Great comment!

There’s similar legal issues with the “right to a private copy” many European countries have. Those laws were made to allow people to make a copy of their media, in case the original breaks. Important to note is that those private copies weren’t allowed to be distributed to anyone, not even lent to a friend.

This worked well at the time for cassettes and VHS, which did break occasionally.

But at some point most CDs came with copy protection, which got broken pretty quickly. But at least in Germany, they are still considered “working copy protection” and thus are illegal to circumvent, even for a otherwise legal private copy.

The same is the case with Switch games: Copyright owners use copy protection to make otherwise legal use cases illegal.

E.g. Nintendo made it so that Switch games can only be played by decrypting the ROMs, which is illegal for anyone except Nintendo.

At least that’s their standpoint which was never tested in court but it’s not unlikely that it’d be accepted.

You’d need a second Signal instance. There’s only global privacy options.

You could write a s script which follows jellyfin logs line for line and greps/seds/awks for a keyword corresponding to starting playback. Then you could extract the file path.

It’s also likely that it’s possible to start your specific scheduled task by API like the following [1].

[1] https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/discussions/12224

PS: I don’t know whether it’s possible to run a scheduled task for a specific file only. But I’ve already written the above anyway.

Good point. I’ll have to stop using immutable and stay with atomic (and declarative).

Interestingly /bin and /usr/bin are not in PATH by default, so /bin/chewy can only be executed by its path directly and won’t affect the systems reliability.

Fully agreed. On almost any atomic distro, /home/user is writeable like usual, so any attacker is able to persist itself by editing ~/.bashrc and putting a binary somewhere.

NixOS is immutable and atomic, but it isn’t image-based.

Immutable simply refers to how the running system configuration can’t be changed by simply putting a file somewhere (e.g. copy a binary to /bin, which is a bad idea).

For example, Fedora Atomic and derivatives are image based, although they are more flexible than the A/B types like SteamOS.

OpenSUSE MicroOS uses btrfs snapshots to apply updates atomically, and is more flexible than most image based immutable distros.

Edit: But I don’t think those terms have a single definition, so how would you differentiate these terms?

There’s pretty much a single DP -> HDMI adapter that supports VRR by Cable Matters. Officially I don’t think VRR should work over adapters, or at least other manufacturers don’t invest the time to make it work.

MPV also supports pipewire.

For no particular reason, except for btrfs taking up less RAM. I don’t know their specs, but the lack of RAM was my reason for deciding against btrfs for my large non-mirrored HDD.

I personally really like btrfs for my large media HDD because it makes copying large files an instantaneous operation.

Also, it’s useful to have 6 hourly snapshots in case *arr upgrades something or anything else happens (btrbk).

It’s not necessary almost any time, but the times I needed it a CoW FS with snapshots came in handy.

Edit: Also, btrfs does check summing, so it’s possible to detect bit rot.

Official support for any distro is not that important, imo. If they actually deliver a native GeForce NOW app for SteamOS, it’ll likely work on other distros too (unless Nvidia actively blocks them/only supports Steam Deck controls specifically).

Hopefully they’ll release the app on Steam directly, or better yet, to flathub. If they only release a script to install it specifically on the Steam Deck, like the beta script they currently have, I’ll be disappointed.

Because YouTube pays Louis Rossmann, compared to selfhosting video which costs tremendous amounts of money through bandwidth.

Er kündigte daraufhin in den sozialen Medien an, Deutschland verlassen zu wollen.

Damit hat er es der Polizei aber auch sehr einfach gemacht, ihn zu schnappen. Wenigstens bis nach dem Abflug zu warten, wäre doch nicht zu viel gewesen.

Wo sollen Gartenwerkzeuge und Fahrräder denn sonst hin? Muss man dann zusätzlich zur Garage einen Fahrradunterstand und einen Schuppen danebenbauen?

Oder kann man einen Schuppen mit Garagentor bauen, bei dem dann alles rein darf? Oder sind dort dann wieder Autos verboten?

Das geht in die gleich Richtung wie man darf nicht in Schrebergärten übernachten. Regelmäßig übernachten verbieten ist ja ok, aber generelle Verbote sind mM. nicht richtig.

Mir scheint es, als ob diese Grenzkontrollen unverhältnismäßig wenig Wirkung zeigen. Der Schaden für die Wirtschaft und fehlende notwendige Investitionen bei der Polizei sollte mMn. völlig ausreichen, um die Kontrollen nicht mehr zu verlängern.

Aber Innenministerin Faeser macht typische InnenministerInnendinge — heiße Luft und Überwachung.

There’re a few open german torrent trackers. [1]

Immortuos is application only, but they have an english language interface, so if your on other private trackers already, I recommend applying.

[1] https://www.sb-innovation.de/showthread.php?35824-Liste-aktueller-deutscher-Torrent-Tracker-V2

Your points about torrents being set to private and enabling/disabling DHT are good.

Semi-private content is available publicly

Do you mean the content pages on the tracker are publicly available? Because there’re private trackers with no original content, so I don’t think this is a differentiating factor between semi-private and private trackers.

As you’ve written, there’re trackers categorized as semi-private on prowlarr where an account is required to view anything besides the login page.

It depends on what trackers you’re on and how much storage you have, and how risk averse you are.

First of all, binding your torrent client to the VPN interface should prevent all leakage.

Additional precautions like running your torrent client behind a container like gluetun should make it pretty much impossible to leak your IP to adversaries. Or if you have a plain Linux server, running the torrent client in it’s own network namespace also achieves the same result.

The other big reason to get a seedbox is to be able to maintain your ratio. This depends on your tracker.

E.g. I have enough storage for a large enough seeding size and enought torrents to get sufficient bonus points. Combined with a bit of upload here and there, I get enough upload/buffer to snatch what I want.

On many trackers, large enough torrents are often freeleech, so they don’t count towards the download stat anyway.

tl;dr

If you bound your torrent client to the VPN, I’d seed with your NAS unless you don’t get enough upload to maintain your ratio on your specific private trackers. Storage is way cheaper on your NAS.

Semi-private just refers to how easy it is to join them. E.g. rutracker is considered a semi-private tracker, because it requires an account, but always allows registrations and does not enforce any ratio.

In that sense I was wrong in calling TL a semi-private tracker, because TL does require maintaining a ratio. But given it is possible to simply join via their seedbox offerings, it is not as private as some other trackers, which require proofs of good behaviour on other trackers and/or an application process.

Edit: Public: no registration required
Semi-private: registration required, but always possible; lax ratio rules
Private: registration required, mostly through invites/applications; anti-leech ratio rules

There’s a continuously updated list of german private trackers [1].

AnimeWorld is the best german anime tracker and is currently open until the end of the year.

Immortuos is the best tracker with continously open applications, but they require solid proof of known good trackers.

TFA does not require as much proof and requests get filled quickly.

BTF, WoT are impossible to get into. TS has really strict requirements, but they do take applications.

Also, there’s no invite route like on many english “cabal” trackers.

Otherwise, usenet has more german content than TFA (and other lower tier trackers). The usenet board FileLeechers will be open from 2024-12-31 16:00 to 2025-01-01 02:00. For automation (arr*) SceneNZBs is the german usenet indexer.

PS: Remember to bind your torrent client to the VPN interface, if you want to use one.

[1] https://www.sb-innovation.de/showthread.php?35824-Liste-aktueller-deutscher-Torrent-Tracker-V2