Actual pirate ships were very democratic generally. When splitting the bounty, everyone got an equal share. Maybe 2 shares for the navigator and 1.5 for the captain. But that’s it.

So while they didn’t care much for non-pirates, they certainly treated each other fairly.

You know the phrase “If you aren’t paying, you’re the product”.
It doesn’t hit as hard as a CEO using the phrase “Monetizing Our User Base”.

Nearly all the rules members need to follow (which can vary from one tracker to another) are about seeding enough. That’s the main universal thing. Not allowing people to “Hit and Run”. For a member to do that, it typically takes dedicating some substantial drive space and seed time. Far more than most people are willing/able to dedicate. This allows the tracker to curate a large library of high quality material. That’s the primary ideology.

Secondary to that, it has the added benefit of making sure everyone involved is “cool”. Cool as in, not a nark who’s going to get people sued and the site shut down. That used to be a big issue. I don’t know if it is now. I’m kind of out of touch with public torrent sites.

As to why we’re insufferable elitists? What do you want me to say? Rulers’ gonna rule.

Until their users found out.

Even an audit is really just someone else saying “trust me bro”. You have some level of trust.

My confidence is inversely proportional to any evidence you have to the contrary.

They don’t keep a search history. Your searches aren’t tied to anything, because they aren’t even saved. They don’t have any reason to save them since they aren’t selling any targeted ads.

That’s why all the top results on every search are actual results, instead of a bunch of ads.
Totally worth it.

Kagi does it already.

!Lemmy [stuff]

Gets you stuff from all over Lemmy

Violence has many facets. Harassment ist violence and it’s done by pro-lifers.

No. I’m mostly with you. But not on this.

The “Spectrum of Violence” might include everything from lies to murder. But that’s different than what you’re doing here.

Insults, name calling, even threats, are not similar to getting physically beaten. Conflating them like this is either an insult, or at least disrespectful, to anyone who’s been hospitalized, crippled, or worse.

Just no. Don’t do that. Be more nuanced.

I like the general idea!

Specific implementation would make all the difference. The percentage splitting would have to be very graphical to be intuitive and used by most. And artists would need a way to sign up once, and be paid from all instances.

It sounds like a massive project. But one that may be worth while.

Data Broker Sold Location Data on Visitors of 600 Planned Parenthood Facilities to an Anti-Abortion Group for Targeted Advertising

It also downloads from Tidal

If they’re joining Notion, does that mean Notion is looking to add encrypted services?

Yes exactly.

You can pay to fund the instance you use. To help ensure it’s worth the time of whoever is managing it.

It’s how Communick works. Or is hoped to work. It seems difficult to convince fedizins to pay for this great stuff.

“At launch, the Monitor Plus free scan and paid subscription service will be offered to people based in the United States.”

We’ll have to see how long it takes to spread elsewhere.

That’s not always a good thing. If it was meant to be 4:3 the extra space on the frame can have set rigging, lights, microphone booms, and in case of stunts even crash pads.

It’s one of the reasons the HD rescan of Buffy:TVS sucks. That still needs a proper 4:3 HD remaster.

Granted, my memory isn’t great. But I think so. Maybe? I’m not sure any more.

Why is 2018 and 2021 skipped over?

There are a lot of things I don’t like about academia’s traditions.

Having references and sources is a must. Putting them on screen during a presentation is not.
The presentation is not the authoritative final version of the research for others to reference. It’s the quick entertaining version. It’s the advertisement for the paper. The paper needs the citations. The presentation just needs to entertain and entice. A presentation is a kind of performance. A one person play of sorts. Audience members don’t stop a play in the middle to check sources, or ask questions. Q&A comes after the presentation is finished. You can have a separate slide deck, of only charts and graphics with corresponding numbers that you hand out to the audience specifically for questions. But that’s not part of the presentation.

Or at least it should be that way.