Every community I care about is dead
No tokens this time, but I’ve been going through my bookmarks and almost all of them are freeload, even those that have more than 3 seeds. Not sure if this is because more people snatched them after the event began, but I’m taking advantage either way. This is a good time to increase your seedbase size if you struggle with ratio on RED.
We are always “losing money” in this sense unless we are buying and selling the optimal assets every day. Even their example of the “winning” S&P 500 is still just an index scooping up all the big losers along with all the big winners. We diversify because we can’t pick the winning assets every time, so if you understand the benefits of diversification I feel like the drawbacks are already obvious.
Yeah I’ll rephrase that - it’s still very unlikely for you to get letters on IPT/TL but there’s relatively a much higher chance than other smaller private trackers
Note that surviving for 30 years is easier than surviving 40/50/etc (for early retirees). As is common knowledge at this point, blindly withdrawing x% every single year is a lot more risky than ratcheting up or down depending on how the market is doing. If the market is bad you should be cutting back on your frivolous spending, which will give you a higher success chance with no extra nest egg required.
ZFS and BTRFS could update their codebase to account for these (if they haven’t already), but I agree that their extra mechanical parts worry me. I really don’t care about speed - if you run enough HDDs in your RAID then you get enough speed by proxy. If you need better speeds then you should start looking into RAM/SSD-caching etc. I’d rather have better reliability than speed, because I hate spinning rust’s short lifespan as-is.
Architects vs developers.
I think mods (including me) wouldn’t to put effort into a new community if it doesn’t get any interaction, so I think it would be nice to at least start with it appearing in the “All” tab.
This is a very good usecase for a problem I hadn’t even thought of.
Better content by a mile if you’re in some of the good ones. Speeds are always good on private trackers but public trackers can have good speeds on popular things too.
Some stats (I edited the name into each one so it would be easier to differentiate):
Better privacy is objectively true but it’s only security by obscurity, so it’s ~99.9% bulletproof. You can generally torrent without a VPN on private trackers, though some of the larger “semi-private” mega trackers like IPT/TL/etc may still have a tiny chance of getting ISP letters. For a copyright holder to serve your ISP a letter they need to be in your swarm with you. Private trackers are difficult to get access to and have much smaller swarms than public trackers, so copyright holders usually don’t bother. The easier a community is to get access to, and the more users that are hanging around in swarms, the more appetizing it might be for them.
Edit: Retention is also really good on private trackers. Most people seed everything forever on private trackers, so you don’t have to worry about content being “fresh” for it to be available and seeded.
I don’t think GGn should be moved down per se because they’ve done nothing wrong and they are high quality for what they aim to do, but I do wish they kept on the pulse of gaming piracy a bit more. I would also say compared to titans like BTN/PTP/RED, GGn’s catalog isn’t as meticulously filled out, so I would maybe vote for A-tier instead of S-tier. I would understand if others think S-tier though.
Orpheus is probably A-tier if it’s being compared to S-tier Redacted, but both are quite good now.
Also, GGn has never changed its mission statement or quality but I feel like the rise of Fitgirl/DODI/KaOs, cs.rin, and Clean Steam File (CSF) ripping has really left them in the dust and failing to adapt. I wish GGn would start tracking sha256-matched clean source files and AIO delta updates so I can apply my own cracks to up-to-date versions of games. As is I barely ever use GGn anymore because the games they track are always out of date by nature of infrequent scene/P2P releases.
Seems to have been reversed by both instances.
I think there are a ton of comorbidities in this area that I don’t fully understand. When you go into techy/hacker/FLOSS spaces you start seeing a lot of LGBTQ+/neurodivergent/furry/left-leaning/etc people. Many people will even be all of those at once. I have no idea why and most of my experience is starting from the furry angle where 80%+ of furries are LGBTQ+, neurodivergence is much higher than average, computer fluency is almost a given, and leaning left is often a matter of survival.
If someone knows why I’m dying to know. My best guess is that some of those attributes have small portions that link hard to other attributes, and it all comes along like a chain.
I’m not an aficionado on those specific sandwiches but you should try setting your microwave to half power and cooking for twice the time. I get much better results on most things when I cook like that - food will be more evenly heated and won’t be so brutally overcooked.
I’ll bet if you actually use it 24/7 they will throttle/disconnect you. “Oh I’m sorry you used up your 1TB limit. No one needs more than that per month! Are you doing something illegal???”
Similar for me - I’ve been writing scripts since I was young. I write scripts and programs for myself whenever I need them, and I feel like it’s a great skill to have in your toolkit if you’re a computer power user.
On a side note, I’ve never thought of a good response for this question when someone looks at my career and my salary and they’re like “I wanna do what you do”, because I’ve been doing this as long as I can remember. I don’t know how realistic it is to tell someone who’s never been interested in computers that they can be a programmer if they really try.
Is scraping reddit’s HTML without using an API doable? I’m not sure if the reddit RSS feed has any notion of upvotes/popularity.
I think the limited number of posts per day feature of this is really the standout that makes this intriguing to me. We already have the Lemmit bot posting every single post from reddit to Lemmy like a firehose, but discussion on them is sort of like yelling into a void. If we only post the top ~3 posts per day from a subreddit, we can condense any conversation into just those and guarantee that it’s not going to get washed away with the rest of the junk content. Even though it’s not ideal, I think a crutch like this could go a long way to seeding some “natural” activity.
That’s fair - obviously that will need time to grow but I’m not sure what we can do to foster it in the meantime. My personal guess is that getting users onto Lemmy through any means possible will help in all community directions. If Lemmy had 1 million users that were only here because of the technology community, you can count on a chunk of them being good at DIY or cooking also. The more humans that we have here, the more collective experience that we have as a whole.
The second best time to create activity is now. I’m actually very fluent in US-based personal finance but no one has posted asking for help. I think there are a lot of communities that have a lot of subscribers and no activity - just waiting for someone that needs help.
I took the interview to get into What.CD a zillion years ago, but assuming it hasn’t changed much the interview prep is all useful knowledge for how RED works. IMO the one exception is the exact frequencies at which every lossy bitrate’s spectral shelf starts at, which is useful knowledge to know but not memorize - IDK if interviewers are mean enough to ask you about those or not.