Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

SacrificedBeans, 5 months ago

I too entered the twilight zone when I noticed something in my discord servers. I’m not in many servers, but I had subscribed in an AI image creation server called BlueWillow. So one day the icon was different, resembling a lime… It took me a while to understand what’s happening.

Dehydrated, 5 months ago

rentry.org/firehawk52 is there to save you

lapommedeterre, 5 months ago

What’s this?

Dehydrated, 5 months ago

LimeWire was a great way to get music for free back in the days. The Firehawk52 guide is a modern way of getting music for free.

aesthelete, 5 months ago

One of those services is still alive and kicking and perhaps even better than it was during the p2p audio hayday and I’m seeking within my soul for the bravery to tell others what it is.

Kusimulkku, 5 months ago

Lmao

Dehydrated, 5 months ago

I haven’t had much luck with Soulseek, I prefer downloading from Deezer or Qobuz with the method described in the Firehawk52 guide. And they even let you download FLACs.

aesthelete, 5 months ago

I get plenty of FLAC from there. I have issues downloading anything older than a year or two on torrent sites. But YMMV, and I think it depends somewhat on what type of music you listen to.

moon, 5 months ago

Just get a YouTube music front end

Dehydrated, 5 months ago

Quality sucks. Deezer or Qobuz let you download lossless FLACs.

ExfilBravo, 5 months ago

I loved downloading a song from Limewire and the band was labeled completely wrong. Then 10 years later I get made fun of for saying X band made Y song because I legit thought they made it because of Limewire.

Kusimulkku, 5 months ago

I love listening to Twisted Sister’s Come on Feel The Noise or Bob Marley’s Don’t Worry Be Happy.

cafeinux, 4 months ago

When I listen to Friends will be Friends from Queen, in the back of my mind I’m still certain that’s from Good Charlotte.

jubilationtcornpone, 5 months ago

More buzzwords than an Indeed job description.

hydrospanner, 5 months ago

Bandwidth.

Up-tempo.

Logistics.

Leverage.

Synergy.

Hold the line.

Ideate.

Takeaway.

Psychodelic, 5 months ago

ai art bad anyone?

Pat_Riot, 5 months ago

AI generated images are not art.

busteray, 5 months ago

Idk man if I saw the exact same pixels from an “AI Art” in 2010s, I would frame some of them.

The only thing that makes them feel less artsy is knowing there’s no intent of meaning behind the image.

But that’s also true for some human made art, sometimes the artist’s intention is to make the image have meaning only through the viewers.

I’m pretty sure I would have an AI Art printed and framed in my home when they become not so somehow obviously “AI”.

6mementomori, 5 months ago

what’s line wire supposed to be?

hswolf, 5 months ago

it’s the way we used to get our music for free back then

DrDominate, 5 months ago

Torrenting software. And a darn good one too

FlyingSquid, 5 months ago

Pre-torrenting.

dustyData, 5 months ago

P2P, not torrent. Torrent is P2P but not all P2P is torrenting.

RealFknNito, 5 months ago

Yeah it was so good that every download was a gamble if you were getting the song you wanted or uncensored war footage and cp

Anticorp, 5 months ago

Limewire was around before Brahm Cohen created Bit Torrent.

Vorticity, 5 months ago

It was simply peer to peer file sharing rather than torrenting. Torrenting allows you to collect different parts of the file from different people. Lime Wire just depending on a stable connection between you and the host machine.

It was also full of fake shit and viruses. I remember spending hours getting rid of “Gator” a couple of times as a stupid college student.

busteray, 5 months ago

I swear I remember limewire having the equivalent of seeds and files being downloaded from multiple places at the same time.

Mandela effect?

Obi, 5 months ago

Yeah I’m with you, hell I even remember being on WinMX before that and even that having multiple seeds?

MacNCheezus, 5 months ago

Well, at least you didn’t download a virus.

madcaesar, 5 months ago

Darude_Sandstorm.mp3.exe

mindbleach, 5 months ago

“Someone bought that thing you love and destroyed it.”

Stumblinbear, 5 months ago

Neat

Semi-Hemi-Demigod, 5 months ago

Maybe in the future I really will get season 2 of Firefly from LimeWire

Chickenslippers, 5 months ago

Huh the first episode starts zoomed I’m on a cup.

corus_kt, 5 months ago

Like watching an old friend’s corpse being defiled for profit

i_stole_ur_taco, 5 months ago

Like watching Napster panhandling under an overpass.

corus_kt, 5 months ago

Limewire and Napster peaked in high school

FlyingSquid, 5 months ago

But at least MySpace Tom was their friend.

theangryseal, 5 months ago

Oh come on. That guy would be friends with anyone! He was probably friends with like 600 Adolf Hitlers.

He was friends with Steve from high school and no one wanted to be Steve’s friend. He only posted pictures of the columbine shooters with captions like, “An hero, an marter. I will join u soon brave man.” His profile played like 10 Marilyn Manson songs at the same time. Guess who his friend was?

Tom.

Delphia, 5 months ago

I see you found my Onlyfans…

Zink, 5 months ago

‘Tis a sacred ritual among both Ferengi and MBAs!

militaryintelligence, 5 months ago

TIL the gnutella network still exists. Brb, gonna download masterofpuppets.mp3.exe

chemical_cutthroat, 5 months ago

Burn me a copy of that sick System of a Down Legend of Zelda song! Link, saddle up your horse!

Potatisen, 5 months ago

I’VE COME TO SAVE

THE PRINCESS ZELDA

bamboo, 5 months ago

Wait does this exist??

loutr, 5 months ago

Well yes, but actually no.

Odo, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

The song is here, but it’s not by SoaD. It was often mislabeled on the various filesharing networks as being theirs.

FlyingSquid, 5 months ago

Much like virtually every parody or comedy song ever being attributed to Weird Al back then. He’s talked about it before. He especially didn’t like it when stuff that was really offensive- racist, sexist, etc. was attributed to him.

Obi, 5 months ago

Holy shit I had this back then and totally thought it was by SOAD.

elvith, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Well yes, but actually no… it’s by Joe Pleiman and someone just uploaded it as SOAD - The Legend Of Zelda.mp3

kotaku.com/no-system-of-a-down-did-not-make-a-zel…

Here’s the song

youtu.be/6hPeA0jv7jY

candyman337, 5 months ago

I remember I downloaded a jobro album and I double clicked it and it took me to a Japanese porn site

ZeroCool, 5 months ago

I love Judas Priest!

yamanii, 5 months ago

I think soulseek is the biggest one that works like this, but it’s entirely dedicated to music.

Emerald, 5 months ago

Yep soulseek is awesome, I’m sharing about 500gb of stuff there. There’s more then just music there too, you can find movies and TV shows there that aren’t on public trackers. Also… fonts

EdibleFriend, 5 months ago

oh, oh no.