Listen, no one should knowingly and willingly put their countries through more pain just to “win”. I’m sure they calculated that the reduction in destruction was worth a try. They have levers to pull if it doesn’t, but it will just create a lot of destruction for all sides.

Thank you, very helpful!

I have the files that I ripped from an online streamer but not a torrent.

Good to know. Thanks.

Judging from their guide there is a bunch of criteria, many which I don’t meet, so I guess I will be seeding freeleeches for a while.

Okay I will start like that. I read the FAQ and it looks like I won’t qualify as an uploader as I’m just short of the upload speeds they need and won’t likely be able to upload many things a month.

Side question, are you constantly managing your ratio or do you think that if I run all my sonarr stuff through the the private tracker and just leave stuff to seed indefinitely that I will be okay?

This is a new frontier my friend, you have to carve your own path!

Yeah the obvious counter to this is AI job applicants who can play the numbers game, say what the hiring AI wants to hear and get hired enough times and long enough to grab some pay checks. This is already happening. Get the bot swarm ready.

Microsoft doesn’t expect growth in their OS offerings. These days all their focus is on AI and cloud.

Well okay you’re not wrong, there is always some sucker out there.

Well they can identify you are the same person but not your identity… So it’s like a disenbodied fingerprint.

I suppose they could potentially make some database and train an AI on it someday to match to actual identities, but usefulness would be pretty limited at only 95% accuracy. That’s a false reading 1/20 times, so I suspect it would fail bigly to accurately recognize people from large data sets.

They can see you’re a person but not exactly who you are.

Well it could be pretty handy for home automation.

I got one threatening letter (they are uncommon where I live in Czechia but they will write you after a while). I got a VPN and no more letters.

UK keeps forgetting that it’s just a little country now. It can’t play the big boy games like the EU and US any more.

You should totally leave then

Well you and I are different then, I downvote uninteresting stuff all the time. I also downvote a lot of stuff I already saw or know. This particular item meets both criteria.

It doesn’t make me upset, it’s just not interesting or useful.

Okay I guess I could phrase that better but this is the first time they’ve used public mass transit infrastructure that I’ve heard of. I will edit my comment to include the phrase “mass transit”.

No it’s “disruption”, just offload all your delivery costs onto public mass transit infrastructure and fill up the subway cars with deliveries instead of people. Profit.