Notices by jonny (good kind) (jonny@neuromatch.social)

you know what it takes for someone to get involved with torrenting? download qbittorrent and click a download button. you know what it takes for someone to get involved with s3? to have their mind melted as smooth as glass, their credit card surrendered, and rendering their fate unto the prayers of the bot traffic god

hire my ass and i'll save your company one million dollars by buying some hard drives.

i'm struggling to write docs on how to torrent because its' like "you just do it, oh yeah and forward your ports"

i think counterarguments against bittorent - not even p2p, specifically bittorrent - would be a lot more convincing if i couldn't just see it working right now and all the time and in a bunch of different circumstances where there were other supposed reasons it shouldn't work good.

"what if the seeds go offline"
"idk what if you can't pay $10,000 one month"

@SoniEx2 bram cohen can say whatever he wants, it's irrelevant to bittorrent

@feld
Bittorrent is designed to make duplicates and everything works off hashes of data, no need for additional checksum files to check integrity, thats what a torrent is

we whipped up a bittorrent swarm that has 200TB of proven storage in like a month by cobbling together everyone's random hard drives. storing 200TB on s3 would cost at least $4.5k per month and would cost $10,000 to download it one time.

why is the cloud good

Fascism is an alliance between the state and capital, and it is the role of the state to arrange a managerial role for capital over the planet. LetsEncrypt costs less than a million dollars to make the web as we know it possible to exist on for anyone that isn't a gigantic corporation. the only reason one would attack systems like LetsEncrypt, F-Droid, etc. is to consolidate an oligopoly. LetsEncrypt is used by some unbelievable share of the internet, 600 million websites which is in the neighborhood of ~60% of websites with an SSL certificate. Using the state to intervene with some flimsy pretext to recapture the profit of forcing 600 million people and organizations to fork it over to the Most Favored Capitalist is the driver behind the wheel of fascism. same as private prisons, same as tariff-driven price shocks, same as private postal service, and so on.

https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/114224434946164202

I have been all over the city on my bike today, drained my savings account, gotten 4 different forms from 3 different places, and I get to the second to last place and they are closed at 5 and wont open until Monday. My temporary moving permit is only for today and tomorrow, so I need to pay another $money for that, and also three more days in impound. Fuck this whole city and fuck everything about this. I DONT EVEN DRIVE THAT CAR

I was in a bureaucratic loop where my registration is expired so I can't get my car out of impound, but I can't get my registration because I can't get my car with the DMV. everything is very far so I wanted to know im going to the right place before setting out on my bike. DMV websites are broken as hell and phone hold times would put me past closing time.

I know AAA is like a bad org re: climate change, but I did manage to get ahold of them and they gave me good info in like 2 minutes. I have also been getting fucked around by my car insurance company, which is like most companies now is just a website shell around an LLM "service agent" and outsourced call center workers, and honestly when you encounter an organization where people still actually work there it's remarkably refreshing. I've never been a "I demand customer service" kind of person, but even I feel like "there are human beings that work at a place" is kind of a low bar to set, but there is my bar.

@aud
@puppygirlhornypost2
Laughing my ass off at "what if a database was a ton of JSON files per activitypub collection that we serialize and deserialize in their entirety every time we have to do anything
https://github.com/steve-bate/jaseur/blob/main/src/resource_store.cpp

yeti climbed down the tower to catch her at the bottom???? you were at the top!!!!! surely you would have passed her along the way!!!! #monsterdon

who is the yeti's backup going to be, he heeds backup #monsterdon

#timestamp for yeti sidling out from behind building and music sting #monsterdon

let's manifest yeti unfreezing a giant pterodactyl and fucking off into the sunset #monsterdon

yeeti is clearly suffering from a direly outdated wardrobe and can't go on because nobody gave him PANTS they were too busy keeping that one man's shirt unbuttoned #monsterdon

"there you are chandler"
"Hi"
killed me
#monsterdon

this man is not a doctor or a scientist, he just keeps showing up and telling people what to do #monsterdon

who put that hit out on the yeti!?!?!? #monsterdon