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  • I wonder how much money Plex still makes through their lifetime purchases. Is it that they were struggling and then made bad business decisions with the aim on increasing revenue (ad supported video on demand)? Or was it the other way around?

    In the 80s new systems usually came with new OSs, which required porting software it. Thus a lifetime license was practically limited.

    I wouldn’t be as opposed to a subscription model if it was cheaper and they focused on their actual core product, not all the other fluff around. 5€/m is a bit much given they don’t pay for my bandwidth. And if they didn’t store my media info, history etc…



  • I don’t think Usenet is really more difficult to use than Torrents. While writing I noticed you have to pay for a Usenet provider (and likely the indexer too), which does make it more difficult than torrent. But only if you live in a region where piracy is not persecuted and you can skip the VPN.

    Usenet: You buy a provider and put it’s credentials into sabNZBd. You have an indexer, which gives you a .nzb, which you put into sabNZBd to download your files. If your provider is missing pieces the download might fail.

    Torrent: You buy a VPN and bind qBittorrent to it. You have an tracker, which gives you a .torrent, which you out into qBittorrent to download your files. If there’s no seeder or you aren’t port forwarded the download might fail.




  • Es kommt aufs Threatmodel drauf an. Ich habe nicht per Monero bezahlt, dementsprechend hoffe ich einfach, dass sie nicht erwischt werden.

    Da man aber nur NZB Dateien herunterlädt, die keine Urheberrecht geschützten Daten enthalten, sollte eine potentielle Klage sehr unrealistisch sein. Da man beim Usenet nur herunterlädt, kann man sowieso nur für den Wert des Films verklagt werden. Also z.B. 30€ pro Film, keine 300-900€ wie beim Torrenten.

    Wenn es um anonymes bezahlen geht, ist Monero das Mittel der Wahl. Ich habe seit ein paar Jahren noch ein paar wenige Dutzend Euro in Monero übrig, die praktisch im Wert gleichgeblieben sind, d.h. es taugt als Zahlungsmittel verhältnismäßig gut. Es ist wichtig (Sicherheit, Anonymität), Monero im eigenen Wallet zu speichern, und nicht auf der Börse wo sie erworben wurden [1]. Stelle nur sicher, alle Passwörter etc zu speichern.

    [1] https://www.getmonero.org/downloads/





  • Most public trackers don’t take uploads from unknown people to combat spam/malware.

    If you create a torrent and enable DHT/PEX it might get indexed by something like btdigg.com for people to find. It won’t be available on sites like 1337x.to. The advantage is your free to create a single torrent or any other organization you desire.

    Private trackers generally accept uploads or make it simple to request upload access. But they have upload rules you must follow.

    If you want to automate uploading there’s Upload-Assistant. UA makes it easy by creating a proper name and uploading to multiple trackers automatically.

    In any case you must have port forwarding configured to greatly increase the likelyhood of others actually being able to download from you. If you don’t want to do that on your router a VPN with port forwarding is the private option (ProtonVPN, AirVPN, IVPN, njalla and few others).




  • NixOS container is using systemd-nspawn/systemd container. Both are using Linux namespaces and cgroups.

    A disadvantage of NixOS container is that it only supports rootful containers, i.e. root inside the container has the same privileges as root outside the container. This is also true for docker unless configured otherwise.

    OCI containers (Docker, Podman) are often created by upstream themselves, which you might prefer.

    I configure containers by using the podman backend (default) and virtualisation.oci-containers.conrainers, which supports rootless podman [1]. Imo rootless is the best and most secure way to run containers on NixOS.

    Edit: I prefer NixOS packages if available and only use OCI (Docker) containers if not. The main reason being the simplified declarative configuration through NixOS options, which can also be used inside NixOS container.

    [1] virtualisation.oci-containers.containers.<name>.podman.user




  • Streamlining cross posting is a good idea, as long as someone actually read the post and posts it with a purpose. On second thought, I think cross posting is simple enough, given that titles are usually auto completed.

    I’m generally against automatic cross posting bots, as they usually post duplicates, bad articles (instead of a proper source). Additionally, they often flood communities with an amount of content they are too small to handle. I.e. a lack of users to vote on posts let’s good articles drown in a flood of mediocre posts. This can kill communities as they feel even more empty than with fewer posts but more comments.



  • Für Usenet braucht man nicht unbedingt einen VPN, da man nur direkt vom Server der Anbieter herunterlädt. Da kein automatisches Hochladen stattfindet, ist die mögliche Strafe grundsätzlich schon sehr beschränkt.

    Da nur die Usenet-Betreiber wissen, was man herunterlädt, gibt es auch keine Abmahnungen von irgendwelchen Kanzleien. Die Usenet-Anbieter folgen DMCA aber verpfeifen dich genau so wenig wie irgendwelche anderen Hoster (mega, 1fichier, …).

    Bei Torrents ist es wichtig, einen VPN mit port forwarding (AirVPN, ProtonVPN) zu verwenden und den Torrent-client so einzustellen, dass nur der VPN genutzt wird (“to bind the torrent client to the VPN interface”).

    Ich persönlich habe Usenet downloader/Indexer auch hinter einem VPN, aber erst seit kurzem.

    @Lumidaub@feddit.org @Lefrog@discuss.tchncs.de