I don’t understand how private trackers are supposed to be secure. They cannot guarantee that they keep out all bad actors and that means they’re basically the same as public trackers, just more exclusive and with a slightly lower risk because of the barrier of entry. I used MyAnonamouse in the past and back then they weren’t big fans of VPNs. But I will never use any tracker without a VPN.

I tried a few alternatives, but the Goodreads import wasn’t working well for any of them and I miss the two people who have very similar taste to my own. Sadly I don’t know them, we just connected over Reddit at some point and it feels weird asking them to migrate.

But that’s just the Mi box with a different name…

https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_planets

Agreed. But it’s gotten a lot better. I think there hasn’t been a release this year without subs in the container.

You run a petabyte Synology at home?

The plumbing also doesn’t define which pronouns someone prefers.

MAM used to be quite anti-VPN but I haven’t used it in years, so no idea what their take is now. They tracked quotas and stuff through your IP and required you to be online on IRC. Great content and community, but a lot of hoops to jump through.

You are wrong. You are talking about copyright infringement, which is a civil matter and not a criminal one. That means the party whose rights have been infringed must prove that and sue you. But you won’t go to jail if convicted, you’ll have to pay damages. That’s why the Netherlands, for example, used to be safe for torrenting. It wasn’t legal, but copyright holders did not have the right to get account details from providers for IP addresses that were caught sharing content (sharing, not downloading) and thus had no one to sue. If it were a criminal matter, the state would be after you and they have a lot more rights.

“Theft” has a legal definition that at least in my jurisdiction is not met by downloading copyrighted materials. So, no, copying is not stealing.

How safe are private trackers? I am very worried about getting mail from a lawyer if I use my real IP for sharing.

I used to have a command line app that could take a list of Spotify URLs, your credentials and allowed you to bulk download everything directly from Spotify. In my opinion the tools that use Youtube are worthless because they rarely work for the things I want. But I forgot the name of that tool and have been desperately looking for it every since, without success. This thread prompted me to look again and I found https://github.com/casualsnek/onthespot which does basically the same, but with a GUI. So far it works fine.

Yes. Now that you mentioned it, I remember a post about the archive.ph people being dicks and Cloudflare not supporting their dickery.

Strangely only works for me with a VPN. Without the VPN I get an endless Captcha loop.

I mean, that only says something about the money making part and not the pure usability. For many people the commercial options are a gimmick, sure. But are these options, with a clear focus on milking the customers for money, really the ultimate state for voice assistants? I’d argue they are not. There is a space for free voice assistants that let users control their data and that still provide a value. Beyond users with disabilities that make it hard to impossible to use computers, voice assistants won’t ever do something you cannot do with a computer (which includes smartphones). If that makes you consider them a gimmick then I don’t have an argument. But I think it is nice and convenient to be able to use a computer with your voice while doing something else.

I mean, that’s like your personal opinion and not some objective fact.

I have no numbers, but with the rise in bad actors I assume that at least the larger hosts who have their own data centers do it.

IP spoofing on the internet won’t get you very far. So, no, this won’t work. I don’t even see a scenario where this would make sense.

Here’s an example docker-compose.yaml for gluetun with Nordvpn and qBittorrent"

version: "3"
services:
  gluetun:
    image: qmcgaw/gluetun
    container_name: gluetun
    cap_add:
      - NET_ADMIN
    devices:
      - /dev/net/tun:/dev/net/tun
    ports:
      # this makes qBittorrent's web UI accessible on localhost:8080
      - "127.0.0.1:8080:8080"
    environment:
      # See https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun-wiki/tree/main/setup#setup
      - VPN_SERVICE_PROVIDER=nordvpn
      - VPN_TYPE=wireguard
      - WIREGUARD_PRIVATE_KEY=aGFoYWltbm90dGhhdGR1bWJnb2RkYW1taXQ=
      - TZ=Europe/Berlin
      # Server list updater
      # See https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun-wiki/blob/main/setup/servers.md#update-the-vpn-servers-list
      - UPDATER_PERIOD=
      - SERVER_COUNTRIES=Germany
      - SERVER_REGIONS=p2p
  qbittorrent:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/qbittorrent:latest
    container_name: qbittorrent
    network_mode: "service:gluetun"
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=Europe/Berlin
      - WEBUI_PORT=8080
    volumes:
      - ./config:/config
      - ./downloads:/downloads
      - ./torrents:/torrents
    restart: unless-stopped

You can use qBittorrent’s API (enable it in the settings) to add magnet links. I have a small wrapper tool for that, so I can just click on a magnet link in the browser and it gets added to the queue.

Cool, I’ll give those a try!