Check the open port number of your torrent client – which should also be set in your router’s port forwarding or firewall config (alternatively enable UPnP in the router config to let it handle such things for you).

You can use a utility like CanYouSeeMe.org to check if it’s correctly configured.

EDIT If you can’t make it work, you might be behind double NAT, sharing varying IPs with multiple other of the ISP’s customers at once. In that case, you’ll need to find one of the few trustworthy VPN providers that support port forwarding to get connectable, as it’s called, and be able to connect to all peers no matter if they’re connectable or not. Alternatively, rent a connectable seedbox in the cloud.

Set a different download directory for those, or put a label on them. That’ll make it easier to untangle and efficiently delete all those you don’t want to keep.

Magic Earth is proprietary, not FOSS.

r/TV_NCA on reddit has such things… Though, that one is a members-only subreddit, so you will need a reddit account to get approved by a mod of the sub. I read somewhere that they’ll accept most membership requests - but only if the account has some karma…

The private torrent tracker TVCUK has it too.

I also saw a filehost link posted on a private Discord server - which is a different annoying obstacle in itself, and I’m not sure if I should share more details about that server in a public comment like this, though it is really great for UK, AU, NZ stuff. Though, if you can join r/TV_NCA a lot of the same stuff is available there too.

Other related public subreddits now we’re at it:

• r/TellyBum2 for UK stuff (but low activity)
• r/DownUnderTV and r/RooTV for AU/NZ stuff
• r/panelshow for various panelshows of the world but mainly UK ones
• r/notpanelshow for content featuring UK panelshow regulars but isn’t a panelshow

I sent you a private message.

I use airvpn for torrents but depending on your European country you might not be able to.

Why would it not be an option in some countries? Are you saying it’s illegal or impossible to encrypt any traffic through a VPN while being in some of the countries, or what’s the matter?

Wont they take your money before the VPN is disabled/undetected?

Not choosing to vote […] is endorsing the establishment.

Where is the logic in that? By voting you’re actively acknowledging the legitimacy of the State. How would not voting be an endorsement of anything, as you see it?

Do you see installing a .dmg file (or installing through homebrew) on macOS as a workaround, or what do you mean? I’m not sure I have ever installed a single app from their store, so maybe it’s just that such a “workaround” feels normal to me, but scary to others?

https://librewolf.net/installation/macos/

Why use the App Store for that? https://librewolf.net/installation/macos/

I installed this by adding the github URL to Obtainium. It was very easy to set up, and worked fine in my brief testing. Thanks for the recommendation.

The very newly released Deepseek R1 “reasoning model” from China beats OpenAI’s o1 model on multiple areas, it seems – and you can even see all the steps of the pre-answering “thinking” that’s hidden from the user in o1. It’s a huge model, but it (and the paper about it) will probably positively impact future “open source” models in general, now the “thinking” cat’s outta the bag. Though, it can’t think about Tiananmen Square or Taiwan’s autonomy – but many derivative models will probably be modified to effectively remove such Chinese censorship.

Do you know, is this another tax additional to “blankmedieafgiften” (“blank media tax” or “private copying levy”), or is it the same tax under a different name?

It’s off by default, it seems, in version 1.10.4 RC1 from F-Droid. At least, I went to toggle it off, but it was already done.

Note, I tried rejecting the ToS st the first run, which just closed the app. So… I accepted them at the second run… Though, I don’t know if that in any way really could have affected the setting.

I installed 1.10.4 RC1 from the F-Droid repo (mine is just .4, not .04).

Maybe they did something in their build to remove Google and make it work without it? You could try that one.

I’m running it without any Google services (on this user profile), not even sandboxed. Would it not work for you when attempting, or have you just seen or heard somewhere that it wouldn’t?

No biggie, but reading the ToS in the app, it states that the app will send anonymous usage data to Google. I’ve disabled its network access (possible on GrapheneOS), and it works anyway. On this topic, the description in F-Droid reads:

Do I need an internet connection? No, but some functions (like entering your location manually) won’t work without one. You’ll have to use the GPS or enter a latitude and longitude instead.

My guess is it’s probably a national cultural tradition affected by previous or existing French laws and rightsholder practices regarding different common ways of “sailing”, making DDL from filehosts through debrid services a preferred choice over e.g. p2p methods like torrents, ed2k, gnutella etc. I’m pretty sure the filehosts+torrents products combo are a newer addition to debrid services without having used them myself. No idea about what their actual situation is and has been - but I know that some torrent trackers for French content currently exist today too.

Here are some alternatives to look into: https://slrpnk.net/post/15456722

Here are some other options to consider: https://slrpnk.net/post/15456722