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brickfrog , (edited )

however I can still seed the torrent how is that possible?

Yes you can still seed as well as download. But you are limited and can only upload and download torrent data in swarms that contain peers that are themselves fully connectable (port forwarded).

So say you join a torrent swarm that only contains peers just like you (firewalled, no ports forwarded) then no one will transfer any torrent data with each other. Everyone is stuck waiting for a fully connectable (port forwarded) peer to join that swarm.

brickfrog ,

FYI all the official domains and .onion link are on their proxygalaxy page

proxygalaxy.me

For what it’s worth .to does not forward me to .mx, each of those domains seem to work fine on their own. Not sure what exactly is happening with your browser, maybe try clearing the cache / doing a hard reload.

brickfrog ,

Hmm just tried it & it doesn’t load either. The last official onion link I found published on proxygalaxy.me (via archive.org) was in May 2024 at galaxy3yrfbwlwo72q3v2wlyjinqr2vejgpkxb22ll5pcpuax… but it doesn’t seem to load for me in Tor Browser.

brickfrog ,

Nowadays I buy digital music (mostly via Bandcamp but there’s also HDTracks, Qobuz, etc.) & play the music that way. Can also stream my own music library if I want via Jellyfin or other applications.

re: physical CDs, yes I’ve got a ton of those too from before you could buy digital music but have already ripped them. Haven’t had a need to touch the physical discs in years but still keep them in CD binders just in case.

Also not sure if it matters but for me I’m always living in small apartments/rooms so I absolutely avoid collecting physical items, there’s just no space for that.

[solved] qBittorrent behind firewall

I have been using this config for qBittorrent for awhile and been working for the most part. Sometimes it gets “connection status: Firewalled” I would fix this by going to settings -> connection and click the “Random” button a couple times and save and then it would work again. This seems to not work anymore. Is there a...

brickfrog ,

I have never done any kind of manual port forwarding my current VPN provider does not do that at the price I have it for right now.

If the VPN provider does not support port forwarding then it is normal and expected to always be firewalled. Toggling random ports doesn’t change that fact.

Not sure why you would sometimes see your status as fully connectable, guessing either it’s a Windscribe misconfiguration when you initially connect (?) or qBittorrent gets confused during the intitial connect. Or there’s some other misconfiguration.

You might want to see if other people using that VPN provider have more insight, maybe they are doing something strange with the ports when you initially connect & eventually close them on you.

brickfrog ,

Mullvad does not have port forwarding so it would be normal for your torrent client to be firewalled.

I’m not too sure why you & OP sometimes see it as temporarily connectable when changing/randomizing the incoming port when the VPN service never provided you an open port forward.

brickfrog ,

So your saying it should have never worked even if I was not using docker?

Correct.

Also it’s now working… I have no idea

Yeah that’s weird, I don’t know if you accidentally found a way to hack Windscribe into temporarily giving you a port forward on their free plan. But otherwise you do need to be a paid member on their Pro account for that feature.

Or it’s just going to randomly stop working again.

Is there a way to actually test your port forward within Docker? I’m not familiar enough with that configuration to suggest anything but maybe someone else knows about that. Usually without Docker I’d just start up the torrent client & then use a web browser with any port test website (www.canyouseeme.org, www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports, etc.). But for Docker not too sure how to go about that.

brickfrog ,

You might be confusing public IP addresses with ports? If your torrent client doesn’t have a public IP address that just means it’s offline / no internet. Maybe your internet is down or the VPN is disconnected. You’re won’t torrent anything at all in that state.

One side of the connection needs a public address open port, not both. When both parties don’t have a publicly addressable IP open port, the status is firewalled. I guess they can “see” each other but are unable to exchange any torrent data.

For what it’s worth in the situation where both peers don’t have open ports (meaning they are both firewalled) they end up having to wait for another peer to join that torrent swarm that happens to have a open port, that’s the only way any data will exchange in that swarm. Until that happens those two peers will sit there waiting and not exchanging data.

brickfrog ,

That’s pretty cool, thanks for sharing! Been a while since I tried it out but last I looked Tribler’s own automation features were quite lacking so something like this helps a lot.

I was not able to download anything with more than 1 hops in between - ie it does hide your real IP address, but only uses one relay in between.

Hmm I don’t think there’s any relays at all in that configuration, unless you’re counting the exit node itself?

github.com/Tribler/tribler/issues/3067#issuecomme…

One thing to keep in mind is that to download torrents from outside Tribler’s own network you would need to download through an exit node… not sure on the exact stats but last I tested exit nodes were only like 5-10% of the Tribler user base. For a while I tried volunteering my own VPN connection as an exit node for Tribler just to see how it went but the Tribler client kept locking up/crashing after a few days so the experiment did not go well… hopefully works better nowadays.

brickfrog ,

True, wouldn’t be too different vs just using a VPN. You’re choosing to trust the Tribler tech and the Tribler exit node operator vs choosing to trust the VPN provider. Granted most VPN connections are going to have much better performance vs anything Tribler related.

There is a nice side effect of running an *arr stack against Tribler, even in 1 hop mode - Your Tribler node is much more easily pulling in new content into the Tribler network for other users to access afterwards without needing an exit node. Ideally it’s just one Tribler node/user needing to pull data through the exit nodes while the rest would just pull it from you and share with other nodes in-network.

Torrents over I2P work the same way. If the torrent data isn’t found within I2P and you have outproxies configured you could pull torrents from the clearnet & afterwards other I2P users just share amongst the I2P network.

brickfrog ,

If you use Namecheap for email domain(s) you may want to consider also splurging for their PremiumDNS to keep your domain(s) off spam blocks at other email providers.

I help maintain some emails at Gmail/Google Workspace but the domains themselves are at Namecheap. For a while there were complaints that some emails never landed in other people’s inboxes… this led me to talk about the issue with one of the email provider recipients based in the UK & apparently they were null routing anything coming from Namecheap since they felt a lot of spam came from them. But after some experimenting I figured out their system (& probably others) were figuring out they were Namecheap domains via the default FreeDNS they use. On a hunch I switched those domains over to PremiumDNS and after that all our emails were landing in other inboxes correctly. I guess maybe it makes sense, a typical spammer buying a cheap domain at Namecheap isn’t going to splurge for the higher end DNS service for it.

I’m not saying all email providers treat Namecheap domains as spam but just be warned there definitely ones out there that do.

brickfrog ,

If you’re using Google Workspace, Google will give you the appropriate DMARC, DKIM and SPF records to add to your DNS. The NS themselves should resolve the records and provide the recipient server with the values you’ve entered, thereby ensuring delivery.

Sure. But why would that matter when you’re dealing with hostile 3rd party email providers that intentionally want to blackhole all email domains at Namecheap? But yes, just to clarify I do configure DMARC/DKIM/SPF and that works great for most cases.

I’m just describing what worked for me though in truth I don’t know exactly how these hostile email providers actually determine the domain is hosted at Namecheap. My hunch is that they are using a lookup & finding the nameserver for the domain & have already blacklisted Namecheap’s default free nameserver IP addresses. For whatever reason those same hostile email providers don’t seem to be blacklisting Namecheap’s paid nameserver but I think that sort of makes sense…

The larger issue is that Namecheap is known for cheap domains that scammers/spammers tend to buy in bulk & then use to spam with. Those same scammers/spammers aren’t trying to spend extra money so they only ever use the default free Namecheap nameservers.

brickfrog ,

But, regardless, blocking any registrars that size the way you’re describing would break way more businesses and hurt the recipient provider’s own reputation.

Yeah I thought that too but when speaking with the email admin that was blocking Namecheap while figuring this out they had already decided it wasn’t worth trying to allow the 1% of valid emails vs the 99% spam emails they felt they received via Namecheap domains.

This honestly starting to sound more and more like a smear campaign

Smear against whom? I’m a Namecheap customer, just relaying my own experiences using them. Besides that quirk I like them fine as a registrar… I know it sounds dumb but I even renewed my domains there even after those email issues.

It’s fine, you don’t need to believe me as I said it’s just my own experience using Namecheap domains for emails. But you could just google around, you’ll see plenty of people discussing Namecheap & looking for solutions to block them (or solutions to successfully send emails with hem)… it’s not something I randomly made up if that’s what you’re implying.

e.g.

community.spiceworks.com/t/…/816565

tacit.livejournal.com/608386.html

shkspr.mobi/…/why-do-scammers-love-namecheap/

reddit.com/…/namecheaps_private_email_is_blacklis…

reddit.com/…/namecheap_making_it_too_easy_to_regi…

reddit.com/…/my_emails_are_always_going_in_the_sp…

reddit.com/…/i_am_getting_a_ton_of_spam_scams_fro…

etc.

brickfrog ,

Nice, I was pretty sure my Pixel 7 already had hardware AV1 decoding and this app seems to confirm it.

brickfrog ,

It’s not, whatever you’re looking at is just some site re-using the name.

brickfrog ,

Futurama also did their own version futurama.fandom.com/wiki/V-Chip

Offflix - Series manager for your local downloads (user-images.githubusercontent.com)

I created this project some years back and the project just reached v1.1.0. I know most people have jellyfin servers and all set up, but if you have just a local folder of all your series saved up, you can use this to remember what you were watching....

brickfrog ,

Kodi (kodi.tv) does the same thing & more. People think of it as a sort of streamer but its original/main purpose is to manage local media downloads including movie/tv series.

brickfrog ,

Tried it, Too heavy for my usecase

That’s fair, Kodi is way more feature rich. I love it personally but realistically don’t need to use everything Kodi is capable of.

Also I cannot use MPV to watch my videos.

Been happy with Kodi’s internal player but they do have configurations for external players including MPV kodi.wiki/view/External_players

BTW you should also look at Jellyfin, slightly different use case but it too is designed to manage local media including TV/Movies.

jellyfin.org

And since you mentioned MPV that also exists with Jellyfin github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-mpv-shim

brickfrog ,

If you make a community don’t do it on lemmy.world, the admins at this instance have taken a hard stance against piracy related communities.

lemmy.world/post/13287681

lemmy.world/post/13320356

brickfrog ,

Bummer, the formfactor / specs look okay but it’s kind of a dead end if I can’t just install & use a vanilla Debian OS or similar.

With all the NAS OS options probably Synology has the best one but even there I don’t actually want to get locked into that. I doubt this UGOS software can match Synology’s let alone Debian.

If it’s any consolation it looks like UGREEN is responding to comments about installing other OSes at their kickstarter page www.kickstarter.com/projects/urgreen/…/comments

brickfrog ,

Seems easier just to disable queuing altogether. Then if you’re worried about bandwidth usage just configure your “global maximum number of connections” and your “global rate limits” to whatever you need them to be. Also keep uTP enabled (under Options / Connection) if you’re concerned about the torrent client using up your bandwidth while using the internet.

It’s not the answer you’re looking for but it might be worth giving a try.

brickfrog ,

Yes - But keep both TCP and uTP enabled (should be the default setting unless you changed it).

Rotating banners on /r/piracy (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

Hey mates, recently I’ve developed a tool to use the GenerativeAI on the AI Horde to created random avatars and banners on lemmy. To keep things spicy, I wanted to deploy to rotate the /c/piracy banner daily, as I’ve done in a bunch of other communities like !stable_diffusion_art and the lemmy.dbzer0.com....

brickfrog ,

Keep in mind the instance itself hosts generative AI communities, it is even mentioned in the sidebar of lemmy.dbzer0.com

as well as the instance’s local communities list

lemmy.dbzer0.com/communities

Anyways this all seems like a non-issue IMO, most people don’t even see the community homepage and would hardly ever see the banner pic. And db0 isn’t talking about flooding /c/piracy with AI art posts, just updating the community banner… though this instance does have a local community !stable_diffusion_art if you’re interested in seeing AI art posts.

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brickfrog ,

Meanwhile no mention about their limited upload speeds.

brickfrog ,

Hadn’t heard of that one. But there are a few other aggregators around you can check out e.g. cloudtorrents.com, idope.se, knaben.eu, snowfl.com, torrentdownload.info, torrentseeker.com

A lot of people run searches through qBittorrent search plugins so that’s another alternative.

Or use something like Jackett or Prowlarr for multi site search.

brickfrog , (edited )

Demonoid allows uploads, they also happen to be open signup right now see the other community !opensignups

at TPB but that doesn’t seem to be a thing anymore.

See their forums, they have instructions on how to apply for an account there pirates-forum.org/Thread-New-TPB-accounts-availab…

There are a bunch of other public torrent indexers that you can try to apply for uploading but it doesn’t always work out e.g. TorrentGalaxy, 1337x, GloTorrents, TorrentFunk, YourBitTorrent.

SolidTorrents / BitSearch does allow adding torrent hashes into their database without an account.

See the earlier posts, lots of discussion, I also have a list going in the last linked post that you are free to test and comment back on what worked for you :)

lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/4968148

lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/3401527

lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/1882645

brickfrog ,

I thought that site imploded?

It was rebooted by some of the old staff.

torrentfreak.com/demonoid-staffers-launch-new-sit…

Now I am curious if my login still works…

It won’t, all the old usernames/passwords were lost.

brickfrog ,

They’ve always been pretty useless, people that actually care about that sort of thing would subscribe to a paid torrent friendly VPN.

PS - May want to check out the other community !piracy

brickfrog ,

It’s okay, killbots have a preset kill limit. Just send wave after wave of human soldiers at them until they shut down.

brickfrog ,

Syncthing, Resilio Sync, or one of those browser based p2p file sends e.g. file.pizza or similar.

If both p2p ends know how to use torrents then creating a simple torrent to share to the other peer would work fine. But that requires slightly more IT competence especially if someone needs to open a port forward (ideally you would make sure you have your own port forwarded so the other party doesn’t have to worry about this).

If you’re doing this more than once it might be worth setting up a simple server e.g. HFS is a nice open source/free HTTP file server, been a while since I used it but it still seems to be active www.rejetto.com/hfs/

brickfrog ,

Interesting, though I suspect that is a false positive, it’s happened before with that software

rejetto.com/forum/index.php?topic=9037.0

Most likely because it is a self-contained web server executable? That sort of software would seem suspicious and similar to other sorts of virus/malware.

Granted I have not used it in a while but I’d be surprised if it were true, their forums and github would be full of reports of malware.

github.com/rejetto/hfs

That aside you have plenty of other options to use if you prefer to use something else.

brickfrog ,

Yikes. I already unsubscribed from there, overall I get the vibe that the new mod is acting in bad faith & stirring up drama when none was needed. It’s also clear the new mod doesn’t particularly care for the existing community members, they are mainly just moderating for themselves it seems.

TBH someone could just create a lemmyapps @ any other Lemmy instance. I haven’t spent too much time to figure out if that already exists.

brickfrog ,

Keep an eye out for open trackers

opentrackers.org

!opensignups

!opensignups

!opensignups

Or keep an eye on the invite giveaway thread in !trackers

Or interview for the big music trackers and work your way up the ranks to participate in their internal tracker recruitment threads e.g. interviewfor.red and interview.orpheus.network

PS - Trackers like TL tend to do open signups a few times a year so it’s not really that difficult to get going once you catch an open signup.

brickfrog ,

Sucks but not surprising. Broadcom has a history of doing things like this, ugh. Even with their paid products they jack up the price so much that the only customers that stick around are the business enterprise types that are locked in & can’t easily migrate for various reasons.

qBittorrent install crashes at licence agreement

I seem to be completely unable to install qBittorrent as it force closes with no error message when I try to accept the license agreement. So far I have tried turning off the firewall, making an exception for it in Windows defender, disabling reputation based protection, and of course reboots, but nothing works....

brickfrog ,

What version of Windows? Is this a normal install of Windows or did you do anything different/custom?

Assuming Windows 10/11 try disabling Real-time protection (Virus & Threat Protection / Manage Settings / Real-time protection) at least temporarily during the install.

Also disable any other anti-virus/malware type software you have.

With all of that disabled re-download qBittorrent from the normal download sources www.qbittorrent.org/download

When you attempt to run the setup make sure to run it as administrator so it is elevated (do a shift right-click on the setup.exe file & select Run as administrator).

If the install finally works, before you re-enable Real-time protection you should add the installed qbittorrent.exe in the Windows Defender Exclusions and Controlled folder access (Virus & Threat Protection / Manage Settings / add or remove exclusions) and (Virus & Threat Protection / Manage ransomware protection / Allow an app through Controlled folder access). The installed qbittorrent is probably in C:\Program Files\qBittorrent\qbittorrent.exe or wherever your programs are normally installed.

If none of that worked then I’d go with the other commenters, run RAM and hard drive diagnostics & make sure that’s all working correctly.

Or maybe your Windows OS install is broken somehow, I’d run sfc and dism in those cases (a bit outside of scope of this community but you can search around for that).

brickfrog ,

since I don’t believe the qbt executable is signed.

Yup you are correct, another reason that anti-virus/malware type software will mess with the download or execution of the installer.

Based on the current info that’s kind of my initial hunch. The installer could crash if the user’s anti-virus/malware messed with it. We also don’t know if there is other software installed on the system doing things like that…

Otherwise, ruling out other things could be just that Windows itself is possibly borked. The sfc / dism method may fix that. Installers definitely crash when something is wrong with the Windows OS.

brickfrog ,

“But I was still embarrassed this weekend when I had to stick a straw in my wine glass.” Soda cans are doable; coffee mugs are not. The first must-have Vision Pro accessory is a very long metal straw

Or this works too

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/33b79fb4-9929-4ecc-b325-94df58fb9b5a.jpeg

Is it possible to get a virtual credit card for a different country?

I wanted to get my mom YouTube Premium for her birthday but don’t want to pay the ridiculous annual price for my country (especially since she mostly just watches YouTube shorts). She uses an iPhone so trying to get adblocker would be too much of a hassle, especially if it stops working. She won’t be able to figure out how...

brickfrog ,

That sounds correct. AFAIK most countries in the world do not do credit card AVS (address verification service) so aside from a select few countries you would be able to enter just about any address for those country’s cards.

e.g. related discussion …stackexchange.com/…/in-what-countries-can-credit… or just search the internet for other sources.

The one catch is the card would have to be from that country that doesn’t support AVS e.g. for India I think you are saying that you used an India based card, right?

brickfrog ,

Most people just use a NAS (self built or one of the pre-built types) & stuff a bunch of hard drives into it. Or just stuff a bunch of hard drives into their desktop(s).

Sure there are people outfitting rack(s) of server(s) but generally that’s just the truly dedicated people going that route.

For what it’s worth hard drives nowadays go up to ~22TB so your 34TB example would only need two massive hard drives. A compact NAS or small desktop would work fine for that example.

brickfrog ,

auto adding public default trackers to any public torrent

qB already has that, see Tools / Options / BitTorrent / “Automatically add these trackers to new downloads”

I don’t use that feature but it seems to be there.

brickfrog ,

4 day old Lemmy account, seems like another coplover alt?

lemmy.world/post/9806730

Instead of having multiple dead communities you could just start posting in the earlier one(s).

brickfrog , (edited )

Probably OBS would be your first try, it should be able to do a video capture and is Linux compatible.

Or if you’re willing to set up a VM running Windows you could look into the non-free closed-source stream rippers for 720p/1080p. e.g. RedFox AnyStream, DVDFab StreamFab, etc.

EDIT: Just realized AnyStream also has Linux builds so that could be a non-free closed-source solution.

brickfrog ,

I downloaded a BDMV folder that should be a copy of a six disk box set.

The download only has one BDMV folder? You should have 6 different BDMV folders if it’s supposed to be six discs. Sort of sounds like the uploader tinkered with the data & maybe flattened the whole thing into one massive disc?

Once I organized this into a streams/playlist/clip/meta folders by file type and feed it into makemkv I can only see disk one.

Yeah that makes sense, 1 BDMV folder = 1 disc.

I’m not actually sure how you’d even go about flattening 6 discs into one BDMV folder, thing is many of those files (especially the .m2ts files) have the same duplicate name across multiple discs. Maybe the uploader used Blu-ray editing software to do that, or maybe you only have 1 disc not 6.

My hunch is maybe the uploader purposely re-wrote the whole thing into one massive disc so you’re not really looking at 6 discs anymore. Not sure if this’ll help but maybe try feeding the whole thing into BDInfo & see what it comes up with, at the very least it’ll be able to give you some visibility into which specific .m2ts streams each .mpls is linked to, & that way you can hopefully decipher the different episodes/whatever that you’re looking for.

PS - If this data was edited by the uploader I’m not sure how easy or feasible it would be to figure out how to split it back into 6 discs. (assuming this data is indeed 6 discs)

brickfrog ,

Feeding it into DBinfo I can see the appended playlist files (appended with .1, .2, .3 and so on) call the same numbered stream files with no appended .1, .2, .3

Yeah that’s probably right since each disc likely had the same named files in them (e.g. same name .m2ts files).

Where I am getting stuck in this logic is why there are 12 index files in the upload while there should only be 6 disks as listed in the .XML files.

You’re right, that makes no sense either :/

Personally I would consider this corrupted data & just move on / try to find another source for that content. Otherwise seems like you’re going to be spending a fair amount of time trying to reverse engineer whatever happened here.

What is your final goal? Are you just trying to mux the .m2ts stream files into .mkv containers? I suspect you can work with the .m2ts files directly & feed that right into ffmpeg or makemkv for the same results (granted not sure if you’ll lose anything extra like subtitles). The trick is figuring out which .m2ts is which episode or whatever, you already have enough clues to figure out which .m2ts files are being referenced.

Also fun fact: Most media players can play .m2ts directly without needing to mux into a .mkv container first. I usually just hardlink the actual .m2ts files & rename them as needed for Kodi or whatever e.g. “blahblah.s01e01.m2ts”

brickfrog ,

You forgot the most important part, subscribe to a usenet provider. Your usenet download client can’t download anything without a provider.

brickfrog ,

If the VPN does not support port forwarding is it still possible to use for Linux torrents?

Yes with caveats. Torrent swarms need at least 1 connectable (port forwarded) peer for the swarm to exchange data. If all the peers are firewalled (not port forwarded) then all the swarm peers can see each other but cannot exchange torrent data so there will be no uploading/downloading in that swarm.

Generally speaking you won’t notice much difference in large torrent swarms since those swarms usually have some/many connectable peers. But in smaller torrent swarms you may have trouble since your odds are worse that you’ll find connectable peers in those swarms.

PS - Yes you are still seeding/uploading while firewalled (not port forwarded) just not very effectively. While firewalled your best connections will be with connectable peers in the torrent swarms. Not much to think about with public torrents but it’ll kill your ratio at private trackers for sure.

brickfrog ,

Yes, usually at the end of the year if there are funds to spare I’ll donate to a bunch of FOSS projects, other non-profits, websites, etc. especially if I use them year-round.

brickfrog ,

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