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Cake day: July 26th, 2024
  • I had that same feeling until I actually learned it.

    There’s close to no performance loss, it’s better for security, it makes it extremely easy for developers to ship something that just works, it allows easy updating, and much more.

    I prefer docker over almost anything now, and it has made my life much easier.

  • I like the idea of SearXNG, but I don’t see why so many people like it for self hosting. You’re still querying search engines with your IP which in many self hosted cases is the same IP as the one you browse the internet with. I think SearXNG is really good if you setup a service on a server IP (like a VPS) and it gets used by multiple people, or if you tunnel it trough a VPN, but then again you could also just VPN your search engine searches.

    So why do you like it? Is it for the aggregation of multiple engines? Or maybe the fact that it doesn’t link your specific browser to a search? I really wonder and am not hating.

  • I use Prowlarr with Flaresolverr.

    Setup the Flaresolverr indexer proxy in Prowlarr:
    - Tags: flaresolverr
    - Host: http://flaresolverr:8191/ (or whatever host+port your flaresolverr

    And then I use these:
    - 1337x (Add Tags: flaresolverr)
    - TorrentDownload
    - Knaben

    It’s not the best and Knaben is mostly just TPB + Rutracker. But this setup gets me everything I need. Everything wrong is filtered as I made my setup look for HEVC with specific bit rate ranges. Invalid file extensions are filtered out.

    For actual downloading I use RDT Client with the TorBox debrid service.

    Sometimes some indexing services time out but I’ll get the content later.

    In my experience, with this setup, I really don’t need Usenet or private torrent trackers.

  • What does this asshole do with these bots, run influence operations? For whom? What do we know about which influence operations are hired for which interests? Forget the government ones for a moment, what about commercial interests?

    If it’s the same guy that was posted about a while ago, they do it for (blackhat) marketing. The bots mostly post comments in threads that look like a normal discussion, but where the goal is to move people away from one solution to another one. Imagine if somebody asks whether a piece of software is good, a bot then replies that they have not heard good things about it, and another bot chimes in and says “yeah I have been using <other software> instead”.

    They’ll probably also make manual posts claiming how good something is, put it in their control panel and a single bot will post it, while the other bots chime in with upvotes and discussion.

    Add a bit of logic to chime in on unrelated posts to make the account look more legit and you got yourself an army.