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bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zvinwh7vy4… with the exception of infrequent piracy feed updates, this account is discontinued

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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 10/07/2025
it's more a function of how long you've been on the site and which random list makers dislike you what you've done tbh
Blocked by 111,142 users via lists
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 29/06/2025
i wonder what happened to him to make a guy that "doesn't want to talk about politics" (spends all his time finding political posts to argue under) i wonder what happened to make him emotionally evaluate politics as "crap" and how that might influence the manner he engages with the subject
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 24/06/2025
crazy that i have more moderation power than you
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 23/06/2025
i have an am4 board, 128g ram, and 2x8tb ssds on my homeserver. id just need the 5950x to replicate... (and also id probably need internet fast enough to handle the firehose lol)
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 16/06/2025
if you're looking for CJK stuff then you'll wanna be in jpopsuki, otherwise RED stats for comparison
OPSRED
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 16/06/2025
wow this is so evil
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 16/06/2025
it's still so weird to me that RED is in all other aspects the better music tracker yet OPS is the one of the two that sanely handles overloaded artist names like what is this joke
Artist page for "Justice" on RED, showing a big "WARNING: MULTIPLE ARTISTS" sign where the artist image usually goes, and showing albums from all of the artists of the name all in the same listing, no disambiguation.The "Arist Information" box at the bottom of the RED artist page for Justice. It reads:

Multiple artists co-exist on this page.

https://www.discogs.com/search/?q=Justice&type=artist

1) a Drum & Bass project

2) Justice (stylised as Jus†ice) is a French electronic music duo consisting of Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay. Hidden text: Show

3) ...Artist page for "Justice (3)" on OPS, which has an actual artist image, the albums you'd expect for the Justice you actually want, etc.
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 11/06/2025
personally i just have an auto-playlist in musicbee (sorted by date added to my library) i guess that's not possible in the average (i.e. streaming) music players tho
musicbee auto-playlist edit screen, with the options

name: Newest Never Listened
match all of the following rules:
- Play Count is 0
- Skip Count is less than 3
automatically refresh the matching tracks
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 09/06/2025
what does this even mean
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 04/06/2025
clearly you're a better player than me
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 27/05/2025
yeah boat + 10 lines of python is definitely the way
import tarfile
import json

t = tarfile.open("repo-tentacle.expert-2025-05-11T16_33_02.271Z.tar")
for ti in t:
	if ti.name.startswith("app.bsky.feed.post/"):
		with t.extractfile(ti) as f:
			record = json.load(f)

		print(record["text"])
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 26/05/2025
the problem with existing solutions is they let you... *gasp* evade taxes! time to make to think up the most complicated system ever to solve this "problem"
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 26/05/2025
i think the root of the problem is that the philosophy underpinning taler is disguised authoritarian. citizens should have privacy, but, yknow, the state surely will not use information on every financial transaction for evil. surely it's a better system if Auditors have access to every transaction
With respect to privacy, completely decentralized cryptocurrencies provide either too much or too little anonymity. Transparent cryptocurrencies create the spectre of discriminatory pricing, while especially for privacy-enhanced cryptocurrencies the lack of regulation creates an attractive environment for fraud and criminal activity from tax evasion to financing of terrorism.
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 25/05/2025
genuinely what is the point
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 23/05/2025
also, current state of the full regex in case anyone's curious
bit ?torrent|\bru?torrent\b|
torrenting|
\bwidevine\b|\bplayready\b|\banystream\b|\bstreamfab\b|\bdecenc\b|
torrents? ?(?:(?:(?:web)?site)|tracker|client|file|program|index|list|software|link\b)|magnet link|
ddl (?:web)?site|cs\.rin\.ru|gog-games\.to|
\bsonarr\b|\bradarr\b|\bprowlarr\b|\bjellyseerr\b|\bplex share|autobrr|
\beweka\b|\bnewshosting\b|\busenet[. ]?farm\b|\busenetexpress\b|\btweaknews\b|\bgiganews\b|
seedbox|\bseedhost[. ]?eu|hosting ?by[. ]?design|\bwhatbox|\bultra.cc|\bferalhosting|\bswizzin\b|
private tracker|private torrent|
\b1337x(?!\.to/torrent/)|audiobook ?bay|
animebyt\.?es|\banthelion\b|alpharatio|avistaz|\b(?<!#)audionews\b|
bakabt|beyondhd|\bbibliotik\b|broadcast?the\.?net|blutopia|
cgpeers|cinemageddon|
\bdicmusic|drunkenslug|dognzb|
fearnopeer|
empornium|exoticaz|
gazellegame|greatposterwall|
hdbits|
ptorrents|
jpopsuki|
karagarga|
lat-team|
myanonamouse|morethan\.?tv|myspleen|
\bnebulance\b|nyaa\.si(?!/view/)|nzbking|nzbgeek|nzbplanet|ninjacentral|nzbs\.(?:in|moe)|nzb\.su|
orpheus\.?network|omgwtfnzb|
pterclub|privatehd|(?<!#)passthepopcorn|
redacted\.?[sc]h|interviewfor\.red|revolutiontt|
torrentleech|
u2\.dmhy|
what\.?cd|

trackers? privado|steam verde|baixar(?: o| um| por| pelo)? torrent|
trackers? privé
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 11/05/2025
lol broken link
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 05/05/2025
i hope it actually is just a week there's very little info ngl
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 05/05/2025
i don't exactly know if/how the chrome extension works; what I've heard in the past is just that you need an account at least a week old to access exh e-h is the exact same site, there's just a few tags that make galleries only available on exh
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 03/05/2025
i fucked it up once and since then i religiously set the pause option, and only unpause it *after* the recheck hits 100
deluge add torrent menu with the "Add In Paused State" checkeddeluge's main torrent list panel, context menu for a "Paused 0%" torrent open with the cursor hovering over "Force Re-check"
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 03/05/2025
less likely to help but i might as well drop the rest of my upload commands while i'm at it (tho these are mostly for the purpose of mass-uploading singles)
move files to individual directories
for f in *.flac; do mkdir "${f%.*} [WEB-FLAC]"; mv "$f" "${f%.*} [WEB-FLAC]/$f"; done

export covers
for f in **/*.flac; do metaflac --export-picture-to="${f%/*}/cover.jpg" "$f"; done

BANDCAMP SINGLES: set track 1/1 on every file
metaflac --set-tag=TRACKNUMBER=1 --set-tag=TRACKTOTAL=1 **/*.flac

BANDCAMP SINGLES: set album to title
for f in **/*.flac; do metaflac "--set-tag=ALBUM=$(metaflac --show-tag=TITLE "$f" | cut -d = -f 2)" "$f"; done

start here for streamrip (DEEZER): get correct folder names
rename -v "[FLAC] [16B-44.1kHz]" "[WEB-FLAC]" *

DEEZER: remove useless disc numbers and genre tags
metaflac --remove-tag=DISCNUMBER --remove-tag=DISCTOTAL --remove-tag=GENRE **/*.flac

remove cover
metaflac --remove --block-type PICTURE **/*.flac

remove padding
metaflac --remove --block-type PADDING --dont-use-padding **/*.flac

find 24bit flacs (use to manually rename the folders to FLAC24)
metaflac --list --block-type STREAMINFO **/*.flac | grep "bits-per-sample: 24" | cut -d "/" -f 1
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 03/05/2025
i don't think so but it's literally just run `propolis /path/to/upload` and it outputs check results add --no-specs if you don't have sox installed to skip spectrogram generation
excerpt from the readmegood result example from the threadbad result example from the thread
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 02/05/2025
red/ops both allow it you just gotta identify in the torrent description (example from one of my uploads below)
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 02/05/2025
i dont even where half the shit in the old pfp folder comes from
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 27/04/2025
i should not need to have muscle memory on reaching this button
mobile firefox "Open in app" button
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 15/04/2025
i mean it'll depend on how obscure the stuff you're into is personally there's only like 3-4 artists i cared about i had to rip and upload myself, i otherwise find everything i want (haven't had to open up slsk since joining) stats for red/ops, for what little they're worth
redops
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 12/04/2025
i dont remember that many. one of the fun easy-to-find ones is the category flowchart
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 11/04/2025
random article for example clearly learnt somewhere that he should be putting two spaces after a dot to seem more academic but fucks it up half the time and it just ends up seeming even more of a mess with 1 to 3 spaces after each whereas academics just like. use latex and dont have to bother
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 12/03/2025
i'm not overexposed you are
-20.11% P&L on a 124.90x leveraged short on SOL-PERP
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 11/03/2025
im more referring to the time between making the order and the thing even getting shipped (refer to below) like, sure, same, otk shipping from took a week and a half for me too i just also have had orders from other vendors take 0 days to get shipped and like total 5 days from payment to my door soo
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 10/03/2025
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 09/03/2025
like here's the third one in the list active.domains/domains/ $3 idk how easy it is to pay a registrar in a sanctioned country but they definitely are cheaper than regery
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 24/02/2025
doesnt seem to be on privates
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 04/02/2025
yeah. i've done the work required to convert a whole pdf to another format once in my life and. never again. very few tasks will have you writing code as disgusting as attempting to convert from pdf. if a tool tells you it can convert most let alone any pdf, run, because it is lying to you
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 26/01/2025
assuming linux with nftables (which is what i installed on my exit node): fill in 100.x.y.z with the tailscale ip of what you're forwarding to (your gaming pc or whatever), change up the dport lines in accordance with the ports to forward
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 22/01/2025
there's a few uploads on PTP
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 13/12/2024
one of these, right? i can just grab one for you. or interviewfor.red and never have this issue again
start of the search results for "silent hill" on RED
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 26/11/2024
this is simply not reasonable for the ATP case where identities can be used ~forever and keys are held by the PDS PLC is built with recovery in mind: you can have your key above your PDS's key and allow your PDS to change your handle while still being able to recover from an evil PDS
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 24/11/2024
god it feels so wrong for it to not be .ch here
REDACTED.SH logo-ish thing
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 22/11/2024
It's back up! But a few hours behind, if you post right now expect to only see it appear in the feed in 2-4 hours.
Part of the piracy feed's graphana dashboard, showing a "clock skew" of 6.48 hours and a "catch-up rate" of 3.06
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 19/11/2024
relay looking good
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 16/11/2024
this is not hidden in the slightest
a twitter search of "from:Aliafonzy43 sol" showing tweets like "My last best play was ponzi that got me 50+ sol"aveta retweeting pump.fun
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 09/11/2024
hash tag Good Bye
twitter deactivated account screen. at the end it says "Sorry to see you go. #GoodBye"
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 27/10/2024
For completeness' sake, here are the paper authors's blog where they comment on the fact glaze's update does not actually protect against their attack: spylab.ai/blog/glaze/
To refute an attack, implement it correctly and refute all claims

After we released our paper, the Glaze authors published an update where they analyzed our most successful denoising scheme (we had shared our paper with them four weeks earlier). They acknowledge that our scheme works in some cases, but also note that our denoiser often significantly degrades image quality. They then released Glaze v2.1, and show it is robust to our denoiser.

This sounds great, except that the authors did not actually analyze our denoising scheme.

Instead, they reimplemented it based on the information from our paper, and analyzed that. To then make specific claims about our method requires a very high degree of confidence that the reimplementation was correct. Unfortunately, the Glaze authors did not contact us to check this, nor did they just use the code we had released with our paper (this is another core reason why releasing source code for security research is valuable: you can try to ensure that others evaluate your methods properly).

We tested our own denoiser implementation, and found that most of the claims made in the Glaze update don’t hold at all.
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 27/10/2024
wild to me that BTC dominates this chart if you're gonna do crime please be smarter than this and use XMR or ZEC or UM
Illicit transaction volume by crime category and asset type, 2023
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 26/10/2024
the pdsadmin scripts are more effort to use if your pds isn't stored in /pds/ but you can just curl the admin APIs yourself. the install script is short enough to just read and follow along their compose file: github.com/bluesky-soci... i already run watchtower and nginx so mine is literally just
---
services:
  pds:
    image: ghcr.io/bluesky-social/pds:0.4
    restart: unless-stopped
    env_file:
      - "./pds/pds.env"
    volumes:
      - "./pds:/pds"
    ports:
      - "3000:3000"
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 23/10/2024
yeah bsky should definitely have it; an ISP not being able to tell which PDS you're on if you're on one of the Bluesky PBC PDSes *is* valuable but I doubt it's of much value to self-hosters
ClientHelloOuter: This part remains unencrypted and contains innocuous values for sensitive TLS extensions. It sets the SNI to Cloudflare’s public name, currently set to cloudflare-ech.com. Cloudflare manages this domain and possesses the necessary certificates to handle TLS negotiations for it.
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 21/10/2024
who the hell is putting blockenheimer in their linktree
Referrers to blockenheimer.click: 73% None, 10% bsky.app, 9% google.com, 3% github.com, reddit.com, duckduckgo.com, bing.com, linktr.ee
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 18/10/2024
i pirate, i can't use a Platform for discovery. how do i keep up with what's popular? RED's Top. how do i keep up with artists i know? RED notifications (supports RSS, get em right on discord!). how do i keep up with genres i like? subscribe to RED collages. how do i discover new artists? yea, RED.
RED's Top 10 Most Active Torrents Uploaded in the Past MonthA discord message from a bot called RED Notifications including details about a torrent of MASTER BOOT RECORD's new albumA RED collage: Czechball's Drum and Bass SelectionThe RED "Similar Artist Map" for MASTER BOOT RECORD
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 17/10/2024
iirc, the labels they allow people to use as self-labels have to be defined globally (so that you can configure them even if you hypothetically don't subscribe to any labelers), and that list of globally-defined self-labels is kept small, smaller than all the labels the official mod service uses
the self-label button
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xormetric @tentacle.expert · 17/10/2024
like nothing even happened
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