yeah but those usaully are bypassable if you have vpns or custom dns or whatnot. even for neewbies that just use vpn client sw.
if they force it at browser level, in theoty, that would even override vpn / custom dns unless you have a modifyied browser that removes the block or otherwise doesnot comply. which most novices wont know how ot do.
another good reason to use ff / foss browsers if you aren'y already. kinbda hope they do it, just to drive up marketshare of foss bowsers lol
yeah, i love mint but have felt like its installer is severley lacking for a long time when it come to maore advance d stuff liek FDE, BTRFS, alternate bootloaders like suystemd-boot etc
Also don’t use ecryptfs, it sucks.
no clue there. i use luks on feodora and seem liek it works pretyy good.
i think endeavour lets yuo do FDE from the gui installer also but yeah fedora is fucking great
Every VPN is going to obfuscate your IP.
That's more or less right but there's more to it.
First, even if you have a good VPN, you can have dns leaks which is where your VPN is masking your ip but they can still id you cz your pc is configured to look up domain names outside of your vpn and your real ip is exposed. The good news is that you can configure things to avoid this and then use sites like ipleak.net / ipleak.org / dnsleaktest.com to verify you don't have any dns leaks. probably also a good idea - BEFORE you start downloading shit - to use ipmagnet or something similar to do a test torrent to make sure your ip isn't being leaked by your torrent client.
Second, not all VPNs are equal. Especially the free ones suck. cz what happens is they see some ip from a honeypot torrent, then they subpoena the VPN who owns that ip and demand your real ip. The free ones will roll over instantly and rat you out cz there's no money or anything else in it for them so why would they help. Not all of the paid ones are automatically good either tho. There's a lot of lying bastards who say they are "no log VPNs" but aren't really cz they still turn things over when subpoenaed. So you have to do research to find out which ones are telling the truth. Usually you can find things online about certain VPNs having been takin to court and really not having any logs to give authories (like Private Internet Access aka PIA who got subpoenaed by FBI but had nothing to give them so their users remained safe) or having trusted third party audit firms who have been allowed to visit and look over/confirm their settings really have no logs. These sites are good reading before you pick a true no-log VPN:
https://proprivacy.com/vpn/comparison/best-no-logs-vpns
https://torrentfreak.com/best-vpn-anonymous-no-logging/
I hear Mullvad is one of the best but I think they are a little pricer than some of the others. I used both Nord and PIA before and never had issues with either.
Stuff other guy said about port forwarding is also true if you are using port forwarding (generally this is something you need to set up on the router so you would probably know if you are using it)
Additionally, I don’t think a copyright holder would need to set up a honeypot.
Like you say, they probably don't need to. But historically, there have definitely been fake torrents out there that are essentially used as honeypots. Varies widely as to how they do it. like some might have a video sample or something, some might just be a bogus file that looks about the right size, and so on.
couldn't agree more. I watch pretty much everything on a 50" 720p TV from 10ish years ago. as long as its not some god awful 240p pixelated garbage, I'm fine. When I go over to some buddies places where they have newer nicer tvs and the qaulity is better, I still am 99% focused on story and idaf about the pockmarks on someones face etc.
I don't hate extra quality but end of the day, i want to prioritize disk space without having complete garbage on quality. love it when encoders can do stuff in x265 instead of x264 to cut off a few extra MB.
i have a theory that when quality started going crazy (2K by my mark) is about the same time where story quality in tv shows started taking a big dive. Byt I'm sure lot of ppl not agree lol.
In this case, one of the shows was aired recently and my public torrent rss feeds didn't find it (I did not have a rss for EZTV at the time and they appear to be the only ones who covered it, but like I said, they completely skipped one of the episodes...). I think for sonaar, I would need to have usenet indexer already for it to pull from it (used to use it just for torrents) so seems like it wouldn't make a big difference here cz its a cart before the horse kind of problem.
e.g. sonaar would need me to add more sources first... but i don't know which sources other than public torrents are good for this kind of thing.
edit: was thinking i couldn't mention show nsmes but after re-reading rule 3, i think it meant more for linking to specific things or requesting links. especially after seeing posts like this I think merely mentioning show names might not be as big a deal as I originally thought.
Mods, if i am mistaken, please delete this comment or message me and tell me how i fucked up
shows I was referring to in main post were Forgeed in Fire and Tuff as Nails. TAN is the one I currently having issues with.
have tried kbin... everything he said about instances being slow and buggy applies doubly at kbin (dot social). some of the busier lemmy instances like this one have it a little but I was get server 503 / unavailable errors very frequently with kbin.
I hope both fix the issues and we can all enjoy better stability on better infra all around the fediverse.. but until then IMO lemmy is slightly more stable.
currently at 1.2k voting to keep protesting and 2.2k voting to give up.
guess the ones left aren't savvy enough to understand "federation"... then again, it wouldn't surprise me at all if spez had employees with bots dedicated to spamming any protest-related polls either.
That's cool and I genuinely wish them luck with it, as it will probably help lemmy adoption... but for me, I'm pretty partial to staying in the browser. Have a shit load of addons I like, including userscripts. plus, I run librewolf with a firejail container and I'm too lazy to write a new profile for whatever app just for one site lol. Still I hope after the infra issues get some love that the site UI won't end up lagging too far behind the apps
Update: I can now answer one of my own questions, in case anybody else was also puzzled.
how I search for a specific phrase in a specific community (like “rootless docker” + “qbittorrent” in c/Piracy for instance)
Mostly, I was confused bc I was on reddit too long and I was expecting a way to do this from within the community I would like to search through. You can still do it but you have to click on Communities from site header menu, then choose Comments (or you can pick Posts but then replies to posts will not be searched) , then under the Community dropdown search and select the one you want, last enter your search term(s) and click Search.
I probably need to go find some documentation and see if lemmy searches support more advanced stuff like AND / OR / negation / etc or if only simple searches are possible right now, but it's a start.
Sorry, should have clarified... I meant on desktop site via browser.
Not a mod so you might not care about my opinion but...
I don't hate lemmy and hope it will continue to improve but at the same time, I still feel the UI is a bit minimal and lacking on a lot of features right now (TBF probably some of it is me getting used to it still). Some of this works in its favor tho.. like if I created a new account on reddit, I'd have to deal with all the karma bs again before I could even post to most subs. Here, this is my first post on this instance, and no problems AFAICT... which is really fucking awesome IMO. Other things, like how to show all communities sorted by # of subscribers or how I search for a specific phrase in a specific community (like "rootless docker" + "qbittorrent" in c/Piracy for instance), I am still a bit unclear if there is even a way to do that.
I don't see anything overtaking lemmy immediately. kbin is the next closest one I can think of that is open-source + federated and not controlled by a company and I think it is even less smooth than lemmy right now. There's mastodon but IMO that is more twitter alternative than reddit alternative.
But I guess if something came along that checked all the right boxes (foss, federated, markdown, long-form comments, more features, etc) then I would at least be open to considering it.
I hate copyright. even if they didn't get rido f it compeletey then would be awesome if theysd at least massively scale back the amount of time they can have a copyright liek to maybe 5-10 years max and make them non-transferable (no fucking buying companies jsut to get their copyrights)