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My last job was this. We didn’t have anything. Zero. And nobody cared. Insanity.

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I type on a mobile keyboard. Have for over a decade. I’ve never typed like this.

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Money or no money, whatever is made can be unmade.

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That is our win condition. To make it so costly for them that they bail on the idea. Because if we don’t, then it’s one step closer to their internet: locked down, hidden charges everywhere and content under their terms.

This isn’t just about ads, it’s about keeping information free.

Random thought: Windows is largely successful because of Piracy

Windows as a software package would have never been affordable to individuals or local-level orgs in countries like India and Bangladesh (especially in the 2000’s) that are now powerhouses of IT. Same for many SE Asian, Eastern European, African and LatinoAmerican countries as well....

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Yeah, solid take. Even today, the vast vast majority of people don’t even realize Windows isn’t free because every single PC sold, comes with it, preinstalled.

Microsoft’s real dominance is having schools (pre and post secondary), businesses, governments and just about anyone they can force a license on to run their software. Windows, Office (a third of my first year computer course was learning MS Office ffs), etc.

That’s why they got slammed with a multi million dollar class action: www.thatsuitemoney.ca for manipulating their licensing and subsequent fees associated.

Sadly, a pittance when compared to how much they got from all those shady deals. Piracy doesn’t even touch them.

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Is ProtonVPN worth it?

@piracy

Got reminded of this while reading about ProtonMail. The reason I haven't gotten into proper is that I don't have a VPN for torrenting, and the reason I don't have a VPN is that I don't . So it would be nice if I got a good VPN while myself.

Will ProtonVPN rat me out to Comcast? I know some VPNs don't hide what you're downloading from your ISP, for reasons I don't fully understand.

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I think the point they were making was that a shitty person, as evidenced by his list of crimes, will run a company, shittily. The point of a VPN is anonymity. What good is that promise coming from a shitty, shady person?

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So Gore didn’t invent the internet??

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The segment of pirates that try to hunt for the highest quality are a small niche. Most pirates will sacrifice just to have it.

I had no idea that you could download movies from the 90ies from archive.org (jeena.net)

I couldn’t find the Flintstones movie from 1994 anywhere but googling it I found it here archive.org/details/the-flintstones_202304 and you can either download it via torrent or directly. On top of it it says that the movie is CC0 which means Public Domain. But that can’t really be, it’s only 29 years old....

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I get my mame ROMS (and most others too) from them. I’ve also found movies and some other content. Their torrents max my line (1 Gbps).

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They killed Netscape and had to put in a toggle with the option of other browsers like 10 years later. They paid next to nothing in fines and legal battles, basically putting a stranglehold on the internet itself that took another 10 to kinda of undo.

Not sure if that’s a “loss.”

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This is a crime on so many levels 🚨

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I love crimes. But I need to hear about your crimes to rev me up! Go!

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I assume they have to cash in some. Or else the SEC comes sniffing around like “you guys have given out 3 million shares over ten years but no one has ever cashed a singled one out, hmmmmm”. So those are likely the rare few. And a few units tracks because they aren’t giving $2m in stock to some entry level tech.

I always liken those practices to the same shit they flash musicians or sports figures during negotiations. Wave a mansion, Lambo, gold, some ladies making all kinds of promised. But in the end, some contractual loop hole says that you’re just “borrowing” it all. Fake money.

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Except these were never meant to be paid out. Bungee isn’t about to give away their company to their employees.

It’s a plastic carrot.

How to begin setting up a media center?

I have 16TB NAS dedicated to storing TV shows. It is just a cabinet with ryzen 2600 and no graphics card. I have installed openmediavault in it to access it via smb to other devices. I am an absolute noob in setting up a server. Please tell me how I should go on about turning it into a media consumption machine....

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You need to know a little about networking for all of this 🤷‍♂️

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Obviously

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Yeah it does it all

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/c7bb820e-6d1f-46a9-bb8e-889268586375.jpeg

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Plex is way harder to set up. Their UX is a mess and hasn’t changed in 20 years. All carried over from its chaotic days as an open source project.

Jellyfin can be challenging at times, but it’s a much more modern take on the premise, as mirrored by its UX.

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Wait till OP finds out this was not done by a kid but a full grown man.

qBittorrent network interface bind not working?

I am using ProtonVPN, and have (or so I thought) set up qBittorrent to bind to the network interface that ProtonVPN is using (tun0). The connection symbol turns red if I turn off the VPN, and downloads will stop. However, when checking the torrent address on ipleak.net, it seems that this bind is not working properly - my real...

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Intended.

You bound torrent client to tun0 You bound VP to tun0

If VPN is on, torrent client connects using VPN. If VPN is off, torrent client cannot connect to VPN or internet.

This is what should happen. It would be more helpful if you told us what you want to do. Do you want the torrent client to keep downloading but no longer behind the VPN? Because most people don’t want that. Which is why they set it up your way. Just in case the VPN accidentally goes down, you dox yourself.

Also a point I haven’t seen made, but a website is not torrent traffic. You could be behind a VPN through your browser but not through your torrent client (Apple’s Private Relay does this, only blanking you from websites). So the fact your torrent client stopped and the web was working seems to point to everything working as it should. You shouldn’t lose any internet unless it’s also bound to tun0.

Also, what did you use to create the tun0 interface to bind your client and VPN to?

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Yeah, be careful relying on status messages from trackers, most are actually not that reliable and may misreport. Have had it happen on occasion as well.

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Relevant: reddit.com/…/nvidia_shield_is_losing_gamestream_y…

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It’s about the soul. Vampires don’t cast reflections because they are soulless. Cameras have been criticized for stealing peoples souls. Ergo, a camera would suffer the same fate as the mirror: no soul to capture or reflect.

But I mean it’s just made up lore. That’s admittedly stretched thin.

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Birds arent real bruh

Is a VPN needed with DNS over HTTPS and Encrypted Client Hello?

I was wondering if a VPN would add any kind of security or privacy if one is connecting to a host with a client/browser that supports DNS over HTTPS and that host supports encrypted client hello. Is there a way for the ISP or anything in between to shape traffic or even know what is being accessed? The only thing that should be...

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This is the correct answer. A VPN encrypts and obfuscates all your connections, not just the web browser.

If all you care about is hiding the websites you visit from your ISP, DNS over TLS is fine. But just remember that you’re bleeding data by using your real IP (ISP, geolocation, etc.). And any other connection, is just unabashedly, you.

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