Yeah the idea is ultimately that you help enable the system by participating. Ultimately nothing changes by a couple cheap assholes refusing to tip like this guy, so you should, it would only work if everyone decided not to. It would force the industry to adapt.

The ignorant cling hard to simple labels, it’s how they interact with the world.

But how will we find any of these small sites with the dogshit search is lately.

Take this with a grain of salt, I am by no means qualified to say anything on this topic with total certainty.

All a VPN does is encrypt traffic between you and the VPN. The VPN Hub you’re connected to has to unencrypted your outbound traffic, fulfilling those requests, and then encrypting inbound traffic back to you. A VPN obscures traffic by allowing you to make your requests from a different location, where thousands of others also do it, all while hiding who is making any requests it fulfills, and hiding your activity from your ISP with encryption. A good VPN will also not keep logs of anything it does, and will have options to connect to Hubs outside of five eyes countries.

This would mean that while the VPN might not know who is making what requests, they would know what those requests are, so they could blacklist illegal content. All this to say a VPN >VPN >VPN > VPN still has a final VPN that has to make the request, and they will know where the request is going and what its for. But unless that final VPN company or Hub is actually inside of Italy they have no jurisdiction.

The real problem with this method is A) who determines what is blacklisted B) How do you enforce this blacklist C) How do you make the blacklist grow as fast as pirates spread out. This is a stupid law that wouldn’t do anything even if the entire world got on board.

Looking at their github and they havnt merged a PR since October. Feels a like it might be dead.

Looking at their github and they havnt merged a PR since October. Feels a like it might be dead.

And then has a legion of bots upvote to I guess. Since this article doesn’t make any fucking sense I can’t imagine those votes are legit

I also don’t understand a fucking lick of this. It’s suuuuper light on context, like it’s an article written for people who already know what’s going on.

So you say we are just comfortable enough to allow it. Do you believe this system is maintaining a status quo of comfort? No everything is actively getting worse. If things are getting worse, then how will they maintain “just comfortable enough”. Even if it was the case that we COULD maintain this minimum standard of comfort, do you believe those greedy cunts will be satisfied with that. No, they will still demand a bigger piece of the pie. So the system is bound to get worse, and eventually hardship will outweigh comfort.

Your viewpoint is one of the lobster in the water slowly having the water turned up, you have seen a lifetime of no one caring that the water is getting hotter, so you can only assume it will carry on that way forever. My opinion is one of historical context, knowing that the temp will never stop rising, and eventually the water gets too hot and the lobsters climb out of the pot and attack. I’m not saying its coming soon, but it is coming, we are on that path.

My god, the downvotes on your comment show just how many on the left are just as ignorant as the MAGA’s. Neither party represents the american people anymore. They both serve their capitalist sponsors. The only difference between the GOP and Dems, is that the Dems pretend to care while doing nothing to undue the 30 years of unrestricting capitalism “At least we arnt assholes like the GOP”, and the GOP are glaringly transparent about how they dont give 2 fucks about us and just say “Hey you, stupid fucking yokel, that minority group its trendy to hate this decade is the reason you’re not a billionaire”

Its a choice between Capitalism Turbo Yeehaw Edition Made with 100% more Freedom!, and Homemade Free Range Organic Capitalism 💞

But as long as you keep getting conned into voting for wedge issues while never demanding anything else, you keep the system working as intended.

We didn’t vote for capitalist ownership of our news. We didn’t vote for an entrenched two party system. We didn’t vote for citizens united. This country began going down the drain in the 80s, were just circling the drain currently.

That is because you are conflating the current climate, with the future climate. Trust that everything will continue to get worse for everyone and we are accelerating the decline. There is a limit to what people will take, to say otherwise is to ignore all of human history.

Lets also remember that the dems have watch the build up of shit on our shoes from GOP jumping into cowpies over and over, but they fail to grab a stick and clean it off, all they do is slap a sparkly sticker on the shit covered boot. The entire government is complicit. We took the guardrails off of the capitalists and this is just the death throes of a system built to favor economic gain for the few that need nothing at the cost of a standard of living for those that actually generate the value.

Don’t worry, our choice for each election is capitalism and cruelty free capitalism, it’s always been a matter of time.

It will always be the case that given enough time a capitalist will find a way to convince the public to vote against self interest just a little, and then the snowball starts rolling.

near total lack of moderation

Disagree. Social media is built to favor creating and then selling huge name influencers to your users, and because you cannot become a large influencer/streamer/w/e without essentially being uncritical about the world, or being critical in a way that swings completely to 1 side of the aisle. This is in itself a form of moderation that only ever allows some critical voices to succeed, but only if their critique furthers the divide among the working class.

There is nothing you can/could do. The endless war against intelligence and focus on just believing what some screaming asshole says on talk radio, combined with the dawn of the internet being weaponized to spread that brain rot, and here you go. Maybe if you can go back in time and murder Ronald Reagan before capitalism gets so out of hand that they can buy the government ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You need to be “i own several politicians” level of rich before it helps

Hmm, well when u get a new card u can toss the old one into another computer.

Or you can use any vid card since 07 with a display port to HDMI 2.1 adapter

one day my 2006 42" sony bravia is going to die. I will be very sad I have to by some new age bullshit, but at the very least ill be happy I dont have to deal with their spyware posing as convenience when the TV is permanently set to input 1 lol.

…thinking about it, maybe I should buy a new TV now, just incase the TV’s 5 years from now dont allow you to play from a physical input connection. Like a preemptive move in the endless game of enshitification chicken were all playing with companies.

Use an old computer. Get a Bluetooth keyboard/mouse controller. I have only ever had my TVs run by computer since I the mid 2000s. fuck smart TVs what a shit show.