Do I give a shit? I’ll pirate everything I can till the end of time and if I’m feeling generous I’ll donate to the artists on band camp or something. Nobody but the smaller artists need my money anyway

Which is why not every provider supports BYOIP

SMR vs CMR and drive speeds

There are providers who are OK with public trackers and don’t care about DMCAs.

In principle, torrenting over IPv6 is the same as doing it over IPv4, it’s just that there’s a lot of IPv6 addresses so you might find it cheaper to buy IPv6. Yes there are some differences in the technology but from purely an operational POV, it’s not very different.

The reason I mentioned bringing your own IPs is related to the reason why providers don’t like public torrents: it pollutes their IP space and puts their IP ranges on blacklists. But if you bring your own IPs, suddenly the provider (in theory) is safe and doesn’t care as much. YMMV of course, send an email to your provider of choice to ask more.

I have seen seedboxes with 3, or maybe 4TB of storage under $10 (don’t remember). And that’s recent (about a month ago). Yes, unlimited uploads are definitely an issue. Such cases are best combated with buying an IPv6 slot and putting that on a VPS with a provider friendly to such things (they exist at reasonable prices)

I tend to seed rarer stuff till my ratio reaches 10, sometimes 15 on a case-by-case basis

Get an older Antec cade on Ebay, the one with 6 DVD bays. Load it up as a homeserver + seedbox + media burner.

Get a seedbox with storage. About $5-$10 a month can get you quite decent boxes in torrent friendly countries

I guess you could use something like those new immutable distros to move away from state and related vulnerabilities. TBH there are plenty of hardening guides for Debian.

Or you could use any hardened version of Fedora which gets security fixes quicker, and then harden it some more yourself. The good part about Debian is that you are free to use SysVInit, I do not know if you could do that on Fedora. I do not think Systemd is a massive risk (if they have reached Systemd you have many other, bigger problems to think of).

I think I should study some more about Fedora. I run k3s on top and will go through their CISA hardening guide at some point to round things out.

Please tell me you’re using Oracle /s

I need to try this, thanks

Setting SELinux to permissive is not a good security practice

Such a beautiful distribution. Very happy that it keeps going!

Anybody who thinks Bitcoin has any semblance of privacy is a fool

Why not port knocking over TOR?

Hmm, not bad. I care more about WLB than money so this is fine.

Thanks for the tips

Exactly

We really need to push IPFS and TOR/I2P to keep these websites alive. Fuck the low barrier to entry if it means the website can just be subpoenaed

What’s the pay like for system admins in Europe on an average? Asking for mid-level (5-7 years of experience)