• Illecors@lemmy.cafe
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    28 days ago

    IPv6. My stupid ISP actually shipped their router with all inbound ipv6 blocked with no way to unblock it, so I set up opnsense. Works like a charm!

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        28 days ago

        It doesn’t fix it, per se, rather removes the need for layers of hacks such as nat and cg-nat. Every device gets a globally routable IP - no need to forward anything, just open the port you want.

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          This doesn’t solve for VPNs no longer offering it though, unless the VPN services started offering pure v6 via tunnel at some point while I wasn’t looking. I know I’ve never seen a v6 pier in the last few years since I started sailing again.

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        28 days ago

        It’s not v6 itself, it’s rather lack of layers of nat that prevent forwarding a v4 for most folks.

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    28 days ago

    As someone who has recently started seeding as much as I can, this is a great question to which I don’t have the answer.

    I am not renewing my Proton yearly subscription after it ends due to recent developments. They seem to be the only “big name” VPN with the port forwarding feature. I heard of OpenVPN, but have not had a chance to dig into it too much.

    My ISP does not provide IPV6 support, so this will be pretty important to sort out soon.

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        28 days ago

        Aren’t they located in Italy, the Shithole that keeps trying to outlaw all VPNs and/or force them to provide backdoors and identifiable customers? They can only be stopped so many times before they succeed…

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          Yeah it’s a bit of a “for now” thing and worth keeping an eye on Italy. To their credit, they don’t offer services in Italy itself anymore after the “privacy shield” bullshit because “it goes against their mission” (for what that’s worth lol)

          Afaik, there’s not many other choices for port forwarding

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      28 days ago

      I use Private Internet Access (PIA) and that has port forwarding. I read something about it on reddit but forgot about it, so idk of there’s anything bad it controversial surrounding PIA.

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        28 days ago

        They got bought by a malvertising company a few years ago. It’s what made me drop them after being a customer of theirs for years.

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      28 days ago

      I seem to be out of the loop in regards to proton controversy and I haven’t found anything outstanding against them…

      Can you help me understand what you’re specifically referring to? I’m a proton user… so kinda want to know lol

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        28 days ago

        as far as I can tell their CEO is a semi alt right cunt. Apart from that everythin seems pretty okay and the recent shift to nonprofit status is cool

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          😂 does everything have to be political now? I don’t care if the dude is a space alien who birthed Hitler, if the service is solid, I’m using it.

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            It has always been. FOSS is by itself political, just beyond the basic binary logic of left/right.

            Your apoliticism is a political instance as well. Take for instance this quoute from Desmond Tutu “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”

            I’m not saying you have to ditch Proton over their CEO’s takes, my point is that thinking that everything suddenly became political is naive.

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            Everything has always been political. Just because you’re too privileged to notice that until someone mentions a viewpoint you dislike doesn’t mean anything except that you’re usually oblivious.

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        CEO is a libertarian idiot who can’t see any difference between American Republicans and Democrats. CEO doesn’t have absolute control of proton, that’s a board of other privacy advocates. Proton as a service provider is still safe despite their CEO being a political twit.

        IMO: A libertarian who doesn’t understand any value in why a government could possibly be good is the kind of person I want running an encryption service company. Wouldn’t trust him for running anything else though.

        Devils advocate: Both parties love the alphabet agencies unconditionally and historically saw no problem with them. Still waiting for the Snowden wrist slap to happen. He is a bigger idiot for not letting public relations for the company handle his opinion.

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    28 days ago

    You have to separate pirating and torrenting. I’m pirating stuff non stop each day. I’m torrenting maybe once a month, if that. It’s just not the go to thing for a lot of users, so issues around VPNs and torrenting probably aren’t that pressing to warrant any kind of reaction.

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    28 days ago

    We just need to add I2P directly into the client in a way that’s transparent to the user and all the problems are solved.

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        28 days ago

        Localhost NAS with large storage, Rclone to seedbox, synch, remove old content from seedbox

        Source: I have 8TB rn and about to add more, this is how I use my seedbox and store shit

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          Only seeding new stuff that everyone else is also seeding is not good for torrenting in general, it will kill a lot of content that’s more than a few years old and/or not completely mainstream.

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            Yeah most seedboxers are just the new leechers of this generation… Keeping up their ratio about an unreasonable amount where they can leech everything they want without the need to give back…

            They just stay for the necessary amount of time specified by their private tracker and leave the queue afterwards.

            IMO seedboxes should have another rule associated to them… Straight to 1 month seeding time or get a hit&run warning !

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    Bulgaria, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Netherlands, Russia, Cyprus, Moldova, Romania, Ukraine, Singapore, and Sweden. They all spit in the eye of DMCA.

    VPS in any of these countries, or just find a provider that doesn’t care about torrenting. If you go the VPS option, run your own VPN and just look for a VPS that allows considerable traffic. A quick example, Ultahost (Netherlands) offers a VPS with unlimited bandwidth for $7/mo if you pay for 3 years in advance. Like sure, now you’re paying to torrent, but I would rather pay $7/mo to protect myself with a VPN that I control vs worrying about port forwarding and getting DMCA’s in the mail. 🤷‍♂️ I guess it depends on how much skin you want in the game.