- the site is awesome, but could be better<p>- I was also a fan of githubs awesome lists (eg. <a href="https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted</a>)<p>- I think separated lists are cool, because they focus on one subject, like self-hosted above... but if all awesome lists were in one big list...<p>- awesome lists are often data, with a lack of search functionality. fmhy site has a search functionality, but I often prefer searching links by a 'tag'<p>- what most of awesome lists lack is 'votes', or 'ranking'<p>My solution is to provide links, with tags, and 'ranking' <a href="https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database</a>. Provides search by link, title, description, whatever. I think that is where it all should go.<p>Also my database captures links from fmhy.
Note for the hacker crowd: they don't mean free as in speech. They mean free as in beer that fell off a truck.
"Beer that fell off a truck" has a somewhat negative connotation, but FMHY-listed sites are generally not only free, but also high quality, especially the starred ones. Nowadays when I'm looking for a service to do something I just search FMHY instead of a search engine. Much better results.
They mean free as in a poem that can be recited by anyone who has listened to it previously.
When I was coming up, hackers embraced both those definitions. "Information wants to be free" and "fuck corporations" were our guiding principles.<p>Edit: to the dead comment in reply to this one, of <i>course</i> it's more nuanced than "all information should be public at all times". It's almost like a 5-word axiom necessarily omits nuance in exchange for brevity.<p>Hackers also used to exhibit critical thinking skills, sheesh.
Speech isn't a medium in this context.
This is a very interesting sub <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/opendirectories" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/opendirectories</a><p>This reminds of FTP directories I used to download things from. There were FTP search engines (they are probably listed on this website already).
I've used this site for years, I originally found it off their subreddit. When they finally moved to a dedicated site it really improved the whole user experience from whatever reddit CSS was doing.<p>The admins keep it consistently updated and remove problem sources on a regular basis.
Piracy is preservation.<p>Always has been.<p>Rightsholders must <i>not</i> be allowed to control how works are preserved, else they can very easily <i>steal</i> from the eventual public domain in ways that mere piracy can never be considered stealing.
> Rightsholders must not be allowed to control how works are preserved, else they can very easily steal from the eventual public domain<p>I was clapping my hands at the skilfulness of this satire -- the idea that a person could actually believe this near-perfect inversion of reality, where piracy is not merely acceptable but in fact <i>noble</i> -- and then I started to think that... you actually probably do believe this.<p>If you were in fact trolling all along, my hat is off, you got me.
I think it's insane that the concept of a legal deposit [0] is so rarely extended to films or other media. Even more insane is that US courts have found it to be unconstitutional. A primary school's student newspaper needs to send two copies to the national library, while a movie can be played in every cinema in the nation and...nothing?? Let alone video games and other, more complicated media...<p>Everyone likes to shit on patents, but patents are designed well. You invent a thing and in exchange for publishing it openly, you get time-limited exclusive rights to it. Why the hell is copyright not like that?<p>[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_deposit" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_deposit</a>
> Everyone likes to shit on patents, but patents are designed well.<p>I think the critique of patents has more to do with the patent officers often being ignorant of blatant, widespread prior art, or having a bizarre idea of how the relevant legal principles should apply in a particular problem domain.
well maybe but they don't do a very good job at it<p>popular stuff that you could watch anywhere, you can pirate of course<p>but anything more obscure is impossible to find, or was there at one point but is now long gone
This is a fantastic resource. Not just for illegal purposes either. There is plenty of free stuff that is legal here.<p>It's easy to remember the URL too.
We need to make all of this so much more popular again
Very cool. I have a similar side project for scraping youtube playlists and aggregating open source texts. Mainly materials for computer science, system design, and DSA (data structures and algorithms).<p>On GH as joshribakoff/leetdeeper
Too much free stuff already and anything new will eventually become free. I'd rather wait or direct money to the projects I support.
stremio + debrid had been nice for most things. after a bunch of random stremio plugin outages i built my own little app that just talks to apibay and the debrid back end and links it up to vlc a few months ago and have just used that.
Having some knowledge about 'how the sausage is made', the smoothness of a stremio + debrid setup feels pretty close to magic.
Which debrid service do you use?
alldebrid. their 4.0/4.1 api has all the stuff to decode magnets and browse their files. filter mkv,mp4,etc. i made a little database of imdb tt values to assist autosuggest for searching and a nsfw filter for the few friends and family using the app.<p>have thought about extending it to realdebrid/torbox/etc but it's just been kinda set and forget. every once in a while will add a feature... most recently i think was seeing if there was a matching srt file and feeding that along with the video file to vlc so you get subtitle support if it's not baked into the video file
Real debrid has been pretty good for me
I point to this resource to my friends and family when they want to get stuff for free.<p>A great resource as an alternative to hostile and expensive subscription based "services" that shouldn't be businesses.
Awesome site. Easy to remember as well.
This looks like a <i>reasonably</i> good page (there possibly are better ones) for general AI chatbots, rate limits and sign-in requirements:<p><a href="https://fmhy.net/ai" rel="nofollow">https://fmhy.net/ai</a>
The modern bible of online piracy.
We abandoned piracy too soon.
We fell for the trap that enshittified everything.
It is time to pirate again.
In the music space, piracy won.<p>After Napster, there was no going back from giving people immediate unlimited access to everything.<p>Streamers like Spotify learned that there’s a price point that is low enough for people to “round down” and forget it’s on their monthly credit card statement, but high enough that major label execs are happy. The trick is ignoring what the artists want.
Bandcamp does ok without ignoring what the artists want. I think the biggest issue with buying directly from the musician isn't the price but the friction of purchasing online
The artists wanted to sign with labels.
Jokes on us, after all has settled. Have you tried to buy a ticket to live music lately? It was $750 for a good seat in more than 1 occasion this past year, and that is first market tickets from the venue, not a traditionally 'scalped' ticket.<p>These two equations are tied together. Before, the lucky artists were front-loaded their buckets of cash from the labels. But now the royalty cheques are measured in pennies and the live music enjoyers seem to be the equalization payments.
$5 at the local Blues Jam Session. Some of the music is <i>good</i>.<p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/berowramonthlyjam/" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/groups/berowramonthlyjam/</a><p>$30 or "free" at Miss Celie's. If free, patrons are asked to buy a couple of drinks from the bar.<p><a href="https://misscelies.com.au/" rel="nofollow">https://misscelies.com.au/</a><p>An import playing a stadium is eye-watering, but why bother?
> Jokes on us, after all has settled. Have you tried to buy a ticket to live music lately? It was $750 for a good seat in more than 1 occasion this past year, and that is first market tickets from the venue, not a traditionally 'scalped' ticket.<p>> These two equations are tied together.<p>Not in the way you're trying to imply. No matter how rich performers already were in the past, they had no way to make tickets to their performances cheap, even if they wanted to. Cheap seats in the past reflect lack of demand. Expensive seats now reflect increased popularity.
Artists aren’t charging more for concerts because they are making less money on album sales. Concert tickets are priced based on supply and demand. If they could have been charging $750 back then, they would have, no matter how much they were making on album sales.<p>I do think you might be right, though, that there is a causal relationship between diminished album revenue and more expensive tickets, it just isn’t because the artists need the money. Since most people can now listen to all the music they want for a flat fee, music lovers can now spend more of their hobby money on concert tickets, which increases price very directly since supply is limited.
jesus go to a basement it's like $15 at most and you can meet actual artists
Most of the people that complain about ticket prices are going to ticketmaster venues to see elaborate productions built by the biggest artists in the world.<p>When I tell people that I used to go to at least one show every week on my grad student stipend they are very confused. It’s because I was seeing music by local bands or up-and-coming acts that would charge $10 in the back of a dive bar. Those types of shows aren’t $10 any more, but they are still cheap. And those are the artists that are in the most need of your financial support with tickets and merch. Once an artist is big enough to book an arena… they ain’t struggling
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I just bought a bluray drive and I've started ripping movies. The quality is fantastic on an HD bluray upscaled on a 4k tv, and even a DVD looks far better than I thought it would, and far better than it did 20 years ago when DVDs were current.
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This is great, but I was wondering: Where can I get access to the work that <i>you</i> do? For free, I mean.<p>Don't get me wrong -- I think it's great if someone else wants to pay you for doing that work. It's good for you, and it's probably connected somehow to you doing that work in the first place. It's just that, for me personally, I'm not really into that whole side of it.<p>For me personally, I just want the value.