Difficult_Bit_1339

@Difficult_Bit_1339@sh.itjust.works
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Joined 1 years ago

To save everyone from having to type:

http://www.reddit.com/settings/data-request

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I would not at all be surprised if the GDPR dictates a set time period to respond backed up by fines.

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You can also mail them a letter requesting your data and they have to honor it 🤣

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It is easy now with defederation.

De-federation isn't the tool to solve this specific problem. That community has 34 posts, all by a single user, and under 30 total comments across all threads. I cannot find a single post or comment in that community that would violate any rules on lemmy.ml.

A single user posting content in a community that shares a name with a banned community on another social media platform seems like a very very low bar to push for de-federation.

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yt-dlp

It supports YouTube playlists also, so you can just give it a massive playlist and let it go

I would insist that they print the information out and mail it to me. 😂

FOSS and buy games.

I used to pirate games because I was a high school/college student but buying them from Steam is just more convenient.

I pirate media though, I used streaming services when Netflix was basically the only game in town but now that there are 25 different platforms all wanting $10/mo, f that. I can setup Sonarr and Radarr on a seedbox for cheaper and it provides more flexibility of use, no limitations on sharing (seedbox provider aside) and no annoying DRM or unexpectedly getting a 720p stream instead of a 4k HDR stream because I didn't install the latest firmware on my TV.

I'm paying for music streaming because Spotify is basically music Netflix but I'm experimenting using scrobbling/Lidarr/Airsonic.

pihole, wireguard, qbittorrent, sonarr/radarr, Jellyfin, syncthing, NFS.

I've considered Airsonic but I haven't found a good client that looks good and doesn't behave weirdly. I had one launch about 500 threads trying to transcode the same song which ate up my CPU time on my server resulting in a stern e-mailing from my host.

dedicate it to the worship of our disney duck overload, the real Donald.

A noble cause worth pursuing.

It would ruin the Fediverse because, if this post is any indication, it takes nothing but a user shouting 'Nazi!' to get people ready to accept de-federation. Most users who are commenting appear to not have looked into the issue or viewed the community before giving their opinion. They're more than willing to buy the 'Nazi bad, de-federate' argument with zero evidence.

If you look into the community that the OP is referring to... it is made up of a single user's posts and less than 30 comments across the entire community (most by the same user). None of the posts or comments in that community/by that user violates any rules on sh.itjust.works or kbin.

There is no there there, as they say. This is a 'The Boy Who Cried Wolf' tale. There's no wolf, there's no Nazi bar. One user created, one community and now we have a 200+ comment thread discussing de-federation. I cannot find any other word to describe the situation other than: kneejerk.

Infinity is going subscription-only in a coming update. The dev is just eating the costs until then.

Being privately owned by a person who is a video game enthusiast really helps. Gabe already has 'fuck you' money and just wants to make video games and gadgets (and, apparently, deep sea submarines!).

If Valve is ever sold it'll go the route of every other publicly traded company.

Same, watching the progress bars deleting all of my comments hurt a bit. But that just made me realize how dumb it is to have an attachment to some random account.

I'm deleting the entire account when the API changes go live. Fediverse link aggregation services are good enough and people constantly crosspost popular topics from Reddit.

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if some of these moderators are actually PR Firms or similar.

I'm only using TorrentLeech, what's some other good ones? I have a seedbox and procuring an invite or interview isn't an issue. I don't really have a problem with TorrentLeech except that sometimes movies or TV shows are uploaded as rar which chokes Sonarr and Radarr until I go and manually fix it.

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KeePass + Syncthing

Avoid cloud services all together.

Wow, I haven't used the old school P2P programs in over a decade. I honestly didn't think they existed anymore for some reason.

Defederation should be a last resort against spammers and outright attacks on other instances, not because you dont agree with a single community.

100% agree

Also, it should be noted that this 'The_Donald' community is literally just one user making posts.

Man, people are really over using Nazi. At this point it's basically become: 'things I don't like'.

Beehaw is, if anything, very left and was trying to get rid of trolls that they couldn't ban because the troll would just make a new account in 5 seconds on one of our instances. I'm not at all a fan of de-federation, see our community discussions, but I understand the problem they were trying to avoid.

It seems like a pretty defensible position to not want random trolls posting pictures of their penis on random communities. They were unable to resolve the problem with the moderator tools that they had so they were forced to de-federate. Not exactly the Third Reich.

I never knew that community existed since I don't read All (too spammy) nor do I search for alt-right topics. No idea how OP found it unless they were simply looking for shit to stir up.

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Usenet is very nice for home use. I used it for years. SSL encrypted, no need to use Bittorrent over VPN. Always max download speed. The parity part was annoying on a HDD but now that I have a Gen5 NVME it is incredibly fast.

I'm back using the same setup on a Seedbox and private trackers. I share access to my media library and I have Ombi setup so my family can add their own things to Sonarr/Radarr. Since it's on a 50Gb connection it can handle bittorrent with no issue so I don't bother paying for Usenet.

Chatgpt is a camp for just YOLOing off into some new software. Unless it is after the knowledge cutoff it's pretty accurate about configurations and such. It makes mistakes but it'll get you started a lost faster.

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ZFS array using striping and parity. Daily snapshots get backed up to another machine on the network. 2 external hard drives with mirrors of the backup rotate between my home and office weekly-ish.

I can lose 2 hard drives from the array at the same time without suffering data loss. Any accidentally deleted files can be restored from a snapshot if my house is hit by a meteor I lose maximum of 3-4 days of snapshots.

I use non-FOSS for work, but I have a work PC where someone else pays for all of them.

Well said @catshit_dogfart@lemmy.ml.

This is a single user, not the ghost of The_Donald subreddit, who appears to be trolling. If that's the accepted bar for de-federation then lemmy.ml is going to quickly become a single instance federation.

I've been using qBittorrent to run an unrar command (which fails if there isn't any rar files), it works MOST of the time but it usually extracts the sample first then Sonarr see an MKV and tries to import it, which fails because it doesn't fit the file size requirements of my quality profile.

I'm using a managed host and they don't offer unpackerr. I'll probably end up writing a python script to handle it and all of the weird contingencies. It isn't really annoying to me, since I can just SSH in and fix it in a few seconds but my family members that add things via Ombi will complain when S01E02 is missing from Season 1.

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You use a local DNS resolver that can handle encrypted DNS and also does ad blocking. pihole-ftl is what I've been using. Then you just set your DHCP server (your router usually) to provide the pihole server as the DNS server.

It caches entries so things you access often will resolve faster than anything you can get online, it supports all of the privacy options you could want and it also has ad blocking lists so you can block ads and trackers at the DNS level.

It's not a bug. You're trying to subscribe to a Beehaw community.

What happened is that Beehaw has de-federated Lemmy.world. They've essentially banned, from their instance, all users on the lemmy.world instance. This was due to a combination of Beehaw having very heavily moderated communities and the influx of new users onto your (and my) instance.

Some of the new users were trolling the Beehaw communities (including user posting a picture of their penis in a Feminist community) and couldn't be banned because they could just re-create an account on these two instances as they were running with open sign-ups (Beehaw requires manual approval of user sign-ups).

Because of these things Beehaw's moderation team de-federated lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works until they could work with the two instance owners to come up with a solution. As of last update, they had reached out to lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works' admin staff but had only heard from sh.itjust.works. They said they're confident in re-federating at some point but have not provided a timeline.

Until then you will not be able to access Beehaw communities or see any posts from Beehaw users until the de-federation has been lifted.

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Most of the time I just copy/paste the terminal output and say 'it didn't work' and it'll come back with 'I'm sorry, I meant [new command]'.

It isn't something that I'd trust to run unattended terminal commands (yet) but it is very good when you're just like 'Hey, I want to try to install pihole today, how do I install and configure it', or 'Here's my IP Tables entry, why can't I connect to this service' ... 'Ok give me the commands to update the entry to do whatever it was you just said'.

I just noticed that comments were disabled, looked in the sidebar and saw:

The real secret is that a smaller community is generally a better quality experience if you're looking to interact with other members of the community.

Reddit isn't trying to foster communities, it is trying to foster content farming so that the masses of casual users can just scroll and look at ads.

When your community wants to de-federate everything:

Sonarr

Radarr

qBittorrent

Jellyfin

Sonarr lets you 'subscribe' to TV shows. Radarr lets you 'subscribe' to movies. They grab the movie/TV Show as soon as they're available and match the quality profile you choose. They find the torrent (searching on sites that you've configured) and send it to qBittorrent. Once the torrent is finished it downloads metadata, formats everything and puts it into a media folder structure that Jellyfin can read. They then poke Jellyfin to tell it to update it's library with the newly downloaded content.

Jellyfin is a media player, it can be accessed by a web interface or you can install Jellyfin apps which exist on basically every platform.

You can host all of this at your house or you can host it on a seedbox (I'm currently using Ultra.cc). The Seedbox provides you with a very fast connection for accessing bittorrent (50+ Gb) and 20TB of upload bandwidth per month. The seedbox I'm using doesn't count your Jellyfin usage (or downloading via the FTP/SFTP server) towards your bandwidth so you can stream as much as you'd like or download the files to your home media storage or both. They have different levels of storage (my ~$35/mo plan has 8TB of storage)

A seedbox also lets you join private trackers easily (as you can maintain ratio thanks to your massive upload speed and excess bandwidth). Private trackers will generally have torrents on faster hosts so you can download them quickly and the quality/selection can be better.

It's a little bit to get everything setup but once it is setup it basically takes care of itself. I have Ombi installed also, it provides a simple user interface for my non-technical users so that they can add things to Sonarr/Radarr without having to much around with their interfaces.

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There's a plugin for Kodi to access Jellyfin content so you could get it all setup and it'll just plug into your existing front-end Kodi system.

Ooo, I'll get it setup this weekend. Thanks a lot! This is probably one of the last annoyances that I have with my setup.

Migrating from Reddit to Lemmy was easier than migrating from Netflix to a seedbox.

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All of my invites come from people in a gaming community that I'm a part of.

In the 20 years that I've been running a home server I've never had anything more than a failed disk in the array which didn't cause any data loss.

I do have backups since it's a good practice and also because it familiarizes me with the software and processes as they change and update so my skillset is always fresh for work purposes.

I don't believe ECC uses noticeably more power

Great post, one of my few saved posts