BermudaHighball

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Has anyone tried I2P for torrenting? How is it? in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] BermudaHighball@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago

There really should be more private trackers on I2P. Once you get over the slower speeds, there are a lot of benefits, like not really needing to port forward to be connectable (but you should to support the I2P network).

Don't forget to ... in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] BermudaHighball@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You probably aren't connectable from the outside. You need to port forward to support the network.

IPFS in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] BermudaHighball@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago

IPFS is kind of like the BitTorrent DHT. Every file is indexed by a cryptographic hash and can represent anything. There is no general way to search it, but you can build an index and search the index like how torrent search engines work.

You need a VPN for everything when it comes to pirating. in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] BermudaHighball@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You don't need a VPN if you use I2P!

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Whatever happened to DNA-based storage research? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 

It seems like 6 or 7 years ago there was research into new forms of storage, using crystals or DNA that promised ultra high density storage. I know the read/write speed was not very fast, but I thought by now there would be more progress in the area. Apparently in 2021 there was a team that got a 16GB file stored in DNA. In the last month there's some company (Biomemory) that lets you store 1KB of data into DNA for $1,000, but if you want to read it, you have to send it to them. I don't understand why you would use that today.

I wonder if it will ever be viable for us to have DNA readers/writers... but I also wonder if there are other new types of data storage coming up that might be just as good.

If you know anything about the DNA research or other new storage forms, what do you think is the most promising one?

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Warez: Do you pirate software or just use FOSS? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 

In the past, most software I used was paid and proprietary and would have some sort of limitation that I would try to get around by any means possible. Sometimes that would be resetting the clock on my computer, disabling the internet, and other times downloading a patch.

But in the past few years I've stopped using those things and have focused only on free and open source software (FOSS) to fulfill my needs. I hardly have to worry about privacy problems or trying to lock down a program that calls home. I might be missing out on some things that commercial software delivers, but I'm hardly aware of what they are anymore. It seems like the trend is for commercial software providers to migrate toward online or service models that have the company doing all the computing. I'm opposed to that, since they can take away your service at any time.

What do you do?