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Krauerking , to 3DPrinting in OP designed and 3D-printed a pellet press funnel for a Dynavap to triple the amount of herb that fits into the chamber!

Isn't the whole point that you aren't supposed to compress it cause it will force you to overheat the flower to try and get the THC making it essentially the same as burning it?

Seriously they recommend either using the teeth to cut a piece right from the nug or sucking on it like a straw to make sure their is air flow for the oil to vaporize properly.

This seems backwards.

StryderNotavi , to Soil Science in 3 is too much soil fertility...

"Put your helmet on, we'll be reaching speeds fertilization of 3" - MST3K (Altered)

Track_Shovel OP Mod ,

Good god, that's a deep dive for making a comment on an old post!

Big_Boss_77 , to Privacy in Why does this TechRadar link come with a reference to some weird russian website?

I'm about to get into the market for a new VPN, who's the top dog privacy wise nowadays? Been using TorGuard, but the bulk subscription I purchased will expire this fall, and they have since on-shored their operations.

Use cases at the moment:
General/Adblock
Occasion p2p/torrent

Sunny OP ,
@Sunny@slrpnk.net avatar

As someone writing his master thesis about vpns, I would hands down stick with independent VPN providers, such as Mullvad(MozillaVPN - is WL of Mullvad), Windscribe, ProtonVPN and IVPN.

Don't buy into the Vpns with sketchy parent companies such as Kape Technologies who owns Express VPN, PIA, Cyber Ghost to mention a few..

Big_Boss_77 ,

Mullvad appears to have been review bombed lately due to removal of port forwarding and people say it has back slid recently... any opinions on that?

Proton VPN looks solid though

Sunny OP ,
@Sunny@slrpnk.net avatar

Mullvad remains top dog when it comes to privacy. You can still torrent without port forwarding, it's just more limited. If you need port forwarding, then is give Windscribe a go. While most people will recommend ProtonVPN, with good reason, I personally prefer to stick with the underdogs.

Big_Boss_77 ,

This is a fascinating topic for me, I would love to hear your reasoning for sticking with the underdog. Is it just a "stick it to the man" scenario or is there some more practical reason?

Sunny OP ,
@Sunny@slrpnk.net avatar

It's basically the same reason for why I choose to shop locally rather than buying things online. I despise monopoly and will always, if still practical, choose the second option. Also sometimes you can tell there is more passion coming from smaller Devs and communities, I feel like that's the case here too.

Windscribe has hilarious marketing, seriously, check it out. But their products are also just solid, and works on Linux. They also make the service called ControlD, which is also a great service.

Gork , to Privacy in Why does this TechRadar link come with a reference to some weird russian website?

Looks like a pretty benign Ukrainian website. An easy way to distinguish the Ukrainian language from Russian is to look for the letter i. It doesn't exist in Russian Cyrillic. If you see both i and ë somewhere in the same sentence it is Belarusian since that language has both letters. Russian has ë, but not i, instead they have и for that sound.

There are probably better ways to tell based on grammar and whatnot but this is how I as an ignorant person distinguishes them.

Sunny OP ,
@Sunny@slrpnk.net avatar

Ah sorry about that, I could have double checked what language it really was. I closed it 2 secs after it had loaded and assumed it was Russian.

TragicNotCute , to Privacy in Why does this TechRadar link come with a reference to some weird russian website?
@TragicNotCute@lemmy.world avatar

My suspicion is that DDG’s crawler looks similar enough to other crawlers and that’s the URL the crawler was provided.

best_username_ever ,

I agree but this thing could be cleaned on DDG’s side.

hemko , to Privacy in Why does this TechRadar link come with a reference to some weird russian website?

Very interesting. I could get the same result in ddg, but not on bing. Also with quick testing around, couldn't get the ref with searching other techradar article. Very alarmingly, it looks like shufliada dot com is some Russian website?

Edit: apparently it's Ukrainian, not Russian.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/d0623746-5ffe-4b7e-97fe-e151914f5952.webp

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/bf35f47c-692b-45e0-b68b-ef08279981ac.webp

BillionsMustSeed , (edited ) to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in Vimms Lair is getting removal notices from Nintendo etc. We need someone to help make a rom pack archive can you help?
@BillionsMustSeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Any updates on this? I can't provide much, as Nintendo games are not something I'm interested in, but I guess I can allocate 800-1000GB or so for some time for this, if there's an archive torrent already made


Found a comment below, but after thinking about it we'd need something a bit more "official" and "centralized", like Vimm's was, otherwise we'd be spreading it too thin and would end up with many different un-searchable, un-findable torrents with few seeds for the same things

xnx OP ,
@xnx@slrpnk.net avatar
sleepybisexual ,
@sleepybisexual@beehaw.org avatar

Its also some Sega games and a lot of other stuff that cit destroyed, ESA or something got involved

secret300 , to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in Vimms Lair is getting removal notices from Nintendo etc. We need someone to help make a rom pack archive can you help?

This shit pisses me off so much. I need a gun

Muscar ,

Use a NES Zapper converted to an actual gun, seems fitting.

sleepybisexual ,
@sleepybisexual@beehaw.org avatar

Why not a super scope ?

subscriber_bot , to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in Vimms Lair is getting removal notices from Nintendo etc. We need someone to help make a rom pack archive can you help?

Esa? European space agency?

JoeBidet , to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in Vimms Lair is getting removal notices from Nintendo etc. We need someone to help make a rom pack archive can you help?
@JoeBidet@lemmy.ml avatar

Let's start mirroring and torrenting full ROMsets!

wuphysics87 , (edited ) to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in Vimms Lair is getting removal notices from Nintendo etc. We need someone to help make a rom pack archive can you help?

A friend of mine and I put this together a few years ago. I hope yall find it helpful:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

download_roms(){
    for ((i=$1; i<=$2; i++)); do
        cd "$HOME/retroarch"
        curl  -G -L "https://download3.vimm.net/download/?mediaId=$i" -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/110.0' -H 'Referer: https://vimm.net/' -O  -J
    done
}

choose_system(){
printf "\n============================================"
printf "\n NOTE: This Script has not been fully tested"
printf "\n       It may not work as expected"
printf "\n============================================\n"
printf "Download roms for which systems?
    1. NES
    2. SNES
    3. GameBoy
    4. N64
    5. GameCube
    6. Sega Genesis
    7. Playstation1-2
    8. Playstation Portable
    0. All\n : "

read -r system
    case $system in
        "1") download_roms 3      981    "NES";;
        "2") download_roms 983    1770   "SNES";;
        "3") download_roms 2955   5932   "GameBoy";;
        "4") download_roms 2465   2761   "N64";;
        "5") download_roms 7461   7634   "GameCube";;
        "6") download_roms 1771   2464   "Sega Genesis";;
        "7") download_roms 6071   9894   "Playstation1-2";;
        "9") download_roms 23991  23973  "Playstation Portabale";;
        "0") download_roms 1      100000 "All";;
    esac
}

mkdir -p "$HOME/retroarch"
choose_system
Barzaria ,

Thank you for the awesomeness that is the script. If I might ask a question: why is the user agent Windows 10 if this is a bash script? I'm genuinely curious and I don't know why.I imagine this might be WSL. You did mention it was an old script so maybe it had something to do with that?

ReveredOxygen ,
@ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works avatar

It explicitly sets it to that to help disguise the fact that it's a script rather than a browser

wuphysics87 ,

That's a very good question. It was a few years ago, but it's running right now on my computer on Linux.

Codename_goose , (edited )
@Codename_goose@sh.itjust.works avatar

I can confirm that the script still works, but sadly the site owner of Vim has removed the file from the server. The script sees a file link but will download nothing. When testing the script with just NES, it will see a game, but will throw an error of “remote files name has no length”, so going forward you could test via a vpn and see if they adjusted their files to be available via a country that doesn’t care, or they just haven’t gotten around to cleaning up their file directory list post removal.

P.S. the script showed that 23 field failed to download so one can assume those files were the one Nintendo decided to have them remove.

wuphysics87 ,

There are some gaps in the numbers. That could be the case. Was it for all of the ones you tried to download?

Codename_goose , (edited )
@Codename_goose@sh.itjust.works avatar

Every section had missing downloads. But with some web inspection, I found some interesting obfuscation using what I think is JavaScript on the web pages that “used” to hold the download links, for the files that were requested to be removed. If we can figure out how to reverse the code to reveal the link again we could grab (assuming they are still on the server) the files manually.

If you want to chat about this I’m on matrix

WarmApplePieShrek ,

what is the use of saying that, if we don't know your matrix name?

Codename_goose , (edited )
@Codename_goose@sh.itjust.works avatar

My profile has my matrix name. I figured people have known that was a feature for lemmy profiles, but I guess that was my mistake.

@codname_goose:matrix.org

dRLY ,
@dRLY@lemmy.ml avatar

Not surprised, I think a lot of sites tend to start removing things as they are posting about being made to do so. As I imagine that having them still up after posting about the removals would likely cause a surge in downloads. Not sure what kinds of things the sites might have to (or be compelled to if formally sued) provide to lawyers/courts. Would (at least to my non-understanding of processes) be that many more "infractions" to add to a "damages" total. Even if none of my assumptions are an issue. It is just like any other data issue. The worst time to try and get copies for a backup is after shit happens/fails. Though I imagine that at least for 8-bit and 16-bit games, there are plenty of copies on plenty of sites and torrents.

princessnorah ,
@princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

The "user-agent" part of the script is the same as a browser's user agent. So it's trying to emulate a common user so the site doesn't know it's a script, and there's not a more common user than a Windows one, so it's lying about it.

Prunebutt , (edited ) to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in Vimms Lair is getting removal notices from Nintendo etc. We need someone to help make a rom pack archive can you help?

Would it be feasible to have/create something similar on I2P?

WarmApplePieShrek ,

Yes. How good is the speed of I2P now during the DDoS?

Prunebutt , (edited )

What DDoS?

WarmApplePieShrek ,

I2P is being DDoSed

Prunebutt ,

Damn. Didn't know that happened or was even possible.

bier , to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in Vimms Lair is getting removal notices from Nintendo etc. We need someone to help make a rom pack archive can you help?

As soon as I heard about the emulator stuff I grabbed some archive torrents to seed overall more then 5 tb.
All WII DS 3DS and SWITCH roms so they aren't gone if you have the space to join seeding pm me and I'll send you the magnet links because there are like only 5 seeder and a lot of leecher

sleepybisexual ,
@sleepybisexual@beehaw.org avatar

Hai, I might be able to help. I also have some more retro systems if you want

secret300 ,

I got a VPS I'm not fully utilizing, I can seed a bit

WallEx , to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in Vimms Lair is getting removal notices from Nintendo etc. We need someone to help make a rom pack archive can you help?

We need explicit legislation against this type of behavior.

uriel238 , to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ in Vimms Lair is getting removal notices from Nintendo etc. We need someone to help make a rom pack archive can you help?
@uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

The whole point of IP laws (according to the Constitution of the United States) is to develop a robust public domain. Every registered idea, multiplied by every limited rights extention is a violation of public interest and public rights.

By burying or failing to preserve content, they are in fact stealing from the public, since we won't be able to access it when it is our right.

ArmokGoB ,

Someone should present this to some progressive legislative body so that we can develop a safe haven for archiving games.

Macros ,

Well there is the Stop Killing Games initiative started by Ross Scott and supported by the Pirate Parties. If they succeed, companies selling games in recent years will be required to either keep supporting their game or to make it available in a way so that others can ensure its continued support.

When this is achieved the step to free older games is small.

If you live in Europe you have the chance to support the movement by vote in the upcoming elections.

ArmokGoB ,

I've been keeping a close eye on it. He said something along the lines of "If you live in the US and the ToS of a piece of software said the publishers could come and shoot your dog, you'd have to prove that they broke some other law, like animal cruelty, to sue them successfully if they shot your dog." I'm curious to see how companies react if they get a mandate from the EU to preserve games.

uriel238 ,
@uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Here in the US, there are no progressive legislative bodies. The Democratic party treats its progressive members as the red-haired stepchildren who have to dine at their own table.

Audacious ,

It wouldn't be too hard to go through every archived game and determine if it's still available through corporate means or not. Those are the ones that are threatened to be erased forever if corpos get their way. The biggest problem is the money and means to fight against corporate goons and lawyers.

GiveMemes ,

Where are IP laws mentioned in the constitution?

uriel238 ,
@uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Here.. Article I, Section 8, Clause 8.

[the United States Congress shall have power] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

Asafum ,

This is America, the only law that is enforced is ownership by means of a monetary transaction.

"Ownership" by public nature is laughed at.

C.R.E.A.M :(

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