The first couple of weeks on a private tracker are always pretty rough, until you can build up your ul/dl ratio high enough to get some breathing room.

Some sites make things easier on newbs than others.

If possible, look for recent freeleech torrents, especially popular ones, download them even if you aren’t really interested in the content, and seed them 24/7 to build your ul stats…

You have at least 10 years from when your tapes were written.

Hope the device you have to read them still works …

I just signed up for Matrix because you mentioned it.

I installed the Element front end, because that seems to be the most popular.

It looks like IRC, which is fine if that’s all you need.

It also appears that anything beyond text has to be hotlinked, which is understandable, given that the amount of data transmitted for redundancy between home servers is exponential with the number of home servers.

Really very similar to Lemmy, where the identity of each group is tied to a particular server, e.g. lemmy has !anime@ani.social but Matrix has #anime:matrix.org

So what happens if matrix.org goes away or decides the server admin wants to be hostile to #anime?

What kind of system that depends on centralized servers can ever be secure from government snooping?

That kind of architecture is completely hopeless in that regard.

Is a encrypted, distributed, P2P architecture realistic though?

But not all water is useful.

We have a lot of non useful water on Earth in the oceans that has too much salt.

Water from non-Earth sources might contain dissolved minerals at poisonous levels for agriculture, much less human consumption.

And if there’s liquid water from a non-Earth setting, there might be some kind of unknown exo-organisms living in it.

How to cut off PS online verification: https://www.reddit.com/r/GenP/comments/1624ybw/how_to_fix_photoshop_we_cant_verify_your/

But the tool they recommend using, GenP, does trigger Windows Defender warnings because it modifies binaries, so read the installation instructions carefully.

Or migrate to FOSS software, or pay Adobe to use their product.

There are some specialty content, such as British TV and Asian TV and movies, or complete archives of porn sites, that don’t appear regularly on public torrent sites, or streaming sites for that matter.

If you never watch that kind of thing, then you don’t need to sign up for a private tracker.

Didn’t you watch Doogie Howser?

A county fair with 3 ferris wheels would be overkill.

Unless they did this.

Wow, that was horrific.

The same caution is advisable when searching for any free software.

There’s all kinds of malware, adware, and just plain malicious crap that shows up in search engine results.

The corollary is that a book has to be in-print, or commercially distributed in e-book form, to have any sales.

If neither new printed copies, or commercially sold e-books are available, then taking down pirate sites, or even an archive like archive.org, only diminishes the collection and availability of human knowledge and literature.

I can’t emphasize how huge this is.

The discrimination towards black farmers to deny them federal loans, subsidies, and other funding assistance, that white farmers got easily was heartbreaking.

A couple of news stories from 2022

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/historically-denied-pivotal-loans-black-farmers-still-struggle-to-get-support

https://revealnews.org/podcast/losing-ground-2022/

JD Vance talks about a fictionalized fantasy world made for entertainment and most importantly profit after he tells his son to shut up about Pokemon.

SCOTUS will soon rule that sexual abuse, solitary confinement, frequent pepper spray are perfectly acceptable in juvenile detention centers!

It rains a lot in some parts of India, hence the existence of the jungle where she was chained.

Maybe she survived by drinking puddles of rainwater within her range of movement?

That may not be enough water to sustain her forever, but it would extend her survival.

That, and lack of water and food can lead to delirium which can lead to losing sense of time.

She might have picked “40 days” as a Bible reference. That’s a pretty common number that represents a long time in western culture, even if they’re not directly referencing the Bible.

I see the “ET” logo under right wing sources, and I think “Entertainment Tonight” is right wing?
ET is Epoch Times