TCB13

TCB13 , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to piracy in best usenet group

Nope, not a child. I just don’t care specially when it comes to certain topics, or my English is actually bad.

But seriously, why would we pay for piracy by financing greedy VPN companies when you can get 98% of the security for free by using a good private tracker + requiring encryption?

TCB13 , 5 months ago to piracy in best usenet group

The thing is that private tracker aren’t visible on that link.

TCB13 , 5 months ago to piracy in best usenet group

You’re not paying for the content, you’re paying for the server upkeep.

This is a very, very questionable statement, we all know that people do profit from selling access to piracy.

TCB13 , 5 months ago to piracy in best usenet group

That’s exactly what I said it’s for “to check and make sure your configuration is correct”.

What you said was: “Private tracker torrents are still visible to the public” and this isn’t true.

TCB13 , 5 months ago to linux in I'm working on a distro recommendation flowchart/ list for newcomers and need your input please! (Post is not only this picture btw and is mainly text)

there are other word processors that are at least as good

Their only problem is that this isn’t true. :P LibreOffice and friends might work for quick jobs in isolation and whatnot but once you’ve to collaborate with others and use advanced features like macros it’s game over.

For what’s worth LibreOffice can’t even keep the default spacing on a bullet list consistent with what MS Word does and this is an issue if you share a document in works with someone else and then things appear in different places / pages.

TCB13 , 5 months ago to piracy in best usenet group

I do have an argument: lemmy.world/comment/7648533

Any free private tracker worth your time has DHT/PEX disabled thus making their torrents invisible for your typical govt / private entity searching for pirates. If those torrents aren’t public and can’t be searched indexed via DHT then the ISP or whatever knows you’re using the bittorrent protocol but they don’t know for what content. This particularly correct if you use sane settings in your torrent clients such as a blocklist + requiring encryption for all connections.

If you do those simple things and a use a private tracker you trust then your ISP/Govt can’t point fingers at you, they’ve no way of knowing what you’re downloading.

TCB13 , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to piracy in best usenet group

iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/peer/ – Plug your IP into that. Private tracker torrents are still visible to the public.

What you’re saying isn’t correct, at least for properly configured private trackers and clients.

I did try that website and that’s the thing, the only torrents that show up are public ones. Torrents from private trackers like iptorrents are not showing on that list as expected. They don’t show, because they can’t access them, just read their about page and you’ll understand why:

Our system collects torrent files in two ways: parsing torrent sites and listening DHT network

Any private tracker worth your time has DHT/PEX disabled for their torrents because if they didn’t then the torrents were essentially public.

TCB13 , 5 months ago to piracy in best usenet group

Are you 12?

TCB13 , 5 months ago to piracy in best usenet group

But man, paying for pirated content? Even if you ignore everything else, it’s over the line.

TCB13 , 5 months ago to linux in I'm working on a distro recommendation flowchart/ list for newcomers and need your input please! (Post is not only this picture btw and is mainly text)

Debian 12 has had at least two system breaking bugs in the last month or two,

What are you talking about specifically? I do manage dozens of Debian 12 servers and run it in one of my desktop machines since the release I didn’t run into any issues so far, stable as usual but I would be interested in knowing about those.

I honestly don’t understand the love for Debian either.

Because, like Ubuntu, it’s truly community driven, not subject to the whims of some corporation and more stable than the others.

Also recommending GNOME to anyone used to Windows is just going to frustrate them if they’re already hesitant.

While I get your point and I like XFCE very much, the “what you go for it’s entirely your choice” mantra when it comes to DE is total BS. What happens is that you’ll find out that while you can use any DE in fact GNOME will provide a better experience because most applications on Linux are design / depend on its components. Using KDE/XFCE is fun until you run into some GTK/libadwaita application and small issues start to pop here and there, windows that don’t pick on your theme or you just created a frankenstein of a system composed by KDE + a bunch of GTK components;

TCB13 , 5 months ago to linux in Is there a downside to Flatpak?

Because the user getting a hundred popups on app start for various files the app needs isn’t exactly a usable experience

It doesn’t but until apps can declare on a simple config file what paths they require that’s the way things should work. I guess that would motivate the developers who are packing into Flatpaks to properly list whatever files the application requires. If they don’t, then the application will still work fine but be a bit annoying.

Also, blocking the app’s main thread (which is the only way you could do this) is likely to break it and cause tons of user complaints too. Aside from apps using the APIs meant for the purpose of permission systems, there’s no good way to make it work.

Yet, macOS does and things don’t go that bad, on the example how do you think they do it for command line tools? The system intercepts the request, show the popup and wait for the user input. I’ve seen the same happening with older macOS applications that aren’t aware it could happen and yes, the main thread is blocked and the application seems to crash.

I thinks it’s way better doing it this way and still have a somewhat productive container and isolation experience than just bluntly blocking everything - something that also breaks apps sometimes.

TCB13 , 5 months ago to linux in Immutable Distros: What you should know - An introduction into image based systems (Part 1)

😂 😂 😂

What counter arguments? If one doesn’t understand how things like the Docker Hub, VSCode and the over-reliance on proprietary repositories is an issue I can’t say much more. Immutable distros are just yet another door for that type of bullshit and it’s a pretty obvious one.

TCB13 , 5 months ago to selfhosted in Docker configs destroyed after update [resolved!]

Hints? Don’t use Docker for your own sake. Why would you, you’re already running LXC containers, just setup whatever you need inside those and you’re good to go with way less overhead and bloat.

While you’re at that, did you know that the creators of LXC have a solution called LXD/Incus that is way better at managing LXD containers and can also create and VMs? For what’s worth is a 100% free and open-source solution that can be installed on any clean Debian 12 setup from their repository and doesn’t require 1000 different daemons like Proxmox does nor does it constantly nags for a license. :)

TCB13 , 5 months ago to linux in Is there a downside to Flatpak?

While what you say is true, the “portals” were an afterthought, an imposition to developers and a cumbersome and poorly documented solution. Just like the theming and most other things.

Instead of bluntly blocking things why can’t Flatpak just simulate a full environment and just prompt the user whenever some application wants to read/write to file / unix socket at some path? A GUI capable of automatically enumerating those resources and a bunch of checkboxes like "app X and Y both have access to socket at /var/run/socketY would also solve most of the issues.

TCB13 , 5 months ago to piracy in best usenet group

C’mon you’ve plenty of private trackers you can join with an invite from someone else and nobody will easily track you like they can do in public torrents.