This was something I suggested for this instance, since there is even a guide for hosting an onion service: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/135234

Maybe /u/db0 will have more time after the spam settles down, but it seems he’s got a lot on his plate at the moment between being an admin and doing AI stuff.

I often look for older or niche content, and even for that I still often have plenty of takers on public trackers. That my machine is port forwarded might have something to do with it. I’d say I have a “medium” amount of disk space and only stop seeding when I delete the files, but sometimes I limit the upload rate to keep some for other activities.

Have OSes evolved enough that encrypted DNS is available? If so, would someone with enough technical knowledge link a guide on how to set it up within a popular OS?

I imagine that even if you plug in one of the suggested DNS provider IP addresses into your network settings, the OS is still going to make plaintext requests that your ISP can snoop on unless you require it to be encrypted somehow.

Depending on the content, 10 or 20 comes quick

Note that H.264 and H.265 are the video compression standards and x264 and x265 are FOSS video encoding libraries developed by VideoLAN.

I agree, and with FOSS you have the opportunity to contribute back to the software. One time I was using commercial software and reached out to the company about how to decode a special file format for use in a script and the response was that it was “proprietary”. If it was FOSS or even if they just had given me the information, I would have contributed to growing the ecosystem.

Software could have trojans. But why not music?

New account created today, yeah that’s fishy.

Torrents use cryptographic hashes to verify the torrent content, so if he seeds it to you, then your torrent client will validate data he gives you. If the data doesn’t verify or if he wants you to do anything else like clicking a link, avoid and report.

It’s sometimes possible to find the same files on other download sites, but “retrieving dead torrents” in general isn’t possible without having the same data.

This was data from pushshift before Reddit nuked it in March. You can find this torrent (called “Reddit comments/submissions 2005-06 to 2022-12”) and others, including 2023-01 and 2023-02, on https://academictorrents.com by user Watchful1.

Thanks! For anyone curious, the links to academictorrents version of the Reddit archives are available on /r/datahoarder and probably their lemmy.ml instance too.

Note that Mozilla VPN uses Mullvad’s network under the hood. Also, depending on your device you should be able to block connections that don’t use the VPN. On Android, the “kill switch” can be found in the settings as described here: https://mullvad.net/en/help/using-mullvad-vpn-on-android/#block-without-vpn

Pushshift is down now? Is there a data hoarder who has a backup of all the historical Reddit data that we can seed?

Use Tor Browser if you need anonymity, which isn’t offered by private browsing mode or most other extensions. In case you don’t want to route through the Tor network, Mullvad Browser offers the same fingerprinting resistance techniques as Tor Browser.

Proton is a good service, but their years of reluctance to include more anonymous payment methods such as Monero and the inability to register an account from an anonymous IP address without a phone number makes me question the relative benefit of using them as a VPN.

These do not by themselves result in a compromise of anonymity if Proton is trustworthy and the Swiss laws still enable them to disassociate your identity (given via payments) and your account usage, but regulation and governments tend to become stricter rather than looser over time and I would demand more from a service you are entrusting with all your internet traffic.

If you want to learn Python, the tutorial in the documentation is a thoroughly excellent starting point. Reading the documentation (the most up-to-date, deliberate content) will make you far more of a Python wizard than codecademy ever could.

There is a group trying to copy it at therarbg.com. Standards are not as high as rarbg as it appears and content is still being imported, but the interface is familiar.

You can also try bitsearch.to, which is just a general torrent indexer.

Neither is as complete as rarbg was. Ideally therarbg and others will come to fill its place.