dragonfly4933

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[–] dragonfly4933@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As long as your ISP is handing out a block of IPs, you don't need NAT for v6.

Many ISPs are no longer handing out even 1 public ipv4 address per account, and instead opting for CGnat which further breaks and stratifies the internet.

Tmobile for example is 464xlat which is even worse than cgnat since it requires tampering with dns responses.

Given the situation many ISP are in, most serious companies offering services on the internet have supported ipv6 for a long time now in order to offer the most competitive service possible. And with cloudflare now serving up a large amount of traffic, a lot of all traffic is v6.

Believe it or not, but IPv6 is here and gaining ground.

[–] dragonfly4933@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

BitTorrent v2 allows this also. In v1, torrents with multiple files are hashed continuously (cat) together without respect to file boundaries. A side effect of this that many people notice is that to grab a specific file may require downloading some of the files before or after the one you want.

Under v2, each file is hashed separately, so this fixes the aforementioned problem and should allow sharing of files across torrent files.

[–] dragonfly4933@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago (14 children)

Wouldn't advise turning off ipv6. We are probably getting near the point where some public services will disable or offer v4 as only best effort, and when this happens, your connectivity will be broken for certain things if you disable v6. Heck, it's to the point now where all my home hosted services are v6 only.

The better solution is to just get a VPN that supports ipv6 like airvpn or mullvad. I think pia disables ipv6 while the tunnel is up, which is better than disabling ipv6 altogether.

To validate the tunnel is working properly you can use something like this.

https://ipleak.net/

There is also a Torrent Address detection section, that when you activate it, will provide a magnet link that will show your ip to ensure that it is tunneled properly.

[–] dragonfly4933@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Email isn't that secure anyway (don't use email if your life or freedom depends on it), so I don't see that as much as a downside.

Could be a bad dock or usb controller, try a different one. Otherwise just snap the sata connector off, and most people will not bother to get anything off.

It only applies to network devices that respect the setting. However, if you are using windows, for machines you care about, you can just configure DoT.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/secure-your-internet-connection-dns

Android also supports DoT, as does firefox as I mentioned above. For any given device you can search for "android DNS over TLS" and get info to see if it can be easily turned on.

However, also keep in mind if you are using Windows, then using DoT is like putting a bandaid on a gushing wound. The underlying OS is not trustworthy.

[–] dragonfly4933@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't think NixOS is used by many companies, so it's not really a skill that will likely lead to employment. Most companies use containers and tools like ansible which is accomplishing something similar to nix.

[–] dragonfly4933@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

DNS doesn't really matter for piracy, but it can help improve privacy and security.

DNS over TLS will ensure all your dns requests are encrypted, and most clients actually validate the certificate so attempts to hijack the connection are not easily possible.

Firefox can bypass your systems DNS and use DoH. I think windows also supports DoT.

For Linux, systemd networkd and resolved also support DoT.

Keep in mind that some software does not obey system dns settings and can do their own DNS.

[–] dragonfly4933@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You should more prominently ask for donations in any site update posts. The cost between a dedicated server and VPS is pretty big.

Probably to verify email addresses on signup.

Hardware encoders are common and "cheap" these days. They may not be as good as properly tuned software based encoders, but they are fast.

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