately rip off others with AI clones of their articles. These websites are absolutely littered with Google ads. in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] ScratchySoft@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago

Oh god, of course they are. Haven't checked on Microsoft News in a while, but the last time I did, they were promoting tons upon tons of transphobic propaganda.