We didn’t inhale, so it’s not illegal for us. ~ZuckFuck

Seems to be, yes.

12ft.io usually works for me.

You’re not having issues because it’s very likely it’s limited by your ISP regardless. There’s simply no way a consumer ISP (or VPN) is allowing 1200 simultaneous UDP connections. So you could likely set it to a million and have no issues. Because you’re being limited to ~250-500 at the protocol level by your ISP/VPN. lol

Situations like this, torrent priority is even more important because there’s a high likelihood you’re not able to connect to peers you otherwise would be able to if you were using priorities…

Love Rossman and his analogies. lol

If you agree with Louis but don’t know how to setup something as complicated as pfBlocker-NG, you can try other DNS (DoH/3) based adblocking which IMO is just as effective;

Light + TIF                     https://sky.rethinkdns.com/1:AAkACAQA
Normal + TIF                https://sky.rethinkdns.com/1:AAkACAgA
Pro + TIF                 https://sky.rethinkdns.com/1:AAoACBAA
Pro plus + TIF               https://sky.rethinkdns.com/1:AAoACAgA
Ultimate + TIF              https://sky.rethinkdns.com/1:gAgACABA

Light + TIF                 https://dns.dnswarden.com/00000000000000000000048  
Normal + TIF                 https://dns.dnswarden.com/00000000000000000000028  
Pro + TIF                 https://dns.dnswarden.com/00000000000000000000018  
Pro plus + TIF               https://dns.dnswarden.com/0000000000000000000000o  
Ultimate + TIF              https://dns.dnswarden.com/0000000000000000000000804  

Light                https://freedns.controld.com/x-hagezi-light
Normal                https://freedns.controld.com/x-hagezi-normal
Pro                https://freedns.controld.com/x-hagezi-pro  
Pro plus                https://freedns.controld.com/x-hagezi-proplus  
Ultimate                https://freedns.controld.com/x-hagezi-ultimate
TIF                https://freedns.controld.com/x-hagezi-tif

Not sure how to use dnscrypt-proxy to set up DoH/3 resolution? Check out the only software I’ve ever recommended anyone ever pay for: YogaDNS

Swapping DoH/3 providers is as simple as adding them, and setting a routing rule. Hell, your router may even be DoH/3 compatible and you’ll be able to set this network wide.

Test it out.

You can stream your primary sound driver via icecast and then on another machine use ffmpeg to record it? ffmpeg -i http://server:port -c copy output.mp3.

I dunno. This all seems super roundabout.

I’m a little confused… Why would you need to audio record a song from a digital device? Just transfer the file over…

You can’t bypass age verification on YouTube.

yt-dlp still works for age verification content, but you have to pass cookies to it.

But here’s the video: https://qu.ax/KsDqd.mp4

You also know that if it’s set to high, it will overload the switch? Increasing it without thinking isn’t smart.

You need to have an appropriately set number of global peers. You can’t just “HAHA NUMBER UP!” just for the hell of it…

Depends on how many torrents you have. You have a set number of global peers. So if all of those peer slots are occupied by leechers, then you won’t have any room to download anything. A way around this is torrent priorities.

Setting seeding torrents to low priority will ensure that any new torrents imported at normal priority will download without an issue. You can even set seeding torrents to high priority to ensure that they’ll always seed, even if it means taking priority over your downloads.

Where are you grabbing torrents? There are many honeypots on public servers with non-working video/audio. They seed specifically to pull your IP.

https://mpv.io/

This entirely depends on your client and the version of libtorrent that it uses. To say with exactitude you would need to know these things. Since we don’t, it’s more accurate to say that it breaks torrent verification.

Additionally, there are renames which can still break verification. Like changing file extensions.

Yes. The hash has to be the same. They have to be identical files down to the last bit. Otherwise when you go to recheck the torrent, it’ll only be a partially completed torrent and you can only seed what you have finished.

If you already have the exact files, sure. If not, then no.

https://newtrackon.com/list

lol Mac only. Wants you to sign up for spam to “request” your OS. No thanks.

The entire point of selfhost is to host private services not available to the public. By literal definition, that’s allowing only local traffic to connect to your services. It’s infinitely more secure. A VPN allows you to extend those services over the clearnet to authorized devices via virtualized networks. You don’t have to worry about messing with inbound/outbound ports, or worrying about software failure or misconfigurations accidentally exposing you to the clearnet. You don’t have to worry about DDoS, or abuse. Being attacked? Bring down your VPN and that completely shuts down your issue. Your network is completely unreachable by anyone but a local host.

There’s simply no room for an argument. VPN is objectively better in all possible situations.

I don’t know what kind of firewall you use, but if my firewall is down there is NO traffic at all passing through!

Only a hardware firewall would do this. If it’s software, like implied in your post, no traffic is filtered and all connections are accepted.

VPN is the least amount of work for the most secure setup. There’s nothing to even argue, its superior in every way.

Just like everything else in life, it’s not a binary situation. You can’t say “either it is, or isn’t stealing! Circumstance doesn’t matter!” because circumstance always matter.

If you come at me with the intent to kill me, and I kill you in self defense, that’s not murder. It would be wholly ignorant to say “well you tried to kill the guy who was trying to kill you, so it’s murder! Circumstance doesn’t matter!” That would be the answer of a child.

The argument of Piracy has never been one of “oh, well, it’s not theft.” Of course its theft. You’d have to be in deep denial to make that argument. It’s not your IP. The argument of Piracy is that taking shit from corpos doesn’t fucking matter–no one is getting hurt. As soon as you stop taking from corpos and taking from the little guy, like indie artists, you’re just a fuckin’ thief. And that’s not moral.