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Having an issue lately with iOS and Brave where Cloudflare Turnstile either takes a minute or longer to verify or just crashes my tab. Weird.

Something I’ve been doing for fun lately is finding dead torrents (not hard) and using debrid services + private trackers to reseed the dead public torrents. It’s been sooo satisfying haha.

My BitTorrent tracker lived for many months on a cheap DigitalOcean droplet but after a DMCA harassment campaign I have moved it to Moldova. Should have done it a long time so but whatever.

We really need to avoid a future where censorship is regarded as a virtue and monopolized transit providers are "cancelled" or shamed into being the judge/jury/executioner. The far better solution is just to ignore stuff you don't agree with, go outside, and move on with life.

Originality is dead

The Maine shooter was (as always) known to law enforcement, previously committed to a mental institution and prohibited from owning firearms. If only the FBI would stop spying on Catholics, concerned parents at PTA meetings, and Maga patriots maybe they’d actually stop real terrorists for a change rather than trying to create them.

Surfshark are far from the worst offenders - but they do use analytics platforms such as AppsFlyer and Iterable. For the truly paranoid, that may be a concern. They get a B- from us.