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Well, yeah. Private network sysadmins tend to act like a big hammer. Torrents can be terrible on a network, particularly Linux distro torrents, especially if the hardware itself was put together on a shoestring budget. That said, a lot of universities are mirrors and there isn't really a need to go outside the university network to obtain that stuff. Not all the time, though.

While we're on the topic of open source products, may I suggest the SoloKey:

https://solokeys.com

Must be a legacy thing. All the tracker guides instructed users to turn all that off.

Red Dawn

Been using KeePassXC (and before that, KeePassX) since I abandoned LastPass about a decade ago. The apps integrate with Nextcloud perfectly and at least for me, it's a breeze. I use it for TOTP too, and I second the recommendation of a hardware token for an additional layer of security. There are some USBc options that work on phones (I'm using a pixel 7 pro).

Also, government reach is infinite. If you're using them Internet, the government has your traffic. This isn't a conspiracy, it's a real thing. Go look up Room 641a.

Generally there is a centralized "tracker" that creates a torrent on the fly specifically for your user. I've you load the torrent and connect to the tracker via sometime like transmission or rtorrent or deluge, the tracker provides you with a list of peers (as far as I understand it). There's usually some settings you need to change on your torrent tool, like disarming different, DHT, etc - the sure usually has instructions for beginners. The communication between you and your peers is encrypted, so deep packet inspection at the ISP level is not possible. It also significantly reduces, but not eliminates, the risk a particular torrent is a honeypot.

I've been doing this for 20 years and I've never received a notice about torrenting from my ISPs. However, people I know that got stuff from open places like Pirate Bay and the like did get notices. The difference being I always used private trackers.

Seeding is safe when you aren't using P2P discovery functions. If it is a private tracker, and everything is encrypted, you'll never have any issues. Stay away from public torrents that aren't explicitly controlled by a tracker unless it's freely available data (like a Linux distro).

Once again, Glenn Greenwald is rimming his Russian handlers in print form.

Surprised so few people use Yacy.

I've seen this happen too. It's sort of a double edged sword - devs need to take testing seriously and have coverage metrics. However, this doesn't negate the need for QA particularly in software that has a human experience associated with it. Writing code and having it work correctly doesn't mean that the user experience itself will be correct. For whatever reason, executives don't understand this and software gets shipped with more bugs than ever because there's little to no QA.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/7/7/17542878/jim-jordan-richard-strauss-ohio

Wait, Jim Jordan, the guy who covered up child rape? The Jim Jordan who covered up child rape and is a member of the US House of Representatives? That Jim Jordan?

Except that there are multiple active communities for different topics, and it's nice to know that they all exist, and would be helpful for new users. Selfhost/selfhosted/homelab are all examples of this in the wild currently.

Indeed, which is sort if what I'm proposing - tagging communities and magazines and whatever the next thing will be called (as other Reddit-like platforms are developed). It sounds like people have already thought about that already, then, but it hasn't been implemented at the post, use or community level.

Well, it sort of is a Reddit replacement. Nomenclature has changed, but if you even look at release notes, they reference Reddit many times, so those folks opinions aren't really impactful.

Also, it's not really relevant that the subreddit originators choose specifically which community or magazine best represents them. There's multiple servers, and each server could have a similar community. People split for one reason or another (bad mods is the biggest reason - /r/Portland is a classic example of this) and it's more important to surface the existence of those groups than it is to please the subreddit folks.

Lol just remember that all people that vote Republican support this.

Yes, they use a webfinger on the .well-known path.

I think what they mean is a service to provide the webfinger response in a customizable manner. I know for me right now, I'm just using wildcards in nginx to handle it for the ActivityPub path, but it's not really ideal because it won't work for other activitypub services as far as I can tell.

I've thought about doing this. It seems simple enough, though it would need a front end to be user friendly. I could build the rest api pretty quickly.