12ft.io usually works for me.

Love Rossman and his analogies. lol

If you agree with Louis but don’t know how to setup something as complicated as pfBlocker-NG, you can try other DNS (DoH/3) based adblocking which IMO is just as effective;

Light + TIF                     https://sky.rethinkdns.com/1:AAkACAQA
Normal + TIF                https://sky.rethinkdns.com/1:AAkACAgA
Pro + TIF                 https://sky.rethinkdns.com/1:AAoACBAA
Pro plus + TIF               https://sky.rethinkdns.com/1:AAoACAgA
Ultimate + TIF              https://sky.rethinkdns.com/1:gAgACABA

Light + TIF                 https://dns.dnswarden.com/00000000000000000000048  
Normal + TIF                 https://dns.dnswarden.com/00000000000000000000028  
Pro + TIF                 https://dns.dnswarden.com/00000000000000000000018  
Pro plus + TIF               https://dns.dnswarden.com/0000000000000000000000o  
Ultimate + TIF              https://dns.dnswarden.com/0000000000000000000000804  

Light                https://freedns.controld.com/x-hagezi-light
Normal                https://freedns.controld.com/x-hagezi-normal
Pro                https://freedns.controld.com/x-hagezi-pro  
Pro plus                https://freedns.controld.com/x-hagezi-proplus  
Ultimate                https://freedns.controld.com/x-hagezi-ultimate
TIF                https://freedns.controld.com/x-hagezi-tif

Not sure how to use dnscrypt-proxy to set up DoH/3 resolution? Check out the only software I’ve ever recommended anyone ever pay for: YogaDNS

Swapping DoH/3 providers is as simple as adding them, and setting a routing rule. Hell, your router may even be DoH/3 compatible and you’ll be able to set this network wide.

Test it out.

You can stream your primary sound driver via icecast and then on another machine use ffmpeg to record it? ffmpeg -i http://server:port -c copy output.mp3.

I dunno. This all seems super roundabout.

I’m a little confused… Why would you need to audio record a song from a digital device? Just transfer the file over…

You can’t bypass age verification on YouTube.

yt-dlp still works for age verification content, but you have to pass cookies to it.

But here’s the video: https://qu.ax/KsDqd.mp4

You also know that if it’s set to high, it will overload the switch? Increasing it without thinking isn’t smart.

You need to have an appropriately set number of global peers. You can’t just “HAHA NUMBER UP!” just for the hell of it…

Depends on how many torrents you have. You have a set number of global peers. So if all of those peer slots are occupied by leechers, then you won’t have any room to download anything. A way around this is torrent priorities.

Setting seeding torrents to low priority will ensure that any new torrents imported at normal priority will download without an issue. You can even set seeding torrents to high priority to ensure that they’ll always seed, even if it means taking priority over your downloads.

https://mpv.io/

Use btrfs snapshots. Bring the PC to a state that you like, make a snapshot. Then on shutdown set the profile to reload to the specific snapshot.

Any issues? Just restart. Might take a minute, but it ensures the exact same environment every time.

It’s allocated memory in the cache. It’s not used, it’s earmarked for first usage.

This is standard memory management.

This entirely depends on your client and the version of libtorrent that it uses. To say with exactitude you would need to know these things. Since we don’t, it’s more accurate to say that it breaks torrent verification.

Additionally, there are renames which can still break verification. Like changing file extensions.

spicy tape

That’s fucking hilarious.

Only way to bypass this is by not using the app.

Yes. The hash has to be the same. They have to be identical files down to the last bit. Otherwise when you go to recheck the torrent, it’ll only be a partially completed torrent and you can only seed what you have finished.

If you already have the exact files, sure. If not, then no.

Generally custom domains don’t pass spam filters very well. Your email server will have to be immaculate and even then, you could be sent to spam simply because you’re not on the TLD whitelist of a mail server…

Generally, I don’t recommend people roll their own mail server, and even less so when you don’t use typical TLD. You can always test it out, though, if you already have the domain: https://www.mailgenius.com/

https://newtrackon.com/list

The police cannot clone SIM cards or hijack IMEI without a court order, and if they have a court order to do that, then it’s trivial for it to include orders to compel you to unlock your phone/SIM anyways. This doesn’t really protect you.

Most Android versions have this now. Became popular as soon as SCOTUS ruled that police can compel you to unlock your device via biometrics. Enable it. If you think you may be arrested, simply restart your phone and now they need a court order to unlock your phone which means they have to convince a judge with probable cause.

Practically speaking, there’s a huge difference.

RCS/iMessage are great. They’re a huge upgrade over SMS, however, the E2E statements they make aren’t really verifiable to the degree necessary to call them secure. They also require hardware compatibility, software compatibility, environment compatibility (root breaks RCS) as well as network compatibility so the pool of devices that work both ways with RCS is still pretty small. It’s frankly a mess. Default settings for most RCS/iMessage applications will attempt to send via E2E protocols and if it fails, it defaults back to sending SMS. So now your super secret content was just sent basically over cleartext if the protocol send fails. lol

Realistically speaking, he’s right. There’s no difference. People don’t casually message information which is important enough to require perfect forward secrecy. So at the end of the day choose which works best for you and if you do dumb shit like sending credit card and social security numbers over clearnet, then prepare to have your anus widened.

I personally prefer running an MTProto proxy on top of Telegram. I control the proxy, so I can view where the network traffic is going in transit for the most part. Is MTProto perfect? No. But it’s vastly improved since previous independent audits and it’s “good enough.”

If critically sensitive information has to touch a device with internet access then you need a mature security protocol like PGP or some other shared key cryptography so you can verifiably ensure you’re talking to whom you’re supposed to be talking to. If that’s something you’re interested in, give Keybase a try. It’s a really great platform built around a really great technology (PGP). The mobile application comes with a chat option that uses your PGP key to symmetrically encrypt your chat messages using Scrypt (with PBKDF2) making it significantly more secure than any other option mentioned here.