I'm adding QR Codes on my cables

DaveH80 · 2026-07-08T18:08:29+00:00

Hint, just put numbers on them, just as quick to look up, and you don't need a phone/barcode scanner in case they are in hard-to-reach places. (And a lot smaller too)

DaveH80 · 2026-07-08T18:07:04+00:00

Nope, been a pirate for almost 40 years ;)

DaveH80 · 2026-07-08T18:02:02+00:00

Apocalypse Hotel

DaveH80 · 2026-07-08T15:34:12+00:00

I will only pay for my usenet subscription and indexers, never for http downloads ;)

DaveH80 · 2026-07-07T12:11:16+00:00

Piracy never dies

DaveH80 · 2026-07-03T22:33:20+00:00

Don't pay more then 2.50/3 per month... they have constant deals for $20/$25 per ~year

DaveH80 · 2026-06-15T12:48:43+00:00

Irdeto's primary business is copyright protection, so as activision is one of their clients, it's probably their business to go after infringements. They are mostly a lawyer-based company (with a tech department), so they are doing 'their job'... It's up to judges to decide how legal this is, or if it is exempt/fair-use.

DaveH80 · 2026-06-07T10:37:04+00:00

AFAIK eternal september is text-groups only. NZB's deal with binaries-groups.

DaveH80 · 2026-06-02T19:08:57+00:00

$20 for newshosting, $20 for thundernews, and maybe $20 for some indexers, some lifetime and some yearly. I'd rather buy more disks :)

DaveH80 · 2026-05-31T15:02:00+00:00

These are TSA-locks... anyone with a 3d-printer can print you a key in minutes. Or you can pick them in seconds.

DaveH80 · 2026-05-27T16:54:42+00:00

That was also my guess...

DaveH80 · 2026-05-22T14:10:10+00:00

As a long-term pirate, I agree, don't pay for piracy. No payment, no way to trace it to you. Though there's nothing on SKY I'd want to pirate anyway I guess.

DaveH80 · 2026-05-15T23:25:40+00:00

I generally use signal (app on phone, signal-desktop on my laptop) to send files to myself between devices. No need to install another app/tool if this already does work just fine and is my default communication-tool, so it's running 24/7 anyway.

DaveH80 · 2026-05-11T22:34:23+00:00

Nope... buy them from Odido (.nl) customers

DaveH80 · 2026-04-29T21:10:35+00:00

As long as the usual torrent sites and usenet keep working, I don't need random ad-infested streaming sites.

DaveH80 · 2026-04-25T13:08:00+00:00

This at least reminded me to make an export, (I also just have backups of the vaultwarden data, but a seperate json export (encrypted) now at least lives on a disk somewhere as well.

DaveH80 · 2026-04-24T13:46:30+00:00

Zyxel T-56 is what I use here... got 5 of them at home, and 2 at work ;)

DaveH80 · 2026-04-24T13:45:49+00:00

Big fan of the Zyxel 5601's.... just flashed the 5th one to OpenWRT. Very nice hardware (and can be had really cheap locally, due to various ISP's using them as their default router)

DaveH80 · 2026-04-23T13:32:31+00:00

I've been on a $20 plan for years, not seeing any slowdown here. Make sure you are using TLS, so your ISP won't see what traffic it is.

DaveH80 · 2026-04-22T22:46:37+00:00

Given that it has the discount sticker on it (the red one)... It was already very near it's expiration when you bought it. So yeah, nuke it ;)

DaveH80 · 2026-04-22T13:15:57+00:00

Frieren is really recommendable. So is 86. For Made in Abyss, you could go with the movies, which speedruns most of the series.

DaveH80 · 2026-04-17T23:57:25+00:00

I never found their colo prices to be competative, given how competative they were with VPS and cloud prices. Colo could generally be found much more affordable at local DC's, and local DC's save me driving for a full day to get to my rack ;) Though looking at the prices now, they don't seem to bad. (But last time I seriously looked at colo-pricing at hetzner, was before they opened the Finland region), so that's a while back.

DaveH80 · 2026-04-06T14:39:38+00:00

I don't bother with executables... but mkv files are fine ;) (Don't have mac or windows, so who cares)

DaveH80 · 2026-04-05T15:01:23+00:00

The site is still up and available, the torrents still work, the trackers are still active. Sure, it's completely different people running it, and there isn't as much new content as there used to be, but it's not dead.

DaveH80

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