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by techrat 5y ago
> That doesn't mean you cater to them. Heh. Pay attention... They specifically cater, not just host, but CATER to those who are unable to host elsewhere due to their content. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epik_
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by techrat 5y ago
> Harassment and threats of violence are illegal. And Epik continued to host sites that were taken offline specifically for those reasons. That's your cognitive dissonance.
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by techrat 5y ago
Many registrars offer free Whois Privacy by default. Even Google Domains.
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by techrat 5y ago
It might be the number of files and subdirectories rather than the total file size of the torrent.
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by techrat 5y ago
Ah yes, the mythical "rights of the might" that overrule peoples' rights depending on who feels their rights are more important. Why should anyone should suffer consequences for threats of harm online? You agree that someone
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by techrat 5y ago
Epik's business model is to specifically cater to fascists. > Epik is known for providing services to websites with far-right content, such as the social network Gab, video hosting service BitChute, conspiracy theory website InfoW
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by techrat 5y ago
And how often you see on HN how people should vet who they do business with... but now are saying they're mad at hackers for going after someone who "happens to host some bad websites and not someone like Youtube instead cause the
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by techrat 5y ago
Their business model is to specifically cater towards neo nazis. https://www.vice.com/en/article/gy4yg9/the-far-right-has-fou... https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/01/11
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by techrat 5y ago
> Epik is owned by Rob Monster, who is a open and proud Neo Nazi and antisemite. You chose to do business with him despite of who he was and what he enables When I first heard of Epik, it was due to the kinds of sites/domains he han
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by techrat 5y ago
Good for you. Meanwhile I just had to restart Firefox because it pegged a CPU core at 100% and wouldn't refresh. And this was after nuking the configs and doing an "sudo apt purge firefox && sudo apt install firefox&quot
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by techrat 5y ago
So now we have the Whiny Nerd Paradox. Google is evil because they took over the web with Chrome. But they're still evil because they're singlehandedly keeping Mozilla alive with funding. Yes. Especially evil for keeping distant c
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by techrat 5y ago
Or maybe you have rose colored glasses on from using Firefox in isolation. It's a memory leaking hog on every system I use it on. Windows, Ubuntu, even Android. Even back to the days of Phoenix, it always had issues with not eventually
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by techrat 5y ago
Funny how they always stop responding at this point. "I don't like what Apple is doing." Then out of nowhere and off topic: "GOOGS IS WORSE!" It's purely Pavlovian to them by now.
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by techrat 5y ago
> So some market segmentation has to exist. If Intel threw away every chip that had one of the four cores come out broken, they’d lose a lot of money and have to raise prices to compensate. Except in the case with the Pentium special edi
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by techrat 5y ago
64GB Desktop. Apt runs weekly. Firefox still blows.
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by techrat 5y ago
> So tell me what you mean then. I already have. Being disingenuous is all you have left, apparently.
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by techrat 5y ago
Funny how you say 'we old timers' when you remind me exactly of the same sniveling types who whined about everything "Micro$uck" etc... on Slashdot back in the day... It's tiresome and doesn't contribute one bi
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by techrat 5y ago
The point with my reply is that you have enough to point out about the Chrome situation without having to resort to tenuous claims or outright falsehoods. Google had to have had the better product otherwise you wouldn't have been int
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by techrat 5y ago
Firefox is a dumpster fire half the time. I use Firefox still for exactly ONE website: Facebook. To keep it sandboxed. I still have to restart Firefox at least once every other day because it leaks and becomes a runaway process. No plugins&
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by techrat 5y ago
A company putting an ad for its own product on its own website is not an example of a shady tactic. "Allowed?" Next you'll tell me that Microsoft should be forced to exclusively advertise other browsers other than their own o
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by techrat 5y ago
Tips are counted as pay, buddy. Legally if hourly rate + tips falls under minimum wage, the employer has to cover the difference. Either way, tips are income and thus taxed as such. No idea why you could ever expect that it's tax free.
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by techrat 5y ago
For shits and giggles, I dug up an old IBM K6-2/300 Mhz motherboard I had in the shed, maxed out the ram (256MB) on the board and used a CDRom to install the latest Debian (Squeeze) I could on the SD Card/IDE Adapter. Just so I co
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by techrat 5y ago
ChanServ is a relatively modern function of IRC. For a good while, still to this day on some networks, services did not exist.
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by techrat 5y ago
Looks like it may just be you. No issues on a cheap $300 no name Android device. Renders and scrolls fine.
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by techrat 5y ago
Your argument is that iDevices like the iPod and iPhone require more stringent 'massive capacitor' power delivery with an inline battery over... more power demanding/complex devices like laptops? And other phones that had rem
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by techrat 5y ago
"Lots," eh? Every laptop I've ever owned will run with the battery disconnected. Except the Macbook, of course. The simple fact of the matter is that Apple routinely makes design decisions that are not only questionable, but
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by techrat 5y ago
almost all apple idevices will not run plugged in if the battery is dead. thought I could do this on an old click wheel iPod but nope, had to replace the battery before i could use it. it did not use to be common, i had no issues keeping ot
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by techrat 5y ago
Which is why Apple is doing everything they can to serialize parts like the display. They always have been the worst about locking out third party repairs since the second Jobs era.
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by techrat 5y ago
> A company wouldn't offer it if they didn't expect to make money Companies certainly offer 'extended' or longer warranties compared to a competitor as a selling point with the intention to deny all claims and issues.
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by techrat 5y ago
> How do you know he wasn't just lying to see if you would unintentionally confirm his lie? Or how much of it was bait? "I never said such a thing." > "Now are you calling me a liar?"

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