athos77

Are dht and pex enabled?

TV-Vault, but I have no idea how you’d get into it these days. Feel free to PM me what you’re looking for, though.

Lemmy.ml also has a datahoarders.

Seeds fall off quickly on public trackers and the people who do long-term seeding on publics tend to end up seeding larger libraries. So you’ll often be the one person in the world seeding a large number of torrents. Multiple leeches is only a theoretical help because when it finally seeds out, half the people quit immediately, some hang around to seed to the last leechers, and a couple hang around for a week or two before feeling they’ve done their due diligence and signing off. Things are quiet on that torrent for a month or so, and then a new leech shows up and the whole thing repeats again. It’s why I stopped seeding on publics: it’s extremely demoralizing to finally get copies of something out to the dozen or so people who have accumulated, only for every one of them to fuck off right after they finish.

If he’s the single seed left on a torrent, chances are he’s the last seed on a bunch of other torrents as well, and his bandwidth is being choked by everyone who wants his stuff.

Yeah, my old company did this one year. They wanted to make the list, so they encouraged employees to do something [I think it was write in a nomination but I can’t be sure].

It wouldn’t even hold up in this case: the waiver holds Hilton not liable when the guest eats food not prepared by the restaurant, when the guest is clearly eating food prepared by the restaurant.

Blame FedEx, and Amazon.

So … Once upon a time, you’d get to bring one or two checked bags for free. Then FedEx came along and you could ship documents overnight (except it was really expensive). But they started to bring costs down and it became more reasonable to ship stuff that way, at which point the USPS, UPS and other carriers had to start offering similar options or risk becoming the second or third choice carrier. But they needed a way to quickly move letters and packages around the country without having to buy an entire fleet of airplanes.

And then a bright person said, “Hey, why do they have to be our airplanes?” And they went to United and American and all the other carriers and said, “Hey, we want to buy space in your baggage holds, and we’re willing to pay!” And suddenly the space under the plane where they tossed people’s bags stopped being a way to lose money (did to the extra fuel needed for the extra weight), it became a revenue stream, it was profitable, and the airlines rejoiced.

But now every suitcase a passenger brought up meant less space for those lovely, lovely packages. So the airlines started restricting suitcases - number, size, weight, whatever they could do to create more room for packages - and the start of Amazon only meant even more packages that wanted space. And other companies wanted to compete with Amazon, and packages increasingly needed timely delivery to ever more remote parts of the country.

Anyway, the upshot is that - in addition to squeezing in ever more passengers - nowadays, when you pay to bring along an extra suitcase or oversized/ heavy item, the airlines are actually charging you some of the revenue that they’re losing because that space is no longer available to carry lovely, lovely packages.

Pretty much, yeah :(

In the meantime, CBC: Canada could lead the world in oil production growth in 2024.

Dura Ahmed sounds like a lovely person:

“[I was studying] English and Middle Eastern studies. I didn’t know anything about ISIS or anything. […] I didn’t really watch the news. No one liked to talk about it. I was really oblivious to what was going on. In the end I said fine, if I don’t like it, I’ll come back.” […]

So to Raqqa, ISIS’ de-facto capital, she came in 2014. What she saw, she liked. “It was an easy life. It was a city. It was stable,” she said. “You’re there and you’re eating Pringles and Twix bars." […] “Well, having slaves is part of Sharia,” she finally ventured. “I believe in Sharia.”

Did she regret coming to Syria, I asked, wondering if she felt disillusioned with the Islamic State […] “No. I had my kids [t]here,” she replied.

There’s literally no such thing as a loophole. What there is are clauses that companies arrange to be put into laws and regulations that sound innocuous, but that the companies fully intend to exploit under the right conditions. It’s never a loophole, it’s an undisclosed feature.

Yeah, Trudeau has already said that Canada will never do 2% GDP in defense spending. And while Canada has been under increasing pressure to meet the 2% target since the invasion of Ukraine, all they’ve actually been doing is trying to change the definition of what counts toward “defence spending”: oh, can we count research into artificial intelligence as ‘defense spending’? what about space research? we’re already including pensions, so that’s good …