brainw0rms [they/them]

Gonna be real, I doubt there are hundreds of people on lemmy that would even join a random “lemmy specific tracker”, let alone hundreds of devs that have the necessary skills and are willing to put in tons of work for free. Sounds doomed to fail.

76 years*

I don’t doubt that there are people involved that are sincere in their motives, but the movement itself has never had a clear direction or discipline even from the beginning. “So u hhh, we want you to stop arming and sending money to Israel and stuff, ok? Like uh, we’ll still Vote Blue No Matter Who and stuff because Trump Bad, but pretty please still do what we want ok?” Zero leverage.

absolute clown shit. the “uncommitted movement” has been a joke since its inception, they’ve never been serious and it’s just been a ploy to capture the hesitant dem voters and prevent them from going 3rd party. if they aren’t going to apply any of their political leverage to get concessions, what even is the point?

Some crimes are unforgivable.

If I think a game is worth my time to bother playing it, I wouldn’t pirate it, but to each their own.

I look at it like this, firstly sometimes there are cool pre-order exclusives that you wouldn’t otherwise get when buying at launch. Sometimes pre-ordering is also cheaper (common especially with early access type schemes), and really it’s riskless for the scrupulous buyer. If you feel like the game let you down, you can refund it. By pre-ordering and subsequently refunding, the trash studio sees that money enter their pocket and is then taken away from them again. It’s a measurable metric to base success or failure off of. If you just don’t buy a game because you waited until launch and found out the game was shit, they have no idea they lost a potential customer.

firefox always and forever, anything else is almost nearly certain to be a honeypot.

clearly, freedom and easy access to information has nothing to do with the issue at hand, which is enforcement of copyright law.

so long as they don’t plan on violating russian or chinese (or whatever country’s) copyrights (and other applicable laws), why should those countries care at all? archive.org is hosting material copyrighted in a country where said copyright can be enforced (the US). it’s really that simple. while china or russia may not be the most suitable option (I imagine they also host plenty of content that those countries would find to be inflammatory or illegal but not for copyright reasons), they’d be an improvement overall.

What a surprising turn of events!

What does this have to do with piracy

Same, and I just thought it was the one video, but now after this post was made I’ve come to learn there is like hours worth of skibidi toilet videos and I’m blown away. This is no worse than rooster teeth red vs blue, arby n cheef, ytp, or any of the abridged series but as short form video. The kids are alright.

At the risk of sounding contrarian/lame, you should probably not be doing any of this especially if you don’t own the hardware you’re using (as mentioned by another commenter).

You don’t specify if this is university or middle/high school, but either way you are not entitled to and should not expect any privacy on a network you don’t control. Even if you are able to set up a VPN to mask your internet activity, your school’s network administrators almost certainly can tell that you are using a VPN, which itself sounds like it would be a violation of your school’s network policy and will most likely land you in trouble. Indeed, your repeated attempts to access blocked sites have likely already raised some flags.

Even the workarounds that others here have mentioned (like routing VPN traffic over port 443) are inadequate for a network that is being actively monitored. Believe me, it is very easy to tell when someone is connecting to a VPN this way.

I would quit while you’re ahead until you can afford your own hardware/internet connection, and then maybe worry about any notion of privacy. Use your school’s internet for what it was intended.

You are utterly deranged.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Elizabeth_Warren#Israeli-Palestinian_Conflict

Look at her record as a senator, not her worthless words. She’s done less than nothing to rein in Israel or to help the Palestinian cause. Keep sucking on Lizzy’s toes and maybe you will earn enough goodboy points to get her to call Netanyahu a jackass or something. Very moving!

absolutely brainless diarrhea being typed by your hands, never post again

“I wish they hadn’t gone and made Star Trek political!”