Spectrism

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[–] Spectrism@feddit.org 4 points 6 days ago

Ignore that orange banner, it's an ad. In fact, ignore all banners telling you something like "Your IP is exposed", because those are all just trying to sell you a VPN and can't possibly know for certain if an address belongs to a VPN server or not. Always compare IP addresses manually.

What's important in this case is the address listed in the table below after you have opened the magnet link in your torrent client. If everything works correctly, it should be different from your actual IP address (which may or may not be the one displayed on the site, depending on whether you're using split tunneling).

[–] Spectrism@feddit.org 21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

Same thing also happened to me at the end of last year. I usually only use torrents on my PC, but that day I decided to also use them on my laptop and of course I forgot to change the network interface to that of my VPN in qBittorrent because I'm an idiot. After around 2 weeks, I got a cease and desist letter ordering me to pay ~1000 € and sign their cease and desist declaration. Was able to negotiate down to 600 € and only sent back a modified declaration, still pretty expensive for such a silly little mistake. I'd say you can consider yourself lucky to just receive a warning :)

Unfortunately for me, German law makes torrents a very lucrative business model for some law firms who do nothing but send cease and desist letters, thousands each year.

I only got caught for a few seconds according to their letter, but that was enough to get me into trouble. Not sure what the reason was, perhaps I started the VPN too late or maybe systemd was stopping the VPN service before qBt got closed when I was shutting the laptop down. Either way, this probably wouldn't have happened if I had set the correct network interface in qBt and I've learnt to always do that first whenever I install a torrent client. I can only advise everyone to also check the publicly visible torrent IP with tools like this, just to be sure.

Smooth sailin' me hearties! 🏴‍☠️

[–] Spectrism@feddit.org 1 points 3 weeks ago
[–] Spectrism@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Das wäre eine sehr kurzsichtige Interpretation.
Jugendschutz ist nicht binär, i.e. entweder erlaubt oder verboten. Vielmehr werden Bereiche, welche gewisser Jugendschutzmaßnahmen bedürfen, individuell betrachtet und entsprechend gesetzlich geregelt.

Beispiele dafür hast du selbst genannt. Nichts davon ist absolut und für alle Jugendlichen verboten, sondern gesetzlich im Sinne des Jugendschutzes individuell geregelt, auch wenn man sich über die Ausmaße der Regularien natürlich streiten kann. Und nebenbei wird eben über die möglichen Gefahren aufgeklärt.
Also genau das, was ich in meinem Kommentar beschrieben hatte. Und ich denke diese Art des Jugendschutzes (wenngleich man auch meinen mag, sie wäre nicht effektiv) wird wohl kaum jemand als unsinnig betiteln.

[–] Spectrism@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Dann wäre es meines Erachtens aber sinnvoller Jugendliche eben nicht aus sozialen Medien auszuschließen, um die Lehren aus der Medienkompetenz wenigstens praktisch anwenden zu können und sie als Gewohnheit auch für das spätere Leben zu verfestigen. Ich sehe keinen großen Mehrwert darin Jugendlichen Medienkompetenz beizubringen, deren Praktiken sie bis zum wirklichen Nutzen der sozialen Medien längst wieder vergessen haben.

[–] Spectrism@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Who did you have such conversations with? People who hate Israel because they colonised Palestinian territory, or actual anti-semites? In the latter case, I can see how you would come to that conclusion, but in my experience, most people (at least on Lemmy) are part of the first group, who have no intention to kill everyone in Israel.

Regarding the questions, this is something both the Israelis and (more importantly) the Palestinians need to talk about to find the best solution for everyone involved. But they can all be answered without "Kill all the people living in Israel".

[–] Spectrism@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Then you should work on your reading comprehension. Saying a state shouldn't exist is different from saying certain people shouldn't exist. This is not implied at all.

[–] Spectrism@feddit.org 3 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Unless they changed something in Android 15, which I haven't been able to try yet, I don't think the separate WiFi / Mobile Data tiles were ever removed. At least they still exist on LineageOS 21 (Android 14), just hidden in the tile editor. You might want to check if you still have them there.

[–] Spectrism@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You did, probably just didn't see it ;) It's been part of it for years, since around 2020 according to GitHub. But to be fair, calling the option "Profile" might not be very intuitive for some people, so it's easy to miss.

[–] Spectrism@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

No need to manually install desktop environments, archinstall also does that (Profile --> Desktop).

[–] Spectrism@feddit.org 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There is no line. Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

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