There’s “Die Biene Maja 1975” as a 10bit x265 BluRay encode from the well respected p2p group ABJ on the usenet indexer SceneNZBs and the german anime torrent tracker AnimeWorld.

ABJ makes large releases (74 GB per season), but they are basically indistinguishable from a BluRay remux.

Buying your way into TL via seedbox promo is a solid way to get started. This won’t help for other sites but TL is miles better than all other public sites still available.

I fail to see the problem with not being able to seed to 1:1. Most sites provide points for seeding over time which can either be used to increase upload or buy free leech tokens (which allow you to download anyway). It should be more than enough to download what you want once you have a large enough seeding size.

The BitTorrent protocol prioritizes fast seeds to achieve the best possible transfer speed. It’s goal is not for everyone to be seeding to the same ratio.

Also the best way to help the network is to keep content available. For this purpose the speed of it’s seeds is not as important.

Jellyfin isn’t available for Samsung TVs or Hisense TVs. Yes, this can be solved by any Android TV box but they likely don’t want to.

I’ve given someone a FireTV stick and they still used the built in OS until I gave it to someone else. (And then they wonder why I can’t do anything about ads for them, but that’s besides the point.)

“given the same source code, build environment and build instructions, any party can recreate bit-by-bit identical copies of all specified artifacts”

NixOS does not guarantee bit-by-bit identical results. NixOS hashes the inputs and provides a reproducible build environment but this does not necessarily mean the artifacts are identical.

E.g. if a build somehow includes a timestamp, each build will have a different checksum.

[…] what happens when everyone starts using it and torrents are no longer downloaded and properly seeded?

It’s already happening. More and more people stream torrents and don’t seed back which kills public torrents. Imo Debrid is not as big of an issue as they don’t necessarily tax the P2P network as much as someone only streaming torrents and automatically dumping them directly.

Additionally downloading torrents after you watched them does not make much sense as you’d tax the network without benefit (unless you seed to say a ratio of 2+).

If you currently have torrents there’s nothing stopping you from continuing to seed them if you don’t need the storage. Long term seeders are especially important for keeping torrents alive and you won’t need to redownload content you’ve watched just to seed it.

As long as you seed to 1.0 ratio (e.g. 1GB up, 1GB down) per torrent you don’t hurt the network. More means you compensate for someone not seeding.

It’s great to see another open source OIDC provider (with more features). I’ve set up Pocket ID which is awesome because of it’s simplicity and it’s great.

I do the this and it’s great. An entire distro takes up only a few GB. Many graphical installers don’t support installing on an existing btrfs partition (or subvolume) and want to create a new one. This can often be solved by manual intervention.

Hate the players not the game. Players being the rights holders.

Yeah. Piracy being legal or Piracy not being sanctioned are two entirely different things. Idk about the former, but the latter is the case in many countries.

E.g. downloading and streaming is legal in Switzerland, while it’s illegal in the EU. But it’s not sanctioned, so nobody cares.

Uploading/seeding is illegal in both regions, thus torrenting copyrighted material is illegal. But Switzerland doesn’t really prosecute torrenting, so nobody cares.

I found the guide/examples on their website a bit irritating at first (that’s on me) but it works well once understood and configured.

Yes. 127.0.0.0 is the localhost. This is the IP the container is listening on. Even if there was no firewall it wouldn’t allow any connection except from the host. If it’s set to 0.0.0.0 it means it’ll allow connections from any IP (which might not be an issue depending on your setup).

The reverse proxy runs on localhost anyway, so any other IPs have no reason to ever have access.

It’s mostly to allow the reverse proxy on localhost to connect to the container/service, while blocking all other hosts/IPs.

This is especially important when using docker as it messes with iptables and can circumvent firewall like e.g. ufw.

You’re right that it doesn’t increase security on case of a compromised container. It’s just about outside connections.

If Cloudflare wants to operate in a jurisdiction it has to follow its laws. They can fight them in court, but if a court orders them to do something they’ll likely comply in some way or another.

E.g. UK wanted a backdoor in E2EE iCloud, so Apple disabled E2EE in the UK.

Some I haven’t yet found in this thread:

• rootless podman
• container port mapping to localhost (e.g. 127.0.0.1:8080:8080)
• systemd services with many of its sandboxing features (PrivateTmp, …)

I do the same, but with Wireguard instead of OpenVPN. The performance is much better in my experience and it sucks less battery life.

Yes, but the point is keeping the quality the same. If you reencode a 5000 kbps x264 Blu-ray encode to 3000kbps x265 you will have visibly worse quality.
If you encode the corresponding Blu-ray remux with x265 to 3000 kbps the result will likely be nearly indistinguishable from the 5000 kbps x264 encode.

For OP: I also prefer smaller releases so I download mostly h265 WEB-DLs. They are usually around 3000-5000 kbps (1.3-2.3GB/hour) and look fine (especially as they usually come with HDR).
Redownloading WEB-DLs in the right size will give you the best quality for the small size (and saves energy, depending on where you live).

I’ve never used them but I heard about them in the context of private DNS and VPS hosting. E.g. they act as a middleman to shield domain the shield the client from authorities (at least to some extent — they still have to follow the laws).

Given their focus on privacy I’d trust them for torrenting at least as much as the other options. As a first VPN I’d say it’s great because of their flat 5€/m price. A few years ago I used Mullvad for that purpose — until they removed port forwarding.

I just want to mention that the forwarded port provided by the VPN must match the one configured in the torrent client. Buying a VPN which offers port forwarding is not enough.

Not all torrent sites require an open port. E.g. MAM works without an open port. It majorly impacts your ability to seed) but that isn’t a problem because of how much bonus points you get. TL does not either.