i can handle one (1) Event™ per day. whether it be a phone call, an appointment, trip to the grocery store, play date with a friend, etc. only one, that's it. any more than that and i am Stressed
Will do a proper post when I get home but first day of Discworld Con complete! Got so much good feedback for this, its so comfy it might become a bit of a staple for when I want a chill cosplay
A few years ago, I wrote a post on how to torrent for beginners. It gave poor advice and isn't worth reblogging. Unfortunately, I can't make the thing unrebloggable, so instead I'm writing a new one.
You will need:
A working internet connection
A copy of qbittorrent
An adblocker, ideally uBlock Origin
Especially if you're in Germany or the USA, a vpn. I recommend mullvad (though make sure to use a p2p server).
Install qbittorrent here for the operating system you use. This is what you'll use to download torrent files. Once installed, it should look like this:
2. Find ext.to on your browser of choice. Although this website is largely safe, it's also filled with ads--this is where your adblocker comes in. The front page should look like this:
3. Find something you're interested in, but avoid the apps section. ext.to has very little moderation on who uploads, so although visual/aural media is 99.999% likely to be safe, software is less likely to be. For example, here's a copy of Avatar: Fire and Ash:
There are three important things to look at here: the number of seeders (green number), the number of leechers (red number), and the contents of the torrent (the section under Torrent Contents). In general, you want the seeders--those uploading the file--to be as high a number as possible, and the leechers--those downloading the file--to be as low a number as possible. As for the contents, what you need to check here is the file extension. mkv is a common file extension for video and there are tons of seeders on this file, so it's extremely likely to be safe to download. Avoid files with exe or msi file endings.
4. Click the magnet button just below the seeder/leecher information. Your browser should ask you if you want to open the link with qbittorrent. Tell it you do. qbittorrent should then show you a popup that looks like this:
Tell it where you want to download and bingo:
5. That's pretty much it! Let the file finish downloading, navigate to where you downloaded it to, and play it. That's pretty much all there is to it.
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This isn't technically necessary, but I'd strongly recommend it: keep seeding any file you download (i.e. keep it in the same place you downloaded it to and don't delete it) for as long as possible, or at least until your ratio reaches 1.0, as seen here:
A ratio of 1.0 means you've uploaded the entire torrent to at least one other person. This is how torrenting survives--if nobody seeds a torrent, there's no way to download it.
Anyway, that's all! Go forth and torrent, and best of luck to you.
On the Roundworld I spend my life feeling bad about my weight and like I'm unacceptably large. But once every couple of years I have THE perfect body type for the role. (If anything I'm not quite tall enough) Thank you Sir Terry for creating Lady Sybil Ramkin!
"But AI can't do your job. It can help you do your job, but that doesn't mean it's going to save anyone money. Take radiology: there's some evidence that AIs can sometimes identify solid-mass tumors that some radiologists miss, and look, I've got cancer. Thankfully, it's very treatable, but I've got an interest in radiology being as reliable and accurate as possible.
If my Kaiser hospital bought some AI radiology tools and told its radiologists: "Hey folks, here's the deal. Today, you're processing about 100 x-rays per day. From now on, we're going to get an instantaneous second opinion from the AI, and if the AI thinks you've missed a tumor, we want you to go back and have another look, even if that means you're only processing 98 x-rays per day. That's fine, we just care about finding all those tumors."
If that's what they said, I'd be delighted. But no one is investing hundreds of billions in AI companies because they think AI will make radiology more expensive, not even if that also makes radiology more accurate. The market's bet on AI is that an AI salesman will visit the CEO of Kaiser and make this pitch: "Look, you fire 9/10s of your radiologists, saving $20m/year, you give us $10m/year, and you net $10m/year, and the remaining radiologists' job will be to oversee the diagnoses the AI makes at superhuman speed, and somehow remain vigilant as they do so, despite the fact that the AI is usually right, except when it's catastrophically wrong.
"And if the AI misses a tumor, this will be the human radiologist's fault, because they are the 'human in the loop.' It's their signature on the diagnosis."
This is a reverse centaur, and it's a specific kind of reverse-centaur: it's what Dan Davies calls an "accountability sink." The radiologist's job isn't really to oversee the AI's work, it's to take the blame for the AI's mistakes.
This is another key to understanding – and thus deflating – the AI bubble. The AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job. This is key because it helps us build the kinds of coalitions that will be successful in the fight against the AI bubble."
- Cory Doctorow, The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI
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mtg's the hobbit set is fucking hysterical because as it turns out there are not enough things in one very short book to make even a small magic set and so they are literally having to make cards of every ranbdom sentence that was said in the book just to fill slots
ah, well, you see, they already made a Lord of the Rings set in 2023. it was a huge success and so they decided that clearly iut needed a sequel, and what better to form a sequel adaptation of comparable scope than the hobbit, something which has never gone wrong before,
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