Nah. The monarchy absolutely is not part of our identity. More importantly, they don't have any part in making decisions - parliament and the current govt. do.

We have some croaky institutions (the Lords) and a stupid voting system (first past the post - just like the U.S) but the monarchy is just a figurehead with some unfair land ownership laws - but the monarchy itself has no authority on this. Today's bs comes down to heir Starmer's cluelessness/arrogance.

TERF island or the 4th Reich

I get wanting to boycott Israelis due to what their government is doing, but you do realise blocking (the good-ish) half of America is gonna seriously hamper your ability to complete torrents? And if you think the UK is full of TERFs, you probably need to verify your news sources and statistical acumen. You shouldn't always tar with the same brush...

Aside from this, on a technical merit this is gonna have absolutely zero effect - because in a torrent, you're part of a mesh - those bits will instantly funnel through peers one way or another, and you'll never convince enough of the swarm to have an impact. Presumably, the 'content' you're torrenting aligns with your personal ethics anyway, and you're not spreading hate. So why bother?

Complete and utter waste of time.

Are people not capable of forming their own opinion these days?

I've been happily using FF since v1 and the only issues I have every now and again is I may need to update my CustomCSSforFx - with my chosen customisations (i.e. keeping the tabs on the damn bottom). I regularly have 1000+ tabs loaded at any time (with Auto Tab Discard), uBlock Origin has never failed on me, and everything just works.

So, I really couldn't give a monkeys what this clickbait article says. I'm not saying Mozilla is perfect, but when people complain about the privacy stuff, they've also forgotten FF is one of the only browsers that lets you turn that shit off.

The latest hysteria about FF adding Perplexity AI as a bloody search shortcut - no different to Wikipedia(!) - tells me all I need to know about other people's opinions.

Crazy. Though I suspect the copy protection is done by the third party Termly, which hosts the policy.

To select the text (in Firefox), first right-click This Frame > Show Only This Frame. Press F12, expand , find the second block, right click it and Delete Note.

Still using Private Internet Access (PIA).

Honestly, dunno why they've fallen out of fashion due to the FUD about being owned by an unsavoury parent company, but the most important matter to me is if they keep logs, which they don't. One of the few VPN companies tested on this, in court, and in a recent audit. Plus still extremely cheap (if you go for 3yr+3mo).

Port forwarding works with with this docker NAS stack. Doesn't use gluetun, but there's a specialised docker-wireguard-pia container as part of the stack, with a script that handles port changes. Been flawless.

Don't forget, you can also use SRV records to point a domain to another target, where you can also omit the port number. So connecting to server.org say, can point to mc.server.org:25565 under the hood.

This prolly isn't what hypixel are doing as everything's likely on the same network and their router/firewall is just forwarding traffic onto different machines, but SRV is one way to redirect a minecraft connection (and you could combine the technique with subdomains).

The next best alternative would be BiglyBT's Swarm Merging feature (which works similarly, and amazingly well on v1 torrents considering it only stores a precise file size instead of a hash in Vuze/Bigly's own DHT). I've been able to 'complete' numerous separate torrents where availability was <1.

BiglyBT already supports v2 but dunno if Swarm Merging works with such torrents yet.

If they're supposed to be binary-identical data (same file checksums), you can use BiglyBTs Swarm Merging feature - without manually copying (which isn't as reliable due to the start/end of the files not bordering on the chunk boundaries.

If they've been modified in any way though, this won't work. However, you might be able to use its Swarm Discovery to find other torrents with the same data and complete with Swarm Merging.

Towards the end of its life, Vuze started adding crap like ads in the sidepanel and spyware in the installer. Plus a bunch of useless features like DVD burning and 'content network'. My guess is the two main devs got involved with some investors at the time of the Azureus rename and didn't like the way it was heading, so forked the project and rebranded to BiglyBT so they could go it on their own. Since it was open source, and mostly their own code, they couldn't really stop them. Edit: More info at TF.

Sad thing is, many people are blissfully unaware of the history and still running Vuze to this day - when it hasn't been touched in 6+ years. Amazingly the site is still up but nobody's home, so its very risky to be using an out-of-date client like that with a spyware-laden installer - with the very real possibility of the binaries being switched out. (Their SSL cert has lapsed several times.)

The good news is, if anyone's still running Vuze, BiglyBT is a straight swap-out.

If anyone's unfamiliar with this client, it's been around a long time, and was previously named Vuze (and before that: Azureus)!

Tis been under active development by the two main devs for all these years. The adware crap was removed from day 1 of the fork and it's a really solid (and featurefull) client. Highly recommend. Also does I2P.

The absolute best feature is Swarm Discovery and Swarm Merge, which lets you find identical large files across different torrents and cross-seed and merge said torrents while downloading both. With Swarm, I've been able to download torrents with <1.0 availability - completing both torrents and become the seed hero. And this was before it supported the v2 BitTorrent spec (which gives you individual file hashes).

I still use qBit for my *arr automation but BiglyBT is always there for everything else and as a great backup client.

Well your account is on lemmy.world so how d'ya know the issue isn't with your own access to the front end?

Many don't interact with the lemmy.world directly, so we might only see delays in post propogation (if there is such an issue on the backend - I don't see any but could be wrong).

I agree picking the biggest instances isn't great from a scaling perspective, but s'gonna be hard to move any community once established.

What happens when you press More info?