Do I give a shit? I’ll pirate everything I can till the end of time and if I’m feeling generous I’ll donate to the artists on band camp or something. Nobody but the smaller artists need my money anyway

Which is why not every provider supports BYOIP

SMR vs CMR and drive speeds

There are providers who are OK with public trackers and don’t care about DMCAs.

In principle, torrenting over IPv6 is the same as doing it over IPv4, it’s just that there’s a lot of IPv6 addresses so you might find it cheaper to buy IPv6. Yes there are some differences in the technology but from purely an operational POV, it’s not very different.

The reason I mentioned bringing your own IPs is related to the reason why providers don’t like public torrents: it pollutes their IP space and puts their IP ranges on blacklists. But if you bring your own IPs, suddenly the provider (in theory) is safe and doesn’t care as much. YMMV of course, send an email to your provider of choice to ask more.

I have seen seedboxes with 3, or maybe 4TB of storage under $10 (don’t remember). And that’s recent (about a month ago). Yes, unlimited uploads are definitely an issue. Such cases are best combated with buying an IPv6 slot and putting that on a VPS with a provider friendly to such things (they exist at reasonable prices)

I tend to seed rarer stuff till my ratio reaches 10, sometimes 15 on a case-by-case basis

Get an older Antec cade on Ebay, the one with 6 DVD bays. Load it up as a homeserver + seedbox + media burner.

Get a seedbox with storage. About $5-$10 a month can get you quite decent boxes in torrent friendly countries

I need to try this, thanks

Setting SELinux to permissive is not a good security practice

Why not port knocking over TOR?

We really need to push IPFS and TOR/I2P to keep these websites alive. Fuck the low barrier to entry if it means the website can just be subpoenaed

Well the Star64 from Pine is pretty good, just doesn’t have enough processing power and IO for my liking.

Framework has a laptop in progress if you’re interested

How would they do DPI on DNS packets routed using DoH? It looks like HTTPS traffic, it’s encrypted, and other than size and frequency I don’t see how they can gey anything out of it. Yeah they’ll get the SNI with eCH but that’s supported by FF and by a lot of providers using DoH

Yeah that’s your situation. Some people are fine with it

Ah, you mean they put the cert in a transparent proxy which logs all traffic? Neat idea, I should try it at home

Private CA is the only way for domains which cannot be resolved on the Internet

Isn’t feeling like that a good thing though? If you’re sufficiently miserable there’s a good chance you’ll actually get the work done. This also works if you feel embarrassed or feel that others depend on you, but in my case I’m going to have to depend on the former.

It used to be that I didn’t really grasp the scope of most projects, and so after research I used to dive right in. These days I’m more jaded and try to make better long-term choices in terms of software (which is ridiculously hard because you never know, example: Terraform is no longer FOSS).

The extra work is usually in optimisations or security configuration, both of which I’d like to have done but apparently I don’t feel horrible enough to actually do it.

Yes, I have done both of what you said. It’s not a hard-and-fast rule for me, but it does make me a bit miserable, that I didn’t finish what I started. Sometimes, that acts as a catalyst for me to get back into it and actually try to finish it, or leave it completely after understanding that it’s beyond me.

Thanks for the advice.