I went yahoo for ‘that mail’.

by ‘that mail’, nothing I use professionally, but need for entertainment, picky store accounts and food.

Steam, for instance thinks my domain email address is a temp email and won’t let me use it, they don’t think the same of yahoo.

I’m an old pirate who remembers, and the thing, the raw ingredient missing in this scenario?

need

If it didn’t exist, if there was no possible way to get a copy of somesuch Gundam episode whatever in english, some dude somewhere would cross the ends of the earth to get it onto the internet. Piracy is motivated entirely by utility and need, it’s why music piracy atrophied into almost nothing until Soulseek arrived and streaming prices increased. Supply met demand, and it will again for fansubs.

If it’s needed, someone will meet the need. We did it in 1998, we’ll do it next year.

Essentially.

The fediverse, small-web, ubb-boards, xda, and parts of the darkweb, as well as places like 4chan all belong to a sort-of bound community.

Facebook, Google, Tiktok, Instagram etc make up the mainsteam internet with Tumblr and Reddit on the sidelines.

It’s getting worse, it even trickles down to software choices and piracy. Choose Linux and trust the community, run Kodi and fight constant update breakage on Youtube and corporate streaming solutions when Jellyfin and samba shares just work?

At what point does their world of influence become seemingly worse than ours by default and everyone just ignores them? Will the giants allow themselves to be ignored? I believe they will eventually make self-sufficiency impossible. Somehow, some day, you won’t have any of these choices and everyone will be nickle and dimed to death until the entire internet is an unskippable full-screen ad.

From some mobile-only average working Joes out there, that’s all it already is.

Ok now this is interesting.

I’m not knocking anubis but anubis seems very one-note, a single step. Pangolin looks more encompassing.

…asterisk? The proxy everyone uses, the middleware that detects bots and such before letting you through. Their bread and butter. I’m not sure of any formal name.

Been there, and hotdogs are far and away not the cheapest protein.

Chicken breast and thighs traded blows back and forth as the cheapest meat per lb in my grocery store when I was scraping by a few years ago. I’m vegan now, but I can just as easily say dry beans as being a viable alternative.

tried to read 1984 recently and had to stop because the main character is an incel.

Back the truck up, buddy.