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Except it isn’t, because you have to access the data of that GPS receiver somehow.

I’m so fed up with people having this misconception that GPS somehow on its own exfiltrates one’s position. It doesn’t. You’re literally just using a pre-defined arrangement of satellites that broadcast their IDs to establish location. It’s entirely local because GPS signal is only received by people.

So no, just by having GPS, you can’t be found by anyone. Not even governments or the CIA.

Now, if that GPS receiver feeds into a smart system that is exposed to the internet… that is a different topic as there’s tons of ways to have apps preinstalled and pre-approved that can read the GPS receiver data and send it off to a third party. It can even be built into the OS.

However, permanently internet connected cars aren’t that widespread even today - most actually tend to rely on the driver’s phone and runs a very thin layer of smart stuff that simply enables the phone to use the car dashboard as a terminal.

Why are you trying to draw a false equivalence between your scenario, and mine? They’re vastly different in outcome and justifiability, so why are you trying to strongarm one into the other?

Acting in the moment to save someone, providing them support, is very, very different to going back in time to undo things that have already happened.

First of all, you already know that the person in question survives the trauma you’re trying to undo. It’s already part of their personality. Changing the past in this case doesn’t save their lives but potentially changes their personality in a major way.

They might stay your friends, but would they be the same people? I think that’s the important angle.

Our struggles define us. For example, for me, did it suck to be fuck-ass poor throughout university, often surviving on rice only for weeks, depending on friends? Sure. Would I trade it for a comfortable study life? Hell no. That struggle helped me grow, as much as it sucked.

As an external observer, sure, seeing your friends scarred sucks, but who gave you the right to remove that trauma, and change who they are?

I’m a bit split on this.

On one hand you’d think you’re doing something good, helping a friend.

On the other hand, so consider that everyone you know at this moment, is like that because of what they’ve gone through. All that trauma, hardship, everything that happens to you from birth, forms your personality. Take that away from them, and at best you just weaken the person, at worst, you completely change their personality. You can’t know what past experience makes one stronger.

This is actually largely why the uber wealthy don’t seem to have a grasp at the everyday people’s struggle. They’re so far detached from it because they never really experienced it.

Also do consider that while today we might have various sympathetic treatments for a number of mental issues, even just 20-30 years ago a lot of the treatments would mean being drugged out of your mind 24/7 to ensure you’re not a source of harm for others or yourself…

I wish Prowlarr supported having a pool of generic indexers that are regularly speed tested and only the top X are used for actual queries (one random query an hour to check response time shouldn’t hurt, and external searches can also provide for this statistic), either based on count/percentage or maximum response time.

That would alleviate the long queries on a very dynamic approach.

As for which project to use… The issue with book management is that it’s exponentially more complex than other media due to the number of dimensions a book can be on.

Author metadata alone can be problematic - some books are published under different names in different countries, some books are co-authored but published under all variations of the possible combinations (author 1 or author 2 or both, and that’s if there’s only two authors).

Language as a dimension usually means the same book is actually a different variant. This also applies for series info.

Then there’s the issue of metadata quality. Unlike with TV shows and movies, where either IMDb or TheTVDb etc. can be used because generally all of these potential sources are good quality… books don’t really have a central database, because unlike with the aforementioned, language as a dimension does affect the release, and can’t be easily treated as the same entity as different language publications will have different IDs… So if you have a database of US books, that won’t apply to anywhere else in the world. Of course GoodReads and HardCover are trying to fix this but you’re still running into issues like API usage limits etc.

Overall, making a book download and management system akin to the rest of the Arr Suite is a major, major undertaking that requires major discussions not just within the project but also spanning external services to come to an agreement on which approach is best.

I actually have different problems with Chaptarr aside from it being vibe coded.

Generally, I don’t have an issue with vibe coding - as long as it’s not the average person’s Star Trek level depiction of asking the computer an overly simplified request which it then successfully extrapolates into a fully working solution. AI aided development isn’t an issue really as long as the developer knows what they want to achieve and HOW to do it, and utilising AI to do the heavy lifting.

No, my problem with Chaptarr is the general approach of the maintainer. It’s a fork of Readarr (clearly visible from the logs), which was licenced under GPLv3, which in turn requires any forks (derivatives) to publish source code. Now, RLH has been providing Docker images only, claiming “the code is too messy to publish” whenever asked, meaning there’s absolutely no oversight as to what is actually happening inside, what’s been modified and so on.

Furthermore he modified the metadata server format, without publishing it, then created two separate APIs for it, which you have to manually edit after install (and this is hidden in the FAQs on Discord), that metadata server is incredibly limited (because it’s supposed to be for “testing only”), and there’s no option to use your own either, as the API contract has changed.

RLH is also pretty opaque about updates, sometimes you get a flurry of updates within a few hours, sometimes you’re sitting around for weeks without any changes being pushed. He’s also been pretty shady, randomly making the DockerHub images available to anyone then restricting it, and I’ve also heard about random bans of people on Discord who dared to question him (although this is only hearsay, I have not witnessed any bans myself, so take this with a pinch of salt).

Overall the whole project is super shady and even if I presume the best intentions, the continued GPL licence violation with various quality issue excuses alone is enough for me to stay far away from it - even if I appreciate some of the QoL changes I’ve seen when I trialled it.

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Well at least if we were on the Stargate timeline, we’d have:

• SG1
• the literal city of Atlantis (seriously, like, when can I move in?)
• if all else fails, plan C(4)

Has the accuracy of the snapshots actually changed based on this edit? After all, if it’s factual information being presented…

I do agree that it raises the issue of what other modifications there may be, and it IS childish, but so is going after a person who provides a good service and wants to remain anonymous while doing so.

All I’m saying is that while I do not agree with the actions, I also am not saying I don’t understand the reasoning behind.

Dunno if I would call it “behaving poorly”.

The blogger in question doxxed the owner/maintainer of Archive.today who in return doxxed the blogger. To me this sounds more like eye for an eye FAFO.

There’s no curbing capitalism. The very thesis of it requires that the most successful 1, find 2, exploit 3, lobby to lock up enough, so to “pull up the ladder behind themselves”, any and all loopholes of the legal system that allows them to get ahead.

You can try regulating it but capitalism will always find a way around your rules.

Resist and find other ways to do the thing… which is literally what kids do.

Do you want your kids to be on Roblox with your knowledge and occasional oversight, or without your knowledge at all, without any parental control?

porn is risk-free reward

for the watcher, sure, but for the actors?

also don’t underestimate porn addiction. people can spend thousands of dollars on such addictions.

No, actually. Spoiled here refers to the edibility by humans (aka the bacteria and toxic waste of said bacteria is below safe levels), and it’s no longer living tissue given the animal has been killed and butchered.

At that point, why bother with the setup of samba shares and nextcloud or syncthing or whatever else and not use VaultWarden with its built in sync over WireGuard/TailScale?

So, absolutely no difference in security compared to having a properly secured self-hosted VaultWarden instance. Gotcha.

How do you recommend people sync between devices? What about devices that, for security reasons, do not allow flash drives or any external device to be plugged in?

Yep, as a bi guy, I can attest to the efficiency of gay hookup/sex life culture in general.

As a man, you’ll have two very different experiences if you go to a dedicated straight hookup app vs, say, Grindr or Sniffies.

With women, it is a whole process of ensuring that both of you are looking for the other, even if it’s a one night stand. Physical attraction, being charming, non-threatening, tons of requirements. At one point I missed my chance with a girl because she liked being read poetry to after a hookup, and I was apparently reading the wrong poets at the time.

With men? Even if you catfish them, 7-8 out of 10 will still have sex with you. You can literally post 10 year old pics, be 50-70kg heavier and still not a problem - meanwhile I had women call me out for using a roughly year and half old pic, and since I’ve lost weight and shaved off my beard, I looked slightly different…

With apps like Grindr you can quite literally find a sex partner in 5 to 10 minutes. Start a few chats, send the appropriate pictures, agree on a time and who’s bringing what, and you’re good to go.