Didn't soulseek had some requirements you had to fulfill before downloading?

I've used soulseek pretty recently! There's a nice client called nicotine, IIRC.

There are message bots that spam you with racist abuse if you're sharing nothing (i.e. not even your downloads), but that's about it.

Oh so pretty much the "classic" share something rule; that was pain in the ass in DC++ times but quality of whatever you could find there was best

DC++ now that's some nostalgia.

Myself used IRC XDCC bots connected to my 33k modem connected to my 486DX which would disconnect every three hours.

eDonkey, WinMX, lovely fashionable protocols.

Not to forget the eMule.

WinMX

That shit is apparently still alive somewhere in Latin America. I used it to get Spanish versions of films.

Yes that works but for how long? Facebook main feed could also be tweaked with url parameter that would force display posts in chronological order. But on one day that was "fixed".

There's uBlacklist extension for browsers that helps filtering out search results from "offensive" sites and it works with most popular engines - including Brave Search

https://ublacklist.github.io/docs

Either it's a digital equivalent of stroke or an elaborated simulation of being hit by a folding chair - which happens a lot in WWE, as I remember /s

Every bank supports it - there are quick money transfers by phone number (as long such number is registered as a payment recipient within Blik) and kind of cheque that can be redeemed using ATM. And of course you can do standard withdraw, deposit operations with Blik using ATM as well. POS terminals supports it along with standard card and contactless payment options.

Blik supports one-time, recurring and deferred payments (that last thing is just being implemented by few banks but probably will be available everywhere soon), and one-click ones that don't require PIN verification. I'm not 100% sure but the only thing that's not possible is charge-back - if you pay with Blik, you're left with a standard complaint for payment that caused problems.

Last year I was using Blik to pay for my taxi to some 80-year old private driver because I didn't had enough cash - he was totally fine with it and as I noticed his car had even a Blik sticker.

Not sure how other European systems work like but I assume these are pretty similar in terms of functionality. The 6 digit temporary codes generated by your bank app and verified by secondary PIN will stay here along contactless payments done by cards or phones, watches.

I think a nice thing about BLIK is that it actually worked in my case, even though it was cumbersome. Using iDEAL from a Polish account just isn't going to happen.

As many shows or films from that period the title was "customized" in Poland and "Northern Exposure" was known as "Przystanek Alaska" - "Station Alaska". My dad enjoy it especially credits with moose.

> My dad enjoy it especially credits with moose

Apparently the moose in the credits was a bit of serendipity; it just randomly showed up on the day they were shooting, and they decided it would be perfect for the credits

In Italy it was "Un medico tra gli orsi": "A doctor among the bears".

In Croatian it was "Život na sjeveru" or Life in the North.

In Finland it was Villi pohjola - "The Wild North"

Hmmm, did that hit a bit different in Finland? A country which is actually just as north / further north than Alaska?

In some ways I would think so, even though culturally we’re rather different. Finland has its own sparsely populated "northern wilderness" – the Lapland region with its indigenous Sami peoples – that’s also somewhat mysticised and romanticized by the majority of the population living in the larger southern cities.

That was a long time ago - from your experiences, you think Linux has changed for better or remains same?

Everything got better except for icon themes and the introduction of avahi, pulseaudio and systemd. Icon themes peaked with KDE3 where they had subtle animations and the Tango project which had very recognizable colorful icons.

I still run my boxen with X.org (an upgrade from XFree86) and ALSA. The latter was already a thing in 2001.

I've helped those who just wanted to get online with Debian, SuSE and Ubuntu. In one case PCLinuxOS was best because the hardware was very old.

There's one Ubuntu LTS install at a place I visit which has been running for 7 years now. I've upgraded it twice with no fuzz.

Somehow this reminds me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19249373 released by CERN on 30th anniversary. Pretty sure Berners-Lee in recent years was contributing to decentralized web/Internet concept that does also reminds a little bit of early WWW.

There was also this submission from 9 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13361523 - and probably not the only one of such ideas

Are you mabe thinking of Solid[1]? This is an interesting idea, and I have looked into it on several occasions recently, but despite it being around for a really long time it appears to be going exactly nowhere, unfortunately.

It seems a bit of a missed opportunity really. If they had more agressively pursued alliances, it could potentially have been a solid (pun only semi intended) foundation for Mastadon and Bluesky.

The name is unfortunate as well, it is really difficult to search for.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_(web_decentralization_pr...

I dug around my bookmarks and now I remember what had in mind: IPFS and Beaker, and ZeroNet along with Solid. And it really seems none of that is active enough to gain any interest.

I decided to tryout W11 in vm to see how it works in comparison to W10 and damn, current Explorer not only is slow but feels like taped together with at least 3 different UIs.