Unfortunately there’s not much discussion of open trackers in this community, but on that other site there’s an “OpenSignups” sub you could keep an eye on. Watch for general trackers to make a post, then you can built a reputation/ratio on those trackers and continue your way up the ladder

Either that or just watch the sign up page for the site you want to see when it’s open.

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Use it as an opportunity to find new music and fill those playlists out with a little more variety

Tools like https://ipleak.net/ provide torrent leak checkers. You need a browser to view the results, but they provide a magnet link you use in your torrent client to assess what information it is giving out.

In theory if everything is set up right it should show exclusively IP/location information associated with your VPN

As part of a websites DNS info they have to provide a TTL (time to live). This value can be just about anything but is often in the 30s to 5m range, and serves as an instruction on how long a client should cache the IP address locally before checking for updates.

This is because IP addresses can change, and you don’t want to experience hours of downtime for all clients every time your IP changes.

Every time your client queries your tracker for server updates (every few minutes, give or take, based on tracker preferences) it should follow your system DNS settings, which should involve checking your local cache, then going to the upstream server indicated in your system DNS settings.

If your system is set to a DNS server outside of your local network (e.g., 8.8.8.8) that request should go through your VPN

If your system is set to use a local DNS server (e.g., 192.168.X.X…), typically either done through something like a pi-hole, or if your router sets itself as the DNS server then forwards all requests, this MIGHT create a DNS leak around your VPN.

A good VPN like Mullvad should have an option to force their own DNS settings when enabled to prevent this leak.

Honestly there’s so much wonderful art out there not created by Nazis, I don’t know that it’s worth the energy to pirate Nazi music.

I totally understand the moral pirate argument, I just don’t have time to enjoy all of the games, movies, and music from artists I support. To waste what time I have engaging with content from people I find morally repugnant is just not where I’m investing

Doom is the only right answer. That soft pink mist as the light catches the spray of blood from your vanquished enemies.

I once saw a black cat.

Good thing I have no friends to interact with then! Take that, Microsoft!

At first glance I thought this was rimworld and you were running some organ harvesting operation of epic proportions.

Idk, but if I had to guess, the answer is almost always money.

Because reading articles is hard, better to blindly trust a headline and summary comment. People on Lemmy wouldn’t lie to me, would they?

How many websites do you browse with links to truly illegal content?

If you live in a country with truly abysmal human rights, definitely don’t bother with this plugin, but in most cases you should be fine on the illegal side.

Even if somehow the website you’re browsing has some super sketchy ad to buyillegaldrugshere.com or whatever, to get in trouble with the law in most civilized places you’d have to actually buy the illegal drugs, not just ping the illegal drugs IP. Especially since you can pretty easily prove to a judge that your system fetches ad links automatically and without further engagement.

Not saying it can’t happen, just that it’s really unlikely you would be served an ad for something so illegal just clicking on it is a liability. The literally only case I can think of coming close is CSAM, but even then, if you’re regularly browsing websites that advertise CSAM, maybe find other websites to occupy your time? And I can just about guarantee any website serving CSAM ads is already doing illegal shit, so you should probably be more worried about that than an ad-click…

Came over during the great 3rd party app API debacle. It didn’t even make the list. Am I old now?

Even setting seed to infinite, if there’s just one other capable seeder, good odds no individual sends any other individual a full file.

You’re just sending jibberish chunks everywhere, not your fault if someone assembles it all from multiple sources, right?

Yes, it absolutely can, it’s super easy! Just swap your Minecraft .jar with Paper and it’ll do the rest. It’s a tiny bit harder to go back, but only marginally.

Out of the box, aside from huge performance benefits, Paper is virtually indistinguishable from vanilla, but it also opens the door to a whole world of easy-to-use server-side plugins.

Edit: (you should still make a backup before swapping, just in case)

CPU intensive servers like Minecraft are where you start to run into problems with older hardware. If it’s just you on there, a 10 year old CPU is fine, but if you’ve got a few friends, the server may start to struggle to keep up.

Not sure how recently you ran this, or what all your were running, but in the past couple of years Paper has hit some pretty major milestones in unlocking threaded processing. Barring some sort of spammy 0-tick redstone nonsense or over the top plugins, I’d wager a Raspberry Pi 4 could handle up to about 5 or 6 friends without seeing any TPS dips. Its really remarkable how far they’ve pushed performance recently.

Could I get a larg HDD and ad it in an enclosure to the Mini PC to handle the media volume?

Like an external USB drive? Absolutely.

I mean, this is c/piracy, you can pretty easily go download a non-HDR version of everything. If you do want HDR just not DV, most decent DV encodes also have a HDR10 fallback which should kick in if your device doesn’t support DV.

Alternatively, I’m pretty sure there are plenty of tools out there like DoVi Tool that can help you convert the HDR metadata to HDR10/10+ if that’s what you want.

It’s much lower risk, someone dedicated could prove you accessed a seedbox, but it would be a lot harder to prove you violated a copyright