I don’t understand why this was downvoted, if such a proposal had been made in 2022 during first Istanbul talks, it could have prevented another three years of meatgrinder. As during those talks Russia openly discussed getting troops back to pre-2022 border as possible option, and European alliance instead of NATO (i.e. no US troops and nukes in Europe) is also offer that is hard to ignore. So after some negotiation it might become a deal; sadly noone offered that.
none of them are worth it
It depends on the content that you seek for. And with that caveat, your statement may be 100% true or 100% wrong.
I am an avid underground metal music enjoyer and also a RED member, and i could name a dozen of public sources (ranging from soulseek to deathgrindclub or metalarea) that would offer you much better libraries then RED. So i’m using RED like once in two monthes and let my FL tokens expire. But that’s just the one specific use case, people with different musical tastes may find RED much more useful or even the main source for expanding their collection.
So actually if you can get everything you need from public sources, there’s no reason at all to bother with private trackers. And if you can’t, then you have no choice but to accept the rules of the game.
Google for VDSina. There you’ll be able to rent VDS which is invulnerable for DMCA, and then configure it for streaming, DDL hosting and so on.
While i’ve seen numerous well-argumented and thought-provoking posts disappear from ml communities over the last two years, almost everything that ends up in the YPTB community is some kind of bad faith trolling, flamebait and so on. The post above is good example; it might not be YDI but it’s clearly BPR. There’s definitely no valuable contribution here and if post like this got deleted from any other instance, it wouldn’t cause much drama.
Wow, that’s the real reason why the deleted comment isn’t quoted in the original post. That’s clear YDI case, the moderator did a good job by kicking out the bad faith troll.
No one speaks like that be it online or in IRL conversations.
Yeah, literally no one speaks like that be it online or in IRL conversations. You’ve just failed to recognize a fairly popular local meme (especially popular in previously predominantly Russian-speaking regions like Donbass). That’s okay, because the country you actually live in isn’t Ukraine.
Wherever you are
Wherever I am, I support an immediate end to the war through peace negotiations. Wherever you are, you preach the continuation of the war until your “hometown” too becomes the occupied (and bombed to the ground) territory. This is simply because you have nothing to do with Donbass, you have no relatives or acquaintances there who could die in the process, these are just some random words you read on Wikipedia. You are just some shithead troll sitting thousands of kilometers away.
The champagne bottles are waiting for you!
Ты же знаешь теорему Тарана, желаешь мне одну, а по итогу сам получишь две. Не знаешь, конечно, как и русский, как и украинский, как и ничего про Донбасс. Не страшно, через Google Translate переведешь. В общем, иди на хуй, я уже понял, что ты просто пиздобол.
You should be aware that despite his claims, Skiluros is not from Ukraine, and more precisely, not from the region he claims to be from. Most likely, he has never been there, as he fails to recognize some basic local jokes (check our conversation in this thread). He’s just a NAFO troll who pretends to be Ukrainian so that some unaware people will take his crap more seriously.
I freely admit that I (luckily) don’t live in Ukraine now - and neither do you, but you’ve never lived there either, and are now trying to hide that fact.
After your rants about web translators, I’m sure of it, because the very first time I asked about a pretty specific thing in a pretty specific way. If you really are from one of the cities that are currently under Russian control (as you’ve been trying to claim in posts in other communities where no one has been able to call your bluff), you’d recognize it easily. Moreover, I used some other local political memes that you didn’t catch. Since you’re not from Ukraine, you can’t speak Ukrainian, you don’t know common local stuff and you have no connection to Ukraine at all. You’re doing your “online roleplay”, but you’re failing miserably at the most easiest checks.
I have no idea where you actually live - in the EU or the US, in any case, for you, Ukrainians are some random aboriginals from a country that you couldn’t point out on a map a few years ago, you don’t really care how many Ukrainians will die tomorrow, as for you it’s no more than a some online moniker, and that’s why your comments at all instances are full of some kind of shithead warmongering propaganda.
And the funniest thing is that if you would start your roleplay at .world or shitJW, their users would happily upvote your crap and eagerly consume misinformation from fake Ukrainian. Because they are not at all against the misinformation if it suits their tastes.
Що, не розумієш рідної мови, рагуль?
Well the fact here is that you don’t speak Ukrainian (while i do) and you’ve never lived in Ukraine (while I did as a kid). You’re just NAFO scum from some other country posing as Ukrainian to promote your bullshit propaganda. It’s obvious that all your knowledge of Ukraine comes from the media, not from your own life experience. Now, once you were exposed, you can get fucked.
Чому не державною, лайно?
I bet that at best you are a troll posing as a Ukrainian, and at worst one of those shithead clowns who managed to cross the border and are now gathering in the centres of Western capitals, protesting against ending war through negotiations so that other Ukrainians would continue to die while they are chilling in Berlin, Paris or Warsaw. Or worse, you’re one of those guys who wears a woman’s wig when going grocery shopping to avoid getting caught by TCC, and then returns home to continue his crusade in the comments of Telegram or Facebook for the glory of the Great Democratic Leader Bonevtik Zelensky. Anyway, you’re shit in either case.
This is PTB, sure, but you’re not new to Lemmy and you should already know that the average .world user has no problem with Ukrainians being used as proxy cannon fodder, so there’s a strong BPR vibe here too. You’re literally diving into the cesspool of Western narratives and then being shocked that it stinks.
100% PTB, but why even use worldnews community at .world? It’s nothing more than an inferior version of reddit: the same echo chamber of western narratives, but with less activity and less content.
The entire original article is nothing more than a mixture of propaganda and incompetence. Even where it doesn’t lie, it tells half-truths.
I love that it even uses a variation of the good old “when you pirate MP3s, you’re dowloading COMMUNISM” poster as an illustration.
You don’t even have to do much research to come to this conclusion, since the owner of archive.today openly states that he uses Yandex for the search function.
Proof: https://blog.archive.today/post/673695282217762816/just-realized-that-i-can-search-for-keywords-in
It’s quite funny that the author of the original article somehow ignores this.
For some strange reason Webbkoll now shows “No third-party requests”.
Proof: https://webbkoll.5july.net/en/results?url=http%3A%2F%2Farchive.today
This is definitely not true, since if you opened devtools in your browser and loaded archive.today, you would see that it loads some trackers and counters from top-fwz1.mail.ru
I tried many times, but could not get requests to other mentioned domains.
By the way, the screenshot in the article also shows a request to Google servers - a fact that the author of the article happily ignores. In my case, I do not receive any requests to Google servers, perhaps it was already removed by the owner of archive.today along with requests to the other 3 mentioned domains.
That’s fair, and that’s what I got. But it’s not some random “further code from Russia”, what’s loaded are mail.ru counter and vk.com event trackers:
Proofs: https://top.mail.ru/help/en/code/https & https://ads.vk.com/en/help/general/sites/offline_events
Also, you need to disable your adblock to make these scripts load. As funny as it sounds, the adblock plugin with default settings saves you from the KGB.
Mail.ru is not “the largest payment service”, it owns payment service VK pay, which is so big that you won’t find its page even in the Russian wiki. Both the outdated statista and the fresh AI-slop don’t even mention it among the most significant contenders:
Proof: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1056296/most-popular-online-payment-services-russia/
Proof: https://sergioespresso.com/2024/06/16/which-is-the-most-popular-online-payment-service-in-russia/
Also, there is no such thing as “Yandex News” for almost 3 years. It’s not owned by Yandex and it’s rebranded to Zen News: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_News
One can laugh at such speculations. Like: “the hybrid Russian war against Europe and the rest of the West: expectation vs reality”.
Expectation: cyber attacks on critical systems, hacking of military IT infrastructure.
Reality: providing free access to paywalled articles.
In any case, it is difficult to understand which valuable insight you can get from knowing the popularity of pirated paywalled articles.
The whole passage is nothing more than propagandistic filler as it has nothing to do with archive.today at all, and the owner of archive.today has no reasonable way of knowing who exactly paid for the article.
I think that the owner of website with pirated content has no other reason to hide his identity than working for the KGB. Literally no other reason.
I feel I should also quote one sentence from the comments section of the original article. It was written by the author of the article, and it clearly shows his intentions and his goodwill in this case: “but one might wonder whether it’s really necessary to circumvent the corresponding paywall”.
TLDR: archive.today uses mail.ru counter and vk.com event tracker, which are blocked by ad blockers. So if you use any kind of ad blocker, none of your data will be sent to Russian servers.