If there was a bot that just flooded All with far right talking points, do you think admins ought to block that or leave it to the users?
What if it was far right mixed in with cat memes?
What if it started more slowly like a few posts an hour and then ramped up over 6 months to be 1000s of posts per hour?
Any idea what’s up with that?
Not really. Either my explanation is wrong or theirs is. Honestly could be either.
There’s so much misunderstanding and misinformation around torrenting.
All I know is that I’ve never had any problems downloading without being connectable. Never ever. It’s just not an issue.
Additionally, the vast majority of people torrenting in 2023 are using a vpn and none (very few) of them will forward ports so it can’t be a big deal.
Thirdly, there’s a lot of piracy purists / elitists who just can’t abide the idea that your set up may not have the best possible configuration for seeding. IMO, seeding on a residential connection is just a waste of time - download on a residential connection, seed on a VPS / seedbox.
No.
My (possibly mistaken) understanding is that during the download phase your client is contacting seeds requesting parts. Although the data is going to be incoming it’s still an outbound connection because your client initiated it, so you don’t need to be connectable for that.
It’s the seeding phase which is problematic because downloaders can’t contact you to request parts. That said your client will still contact downloaders and offer parts, which again is an outbound connection so you don’t need to be contactable.
In summary download speeds are uneffected, but seeding rates will be diminished. With most private trackers you can still satisfy seeding requirements just by keeping the torrent available for however long.
As an aside I use mullvad & wireguard. I’ve found wireguard dramatically easier to configure, particularly in a docker environment.
My recommendation would be to give up on the port forwarding.
If maintaining a ratio is important to you then just rent a seedbox once in a while. 1 month with a seedbox gives me enough upload credit to last me several years.
Thereafter I just download torrents, I may be unconnectable but no big deal.
I think hosting something and wanting inbound traffic through a VPN is a pretty unusual use case.
Yeah it’s not so much the amount of time, but the unpredictable schedule.
Something suits itself and you have to fix it to get your stuff working.
Tolerable if it’s only you, awful if you have other users.
It’s definitely achievable and I’d encourage anyone to play around with self hosting.
The main thing to acknowledge before getting started is that it’s an ongoing commitment, like a puppy. Getting it to work initially is the easy part, you can follow a guide and have something working in a few hours of effort. Running in to problems later on is the tricky part, automated backups and upgrades et cetera, something needs a re-start, things just stop working for some reason.
I thought those rules were pretty much “talk about torrents but not about content”
Exactly, users and hosts are subject to laws around using and hosting in their own jurisdiction. Instances caching posts are hosts.
Do you have any examples of how google is pulling the strings at Mozilla ?
I disagree.
Google doesn’t “control” mozilla in that way.
They can always test it out against all their ads and make sure it works, putting out a fix if it ever doesn’t.
They could do this even if they weren’t funding mozilla. Ad’s aren’t exactly reliant on bleeding edge web standards anyway. You’re thinking about tracking tech, which they don’t have any input in for firefox.
We’ve also seen recently how they’re trying to make it so people can’t run ad blockers
Well yes, and mozilla was quite vocal in their opposition, demonstrating that Google doesn’t have much control over them.
they will not ship WEI
I don’t really understand how this could work.
The whole outcry around WEI is that most of the web wouldn’t work if you didn’t have a browser that supported it.
Not shipping WEI would seem tantamount to just discontinuing.
This.
Install from github. Update whenever you get the notification.
No shit. They HnR one time and provide to many thousands of downloaders, a not insignificant portion of whom would otherwise have been HnRs.
Only if it’s not already cached.
That doesn’t make any sense. The whole point of the debrid service is that it caches the torrent. When my client wants to stream the content, the debrid doesn’t leech it from seeders it just pulls it from the cache.
The quality seems fine, for everything I’ve looked at thus far there’s all the usual types of releases.
I discovered real-debrid yesterday, thanks to this post.
I was playing around with it last night using kodi. I’m gonna try out stremio thanks to your suggestion.
That said - it didn’t seem that reliable with kodi. Like I got through a whole movie but it just died once or twice. I ended up switching to another torrent / link and it played through to the end just fine.
I imagine this won’t necessarily improve with the switch to stremio. Was I just unlucky? Or is this the usual experience?
edit: yeah ok you’re right. kodi + real-debrid. great stuff.
Wiki about her is great:
There’s a lot of bullshit in genesis to make fun of, but this is the least weird.
it’s implied in the bible that Adam and eve had heaps of kids.
Surely you’re aware of the embrace, extend, extinguish corporate strategy.
People only get to decide what they want from their platform until facebook starts extending the spec. Then your client will become incompatible with some posts, and so on and so forth.
In summary, it’s a threat to the platform itself.