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People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you. You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity. Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.

- Banksy

Glad to see the old ways still persist

Unfortunately any unencrypted file sharing, or really any unencrypted internet usage at all, carries some risk of ISPs or governments snooping on what you are doing. BitTorrent is just particularly notable because of its history and that by the nature of the protocol, you are uploading (seeding) in addition to downloading.

A good VPN is a few bucks a month and provides a lot of other benefits. It’s worth considering.

A pizza

If you find an effective way to import the Spotify lists please share!

Not sure how to automate the partial album part. You might have an easier time just letting lidarr snatch the full albums and then culling tracks afterwards. You can connect slskd directly in lidarr with a plugin if that helps.

Spotify list import is broken right now, so you have to wait until they get around to fixing it. It’s a big hurdle for migrating to lidarr. You can import lists from some other places like listenbrainz and last.fm, so you might be able to accomplish something through those.

How about ban them for the rest of the government too

Neat

Good thread, since I hate a lot of “new” things. It’ll be good to read about the good ones.

I’ll add: GrapheneOS (and other custom phone OSes) giving us a choice besides being tracked by the big corpos.

That’s what enthusiasts might mean by “smart home” But businesses are thinking more like “put a wiretap in your living room that we can play ads through”

I’ve been using Picuki to occasionally view a friend’s post without using Instagram.

True Roman memes for true Romans

I use Neo Launcher

I do believe there will probably be elections (and that they’ll do everything they can to make them unfair).

But to think there’s a 0% chance Trump could move to cancel elections is naive at this point. Add it to the mile-long list of things “he’ll never be able to do” that he has done. He’s literally already threatened to do it.

A well put summary. Here’s the NYT analysis he showed:

https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010631041/minneapolis-ice-shooting-video.html

It really does make the truth irrefutable.

It would really bug ICE if you joined the ICE OUT FOR GOOD protests happening nationwide this weekend

https://www.fiftyfifty.one/post/50501-demands-justice-for-violence-perpetrated-by-ice-organizes-nationwide-weekend-of-action

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