I decided to share this here too since sailors don't seem to visit !opensignups@lemmy.ml and the murky waters of the orange sea should be seldom visited anymore.
Links to more info about private trackers here:
for the brave
if you dare a journey that might lead you to the Davy Jones’ locker, the once locked down waters of r/OpenSignups and a newcomer r/trackersignups are places for the brave to check out
Taken from the orange seas wiki which we don't seem to have here?
► What is a private tracker?
Private trackers are loosely defined as private torrent sites where a membership is required in order to download their torrents. An accurate description would separate private trackers into 2 parts: the tracker itself and the website that accompanies it. A torrent tracker is a server that tracks peers in a torrent swarm and assigns/connects peers to each other based on its own internal criteria. The tracker then reports to the website which, on top of providing a download link to the torrent file, will display all relevant info for that torrent, including peer/seed counts and optionally a peer list if the website operator chooses to include it.
Unlike public trackers, these are not a free-for-all buffet. You need to contribute back (by uploading) a certain amount proportional to the amount you have "taken" from the tracker. This arrangement can vary a lot from tracker to tracker. Private trackers track this balance of contribution by a "ratio", which is simply a ratio of uploaded data, divided by your downloaded data. If you downloaded a total of 2GB and uploaded a total of 4GB, that would make your ratio a 2.0. Trackers will sometimes have different methods of maintaining an acceptable ratio, either by offering bonuses the longer you keep your torrents seeding, to providing "half-leech" or "freeleech" content. Freelech content is the most commonly used method, which means the torrent that is marked as freeleech is free to download, meaning it does not count against your Download stats, giving you an opportunity to gain upload from it without sacrificing any "download buffer". Some torrent trackers are "ratioless", meaning they don't require you to maintain any sort of ratio in order to keep using the site, they just require a minimum seed-time on all downloaded torrents (which is usually also a requirement on ratio pure trackers, but typically the seed-time isn't as lengthy as on ratioless trackers).
Open signups happen frequently but you have to be quick to catch them
Opentrackers.org and r/opensignups (or r/trackersignups) are good to check once in a while
MyAnonaMouse has open applications twice a week and the test is very easy
Tuning for 4.3.9-4.5.2 on 1gbps libtorrent 1.2
Speed
Unlimited on all, rate limit µTP and LAN
Connection
Peer connection protocol: TCP
Global max: off
Max num per torrent: off
Global max number upload slots: off
Max number of upload slots: off
Advanced
Interface: Bind your interface to prevent leaks
File Pool Size: 5000
Outstanding Mem: 128
Disk Cache: 1024 (or -1 if you feel ballsy, 0 if you experience memory leaks)
Disk cache expiry: 60
Disk IO Type: Default
Disk IO Read Mode: Enable OS Cache
Disk IO Write Mode: Enable OS Cache
Coalesce reads and writes: OFF
Use piece extent affinity: ON
Send Upload Piece Suggestions: ON
Send Buffer Watermark: 5120
Send Buffer Low Watermark: 512
Send buffer watermark factor: Between 200-250, adjust as needed
Outgoing connections per second: 50
Socket Backlog: 1000
Peer TOS: 128
utp-tcp mixed mode algo: Prefer TCP
Support IDN: ON
Allow Multiple Connections from the same IP address: ON
Validate HTTPS: OFF
SSRF Mitigation: ON
Upload Slots Behaviour: Fixed Slots
Upload choking alogrithm: Fastest Upload
Always announce to all tiers: ON
Max concurrent HTTP Announces: 50-75 (only increase if experiencing announce issues with very high amount of torrents loaded in client)
Peer turnover disconnect Percentage: 0
Peer turnover threshold percentage: 90
Peer turnover disconnect interval: 30
Max outstanding requests to a single peer: Leave as is
I personally left "Validate HTTPS" enabled since i haven't researched what security risks might come from disabling https
Steal the sign instead
This is very technical but if your ISP has unmetered Netflix or Spotify you could have a VPN on a server that spoofs the hostname (easier) or IP (harder) which only works for downloading and i imagine using >50GB of data to Spotify might make the ISP ask some questions. Netflix would be easier since 4k movies are a thing
Made the poll with a VPN, didn't know this was an issue.
Should work now
blåhaj my beloved
The title seemed quite negative but the article is quite good.
I hope that POSSE is the future but the layperson will not host their own site that serves as their "identity" which makes me feel that at some point we will have "identity management" services which will again centralize part of the web (in a less worse way)
The releases with ads are often CAM or TS releases which are recorded at the movie theater with a camera
At least torrentgalaxy marks ad-ridden releases with a small red "ad" label which i filter out with a ublock origin filter torrentgalaxy.to##.fa-adversal:upward(3)
On other sites releases with ads might have the advertisement in the name like XBET
I'm usually not in a hurry to watch the newest movies so i wait for the webrip/dl versions of which the highest seeded versions have an extremely low probability of containing ads
Possibly(?) related official notice https://devicepartner.microsoft.com/en-us/communications/comm-windows-ends-installation-path-for-free-windows-7-8-upgrade
Never spent the time to figure out what KMS actually did but seems like licenses weren't validated when upgrading from 7 -> 8 / 11
Watch it get found by an employee in a personal backup and then later get fired (like what happened with Toy Story 2) or get into trouble for "inappropriate copying of company property" or something similiar
https://cobalt.tools maybe?