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.

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

I hope it’s just a joke

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

There have been some artists that did actual performance art similar to this. “Miniskirt” made of mirrors with nothing underneath, so that participants would theoretically have to look at themselves while touching the female artist/performer below the belt.

To me it reeked of some odd fetishy shit, but that was the stated intent, to make people reflect on treating women like objects.

My understanding is that it’s not the phone signal, but bluetooth low power mode, which is how many countries did covid exposure tracking.

So not full location triangulation, but more a hypothetical that a business or government could very easily set up bt low power beacons and identify devices that got in range like they did for covid tracking.

I would look at mod collections on nexus or wabbajack. Beyond that, there are mods that allow you to have a different start to the game than “so you’re finally awake”, which delay the main quest until you effectively start it yourself.

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

Tenant does such a good job with the role that I legitimately had a hard time watching him as other characters for a while after. Kilgrave is so fucking vile on so many levels, but is still a fully fleshed out awful character by the end, and Tenant absolutely nails it.

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.

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.

Also, mass surveillance. Not surveillance itself. And fully autonomous weapons.

Don’t get distracted by the birdy folks, Anthropic is not your friend, or some great protector of the American people. They were already deeply embedded in the US Government as their product was the only one certified for use with classified documents.

They weren’t standing up for us, they were splitting hairs on exactly how far they’d openly go.

I’ve also seen statements that Anthropic’s stance against fully autonomous weapons was simply due to results not yet being as consistent as they were comfortable putting their name on, not due to any opposition towards use in/with weaponry.

OpenAI also claims to have the same limitations. So someone’s lying.

Would love to be pointed in the right direction. I’ve had lower back issues since my early 20s.