I am looking for a small solar panel setup, ideally to be connected to the grid and reduce electricity bill. I have heard of the Ecoflow system but I would like to know if there are alternatives out there.
If anyone has experience and can recommend any products, please comment 😀
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Good because: 1) Can click images with both cameras 2) Daily notifications 3) Privacy focussed 3) If you want any new feature in the app, just email the devs and they will build and ship it in 15days or less 4) FREE, No Ads even 5) Can write long Journal entries
Boring bcoz: 1) Cant chat with friends 2) cant create gifs (videos) 3) cant see friends pics. Which is a deal breaker for me
So i have currently started using DD-DigitalDiary and clicking pics with DD-DigitalDiary everytime i get a BeReal notification. Also i have kept BeReal in order to chat with girls & stuff. And see their pics since thats the only way you can see and catch up with their daily life's I mostly post black bereals. Downloaded all my 2yr old BeReal pics and put it in my HardDisk (i suggest you guys to do the same btw)
Have any of you guys switched from BeReal to DD-DigitalDiary or any other such application? Is there any other better alternatives (than DD-DigitalDiary)? NOTE: I use Android but for the community link ios, mac, linux alternatives as well if a better is available
I know many of u wont even know about DD-DigitalDiary coz it only has like 500 downloads or something, so here goes the link. DD-DigitalDiary
On a dry late August afternoon, we stood outside Silivri — the high-security prison west of Istanbul, where Ekrem İmamoğlu, the elected leader of Europe’s largest city, has been detained for months.
Behind us, Turkish civil society leaders held aloft banners; beside us were colleagues from his municipal team; and around us were a quiet but resolute crowd of supporters, including six other local leaders from large cities across Europe.
It wasn’t the visit we had planned, but it was powerful all the same.
In that moment, what struck us most wasn’t just the absence of the man we had traveled to see — and to whom national authorities had denied us access. It was the presence of his values echoing from every voice that spoke.
Hope, we realized, isn’t incarcerated by prison walls. And everything we witnessed only deepened our resolve to stand by our fellow city leaders and defend local democracy.
What we heard in Istanbul wasn’t despair but moral strength. İmamoğlu’s colleagues told us of how he remains engaged even behind bars, how he still asks about city projects and encourages his team to stay the course, insisting that the work of building a more inclusive, sustainable Istanbul continues.
People who care informally for sick or disabled friends and relatives often become invisible in their own lives. Focusing on the needs of those they care for,
::: spoiler Trying to keep a public torrent alive is hard work, but someone has to do it. ::: Back when I had VDSL and even ADSL, I'd try to hit 1.1 ratio because if everyone did that the risk of information being lost would be close to 0%. Nowadays with gigabit internet, all that prevents me from seeding is hard drive space, and 8 TB doesn't fill up quickly with how few good movies and series there are these days. I guess that's one way to stop piracy, just make fewer and worse series/movies.
"Good" is in the eye of the beholder. Have you considered that the quality hasn't changed much, but instead you've become more discerning as you age? I certainly have far less tolerance for the stupid shit I used to think was funny long ago.
Unfortunately BitTorrent clients are kinda messy and don't make it easy to maintain a long term seeding library. I've moved to qbittorrent which is a bit better than Deluge on that regard, but it's still not great.
Yeah, they are messy. I tried BiglyBT a few years back, and while I love a lot of features, I think that was overkill for sure. qBittorrent is the golden standard at the moment for sure.
That's one (of many) reason I'm glad I switched to linux, Back in windows xp days Microsoft tried limiting the amount of "half-open connections" for its users "security". But even today, some routers just aren't powerful enough to handle too many connections, and often times the cheap routers that ISP's provide are limited on purpose either by custom firmware or just by hardware limitations.
That was fun back in the day when movie studios blamed piracy for their movie performing badly, so someone checked and their movie was barely present or downloaded on the high seas.
Yeah. Normal people have about 100tb of total space. My 96tb (64tb usable) of space is completely average and not at all an indicator of something being wrong or abnormal.
Not saying its wrong, but most people probably don't even approach 10tb. 100tb+ is definitely not the norm. Normies balk at my 50tb, and I'm definitely on the low end of data hoarding.
Oh. I was joking. I'm aware that my storage capabilities really are an outlier, even though I still feel inadequate whenever I go to a hoarding community.
I've spent around 1200$ USD since I started collecting things back on 2021, which is about 300/year, or 25/month. I don't expect to purchase anymore for another three years or so, right around when a 24tb drive drops to 150/each. It's still not like, super cheap or anything though.
Nothing "almost" about it. Retail drives are available right now at 30tb. Although, the more reasonable price/GB is at around 8tb with occasional outliers.
Most private trackers have some sort of bonus point system now where you earn points per hour of seeding per torrent, regardless of how much data you actually upload. You can then use those points to buy upload credit and raise your ratio
There are some niche private trackers which have an active community that handle quality and requests. Also they don't let just anyone create a torrent, so you can have assurances that the files have been vetted to some extent and you're not going to download something unexpected.
Meta's legal defense was that they limited seeding to a minimal value as a precaution when they pirated terabytes of books. Of course, I don't expect the same ruling would be granted to an individual... Shit is fucked.
Has the law in any jurisdiction determined that sharing some small fraction of bits is equivalent to sharing an entire series of bits? And how do they determine that? Like I’m sending 1s and 0s right now. Is that a violation?
But there must be some kind of burden of proof, right? If I leech 0.001% of a file, have I really pirated that file? If yes, then how small does the amount go? If no, then how large does it go? Or if they have to prove intent, well then that can go to trial…
Did a little digging around. It looks like they manage to get discovery judgments all the time over partial downloads, but I don't see them actually taking anyone to court for anything less than a full file.
Once you have the entire file available, it's hard to shimmy around the distribution claims. Wouldn't it be super effing interesting if everyone's torrent client specifically picked a random block and refused to give it to anyone?
I'm not sure it would hold up in court, but it would be interesting.
One of the few latin expression I memorized, because that's how the Catholic Church calls it since that's their recommended "contraception" method, all of which I find hilarious.
That’s… not how it works. A law firm rep (usually) just has to connect to the swarm and see what IPs are there. It matters not if you share, being in the swarm is enough for them to send your ISP a notice of infringement. So as others said, use protection.
It's a shame Usenet has become fully paid. It's what ultimately pushed me into torrents. And the fact that small communities don't have all the content out there for you to download via Usenet.
Personally I enjoy seeing the numbers go up. Looking at the current top ten by ratio according to my torrent client most of them are obscure things that I'm probably the only one seeding — but the number one spot, at a ratio of 565, goes to "Shrek (2001) [1080p]".
I mostly seed stuff that's on the verge of being lost media and my ratio is often insane because there just aren't other seeds. Ironically for many old/unpopular films the Internet Archive is a lot better than any torrents.
A less-than-elite group of college coeds pursue sexual adventure and bits of revenge, and actually do some of the work they are expected to do at a resort...
internet archive is amazing; i found a 100gb woodstock 94 bootleg vhs collection of the 3 day ppv recording and it took like 2 days to download despite only having 1-2 seeders
I used to seed in the old days, but I feel it has become more complicated now.
The primary issue (before eg.: CGNAT or port-opening issues) is it's become more and more often the case that I post-process what I download before use (rename / reencode music albums, reencode movies) so it makes little sense to keep the old files only for seeding. In theory a "seedbox" (those are the trendy thing this decade, right?) would help solve this, but I'm still rather new and have not found any FOSS, PII-free offerings in the market.
Exactly the situation I'm facing. Despite torrents being a popular choice, it just doesn't provide an easy way to manage your seeds.
Of course I have found some potential solutions. Seedbox is one of them. There's also the *arr suite, which is a more local solution that utilises hard links - but im not sure if it'll be effective if you want to reencode.
I have an *arr suite back at home (and had one back at work, once). It's quite local yes but I feel that to be to its advantage in this case since it's for downloading, not uploading. No advantage if I want to reencode, since in an *arrsetup you just post-process the files as usual and remove the originals. OTOH, you can easily connect it to your Jellyfin, mpd, etc...., but by that point I just connect the folder with the post-processed stuff.
Exactly this. I don't need 1080P or 4k mp4 rips with 10bit audio, and I definitely don't have the storage for it, but when that's all that is seeding, its usually quicker to just download it and re-encode.
This pretty much. I've never understood the point of something like The_Avengers.[4K][8K][16][Dolby_7.18_3D][128subs].mkv... what, do people want to take note of The Hulk's groin warts?
For stuff like animation content, even 720p is too much unless it's content from the last ~5 years. Anything before Infinity Train does pretty well on 540p or 480p with 96k audio, and if I'm looking for a movie from the 80s, let alone a black-and-white from the 50s, I'm certainly not interested in a 8K rip that would naturally have to be an AI upscale.
I kinda started a "seedbox" for at least my niche torrents. Most of the mainstream things I download I don't normally leave to seed that long as there's already plenty seeding, but a lot of the documentaries or other things that only have single or double digits seeding I'll make a copy and leave it to seed for a while. I used to host my Plex server from that PC and when I build my new dedicated server I left the storage intact, but transferred my whole library over, so I have a large amount of unused space doing nothing else.
I'm also fairly new to all this. I'm now using Jellyfin for selfhosting. What's the benefit of enencoding everything?
In my experience at least, the two primary benefits (and sometimes, the only benefits) of re-encoding are 1.- reduced file size and 2.- increased device compatibility.
The file size is relevant because you can fit more stuff for essentially the same quality: reencoding a FLAC album to ~160k Opus uses up only 1/5th to 1/4th of the space, ~196k Opus is 1/4th to 1/3rd of the space, so it can be a pretty good gain on aggregate. A movie in 4K is worth nearly 6 movies in 1080p and nearly 9 movies in 720p, and for ~95% of extant content in the world rebasing down from 4K to at least 1080p presents no practical loss.
The compatibility is usually only relevant when you want to have that content be easily accessible in eg.: a remote media server, a streaming system, or one of those gool ol'reliable MP3 thumbsticks. In those cases, you'd be reencoding audio from FLAC to MP3 to increase device compatibility (and getting some decent space savings too). If your Jellyfin server's connection is over wifi or you'll access the data outside of your local network, re-encoding to lower sizes means transmission requires less bandwidth, as well as other savings (incl.: energy consumption in aggregate).
I used to seed everything religiously. Then I joined some private trackers, and suddenly I felt like I needed to conserve all that upload bandwidth for torrents on private trackers. Humans kinda suck. I still seed plenty, tho:
That alone does not prevent seeding. One can absolutely seed and leech without port forwarding, they will just have fewer connections than they would with port forwarding set up.
Unfortunately my VPN provider doesn't support Port Forwarding (they're great in everything else, but suck on this) so if I just start seeding from scratch no peers will ever manage to connect to my machine. The only way I can contribute back to the community is when a Download session ends and starts seeding (basically all those peers that my machine checked during the download stage get recorded in the VPN's Router NAT as associated with my machine so if they try to connect to my machine later, for example to download a block, they get through), so my torrents are just left to seed after downloading (if I stop it and start seeding later, it might not work anymore depending on how long has passed).
Fortunatelly I have a fast internet connection and torrenting is done in a server machine, so I just leave it setup to a 2:1 seeding ratio for as long as it takes to get there and pretty much all torrents I download reach that seeding ratio (it pretty much only fails to reach that on really obscure torrents with very small swarms).
I've been sailing the high seas for over 3 decades and long ago saw the importance of doing my bit to keep the whole ecosystem alive.
So I might not be seeding everything I have (and as it's been 3 decades, I do have some stuff which is now very obscure), but everything I get from the community I seed 2x as much so that others can get it too.
I've been trying to understand port forwarding since I keep seeing that I need to set it up for my torrent client to work reliably. But I read that it sends your traffic "outside" of your VPN encryption. Doesn't it kind of defeat the purpose or am I understanding it wrong?
In a VPN your own machine sits behind a Router from the VPN provider in a NAT configuration (meaning that during VPN tunnel initialization that router gives your machine an IP address from one of the so-called "internal" IP address range - most commonly one in the 192.168.x.x range - which are NOT valid to have visible in the Internet) and which multiple machines all over the world sitting behind other routers can use at the same time (for example: even though it only has 254 valid addresses, there are probably millions of machines running right now with an IP address in the 192.168.1.x range, which is by far the most popular range of internal IP addresses).
The IP address which is visible on the actual Internet has to be one which is not from an internal range or other kinds of special ones, and that's the one that the VPN provider Router shows to the outside. (There are a few "tell me my IP address" websites out there which will let you know what that address is).
This is also how home routers work in providing multiple machines in your home access to the internet even though its on a single ISP connection which has only one IP address valid for the Internet.
To make all this work, such routers do something called NAT-Translation: connection requests from the INSIDE to the OUTSIDE go to the router, which changes ip:port information of those requests from the internal ip and a port in that machine to be the router external ip and a port the router has available, and then forwards the request the outside. The router also records this association between the external machine, the port the router used for it and the internal machine and the port on it the connection came from, on an internal table so that when the OUTSIDE machine connects to the router on that specific port, the router treats that inbound connection request as associated to the earlier outbound request and does the reverse translation - it forwards that inbound request to the internal machine and port of the original outbound connection.
However - all this only works when your machine first connects from the inside to an machine on the outside, because that's when the router translates the IP address and Port and memorizes that association. If however you gave the IP address in some other way to that remote machine other than connecting to it via the router (for example, you have registered a Domain Name pointing to it, or you just gave the IP address and port number to a friend and told them "this is my Jellyfin machine"), any connection coming from the outside will not be routed by the router to your machine, because the router never had an original outbound connection to make the association for any return inbound connections: from its point of view some random machine is trying to connect to one if its ports and it simply doesn't know which internal machine and on which port on it is supposed to get this connection from that unknown external machine.
Also all this is dynamic - after a while of one such association not being used, the router will remove it from memory.
Port Forwarding is a static way to explicitly configure in a router that all connections arriving at a specific port of the router are ALWAYS to be forwarded to a specific internal machine and a specific port on that machine.
Given that the association is static, you can give the outside world in any way you like without involving the router (for example, listing in some kind of shared list, which is what the Torrent protocol does), the IP of the router + the forwarded router port, as the address for a "service" that's running on your internal machine, and any request coming from the outside on that port even if your machine never connected to that remote machine, ever gets forwarded to the internal machine and the port you configured there.
With port forwarding you can for example host your own website behind a VPN or in a home machine that's not directly connected to the internet because any requests coming into a specific port on the router that does have a direct connection to the internet always get forward to that machine and the port on it you configured.
In the old days Port Forwarding had to be manually configured on the Router (for example, via a web-interface), but nowadays there is a protocol called uPNP that lets programs running on your machine automatically request that the router sets up a Port Forwarding for them so this is often done transparently, which how most networked applications sitting on a machine at home behind a home routers, work just fine since those routers always support port forwarding.
PS: All this shit is actually one enormous hack, that only exists because IPv4 doesn't have sufficient IP addresses for all Internet connected machines in the World. The newer IPv6 does have more than enough, so it's theoretically possible that all your machines get a valid Internet IPv6 address and are thus directly reachable without any NAT on the router and associated problems. However I'm not sure if VPN provides which do support IPv6 actually have things set-up to just give client machines a direct, valid on the Internet IP address, plus a lot of protocols and applications out there still only work with IPv4 (byte . byte . byte . byte) addresses.
Thank you for taking the time writing all this up for me. That makes me glad I asked because most info I was finding with google-foo was telling me to set up port forwarding the old way with my router and not really doing a good job of laying out how and why it works to begin with. After having switched from Tribbler to a client that has uPNP, now I think I understand why I'm struggling with it less. I'm unsure if my Soulseek is connected and sending data right but this gives me some better ideas of how to find out.
You should have pretty much everything on your router disabled for access from machines on the external network side of the router.
The typical example is the web admin interface, which should never be enabled for access from outside, only for access from machines on your internal network. The same applies to all other sorts of control interface, be they human interfaces or machine interfaces.
For any machines reaching it from the outside network interface the router should look the same as the most basic, dumbest router there is with no way to configure or control it.
So, yeah, enabling uPnP for external use is asking to be hacked, probably worse even that enabling the web admin interface for external access since the latter usually has username:password authentication, which although pretty crap (most people don't even know its there and leave it at default and when not it often has character limitations that make it guessable or possible to brute force) it's still way better than NO AUTHENTICATION WHATSOEVER which is what uPnP has.
I seed EVERYTHING until i run out of space. Qbitorrent doesn't like me having .torrent files in more than one drive, so i'm limited to my 14TB. But i have dozens of torrents that i'm only one of 2 or 3 people seeding it, so those help me upload hundreds of GB's with my terrible connection.
Also i'm on a private tracker, so leaving them seeding helps your ratio, even if you don't actually upload anything. They just try to encourage new people to seed and that is awesome.
It really depends on the tracker in use. I tend to stick to private trackers, so I feel relatively safe stopping seeding at a ratio of 2-3. For public trackers, your ratio would have to be pretty dang high because most people stop seeding on those.
I would seed if people ever used me. I only have so much space, and everytime I try to seed, there's either nobody downloading, or theirs a hundred other seeders.
Because most people aren't using the files as stored in the download folder. They're renaming it, moving it to another folder, and deleting all the extra files. So you'd have to store it twice basically.
This is one of the great things about the *arrs. They will create a hardlink to the file in your media folder structure so that you can keep seeding and have a well organized/named media library without wasting storage.
Prior to that, I also just saved my torrents directly to my media library, and used the torrent manager to rename the local file properly. Same thing effectively, just a lil more work.
Here's a tip: after moving the folder (idk if this counts after renaming a folder or file, probably doesn't), go into your torrent client and click Force Recheck on the torrent. it'll recheck everything and continue seeding the file.
As the other comment says, use hardlinks and then you can have several copies of the file across the same partition all reference the same file, using just the storage space needed for one copy of the file. Still RAR files will need to be extracted first, so those would require just about twice the file size, but hopefully people stop using rar, so that's not a concern.
Maybe one day ProtonVPN will fix their port-forwarding for their configuration files, I haven’t seen anyone else complain about this and their support is oblivious that this function even exists.
For people wondering the Learn More link just tells you what port forwarding does.
Looking at the docs, it seems like that toggle enables UPnP, so the rest of the setup should be on the torrent client to announce that it needs an external port, and the VPN and torrent client should handle things from there. Maybe you can lookup the docs for your torrent client and see if there's anything extra to use UPnP?
There are clients with a "stop seeding" button that works prior to finishing the download. Just sayin'. Still seeds while it's active, but stops right after.
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Nell’alberata vastità dell’oblast di Irkutsk, situato a nord-ovest del bacino idrico del lago Baikal, molte sono le notevoli località capaci di passare inosservate.
ClaraVerse is a privacy-first, fully local AI workspace featuring a Local LLM chat powered by LLama.cpp, along with support for any provider, tool calling, agent building, Stable Diffusion, and n8n...
It is not only about closing branches, or sacking workers, or making efficiency improvements through the use of clever algorithms, such as artificial intelligence. This is about one of the pillars of the community, our banks – which provide jobs and safeguard our savings, and help small businesses start and succeed – abandoning their traditional role of serving the community to become profit machines.
I'm posting this mainly to remind everyone member owned banks exist - P&N/BCU - VicBank - Great Southern Bank - Police Bank - Bank Australia - People First Bank and quite a few others
I have nothing but praise for the customer service of P&N. Services and rates are comparable if not better than the big banks.
Corporate banks have boars elected by investors and are motivated to skim as much of your money as possible. Member elected boards are elected by you and are motivated to provide a good service.
Sudan Gurung and team propose cabinet changes, focus on youth involvement
Protests against corruption lead to 51 deaths, over 1,300 injured
KATHMANDU, Sept 14 (Reuters) - A former DJ and his obscure Nepalese non-profit used a social media app popular with video gamers to drive massive protests and become the unlikely power brokers in installing the country's new interim leadership.
Sudan Gurung, the 36-year-old founder of Hami Nepal (We are Nepal), used the Discord messaging app and Instagram to mobilise massive demonstrations that forced Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli to resign, in the deadliest political crisis to hit the Himalayan nation in decades, a dozen people involved in the demonstrations said.
Australia’s school funding system is unfair and inefficient, entrenching inequality. The article calls for a new model where all schools are publicly funded without fees.
Australia now has one of the most socially segregated school systems. More than 80% of students from disadvantaged families attend public schools, compared with just 12% in Catholic schools and 8% in independent schools.
Thirty years later, the negative consequences of this model are clear. It is seriously undermining our public school system, dividing communities and costing far more than it needs to. It entrenches inequality, yet survives because every reform attempt meets fierce resistance.
Yet there was little difference in educational outcomes such as VCE results and NAPLAN scores. Admittedly, these are not the only desirable outcomes — Carey may offer more extra-curricular activities — but questions arise about the relative efficiency of the two schools, as well as whether parents are truly getting value for money.
Countries that perform better on international tests — such as Canada, the UK, Ireland and New Zealand — offer choice within a publicly funded system. Schools may have distinct features, but they cannot charge fees. This keeps performance gaps smaller and prevents segregation by class.
Australia could adopt a similar model. Both levels of government would develop a common formula, based on a revised SRS[Schooling Resource Standard], to fully fund all schools – government and non-government. Schools could retain their ethos but would not be allowed to charge fees. Most private schools already receive close to or above 80% of the SRS, so the additional cost would be less than many assume.
Such reform would not abolish choice; it would simply make choice affordable and equitable. As in the UK and Canada, only a small minority of schools would remain outside the system.
Hochul endorsed Mamdani in a New York Times opinion essay published Sunday evening.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has endorsed Zohran Mamdani in the New York mayor's election.
Hochul, a Democrat, backed Mamdani in a New York Times opinion essay published Sunday evening.
"In the past few months, I've had frank conversations with him," Hochul said in the essay. "We've had our disagreements. But in our conversations, I heard a leader who shares my commitment to a New York where children can grow up safe in their neighborhoods and where opportunity is within reach for every family."
In 2021, an audience member asked Kirk at what point conservatives had the green light to use guns on their political opponents, and while Kirk took care to at first “denounce” the question, he went into a longer answer that suggested he didn’t really disagree that much with its premise. Kirk’s sole objection to the idea, he explained, was that it was strategically foolish because it would create a pretext for a Democratic crackdown on the Right. He went on to suggest that the line for when it would be okay to take up arms and hurt people would be “when we exhaust every single one of our state[’s] ability to push back against what’s happening” — in other words, if his movement didn’t succeed through the normal political process. Two years later, he reiterated this, warning listeners that “you have a government that hates you, you have a traitor as the president,” so they should “buy weapons” and carry them around all the time in public in case they have to fight back.
The murder of Charlie Kirk was a moral travesty. We can recognize that without ignoring that he repeatedly fanned the flames of political violence himself.
Google is in the middle of a six-month, $45 million contract to amplify propaganda with Netanyahu’s office. The contract describes Google as a “key entity” supporting the prime minister’s messaging.
My mullvad sub is about to expire, so I'm deciding whether to just pre-pay for another year or switch to something else. I typically just use it for blanket protection when using my computer or phone, but have been thinking I might like to set up a torrent box proxied through a VPN, too. (I have kids, so I may not have time for this for a while, tbh.)
My general understanding is that people like mullvad and also like ProtonVPN. Any general suggestions/thoughts?
A group of websites selling small dolls with overtly childlike features have published more than 1,300 adverts on the platform. The dolls are notably realistic in appearance and many of the adverts use photos of them in sexualised poses, some holding balloons or teddy bears.
a #ChatControl update (shared on the ISOC GE mailing list):
"The good news is that the blocking minority held. Members states raised concerns about privacy and cybersecurity as reasons for their opposition. Even countries that are officially in support of the proposal asked questions along these lines for the first time – showing that they are facing increased pressure back home.
The bad news is that #Denmark is moving forward even though they did not receive full support. They are keeping their plan to take this proposal to the Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting on October 14th.
After discussing with partners, we understand this as a strategy from Denmark. They are not making progress at the working level (the meeting today) and therefore will try directly at the political level (justice and home affairs). During these coming four weeks they will try to convince some of the blocking member states to reconsider their position.
What this means for us is that we need to keep up the pressure. We should be thanking the blocking countries for their position and encouraging the undecided or supportive countries to reconsider. We should keep up pressure in the media at the same time."
"Will the minister elaborate on the minister's statement to TV2 on the 21st?"
August 2024, where the minister says: "We have to break with the totally mistaken notion that it is every man's freedom to communicate on encrypted messaging services
(…)”?”
Answer:
We know that social media and encrypted services are unfortunately largely is used to facilitate many forms of crime. There are examples on how criminal gangs recruit completely through encrypted platforms young people to commit, among other things, serious crimes against persons. It is an expression of a cynicism that is almost completely incomprehensible.
We therefore need to look at how we can overcome this problem. Both in terms of what the services themselves do, but also what we from the authorities can do. It must not be the case that the criminals can hide behind encrypted services that authorities cannot access access to.
Therefore, we, as a government, will also strengthen the police's capabilities in the area of decryption, of course under appropriate legal guarantees, as is also the case today. In addition, the Ministry of Justice has The Criminal Justice Committee has just started working on a terms of reference that will look at the challenges that technological developments present to the police investigation, including the use of encrypted messaging services.
I also note that steps have been taken within the EU towards a strengthened regulation of, among other things, digital information services and social media platforms.
For example, the European Commission has proposed a new Regulation on rules for preventing and combating sexual abuse of children. The proposed regulation contains rules on obligations for certain online services to minimize the risk of their services being misused for online child sexual abuse, and the services can, if necessary, be required to track down, report, remove and block access to material showing sexual abuse of children. :::
Recent news revealed that Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek has been investing heavily in military tech companies, which adds another ethical layer to a platform already criticized for how little it pays musicians !
Spotify only pays artists about $3–5 per 1,000 streams, using a pro-rata model that directs most money toward major stars... By contrast, Qobuz (≈$18–20 per 1,000 streams) and Tidal (≈$12–13) pay far more fairly!
However Tidal is far from ethical. Most of its revenue is controlled by private investors and founders and small artists still earn very little...
More fair-minded platforms like Bandcamp, Resonate, Ampled, or SoundCloud’s fan-powered royalties prioritize musicians over investors.
With these more ethical alternatives available, why do we keep using Spotify?
Stasera scopro un’altra storia incredibile, grazie alla solita piattaforma attraverso la quale Google esercita il proprio monopolio sul settore dei video online, e ancora una volta non capisco come mai non ne fossi al corrente prima! Spoiler, ma il tutto si condensa in… una bambina di 11 anni che, nella sempre ridente e senza problemi […]
Nevada-tan; o, propriamente, Natsumi Tsuji. Oh, il Giappone è pazzo, a parte gli scherzi, ma questo è troppo pure per loro… e infatti all’epoca, nel 2004, questo omicidio pare sia diventato subito un caso mediatico (mondiale, dicono, e quindi a maggior ragione non capisco perché lo scopro solo 21 anni dopo), oltre che un meme sullo stesso Internet che in parte ha portato al verificarsi del fenomeno, perché… Chi ha curiosità guardi il video, anche perché è pieno di tutti quei dettagli macabri intriganti che io non ho il tempo e lo spazio di ripetere qui, ma praticamente questa dolcissima bimba ha iniziato a infognarsi con la cultura horror giapponese del suo tempo, dopo che la madre la mise in punizione (di non uscire di casa se non per andare a scuola) perché a suo dire pensava troppo allo sport e poco allo studio, e quindi lei ha scoperto Internet per svagarsi… e ops. 🧨
Appassionandosi soprattutto a film del genere — che, anche questi, non ho mai sentito — tra cui un certo The Monday Night Mystery Theater, dove la gente che muore lì dentro viene uccisa con dei taglierini (e ancora non ho idea di che cazzo abbiano i giapponesi per i taglierini, onestamente… cioè, io condivido, ma non capisco da dove nasca questa fissazione), evidentemente ne prende grande ispirazione, perché è proprio così che ha deciso di ammazzare la compagna… L’ha portata in un’aula isolata, fingendo di avere un regalo per scusarsi, l’ha fatta bendare, e le ha tagliato la gola e i polsi!!! 💉
Una cosa bella è che nei momenti migliori del video ho riso… e oddio, non è poi troppo assurda per i miei standard, considerato che rido pure quando sono io a fare gli omicidi con il taglierino o il cacciavite giocando a Yandere Simulator, ma in effetti questa qui è molto me-coded, e mi rendo conto che io alla sua età non diventai un caso di cronaca solo perché, pur incazzandomi tale e quale a lei se non pure peggio sul momento, le cose mi passavano relativamente subito, e non avevo modo di accumulare abbastanza rancore per pianificare omicidi (ma le tendenze omicide le avevo, pur senza guardare horror o girare in parti di Internet strambe…) 😀
Però, oh, una nota di merito le deve essere data, e dovrebbe tecnicamente essere di conseguenza data anche a me della sua età, perché una delle cose che faceva sull’Internet fu di tenere un sito, a 11 anni… sul quale in realtà non si riesce a capire molto, perché il video dice che era un blog, ma cercando pare fosse un sito più generico, che in sé però non si trova più, probabilmente perché fu stato rimosso ai tempi del caso dalla piattaforma di hosting. Lì scriveva un po’ delle sue passioni, e un po’ della sua vita più in generale tra cui la scuola… un po’ come me, ma io inizialmente avevo solo le passioni, con me il postaggio totalizzante è arrivato più tardi. 👌
E ora, questa del sito sarebbe certamente una questione secondaria interessante da esplorare… Però, brava brava, anche perché immagino che creare i bloghetti nel 2004 non fosse facile quanto lo è stato per me nel 2015… anche se, pare che lei fosse particolarmente intelligente, seppur con (…o grazie a?) dei disturbi mentali, quindi vabbè, le sarà venuto relativamente naturale e richiedente poco impegno lo smanettare sul computer. (E menomale che io alla sua età facevo solo i siti, e non i piani… ma forse fu anche perché si sapeva che io avevo dei problemi, a differenza di lei, quindi la minaccia genitoriale del riformatorio era spesso dietro l’angolo.) ✨
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio was greeted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, shortly after he arrived in Israel to discuss diplomacy in the region and the war in Gaza.
Netanyahu touted the enduring alliance between their two countries, even as Israel’s strike on Hamas leaders in Qatar this past week prompted concern among some in the Trump administration.
Farmiga is a farming simulator for the Commodore Amiga. Yes, you read that right. Somebody made Stardew Valley for your A500.
It started out in AMOS, which made for a clunky, memory-hungry, not exactly smooth experience. Then the dev—Paweł “tukinem” Tukatsch—rewrote the whole thing so it would actually run on real hardware without crying for 1.5 MB of RAM. Now it works on OCS, ECS, or AGA with Kickstart 1.2. Around 500k plus a bit of extra RAM gets you farming. A full MB if you want music.
The alpha is on itch.io as a bootable ADF. You can plant veggies, harvest crops, slap down fences, pay taxes, and wander into a shop. If that’s too boring, you can just make moonshine.
There are mini-games. The “cow” one shows up again here, though right now you have to trigger them yourself with F1–F3. Event triggers are still cooking.
It runs entirely on mouse. Menus, credits, save slots—it’s all point-and-click. Feels more polished than you’d expect from something still branded “tech demo.”
Polish was the first language, but English and German are already built in. The music comes from Marcin “Eightbm” Białobrzewski, who handles sound on a lot of Tukinem’s projects.
Older builds were rough. This one feels like if Maxis had secretly made SimFarm for the Amiga in the early ’90s. And yeah, wild-boar shooting and milk delivery were in earlier previews, so expect them to return.
It’s weird and charming. It’s farming on a machine never meant to farm. Boot the ADF—less than a megabyte—and watch crops grow on your A500.
Farmiga. Farm + Amiga. Simple and dumb. Which is exactly why it works.
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Siamo abituati a pensarla con la classica buccia d'arancia a levare il sonno alle donne, ma di contro, la riteniamo,per il gentil sesso sopratutto, innocua. Ma siamo così sicuri che la cellulite sia innocua e sia solo un disagio estetico? Leggete l'articolo e ne scoprirete delle belle!
The question raised by the Target boycott is: Can Black people expect corporate America to ever do the right thing? by Erin Aubry KaplanSeptember 12, 2025 This article was produced by the nonprofit publication Capital & Main.
The falling cost of renewable energy, though, means that many countries, particularly poorer ones, have a strong incentive to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels.
According to Ember’s report, the falling costs of energy produced by Chinese-made wind and solar installations have allowed countries like Mexico, Bangladesh and Malaysia to race past the United States in recent years in terms of using renewably produced electricity (rather than fossil fuels) in everyday activities like heating and cooling buildings or powering vehicles.
Across Africa, solar panel imports from China rose 60 percent in the last 12 months, and 20 African countries imported a record amount over that period, Ember said in a separate study recently.
American companies, who do not make solar panels or wind turbines at anywhere near the scale of Chinese ones, are at a major disadvantage. Chinese companies now supply 80 percent of solar panels and 60 percent of wind turbines worldwide, Ember said.
China has pushed for dominance in renewable energy partly for economic reasons and also to protect its national security by limiting its reliance on oil imports. But the implications for the planet’s health could scarcely be greater. Scientific consensus has long been that a sharp decline in fossil fuel use is the surest way to lessen the pace of climate change.
Da piccoli la prima cosa che facciamo per muoverci è gattonare e poi correre, perchè? Non ne ho idea, ma è una attività che i muscoli sanno fare fin da subito, perchè lo sanno fare. E la cosa interessante è che se non viene stimolata si va a perdere. Quindi se verso i 30 anni si vuole ricominciare a corre bisogna reimparare a correre. Attività semplice ma bisogna anche saper correre bene. Non dico forte ma solo bene per evitare infortuni e star bene con se stessi! Buone corse ci sentiamo a fine mese!
The Trump administration has already added nearly $40 billion in new federal subsidies for oil, gas, and coal in 2025, a report released Tuesday finds, sending an additional $4 billion out the door each year for fossil fuels over the next decade. That new amount, created with the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act this summer, adds to $30.8 billion a year in preexisting subsidies for the fossil fuel industry. The report finds that the amount of public money the U.S. will now spend on domestic fossil fuels stands at at least $34.8 billion a year.
The increase amounts to “the largest single-year increase in subsidies we’ve seen in many years — at least since 2017,” says Collin Rees, the U.S. program manager for Oil Change International, an anti-fossil fuels advocacy organization and author of the report.
The U.S. has been subsidizing fossil fuel production for more than a century. Many of the tax subsidies logged in the report — including a tax break passed in 1913 that allows companies to write off large amounts of expenses related to drilling new oil wells — have been on the books for decades.
Fossil fuel subsidies have proven notoriously difficult to undo, even with a determined administration. After campaigning on ending tax breaks for Big Oil, President Joe Biden’s 2021 budget pledged to raise $35 billion over 19 years by eliminating certain fossil fuel subsidies; one of his first executive orders tasked agencies with getting rid of those subsidies. (“I don’t think the federal government should give handouts to Big Oil,” he at a press conference announcing the order.)
But the phaseouts of these subsidies were nixed during climate legislation negotiations with then-senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who was the key swing vote in the Senate at the time and a recipient of fossil fuel money with lengthy ties to the coal industry. Meanwhile, the Inflation Reduction Act — the resulting compromise between Manchin and Democratic leadership, which was passed in August of 2022 — gave additional boosts to the fossil fuel industry in the form of subsidies for oil-and-gas-friendly technologies, like carbon capture and storage and certain types of hydrogen made with natural gas.
“What happens is you have these policies in place, and then you have a constituency that strongly advocates and lobbies for them, it becomes harder and harder to unwind them, which I think is the situation that we’re in today,” says Matthew Kotchen, a professor of economics at Yale University, who was not involved in the new analysis.
That cycle is continuing in the new administration. Fossil fuel companies spent millions of dollars getting Trump elected last year; one report from the advocacy group Climate Power puts the total number at $445 million. Those companies are seeing benefits as the administration pursues an aggressive deregulatory agenda, hobbles renewable energy projects, and downplays the importance of climate change. The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that the president has taken to calling oil CEOs following their appearances on TV.
“It’s no secret that Trump and the Republicans are on the side of the fossil fuel industry and very much vice versa,” says Rees. “The fossil fuel industry spent hundreds of millions of dollars getting Republicans and Trump elected. They then presented their wish lists. Nearly everything on those wish lists was fulfilled, and in fact, they got a bunch of additional goodies that weren’t even in those wish lists.”
The new research builds on past work from Oil Change International, which last did the math on national fossil fuel subsidies in 2017, finding then that $20 billion was going out the door to the industry each year. To compile the new report, Rees and his colleagues combed through a variety of federal governmental sources on the amount of money going to the oil, gas, and coal industries each year.
The question of what, exactly, constitutes a federal subsidy is the topic of some debate. Environmental groups tend to have a broader scope in tallying up public money spent on fossil fuels, including federal money not distributed directly to oil companies. Conservative groups, meanwhile, take a much narrower approach. (For its report, Oil Change International used the definitions of subsidies set by the World Trade Organization in calculating domestic funding to fossil fuels.)
Due to a lack of transparency across the federal government, the calculations in this report are “likely to be an undercount,” Rees says. “There’s probably some things that we missed — some corners of the budget that are funding fossil fuels in different ways.”
The $4 billion in new yearly subsidies comes largely in the form of allocations contained in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act passed this summer. One of the biggest new subsidies — an expansion of the tax credit for carbon capture and storage — is, ironically, related to provisions from the Inflation Reduction Act, which President Trump campaigned on reversing. (The One Big Beautiful Bill Act did, however, crack down harshly on tax credits for wind and solar, carrying out part of Trump’s campaign promise.)
Carbon capture and storage is the process of capturing CO2 emissions and injecting them deep underground. The oil and gas industry has for decades injected CO2 underground to help recover difficult reserves that don’t respond well to traditional drilling methods. Environmentalists have long argued that the logic of replicating an oil and gas technique as a climate solution is seriously flawed — especially considering that a company could reap a climate tax credit from injecting CO2 that will then be used to create more fossil fuels.
In the original Inflation Reduction Act, which significantly expanded the existing carbon capture tax credit, there was a price differential baked into the tax credits: Producers got more money per ton of CO2 they sequestered underground without any oil production involved, and less for CO2 used specifically to produce more oil and gas. But the One Big Beautiful Bill Act eliminated this differential, allowing producers to collect on the full credit even if they are using CO2 to produce more fossil fuels. The total expansion of tax credits for carbon capture in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the analysis found, could send out more than $1.4 billion of public money to oil and gas companies each year.
The types of federal subsidies addressed in this report are just one kind of boost the government gives dirty industries. The analysis does not address state and local tax breaks for fossil fuel companies, nor does it add up international financing from publicly funded U.S. entities to overseas fossil fuel companies and projects. (Just before he left office, President Biden backed a limit on funding for dirty investments made by the U.S. Export-Import Bank, a part of the executive branch that facilitates the export of U.S. goods and services. President Trump promptly encouraged the Bank in April to resume funding for coal projects abroad.)
The fossil fuel industry also benefits financially from not having to address the negative side effects of their products: Coal companies don’t have to deal with the health impacts from people breathing polluted air, for example, while oil and gas companies don’t need to think about damages from extreme weather juiced up by climate change caused by their product. Kotchen, the Yale economist, calculated in a 2021 paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that a small handful of U.S. oil, gas, coal, and diesel giants, by not having to pay for the damage they cause, get $62 billion in what he calls “implicit subsidies” per year.
I asked him if, given the major environmental rollbacks overseen by the Trump administration, he’d expect that figure to increase if he redid his analysis in 2025. “The environmental externalities are higher, and production has gone up,” he says. “I think [the number] would be a lot higher.”
US President Donald Trump has urged the Export-Import Bank of the United States to slash red tape and boost financing for the country’s coal industry, signalling a dramatic departure in White House energy policy.
Proton, l'azienda che gestisce il servizio di posta elettronica Proton Mail, si descrive come un "rifugio neutrale e sicuro per i tuoi dati personali, impegnato a difendere la tua libertà".
Ma il mese scorso, Proton ha disattivato gli account di posta elettronica di giornalisti che denunciavano violazioni della sicurezza di vari sistemi informatici del governo sudcoreano, a seguito di una denuncia da parte di un'agenzia di sicurezza informatica non meglio specificata. Dopo una protesta pubblica e diverse settimane, gli account dei giornalisti sono stati finalmente ripristinati, ma i giornalisti e i redattori coinvolti vogliono ancora sapere come e perché Proton abbia deciso di chiudere gli account.
Proton, l'azienda che gestisce il servizio di posta elettronica Proton Mail, si descrive come un "rifugio neutrale e sicuro per i tuoi dati personali, impegnato a difendere la tua libertà".
Ma il mese scorso, Proton ha disattivato gli account di posta elettronica di giornalisti che denunciavano violazioni della sicurezza di vari sistemi informatici del governo sudcoreano, a seguito di una denuncia da parte di un'agenzia di sicurezza informatica non meglio specificata. Dopo una protesta pubblica e diverse settimane, gli account dei giornalisti sono stati finalmente ripristinati, ma i giornalisti e i redattori coinvolti vogliono ancora sapere come e perché Proton abbia deciso di chiudere gli account.
Storia, come sempre, complessa e non di facile comprensione soprattutto senza sapere esattamente come stanno le cose. Certo è che Proton dovrebbe essere più trasparente su cose come questa:
> Proton did not publicly specify which CERT had alerted them, and didn’t answer The Intercept’s request for the name of the specific CERT which had sent the alert. KrCERT also did not reply to The Intercept’s question about whether they were the CERT that had sent the alert to Proton.
Artists, designers, futurists, environmentalists, and dreamers are invited to make submissions for a Digital Art Exhibition for the forthcoming ‘Southeast Asian Solarpunk Art Project’ on 4 October 2025.
The call is organised by EnergyLab Asia, a non-profit driving Cambodia’s energy transition, in collaboration with Micro Galleries (a global art collective), Sambor Village hotel in Kampong Thom and Seapunk Studios (a network of creatives around Southeast Asia).
The open call invites artists, designers, and creatives from across Southeast Asia to submit digital artwork for an exhibition to be held at F3 – Friends Futures Factory in Phnom Penh on 4 October as part of Clean Energy Week.
The project seeks to inspire a hopeful, sustainable future through art, countering climate pessimism and empowering local communities.
The proposals should be for digital artworks that envision a sustainable, hopeful future rooted in local culture and community resilience. Solarpunk is a literary and artistic movement, close to the hopepunk movement, that envisions and works toward actualising a sustainable future interconnected with nature and community. The ‘solar’ represents renewable energy and an optimistic vision of the future that rejects climate doomerism, while the ‘punk’ refers to do-it-yourself and the countercultural, post-capitalist, and sometimes decolonial aspects of creating such a future.
Artists retain full copyright, and printing costs for the exhibition will be covered by the organisers. Works may be toured or shown online in the future, powered by Microgalleries. Eligibility
Artists of any medium and career level, primarily from Southeast Asia can apply.
Their resources may be limited but that's good they offer accommodation. I assume you're referring to the residency. This is just an open call for artists to submit art.
I found a way where you can encode words using English words, in binary, without using any computer programs. (Its very rudimentary)
Bit One: If first letter is between a-m = 0; n-z =1 Bit Two: If the length of the word is even its 0, if odd 1 Bit Three: If the word ends with a-m =0; n-z =1
Exclude all article words like "the" "or" "and", etc...
the extra (s) for plural is counted for the odd and even, but doesn't count as the final letter of the word (otherwise it would trend towards the (1) bit as every 3 bits apart)
Example of a sentence of hidden info:
::: spoiler Wall of Text Warning. Its a full worksheet and calculations of how to form the steganograph/ciphertext. The kitten explores the icecream shop, many undetermined flavor of tasteful extra-ordinary strawberrys
characters in [] are excluded
[the] kitten explore [s]k = 0 even = 0 n = 1 e = 0 even = 0 (remember, "s" counts for parity (even/odd) but not as the final letter of the word) e = 0 Result = 001000
[the] icecream shop i = 0 even = 0 m = 0 s = 1 even = 0 p = 1 Result = 000101
many undetermined m = 0 even = 0 y = 1 u = 1 even = 0 d = 0 Result: 001100
flavor [of] tasteful f = 0 even = 0 r = 1 t = 1 even = 0 l = 0 Result = 001100
extra[-]ordinary strawberry [s]e = 0 even = 0 (the hypen counts as a letter) y = 1 s = 1 odd = 1 y = 1 Result= 001111
(I hope I encoded this correctly, I always fuck up with ciphers)
Also, you can use other ciphers on top of this steganograph to scramble it even more, like FourSquare Cipher. Or OneTimePad if its less "piracy" and more "revolutionary" (I mean don't use a caesar cipher if you are doing a rebellion lmao)
And write it as a free-verse poem to hide the awkward language.
What's the government gonna do? Ban Literature? (Inb4 Fahrenheit 451 lol) :::
Why go the effort of banning literature, when you can just stupidizise your population down to the reading/writing comprehension level of tiktok ~~for free~~ and get revenue while at it? 🧠
The article is interesting, but they really went hard with the title just to only talk about it for like two sentences. I was hoping for more since it seems like a pretty fun topic.
I have reformatted it for markdown with hyperlinks from law.cornell.edu to laws that the amendment referenced. So that it is easier to read and cross-reference. Let me know if I made any formatting mistakes.
I want to hear everyone's thought on this.
Right now, the bill is still in committe which means that it will either be cancelled (tabled), amended further, or approved (reported). If approved, the bill will be voted on by the House and then the Senate.
Could something like this reclassify dissidents as terrorists? Maybe allow for any and all naturalized citizens to be sent to a concentration camp? Could anyone who sent political aid to the Democrats be considered a terrorist? Like what could the reprecussions be and how far might they go?
SEC. 226. NO PASSPORTS FOR TERRORISTS AND TRAFFICKERS.
The Act entitled "An Act to regulate the issue and validity of passports, and for other purposes’’, approved July 3, 1926 (22 U.S.C. 211a et seq.), commonly known as the "Passport Act of 1926’’, is amended by adding at the end the following:
"SEC. 4. AUTHORITY TO DENY OR REVOKE PASSPORT TO INDIVIDUALS PROVIDING MATERIAL SUPPORT FOR TERRORISM.
"(a) INELIGIBILITY.—
"(1) ISSUANCE.—Subject to subsection (b), the Secretary of State shall refuse to issue a passport to any individual who—
"(A) has been charged with or convicted of a violation of section 2339A or 2339B of title 18, United States Code; or
"(B) the Secretary determines has knowingly aided, assisted, abetted, or otherwise provided material support to an organization the Secretary has designated as a foreign terrorist organization pursuant to section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189).
"(2) REVOCATION.—The Secretary of State shall, except as provided in paragraph (3)(A), revoke a passport previously issued to any individual described in paragraph (1).
"(3) EXCEPTIONS.—
"(A) RETURN TO THE UNITED STATES.— In order to facilitate the return of an individual described in paragraph (1) to the United States, the Secretary of State may limit a previously issued passport or passport card only for return travel to the United States, or may issue a limited passport or passport card that only permits return travel to the United States, prior to revocation under paragraph (2).
"(B) HUMANITARIAN AND EMERGENCY WAIVER.—The Secretary of State may issue a passport to an individual otherwise ineligible for such passport or subject to revocation of such passport under this subsection if the Secretary determines that emergency circumstances or humanitarian needs apply.
"(b) RIGHT OF REVIEW.—Any individual who, in accordance with this section, is denied issuance of a passport by the Secretary of State, or whose passport is revoked by the Secretary, may request a hearing to appeal such denial or revocation not later than 60 days after receiving notice of such denial or revocation.
"(c) RIGHT OF RESTORATION.—In the event that an individual described in paragraph (1) demonstrates during a hearing described in subsection (b) that the individual has been acquitted of an act described in that paragraph, or the Secretary otherwise changes a determination described in subparagraph (B) of such paragraph, the Secretary may reissue a passport to such individual.
"(d) REPORT.—
"(1) IN GENERAL.—If the Secretary of State refuses to issue or revokes a passport pursuant to subsection (a), or if, subsequent to a hearing pursuant to subsection (b), the Secretary issues or cancels a revocation of a passport that was the subject of such a hearing, the Secretary shall, not later than 30 days after such refusal or revocation, or such issuance or cancellation, submit to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate a report on such refusal, revocation, issuance, or cancellation, as the case may be.
"(2) FORM.—The report submitted under paragraph (1) may be submitted in classified or unclassified form.
"(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section—
"(1) the term ‘passport’ includes a passport card; and
"(2) the term ‘material support’ means the provision of any property, tangible or intangible, or service—
"(A) including currency or monetary instruments or financial securities, financial services, lodging, training, expert advice or assistance, safehouses, false documentation or identification, communications equipment, facilities, weapons, lethal substances, explosives, personnel (one or more individuals who may be or include oneself), and transportation; and
"(B) excluding medicine or religious materials.
"(f) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this section may be construed—
"(1) or applied so as to abridge the exercise of rights guaranteed under the first amendment to the Constitution of the United States; or
"(2) to limit the Secretary’s ability to revoke a passport.
"(g) SEVERABILITY.—If any provision of this section or the application of such provision is held by a Federal court to be unconstitutional, the remainder of this section and the application of such provisions to any other person or circumstance shall not be affected.’’.
By MEE staff Published date: 11 September 2025 22:49 BST
Ben & Jerry’s has started a public campaign to try to separate from its parent company so it can freely speak about the war in Gaza, racial justice, and other issues. Its parent company, Magnum, has refused to sell the iconic ice cream brand.
The war between the ice-cream giants comes as Ben & Jerry’s became part of the Magnum Ice Cream company on Tuesday and Unilever prepares to spin off Magnum into a separate public company, which includes brands such as Ben & Jerry’s, Walls and Cornetto, in mid-November.
'Set us free': Ben & Jerry's enlists support of fans to separate from parent company
By MEE staff Published date: 11 September 2025 22:49 BST
Ben & Jerry’s has started a public campaign to try to separate from its parent company so it can freely speak about the war in Gaza, racial justice, and other issues. Its parent company, Magnum, has refused to sell the iconic ice cream brand.
The war between the ice-cream giants comes as Ben & Jerry’s became part of the Magnum Ice Cream company on Tuesday and Unilever prepares to spin off Magnum into a separate public company, which includes brands such as Ben & Jerry’s, Walls and Cornetto, in mid-November.
Ben & Jerry’s has started a public campaign to try to separate from its parent company so it can freely speak about the war in Gaza, racial justice, and other issues. Its parent company, Magnum, has refused to sell the iconic ice cream brand.
Donald Trump ally Laura Loomer garnered backlash after attacking Charlie Kirk critics despite her ridiculing the right-wing activist months earlier.
“It’s time for the Trump administration to shut down, defund & prosecute every single leftist organization,” Loomer wrote on X after Kirk was fatally shot while speaking at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. “We must shut these lunatic leftists down. Once and for all. The left is a national security threat.”
However, responses to her request that the president target US leftists in Kirk's honor were flooded with screenshots of a long post from July 13 in which she denounced the deceased 31-year-old as a "charlatan" and "political opportunist" who "stabs Trump in the back" and engaged in "mental gymnastics."
Kirk had previously opposed Trump's planned military strikes against Iran, which TPUSA had mobilized young voters to support.
Kirk has also been outspoken in his desire for the complete disclosure of documents related to the prosecution of Jeffrey Epstein, the former Trump associate who entered a guilty plea to soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2008 and died in prison in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges.
In those days, Loomer also expressed her displeasure that Kirk had hosted comedian Dave Smith at a conference after the latter called for the Republican president to be impeached and for his supporters to "abandon" him, just a year after Trump had escaped an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania.
“I don’t ever want to hear [Kirk] claim he is pro-Trump ever again,” Loomer’s post said, adding that TPUSA had only thrived “thanks to the generosity” of the president. “The honorable thing to do is to have a position and actually defend it to the death instead of flip flopping.
“It really is shameful. And I am honestly just disgusted by the nonstop flip flopping on the right.” Using screenshots of a passage from the July article, Loomer's responses to Kirk's murder included the following: "Maybe sit this out," "I think you need to shut up," and "You're nothing but a sociopathic hypocrite." Others were on Loomer's side.
Loomer once voiced her displeasure that Kirk had hosted comedian Dave Smith at a conference after the latter called for the Republican president to be impeached and for his supporters to "abandon" him
Hey! I am looking for an easier way to stream live TV, specifically sports. Currently we access streams via freemediaheckyeah on an Intel NUC which has Linux, Firefox and a keyboard and mouse, HDMI to TV.
I have a proxmox server in another location which has Plex, jellyfin, Debian and some other stuff. We cast from our phones to the Chromecast.
I'm wondering if there's a way I can eliminate the living room NUC and stream from my proxmox server to a Chromecast. Or something similar that removes the keyboard mouse browser combo. Looking for reducing power and heat usage partly and simplicity.
Is freemediaheckyeah an IPTV service? Plex or Jellyfin can manage IPTV streams. Plex needs additional software (e.g., xTeVe) to take an m3u playlist and convert it into a tuner.
:tv: Cross-platform IPTV player application with multiple features, such as support of m3u and m3u8 playlists, favorites, TV guide, TV archive/catchup and more. - 4gray/iptvnator
Is MythTV still a thing? That's what we used to do, powered by a satellite dish. But we watched less and less TV over the years until we didn't even notice that the corner where we moved our TV to couldn't reach the antenna cable.
Come l'anno scorso, ma in una diversa zona di Torino, quest'anno a Parco Dora. Tanti stand, tanti appassionati e appassionate. Siete ancora in tempo fino a stasera alle 19:00!
Il TO Play è una celebrazione del gioco di ruolo e da tavolo. Alla sua 8^ edizione, al parco della Tesoriera della città di Torino, si terrà il 13 e 14 settembre
Dopo il presidio di ieri pomeriggio davanti alla stazione di Porta Nuova, continua la campagna di sensibilizzazione contro il genocidio in Palestina.
Non possiamo restare a guardare come se fossimo impotenti di fronte alle prepotenze.
È bello vedere una piazza piena di persone che scendono in strada non per se stesse, ma per un ideale alto di giustizia. Non siamo in piazza per ottenere oggi una fetta più grande della torta, ma perché tutti, oggi e domani, possano avere un pezzo della torta.
Tante voci diverse, che sicuramente non sono d'accordo su tutto, fanno quello che i politicanti hanno smesso di fare: fare Politica, cercare compromessi per il bene comune. Non di pochi, ma di tutti, a cominciare da chi sta peggio.
Si moltiplicano le mobilitazioni per fermare il genodicio a Gaza e liberare la Palestina dalla illegale e violenta occupazione israeliana. E a queste si uniscono le iniziative per la messa al bando delle armi atomiche.
NodeBB è la piattaforma software federata alla base di questo sito. Lo trovo interessante per le sue caratteristiche di federazione e opzioni di configurazione. Una di queste opzioni sono i Widget, dei mattoncini preconfigurati e da completare che si poss
NodeBB è la piattaforma software federata alla base di questo sito. Lo trovo interessante per le sue caratteristiche di federazione e opzioni di configurazione.
Una di queste opzioni sono i Widget, dei mattoncini preconfigurati e da completare che si possono inserire nelle pagine del sito. Il titolo e sottotitolo su sfondo blu in alto è un esempio di widget che NodeBB mette a disposizione. Anche i Messaggi recenti a destra sono un esempio di widget.
I Widget mi ricordano un'altra piattaforma software di configurazione e sviluppo di Blog: MovableType, una sorta di CMS (Content Management System) sul quale ho lavorato diversi anni.
Avendo installato NodeBB da poche settimane, non lo conosco ancora bene e lo sto testando. Anche questo post è un test. Ci sono ancora diversi aspetti che vorrei approfondire di questo software, come i plugin, i temi grafici, le classi degli stili.
In questo post intendo provare il plugin dei sondaggi di NodeBB. ActivityPub non ha uno standard nativo per definire i poll o i sondaggi. Quindi ogni istanza va un po' per conto proprio. In questo modo i post che contengono sondaggi non vengono federati b
In questo post intendo provare il plugin dei sondaggi di NodeBB. ActivityPub non ha uno standard nativo per definire i poll o i sondaggi. Quindi ogni istanza va un po' per conto proprio. In questo modo i post che contengono sondaggi non vengono federati bene tra le varie istanze.
[poll title="Sondaggio di prova 2" maxvotes="1" disallowVoteUpdate="true" allowAnonVoting="true" end="1758460800000"] - prima opzione - seconda opzione - terza opzione[/poll]
I got this 1 free month reward from NVIDIA app it already past one month but I still can use it. Can Adobe do anything against me? Like take me to court or something along those lines? I heard this was a bug that other people also got
Chinese censorship sprang a major leak on September 11, when researchers confirmed that more than 500GB of internal documents, source code, work logs, and internal communications from the so-called Great Firewall were dumped online, including packaging repos and operational runbooks used to build and maintain China’s national traffic filtering system.
Full details, including technical material and download links, are available at the GFW Report. The hacktivists behind this leak warn that downloading and examining these files should only be done in isolated environments.
[...]
The largest leak linked to the Great Firewall of China surfaced online, with nearly 600 GB of material allegedly containing source code, internal communications, work logs, and technical documentation from groups said to be involved in building and maintaining the system.
The data was leaked by Enlace Hacktivista, previously linked to the Cellebrite data leak. The collective claims that the documents were traced to Geedge Networks and the MESA Lab at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Information Engineering. Both have long been central to the Firewall’s research and development, with Geedge led by Fang Binxing, often called the “Father of the Great Firewall.”
According to the files, their reach spreads outside China’s borders, supplying censorship and surveillance technology to governments in Myanmar, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, and others linked to the Belt and Road Initiative.
[...]
The published material is available for download through both BitTorrent and direct links. The package includes a massive mirror/repo.tar file weighing 500 GB, basically an archive of the RPM (Red Hat Package Manager) packaging server, alongside compressed document sets from Geedge and MESA. In total, the files contain tens of thousands of pages and repositories, offering a rare window into the infrastructure behind the Firewall.
[...]
Even before digging deeper into the source code, the structure of the leaked archive gives clear insight into things. For example, geedge_docs.tar.zst and mesalab_docs.tar.zst contain thousands of internal reports, project descriptions, and technical proposals. File names like CTF-AWD.docx, BRI.docx, and CPEC.docx suggest connections to Belt and Road Initiative projects and international collaborations.
Project management records, such as geedge_jira.tar.zst, highlight day-to-day coordination between researchers and engineers, while communication drafts, like chat.docx and multiple schedule documents, show the granular planning that went into censorship operations. Even routine administrative files such as 打印.docx (Print) and reimbursement-related proofs indicate how deeply routine and bureaucratic this apparatus has become
[...]
The background included in the leak provides a detailed timeline of MESA’s formation and growth. Established in 2012 at the Institute of Information Engineering, MESA grew quickly through talent programs, research grants, and government contracts. By 2016, it was handling projects worth more than 35 million yuan annually and contributing to national-level awards in cybersecurity.
When Geedge Networks was founded in 2018 in Hainan, Fang Binxing served as its chief scientist, bringing with him a cadre of MESA researchers and students. The company soon became a key private partner to Chinese authorities, supporting censorship operations not only domestically but also as an exporter of surveillance solutions abroad.
[...]
Experts may need months to analyse the source code, but the documents already back up what many observers have been claiming for years. The Great Firewall is not a fixed system; it is a growing network shaped by government contracts, research institutes, and private companies.
The hacktivists behind this leak warn that downloading and examining these files should only be done in isolated environments. Given the sensitivity of the content, there is always the risk that malware or tracking elements could be embedded in the archives. Still, for researchers and rights groups, the trove offers an opportunity to understand how the Firewall operates and how its influence spreads.
Analysts at Net4People and GFW Report plan to share more findings as they go through the source code. For now, the leak offers an unusual look at how the system operates, and it will take time to understand the full weight of what has been exposed.
Full details, including technical material and download links, are available at the GFW Report. The hacktivists behind this leak warn that downloading and examining these files should only be done in isolated environments.
[...]
The largest leak linked to the Great Firewall of China surfaced online, with nearly 600 GB of material allegedly containing source code, internal communications, work logs, and technical documentation from groups said to be involved in building and maintaining the system.
The data was leaked by Enlace Hacktivista, previously linked to the Cellebrite data leak. The collective claims that the documents were traced to Geedge Networks and the MESA Lab at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Information Engineering. Both have long been central to the Firewall’s research and development, with Geedge led by Fang Binxing, often called the “Father of the Great Firewall.”
According to the files, their reach spreads outside China’s borders, supplying censorship and surveillance technology to governments in Myanmar, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, and others linked to the Belt and Road Initiative.
[...]
The published material is available for download through both BitTorrent and direct links. The package includes a massive mirror/repo.tar file weighing 500 GB, basically an archive of the RPM (Red Hat Package Manager) packaging server, alongside compressed document sets from Geedge and MESA. In total, the files contain tens of thousands of pages and repositories, offering a rare window into the infrastructure behind the Firewall.
[...]
Even before digging deeper into the source code, the structure of the leaked archive gives clear insight into things. For example, geedge_docs.tar.zst and mesalab_docs.tar.zst contain thousands of internal reports, project descriptions, and technical proposals. File names like CTF-AWD.docx, BRI.docx, and CPEC.docx suggest connections to Belt and Road Initiative projects and international collaborations.
Project management records, such as geedge_jira.tar.zst, highlight day-to-day coordination between researchers and engineers, while communication drafts, like chat.docx and multiple schedule documents, show the granular planning that went into censorship operations. Even routine administrative files such as 打印.docx (Print) and reimbursement-related proofs indicate how deeply routine and bureaucratic this apparatus has become
[...]
The background included in the leak provides a detailed timeline of MESA’s formation and growth. Established in 2012 at the Institute of Information Engineering, MESA grew quickly through talent programs, research grants, and government contracts. By 2016, it was handling projects worth more than 35 million yuan annually and contributing to national-level awards in cybersecurity.
When Geedge Networks was founded in 2018 in Hainan, Fang Binxing served as its chief scientist, bringing with him a cadre of MESA researchers and students. The company soon became a key private partner to Chinese authorities, supporting censorship operations not only domestically but also as an exporter of surveillance solutions abroad.
[...]
Experts may need months to analyse the source code, but the documents already back up what many observers have been claiming for years. The Great Firewall is not a fixed system; it is a growing network shaped by government contracts, research institutes, and private companies.
The hacktivists behind this leak warn that downloading and examining these files should only be done in isolated environments. Given the sensitivity of the content, there is always the risk that malware or tracking elements could be embedded in the archives. Still, for researchers and rights groups, the trove offers an opportunity to understand how the Firewall operates and how its influence spreads.
Analysts at Net4People and GFW Report plan to share more findings as they go through the source code. For now, the leak offers an unusual look at how the system operates, and it will take time to understand the full weight of what has been exposed.
According to the files, their reach spreads outside China’s borders, supplying censorship and surveillance technology to governments in Myanmar, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan, and others linked to the Belt and Road Initiative.
When the US calls Chinese technology "censorship and surveillance" you know it's some good shit they haven't yet figured out how to conquer in the name of capitalism.
Here's a fact: to exist on the world stage with the US, proactive measures must be enacted. To fight back against US digital hegemony is a far cry from censorship. It's a responsible stance.
The fact that anyone could think the flavor of authoritarian justifies abuse. Rather than, you know,; admonishing both as they deserve. Never ceases to baffle.
There's no use in reading theory when you refuse to think critically about it. Plus no where in Marx's theory does it call for or justify brutal dictatorial authoritarian regimes. The dictatorship of the proletariat was a philosophical and rhetorical construct.. Not a litteral one. Which makes the tanky squealing of "read the theory" even more hillarious. You're worse than the liberals you hate.
Marxism-Leninism is a literal cult, and "read more theory" is the chant they use to kill critical thought.
Those that doubt the Holy Theory are misguided counterrevolutionaries, and only the purest of yes-men that never question anything will join the glorious Vanguard Party™.
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Back when I had VDSL and even ADSL, I'd try to hit 1.1 ratio because if everyone did that the risk of information being lost would be close to 0%. Nowadays with gigabit internet, all that prevents me from seeding is hard drive space, and 8 TB doesn't fill up quickly with how few good movies and series there are these days. I guess that's one way to stop piracy, just make fewer and worse series/movies.
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in reply to prole • • •I like how safe you're playing that estimate 😂
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in reply to RedSnt 👓♂️🖥️ • • •I've moved to qbittorrent which is a bit better than Deluge on that regard, but it's still not great.
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in reply to Damage • • •Half-open limit fix (patch) for Windows - Home
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in reply to Bobby Turkalino • • •I have now a ratio of 9.1 and 250TB of uploaded....
Also my hard drive is getting full. I guess I have to clean up some torrents soon.
Or buy new storage
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in reply to Venia Silente • • •Oh. I was joking. I'm aware that my storage capabilities really are an outlier, even though I still feel inadequate whenever I go to a hoarding community.
I've spent around 1200$ USD since I started collecting things back on 2021, which is about 300/year, or 25/month. I don't expect to purchase anymore for another three years or so, right around when a 24tb drive drops to 150/each. It's still not like, super cheap or anything though.
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in reply to Scrollone • • •Public tracker: You are the hero, getting a 30:1 upload ratio in a mere 30 days. "Wow, this shit is easy!"
Private tracker: "Please... can this torrent even reach 10% upload? It's been an ENTIRE YEAR! I have 500 torrents in the same state!"
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in reply to jaybone • • •Did a little digging around. It looks like they manage to get discovery judgments all the time over partial downloads, but I don't see them actually taking anyone to court for anything less than a full file.
Once you have the entire file available, it's hard to shimmy around the distribution claims. Wouldn't it be super effing interesting if everyone's torrent client specifically picked a random block and refused to give it to anyone?
I'm not sure it would hold up in court, but it would be interesting.
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One of the few latin expression I memorized, because that's how the Catholic Church calls it since that's their recommended "contraception" method, all of which I find hilarious.
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in reply to Scrollone • • •I have a great seeding record, but cant find any private trackers to join....
Where do i start?
i only re-started my torrenting activities in the last few years since the streaming landscape has become a hellscape
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in reply to Bobby Turkalino • • •When VPNs are paid to not get fined, and only distributors get fined, don't blame me for not doing jackshit to contribute.
Your whining is music to my ears.
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in reply to Scrollone • • •And the fact that small communities don't have all the content out there for you to download via Usenet.
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in reply to MachineFab812 • • •There weren open test servers though and sites with limited trials but no data limit.
That's what I used back in the day. Sadly all these trial offers are gone now and demand credit card information upfront.
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in reply to I Cast Fist • • •I mostly seed stuff that's on the verge of being lost media and my ratio is often insane because there just aren't other seeds. Ironically for many old/unpopular films the Internet Archive is a lot better than any torrents.
The comment on this internet archive review in particular had me laughing.
Summer Job ( 1989) Rare : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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in reply to Bobby Turkalino • • •I used to seed in the old days, but I feel it has become more complicated now.
The primary issue (before eg.: CGNAT or port-opening issues) is it's become more and more often the case that I post-process what I download before use (rename / reencode music albums, reencode movies) so it makes little sense to keep the old files only for seeding. In theory a "seedbox" (those are the trendy thing this decade, right?) would help solve this, but I'm still rather new and have not found any FOSS, PII-free offerings in the market.
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in reply to Venia Silente • • •Exactly the situation I'm facing. Despite torrents being a popular choice, it just doesn't provide an easy way to manage your seeds.
Of course I have found some potential solutions. Seedbox is one of them. There's also the *arr suite, which is a more local solution that utilises hard links - but im not sure if it'll be effective if you want to reencode.
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in reply to MachineFab812 • • •This pretty much. I've never understood the point of something like
The_Avengers.[4K][8K][16][Dolby_7.18_3D][128subs].mkv... what, do people want to take note of The Hulk's groin warts?For stuff like animation content, even 720p is too much unless it's content from the last ~5 years. Anything before Infinity Train does pretty well on 540p or 480p with 96k audio, and if I'm looking for a movie from the 80s, let alone a black-and-white from the 50s, I'm certainly not interested in a 8K rip that would naturally have to be an AI upscale.
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in reply to Venia Silente • • •I kinda started a "seedbox" for at least my niche torrents. Most of the mainstream things I download I don't normally leave to seed that long as there's already plenty seeding, but a lot of the documentaries or other things that only have single or double digits seeding I'll make a copy and leave it to seed for a while. I used to host my Plex server from that PC and when I build my new dedicated server I left the storage intact, but transferred my whole library over, so I have a large amount of unused space doing nothing else.
I'm also fairly new to all this. I'm now using Jellyfin for selfhosting. What's the benefit of enencoding everything?
Venia Silente
in reply to thetrekkersparky • • •In my experience at least, the two primary benefits (and sometimes, the only benefits) of re-encoding are 1.- reduced file size and 2.- increased device compatibility.
The file size is relevant because you can fit more stuff for essentially the same quality: reencoding a FLAC album to ~160k Opus uses up only 1/5th to 1/4th of the space, ~196k Opus is 1/4th to 1/3rd of the space, so it can be a pretty good gain on aggregate. A movie in 4K is worth nearly 6 movies in 1080p and nearly 9 movies in 720p, and for ~95% of extant content in the world rebasing down from 4K to at least 1080p presents no practical loss.
The compatibility is usually only relevant when you want to have that content be easily accessible in eg.: a remote media server, a streaming system, or one of those gool ol'reliable MP3 thumbsticks. In those cases, you'd be reencoding audio from FLAC to MP3 to increase device compatibility (and getting some decent space savings too). If your Jellyfin server's connection is over wifi or you'll access the data outside of your local network, re-encoding to lower sizes means transmission requires less bandwidth, as well as other savings (incl.: energy consumption in aggregate).
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in reply to SatyrSack • • •If I understand right, it's just VPN to VPN that won't work.
If the downloader has an open port, I can still connect and pump them full of data.
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Aceticon
in reply to Bobby Turkalino • • •Unfortunately my VPN provider doesn't support Port Forwarding (they're great in everything else, but suck on this) so if I just start seeding from scratch no peers will ever manage to connect to my machine. The only way I can contribute back to the community is when a Download session ends and starts seeding (basically all those peers that my machine checked during the download stage get recorded in the VPN's Router NAT as associated with my machine so if they try to connect to my machine later, for example to download a block, they get through), so my torrents are just left to seed after downloading (if I stop it and start seeding later, it might not work anymore depending on how long has passed).
Fortunatelly I have a fast internet connection and torrenting is done in a server machine, so I just leave it setup to a 2:1 seeding ratio for as long as it takes to get there and pretty much all torrents I download reach that seeding ratio (it pretty much only fails to reach that on really obscure torrents with very small swarms).
I've been sailing the high seas for over 3 decades and long ago saw the importance of doing my bit to keep the whole ecosystem alive.
So I might not be seeding everything I have (and as it's been 3 decades, I do have some stuff which is now very obscure), but everything I get from the community I seed 2x as much so that others can get it too.
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in reply to Aceticon • • •Aceticon
in reply to sad_detective_man • • •In a VPN your own machine sits behind a Router from the VPN provider in a NAT configuration (meaning that during VPN tunnel initialization that router gives your machine an IP address from one of the so-called "internal" IP address range - most commonly one in the 192.168.x.x range - which are NOT valid to have visible in the Internet) and which multiple machines all over the world sitting behind other routers can use at the same time (for example: even though it only has 254 valid addresses, there are probably millions of machines running right now with an IP address in the 192.168.1.x range, which is by far the most popular range of internal IP addresses).
The IP address which is visible on the actual Internet has to be one which is not from an internal range or other kinds of special ones, and that's the one that the VPN provider Router shows to the outside. (There are a few "tell me my IP address" websites out there which will let you know what that address is).
This is also how home routers work in providing multiple machines in your home access to the internet even though its on a single ISP connection which has only one IP address valid for the Internet.
To make all this work, such routers do something called NAT-Translation: connection requests from the INSIDE to the OUTSIDE go to the router, which changes ip:port information of those requests from the internal ip and a port in that machine to be the router external ip and a port the router has available, and then forwards the request the outside. The router also records this association between the external machine, the port the router used for it and the internal machine and the port on it the connection came from, on an internal table so that when the OUTSIDE machine connects to the router on that specific port, the router treats that inbound connection request as associated to the earlier outbound request and does the reverse translation - it forwards that inbound request to the internal machine and port of the original outbound connection.
However - all this only works when your machine first connects from the inside to an machine on the outside, because that's when the router translates the IP address and Port and memorizes that association. If however you gave the IP address in some other way to that remote machine other than connecting to it via the router (for example, you have registered a Domain Name pointing to it, or you just gave the IP address and port number to a friend and told them "this is my Jellyfin machine"), any connection coming from the outside will not be routed by the router to your machine, because the router never had an original outbound connection to make the association for any return inbound connections: from its point of view some random machine is trying to connect to one if its ports and it simply doesn't know which internal machine and on which port on it is supposed to get this connection from that unknown external machine.
Also all this is dynamic - after a while of one such association not being used, the router will remove it from memory.
Port Forwarding is a static way to explicitly configure in a router that all connections arriving at a specific port of the router are ALWAYS to be forwarded to a specific internal machine and a specific port on that machine.
Given that the association is static, you can give the outside world in any way you like without involving the router (for example, listing in some kind of shared list, which is what the Torrent protocol does), the IP of the router + the forwarded router port, as the address for a "service" that's running on your internal machine, and any request coming from the outside on that port even if your machine never connected to that remote machine, ever gets forwarded to the internal machine and the port you configured there.
With port forwarding you can for example host your own website behind a VPN or in a home machine that's not directly connected to the internet because any requests coming into a specific port on the router that does have a direct connection to the internet always get forward to that machine and the port on it you configured.
In the old days Port Forwarding had to be manually configured on the Router (for example, via a web-interface), but nowadays there is a protocol called uPNP that lets programs running on your machine automatically request that the router sets up a Port Forwarding for them so this is often done transparently, which how most networked applications sitting on a machine at home behind a home routers, work just fine since those routers always support port forwarding.
PS: All this shit is actually one enormous hack, that only exists because IPv4 doesn't have sufficient IP addresses for all Internet connected machines in the World. The newer IPv6 does have more than enough, so it's theoretically possible that all your machines get a valid Internet IPv6 address and are thus directly reachable without any NAT on the router and associated problems. However I'm not sure if VPN provides which do support IPv6 actually have things set-up to just give client machines a direct, valid on the Internet IP address, plus a lot of protocols and applications out there still only work with IPv4 (byte . byte . byte . byte) addresses.
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in reply to BCsven • • •You should have pretty much everything on your router disabled for access from machines on the external network side of the router.
The typical example is the web admin interface, which should never be enabled for access from outside, only for access from machines on your internal network. The same applies to all other sorts of control interface, be they human interfaces or machine interfaces.
For any machines reaching it from the outside network interface the router should look the same as the most basic, dumbest router there is with no way to configure or control it.
So, yeah, enabling uPnP for external use is asking to be hacked, probably worse even that enabling the web admin interface for external access since the latter usually has username:password authentication, which although pretty crap (most people don't even know its there and leave it at default and when not it often has character limitations that make it guessable or possible to brute force) it's still way better than NO AUTHENTICATION WHATSOEVER which is what uPnP has.
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in reply to Bobby Turkalino • • •I seed EVERYTHING until i run out of space. Qbitorrent doesn't like me having .torrent files in more than one drive, so i'm limited to my 14TB. But i have dozens of torrents that i'm only one of 2 or 3 people seeding it, so those help me upload hundreds of GB's with my terrible connection.
Also i'm on a private tracker, so leaving them seeding helps your ratio, even if you don't actually upload anything. They just try to encourage new people to seed and that is awesome.
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in reply to hperrin • • •but seeding more does not cost storage. why not let it seed until you delete it?
if it's so that you can see which ones can you delete, just click on the ratio column to sort by that, and check which ones have a higher ratio
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in reply to llama • • •This is one of the great things about the *arrs. They will create a hardlink to the file in your media folder structure so that you can keep seeding and have a well organized/named media library without wasting storage.
Prior to that, I also just saved my torrents directly to my media library, and used the torrent manager to rename the local file properly. Same thing effectively, just a lil more work.
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in reply to Bobby Turkalino • • •Maybe one day ProtonVPN will fix their port-forwarding for their configuration files, I haven’t seen anyone else complain about this and their support is oblivious that this function even exists.
For people wondering the Learn More link just tells you what port forwarding does.
Port forwarding | Proton VPN
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