Notices by Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se), page 8
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Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 14-Apr-2018 09:50:09 EDT Danyl Strype
@budkin I suspect if anyone contacted them and offered to build them a #WebTorrent site using only free code, they would jump at the offer -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 14-Apr-2018 09:48:12 EDT Danyl Strype
@budkin @boneidol no fucking way! If I had a spell that gave weeping sores to every webmaster that puts goOgle spyware on their site ... -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 14-Apr-2018 09:31:51 EDT Danyl Strype
@budkin HTTP still isn't that stable, and you still need a download manager for HTTP downloads, there's one bundled with every browser ... -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 14-Apr-2018 09:28:33 EDT Danyl Strype
@budkin https://gigaom.com/2010/08/22/5-questions-with-vodo-founder-jamie-king/ -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 14-Apr-2018 09:28:27 EDT Danyl Strype
@budkin ... but a site like Vodo costs almost nothing to run, and the founders make their money through making films, not websites ... In conversation from quitter.se permalink -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 14-Apr-2018 09:27:06 EDT Danyl Strype
@budkin I'm not sure if they have a way to donate to the platform itself, or if they take a proportion of the donations given to films ... In conversation from quitter.se permalink -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 14-Apr-2018 09:23:14 EDT Danyl Strype
@budkin if you set up a user account, and login, you will see much more than browsing as a random visitor In conversation from quitter.se permalink -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 14-Apr-2018 09:22:11 EDT Danyl Strype
@budkin ... although I guess back then HTML pages were tiny (see: motherfuckingwebsite.com), and downloaded files were usually much bigger In conversation from quitter.se permalink -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 14-Apr-2018 09:20:52 EDT Danyl Strype
@budkin ... I remember when FTP was for file downloads, not HTTP, and we neede a download manager app to make HTTP downloads work reliably In conversation from quitter.se permalink -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 14-Apr-2018 09:19:31 EDT Danyl Strype
@budkin ok, I'll admit I'm on shaky with this argument ;) But ... In conversation from quitter.se permalink -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 14-Apr-2018 09:16:14 EDT Danyl Strype
@budkin ... and they have another revenue model (collecting contributions from viewers), so why take the risk? They're film-makers, not VCs In conversation from quitter.se permalink -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 14-Apr-2018 09:14:59 EDT Danyl Strype
@budkin I agree with the second part, but I don't see why they'd sell user data. They don't collect enough data to be valuable ... In conversation from quitter.se permalink -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 14-Apr-2018 09:13:17 EDT Danyl Strype
@budkin sure, you can point a DDOS gun at every single page on a site, but HTTP downloads are particularly vulnerable to disruption In conversation from quitter.se permalink -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 14-Apr-2018 09:12:01 EDT Danyl Strype
@budkin true :) In the thread that followed the post you replied to, we talked about how badly the site needs updating (magnet links!) In conversation from quitter.se permalink -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 14-Apr-2018 08:48:29 EDT Danyl Strype
@budkin if you really don't want to give them your real email address you can always give them a burner from a site like guerrillamail.com In conversation from quitter.se permalink -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 14-Apr-2018 08:47:36 EDT Danyl Strype
@budkin if I must enter a unique email address for each download, I can't DDOS them (quickly) by requesting the same torrent 1000s of times In conversation from quitter.se permalink -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 14-Apr-2018 08:42:53 EDT Danyl Strype
@cbowdon ... and too often unmaintained and increasingly unusable apps continue to get bundled in distros and their repos for years after In conversation from quitter.se permalink -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 14-Apr-2018 08:38:47 EDT Danyl Strype
@cbowdon I've noticed that quite often when projects get abandoned, neither their homepage, blog, or repo gets updated to say so ... In conversation from quitter.se permalink -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 14-Apr-2018 08:36:01 EDT Danyl Strype
@cbowdon ae, same with choosing new user-facing apps for evaluation as potential replacements for common proprietary apps In conversation from quitter.se permalink -
Danyl Strype (strypey@quitter.se)'s status on Saturday, 14-Apr-2018 08:34:31 EDT Danyl Strype
@lightweight I don't want to get too specific about that here ;P But when I follow up with you and Christine about !kiwi #Greens stuff ... In conversation from quitter.se permalink