"The problem", I explain, "is that the mods have no lives", to conclude my essay on how using a forum introduces a risk that could potentially shave precious seconds off someone's speedrun.
christian
joined 5 years ago
I actually have quite a high ratio on both the private trackers I use just from seeding stuff for a long time and trading points in so I can download stuff, it just doesn't help my ratio.
I think this is a good way to use private trackers. Most will have occasional events from time-to-time as well. If you keep seeding everything you get from freeleech, eventually you'll hit a point where your seeding benefits outpace the amount you care to download and you can just download whatever and not care anymore forever. One of mine I hit that point about six years ago and I just totally take it for granted that I can snatch anything I'm curious about. I do not understand the need to care about your ratio beyond being enough to download things you want without losing your userclass perks.
I actually like private tracker forums a lot, they are communities that no organization will ever care to astroturf and that are free of bot posts. You're just talking with people, and as you grow to recognize some of the regulars it feels like a community. Anyway, it's weird how normal most people on those forums are about this stuff considering how if you look at r/trackers you might get the impression that the purpose of these websites is for the users to move up a ladder like it's a game. (Also the consensus on that subreddit is never use a tracker's forums under any circumstances ever because you will 100% be banned for no reason because the mods don't have lives and....what?)
I mean any organization that's a risk to use my data maliciously is one that can afford buying it, so I actually prefer this to my data being equally easy to access but reddit gets paid for it.
Now that I think about it, I've also spent my whole life with a very vague idea and ultimately only pretending to know what that word means.
I found an explanation here. They're deliberately not including it in the main f-droid repository for security reasons.
I think it's extremely unlikely that there's a reason other than what they've stated here, but at the same time this isn't so important to me that I'm willing to begin making exceptions to my policy against installing any software that doesn't make it into official f-droid.
Yeah I like a few of these.
edit: I think it's the ones that are just generally silly with no real attempt at a punchline that appeal to me.
My first reaction was that there's no way this tactic makes a significant improvement in sales, but then I remembered prime day is a thing.
Shit I actually thought about commenting that too before looking here and then I thought this is probably a detail everyone does when appropriate and I just never noticed before.
I feel like I do reasonably well with not giving a shit most of the time, it's a lot easier when you have a support system of people who are cool. With that said, I really do try to hide that I'm almost crying at the end of almost any movie, even objectively terrible ones. Shit still feels embarrassing.
I remember reading that the most significant impact DRM has is on security research. Individuals don't care about bypassing DRM, but an organization is not going to fund anything involving it because of the legal concern. So if a researcher wants to look into a file format behind DRM, or the DRM mechanism itself, being used as an attack vector, that's not going to get funding.
The defense that companies will make is that they're happy to grant exceptions in these cases, but in practice the company will make the exceptions as narrow as possible to err on the side of maintaining as much control as possible, while a research organization will want to err on the side of avoiding potential grey areas, meaning the exceptions are inevitability too restrictive to allow much of anything to come of them.