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NixOS so I can keep my config in git. I have a single nix config for all my machines (desktop, laptop and server) so I can share configuration between them. I use it to configure both my system and my user config, my dotfiles, with home-manager. Even my neovim config is in nix thanks to nixvim.

I don’t think I could go back now. It can be a bit of a pain from time to time and the learning curve is steep but it has so many advantages. Being able to rollback between config versions (called generations), having a consistent config between my machines, having it all in version control… The repo have so many packages and when there is a module it’s really easy to add a service. Writing new packages (derivations) and modules is also not that hard. It can be as simple as calling nix-init.

Had my main ssd fail on me a few month back and it was very simple to just replay the config and just get everything working as before. I only had to do the partitioning by hand (it can be done by nix but I’ve not gotten around to it yet). That’s why I only backup data and home partitions, not system partitions.

I highly doubt the users could get away with such an excuse but I’m not a lawyer. And the complaint comes from the football ligue rights holders, there is not ethics to be found here.

selling piracy services

That’s exactly the subject here.

France copyright law does not allow full length reproduction, whatever the intent. It does not apply here and it’s not why they are going after the customers here.

That’s not my claim.

Lol, “do your own research”.

This is not about me but about the advice you give to people. If you give advices you need to back them up, you can’t just answer “I disagree” to contradiction.

I’m not saying you said it was precise. I’m just saying that not every layer is important, or even good.

What if there are less people using that VPN IP than using that ISP IP, now your are giving more information with a VPN than without. How do you verify the claim that a VPN does not log? Spoiler, you can’t verify, it’s just trust. You have to chose who you trust enough to give them access to the website you visit.

You’re dodging the issue. Why would an IP that’s shared and does not give precise location be as important as precise GPS location?

No, those are not “layer of abstraction” and they do not have equal importances, claiming otherwise is counter-productive. Each data does not reveal the same quantity of information and their hierarchy depends on your threat model.

I don’t think that’s true for mobile IPs since they are shared.

Wine does not “isolate”.

They would need to do DPI and drop the packet using its SNI. Websites, especially pirates ones, really need to implement ECH, this would prevent this.

If you are willing to tell the country I would be curious.

Wouldn’t this be solved by using a DNS server your country as no control over?

But anyway PirateBay is not recommended anymore.

And it’s very handy for this, I have the same config for all my devices (desktop, laptop and server). Enabling and disabling different modules depending on the host it’s deployed to.

That’s why they are asking for a self-hosted solution, not a Google one.

As for your bottom line remember the contributors are working on it for free, they are not selling anything. So they are not running after more users. It’s good as it is, non technical people can use flatpack or AppImage and technical people can add a repo without issues.

And someday someone could add it to the official repo, it could be you.

The only relevant part in that link is this:

Some third-party repositories might appear safe to use as they contain only packages that have no equivalent in Debian. However, there are no guarantees that any repository will not add more packages in future, leading to breakage.

And you should be safe about this.

As I was saying, the devs are not responsible for including the package to the official repo. You are owed nothing and have plenty of other options to install it.

Adding a repo is not “tainting” an install. Adding a package to the official repo is not the responsibility of the devs but of Debian’s package maintainers.