brickfrog

@brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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brickfrog,

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

brickfrog,

Fastmail is great but it’s a totally different market /use case, you wouldn’t go with them if you’re privacy oriented. They’re better than Google in that sense but you’d go with Proton if you’re looking for privacy features.

Also keep in mind Fastmail is based in Australia and their government tends to be anti-privacy with the laws that get passed there.

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,

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,

Same here.

Interestingly back when myself & others were moderating subs on Reddit, & we locked the subs during the protests, the majority of PMs us mods would receive were from randoms that found a link via Google or wherever & were trying to view the post. It did make me wonder how often people browse Reddit just because they stumbled into a link via Google or whatever search engine.

I can’t see how Reddit would survive without the big search engines, without those random visitors the ad revenue would plummet.

brickfrog,

Hmm on the last few installs I’ve done (both Win 10 and 11) I just lead the installation to believe I’ll be doing a corporate/domain install & it always lets me create a normal user/password after that. Not necessary to unplug any ethernet/internet or anything of the sort.

It’s always worked for me both at work and at home.

Just to be sure, I spun up a virtual machine to install Windows 10 22H2, here are the steps I went through:

  1. Boot into the Windows 10 installer, jump into the installer & run through all the initial install steps until we get to the OOBE (Windows 10 out-of-box-experience post installer)
  2. Select your Region, click Yes
  3. Select your Keyboard Layout, click Yes
  4. Skip Second Keyboard Layout (unless you want one)
  5. Let it keep going, it might restart (mine did)
  6. At the Account screen select Set Up For An Organization then click Next
  7. At the “Sign In With Microsoft” screen select "Domain join instead"
  8. At the “What name do you want to use?” screen enter your new Windows user account name and click Next
  9. At the Password screen enter a password for your Windows user account and click Next
  10. Re-enter your password and click Next
  11. Set up a security question/answer - Or do like I do & fake them all e.g. select a security question then enter random gibberish alphanumeric text - and click Next
  12. (do the same for all 3 security questions)
  13. Select your Privacy settings then click Accept
  14. Accept or skip any customizations you want (I usually Skip)
  15. For Cortana you can click “Not Now” or “Accept” up to you

Done! You now installed Windows 10 Pro without a Microsoft Account.

With PLEX blocking Hetzner Hosting, I'm thinking of Moving to Jellyfin, but I have some questions.

I use Hetzner as a seedbox and then have PLEX as my media server ran on the same hardware. It’s worked perfectly fine for years. But recently PLEX says they will be blocking Hetzner hosting in the next few weeks. I’ve been considering moving to Jellyfin for a while, but I’m worried they will do the same thing in future....

brickfrog,

I’ve been considering moving to Jellyfin for a while, but I’m worried they will do the same thing in future.

Currently would not be possible. Jellyfin does not have the sort of centralized accounts/logins that Plex does e.g. you’re not asking Jellyfin devs for permission to log into your own server. That’s just a Plex thing.

If you’re asking could they add that “feature” in the future? Highly unlikely but I guess anything is possible. Were that to happen most likely the code would get forked into a new project.

PS - Jellyfin itself is a fork from Emby back when those devs decided to close their source. Myself & tons of other people dropped Emby at that point & migrated to Jellyfin. jellyfin.org/docs/general/about/

brickfrog,

Not anymore

mullvad.net/…/removing-the-support-for-forwarded-…

brickfrog,

There were no legal issues or threats, it was just some troll with a brand new account from a different instance that tricked admins into blocking those communities. See the other post lemmy.world/post/3175920 (if it loads, lemmy.world having uptime issues as usual)

Lemmy.world banning piracy made me realize it's something a client can solve

If I was logged into several instances at once in the client and seeing the composite feed and then could choose instance when replying or posting (with some set default, like from: field in e-mail clients) lemmy.world could ban piracy all it wants and it’d still be in my feed without me having to leave it or change instances.

brickfrog, (edited )

Banning piracy? Like the mere encouragement or?

Just the mere encouragement & discussion, yes. The banned communities do not allow direct links to pirated content (!piracy has a rule forbidding that).

It’s strange to see people saying there was some sort of legit reasoning, the lemmy.world admins did not receive any sort of legal DMCA/NTD request or anything of the sort. They were simply trolled hard by a brand new account from lemm.ee asking to defederate from “piracy” communities and lemmy.world admins took the bait. See the post yourself lemmy.world/post/3175920

Incidentally that same user has created troll accounts at other instances & have been getting themselves banned, they were already banned at the dbzer0 instance (see lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/1956277) so it looks like it was simple retaliation to attempt to trick other instances into defederating/blocking them.

brickfrog,

Lemmy world is turning into Reddit v2

Not really, even Reddit still has piracy related subreddits (at least for now).

brickfrog,

I tried it out a while back but wasn’t too impressed, it still has a ways to go. During testing what I did was write a script to pin (aka “seed”) any public torrent downloaded in qBittorrent into IPFS. My goal was to see if anyone ever found/downloaded my pinned content via the available IPFS search engines.

But the reality is that the available IPFS search engines were crap, they sound nice in theory but are so bad at finding/indexing anything. It was rare that anything I had pinned in IPFS would show up in a search engine let alone someone find it & attempt to download it themselves. There’s still a lot of work to do.

The IPFS software itself also had a lot of performance/memory leak issues, I never could get it to run long term before it crashed & I’d have to figure out how to restart it or wipe its data & start over.

The other issue is that the IPFS project sort of feels like it’s treading water. The IPFS devs went on to create Filecoin & seem more focused on that nowadays. Think of Filecoin as IPFS + cryptocurrency, so you have the privilege to pay people to pin/host (“seed”) your data. And to top it off the Filecoin version of the IPFS network is incompatible with original IPFS network. Funny since it’s the same devs but also is a bit illuminating that they purposely designed it that way.

brickfrog,

From OP’s link under the “operate a Snowflake proxy” section

You can join thousands of volunteers from around the world who have a Snowflake proxy installed and running. There is no need to worry about which websites people are accessing through your Snowflake proxy. Their visible browsing IP address will match their Tor exit node, not yours.

A Snowflake proxy is not a Tor exit node.

brickfrog,

Are they actually independent of Reddit Inc? I had assumed a lot of those Reddit accounts moderating a huge amount of subs are actually Reddit employees.

Also those type of Reddit accounts often don’t do much actual moderating. They are the reason people complain about top mods that can’t be removed, never respond to modmail, etc. & will randomly wake up to make changes to the subreddit whenever they feel like it.

brickfrog,

!mediashare
!plexshares
!plexshares

brickfrog,

No according to admin, see the comment thread in the other post

lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/399136

brickfrog,

If PicoTorrent meets your needs then you’re fine, it’s a great torrent client.

I tend to use qBittorrent, Deluge, rTorrent/ruTorrent.

Below is the list of desktop/server torrent clients people have mentioned over on the old subreddit.

I’ll just add that it’s best to avoid current versions of BitTorrent/uTorrent/Vuze nowadays. (Vuze users should migrate to BiglyBT)

brickfrog,

See the earlier posts

lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/423973

lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/113452

lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/95783

Most people have settled on TorrentGalaxy, 1337x, Rutracker, etc. Or work your way into private torrent trackers, they were always better than RARBG anyway.

brickfrog,

There are a few, not too active at the moment but worth starting a thread there if you have tracker specific discussions

trackers@lemmy.world

trackers@kbin.social

torrent_trackers@lemmy.ml

trackers@lemmy.ml

brickfrog,

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35555

(first time linking a post here, not sure if it's correct)

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