Root problem Is the name 'Lemmy', which is kinda lame-y.
Also bad is that we're not called Redditors but ... lemmings? Lemurs?
Almost worth changing the name.
hamsteronvase
joined 1 year ago
Never torrent without 1)a VPN, one that 2)gives you a dedicated IP.
A VPN is great for most things, but not quite enough for torrenting.
This is because (everyone please correct me if wrong) torrenting is peer-to-peer which means that someone seeding to you can see your real isp-issued IP address. They can contact your ISP and whine about you.
If some copyright guardian sets up a honeypot, they could get your identity even if you use a VPN.
The solution is to use a VPN that gives out a substitute IP address they own (and therefore keep private) which then redirects traffic to you.
There may be better ones out there but I haven't bothered looking ever since I signed up with privateinternetaccess and use their "Dedicated IP" setting.
One of those "racism isn't real" is the Chief "Justice" of the USSC
Would probably be a lonnnnng job for an SDF instance owner to write. However! Such things often do well when crowd-sourced. If Lemmy has wiki-like capabilities, we could all pool our knowledge there. (Mine is meager because I'm brand new, but still) If nothing else, we could use the existing en.wikipedia.org to collectively create the document there.
Wild pointer detected, system crash
Not that it matters much now that we have a substitute, but of course the point is money. reddit wants to become a walled garden where the product (you) Is sold and you can use only their clients to visit reddit. We are slipping through their fingers.
I'm thinking of switching from php / node to golang for the server side. Did you have any good experiences with any gratis self-paced online 'schools'?
Refugee from reddit here, on the first day as a registered Lemmy user. I am a techie who loves cats, dark humor, nature, introversion, and much more. I have high hopes for Lemmy to dethrone and replace reddit as an online community space.
What pissed me off about reddit is how it fingerprinted your machine.
If you don't know what that is, be scared. Be very scared.
That meant if some power-mad admin lording it over some subreddit blocked me for petty reasons, it would be easy to get all my other 6 alt accounts permanently banned.
F YOU for that, reddit.
Found some anti-fingerprinting defenses, which protect me at other sites, is the only silver lining.