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apefulsin

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    Comment #49580717

    We should all be using more of those shady services - provided they aren't scams. Those are valuable people providing a valuable service of bypassing enshittification.

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    Comment #49580706

    What is it about?

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    Comment #49580691

    Probably Spotify

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    Comment #49580690

    Soulseek is centralised, and censors searches in compliance with legal requests. If you connect to someone who has censored content, the central server can't stop you grabbing it, …

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    Comment #49580683

    There's just no reason to ever use them when other sites are better.

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    Comment #49580668

    > When there is no longer a method to read Twitter/X withoot logging in, then one can use a headless browser There isn't one. Nitter logs in.

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    Comment #49580648

    It is possible to get phone numbers. And not from shady sites - I mean you can just buy them, from the bodega. But I agree, not easy.

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    Comment #49580641

    Their "open source algorithm" (Which is actually a random code dump that does not constitute the algorithm) contains enough evidence that Elon posts are massively boosted, though n…

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    Comment #49580620

    All those have been ingested by chatgpt, which ironically provides a better user experience.

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    Comment #49580608

    It's Twitter written in Nim. Ni- + -itter.

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    Comment #49580576

    You do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"

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    Comment #49580542

    He's just serving the profitable market niche of incompetent CEOs with golden parachutes

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    Comment #49579540

    The reason is that every copy of Nitter has a list of account tokens to log in with, and pretends to be a human using those accounts.

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    Comment #49579537

    git clone

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    Comment #49579527

    Are there any left wing elites?

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    Comment #49579500

    They're not paying to link. They're paying to summarise, because people read the summary and don't go to the news site.

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    Comment #49579489

    We can test this. Piracy used to exist and streaming services were cheap and good. Then piracy didn't exist because of that, and streaming services got expensive and worse. Now pir…

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    Comment #49574340

    > Imagine what we can achieve when robots can do the laundry and dishes. First, you mean like clothes washers and dishwashers, which already exist? Second, my imagination of what w…

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    Comment #49568737

    The base is where people live 24/7. You'd be banning them from having phones.

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    Comment #49568677

    That depends what else is on the channel that is the reason for it not being available for wifi. In some places, it's a military radar and they will definitely investigate.

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    Comment #49568601

    Is that GDPR? Is it still true in America?

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    Comment #49568580

    This would require them to give you a copy of their models, which would quickly be leaked on the internet, and they know that, so it won't happen.

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    Comment #49568546

    So DNS should be open to MITM attackers?