Many sites also waive it for seeding torrents 24/7.

Not sure if it's "many" but I'll take your word for it. I double-checked the trackers I'm at and only 1 of them counts seeding as site/tracker activity. Seems pretty rare for private trackers to allow an account to exist without logging in indefinitely.

And with HD torrents it’s like once every 30 days

They have it set to 50 days.

Most private trackers require that you log into their website after x amount of time (usually it's something like at least once every 90 days but you check the tracker's own rules).

In fact most trackers usually don't bother emailing you to remind you of this rule and will simply disable your account for inactivity.

Jellyfin should work fine for what you're looking for. I haven't run it on a Pi but it should work on that. You'll be able to play music using the web ui as well as mobile apps if that's your thing. It can also transcode on the fly so if your current browser/device/whatever can't play .flac directly it'll automatically transcode the playback to .mp3 or whatever it needs to be.

There are some other self hosted music/streaming projects you could take a look at that are much more built out for music playback specifically. Look into Airsonic-Advanced or Navidrome for example - I've been meaning to check them out myself but haven't gotten around to it yet.

Maybe private trackers? I'm not a member at these but TVCUK and TheEmpire do tend to get mentioned as trackers with that type of content.

EDIT: TheEmpire apparently does not include UK in their torrents per the other comment.

Does p2p over i2p require port forwarding?

No, you'll torrent fine via I2P without port forwarding. Note that the torrents are running through the I2P network so technically you wouldn't want to open your torrent client to the clearnet anyway. It'd be like purposely introducing a VPN leak in your VPN setup by allowing it traffic outside the VPN (or in this case I2P).

Been a bit since I've tinkered with torrents over I2P but for a while I was seeding torrents over I2P and would get pretty good seed/upload speeds to other torrent peers. Was mainly testing with i2psnark and BiglyBT.

Fun fact: Torrent hashes don't change, so that same exact torrent you might download at TPB or wherever would still download within I2P as long as there's someone seeding it there.

Also see https://geti2p.net/en/faq#ports

Not exactly what you're asking but you can open a port forward for I2P itself to better communicate with other I2P routers. "routers" in this case usually means other people running I2P.

I don’t think think I have considered rTorrent before. But this one doesn’t have a remote GUI client the way deluge and transmission allow their UI to connect to a remote daemon, right?

Correct. You're referring to the thin client, offhand I think it's just Transmission and Deluge that have that. You don't need a thin client for a headless torrent client setup, plenty of people do fine with a web ui. But I get it, if you prefer using a thin client then yeah Deluge or Transmission are your options for that.

re: Deluge once you have logging enabled it'll be easier to troubleshoot things. Always seemed a bit odd that Deluge doesn't at least enable error/warning logging by default but that's a Deluge thing.

The behavior isn't normal - Without the error message itself it's hard to say. You're not seeing any tracker errors or anything like that within Deluge right?

Otherwise shut down Deluge, enable logging, then re-start it. See "Enable Deluge Logging" in https://deluge-torrent.org/troubleshooting

Maybe you want to set the log level to "error" or "warning", if those don't yield anything new then set it to "info" to log whatever error it is.

Also maybe update your post with your OS and Deluge / LibTorrent version.

For what it's worth in the past I've sometimes seen Deluge error on a brand new private tracker torrent, sometimes the private tracker needs a few seconds or a minute to update the tracker and show seeds/etc. - in those random cases Deluge ends up talking to the private tracker before all that & that results in it displaying some error like torrent not found at tracker, I forget exactly what the error was. It's a bit odd since I've never seen rTorrent/ruTorrent have that issue, seemed like a Deluge thing. Been a while since i've dealt with that and can't remember how I fixed it, think it involved having a delay before Deluge attempted to load/start the torrent.

for headless you get either Deluge or Transmission

The paid Seedbox providers usually default to rTorrent/ruTorrent for headless torrenting on their Linux based systems. Deluge/Transmission are the alternative clients in those cases.

Nowadays qBittorrent with webui enabled behaves pretty well on a headless system otherwise qbittorrent-nox is also an option.

Ah yes I think you're right, good catch. There isn't any distinction between a regular account vs uploader, they just use their skull system to denote "trusted" uploaders.

I’d like to post some movie and TV show dumps somewhere, particularly that’ll be indexed by Torrentio

Not a Stemio user but that requirement would limit your options right? https://torrentio.strem.fun/configure

Based on that your choices are to apply for uploader status at 1337x, ThePirateBay, TorrentGalaxy (if it ever comes back up), or maybe Rutracker if you can deal with the English/Russian translation. Just getting an account at those sites may not be possible but you'll need to try that to achieve what you want. Not sure if they'll give you uploader status if you're just uploading the same movie/tv content they already have.

If you don't care about Stemio you could try uploading to BitSearch / SolidTorrents, those are DHT crawlers (same database I believe). The admin does allow people to add torrent hashes to the main database there.

You're just referring to scene releases for music right? It's a bit confusing since you're referring to bundles, scene releases can be on their own or in a bundle depending where you get them. Private torrent trackers with scene releases for music have that type of thing e.g. some scene trackers do a 0day bundle of music every 1-2 weeks, some scene trackers do individual torrents of those releases.

I don't download much music so it's not something I'm well versed in but know it exists. Seems sort of annoying downloading a whole bundle of random music releases when you only care about 1-2 of the releases in the bundle. Then again having individual torrents for each and every music release does tend to lead to lots of dead unseeded torrents later on.

Interestingly public torrent indexers tend to have other non-scene groups doing music releases. On the FLAC side of things I've seen EICHBAUM and PMEDIA show up a lot and I'm pretty sure those have nothing to do with scene.

A sub setting that tracks IPs and impacts a person’s reddit account(s) or use.

Reddit admins haven't said how it works, I'm sure IP address is a factor in the algorithm but calling it a "IP ban" is misleading.

And mods can at the very least flag IPs that get banned

It's a subreddit setting, moderators are not flagging anyone's IP addresses, they don't even have access to that type of info. The best that moderators can do is ban accounts for "ban evasion" or whatever other reason. Then those banned accounts and their post/comment histories likely get sent into that ban evasion algorithm when the sub has the ban evasion setting enabled.

You're talking about a setting that has been enabled sitewide for over a year now

https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/130vnbo/ban_evasion_filter_coming_soon_to_all_communities/

and admins won’t actually follow up with the issue.

Sometimes they do, but yeah you're right usually there won't be much of a review. They do review that stuff on and off but with the sheer amount of actual ban evasion on that site it's unlikely they spend much time on that.

From the linked discussion it looks like there’s a new feature rolling out where mods can activate “automatic ban evasion protection” during a ban

It is just a subreddit setting https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/wrnnvb/piloting_a_new_ban_evasion_tool

It isn't something a subreddit moderator can use to ban OP's specific IP in the subreddit let alone sitewide Reddit. (OP did not say if they are talking about a subreddit specifically, or if they were banned sitewide)

In fact it's just that random person posting a year ago calling it a "IP ban", the Reddit admins never explained how that subreddit setting works. I'm guessing it's using some sort of algorithm to calculate the likelihood of ban evasion e.g repeated post links / new/unused account / maybe the usage of VPN / Tor IP, that sort of thing. Reddit admins do already sitewide auto-ban accounts spamming links that were already reported and banned prior.

Maybe you meant Reddit admins?

Reddit moderators don't have access to IP addresses nor have the ability to ban someone based on an IP address.

When i disable the setting bittorrent -> torrent queuing i get over 20 active torrents that are seeding.

This doesn't answer your main question but maybe just leave it as-is and don't overthink it? I find that torrent clients work best with torrent queuing disabled & letting the torrent client handle everything. Your torrent client is going to do the best it can with the available bandwidth/connections it can use - Definitely feel free to configure those if you want to control that a bit ("Global Maximum Number of Connections" and "Global Rate Limits").

Also remember it's not just dependent on your own limits, each peer connecting to you has their own bandwidth/connection limits.

So, OP is downloading a torrent containing a sequential zip file?

We're in !jellyfin@lemmy.ml so OP is talking about downloading a media file (.mkv, .mp4, etc.). I don't think Jellyfin can play .zip files (?) but could be wrong.

So in the filesystem envision a .mkv movie file that exists but is only say 1% complete so maybe it is currently at 1 MB file size. This is a sequential download so it is downloading in order from beginning to end. Media players like Jellyfin, VLC, etc. can recognize and play this .mkv file, normally it'll stop when it gets to the 1% data end which could be maybe 3 minutes of playback or whatever.

The magic with a sequential download is that it is still downloading, in OP's case the download is going faster than the media playback. So by the time Jellyfin finishes playing that first 1% of the file the torrent client maybe already downloaded an additional 10% so Jellyfin continues playing the file uninterrupted. Meanwhile the torrent client is still going, since the download rate is ahead of Jellyfin's media playback that should mean that Jellyfin will eventually play the entire .mkv movie file uninterrupted from beginning to end.

You can sequentially download .zip files as well, in that case it'll just be this blob of data that starts at the beginning of the file data & goes through to the end. Not sure that is very useful to most people but if the sequential download grabbed the first/end pieces of the file maybe you can at least view the inside file listing of the .zip file before it finishes downloading, could be useful if you just want to preview it before the download completes?

When I’m downloading .part zip files as part of one torrent, how can I go about continuing seeding but not having to have both the archives and the extracted files to save space? Is that even possible?

Normally not possible, you need the untouched torrent data to exist to continue seeding.

No experience with this but I've read that if you're on Linux using a filesystem with FUSE you could sort of keep .zip files intact while still interacting with them, sort of like mounting the .zip files in the live OS. That might be more along the lines of what you're after since you'll be able to keep the .zip files untouched in that sense while still being able to use them elsewhere.

Just leave it loaded in the torrent client.

e.g. if a sequential downloading torrent was downloading into "thisfile.mkv" it starts off at 0% - 99% progress. Eventually when it finishes it'll still be the same "thisfile.mkv" just at 100% complete. Nothing in the torrent client changes, it'll keep the torrent loaded and seeding unless you configure it to stop.

With OP's post they are downloading without moving or renaming the file so nothing changes from a torrenting perspective. Not sure if you meant to ask something else, like if you're moving or renaming the file outside of the torrent client then yeah that would break the seeding.

Sure thing.

BTW you may want to check out the much more active community at !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com (or browse directly at https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/piracy )

Unfortunately lemmy.world admins blocked it, along with most piracy communities, so you probably can't see it on your end while logged in. You'd need to create a different Lemmy account elsewhere to participate.

It's kind of amusing, almost all the recent posts at this community ( !piracy@lemm.ee ) are from lemmy.world users that can't see any of the bigger piracy communities.

Do you require that your torrent client download using .part files? Seems like it would be easier to disable that setting in your torrent client so it sequentially downloads into the expected file name and extension. That should be enough for Jellyfin to see it is a .mkv or whatever with the proper name and scan it/play it.

Just to clarify OP is referring to sharing invites in !usenet_invites@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Best practice for seeding is to verify and ensure that you are fully connectable (port forwarded). Check that your torrent client's incoming connection port is actually connectable from the internet, you can use any port test website for that e.g. https://www.canyouseeme.org , https://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports , etc.

If you are using a paid torrent friendly VPN service then verify that the VPN service itself allows port forwarding and follow their instructions to set that up. (the port forward you set up in the VPN service is the port you would configure in your torrent client's incoming connection port setting).

For the port forward itself you may want to configure a port number in the ephemeral port range (49152–65535) particularly if your ISP has a habit of throttling bandwidth on lower port numbers. That may not matter as much if you're using a VPN.

I don't know what to recommend with the other stuff, private trackers already have their own rules on what they allow to be uploaded to their tracker. Best to read through the private tracker's rules for that.

Not sure how exactly this survey was conducted, here at the small business I work at only about 2% of the desktops/laptops are Win 11 compatible. And being a small business the owner isn't interested in spending the $$ on new systems until absolutely necessary.

But that's on the small business side, maybe this article is only talking about fortune 500 companies? Their results seem a bit odd to me otherwise.

Same here, mobile check deposit and Zelle are literally the only things I've ever needed a bank app for.

I used to never use Zelle for anything but too many friends/family want to use some sort of app for exchanging money & that's usually what we settle on. And my old landlord wanted rent paid via Zelle so that was another thing that forced me to install a bank app for Zelle purposes.

Mobile check deposit is a requirement when dealing with a bank without any locations nearby. In practice I only need to use that once a year or so, checks are kind of rare nowadays unless you're a business owner with clients/customers paying with checks.

but metadata tagging

Not possible to keep seeding changed data. Changing the file contents changes the file hash / torrent hash. There is no way to keep seeding a torrent that expects different file data.

Not sure if it's worth it but if you really wanted to keep seeding the original data then you'd need to keep a "torrent" copy of that data for qBittorrent and your own copy of the files elsewhere that you can tag and change as much as you like.

and renaming fucks the files up.

Similar solution to above, you could keep separate folders if you wanted.

But technically as long as you never change the file data (e.g. no metadata tagging) then you could keep two separate folders and have the data hardlinked between them. That way you can rename one version of them as much as you like while keeping the original filenames in the other folder.

e.g. simple example

c:\qbittorrent\torrentdata\musicstuff <-- all files/subfolders hardlinked --> c:\mymusic\blahblah

Alternatively you could do what the other commenter mentioned & rename the files within qBittorrent itself. Personally I prefer the hardlink method since that keeps the torrent client with the same expected file names it looks for, makes it easier to do things like re-install / re-seed the torrent client, switch torrent clients, etc.

The old SPiRiT releases (rartv torrents) seem to work, for the torrents check Ext / Limetorrents / Torrentdownloads / rarbg.pw (RARBG backup torrents) / Watchsomuch

That's some low effort spam, no wonder even Reddit's default spam filter caught it and that mod had to manually approve it. Back when I was helping mod on Reddit we used to see that sort of discord link spam nearly every day. Just spam/removed it & moved on.

The sad thing is that r/Piracy mod likely got scammed himself. Besides that mod who would really believe a scammer is going to send $800 via PayPal of all things? Most likely some sort of scam/hacked account, the payment will be reversed and that mod's PayPal account may get locked/banned in the process.

I have a 13 series chip, it had some reproducible crashing issues that so far have subsided by downclocking it.

From the article:

the company confirmed a patch is coming in mid-August that should address the “root cause” of exposure to elevated voltage. But if your 13th or 14th Gen Intel Core processor is already crashing, that patch apparently won’t fix it.

Citing unnamed sources, Tom’s Hardware reports that any degradation of the processor is irreversible, and an Intel spokesperson did not deny that when we asked.

If your CPU is already crashing then that's it, game over. The upcoming patch cannot fix it. You've got to figure out if you can do a warranty replacement or continue to live with workarounds like you're doing now.

Their retail boxed CPUs usually have a 3(?) year warranty so for a 13th gen CPU you may be midway or at the tail end of that warranty period. If it's OEM, etc. it could be a 1 year warranty aka Intel isn't doing anything about it unless a class action suit forces them :/

The whole situation sucks and honestly seems a bit crazy that Intel hasn't already issued a recall or dealt with this earlier.

Had no idea the project was reactivated, thanks for the heads up!

iOS is way too locked down. Granted, it depends on what you do and what you need, but since you're asking in this community yeah.. not the best choice.

Honestly just get a Android phone that's just pure Android OS and nothing else, you don't have to deal with the added junk that Samsung or whoever want to add on top of the OS. e.g. Google Pixel is quite excellent for this. And even still, if you end up wanting a different OS try installing GrapheneOS & see how it goes.

Interesting, any you recommend or are currently using?

Should be fine, just don't cheap out on the external drive / cable you will be using. And when you're using something like smartctl you'll know right away if SMART info is passing through your USB for proper testing.

I've done a lot of these type of scans via USB drives, honestly the more annoying part is that some USB drives do wonky things like go into sleep mode within 1-5 minutes which will disrupt any sort of scanning you had going. So with USB drive scanning I usually implement something to keep the drive alive and awake e.g. a simple infinite loop script to write a file every x seconds, or if you're on windows you can also use KeepAliveHD.

is there anything you would recommend?

You'd need to donate via whatever means they accept donations, it's not something you get to choose yourself. Unless you meant that you are going to keep contacting FOSS projects to ask them to set up new donation methods?

Personally I donate via crypto or other means that they allow donations via credit card (Liberapay / Ko-Fi work well IMO) . No Paypal/Venmo since I can't use those services - some FOSS projects I don't donate at all if they only accept Paypal.

however I can still seed the torrent how is that possible?

Yes you can still seed as well as download. But you are limited and can only upload and download torrent data in swarms that contain peers that are themselves fully connectable (port forwarded).

So say you join a torrent swarm that only contains peers just like you (firewalled, no ports forwarded) then no one will transfer any torrent data with each other. Everyone is stuck waiting for a fully connectable (port forwarded) peer to join that swarm.

FYI all the official domains and .onion link are on their proxygalaxy page

https://proxygalaxy.me

For what it's worth .to does not forward me to .mx, each of those domains seem to work fine on their own. Not sure what exactly is happening with your browser, maybe try clearing the cache / doing a hard reload.

Hmm just tried it & it doesn't load either. The last official onion link I found published on https://proxygalaxy.me (via archive.org) was in May 2024 at http://galaxy3yrfbwlwo72q3v2wlyjinqr2vejgpkxb22ll5pcpuaxlnqjiid.onion but it doesn't seem to load for me in Tor Browser.

Wow, time sure flies by! A whole bunch of people here (including me) were in that wave exiting Reddit at the time, we're all hitting that 1 year mark around this time.

The instance has been going great thanks to all the admins & mods keeping things running. Looking forward to more years here :)

Nowadays I buy digital music (mostly via Bandcamp but there's also HDTracks, Qobuz, etc.) & play the music that way. Can also stream my own music library if I want via Jellyfin or other applications.

re: physical CDs, yes I've got a ton of those too from before you could buy digital music but have already ripped them. Haven't had a need to touch the physical discs in years but still keep them in CD binders just in case.

Also not sure if it matters but for me I'm always living in small apartments/rooms so I absolutely avoid collecting physical items, there's just no space for that.

You might be confusing public IP addresses with ports? If your torrent client doesn't have a public IP address that just means it's offline / no internet. Maybe your internet is down or the VPN is disconnected. You're won't torrent anything at all in that state.

One side of the connection needs a public address open port, not both. When both parties don’t have a publicly addressable IP open port, the status is firewalled. I guess they can "see" each other but are unable to exchange any torrent data.

For what it's worth in the situation where both peers don't have open ports (meaning they are both firewalled) they end up having to wait for another peer to join that torrent swarm that happens to have a open port, that's the only way any data will exchange in that swarm. Until that happens those two peers will sit there waiting and not exchanging data.

So your saying it should have never worked even if I was not using docker?

Correct.

Also it’s now working… I have no idea

Yeah that's weird, I don't know if you accidentally found a way to hack Windscribe into temporarily giving you a port forward on their free plan. But otherwise you do need to be a paid member on their Pro account for that feature.

Or it's just going to randomly stop working again.

Is there a way to actually test your port forward within Docker? I'm not familiar enough with that configuration to suggest anything but maybe someone else knows about that. Usually without Docker I'd just start up the torrent client & then use a web browser with any port test website (https://www.canyouseeme.org, https://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports, etc.). But for Docker not too sure how to go about that.

Mullvad does not have port forwarding so it would be normal for your torrent client to be firewalled.

I'm not too sure why you & OP sometimes see it as temporarily connectable when changing/randomizing the incoming port when the VPN service never provided you an open port forward.

I have never done any kind of manual port forwarding my current VPN provider does not do that at the price I have it for right now.

If the VPN provider does not support port forwarding then it is normal and expected to always be firewalled. Toggling random ports doesn't change that fact.

Not sure why you would sometimes see your status as fully connectable, guessing either it's a Windscribe misconfiguration when you initially connect (?) or qBittorrent gets confused during the intitial connect. Or there's some other misconfiguration.

You might want to see if other people using that VPN provider have more insight, maybe they are doing something strange with the ports when you initially connect & eventually close them on you.