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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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 😀
Entdecken Sie EcoFlow: Tragbare Powerstationen, Balkonkraftwerke und effiziente Energiespeicher für nachhaltige Energie zu Hause, auf dem Balkon und im Freien.
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
In today's hyper-connected world, your digital footprint isn't just a nice-to-have—it's your business lifeline. Whether you're a startup founder with a game-changing idea or an established business looking to expand your reach, the question isn't whether you need a strong online presence, but how quickly you can build one that truly represents your brand. The Story Behind Every Great Website At TECHWEBBIZ, we've witnessed countless digital transformations, and here's what we've learned: every successful online presence starts with a story. Not just any story, but your story—the one that makes visitors stop scrolling and start caring. Think about the last website that genuinely impressed you. Chances are, it wasn't just the sleek design or the fancy animations that caught your attention. It was how the content spoke directly to you, how every element felt intentional, and how the entire experience made you feel understood. The Content-Website Connection: A Perfect Partnership Here's something many businesses get wrong: they treat content and web design as separate entities. In reality, they're dance partners, and when they move in harmony, magic happens. Great content without great design is like having a brilliant conversation in a noisy, chaotic room—your message gets lost. Great design without great content is like having a beautiful empty storefront—people might look, but they won't stay or buy. The sweet spot? When compelling storytelling meets intuitive design. When your words flow seamlessly with your visuals. When every page feels like a natural continuation of your brand's conversation with the world. What Makes Content "Killer"? We use the term "killer content" often, but what does it actually mean? It's content that:
Solves real problems before your audience even realizes they have them Speaks human instead of hiding behind industry jargon Tells stories that resonate on an emotional level Provides value whether someone buys from you or not Reflects your authentic voice in every single word
The best content doesn't just inform—it transforms. It turns visitors into followers, followers into customers, and customers into advocates who can't stop talking about their experience with your brand. Websites That Wow: Beyond the Surface A website that truly wows goes deeper than stunning visuals. It's about creating an experience that feels effortless for your visitors while being incredibly strategic behind the scenes. Consider these elements that separate good websites from great ones: User Journey Mapping: Every click should feel natural and purposeful. We design pathways that guide visitors exactly where they need to go, when they need to go there. Mobile-First Thinking: With mobile traffic dominating the web, your site needs to be exceptional on every screen size. Not just functional—exceptional. Speed and Performance: In a world where attention spans are measured in seconds, every millisecond of load time matters. Fast websites don't just rank better; they convert better. Accessibility: Great design is inclusive design. When your website works for everyone, it works better for everyone. The Digital Dreams We Love Bringing to Life Every project we take on starts with a dream. Sometimes it's a entrepreneur's vision of disrupting an entire industry. Other times it's a local business owner who wants to reach customers beyond their neighborhood. What excites us most is the moment when strategy meets creativity, when technical expertise meets storytelling prowess, and when your vision starts taking shape in the digital world. We've helped fashion brands tell their sustainability stories, tech startups explain complex solutions in simple terms, restaurants make mouths water through screens, and service providers build trust before the first handshake. Your Digital Transformation Starts With a Conversation Here's what we've learned after creating countless websites and crafting thousands of pieces of content: the best digital presences aren't built on templates or trends. They're built on understanding. Understanding your audience's pain points. Understanding your unique value proposition. Understanding how to bridge the gap between where your business is now and where it wants to be. Ready to Make It Happen? Your digital dreams don't have to stay dreams. Whether you're starting from scratch or ready to take your existing online presence to the next level, the journey begins with a single step: deciding you're ready for change. The digital landscape is constantly evolving, but one thing remains constant: authentic brands with compelling stories and exceptional user experiences will always rise above the noise. At TECHWEBBIZ, we're not just creating websites and content—we're building bridges between your vision and your audience's needs. We're crafting digital experiences that don't just look good in portfolios but actually move the needle for your business. Because at the end of the day, that's what matters most: not just having a presence online, but having a presence that makes a difference.
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."
Cox said the suspect’s partner was transgender, which some politicians have pointed to as a sign Robinson was targeting Kirk, the founder of Turning Points USA, for his anti-trans views. But authorities have not said whether it is relevant as they investigate Robinson’s motive.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox says investigators are not yet ready to discuss a motive in the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk but that the 22-year-old who was arrested leaned to the left.
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, $45 million contract to amplify propaganda with Netanyahu’s office. The contract describes Google as a “key entity” supporting the prime minister’s messaging.
My mullvad sub is about to expire, so I'm deciding whether to just pre-pay for another year or switch to something else. I typically just use it for blanket protection when using my computer or phone, but have been thinking I might like to set up a torrent box proxied through a VPN, too. (I have kids, so I may not have time for this for a while, tbh.)
My general understanding is that people like mullvad and also like ProtonVPN. Any general suggestions/thoughts?
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Back when I had VDSL and even ADSL, I'd try to hit 1.1 ratio because if everyone did that the risk of information being lost would be close to 0%. Nowadays with gigabit internet, all that prevents me from seeding is hard drive space, and 8 TB doesn't fill up quickly with how few good movies and series there are these days. I guess that's one way to stop piracy, just make fewer and worse series/movies.
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RedSnt 👓♂️🖥️
in reply to prole • • •I like how safe you're playing that estimate 😂
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in reply to RedSnt 👓♂️🖥️ • • •I've moved to qbittorrent which is a bit better than Deluge on that regard, but it's still not great.
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Johanno
in reply to Bobby Turkalino • • •I have now a ratio of 9.1 and 250TB of uploaded....
Also my hard drive is getting full. I guess I have to clean up some torrents soon.
Or buy new storage
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in reply to Venia Silente • • •Oh. I was joking. I'm aware that my storage capabilities really are an outlier, even though I still feel inadequate whenever I go to a hoarding community.
I've spent around 1200$ 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.
Aceticon
in reply to moosetwin • • •Coitus interruptus
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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9488fcea02a9
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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Venia Silente
in reply to Scrollone • • •reactionality
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.
Scrollone
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RedPandaRaider
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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MachineFab812
in reply to RedPandaRaider • • •RedPandaRaider
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.
MachineFab812
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COASTER1921
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
Internet Archivekaty ✨
in reply to COASTER1921 • • •Venia Silente
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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sleen
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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Venia Silente
in reply to sleen • • •MachineFab812
in reply to Venia Silente • • •Venia Silente
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.
thetrekkersparky
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?
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in reply to Jerkface (any/all) • • •Private get unlimited (1gbps)
Jerkface (any/all)
in reply to Appoxo • • •Ricky Rigatoni
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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.
Ricky Rigatoni
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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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sad_detective_man
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.
sad_detective_man
in reply to Aceticon • • •BCsven
in reply to Aceticon • • •Aceticon
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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LoafedBurrito
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.
Clot
in reply to Bobby Turkalino • • •Øπ3ŕ
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in reply to unknowing8343 • • •ReversalHatchery
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
llama
in reply to ReversalHatchery • • •dmention7
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.
horn_e4_beaver
in reply to Bobby Turkalino • • •GuardYaGrill
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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