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New comment by davkan in "Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr"

davkan — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 07:15:13 +0000

Not sure, I haven’t used Usenet myself but some friends do. From how quickly they were up and running it seemed to be less effort than getting into good private trackers.

New comment by davkan in "Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr"

davkan — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 07:49:59 +0000

Consider paying for usenet or investing some effort over a month to get into some private trackers.

New comment by davkan in "Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge"

davkan — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 07:10:26 +0000

Sure but you wouldn’t expect your filling cabinet to call the cops on you. Because your filling cabinet doesn’t read your papers. The problem is the spying not the acting on credible threats of violence.

New comment by davkan in "Amazon vs. Perplexity – U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit"

davkan — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 06:37:23 +0000

I’m sure I’m an outlier out here in the boonies but they are consistently slower than the other 3 carriers out here.

New comment by davkan in "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"

davkan — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 05:09:29 +0000

They have something I want. Usually that’s to check an account for a status update on a service or organization, or view a link that’s been sent to me.

I was fine with occasionally wading into the shit pile for something I want. It’s fine, the door is open and I don’t live there. Get in get out.

But now they want me have a shit address and shit suit and a shitmail. They want me to say hey its me mr shit can you let me in so can I have some of that delicious shit?

Instead I think I’ll just put on a hazmat suit and steal the few pieces I want from their shit pile and get out.

Boycotting them is pointless. Holding to your principals does nothing but hinder your own usage of the internet and does not help bring about the end of X or whoever else. The 0.5% of X users using xcancel disappearing overnight would have no impact.

These monoliths of Internet consolidation are not worth our consideration. Steal their content, block their ads, get on with your life.

New comment by davkan in "The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac"

davkan — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 04:58:39 +0000

Oh man I had forgotten about last measure. I remember multiple times scrambling for the power button.

New comment by davkan in "The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021"

davkan — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 04:45:34 +0000

You have to actually look not just get spoon fed by the algorithm. Community is how you find music. Subreddits, forums, record stores. You find reviewers with similar tastes and see what they like. You search “bands like X” on the Internet. You keep up with artists you like and watch for new albums. It’s more active than just letting the algorithm feed you stuff but it works. Also radio still exists and public radio especially is still great for discovery.

Or if you’re ripping your CDs and listening via apps you can just scrobble and get algo recommendations still while owning your music and without a monthly fee.

New comment by davkan in "Jellyfin 12.0"

davkan — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 04:19:32 +0000

If you don’t want to commit to one of the vibecoded no community arr clones for books then i recommend shelfmark. Lightweight grabber, easy to start with, easy to rip out later.

New comment by davkan in "Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice"

davkan — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 05:30:39 +0000

I never bothered with nitter until elon made the site unusable for people not signed in. If he undid the changes and then sold the company I’d probably a bother to update the url the next time my nitter redirects stopped working.

New comment by davkan in "QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes"

davkan — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 05:14:58 +0000

It’s not that the content is not available on the Internet it’s that it’s a better experience. Indexed high quality content that can be retrieved automatically and at high speed without the need to seed or worry about copy strikes or deal with ever changing, poor quality streaming sites.

New comment by davkan in ".name Termination"

davkan — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:45:12 +0000

Interesting. I do wonder how many people outside scammers and squatters buy them. I'd rather have an .xyz or .biz address personally.

New comment by davkan in ".name Termination"

davkan — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:43:45 +0000

The point on hosting providers is well taken. You do have to consider x.pages.dev as the wild west not cloudflare of course. One difference though is you will never receive an email from x.pages.dev asking you to do something. The domain ownership still does play a part.

New comment by davkan in ".name Termination"

davkan — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:37:57 +0000

Outside of the context of ccTLDs and city.state.gov etc, I struggle to think of examples 3LD+ domains where they are owned and operated by completely different concerns than the parent. If at some point you could just register your own mysite.state.gov domains willy nilly that's probably before my initial time online around 2000.

Another poster raised the point of hosting services which is valid. But at present outside of that example and the above I really can't think of an example where you have a link to entity.com and you have any significant cause to verify the identity beyond the 2LD.

New comment by davkan in ".name Termination"

davkan — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 19:22:46 +0000

None of these examples are of actual separate registration/ownership of a 3LD from the parent 2LD. Cloudflare owns the domain for myproject.pages.dev and hosts all the relevant infra. Not to say that there isn't a different entity represented by the 3LD than the 2LD but it's not exactly the same.

Also I would not consider the examples of tumblr and reddit to be relevant. A person's blog on myprofile.tumblr.org is still the tumblr organization. This would be true for reddit even if they didn't redirect. Reddit admins moderate content on all subreddits.

New comment by davkan in ".name Termination"

davkan — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:46:36 +0000

I can’t think of any prominent ones outside of country code domains.

New comment by davkan in "How bicycle coaster brakes work (2018)"

davkan — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 04:36:08 +0000

You can wrench on the front brake at speed, you just can’t do it from the saddle. Gotta move your center of mass back and down.

New comment by davkan in "I co-founded Burning Man. The festival has lost its soul"

davkan — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:10:11 +0000

I would bet that’s still top 5% for individual earners in the Bay Area. Do you think 300k is anywhere near average?

New comment by davkan in "I co-founded Burning Man. The festival has lost its soul"

davkan — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 08:23:00 +0000

300k would put you in the top 5% of households and 3-4x the median household, let alone single earners. You are absolutely beyond “comfortably middle class” with that salary.

New comment by davkan in "Bookshelf – Self-hosted eBook library that runs on object storage"

davkan — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:07:50 +0000

Yeah it’s definitely not the lightweight simple solution, its the everything under the sun solution.

New comment by davkan in "Bookshelf – Self-hosted eBook library that runs on object storage"

davkan — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:43:56 +0000

No problem!