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  • Direct download is essentially dead in the US because of the relatively recent changes to file sharing laws.. XDCC, Torrenting, Usenet, P2P. Choose one. HTTP warez has long gone the way of the Dodo since Warez-BB died.

  • That Tim Walz’s and AOC’s support for Israel is the single-issue that’s stopping Democrats - or at the very least Walz/AOC - from winning elections?

    I mean, it's a significant swing factor. It's clearly not the only factor, but you have entire communities in the US not voting for candidates because of their stances on Israel. You would think this past election would be a glaringly obvious example, but I guess not.

    Gallop polls suggest it's a significant issue or voters;

    Democrats' sympathies for the Israelis dipped to 38%, while the reading for Palestinians jumped 11 points to 49% [...]

    About 50% of them. To imply that they're not losing elections because of the support of Israel is supremely ignorant and stupid.

  • Because that download would still be illegal

    Of course its still illegal. I'm not saying it's using a seedbox makes it legal to download illegal torrents. It's just legal in the country of your seedbox. So if your seedbox provider gets a DMCA notice, they're going to throw it directly in the trash.

    Additionally, between my seedbox and me, is encrypted. So how would anyone know what I download from my private seedbox? There's realistically no way to get "caught." Copyright holders pay people to monitor torrent traffic for people to prosecute and hassle--but the same isn't true for private servers which encrypt traffic.

  • I still fear that mistakes may slip through

    Wikipedia is moderated by real people, so this is a non-issue. The fault tolerance for Wikipedia will be the same from AI vs People because it's moderated by the same people regardless of where the content comes from.

  • I also use it for this. Sometimes I can get pretty draconian with my speech, so I feed my long winded responses into AI, and pull out a more readable responses. I even have AI write pull requests sometimes. Works great.

  • For some languages gender-neutral pronouns aren't possible or aren't appropriate. It's really only in English and maybe five other languages that gender-neutral pronouns are a real thing and even in these languages if you're not used to using neutral pronouns or reading them in common writing sounds like a mistake to begin with. It's generally just easier to automate the task based on names, and the library itself comes from a time when that wasn't a controversial thought. Lol

  • I paid $100 to play Forza Horizon on my own device too - should that have been free?

    This is a complete false equivalence and I feel that you know that. The idea of a console is to expand it by buying new games. That's not unexpected.

    Your entire argument seems to be that software should be free

    I am a software developer. The argument isn't that software should be free. The argument is that this is an exceptionally poor business model and as a developer I'm disgusted that people are defending it. The VC which owns Plex and other VCs will use this "logic" that you have to move the goal posts further, and further, and further, and further until there's no such thing as free software anymore. And I think that's fucked up.

    At the end of the day you're paying twice to avoid buying IP. Just fucking buy the IP if you're going to be stupid. Movies are like $12. At $250 you're paying $2.10/mo in addition to your hosting costs.

    Just go buy 20 movies for the same price. It's so dumb.

  • All the stackoverflow answers lead to - its complex. read a 2000 page book.

    This is an exceptionally good answer and you're doing everything possible to avoid doing it, when you could have been half way done with the book by now probably. Database administration is a profession, not a job. It requires specialized training to do it well and doing everything possible to avoid that training and knowledge won't help you one bit.

    my queries are not that complex.

    It doesn't matter. Your database is very complex.

    they simply go through the whole table to identify any duplicates

    You search 10 million records on every request and you wonder why it's slow?

    is there a wizard move to bypass any of my restriction or is a change in the setup and algorithm inevitable?

    No. Database administration is very difficult. Reading that 2000 page book is essential for setting up infrastructure to avoid a monolithic setup like this in the first place.

    the other culprit is that our server runs on a HDD which is with 150mb read and write per second probably on its edge.

    lol wtf

    Realistically, this setup is 10 years too old. How large is your database? Is there any reason why it can't be run in memory? 10 million lines isn't insurmountable. Full text with a moderate number of tables could be ~10GB--no reason that can't be run in memory with Redis or other in-memory database or to update to a more modern in-memory database solution like Dice.

    Your biggest problem is the lack of deduplication and normalization in your database design. If it's not fixed now, it'll simply get worse YOY until it's unusable. Either spend the time and money now, or spend even more time and money later to fix it. 🤷‍♂️

    tl;dr: RTFM.

  • No other solution exists that is as easy as Plex and as secure as Plex.

    Entrenchment. This is a profoundly absurd statement.

    I paid like $100 for a lifetime Plex Pass like 10 years ago.

    You paid $100 to access software hosted on your own devices. That's wonderful you think that's a great idea. I'm sure the Plex devs love you and would kiss you right on the mouth.

    They sign in and they can stream from everyones libraries. No VPNs needed, no other hoops.

    Because you're vendor locked in.. lol.