Venia Silente

I mean, adding the IP filter means you are getting a number of bots filtered out by a very simple decision making (originating IP address/segment) even before you have to apply any further processing, so it’s still an advantage even if that filter by itself only removes a non-majority portion of bot traffic. It means you are left with more / better processing capacity to filter the rest.

Shit that’s dangerous, you mean to say Brother printers are functional???

It’s a printer, it already hellishly refuses to print or to even install correctly anywhere, it should be safe.

I would expect Lemmy instances to have some limiters set for guest connections, especially for ones coming from datacenters. Like, it should be easy and senseful to only link and cache up to All page 10, or Hot page 5, and refuse guest loads of anything beyond that.

It depends on how much you trust the looted content, but overall yeah. And where possible the recipient would also operate the content in a container/VM unless there are important usability/performance reasons not to.

Unfortunately, in 2026 running markedly unsafe code is not for the novice and faint of heart.

Like, my very second recommendation would be to set up and learn to use a virtual machine with KVM, Virtualbox, whatever. Since they’d already intend to run pirate software in the first place, running a whole Windows that you can undo and redo at your leisure provides extra safeties. This also compensates for safeties that running software on Windows directly can’t give you, such as Copilot snitching on you.

It also provides you as the more tech-savy but also less readily available pringao a more even, more deterministic platform and circumstance on which to diagnose issues, even if the end result is “restore the startup snapshot and try from scratch again”.

If I’m running containers on Alpine, doesn’t that mean that they already don’t offer SSH (sshd)? The entire point of Alpine as a base is to not add stuff you don’t need.

That which was never alive in the first place can not meaningfully die, but yes.

That’s what we got the Lazarus Pit for, right?

(“Pssst. On the count of three, Batman backhand.”)

These sound like arguments from someone who has never used private trackers before

Well duh of course I’ve never used one before, how could I get into the cartel?

As fellow executioners for the corpo heads, right? </padme>

Nah I am just gonna comment them common sense facts.

That the law is bought to twist the truth beyond common sense for the profit of corporations is not mine a problem to solve. Most I can do is support all the Luigis.

Nah, Nitter an’ stuff were not really anywhere near the same kind of game. Nitter repo folders are provably non-empty.

Other posts have been going on the whole thing already and can describe better than I do but the tl;dr is: walled gardens fr ratio aura farming where you can only get in if you were already aura farming ratio somewhere else that messages about their exclusive membership info in the first place. Plus, wastes a lot of money either on your own hardware or on someone else’s, in difficult times where spending money on hardware is a bad investment for non-corporate judicial persons in the first place.

Private trackers are a well known scam.

Nintendon’t: “We are Nintendon’t. Resistance is futile. We’ll have you fold.”
Suee: “So you mean, you’ll make me into someone who folds?”
Nintendon’t: “We will add your lifesavings to our own.”
Suee: “So, I’d be like, a, folder.” 📂 “Who is empty.” 📁

XD

I mean there’s that and there’s also this is an awesome way to troll / bait Nintendo, because what we are seeing is only folders, not even any indication there’s any pirated content inside.

Now, who wants to play that kind of whackamole, iunno.

With how both the UK and the US are going, soon if not already the lower bound will be lower than that.

Zero.