No skin off my back. Sorry, I honestly wasn’t meaning to call you out personally, beyond maybe, hey, this is how to do this next time.

I may just look into whether I can set this community to ding my notifications for new posts … apparently that’s not a thing in the webUI.

Honestly, I was thinking post-approval by mods would be the best solution, for just that reason. Its why I led with the question about the existance of mods. Obviously too much work if its just the single mod who started the community.

Is there no moderation in this sub? An instance-agnostic link should be the bare minimum, not the exception.
!canary_cage@lemmy.world

This was in 1922, but yeah, a bad precedent.

Nah. I wasn’t even trying to be witty there, just honest. The high-road seems pretty treacherous from my prefered vantage points.

Laughing at sad attempts at cruelty is so much more satisfying.

Idk? Why does mod involvement taste like a spicy desert? Sadly I don’t write the rules. I’m just in here looking for easter eggs.

Never half-ass jury nullification.

I mean, you made me look at it again myself, as the multi-part rar files on Usenet are still very much a thing. The allowable “article” sizes for binary content are larger than for text articles, but still too small for video or high-quality audio.

!boots@lemmy.zip

Pirated media(images, movies, ebooks, ROMs) uses binary posts, not text. There are different limits and retention policies for binary versus text articles, and most Usenet servers, particularly cheap or free ones, don’t host a lot of the categories a pirate would want at all.

Please don’t imply that all Usenet providers facilitate piracy.

Magical times before my own on Usenet.

Exactly this. I don’t need 1080P or 4k mp4 rips with 10bit audio, and I definitely don’t have the storage for it, but when that’s all that is seeding, its usually quicker to just download it and re-encode.

Downloading large files from Usenet was paid pretty early on. If the core functionality of Usenet is now paid, this is news to me.

For your second point, its not at all uncommon for previously-legit sites to go malicious. Age alone means nothing, nor does reputation after a few years.

You or I don’t have the right to kill a man like so without facing punishment from the government and society. At a minimum, you get to spend the rest of your life in fear of getting caught, but while I have every right to try to stop you, whining about it if you happen to get away is just that, whining.

I’m not going to waste that effort lamenting the death of someone whose life actively made the lives of so many so much worse, and no one has the right to make me.

End of the day, we don’t know who killed him or why just yet, but I doubt it was about his words alone, and odds are way too good that Donny just needed a distraction and an excuse.

Oh, I’m fully aware. It just boggles the mind how the same tired outlook has endured for decades now.

If I wanted to READ ai “snark”, I would spend more time on facebook, or go back to reddit. How hard could it be to slap a battery and 4G/5G modem on a google home or alexa? Eiter of which would be easier to run on a phone or tablet, which also includes speakers.

How do these morons that can’t match the convenience of existing privacy nightmares, or even DIY stuff, continue to get VC funding?

You had me, until the second-half of your last sentence. Its more like we can’t rely on perfectly rational systems, because we don’t comply, neither perfectly nor rationally.

Why in God’s Green Earth is the number-line backwards, and the negatives, on the right-hand side?