While their full set of data is 370TB, you can back up quite a bit without taking up too much space depending on what you want. The shit that really seems to eat drive space are the PS3 games and various gaming related bluray rips.

I’d imagine the gaming related bluray rips (mostly special edition behind the scenes disks) are going to be hard to find when it goes down.

Hence my mention about Pirate Bay. There were multiple mainstream news stories about it. Multiple of the founders were unmasked and put on trial, but the site was constructed so that it kept running. It is still running to this day, despite it no longer being the face of piracy that it was long ago.

Edit: In more recent news/sites, Anna’s Archive. They have yet another lawsuit against them that isn’t going to amount to anything but maybe a few more domain names going down because none of the people operating it have been able to be unmasked.

I never said that and you’re wildly missing my point. If the person running your site hasn’t run things in a way that they can tank some news coverage, it was doomed from the start.

Take this very lemmy instance. The public facing load balancer they currently use is hosted in France. They aren’t revealing anything beyond that and anythung further isn’t something that can be reasonably found by anyone not involved with the systems administration side of things for the instance. The admins are careful to practice proper opsec as well, not revealing their home country.

You can find all sorts of writeups about countless less than legal sites and projects, both ones that survived and ones that died. Not a single dead one is dead because of attention. Most are dead because the people running it made some mistake that allowed authorities to find their real identity so they could be prosecuted. Or because of internal drama. Or rising costs, like myrient which is closing the end of this month.

Oh no, the youngins are on their “if no one talks about it, the corpos won’t know” delusion again.

Security through obscurity isn’t security, and plenty of sites have survived longer than most of you have been pirating despite coverage by actual news organizations. Your least (or most) favorite youtuber (or forum, or guide, or wiki) isn’t moving the needle.

If you aren’t part of the actual scene that’s sourcing shit for day 0 (or earlier) upload you have nothing to worry about regarding open discussion through psuedonymous social media. Or people making youtube videos. Or guides etc.

Pirate sites and fan projects that get shut down weren’t going to last anyway. Real ones arr either set up to last or find a way to continue. Like Pirate Bay and AM2R.

presumably had initially been intended to include him

Fun fact: In one of the many leaks of Nintendo internal files in the past decade, early source code and the model was found for Luigi in SM64. His inclusion was abandoned very early on in development.

Much like ducks at the park.

Make your own comm for this if you absolutely must pour your slop out on lemmy.

Curl is getting a slew of amatuer programmers throwing non-tuned AI at the project and just saying “go find problems” then throwing it as pull requests at curl when the pull creators have no ability to understand what the AI found or the code it generated. Curl never asked for it, and they aren’t self identifying as AI generated.

In contrast, Mozilla is actively working with Anthropic on this, which implies at least some amount of coordination and intent with this. That would mean professionals from Anthropic and Mozilla fine tuning these AIs to reduce false positives. They will also be clearly labeled as AI generated. If it results in needless busywork, they’re free to cut the agreement at any time.

I’m not a particular fan of this either, and I think that there’s plenty of ground to cover with less resource intensive pattern matching bug and error detection schemes that should be focused on first, but this is absolutely not the same situation that happened to curl.

Check multiple instances. .ml may be the flagship instance, but a lot of communities are more busy on topic specific instances. Nice thing about lemmy and federation is that you don’t need to hop sites to get their communities.

Programming.dev has most of the programming related comms. lemmy.dbzer0.com for piracy (and self-hosted AI). There’s a furry run instance, blahaj for LGBTQIA+ stuff, an anime focused instance, a literature focused one, a nsfw one, and lemmy.world for most else.

I hope it’s just a joke

Yes, the classic Mozilla April Fools joke, released a full month early.

Likely Yakuza members, or people imitating the style (which is a dangerous game to play).

Legs up to where?

Firefox at home, IronFox on mobile, and Edge at work (not really my choice, but works fine).

As I’ve looked through it myself I’m also seeing a decent amount of duplicated items, especially in their “Internet Archive” section for stuff that is at risk of being taken off IA. Multiple different format copies of the same game releases, or dumps of PS3 games by different scene groups.

I’ve seen some links posted to sites that somehow manage to show comment history even for accounts with it hidden as well. Apparently the feature is pretty half baked.

And with how small lemmy still is, it has a noticable effect for the better.

Might be able to starve it further with Windows 10 Ameliorated. It’s got a fancy UI now, but under the hood it’s a bunch of Powershell scripts to disable a lot of the bullshit (or at least it used to be).

Using IoT LTSC install media is good too, doesn’t include a lot of the BS to begin with.

por que no los dos?

Oh, well today I learned. I had assumed that even the world’s dumbest government officials wouldn’t refer to themselves as being part of a department that doesn’t actually exist, but here we are.

Thanks for laying it out for me!

I think you missed some news. There is officially a Department of War again.

Edit: I am very wrong.