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New comment by apefulsin in "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"

apefulsin — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 21:10:12 +0000

We should all be using more of those shady services - provided they aren't scams. Those are valuable people providing a valuable service of bypassing enshittification.

New comment by apefulsin in "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"

apefulsin — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 21:08:49 +0000

What is it about?

New comment by apefulsin in "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"

apefulsin — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 21:06:46 +0000

Probably Spotify

New comment by apefulsin in "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"

apefulsin — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 21:06:17 +0000

Soulseek is centralised, and censors searches in compliance with legal requests. If you connect to someone who has censored content, the central server can't stop you grabbing it, but you have to find them another way.

New comment by apefulsin in "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"

apefulsin — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 21:05:09 +0000

There's just no reason to ever use them when other sites are better.

New comment by apefulsin in "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"

apefulsin — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 21:04:33 +0000

> When there is no longer a method to read Twitter/X withoot logging in, then one can use a headless browser

There isn't one. Nitter logs in.

New comment by apefulsin in "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"

apefulsin — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 21:03:00 +0000

It is possible to get phone numbers. And not from shady sites - I mean you can just buy them, from the bodega.

But I agree, not easy.

New comment by apefulsin in "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"

apefulsin — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 21:02:32 +0000

Their "open source algorithm" (Which is actually a random code dump that does not constitute the algorithm) contains enough evidence that Elon posts are massively boosted, though no smoking gun. It also classifies politics as democrat or republican and then acts to maintain echo chambers.

New comment by apefulsin in "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"

apefulsin — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 21:00:15 +0000

All those have been ingested by chatgpt, which ironically provides a better user experience.

New comment by apefulsin in "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"

apefulsin — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 20:58:46 +0000

It's Twitter written in Nim. Ni- + -itter.

New comment by apefulsin in "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"

apefulsin — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 20:55:55 +0000

You do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"

New comment by apefulsin in "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"

apefulsin — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 20:53:04 +0000

He's just serving the profitable market niche of incompetent CEOs with golden parachutes

New comment by apefulsin in "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"

apefulsin — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 18:55:47 +0000

The reason is that every copy of Nitter has a list of account tokens to log in with, and pretends to be a human using those accounts.

New comment by apefulsin in "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"

apefulsin — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 18:55:15 +0000

    git clone

New comment by apefulsin in "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"

apefulsin — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 18:54:06 +0000

Are there any left wing elites?

New comment by apefulsin in "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"

apefulsin — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 18:52:04 +0000

They're not paying to link. They're paying to summarise, because people read the summary and don't go to the news site.

New comment by apefulsin in "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"

apefulsin — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 18:51:29 +0000

We can test this. Piracy used to exist and streaming services were cheap and good. Then piracy didn't exist because of that, and streaming services got expensive and worse. Now piracy exists again.

New comment by apefulsin in "I Want a Wife (1971) [pdf]"

apefulsin — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 08:18:59 +0000

> Imagine what we can achieve when robots can do the laundry and dishes.

First, you mean like clothes washers and dishwashers, which already exist?

Second, my imagination of what we can achieve by procreation seems limited to "more humans". A trillion humans? A quadrillion humans? Enlighten me.

New comment by apefulsin in "US Military disables ad trackers on troops' phones"

apefulsin — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 19:00:18 +0000

The base is where people live 24/7. You'd be banning them from having phones.

New comment by apefulsin in "Restoring 5 GHz Wi-Fi on an LG C5 by changing its webOS region"

apefulsin — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:56:31 +0000

That depends what else is on the channel that is the reason for it not being available for wifi. In some places, it's a military radar and they will definitely investigate.