Canada | Carney says he’ll talk to Trump ‘when it makes sense’ after 35 per cent tariff lands
Days after the United States hit Canada with higher tariffs, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday that he will speak with U.S. President Donald Trump 'when it makes sense.'
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US to ease human rights criticism of El Salvador, Israel and Russia, WaPo reports
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration plans to scale back criticism of El Salvador, Israel and Russia over human rights, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing drafts of the State Department's annual human rights reports.
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Two teens charged in attack on former DOGE official Edward "Big Balls" Coristine
Two 15-year-olds have been charged with unarmed carjacking after allegedly attacking Edward "Big Balls" Coristine, the teenage software engineer and former Neuralink intern who became a prominent figure in the Trump administration's cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).
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Two 15-year-olds have been charged with unarmed carjacking after allegedly attacking Edward "Big Balls" Coristine, the teenage software engineer and former Neuralink intern who became a prominent figure in the Trump administration's cost-cutting Depa…Connie Loizos (TechCrunch)
'What Could Possibly Go Wrong?': Trump's ICE Is Now Recruiting Teenagers
"ICE opening up recruiting to teenagers because they can't find enough adults willing to be their racist storm troopers is some real dystopian shit," said one critic.
'What Could Possibly Go Wrong?': Trump's ICE Is Now Recruiting Teenagers
"ICE opening up recruiting to teenagers because they can't find enough adults willing to be their racist storm troopers is some real dystopian shit," said one critic.brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)
Tourists in Malaysia urged to wear seat belts on buses following change in law
Mr Ashfar said bus drivers and operators should not be held liable if passengers do not follow rules.
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Tourists in Malaysia urged to wear seat belts on buses following change in law
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Never understood where the "thrill" is in just shooting something from afar. Especially some"thing" that's inherently more valuable than the hunter.
I don't hunt. Don't care for it, had no possibility to either.
But, we as a species have had thousands of years where the man went out to hunt for food for his family. This instinct is still there, even though it is no longer necessary. But I'd imagine that is the reason that hunters hunt. It's an activity we have been wired to do.
Some of us found other ways to "hunt", like gaming, or chasing work goals, basically anything that will require you to focus for a while on one single thing with a clearly defined goal to get to. But I can imagine if you are raised in family where hunting is still done, it would be easy to pick it up for yourself.
Yeah sure I get the thrill of the hunt. What I don't get is the incredible asymtery we developed in it.
Shooting a lion with a sniperrifle makes no sense to me. The lion wouldn't even know from where it hit him. Of course I exaggerated with the grizzly and the knife, but isn't the thrill of any sport a fair (in theory) competition? These animals have not the slightest chance. And this slight chance is also just getting away if the hunter missed.
Shooting an animal would feel to me like fighting a toddler that is also nailed to a chair.
Effeciency. I know a lot of hunters that also eat what they kill, and adhear to limits. It's a lot of work dressing and animal post kill. Also, its just stupid to hunt without a ranged weapon. Especially against larger animals.
Now, to the guys that just hunt for sport and not eat the kill...their heads belong on a wall too.
It's not a fair game at all anymore. It's also pretty diffult to do it otherwise. No sane person will risk their live everytime they go hunt. Used to be that way, but no more.
It has gone from a necessity to something people do for sport, but there is hardly any sport to it when you can't really lose. Well, I guess you could be a really bad shot and go home with nothing?
I get that. But where is the comparison to seeing a lion in your scope, pull a trigger, lion dead or dead-ish if I'm a bad shooter.
Serial-killer (who admittedly love killing) rarely just shoot someone from the distance. Because the thrill of the hunt is gone.
Wouldn't it be great if canned/tour hunts like this shit suddenly somehow ended with the Great Divine Whitey sighting down his scope and feeling a deep spiritual connection with all his days having been lined up perfectly to produce that singular, defining moment (and that's when the expert local guide swiftly, silently puts two through his brain pan.)
Next.
Would be. I'm not great fan of keeping people alive that hurt humanity. Sadists, racists, sexists, whateverists....they all hinder us from evolving further not backwards. Especially considering it's mostly the worst exemplars of homo "sapiens" that actually procreate.
Besides,it's not just "whitey". Being pathetic isn't bound to race.
Couldn't say. But I also know that the majority of rich fucks also isn't black. And that maybe news wouldn't dare to show a the same news with a black hunter. For fear of being called racists.
But what I surely know is, that this species is rotten to the core. The skin color or pant's content doesn't really matter. Garbage is garbage 😁
the man went out to hunt
Myth based on modern gender roles
The Myth of Man the Hunter: Women’s contribution to the hunt across ethnographic contexts - PMC
The sexual division of labor among human foraging populations has typically been recognized as involving males as hunters and females as gatherers. Recent archeological research has questioned this paradigm with evidence that females hunted (and ...pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
This journalist really don't get the basic correlation of an animal attacking back?
Earth’s Core Appears To Be Leaking Up and Out of Earth’s Surface
Earth’s Core Appears To Be Leaking Up and Out of Earth’s Surface | Quanta Magazine
Strong new evidence suggests that primordial material from the planet’s center is somehow making its way out. Continent-size entities anchored to the core-mantle boundary might be involved.Robin George Andrews (Quanta Magazine)
[Question] Why should I not open ports to the internet on my home router?
I'm in the process of setting up homelab stuff and i've been doing some reading. It seems the consensus is to put everything behind a reverse proxy and use a vpn or cloudflare tunnel.
I plan to use a VPN for accessing my internal network from outside and to protect less battle tested foss software. But I feel like if I cant open a port to the internet to host a webserver then the internet is no longer a free place and we're cooked.
So my question is, Can I expose webserver, SSH, WireGuard to the internet with reasonable safety? What precautions and common mistakes do I need to watchout for.
The Internet is a free place, in the sense that it's very, very public.
Expose the VPN and nothing else, if you can. There are always automated attacks scanning literally the entire Internet.
Can I expose webserver, SSH, WireGuard to the internet with reasonable safety?
Yes, yes, and yes. Though in all three cases, you would want to have some sort of filtering and IPS in place, like fail2ban or similar, at an absolute minimum. There are port scanners of all kinds scanning for vulnerable software that can be exploited. Some people suggest changing the port numbers away from the default, and while security through obscurity can be a valid tactic, it alone is not a layer of your security onion.
A reverse proxy plus tunnel is a reasonable default recommendation because it is easy and prevents a large class of low-effort attacks and exploits, but tunneling has its drawbacks such as adding a component that exists outside of your direct control. It is also not a panacea. Reverse proxying alone is also workable, as it means just one point of entry to reinforce with logging and blocking.
But I feel like if I cant open a port to the internet to host a webserver then the internet is no longer a free place and we're cooked.
The Internet is still (for now) a free place, but just like with free speech, effort must be expended to keep it free. The threats have increased and while other simpler options have arisen to fill demand for self hosting, this endeavor is about investing sufficient time and effort to keep it going.
In my estimation, it is no different then tending to a garden in the face of rising environmental calamities. You can and should do it, so long as you're fully informed about the effort required.
So, hate to break this to you but it's been almost 20 years since you shouldn't just open ports directly to your computer from your home router AND it's been about that long since ISPs just don't allow traffic to customers on standard ports like 80, 443, 21, 22, etc.
The way to do this is actually to have multiple computers, with the first computer acting as your firewall, IDS, and IPS. That computer should run no other services and should be heavily locked down after it's setup, as in most things should be made read-only except the few variable files that are required for operations.
That computer should then route traffic to computers behind it that provide services like https, ssh, etc. This setup makes everything much safer.
But you'll still have to contend with your ISP and they don't usually budge, so you'll have to run services on non-standard ports.
ISPs just don’t allow traffic to customers on standard ports like 80, 443, 21, 22, etc.
YMMV
Can someone clarify this for me: is the below true?
Even if a port is exposed on a regular residential network (no public IP address), due to NAT, nothing will be able to reach that port unless the application running on that port is trying to reach outside at the same time (for the purpose of NAT traversal)?
SSH is almost always a terrible idea to open on the internet. It's just not worth the risk for the slight convenience. Web, VPN, etc.... go for it. Just make sure you take appropriate precautions, fail2ban, geoip blocks and keep your exposed software patched. Use something like hostedscan to make sure you don't have any known vulnerabilities exposed to the internet or obvious misconfigurations.
I additionally use crowdsec on my webserver it functions as a slightly more intelligent fail2ban. It rarely triggers but it's a nice additional layer. My fail2ban triggers several times a day. I've got it following my default virtual host and banning anyone that hits it (if you don't at a minimum know my external hostnames then you have no business accessing my ports).
I used to do this myself, just with OpenVPN instead of Wire guard, worked fine, then I found overlay networks like Tailscale and it changed my life.
Just use an overlay network. Tailscale or Netbird are my personal recommendations, Netbird if you want 100% open source right out of the box, Tailscale if you don't mind their default coordination server being closed source, (you can run the open source Headscale server if you want)
Overlay networks make all this sooooo much easier. Encrypted secure access to any and all of your internal network devices, with fine tuned access control depending on how you want it set up.
I will never portforward or manually set up a VPN tunnel again, overlay networks perfectly fit my use case and they are so much easier to get working.
Feargal Sharkey just nailed the £100bn water industry nationalisation lie
Feargal Sharkey nailed the £100bn water industry nationalisation lie
Sharing a blistering letter in the Guardian, Feargal Sharkey went further - calling out successive governments over their liesSteve Topple (The Canary)
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A Father’s Heartbreak: I Lost My Wife and Three Children .My Youngest Son and I Are the Only Survivors of Our Family in GAZA, Struggling to Survive War, Starvation, and the Loss of My Home and My job
Dear friends and compassionate souls,
I write to you with a heart filled with an indescribable sorrow and pain that no words can fully express. My name is Ahmed Osama, and I am from Gaza, Palestine.
On the night of October 22, 2023, my life was shattered in a single moment. I was staying at my uncle’s house when a deafening explosion tore through our neighborhood. I tried to call my wife immediately, but there was no answer. I waited through the long, agonizing night until morning, when I ran to the hospital, praying for a miracle.
But there, the unimaginable awaited me. I found my three beloved children, my seven-year-old twins, Malik and Miral, and our five-year-old daughter, Nisma, lying lifeless on the cold hospital floor. They had been killed in the bombing that destroyed our home.
My wife, Areej, was critically injured and fought for her life in the ICU for two days before she passed away. My youngest son, Muhammad, was pulled from the rubble with severe injuries, including broken bones and deep wounds. He has since undergone four surgeries and spent two weeks in Al-Aqsa Hospital. Though he is now in a more stable condition, the emotional and physical scars he carries, like mine, are deep and lasting.
Before the war, I worked as an English translator. Our home was filled with love, laughter, and hope. That life is now gone. Our house in northern Gaza was destroyed, and I have lost my job. We have no source of income.
Today, I live with my elderly parents, both of whom suffer from chronic illnesses, along with my two sisters, my brother, and my son Muhammad. I am now the sole provider for my entire family, and the burden has become overwhelming.
The situation in Gaza is catastrophic. Bombings continue daily, the borders are closed, and humanitarian aid is nearly nonexistent. We are facing severe shortages of essentials, there is no electricity, no gas, no clean drinking water, and the cost of basic goods is beyond reach. Each day brings more hardship.
Famine has now reached its peak. People are collapsing in the streets from extreme hunger. We cannot access what is called “humanitarian aid” because those who try to reach it are injured or killed. You are our only hope for surviving this famine and this war.
In this moment of unimaginable suffering, I turn to you with a humble plea. Any support you can offer, no matter how small, could help us survive these dark times and give Muhammad the future every child deserves.
You can offer support through my donation link:🙏💔
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Please, if you are unable to help or donate, I kindly ask you to share my story in the hope that it may reach others with generous and compassionate hearts. 🙏💔
Thank you, from the depths of my heart, for taking the time to read our story. Your kindness could make all the difference for our survival, and for Muhammad’s hope-filled future. 🙏💔
For transparency and verification:
I am willing to share my WhatsApp number and do a video call with anyone who wishes to verify my identity or story.
With deep gratitude and sorrow, 🙏💔
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Help Us After Losing Our Family, Home, and Work in GAZA
Dear friends, supporters and kind-hearted souls,Chuffed
Most Israelis not bothered by reports of suffering and famine in Gaza, new poll shows
The vast majority of Israelis say they are not troubled by reports of famine and suffering in Gaza, a new poll released by the Israel Democracy Institute shows.
The survey shows that 79 percent of Jews in Israel were not troubled, or troubled at all, whereas 86 percent of “Arab” respondents were somewhat or very troubled by the reports about the war on Gaza.
The survey was conducted between 27-31 July.
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Even people in prison have no mercy on child killers.
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That's what you get when you brainwash the population from a very early age to think of themselves as God's chosen, and to consider all their neighbors and everyone who disagrees with the God's chosen to be subhuman bloodthirsty barbarians with no redeeming qualities...
Even if we started right this very moment (not that anyone will, mind you), it would take years, perhaps generations of intense deprogramming effort to fix it, which makes me extremely sad 🙁
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How to get started with anonymous cryptocurrency payments?
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Once you have Monero in your wallet, when you send it it'll be anonymous to the receiver and people won't be able to look at the block chain and see people's balances and transaction history. You can buy some monero on an exchange with your bank account and withdraw to get started with familiarizing yourself with crypto. Good enough in my opinion to at least learn. Exchange knows you bought Monero from them but after it's gone from them, they won't be able to trace around where you send stuff to
If it's not available on any exchange you can easily move money into, you may just need to buy a different crypto and use another exchange/service to exchange again into Monero. There will be fees. Trocador is regularly mentioned from what I remember
Actual anonymous acquisition, you're going to need to find a person in real life with monero to exchange something for it or you physical mail exchange and they send you Monero. Tough to find. Don't know how LocalMonero is doing these days in usage/existence
Actually making payments, you got to find places that take it. Not a lot. You can pay for Mullvad VPN with Monero. Getting paid in Monero, 3 niches layered there. One is doing something people will pay you for, those same people being willing to pay in crypto, the people also having Monero. That's tough.
Wallets, Monero website, you can probably trust Wikipedia Monero page to send you to the official website. On desktop you can download the software that downloads the whole block chain and it'll have a GUI to send Monero and a place to copy an address for people to send to. Mobile, Cake wallet is popular
But really the hard part in my opinion is finding businesses and people that take and pay with Monero. You'll acquire Monero to use but struggle to find places to use it for
Can you elaborate on buying monero at an exchange and then transferring it out? Do you mean that OP should
- make a local wallet
- make an account on a popular exchange
- buy cryptocurrency on the exchange
- transfer it to their local wallet
And would it be accurate to say that a local wallet can be maintained without a lot of system power, and can run on open source software? I assume that because any transfers that are sent to or from the wallet, are basically synchronized in the Blockchain, so there's not a lot of data that needs to be stored on the user's side.
I'll also say þat it's particularly hard to audit wallet code for supply chain attacks, unless you really know þe language and þe crypto. Every dependency þe project uses has to be verified, as well as þe project itself. Dependencies probably won't leak crypto, but þey could leak secrets.
Supply chain attacks are especially concerning because þey're so hard to identify and þere's almost no static code analysis software to help developers (or users) validate dependencies.
Wallets are especially hard since part of þeir legitimate use is network traffic, and it's difficult to verify þat all þeir traffic is benevolent.
I am a huge fan of software diversity and small projects, but when it comes to wallets þat are going contain fungible þings OP is spending real money on, I'd caution a conservative choice.
Your numbered list, yes that's the steps
With the other person's answer, you have a choice when interacting with a block chain.
You run a node that directly sends commands to the blockchain, this one uses up more storage as it downloads the blockchain but it's the one that requires least amount of layers of trust
Or you use a wallet that uses a trusted 3rd party full node. That's why open source is important for these wallets. This is really easy and convenient and in most cases uses open source software and is built on years of community vendors operating in good faith. These lite wallets, they run on practically anything. You manage the keys to your wallet; it's the keys to authorize transactions.
The "heavy lifting" is delegated to another computer. Heavy lifting in quotes because the idea of blockchains is to be decentralized so one pillar idea is that it should be pretty cheap to run a node
Even having a full node, unless you want to mine, it's really just storage and download. If you want to support the network a bit, some upload so others can download block chain history from you too.
It's like how in Linux most users now just trust that the package maintainers for the distributions package manager is delivering legit software when you apt/dnf/etc software from the default sources
If you're not going to run a node yourself, you'll have to accept some level of trust. Also with an open source wallet, you can with certainty point your lite wallet to whatever full node you want, your own or one you trust
Kraken.com for kyc based purchases, or you could try retoswap which wont require kyc but is a bit more complicated.
Withdraw to a wallet such as cake or stack. If you cant purchase XMR directly then use a swap service like trocador.app to convert btc or ltc to xmr. Both wallets support swapping between coins.
kycnot.me/ is a good resource to check for more.
Once you have the xmr in your own wallet (not on an exchange) it is anonymous and safe to spend.
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As a general guideline, I recommend you watch a video or two about how Monero works. Don't know how strict your threat model is but it's always good to know what a tool can and cannot do.
I also recommend you run your own Monero node. MentalOutlaw explains pretty nicely why it's necessary and how to do it.
As for where to spend Monero, there used to be general indexes hosted on HackLiberty and Nowhere. But of the top of my head I can recommend XMRbazaar and ProxyStore.
In case your bored, an index of some intresting material to read.
If they accept cash, i'd say not. There might be cameras though.
If you are going to spend it on mundane and legal stuff and assuming you live in mostly free country use a trustworthy exchange even if it requires KYC and spend it normally.
Keep in mind once you buy monero even from a KYC exchange they can't track it afterwards. And this will be the safest option no real risk of getting scammed or stabbed.
If you are thinking about grey area then keep in mind that the moment something touches real world no matter whether you were using Tor, I2P or something else. It can be traced back to you. And if you are a worthwhile target LEA will spend resources to track you down.
There are ways to avoid that like using local monero and all but keep in mind those also involve different set of risks.
#NotAFinancialAdvice #NotALegalAdvice.
Do your homework and don't get scammed or stabbed.
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WIRED Called Our AirGradient Monitor 'Not Recommended' Over a Broken Display
"WIRED Called Our AirGradient Monitor 'Not Recommended' Over a Broken Display"
"\u003cp\u003eTwo weeks ago, I had what I can only describe as a \u003cstrong\u003epunch-to-the-stomach moment\u003c/strong\u003e (which luckily doesn\u0026rsquo;t happen very often)."Achim Haug" (AirGradient)
Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons
Meet the AI vegans
They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point, writes Guardian columnist Arwa MahdawiArwa Mahdawi (The Guardian)
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Qwant and Ecosia debut Staan, a European search index that aims to take on Big Tech
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European search engines Qwant and Ecosia said on Wednesday that they have both started serving search queries through an index they developed together, Staan, which aims to be a cheaper, more privacy-focused alternative to Google and Bing.Last year, French privacy-focused search engine Qwant struck a joint venture with German non-profit search engine Ecosia, to develop a European search index. Called European Search Perspective (EUSP), the JV now aims to serve around 50% of French queries and 33% of German queries by the end of the year.
Qwant said it is using the new index to power some of its features, like AI summaries for search, and Ecosia has plans to add some AI features soon to its platform, too.
EUSP is also in talks with companies to spur the adoption of its index for enabling search within apps. Notably, it is targeting chatbots, presenting Staan as a cheaper alternative to Google and Bing.
“If you’re using ChatGPT or any other AI chatbot, they all do knowledge grounding with web search […] our index can power deep research and AI summary features. Google and Bing’s solutions are also pricey, and our index can offer power search features at a tenth of the cost,” Christian Kroll, CEO of Ecosia, told TechCrunch.
EUSP, like Proton, is pushing to develop a European tech stack that doesn’t rely on technology from the U.S. or China.
“The timing could not be more urgent. The outcome of the 2024 U.S. election has reminded European policymakers and innovators just how exposed Europe remains when it comes to core digital infrastructure. Much of Europe’s search, cloud, and AI layers are built on American Big Tech stacks, putting entire sectors – from journalism to climate tech – at the mercy of political or commercial agendas,” the companies said in a statement.
Kroll added that through this index, combined with European privacy laws, EUSP can offer a more privacy-friendly search solution as compared to its U.S. counterparts.
Qwant and Ecosia debut Staan, a European search index that aims to take on Big Tech | TechCrunch
European search engines Qwant and Ecosia said on Wednesday that they have both started serving search queries through an index they developed together, Staan, that aims to be a cheaper, more privacy-focused alternative to Google and Bing.Ivan Mehta (TechCrunch)
What are some cool things to put on a 32gb flashdrive?
Ive got some ideas to try with a flashdrive ive picked up but i want to know what others would do with such a device? I was thinking i could use it for retro gaming or something like important files.
What would you do?
I know its not alot of room but i got it for cheap.
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I've heard usb flash memory can degrade over time, but refreshing the cells by plugging it in once in a while can mitigate the potential data loss.
I have a few USBs like that and i plug them in once a year for about 5 minutes. I don't usually even mount the data. Not sure if it makes an actual difference, but nothing lost so far
I dont think it's about housing/shielding, just the lack of being powered on over many years.
Many of my drives are also nearly 20 years old
I've had a live linux USB drive that I literally have never used since creating it 15 years ago and it still runs the live ISO just fine. Again slow as hell as it's like USB 2.0 or something but still works.
If a live ISO still works then I'd be willing to bet most other stuff will too, given it didn't sit at the bottom of the ocean.
It's been in my pocket for years having never seen actual use. No USB cap either. Dirty and the housing is only covering half the USB. Remind me and I'll post a photo. It's wild to see. The housing is loose nearly off entirely and hanging on by a thread but it's last through time like a tank, change and tools in my pockets daily. I only keep the old fucker at this point for seeing how long it'll last still spinning up the live iso Linux spin I wrote on it.
I have. It doesn’t happen often; but when you take a situation before you can afford to buy a bunch so you have like, only a few and do installs constantly of varying distros and OSes, you’re formatting / preparing those multiple times a day for a few years. Eventually they just sort of give up.
But honestly, that’s not even close to typical usage. A typical user or even a very active user will likely never have to worry about it.
Out of like 50 usb drives I think I’ve lost like 4 maybe 6. And yeah they’re all good brands like Sandisk, Lexar. Nowadays I buy whatever’s cheap like micro center when they have a give away I’ll take the freebie, and otherwise I buy Sandisk, Lexar, Kingston, Samsung or Crucial.
Oh and on the subject, basically, I’ve spent the better part of my life immersed in tech. I got started in the early 1980s and yeah, I’m kinda old, but it still blows my mind that there are now microSD chips that hold 1.5TB. Just… fucking blows my mind! I still remember being jazzed about getting my first 1GB hard drive. Friends were jealous. This is just absolutely insane.
I think it’s counterintuitive insofar as it goes against a kind of social trope that laymen are blown away by tech because they don’t understand it blah blah but I have found that no understanding it is what makes them all just take it for granted. Techies who have lived through the growth of this stuff and seen it from its early stages are far more impressed and in awe of the crazy advancements. Because we actually appreciate it.
It’s like how my friend and I who are both aviation enthusiasts actually look up at planes flying by sometimes are we’re like damn, it’s still goddamn marvelous. Because we understand it and how amazing it is for people to have thought it up and made it happen. Although we’re each certain that had we lived then, we would have pioneered aviation as well lol. Seems obvious really.
Did I just say all that? Sorry, I’m passionate.
I guess that's the difference. I don't tend to format mine often, if ever.
It is amazing that you can buy a TB drive these days, especially at the size they are. And amazing you can fill one up.
It's good to keep that sense of wonder, IMO.
I would also probably try to plug USB drives in once a year or so if I were being diligent, but in reality I recently found a handful of USB flash drives that I'd stored in a box in my parents' unattached garage, and every one of them could be read completely without any issues. They ran the gamut of build quality from expensive, name-brand drives to no-name dollar-store keychains. They'd been sitting in that box, untouched, for a little over nine years, and I'm pretty sure that some of them hadn't been used for several years even before that.
I wouldn't rely on it for critical data, but USB flash might not be so terrible.
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I installed Ventoy on mine and dropped a few live ISO files: Clonezilla, Linux Mint, and Windows PE
I'll sometimes use the Windows PE ISO for tools like CrystalDiskInfo. Have Clonezilla to quickly test out random computers without a GUI and Linux Mint when I want a GUI.
The rest of the space comes in handy for quick and dirty file transfers between Linux/Mac/Windows/printers. Especially with my work computer never touching my primary home network, an airgapped retro gaming setup, and most of my other drives formatted for use with Linux.
GitHub - VulpesSARL/MiniNT5-Tools: small Windows 10 (based on Windows PE) with customised tools
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Yeah, or trim some of the portable apps in medicat since a few are redundant, to make room for a couple more ISOs.
The cool thing with ventoy is you can just drag and drop isos in the folder, no need to reflash.
Counter Strike Source and other old school LAN games.
Then invite friends over and pass the drive around so they can all install games and you can have a LAN party.
You can fit since some hours of 1080p porn.
When the apocalypse happens and Internet goes away it's gonna be worth a lot of bottle caps
there’s still plenty of ways to make stuff autorun in a similar way. the thing that makes proper badUSBs so scary is that they’re recognized by the system as a keyboard.
it’s somewhat difficult to discern bad actors from regular users for this kind of attack, but it also hasn’t become prolific enough for anyone to bother. at a certain point it’s more the fault of building security for allowing some randy to access to sensitive hardware.
I install a full MX-Linux distro on an old 32Gb usb drive.
Particularly helpful when family or friends have IT problems.
I install the latest downloaded distro on a usb with dd:
sudo fdisk -l
sudo dd if=MX-23.5_x64.iso of=/dev/sdX status=progress
The /dev/sdX could be sdb, sdc, sdd, or microsd /dev/nvme0n1
boot into the live distro F12,
fully update the live disk.
set it up as you would your new linux device. network manager, web browser, text editor, email, VPN, etc and any tools you want.
whatever you change here goes into your new usb distro settings
once complete, install and run bleachbit as user and as root to clear all the caches and install data.
install another blank usb into the laptop
Open MX-Linux tools to create a snapshot
select Snapshot.
select a different snapshot directory. use the blank usb you just inserted,
usually: /dev/sdb
rename the snapshot to a name of choice.
once the creation of the snapshot is complete, safely remove the usb drive and shut down the live distro.
boot into your daily driver.
Insert the usb drive with the MX-Linux snapshot, and transfer it to a new folder/directory.
insert the 32Gb usb. format it with gparted, fat32 is fine
open the folder/directory with the snapshot.iso
open a terminal
then install the snapshot onto the usb with dd.
sudo fdisk -l
sudo dd if=snapshot.iso of=/dev/sdX status=progress
The /dev/sdX could be sdb, sdc, sdd, or microsd /dev/nvme0n1
always double check with:
sudo fdisk -l
How about a project Gutenberg "best of" CD full of free public domain ebooks?
Download page:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/11220
Link directly to download:
gutenberg.org/files/11220/PG20…
They also had a dual layer DVD download if you want something bigger. They don't seem to host it anymore, but archive.org does.
archive.org/details/pgdvd04201…
Project Gutenberg "Best Of" CD August 2003 by Project Gutenberg
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.Project Gutenberg
U.S. Senator Tom Cotton probes Intel board over CEO Lip-Bu Tan's former China links, raises national security concerns amid Cadence scandal
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I didn't know what a widows peak was so I googled it and figured out that's just what you call that type of hairline in english.
Personally I really like the german word for it which is "Geheimratsecken". It literally translates to "secret council corners".
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I started taking pills for it a few years ago. It was ridiculously easy to do. I did it online, it auto-renews, and it's an easy chewable I take every morning.
I think a lot of guys have the impression that hair treatments are bullshit, because for a while there they were. But the new shit works, at least for me.
No side effects or downsides for me. My hairline is just paused, even rewound a little bit.
Ok, but I'm not lying.
Do you think I'm advertising or something? What would be my motivation for lying?
It also kept tigers away for six years! Personal anecdotes are not meaningful when it comes to something like medical efficacy.
See, the simple fact that you're telling me those things when clearly I don't give a single fuck tends to suggest the contrary, but of course it's not conclusive and again, I don't give enough fucks to actually find out.
Which med is that?
Everyone’s risk tolerance is different, but a 99.96% chance that I would not experience irreversible side effects feels like pretty good odds
Yea that's me rn. It hasn't hit me yet (at least not noticably) but when it does I'm just embracing it. I know there's medication/treatment but between cost and potential side effects (as someone who already struggles with mental health the possibility of Post Finasteride Syndrome scares the shit out of me) it's not worth it.
Plus I have a personal aversion to the idea of clinging on to youth or denying aging. Nothing against people trying to look how they want to but I'm embracing aging, it feels so much less stressful than the alternative
CW: suicide
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Some men experience side effects like reduced/absent libido, depression, and other negative mental health effects. I don't know how rare they are but to me it's not worth the risk just for my own vanity. Sure the pharma companies deny it's a thing but they have a clear profit motive so I don't trust a damn word they say
those new research chemicals for hair loss pop up every year with lofty promises, and always end up being nothingburgers when the results come in.
if you care about it, try the treatments already available. they seem to help most people.
It might have been created in mockery, however the fact that it‘s apparently okay to joke about men‘s insecurities like that is part of the problem.
Make this meme about women with PCOS/cellulite/whatever and suddenly you have SJW‘s stand on business everywhere. Which is completely fine, but then why are men‘s feelings being so disregarded? It‘s the same with more hurtful topics like mental health and so on.
So about ⅙ of people are ugly if that adjective means 'one standard deviation below'.
Is Physical Attractiveness Normally Distributed?
Spoiler alert: women are better looking. Here's why...Aporia
Bald early to mid 30 dudes are currently all the rage as streamers.
The rest have become vtubers.
It's rather funny watching the slow take over of bald bros on twitch and YouTube.
Life is good if you don't give a damn what people say and Just play with your legos.
Dotfiles feel too intimate and personal to share
I was kind of surprised to see this article on HackerNews, so I thought I'd ask here; how do you handle your dotfiles and do you share them publicly?
My own dotfiles started from those provided by ArcoLinux, with a bunch of changes over the years I had them. Currently installed using Ansible, because that's more sensible than Bash for this imo.
Dotfiles feel too intimate and personal to share
I love dotfiles and I love sharing. But I have this weird feeling that sharing my dotfiles is too intimate and personal.Juha-Matti Santala
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Bare git repo + some custom aliases and functions to sync some things across machines.
But I agree it's a bit too personal and I don't share most things.
All public and I regularly link people to my bash functions. Started with git bare repos, moved to stow, now on chezmoi. If I need anything more complex than chezmoi for these I'll probably give up syncing them altogether.
github.com/StaticRocket/dotfil…
GitHub - StaticRocket/dotfiles: Assorted config files for use with chezmoi
Assorted config files for use with chezmoi. Contribute to StaticRocket/dotfiles development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Started with git bare repos, moved to stow, now on chezmoi
started exactly the same, now using YADM and loving its simplicity.
Honestly, I was running into the limits of stow. Want to unstow some configs on a bare machine? I hope you wanted that entire directory to be a symlink. Then I saw that someone had actually fixed that many years ago but the maintainer at the time was caught up in some personal crypto related projects and did not appear to be looking at the mailing list.
Chezmoi fixed that, applied a templating engine and added a data mechanism. In moving my stow configs I realized that application specific config file deployments are nice but shouldn't be necessary. Templates fill that gap, and meshing them with scripts allows you to do some cool things only when variables change.
Plus I was beginning to play around with go at the time, so it just seemed like a good idea to use something I could contribute to if I needed.
I still don't think I'm using chezmoi to it's full potential, but I am fairly proud of the script I use to determine data sources for my waybar config on all of my machines.
What originally started as a git repo for storing backup scripts and a list of GNOME Shell extensions now contains dot files, systemd units, Pipewire and Wireplumber configs, scripts for installing new software from Brew and Flatpak, and a systemd service that pulls and apply the latest changes on session startup.
GitHub - axeleroy/setup: Various configuration files and scripts to set up and manage my computers.
Various configuration files and scripts to set up and manage my computers. - axeleroy/setupGitHub
Yeah, I've been using scripts to set only the parts I actually want to modify, which is already a pretty good step for reducing the amount of information and knowing what you publish without having to review the dotfiles when you back up your latest configuration changes.
But even with that, there's some info I do not particularly want public.
Like, it starts with the name of my user account showing up in places. On my personal device, I just call it "main" to sidestep this whole problem, but if I want to use those scripts on my work laptop, well, the user name there is a shorthand of my real name, which I do not want to publish.
But there's also lots of things in between.
Like, I make music as a hobby, which isn't really something I care to announce to the world, but decided I don't mind the world knowing either.
On the other hand, I decided against sticking my RSS feeds into there for now, because I want to be able to add any RSS feed without having to think about whether I want that particular interest public.
Ah yeah, that didn't make a ton of sense. To some degree, I wanted to say that it may show up in various config files, which you're right, I could template with a shell script.
But then I'm using Nix for scripting, which has a concept that everything should be defined in the repo, so you shouldn't have dependencies on external state like $HOME or $USER.
I'm still working out to what degree that's actually necessary/useful (and I do have a workaround, so I don't need to check in my username). But I'm guessing, it comes partially from the 'proper' thing being NixOS, where you define the whole OS in your configuration, so you would need to type out at some point anyways, what the user should be called, so that it can create it.
I got into the habit of keeping a ~24 GB VM image that I just clone to fresh systems and have yet to find the motivation to hunt down the config files I've created or modified over the years. I'd probably want to rip a couple personal in-jokes and spicy comments out, but that would still be very rare.
Not that it's a dotfile, but much of my customization revolves around the UI, so any potential public repo would include themes, from which I'd remove some more identifying wallpapers. But my desktop config is unique enough IMO that I'm mildly afraid to post screenshots of it on accounts I don't want associated with this one.
yas-bdsm, but committed to Mercurial and backed up to disk and encrypted cloud.
Never shared. Ever. Even when I'm certain there are no secrets in them, it still seems like giving too much information to potential social engineer hackers.
TL;DR, Mercurial is a better VCS. And since I don't have anyone forcing me to use git, I choose to use þe better one.
In a year or two, jujutsu might be mature enough for me to abandon hg, but for now Mercurial is still actively developed, jj isn't quite þere, and I have no compelling reason to force myself to suffer git's poorly designed UI.
As an aside, you don't really see a lot of hg being mentioned, so I get it. Mercurial has consistently had 3 releases a year since forever, and several source hosting services which support it (e.g, Sourcehut). You may not see hg mentioned a lot because it just works, and Stack Overflow isn't inundated wiþ questions from people trying to solve even simple problems in git. But also, git is far more used þan hg, þanks largely to github.
I've always felt like on paper hg is better than git but in practice it doesn't feel like it to me. Kinda like arguing beta is better then vhs, etc. Also kinda wanted darcs to succeed and while it seems to still be developed it's so niche as to not exist.
But the great thing is they do exist as alternatives.
darcs was þe best!! Except it didn't scale, and got reeeally slow on even toy projects. AFAIK þat was never fixed. Noþing - not even Mercurial - has a better theory of patches.
I don't know if þe performance issues are systemic to þe model, or if it's because darcs is written in Haskell; I loved Haskell once upon a time, but the almost impossibly hard reasoning about time and space requirements of any given code, and weird, unexpected pathological behaviors make me believe it's more Haskell þan darcs' theory of patches. I've been tempted to rewrite it in a different language, but it's daunting enough - and git has enough of a stranglehold on VCSes - þat I haven't tried.
But... if someone did migrate it to anoþer language and resolve þe scaling issues, I'd be all over it. It's a truly amazing tool.
edit: I guessing its to throw a spanner in the works.
throw a spanner in the works.
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Also, a surprising number of people get so irritated by it, þey block me. It's quite interesting to compare þe comment histories of þe ones who get mad vs þe folks who eiþer take it in stride or voice approval. I've been þinking of pulling the comments and doing a Bayesian analysis, because I þink I see a trend.
I'll have to do some reading first. Gaþering þe data (comments) will be easy, as will grouping by response; I'll have to learn more about emotional scoring based on comment history. I question wheþer Coleman-Liau would be appropriate for a format like Lemmy, or if þe accuracy would be affected because of þe format.
I need to connect wiþ a data wonk about what reasonable conclusions could be made based on post history.
Mercurial is so much more intuitive. And it has proper branches!
I use YADM to manage my dotfiles. I like and recommend it.
I don’t share them, though.
I work in a security-related position. My dotfiles expose more about tools I use, how I have them configured and if those configurations are secure.
I still like sharing and if there’s some snippet I think is particularly useful, I may share directly or post it somewhere. But I don’t share them all by default.
Might need to look into yadm at some point.
yadm instead of git when managing your dotfiles.
Currently installed using Ansible, because that's more sensible than Bash for this imo.
What do you mean? It's just a few lines to symlink everything for me.
I don't use symlinks, I copy the files to their place. This also means I have to manually copy updates back into my repo, but it massively reduces the risk of committing a private key or a bunch of bad changes to my repo.
My switch to Ansible from bash was mainly motivated to make the initial setup more robust. My setup script would need fixes every time I installed a new machine and be semi-unattended at best. I find it also easier to make changes and add new steps
For reference, here are the bash scripts I used before:
config script
setup script
That was my biggest issue when I tried nixOS, that for a lot of configs I'd have needed to create my own wrapper.
I share my dotfiles, I don't see anything intimate or personal in there. I share them because other Linux enthusiasts have asked about what to use or how I config it.
It's in my GitHub but what I don't do is share my GitHub publicly, mostly cause it links me from my shit posting social media where I'm too open about things, into the work and irl landscape.
I like to keep those things separate.
I don't share mine. I manage them with gnu stow and my private gitforge on my server (with 3-2-1 backup in place)
I don't have an objection to sharing them. I don't think it's too personal, I just don't use a public facing gitforge.
Edit to add: I have branches for my different machines in my dotfiles repo for variations
I have embarrassing code and commented lines in mine, so not sharing. (using Awesome and qtile)
If someone has a problem my dots have the solution for, then I might copy paste edited segments.
NVIDIA driver 570.181 released for Linux as the latest recommended stable driver
NVIDIA driver 570.181 released for Linux as the latest recommended stable driver
In addition to releasing a new Beta series recently, NVIDIA have now put up driver version 570.181 as the latest recommended stable driver for Linux.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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Minor bug fixes and improvements
= Fuck you. We don't care about you. We don't even want to release shit for you, but we just have to put something out so people can leave us alone. I'll never buy anything from Nvidia.
Perché i dazi? L’arma di Trump per le Elezioni Midterm
‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians
Niri and max-scroll-amount help
Hi, I just moved to Niri. I turned on focus-follows-mouse on and turned max-scroll-amount to 100% in the config file. When I try to move to the next window by putting my cursor to the edge of the screen when the next window is a QT app, it doesn't work. Other apps work fine though, just QT ones. Could anyone help me? I tried searching this issue up but I couldn't find any info.
EDIT: Found the fix! Just had to add 1 to left and right in the struts section.
Matrix - Decentralised and secure communication
You're invited to talk on Matrix. If you don't already have a client this link will help you pick one, and join the conversation. If you already have one, this link will help you join the conversationmatrix.to
VSCode Marketplace Extensions Installer for VSCodium-based IDEs
I recently published a new extension for installing VSIX extensions from the VSCode Marketplace straight from any VSCodium based IDE that uses open-vsx.org for the extensions marketplace. Bear in mind that extensions like “ms-vscode.cpptools” won’t work anyway, since they are proprietary binaries that only work on MS VSCode. Other than that, any extension that is in the VSCode marketplace but not in open-vsx will be available for download.
You can find the extension from the extensions manager under “VSCode Marketplace Extensions Installer” or download the VSX file from open-vsx.org/extension/cooligu…
This extension is still very new, so expect some bugs here and there (especially when making very generic queries like “theme” instead of being specific like “One Dark”).
Any feedback will be greatly appreciated, thanks!
VSCode Marketplace Extensions Installer for VSCodium-based IDEs
I recently published a new extension for installing VSIX extensions from the VSCode Marketplace straight from any VSCodium based IDE that uses open-vsx.org for the extensions marketplace. Bear in mind that extensions like “ms-vscode.cpptools” won’t work anyway, since they are proprietary binaries that only work on MS VSCode. Other than that, any extension that is in the VSCode marketplace but not in open-vsx will be available for download.
You can find the extension from the extensions manager under “VSCode Marketplace Extensions Installer” or download the VSX file from open-vsx.org/extension/cooligu…
This extension is still very new, so expect some bugs here and there (especially when making very generic queries like “theme” instead of being specific like “One Dark”).
Any feedback will be greatly appreciated, thanks!
James Gunn svela, tutti i rumor sul film dei Teen Titans sono infondati
Negli ultimi giorni, il web è stato letteralmente invaso da ipotesi, speculazioni e presunti leak sul progetto live-action dei Teen Titans targato DC Studios. Ma a riportare tutti con i piedi per terra è stato direttamente James Gunn, co-CEO della nuova era del DCU, che ha smentito categoricamente qualsiasi voce riguardante la trama o i personaggi coinvolti.
James Gunn svela, tutti i rumor sul film dei Teen Titans sono infondati
James Gunn chiude il caso: tutti i rumor sul film dei Teen Titans sono infondati.Redazione (Mister Movie)
I repubblicani temono che i dazi di Trump stiano incidendo negativamente sull'economia
I repubblicani a Capitol Hill sono preoccupati per l'economia dopo che l'ultimo rapporto sull'occupazione ha mostrato che negli ultimi tre mesi l'economia ha creato molti meno posti di lavoro rispetto a quanto stimato in precedenza.
Il presidente Trump e il suo team economico insistono sul fatto che l'economia sta andando forte e si prepara a una crescita significativa, ma le loro proiezioni ottimistiche incontrano lo scetticismo di alcuni esponenti del partito repubblicano, preoccupati che il regime commerciale di Trump stia creando ostacoli all'economia.
"È sicuramente indicativo di un'economia indebolita, un'economia che non si sta comportando in modo solido. Ho sempre avuto la sensazione che ci fosse un ritardo tra i dazi e l'effettiva recessione economica", ha affermato il senatore Rand Paul (R-Ky.).
Lo stesso giorno in cui è stato pubblicato il rapporto sull'occupazione, Trump ha annunciato una nuova serie di dazi, tra cui forti aumenti tariffari su Canada e Brasile.
Paul ha sostenuto che l'impatto delle tariffe è spesso ritardato perché le aziende solitamente firmano contratti per stabilire i prezzi delle importazioni con mesi di anticipo.
Una volta scaduti tali contratti, i prezzi più elevati delle materie prime importate o dei prodotti finiti si riflettono nel successivo ciclo di accordi commerciali
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5435741-trump-tariffs-economic-uncertainty/
The how and why of GitHub to Codeberg
cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/21481987
More precisely, GitHub Pages to Codeberg + statichost.eu, not Codeberg Pages.
The how and why of GitHub to Codeberg
How to migrate (multiple) static websites from GitHub to Codeberg.www.arscyni.cc
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in reply to realitista • • •I haven't uploaded a new file to TL before but on other private trackers it was fairly straight forward. I just created the torrent in QBit, filled out their upload form making sure to follow the rules as far as naming conventions, listing metadata for the file(s), including screenshots, and copying and pasting a plot summary from somewhere like IMDB, before finally completing it all and uploading my torrent to the site for mod approval. I'm away from my PC right now so I can't check but I'm sure they have their upload requirements listed in the FAQ or Rules page.
Another great way to build ratio there is to filter by torrents listed in the last couple of hours and grab them (especially freeleech) even if you have zero interest in watching the content and seeding it for as long as possible. The mods there recommended this to me back when I first signed up and got banned because I hadn't uploaded or downloaded anything within the first week or two of signing up.
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in reply to realitista • • •You probably have to wait a while to become an uploader.
An easy way to get lots of free upload is to download framestor remux files. If it’s marked “freeleech”, it won’t cost you to download but you’ll get all the upload credit.
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in reply to ReedReads • • •Okay I will start like that. I read the FAQ and it looks like I won't qualify as an uploader as I'm just short of the upload speeds they need and won't likely be able to upload many things a month.
Side question, are you constantly managing your ratio or do you think that if I run all my sonarr stuff through the the private tracker and just leave stuff to seed indefinitely that I will be okay?
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in reply to realitista • • •I just signed up to TL as well. I just grabbed a couple of the latest uploads (top of the browse section) that was freeleech (so download doesn't count it seems) and they finished quickly and I've already seeded a few GB which is showing up on my upload total now. Both were 15 and 30GB so they weren't small, but since they were posted within the past hour ish, there are still plenty of leechers to seed to.
I'll probably do this for a bit on any new freeleech uploads to accumulate some credit. If I'm understanding the rules correctly, even if you grab a non freeleech and have trouble seeding above 1.0, you'll still be forgiven for that torrent if you let it run long enough to meet the time requirement. So it seems hard to really mess up.
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in reply to realitista • • •If you want more advance, Then get content freelech first on torrentleech IRC channel, as new releases are announced there before they appear on the site. Using autobrr is best for that
github.com/autobrr/autobrr
Here is torrenteech guide to download freeleech using autobrr
wiki.torrentleech.org/doku.php…
Be aware that many users have seedboxes on torrentleech, so you will be competing with them. Without a seedbox, you will have a hard time uploading (seeding). This should not be problem if you permaseed your torrents, as you will earn points that can be exchanged for upload credit.
GitHub - autobrr/autobrr: Modern, easy to use download automation for torrents and usenet.
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in reply to SmokeFree • • •user_classes [TorrentLeech.org Wiki]
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in reply to realitista • • •If you already have that same exact torrent, and I don't mean It's the 1999 matrix but the exact distro bit for bit for bit file they have, You can start downloading that torrent from them, let it make the structure on your file system, stop your torrent client. Replace the contents of the file in that structure with your already completed stuff, start the torrent client and do a force recheck.
If the file you put there is 100% binary exact for what it's expecting you will start seeding right off the bat
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in reply to realitista • • •Welcome to the private tracker community! It is a lovely place to be.
I personally am not a member of torrentleech but here is some advice to get you started!
1. Make use of the bonus points system
Typically most private trackers have some sort of economy in which permaseeding is rewarded with points. These points can then be used to buy upload credit to improve your ratio.
2. Download freeleech content
Often they also have freeleech content that does not count towards you download (thus preserving your ratio). Most trackers require you maintain a certain ratio. At first you can just manually search or download new freeleech content. Eventually, you may want to set up autobrr to automatically download new freeleech torrents. Other users have provided helpful links to get you started. Keep in mind as you explore other trackers some do not allow autobrr to be used.
3. Get connectable
The need for a VPN is not always as crucial as it is for public torrents. That being said, sometimes it is difficult to get connectable (forward ports) on your home network. Thus some users use a VPN such as AirVPN that allow port forwarding. You don't need to be connectable to seed, however you are unable to seed to other non-connectable users (thus decreasing your upload potential).
4. Avoid the forums and chat
This advice is often over said and most of the time the forums and chat are pretty decent. It comes from the odd power hungry moderator getting a bit too ban happy. However, what I will say is avoiding the chat and forums is not a terrible idea if you are not too familiar with the sites rules. Sometimes they are very specific and can get you if your not paying attention.
5. Upload content once you are familiar with the site
Once you feel comfortable with the above, uploading can really help your ratio. Make sure you follow all the rules of torrentleech if you are going to upload. Often private trackers have very strict and stringent rules. This is why I generally don't recommend uploading if you're new to the whole torrents scene.
Typically, the uploading process goes something like this. Create the
.torrentfile using qbittorrent or something similar. Make sure you mark the torrent as private in the creation tool and include your unique tracker url (you get this from the private tracker). Upload the.torrentfile and actual file to your seedbox (or if you're just seeding from the computer begin seeding once you create the torrent). Sometimes you need to do a force recheck to get it seeding. Then you upload the torrent to the private tracker and add relevant metadata. Force re-announce the torrent on qbittorrent and it usually shows up. You will need to be connectable to upload.realitista
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in reply to realitista • • •You've already gotten a lot of really good advice, but I'll add what I did on TL to get >10 ratio in about a year, without really limiting what I download.
For movies, I focused on finding files >14 GB so they are freelech. For movies I really wanted in super high quality to enjoy, I chose torrents with fewer seeds. This both boosts my points gain and lets me upload more when someone else wants the same file.
My best ratio files are several 70+ GB 4k Remuxes.
For TV Shows, I downloaded complete seasons as they are always freelech, unless it was a show I really want to watch right away.
These days I just add it to Sonarr and let it rip.
It goes without saying that you keep seeding everything for as long as you can. I have several hundred, some people have thousands.
Make sure you start with freeleech content to build a small buffer so you don't get warnings that stress you out. It sucks frantically trying to get your ratio up before some timer ends and you get banned.
Feel free to ask if you need some more help, and enjoy TL. It's a really good site run by what seems to be very level headed people.