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.
What was Empress's last Denuvo-breaking release?
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?
It must be a bug. For me, I didn't see the subscribe button at all yesterday, just a plaintext "Subscribe" that I couldn't click. When visiting one of the posts, the button finally appeared today.
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.
The link to the above release post has the wrong caption for me. Its title says "Ambulance hits Oregon cyclist, rushes him to hospital, then sticks him with $1,800 bill, lawsuit says - Divisions by zero"