You are correct, they have infiltrated exit nodes, but it is still one of the most secure privacy tools available. If you are Al Quaeda, don’t use tor. If you are an average person preserving their privacy or subverting censorship, use tor.
So you read some articles but don’t have an understanding of what the weaknesses are? That doesn’t seem like a solid foundation to form an opinion on.
Amen. It’s like they think that somehow it is better to only encounter the world when you are in college and alone.
Character, space, space, space, space, space, space, space, character, space, space, space, space, space, space, space, space, space, character, ENTER.
Just like your grandpappy used to do.
Piracy is the great economic equalizer in the age of digital exploitation.
Well…yeah. The point of seeding forever is that you are uploading. Though I am not familiar with TheGeeks specifically, I imagine that rule is in place to keep people from setting a low bandwidth limit on their client and exploiting bonus points for free downloads.
Regardless, you are talking about a sample size of one. Most reputable private trackers have a required ratio that increases with the amount of data you’ve downloaded, eventually hitting 1/1 when you have downloaded enough content to be expected to be a good seeder.
That honestly just sounds like a bad site. Others are far more active than that.
That is simply not true. I’m a member of many private torrent sites, and the key is to simply seed all of your content for as long as you have it in your collection.
Freeleech events allow you to build a large library of content that you expended no credit to download, but will get credit for uploading. Most sites have some kind of bonus point system for seeding content long term, and those points can often be used to buy more credit.
At this point, I have so much credit building up on a regular basis that I like to put terabytes worth of it towards requests just to spread the love around. I have managed all of this through simply perma-seeding everything with a computer that is on 24/7. My current internet speed isn’t even stellar, but the sheer size of my seeded content gets the job done. I tend to be actively uploading multiple things every second of the day now.
Get an FTP program and connect that way. I use the same service that you do, and this is the most convenient and reliable method I know of. The FTP credentials are listed in your account control panel.
My ratchet way of doing it is Backblaze. There is a docker container that lets you run the unlimited personal plan on Linux by emulating a windows environment. They let you set an encryption key so that they can’t access your data.
I’m sure there are a lot more professional and secure ways to do it, but my way is cheap, easy, and works.
Other people here have given you the answer—copy the files somewhere else and run from there—but can you motherfuckers just take a moment to appreciate the filename?
Edit: I had to know!
I Am Motherfucker: Everyone has some insecurities that plague them. Our protagonist is troubled by the size of his equipment. Day after day his friends regale him with their stories of their astronomical packages. Their stamina, unmatched. The length, unrivalled. Unfortunately, our self-conscious self-insert really takes all these stories to heart, feeling quite inadequate, until one fateful day when everything changes!
It was simple really, he was overcome by the masculine urge to adjust his modest manhood, when his friend’s mom catches him in the act. She pulls him aside to give him a piece of her mind, which lucky for him involves some friction.
Making it pseudo-public and not using docker would be a mistake, in my opinion. Anything public-ish can benefit from the extra security of docker’s sandboxing.
It will also make it much easier to run things through a VPN with Gluetun—something you definitely want to do if you have strangers using your SearXNG instance.
You should really consider a container of some kind.
Yep, a seedbox is also a great solution. VPN’s and seedboxes are like airbags—you probably don’t need them most of the time, but you will be very glad you had them when you do.
I wouldn’t worry about it too much in Mexico—I go there all the time and find them to be reasonable about law enforcement. They have bigger fish to fry than pirates. Enjoy the great food and cool street performers—it is an amazing country that is massively misrepresented in a lot of the world.
That said—get a VPN. It’s a good idea in general.
What are you hiding? /s
I think you could do that, but you will be further bottlenecking your bandwidth, and you will be adding an extra layer of complexity that could lead to unforeseen issues down the road.
Personally, I would just enable the kill switch, or run the VPN client side, but not double it up with 2 VPN’s.
This. ProxMox will save you many times over while you are learning. It makes it so easy to backup and restore, try out new projects in a sandbox, and much much more.
I credit ProxMox with making me bolder about what I wanted to accomplish and having the courage and time to take risks while knowing I could always restore from backup in an instant.
Bro, you can get a vpn for stupid cheap these days. Some reputable companies frequently offer deals for less than $5 per month.