Redacted.sh is a worthy successor, but the average person just doesn’t care about “which release is best” anymore. I use YT Music as a backup but Redacted is my main source of music these days.
The private trackers are just as much about the community as they are about the content they host. Of course there are trade offs because communities can be very insular.
I’ve noticed in the past 10 years or so private trackers have become less strict because the economics of ratios only works if either a) everyone is equally uploading new material and b) there are more and more signups. So now there is value in the amount of time you seed your content which lowers your “required” ratio.
Generally speaking, trackers that require a ratio above 1.0 and don't have freeleech/point system are designed so that you pay the website to fix your ratio and/or rent a seedbox from one of their partner.
It's a 0 sum game; for every account with a >1.0 ratio, that implies other people will be <1.0.
And when you compete with 10gb/s seedboxes that have scripts to automatically grab all the new torrent the second they get posted, it's extremely difficult to improve your ratio. Even for super popular torrents, you have a few minutes to seed as much as you can before upload speed goes to 0 forever. You can't slowly accumulate upload over time the same way you would with a torrent from a public tracker.
The website does not say anything. The website offers me to download a .zip file. Why should I download a .zip file? As far as I know, a pager is supposed to be a physical object?
I dislike ads because they generally aren't relevant -- the chance that they add value to my life is very slim -- and we're bombarded with them. Ads will soon become a thing of the past: I imagine AI being able to create full fledged products based on our needs / wants / desires tailored to your personal requirements and constraints. Of course, this is dependent on how much power we're able to pump in to capable AI systems, but as the industry migrates, I don't believe that will be a problem. Imagine how much power is currently wasted on useless legacy data mining and machine learning by the ocean of SaaS companies that promise to boost conversion rates from single digits to single digits for the countless amount of products that only perpetuate the destruction of this world.
I feel like that’s annoying, but it’s a drop in the bucket vs the current firehose of ads, and there’s a slim shot these ads might actually be interesting or relevant to me.
I wonder how many of these telemetry events can sneakily exfiltrate arbitrary data like source code. For example, they could encode arbitrary data into span IDs, timestamps (millisecond and nanosecond components), or other per-event UIDs. It may be slow...but surely it's possible.
...what will spammers do? Tune in now, as desperate scammers polish resumes. "Skilled at bypassing filters and reaching millions with urgent inheritances seeks new opportunity." Local carrier pigeons reportedly terrified.
Not just the spammers, but the companies that still use it to send page outs to their employee's personal phones rather than using a service like Pager Duty or other, more appropriate means. Won't somebody at AT&T think of these poor souls?
There’s been a leading theory that Twilio has turned a big blind eye to misuse of the their platform for sending spam. They have all these clauses, rules etc sure; they make a good show of it, but they are really slow for example to close loopholes, if at all. They’ve done a good job of making the whole thing look like they take it seriously while being clever enough to leave loopholes and obvious workarounds to anyone who knows where to look
Drop a decent enough spend and they will look away for a while. Open an account with a burner gmail and test out the api using free credits - shut down within the hour.
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