Sexual assault allegations not being a big deal to you is already a huge yikes. But you’re also blatantly ignoring all of the other issues over the years:

• Stealing and auctioning prototype hardware from startups
• Underpaying employees and turning their termination details into content
• Making his employees renovate his mansion
• Buying a private jet for private family use (already bad) and then trying to pass it off as a business expense
• Repeatedly claiming Linux is garbage because he’s actually too dumb (or paid off) to follow basic instructions as a “tech expert” despite his basement gremlin assistant figuring it out fine
• Been shown with hard facts to regularly misrepresent products and their specs due to poor reviewing and testing standards by actual professionals in the space (and claims its too expensive to do so anyways. Remember that jet?)
• In response to all of this has acted like a whiny toddler caught at the cookie jar and cries that everyone else is worse (source needed). As far as I understand it, the podcast nowadays is essentially Linus claiming he’s a tech God among plebs while previously mentioned basement gremlin cackles and calls him a good master

Go to your local library, get a membership (free), and discover the joy of having a functional brain. Books will teach you more than any corpo propaganda bot ever could

Don’t be a sheep, think for yourself

Wasn’t the point being made, but go off king 👍

Correct, I don’t surround myself with Enlightened Centrists© who think a little fascism is okay as a treat.

If you think being left of Newsom and supporting marginalized communities is extremism, you don’t belong here, simple as. None of us will miss you when you go back to reddit and twitter.

Just use tesseract and have us all automatically blocked then if we’re all scary radicals. I see you were defending admiral patrick a few weeks ago, surprised you aren’t hiding behind it still. It’s right there for anyone who needs everything sanitized and corporate approved for them.

Leftism and pro LGBTQIA comms are not radical, violent, or terroristic, and trying to suggest they are is going to get you shit on here. It’s by design to keep the fash out. Lemmy is overwhelmingly a leftist space, and most leftists have no problem with telling it how it is, especially during the largest global resurgence in fascism since WWII.

At a certain point, if everyone around you is a problem, maybe you should consider the possibility that the source of your discomfort is much more localized.

Mihon and several forks are still actively developed and both extension repos, one of which being Keiyoshi, are also still actively maintained. Where are you getting your information? Might want to stop listening to whoever is telling you this.

For OP: you could try something like xoxocomic. I haven’t gone through their library extensively so I’m not sure how much of what you’re looking for they’ll have

Astroturfing, trolling, testing whether the average commentor can gauge whether they’re arguing with a bot someone has been tweaking, who knows. It’s really not something I expend a lot of effort or thought on, I’ve just found a lot of accounts that I question the authenticity of based on odd activity, personally.

I have to disagree with many of the comments in this thread saying there are no / minimal bots here. I started tagging users pretty frequently instead of blocking over a year ago, and it’s pretty eye opening to see those accounts pop up in the wild posting completely opposing content or opinions from week to week. Sometimes even from thread to thread. Especially when it comes to politics or AI, for example. It doesn’t help that ban evading and making alts is dead simple.

Of course, this is just my opinion based on my own experiment and observations. I’ve been convinced many times I was arguing with some fash chud only to then see them completely agreeing with my position in another thread two days later. Normal people don’t flip flop that easily. I think LLM controlled bots are a totally different beast than what many of us are used to, and its much harder to see past the facade in the moment.

If your fedi client has a tagging feature, you might be surprised what you see when you start paying attention over time.

Edit: Just for clarity, this isn’t some extensive project I devote time and effort to, I don’t have solid answers for you regarding the rigor of my method or why people decide to make or use bots on a niche corner of the internet. I’ve personally noticed a lot of odd account activity in my few years here that has gotten more common with the ubiquity of LLMs. I’m not claiming bots outnumber real users, either. It’s completely fine to disagree! Enjoy the fediverse as it is as you see fit.

You came to this thread to be a racist chud and made a complete fool of yourself. If you don’t want to be mocked and judged, I don’t know what to tell you other than be better.

Bruh doesn’t realize everyone can see he’s posting from his gooner account 😭

Real debrid is currently complying with a legal crackdown and is applying a filter that prevents access to their cached torrents if the title includes a bunch of different common piracy phrases, such as Web, WebDL, the names of common trackers, etc.

Might eventually ease up, might not. Worth it to ride it out for a bit and see what happens if you’re already subbed as some results still play, but for anyone new looking into stremio/kodi/jellyfin you should probably consider something like an easynews + torbox combo

I’m not saying I’m a sec expert and impervious to tracking. I don’t need to try multiple sites until one gives me more correct hits, I understand the basics of fingerprinting and how it can be used maliciously. I do more than the average user to safeguard my information.

My point is, real sec professionals attempting to educate and make the general public more knowledgeable about privacy don’t have to rely on scare tactics and vague implications that they live in the matrix and are coming for you to accomplish that. It makes them look like ding-dongs who need to take the trenchcoats and sunglasses off and open the blinds. This thankfully seems to be a common sentiment in this thread.

Using a slightly less popular browser with a single privacy addon almost completely circumvented their fingerprinting. Changing the user agent to mask the few pieces of almost useless info it did get, would have totally circumvented their fingerprinting.

I understand the average user would have more correct indicators. The point is, if they’re going to run a service like this, pretending to be hackers and making entirely toothless threats to scare people with info they likely don’t even know how to interpret themselves, shows how incompetent they are and that they don’t actually want to educate. Hence why most legit groups that do education like this choose to present themselves as professionals and adults instead.

Laughing my ass off reading through this. The sanctimonious and passive aggressive threatening tone is perfect for how much info it got wrong just because I use Firefox and an adblock. YOUR BROWSER DIDN’T TELL US ANYTHING ABOUT THIS, LIKELY BECAUSE ITS FIREFOX. BUT THAT MEANS WE KNOW YOU USE FIREFOX AND WE ARE CHOOSING TO BE SAFE WITH THAT INFO, YOURE WELCOME, PWNED!!!11!1111!1

Teaching people about fingerprinting and how important understanding it is for personal privacy is good, but acting like a 4chan script kiddy group and making bizarre empty threats like you’re mr robot ain’t it, dawg.

From other comments this is likely some AI slop to sell a product, but if they’re serious they come off like they just slept through sec+ and think they’re shadow brokers now lmao

I experienced something similar with RD and Kodi last year. I suddenly started getting errors attempting to reach RD on my google TV. Using a VPN, everything worked fine, but without the VPN I’d always get errors. Using a VPN with a debrid service can also be iffy, and I got dinged by RD for the VPN switching IP automatically (despite the VPN I was using supposedly being on their whitelist).

What I determined after some digging and testing was that my ISP started blocking RD traffic in their locked down router settings (one of several ISPs that now do this), and my fix was to finally ditch their garbage router for one that I have control over.

Your situation isn’t identical, and I know little about that brand of streaming box, but it could possibly be an update or setting interfering or the manufacturer intentionally trying to prevent users from using their devices to access “pirate” services. Might be worth trying some searches with your model of thomson and your ISP to see if others are having similar problems with that hardware recently.

I don’t keep up with the bleeding edge of sources, but Weeb Central is decent in my experience. It was my backup for anything Comick didn’t have.

You may have to manually search some titles during the migration process, as the naming schemes between the sites aren’t identical and will miss some that they do actually have