I probably should have specified - downloading cracked software from a YouTube video. Downloading videos from YouTube is fine with tools like yt-dlp.
Computer nerd who likes cats; https://deletecat.com
I probably should have specified - downloading cracked software from a YouTube video. Downloading videos from YouTube is fine with tools like yt-dlp.
r/GenP talks about the safety of monkrus in their wiki: https://www.reddit.com/r/GenP/wiki/patchmethods/
Most people who claimed they got malware from the Adobe collection repack had either downloaded it from an unofficial source, downloaded from YouTube, or downloaded other pieces of sketchy software - just so happens that a monkrus repack was the last thing they installed. Then there are others who have been using monkrus for years and haven’t had issues.
In the Quttera analysis, the malicious files are from a blacklisted domain [M.BL.Domain.gen
], fv20[.]failiem[.]lv - this is a file host from Latvia. The files being flagged probably aren’t malicious, though if this host isn’t taking down malware, it would make sense that they are blocked by some antivirus companies. Especially since Quttera isn’t checking the torrents - they are uploaded to other sites.
All in all, if you have any doubts, don’t install it. Check out GenP instead of you don’t really trust monkrus!
No such thing as a stupid question :p
Yes, you can self-host a VPN! Though there are a few things to keep in mind if you are going to torrent using one:
*some hosts do not have a limit though cheap servers usually do.
From what I can tell, most server hosts don’t care about what you are doing with your server, unless your server is gathering abuse reports or using an excessive amount of resources constantly. I would go for a subscription to a VPN instead of self-hosting but that’s just me.
https://vimm.net and https://myrient.erista.me are my go to sites for ROMs! Especially myrient since you can use FTP to download files. https://archive.org works too, though downloads are quite slow for me
For BIOS files, you can find them on the emulation wiki: https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/
Thanks for this, changed the point in my main comment to remove the part about seeding!
I’ve scored out that part of the comment now.
I was under the impression that you couldn’t seed without port forwarding, guess I was wrong :p
Just a quick question, have you port forwarded in Mullvad in the past?
They stopped people from opening new ports last month, September is when they will get rid of the remaining ports. If you aren’t port forwarding, I will edit my initial comment!
I don’t know of any free vpns for torrenting, though I believe ProtonVPN (paid), Windscribe (paid) and AirVPN (paid) offer port forwarding at the moment. PIA can be used to port forward, though they are owned by kape which is kinda sketchy to me.
You can use windscribe free for torrenting, but you will quickly hit the data cap they have in place
Do you know a better free VPN which does allow torrenting?
I don’t, sorry. There are free VPNs which have been recommended in the fmhy wiki, though I don’t know if they support torrenting and/or port forwarding.
Edit; just remembered about windscribe, you can torrent on the free plan, but data is very limited so might not be a good option either
After a quick glance over your post, I have some thoughts;
Free: ProtonVPN
ProtonVPN is good for torrenting on the paid plan, not the free plan. Proton doesn’t allow torrenting on their free plan. They will block your connection if they detect that you are torrenting, or they will disconnect you from their VPN tunnel - exposing your real IP on the torrent.
Paid: Mullvad
Mullvad is a decent choice, though they no longer support port forwarding. You are still able to download, though you won’t be able to seed iirc
VirusTotal
The problem with a virustotal scan is that pirated software is often false flagged for malware. It’s difficult to tell what is safe from what you’ve downloaded. It’s best to download from a trusted uploader, though that doesn’t always guarantee safety as they can always go rogue (As an example, FTUApps were seen as safe until one of their uploads to 1337x contained malware).
Older uploads tend to have less false positives in my experience, though it can be very easy to become complacent.
edit; score out comment about mullvad seeding, others have pointed out that it still works fine! oops
Here is the post that Daniel made claiming that he will be stepping down: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/5235-stepping-down-as-project-leader-of-grapheneos
It’s also available on his twitter and mastodon iirc
I’m not sure if there is another community for it, lemmy.dbzer0.com is the instance that hosts that switch pirates community as well as this one
Can someone make a switchpirates community? I miss that
Already exists: !switchpirates@lemmy.dbzer0.com - although it’s not really active right now
Might be a setting in your IRC client to not trust self-signed certificates, it worked for me
They also thought that FileCR was dangerous because they also got a defender alert on a download 🙃
nope
I’ve been playing the Sims 3 from fitgirls repack (steam release). Both my steam account and EA account are fine!
Try irc.IRCHighway.net/6697 instead, your client may not have IRCHighway in its list of servers
airplane mode 24/7
Highly suggest people do this if they are transferring books using calibre. Connecting to WiFi removes book covers, keeping it in airplane mode should prevent this!
It also helps to reduce battery usage in my experience, but that might be a coincidence
Avoid uTorrent and use qBittorrent instead (not to be confused with BitTorrent, a client by the same team as uTorrent)
guess we’ll find out if the data gets leaked somewhere