I agree with everyone here that self-hosting email is never easy, but if you still decide to go down this route then here are two tips that I personally found very helpful, especially when you decide to host it at home:

The first is to get an SMTP relay server. That’s just another mail server that yours can log into to actually send its mail, just like an email client would. That way you don’t have to worry about your IP’s sending reputation, because everyone will only see the relay’s reputable IP.

Second is to configure a Backup MX. That’s an additional MX DNS entry with lower priority than the primary, and it points to a special mail server that accepts any mail for you and tries to deliver it to the primary server forever (or something like an entire week). So when your primary server is unreachable other sending servers will deliver mail to the backup, and it delivers the mail to the primary as soon as that’s back online.

You can get these as separate services, but some DNS providers (like Strato for example) offer both with the base domain package. It makes self-hosting an email server much simpler and more reliable in my experience.

The thing is, Reddit also has money and lawyers. LW doesn’t, so it’s understandable that they play it safe imo.

Good to know I guess, but yea that’s a bit too speculative for my taste.

Looks ok to me, what in particular do you take issue with?

This UsenetServer discount link gives you 1 trial month for $1, then $50/year after that, and includes a 1TB TweakNews block and a paid PrivadoVPN account.

Completely agree! There are solutions for letting Lidarr download from Deezer and Tidal, but afaik no other music streaming services for some reason.

I’m transcoding everything to 320kbps MP3s. It’s much much smaller than flac, and I can’t hear the difference even if I try.

Trying to finish the Horizon Forbidden West story, but it’s a bit meh. Really sad about that! The HZD stories were great, and the world is as beautiful as ever, but I stopped caring at some point with the newest one. Other than that, I just bought the Age of Wonders 4 season pass and am trying out the new races and traits.

On Usenet altHUB and abook.link.

Hier geht es aber in aggregierte Geschäftsdaten.

Gilt für beides. Es gibt ja schon Integrationen, bei denen man einfach GB von Daten jeglicher Art hochlädt, damit die KI darauf Zugriff hat und maßgeschneiderte Antworten geben kann. Und je mehr die KI versteht, desto mehr ist man gewillt hochzuladen, weil es ja nützlich sein könnte.

Ja so verstehe ich das auch, es ist nur etwas ungünstig formuliert. Es geht darum aus den Daten alle nützlichen Informationen zu extrahieren, nicht “alle Daten” zu sammeln. Wobei sie mit den sehr persönlichen KI Assistenten natürlich trotzdem auf dem Weg dahin sind.

You have to provide the user, group and file name as the next three guesses, just trust me!

Wenn du nur im lokalen Netzwerk streamen willst sollte der Router keinen großen Unterschied machen, daher ist da die Antwort denke ich JA. Zugriff aus dem Internet sollte auch gehen, entweder direkt per Port-Forwarding (check ob der Router das kann) und DynDNS, oder mit Lösungen wie Synology QuickConnect, Cloudflare Tunnel oder Tailscale.

Just a heads up, trying to buy Uranium for the reactor on Ebay will get you in trouble real fast, so be careful!

Debrid services are usually cheaper (as low as $2.5/month), but you’re limited to public trackers with them.

Best tip I can give is to use a tool that’s made for this task, like Tdarr/FileFlows/Unmanic. They take care of all the complicated issues like encoders, ffmpeg parameters and parallel processing on multiple nodes, so you only have to handle the things you actually care about.

If you have a monopoly and need to maximize profits then the question becomes: Why not?! You could extract more money this way, and it’s not like your users would go anywhere else at this point.

That is why it’s so important to fight and break up monopolies, and to limit what these companies can do. Because they have no reason not to squeeze every penny they can get out of you!

I’ve been running Gluetun for a few months now, and just the other day discovered that you can use it to seamlessly proxy Twitch streams (using it as http proxy for ttv lol pro), so they load via countries that Twitch doesn’t show ads for. Setting it up was ridiculously easy, and now I have neither ads nor endless loading anymore. The whole thing was a really nice surprise!

Yes. It makes it much harder to build a profile about you though, because you’re not logged in and they don’t know if those views come from you or someone else using your server. Even if you’re the only one, the website doesn’t know that.

I’m no expert on the topic, but I’ve also never heard of a case where a seedbox user was sued because of torrenting. As far as I can tell the seedbox providers only ever get takedown requests, they never have to hand over user data or logs. I believe that’s mostly because of the jurisdictions they operate in, but some also have restrictions like blocking public trackers.

There are probably a bunch of things that contribute to this. Seedbox providers fighting against information requests, their logs not being as valuable in court, law firms not knowing whether the IP they’d get would even lead to an address (as opposed to IPs of providers they know to be cooperative), the fact that you only downloaded from the seedbox and never uploaded anything yourself, and so on. Torrenting lawsuits are already pretty weak, and adding all this uncertainty probably makes it not worth the effort.