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Torrent trackers are the closest I’ve found to an old-web style community. That and hn

If I could pay with Monero I’d get an account. I like what I see but don’t like the possibility of my ID being tied to my searches.

Looking at it from a different angle, I don’t like the more wordy suggestions.

> convict…person who is/was incarcerated

> senile…person suffering from senility

Before I hit send I try to make my writing clear, concise, and full of meaning. I do it in the hope that the folks on the other end read and understand me.

Swapping one term for a slightly longer one won’t be a breaking point, but sentences like:

> I went to visit the incarcerated person suffering from senility

build up cruft that you don’t get with something shorter.

> I went to visit the senile convict.

Maybe they should punctuate the article as Orwell did in his rules for writing:

> Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous

Thomas Paine published common sense anonymously. I think there needs to be a way to publish anonymously where the people are.

As the sibling comment pointed out, it is SO much easier than it was.

I hopped back into it about 3y ago. I’ve got a NAS running on my local network with sonarr to snatch new tv shows and radarr for new movies.

In practice, if I decide I want to watch a movie I can reliably pull down something high quality within 2-10m (depending on how esoteric it is) and then be watching it on our tv.

I've started torrenting again (did it a lot in the early 00s, but stopped like most others as streaming showed up in a big way). Honestly, once set up the experience is lovely.

- The catalog is enormous, you can almost always find what you want.

- There is robust software that can pull down the latest episode of the tv shows you want.

- There is similar software that can pull down movies based on public lists (e.g. IMDB top 100), so discovery is pretty great.

- All the above can be done on public trackers. Private trackers are even better.

- Many have a community of people who are into the content, and curate their own lists.

- There is software for a home media server so you can flip through all your content. Its also just one interface... no flipping through hulu/netflix/amazon/apple/google.

- That same home media server software can host all videos, so downloads from youtube, family videos, etc... all in one place as you see fit.

- I get to know that know one out there knows what I'm watching or when I'm watching it.

- Backup is easy, with offsite services running ~$0.005/gb/month, so pennies per movie per month. This way I know I'll always have it regardless of what happens with streaming services.

Getting it up and running takes some customization but it is _really_ great. I would gladly pay for such a service, even the typical ~$20/movie price.

> something like less than 1%

Could you ping me to where you see those numbers? I know data is tough to come by but the sorts of numbers I see, as someone who doesn’t follow this topic closely, are much higher:

> Such “desistance” appears to be common. At least half a dozen medical studies show that between 61% and 98% of children presenting with gender-related distress were reconciled to their natal sex before adulthood. However, all these studies looked at children with early-onset dysphoria.

https://www.economist.com/international/2020/12/12/an-englis...

To any authors reading this:

It would be cool if you would set up abilities to "donate" or direct pay you. I love getting ebooks but often its really difficult to find a drm-free version (sometimes I can get one on the publishers website).

Because there's so much friction around it I get virtually all my books from pirated sources. For books that I really enjoy I'll then go pick up the book at my local bookstore, but I'd love to have an easy, digital way to pay you.

Would be even cooler if you had a cryptocurrency address (ideally monero or maybe bitcoin) I could pay.

Yes. This is yet another reason I think Monero will become an actually usable currency

Yeah, I spent about $60 worth and the transaction fee was $0.0000113.

That, combined with the privacy makes it seem really usable. I’d love a way to make cheap, private, digital payments

My story is not as extreme, but similar. There past that made me comment is the wife and kids comment. I feel that too.

Knowing just how bad things can get, especially when you have kids, motivates you to maintain a large cushion in a way for people who haven’t seen things fall apart have a difficult time relating to

Why do you think that is?

Im bullish on Monero becoming a winner in the space. It’s private and transaction fees are pennies.

Mentioned elsewhere in the thread was a larger problem: the amount of time it takes to settle up. I’m very curious how this will be addressed.

I’m torn on this.

On one hand I see the value in helping people who are sick, which is clearly a good.

On the other hand I’ve seen how casually antidepressants can be consumed and seen them offered in social contexts and can’t help but suspect that pervasive mind-altering drugs could have a negative effect on society.

Reminds me very much of Brave New Worlds Soma

This is a good comment. As someone with liberal tendencies it bugs me to see it conflates with leftist politics

Re: technically superior

Can you elaborate? I was under the impression that it had notable failings, including privacy, compared to something like Monero

I didn’t know about this and I love it. I’d been torrenting classic books and always felt a bit silly about it since they are long since out of copyright.

These look beautiful. Great work.

For those that are interested in self-hosting I’ve had good success with airsonic and some of the clients for it on both iOS and Android.

On one hand it makes search a little more high-friction since My personal library will never be as huge as that of a streaming service. My workaround is treat Spotify like a radio and star songs I like to then download later.

In that way it’s a lot like interacting with music before streaming. It also forces me to curate a bit more.

Probably not for everyone, but I actually like it better, and I know that my library will always be there.

I would like to point out that there is a thriving torrent scene for ebooks and audiobooks.

Yup. I use ProtonVPN on account of its Swiss jurisdiction and no-logs policy.

It’s not perfect, but puts up enough obstacles for me to feel better about it than some fly-by-night VPN

Something I think gets lost in discussions about mental health is that sometimes people’s lives are just really really shitty.

It doesn’t take a genetic predisposition to get to a dark place when your life is falling apart.

no good fix here (other than the "nth" approach). Fortunately, most news sites use sensible divs (for now).

true. also firefox has a "reader mode" that strips everything away... but you have to click to activate.

for reference, this[0] is what the above page looked like when I landed on it

[0]: https://imgur.com/a/LyeybN2

Use ublock origin and invest time in zapping the offending divs for the sites you frequent. Within a few weeks you'll find the internet a much more pleasant place.

This was my first thought. I’m surprised how many people don’t know the basic outline.

I’m pretty new to crypto in general, but it seems to me that the primary value of it in coming years would be anonymity/privacy.

As I understand it Bitcoin has some problems in this regard, but others have solved it.

I just can’t find it hard to believe we get to 2030 without a way to buy things anonymously online.

I agree with your general point, but in this particular case bandwidth is muddying the waters. 2g tech has less bandwidth dedicated to it now than it did years ago, so your kbps is lower now than it would have been when using 2g in the past.

Most people who have been around tech for the past 15 years have stories like this.

Maybe they didn't have check's written, but had opportunities to join firms that later boomed huge.

Also the title is super-clickbaity. Poor form.

Range was enjoyable, but it was essentially just a mirror image of Outliers. The same sort of interesting anecdotes about some people you've heard of and some you haven't, but saying you should eschew 10k hours in favor of a more broad experience.

Felt like a very "poppy" sort of management book. Not bad, but def not highly recommended.

Do you have a template for this? I'd like to submit such a request to my own city.