rufus

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[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If you're interested in finding out, why don't you buy one and try for yourself? They're not that expensive (at least the non-electronic ones)... I hear some people like it. And I mean if you're not fond of the current situation, you should switch up things and try something different anyways.

(Edit: I'd get a cheap one, see if I like it and the either throw it in the trash or have learned something and then decide if I want some $250 device with all the bells and whistles and buttplug.io integration. But YMMV on that.)

[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I think what you mean is compound words vs other words?

Wikipedia says there are lots of compound words in English.

Plaintiff is borrowed from Old French. Litigation from Latin...

I suppose it boils down to when and under what circumstances a term was needed to describe something. Sometimes there was a word from another language available. Or the whole subject came from a different culture. And sometimes they just described it with a compound of what it resembles. And how to make up terms probably also depends on what is en vogue at the time.

[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago

My summary is oversimplified. I still think it's the correct answer to OP's question: is there physical evidence. Because there isn't anything physical. But there are written records from a bit later, suggesting that somebody with that name must have existed. Glad someone else thinks I picked the correct article. Seems it's not that easy to find good information. The English speaking internet is filled with low quality efforts to portray the facts in a way they'd like to have them.

I have a few good books though. Back when I was young (and became an atheist,) I used to read a lot about philosophy, the political message of the New Testament. And what life was like in that time.

[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Agree. But that specific article seems pretty alright. Also talks about the relics and history records for example by Tacitus.

There also is a Wikipedia article which I think is not written that well. And a lot of education material by churches or religious organizations which I did not cite for obvious reasons.

(And the German Wikipedia article about sources for the historicity of Jesus seems very good. But it's not exactly OP's question and I don't know if it helps: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Au%C3%9Ferchristliche_antike_Quellen_zu_Jesus_von_Nazaret )

[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

https://www.history.com/news/was-jesus-real-historical-evidence

Tl;dr: No.

My opinion: It's a nice story. And with stories the most important thing is what it teaches us or makes us feel. Not that it's true. Maybe they took inspiration from several preaching hippies who lived back then and made one story out of that. Exaggerated everything and made stuff up. Probably all of it because the bible was't even written close to his supposed lifetime. It'd be like you now writing a story about a dude who died in ~~1870~~. Without any previous records to get information from. [Edit: The first things have probably been written down like 40-50 years after his death.]

And I mean if Jesus existed, he would certainly disapprove of what people do (and did) in his name.

[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 4 months ago (2 children)

There are some blog posts on annas-blog.org from 2022, talking about IPFS.

[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The article doesn't talk much at all about all the interesting technical details.

The press release talks about trouble with payment providers... So I suppose they accepted credit card payment.

Maybe the court documents are publicly available if anyone is willing to dig them up in order to find out... I don't think I'm that interested. If it's a good story, maybe someone will do a documentery or podcast episode at some point. Would probably do for a "true crime" show.

[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I think most people here have went through the 5 stages of grief. And at this point they don't care anymore. At least not to the degree they used to. It's been a year. Life goes on. Don't waste your time on being negative and spamming someone who once let you down. Look forward and spend your time on something useful. At least that's my opinion.

But yeah, it's a question. I just think other people think it's pointless and they don't care. And some of them are going to downvote you for that even in No stupid questions. And lots of other people aren't going to upvote something like this. Hence resulting in that ratio.

[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Give me like $7,500 and I provide enough harddisks for 183,200 episodes. I'm not sure what to calculate for traffic, though.

And I mean it's a bit unfortunate that you have to commit money laundering and/or tax fraud alongside this "business model". It's just not that easy to say: Hey, I would like to pay taxes on this pile of money and I don't want to say where I got it from, it's definitely mine, though.

[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Plug it into a computer and see what the computer says.

I usually use Linux for that because it offers good error messages and I know the tools. But other operating systems might help, too.

And if you start writing to the card or executing recovery tools, make a backup / image first.

If the files are very important, maybe don't tamper with it and ask for help. Like a repair shop, your local Linux community or any trustworthy computer expert friend.

The biggest enemy is probably encryption, if it's encrypted. The files are definitely still there if you just ripped it out. In the old days you could just run a recovery program and get everything back.

[–] rufus@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 4 months ago

Correct answer. And this is going to help way more than adding a few trackers. Also consider doing the port-forward in your router, if you're behind a NAT and it doesn't do it automatically. That makes even more peers available.

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Which *arr for file hosters? (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by rufus@discuss.tchncs.de to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
 

I'm German and seems 'we' rely more on file hosters than torrenting. There are lots of tv series and movies with both the original audio track and the dubbed one on sites like funxd, serienjunkies, serienfans... They mostly redirect to a filecrypt.cc folder and then I get a DLC file to download the parts from turbobit or rapidgator (one-click hosters.)

What setup am I looking for, if I were to automate this? I'm aware of the Megathread but I didn't find the correct software to index those sites and then what kind of download manager people use nowadays. (Ah yes, and I don't want to pay for premium accounts.)

Edit: Replaced "one-click hosters" with "file hosters"

 

My laptop is getting old and i can't have Element eat up half of my RAM. There are many more clients out there but which one is good? aka "the best? ;-)

My requirements: lightweight, encryption 100% supported, active development/community. runs neatly 24/7 in the background.

Should also support the latest features, let me customize when to get notifications: priorities / muted chatrooms. And ideally also look clean and run on the Pinephone. But that's optional.

I don't care which desktop environment or cli.

What do you use?

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