kevincox

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[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

IIUC it isn't censored per se. Not like the web service that will retract a "bad" response. But the training data is heavily biased. And there may be some explicit training towards refusing answers to those questions.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The most likely situation is that the torrent isn't good. I would also force a recheck of the torrent to double-check that the files on your disk haven't been corrupted. But if that file is still saying "0 B" remaining (don't just look at 100% as it may be rounded) after the recheck then I would bet pretty good money on a broken torrent. If this is a public tracker it is fairly common.

However even if it is broken you may be able to play by using a different players. Different apps can skip over different forms of corruption, so you may get lucky.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 week ago

Why fail when you can just do the wrong thing "successfully"?

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

You can sue anyone in Canada as well. That doesn't mean you will win, or that the judge won't throw out your case before it starts.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

Nice. There were a few comics that I followed on Twitter due to lack of them posting other places. But it is nice to know that if I find another account that I am actually interested in I will be able to get a feed.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 week ago (17 children)

If you don't need to watch Jeopardy live it is pretty readily available via torrents. Probably in better quality and without ads.

Sports are much harder to find. There are trackers but they are much harder to get into and I can't attest to the completeness (I'm not really into sports) and watching it live is probably more relevant.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

It would be wasteful to upload the full size image only to throw most of it away. JPEG compression is very cheap, especially at low resolutions (I assume that image search uses a pretty low-resolution source image). Doing it this way is actually what I would do for best user experience. (Not saying that they aren't doing other malicious things, but doing the resizing on the client is actually a good idea)

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

In fact the top one has more crop.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is my strategy. If I can't bank on the website I find a new bank.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

It is mostly about giving users tools to do moderation. So managers of communities can effectively apply policies and make it easy for people to share moderation decisions so that the work can be shared among communities that trust each other's moderation decisions.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

I'm very exited for this. Just boosting a post always seems so impersonal and out of context. I almost always want to add my own message to my followers. I regularly decide not to boost because of this. I would do it a lot more if I can add my own message/context.

[–] kevincox@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 week ago

The main issue is accepting incoming connections. When you are behind a NAT (as most VPNs are for IPv4) you need some solution (such as port-forwarding) to make your torrent client connectable. This causes a number of issues when torrenting.

  1. When someone starts a download they will try to connect to the seeders. If the seeders are not connectable this will fail.
  2. As a fallback when the seeders notice the leachers they will try to connect to them. If the leacher also isn't connectable this will also fail.

If neither party is connectable the download can't happen, so you may fail to get content that you want.

This is extra relevant if you are on private trackers where seeding is tracked, has direct value and is competitive. If you are not connectable every new downloader will immediately connect to the connectable seeders and finish the download before your client even knows that they exist. (reannounces for seeders can be very infrequent, such as hourly, so it will take an average of 30min for you to notice a new seeder and try to connect to them). This makes it very difficult to acquire much upload unless there are very few other seeders.

NAT is evil, all hail IPv6.

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