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Cake day: December 28th, 2023

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  • I don’t think it’s really a big deal ?

    We’re all playing around with things in the same domain. Does it really matter if someone is paid and someone else isn’t?

    I don’t necessarily agree that a paid / qualified person will necessarily be operating at a higher level just generally than a hobbyist. Professionals tend to know lots about very specific things, hobbyists tend to invest a lot more time and effort into building elegant solutions.

    Yes some answers from IT professionals may be unhelpful for hobbyists but that’s just part of interacting with other people.




  • I’m finding it hard to feel any kind of sympathy for someone who thinks they have rights to permanent access on any sort of streaming service.

    I say that fully cognisant normies don’t spend much time thinking about where there data is and who has the right to it. I just don’t think many people would think of movies they’ve watched on their “telstra TV Box Office” as being in "their’ library.

    That said, self hosting movies isn’t for me. For many people it might be. In my case it just doesn’t make any sense to have a server with all the tb. I was catch & release torrenting for several years but more recently stremio. Without any doubt stremio has been the most convenient.








  • I’m a borg guy. I’d never heard of kopia. This is from their docs though:

    Each snapshot is always incremental. This means that all data is uploaded once to the repository based on file content, and a file is only re-uploaded to the repository if the file is modified. Kopia uses file splitting based on rolling hash, which allows efficient handling of changes to very large files: any file that gets modified is efficiently snapshotted by only uploading the changed parts and not the entire file.

    So looks like they do append only.


  • That’s not how legal matters work.

    Firstly, imposing on someone else’s intellectual property is not “illegal”, because that usually refers to crimes. This is a civil issue, as in the some company is demanding the dev stops or else they’ll sue him or something.

    Secondly, it doesn’t really matter whether the dev is “right” or could prevail against a legal claim - because you just wouldn’t bother trying. Imagine you have an ok job, take care of your family, and made this plugin on a whim just because you can. Your days are full of taking your kids to the park, spending time with your wife, playing around with your hobbies, that stuff. Maybe you’re not wealthy, but your salary is enough to look after your family and make your mortgage repayments. Then Haier threatens to sue you, and although you could likely prevail mounting a defense would probably cost you a years worth of mortgage repayments. Maybe you could represent yourself but that might take a years worth of saturdays writing and responding to legal stuff that you don’t really know much about. Bear in mind that there’s no financial support from the open source community.

    It just doesn’t really matter whether Haier has a legit claim.


  • The first part of the sentence you quoted says “subject to the terms of this agreement”. The most salient part of the agreement is the sentence you omitted.

    Your claim was:

    You’ll have to be fine with Cloudflare having any and all rights to the data transmitted through the tunnel, while you in return have none.

    … and you omitted the sentence which describes the rights you have as the user, contradicting your assertion that users have none. If you don’t think that’s disingenuous then I don’t know what to tell you mate.


  • Cloudflare is a business and if they see more value in selling you out, and legally you agreed they may, then they will.

    Exactly. My whole point is that there’s no value in selling you out. Their whole strategy is to garner favor with privacy conscious individuals like your good self.

    Acting “antiethical”

    You realise antiethical is not a word right?

    I would pay you $5 monthly for all the data going through your tunnel

    I don’t actually use any cloudflare products. However, I believe this is more or less the crux of our delightful tête-à-tête: how do you propose to derive value from my data?