Where does everyone get music scene releases? I am able to find new releases OK but finding older/rare releases is tough. Are there online communities, IRC chats, torrent sites, etc?

Title from the article. Interesting article, with some good words from our DRM-free favorite Cory Doctorow.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/40754848

Hi people! I have been pirating for myself for over 30 years now, and with the ever growing size of warez and the laughable upstream limit my ISP has, i have come to the point where it's not practical to maintain a 1:1 ratio for all torrents anymore - my active torrent list keeps growing beyond practical limits, and i'm someone who wants to keep sharing things for the people after me, esp. torrents with low amounts of seeds.

I'm pretty sure that i know more than i think i do, but i would be happy about a few pointers to get started with a seedbox. i have beginner linux skills, advanced user skills, and not shy of reading manuals on how to get things to work. i have not tinkered with docker much yet, but i'm willing to learn.

Edit: From what i've learned and seen i tend towards an dedicated server since i might want to host other services for myself too, so suggestions for what hoster to look at are welcome!

Hi, I've found some resources to Jailbreak the Nintendo Switch. However I've got some bad experience with jailbreaking with nintendo stuff. Futhermore, my Switch is updated, and it seems to not be a good thing.

Do you have some more updated resources to do so ? Do you have some advice ?

• https://gbatemp.net/threads/ns-usbloader-another-one-tinfoil-and-goldleaf-usb-installer.533394/
• https://developersu.blogspot.com/2019/02/ns-usbloader-en.html
• https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/NS-USBloader_Switch
• https://www.logic-sunrise.com/dossiers-et-tutoriaux-1148110-installation-de-fichier-nsp-xci-ou-nsz-via-db-installer.html
• https://github.com/Huntereb/Awoo-Installer

Thank you very much

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/24356878

~~My network has reset several times and I've narrowed it down to an apparent DDOS attack. Never the same IP source, all hitting the specific port I use for incoming qBt traffic, shutting down the client doesn't help, router is getting 10-20 requests per second for idk, several hours. Is there anything I can do about this?~~

Edit: Thanks everyone, it's apparently not an attack and my router just sucks aha. It was overheating so I took its coat off. My router's log was filled with "DoS(SyN-Flooding)" messages, and according to Wikipedia that's a DDoS attack.

Been wondering if there's a place I can listen to Spatial Audio versions of music. Does anyone know any places that support spatial audio playback?

Anyone know a website where I can stream US collage basketball? Trying to watch the march madness tournament. Thanks !

Years ago someone on a certain dedicated ereader fourm shared a fixed updated stardict version of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. This is of one of the rare holy grails of digital dictionary files, as you cant find a properly working version of this dict anywhere on the usual sites just one scuffed conversion version with broken formatting.

Unfortunately it was only available a very short time before a mod removed the links on the fourm for copyright infringement policy.

So now they are gone off the public internet for good AFAIK. Every now and then I see people in the fourms asking for links to these specific files.

I was fortunate enough to save everything the generous user shared while still available and still have them locally. I would like to make these files available and easily findable to anyone who wants them. Can you please give a newbie some guidance on how to best do this?

Edit: Heres the links to the files! Thanks to all the community members who gave feedback you are all awesome!!

Internet Archive Page

.zip download, IA host

.torrent download, IA host

Torrent magnet link

what are some of the methods or guides to download or ripping videos from various sites also any way to download from premium file hosts like rapidgator and others

I'll admit, when I first started torrent I was not really familiar with how it worked and how important seeding was. I would just use magnet links without configuration to save the torrent and seed after completion. Well.. I have finally, got myself back to 1.00 after a couple months and working to try to always seed double what I get for each torrent.

Often times I was one of the few random seeders available for some of these torrents. Friendly reminder to give back because you never know when you're one of the rare cases that can complete someones long lost file download!

Nyaa.Land is my goto for manga torrents but I can't find what I'm looking for (OG Astro Boy) there. The Eng translation of the original torrents is dead.

Are there any other good sites for torrenting manga? I couldn't find anything in the Megathread.

Is retroshare the new iteration of this?

Hello, i wanted to know to what extent do the ISPs or police pursue torrenting. In the 90's it was acceptable and fairly wide-spread. I am unsure how it looks now.

I want to download a couple of videos from creators I like, to keep them in case they are ever lost later (whether due to censorship or drama, etc). What is the best method to use for getting files from youtube? bonus points especially if they result in file types that I can burn to a dvd.

Sometimes I stumble across content that I have been looking for for a while or that I know is rare or missing "out there". Might be that I snipe a rare CD from the 90s on eBay. Might be that I get my hands on some ancient software or driver CD or some old firmware images that might be relevant for retro computing. Might be that I have some scans of a repair manual or schematics that is impossible to get.

Point is: I can't exactly put that stuff on archive.org, but it feels like I should put it somewhere so that the next person searching for it has an easier time and also so that some culturally relevant things don't get lost. What is your solution to that problem?

I don't want to spend any money in buying Seedbox subscription or VPN to bypass CGNAT , or another Hard disk for extra storage space. My internet speed is 100Mbps and at best I can dedicate 200GB of my SSD cumulatively for Private Trackers.

I need Private trackers for my occasional( like 1-2 files a month of each category ) in requirements of movies, software,books, music, expensive educational courses.

Currently I have joined MAM (3 weeks back) and its so easy to maintain ratio and become VIP( next week I will) and maintain it with so less consumption of my SSD space.( I will keep seeding enough files just to maintain VIP and get enough bonus points to fulfill my occasional needs)

Which other Private trackers should I join keeping in mind the above constraints?

This is the site

How do I download the streaming media off of the site/or the media files' server?

Is there a client you guys know about that I can start using? Or is there a process to it?

Help is very appreciated! Thanks

Ahoy mateys, it's time to setup Jellyfin if you prefer not to pay for the privilege of self-hosting your own content.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/27204525

We are also changing how remote playback works for streaming personal media (that is, playback when not on the same local network as the server). The reality is that we need more resources to continue putting forth the best personal media experience, and as a result, we will no longer offer remote playback as a free feature. This—alongside the new Plex Pass pricing—will help provide those resources. This change will apply to the future release of our new Plex experience for mobile and other platforms.

I’ve been heavily debating between Steam Deck OLED and Switch OLED. My initial thought was getting a Switch OLED, let someone mod it and then download games on it (I don’t care about Nintendo’s Online).

Then I got told it might be better to get Steam Deck OLED and use emulation on it for switch games.

Now I’ve been a bit of researching on both and it seems that Steam Deck runs Linux and that the emulation isn’t really as good as it is on the PC. I don’t have any knowledge on Linux either, plus most of my games are pirated (thus Steam Library isn’t really a thing for me).

Getting the Switch OLED modded going to cost me about €150 but then I’ve been reading that the games are mostly 30FPS locked and that using cheats and/ or mods is a bit of a hassle (similar thing with getting games on it through piracy).

Price wise; Steam Deck OLED going to cost me at least €680 while Switch OLED will cost me €350 (and when Switch 2 comes it might be on sale).

I was wondering what the opinions are on Piracy community here. Which one do you recommend out of the two and why, how true are the things of what I’ve been told and read?

Note; Yes, I would like to get the Switch 2 but since it’ll take a while before it can get hacked/ modded - I don’t want to get it. I refuse to pay €60-70 for each game while they’re like 7 years old.

Some of you might have followed my earlier posts about the LCP ePub DRM. Here's another one of Terence's blog posts that I thought was great.

every once in awhile i get a bug up my butt about sharing my massive, curated library.. but every time i get distracted by the volume of steps it would take to create the necessary shit to seed and then find a place that would even take those seeds to index.

ami doin it wrong? why is it so hard? napster was easy.

I recently managed to run the stuff mentioned int he title with the help of:

• this lemmy post
• this reddit post

After having done this I wrote this script, which you can wget with: wget <link copied after right-clicking on the "Raw" button on the gist page>. (now: wget https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Vulwsztyn/b600cb0a4ced7090cb1408e718b990b0/raw/fc1396164f6395100cf2a08e14aa5cf3efdb0a52/arr.py)

Requirements:

• python
• pystache (pip install pystache)

How to run

python arr.py (it will ask you a buch of questions before doing anything. You can ofc analyse the code yourself.

What it does?

In short this will ask you for directory names including the root ARR_DIR. In the ARR_DIR it will create the media and configs directories and 3 files:

• docker-compose.yml
• .env
• openvpn.Dockerfile (optional)

You can run it in "dry run" with or without creating the files in the directory you are running it from by answering the 1st question ("Dry run?") with y.

Services in the docker compose:

• jellyfin - client to watch the media
• jellyseer - admin page to request the media from arr service
• jackett - indexer to tell arr services where to download from
• qflood - dockerised qbittorrent client
• sonarr (optional) - tv shows
• radarr (optional) - movies
• lidarr (optional) - music
• readarr (optional) - ebooks
• readarr-audio-books (optional) - audiobooks
• bazarr (optional) - subtitles
• homarr (optional) - admin page - I haven't really set it up yet
• vpn (optional)
• heimdall (optional) - admin page to aggregate links to all the services

You can see the flowchart for similar setup here

VPN

If you don't tell the script not to use vpn it will

I managed to use th openvpn service with ProtonVPN (which is free for one device). You can use any other if you know how.

How to use?

The script will tell you but in short:

• create protonvpn account
• download the .ovpn files from https://account.protonvpn.com/downloads
• get username/pwd from https://account.protonvpn.com/account-password

Why Dockerfile

For ProtonVPN this script is needed, so I do it in Dockerfile, since it is impossible in docker-compose.yml

Other services

The script will tell you the same info.

Heimdall

Setup the dashbaord with links to every service.

Go to Go to http://{server_ip}:8090. For each of apps click 'Application list' -> 'Add' and:

• Add jellyfin with url http://{server_ip}:8096
• Add jellyseerr with url http://{server_ip}:5055
• Add sonarr with url http://{server_ip}:8989
• Add radarr with url http://{server_ip}:7878
• Add lidarr with url http://{server_ip}:8686
• Add readarr with url http://{server_ip}:8787
• Add readarr-audio-books with url http://{server_ip}:8786
• Add bazarr with url http://{server_ip}:6767
• Add qbittorrent with url http://{server_ip}:8080

Jackett

Add a few indexers to jackett using the "add indexer" button. You can see the indexers Ithe author of the reddit guide uses use in the image.

Qbittorrent

Go to qbittorrent http://{server_ip}:8080. Default username is admin and password is adminadmin. Change those under Tools -> Options -> WebUI if you wish.

Under Tools -> Options:

• set 'Default Save Path' to /data/torrents
• set 'Keep incomplete torrents in:' to /data/torrents/incomplete

Sonarr/Radarr/Lidarr/Readarr/Readarr-audio-books

Go to the service (e.g. from heimdall).

1. set username and password
2. Settings -> Download Client -> Add -> qBittorrent
   • Host: {server_ip}, Port: 8080, Username: admin, Password: adminadmin (the last 2 will be different if you changed them)
3. Settings -> Media management -> Root folder -> Add:
   • /data/media/shows for sonarr
   • /data/media/movies for radarr
   • /data/media/music for lidarr
   • /data/media/ebooks for readarr
   • /data/media/audiobooks for readarr-audio-books
4. Add every relevant indexer
   • Settings -> Indexers -> Add indexer -> Torznab
   • In Jackett copy the Torznab link for the indexer you want to add and paste it in URL
   • Set the API key to the one from Jackett (top right)

Bazarr

Go to bazarr at http://{server_ip}:6767

For sonarr and radarr:

1. Go to Settings -> General -> Sonarr/Radarr
2. Set the API key to the one from sonarr/radarr (Settings -> General)
3. Set address and port

Jellyfin

Go to http://{server_ip}:8096/web/#/dashboard/libraries and add all libraries in /data/media

Hardware acceleration

Go to http://{server_ip}:8096/web/#/dashboard/playback/transcoding. Set proper hardware acceleration. If using nvidia then Nvidia NVENC Check which formats work at https://developer.nvidia.com/video-encode-and-decode-gpu-support-matrix-new

Jellyseer

Jellyfin integration

Go to http://{server_ip}:8096/web/#/dashboard/keys, Add new key wiht name Jellyseer and copy it.

Go to http://{server_ip}:5055/settings/jellyfin, paste the key, set address and port.

Sonarr/Radarr integration

Go to http://{server_ip}:5055/settings/services and add radarr and sonarr with API keys from their settings -> General.

What next?

After setting everything up to check if it works go to Jellyseer and request some show or movie, which will then be downloaded and available in jellyfin.