Yes, let's talk piracy behind some stupid walled garden. As if public conversations are not fragmented enough as it is

fuck cars, use bikes

My point: if you’re getting started selfhosting you have to embrace and accept the self-inflicted punishment. Good luck everybody, I don’t know if I can keep choosing to get disappointed.

I would say that your self inflicted punishment is using windows. Switch to debian and thank me in six months

I agree with all the comments so far but would like to add my own thoughts. Users are not important. Personally I moved to lemmy because the quality of discussion on reddit dropped so much.

This has been my trajectory:

• avid reddit user and content creator there (not sure if the right term) 2016 - 2018
• lurker from 2018 to 2023
• completely dropped reddit and moved to lemmy

My hope is that we can have the same kind of content and discussion in pre 2020 reddit

As another commenter said, please do it.

Your question is so generic that it is difficult to reply. I'll tell you about my use case then so that you can try to figure out yours.

My goal is to be a respectful citizen. I divide my torrents in three categories:

• rare stuff: for example project 4k77 or the John Wick regrades or Rashomon
• italian stuff: it can be either popular stuff and also rare stuff; italian content is not seeded much so I need to do my part
• common/popular stuff: for example the barbie movie or every marvel stuff

I bought tons of space (recently converted to three drives, 20tb each) and use a virtual machine locked behind a vpn. Even if I forget to paid, the virtual machine is bind to the tunnel so that traffic doesn't go out except for LAN, so no leaks.

The VM has two torrent client:

• qbittorrent: seed the torrents in the common / popular categories, speed capped to 1/3 of my bandwidth
• transmission (previously using rtorrent) for the other two categories

I tend to leave everything in transmission seeded forever, the stuff in qbittorrent seeded until 2.5 ratio or 4.0 depending on my mood.

At the moment I have 90.2 ration on transmission and many many many TB of uploaded stuff. That should be enough to feel like you are giving back

Commonsense 2023

In Italy between the movies were screening in the cinemas and dvd releases there was a wait time of 3 months. Exactly three months. The most common way of piracy was streaming websites (like cineblog nowadays) pestered with ads. Before the age of WEBDL most people who couldn't pay for the cinemas and everybody who wanted to have lots to talk about pop arts and trends was watching cam rips. The quality of cam rips were ever increasing every year with specialized forums discussing hardware to do it. I remember you could find everything from low quality phone cams (we are talking 2006 phone cameras) rips to tv quality cameras pointed to the screen from inside the cinemas with tripods.

Project X was such a hyped up movie in Italy that I personally witnessed a bunch of people recording it in the cinemas and everybody at school was sharing the phones on which the movie was recorded during lessons.

To be honest camrips started to disappear during and after covid, but even now for very famous movies like Barbie and Hoppeneimer of Marvel stuff people are still downloading those.

For reference:

• avg ticket price in italy: 6.25 euro in 2022, 5.75 euro in 2016. If you count inflation, price basically decreased over the years
• most cinemas do many cheap ticket nights like for students or young people aimed at 2-5 euro range for tickets once a week or once a month
• more realistically, most cinemas have tickets for 8 or 9 euros, 10 to 12 euros in big cities
• around 60% of people earn less than 1300 euro net per month. That is an hourly pay of ~5 euros. You can understand how much a movie night for a family with popcorns and various extra may cost for a family.

this is a very bad article. It talks about "zero trust" but then suggests you to use corporate software, the cloud, sketchy russian apps to monitor your traffic at home. Also, I am not spending 2 hours a day going through my logs, nor I want a VM/container with 8GB of ram wasting 40% of my GPU on grafana.

Back to the point of money and piracy, like I said, one “pays” for media in one way or another.

While I agree with you on everything this point is not 100% true. I am paying thousand of $CURRENCY on disks and other hardware every few years but I feel that for every side of the coin, there is a minimum situation (let's call it a floor situation) on which less privileged people may find themselves.

For example if you are a bachelor already struggling to pay to be in college or a child that has only access to their parent's computer, piracy is literally free and you can reach to it without paying anything on top of what you have already. On the other hand, netflix is always $CURRENT_PRICE regardless of your situation.

Btw, thank you for making articulate posts. This is why I am on lemmy.

Been using https://github.com/Xpl0itU/WiiUDownloader for almost a year without any problem on my server

Brief reminder that most people on the planet aren’t American

So what? Catholicism and Protestantism is ingrained in big parts of europe

Not only it can be done but I think it is the way to go. You then have to manage permissions and backup only on one database, and the performance improves given that you let postgresql manage it's own IO. It goes without saying that you should use postgresql instead of mysql

100% this, there isn't even a shadow of doubt

this makes you even more awesome

just seed bro, seed until the hard drive catches fire

Guys, downvotes are not the DISLIKE button, let's not become reddit please

I am simple man s I use rsync.

Setup a mergerfs drive pool of about 60 TiB and rsync weekly.

Rsync seems daunting at first but then you realize how powerful and most importantly reliable it is.

It's important that you try to restore your backups from time to time.

One of the main reasons why I avoid softwares such as Kopia or Borg or Restic or whatever is in fashion:

• they go unmantained
• they are not simple: so many of my frienda struggled restoring backups because you are not dealing with files anymore, but encrypted or compressed blobs
• rsync has an easy mental model and has extremely good defaults

For most stuff i release, x265 objectively (vmaf and other metrics) and subjectively looks better than av1, especially for grainy stuff and older anime. I have had success only with some action movies.

Opus on the other hand... it's great

check with a very popular torrent

No, I can assure you russian people use torrents

As someone who used those during their peak, I’m well aware of the risks of getting unwanted stuff, not to mention that you’re fully exposed within the network.

I have been using it behind a vpn and so far never had a problem. I have never had so many "thank you" from any other old school p2p software

try to find copies of it using dht crawlers

Can someone explain to me how this movie stand in the whole godzilla franchise?

Suppose I am a guy who only watched the original godzilla movies from 85

I am using vikunja for the same thing

change vpn provider

Tbf, you don’t really need any app. With Mullvad I just download configuration files and import them in KDE. It really is dead simple. Now enabling VPN at will is just two clicks with the possibility do make it automatic with three to four clicks.

you should use openvpn in difficult network configurations such as college dorm blocking everything except tcp 443 and tcp 80 or with old clients that don't support wireguard

Bitsearch and Solidtorrents’ Login and Sign Up buttons don’t work at all for me, even with extensions disabled (Firefox, Chromium)

you can just upload the torrent hash or magnet, so it should work: https://bitsearch.to/add-torrent

First of all ignore the trends. Fuck docker, fuck nixos, fuck terraform or whatever tech stack gets shilled constantly.

Find a tech stack that is easy FOR YOU and settle on that. I haven't changed technologies for 4 years now and feel like everything can fit in my head.

Second of all, look at the other people using commercial services and see how stressed they are. Google banned my account, youtube has ads all the time, the app for service X changed and it's unusable and so on.

Nothing comes for free in terms of time and mental baggage

I had various degree of success by posting my torrent on 4chan and the various torrent caches like itorrents and btcache

I forgot to say: thank you so much for the news, downloading rn

What is the source for this? It just got out in movies, how can they have the web source?

Super mario 64 multiplayer! I have spent several hours in it with my bf. https://github.com/djoslin0/sm64ex-coop/

I mean... do the math and you can figure out by yourself that it's a fair price but in no way some sort of very convebient situation for the users. A 20tb hard drive goes for about 450€ and then you can consider the advantages that they have buying hdd at scale.

I think this report is a lie because their password / permission / multi account checking is still not properly configured. In my circle of friends all of them said they would jump the ship because they were mostly paying it for their old parents. At the moment, only one person of the group had nuisances because of password sharing, the others are continuing to use netflix as they were doing six months ago.

The only good reply in the thread. Thanks for saying this

upload it to archive.org and if you want send me the pdf in DM and I will take care of uploading it to Anna's archive

then you need to provide more info:

• torrent name
• vpn provider
• opened ports, how did you check
• linux or windows
• general pc specs
• client settings and version

/t/

I suggest to use mldonkey. The UX is very different so it takes some time to accustom to it but it is very powerful software:

• it connects to more than one server
• the search is better
• it is very stable Be sure to use the latest version, keep an updated server list (or fetch them from clients and servers) and to configure kad.

It works very good for niche stuff, especially if you have a community around the stuff being shared