It’s crazy to me to see so many people recommending these. I remember thinking ed2k was old when Kazaa and Morpheus came out.

I was looking at this page and it brought so much nostalgia. The days of viruses, “proggys” in Yahoo chat (I missed the AOL train), being a young teenage script kiddy on the Internet… That was the best time of the Internet for me. You could do and say anything and never felt like there was a panopticon watching you to slip up at any time.

Mullvad or IVPN. Some VPNs like Perfect Privacy do leak your IP via DHT and other torrent features, even when full lockdown mode is on. You can search ‘torrent leak test’ to verify yours doesn’t. I found out with a 2nd DMCA warning from my ISP.

Nothing, if you want. You can disable network permissions on play services. Google DDG first to make sure that won’t break the game. Depends on what the game uses play services for… if it’s some local functionality it will be fine, if it’s remote functionality then it will break.

Ironically, GrapheneOS is pretty much that (minus the hardware) unless you want to get an iPhone or Windows phone. You’ll have to have Play Services to play the games you want to play; may as well use the only sandboxed version afaik. The reason the Pixel line was chosen is because it’s essentially what iPhone is for Apple… There will be no vendor add-ons or modifications, just stock android which can be modified into things like GrapheneOS. But it’s more for security and privacy than it sounds like you need. Just keep in mind whatever you choose, cracked apps have a much higher chance of containing malware unless you learn to crack them yourself, but then you’d have no time to game.

https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-play-services

Since the Play services apps are simply regular apps on GrapheneOS, you install them within a specific user or work profile and they’re only available within that profile. Only apps within the same profile can use it and they need to explicitly choose to use it. It works the same way as any other app and has no special capabilities. As with any other app, it can’t access data of other apps and requires explicit user consent to gain access to profile data or the standard permissions. Apps within the same profile can communicate with mutual consent and it’s no different for sandboxed Play services.

ETA: It looks like there is a modified open source Play Services client called MicroG, which is basically a rewrite of Play Services that allows things to work, but things requiring payments or payments via NFC etc may not work.

I think you just want to play games without play services, not actually learn apk reverse engineering (which is a very complex skill), so MicroG is probably what you want. https://microg.org/

GeapheneOS (Pixel only) has sandboxed play services by default, with controls over location data, etc. Not sure if that’s what you’re after but I thought I’d mention it.

That’s great, I noticed ABB doesn’t track my ratio anywhere even though they require an account.

I’ve been using audiobookbay, does myanonymouse have more content?

FTA: “The list of IP addresses and domain names to be blocked is drawn up by private bodies authorised by AGCOM”

Edit: You’re correct, you could run a VPN on your own server and sell access, as this would only block known VPN services.

Sure but you’d basically be scamming them as the VPN service wouldn’t work because even if you sent them the VPN installer and login it wouldn’t connect.

You’ll need port forwarding for private torrent sites so people can download from you better.

What, they gonna be the defendant and the plaintiff?

I don’t know what type of traps OP means, unless it’s software, then that’s possible.

Reddit blocks access to all major VPN services (on desktop for sure) when they click a link from a search engine (maybe even navigating directly to it but I don’t do that). This has been happening for about a month now. There’s a specific page it shows that basically says “come back without a VPN.”

I don’t think it does it if you’re logged in and have cookies enabled.

Caveat: there is a simple way to bypass it, I’ll let you old.heads figure that one out.

Seriously. Lemmy is a house made of patchwork quilt, with a bit of pine sap here and there to steady the few boards.

I’d almost put money on it being AV. But I’d also think the installer wouldn’t just crash on locked file. That was my first thought too though since I don’t believe the qbt executable is signed.

Unigram is what you’re looking for on Desktop, not 100% sure if they have a Linux build.

Sounds like a malware author having all victims download and seed all his torrents so they’re @ the top for many software searches and spread more? Some type of automated process either random bytes for size or download previous torrent and bind malware to .exe in main zip?

Don’t have time to check it out, if anyone else does let me know. And let TPB staff know.

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This is exactly what I was looking for!

That’s my fault, I messed up and said ebook a few times while meaning audiobooks.

He narrated his own?? Hell yeah, I’m going to download them today and give them a re-listen on the suggested apps to see which I like most.

See my other comment: https://lemmy.world/comment/7069535

You’re making disingenuous assumptions when you say I listened to other audiobooks. I have only listened to this series. purchased 3, and listened to 2 of the free (premium) books. I did not listen to any other books. There were a couple times it skipped a chapter with an accidental scroll, and I had to scroll back, but I didn’t actually listen so it shouldn’t count.

I wasn’t aware of the 15 hour limit but of course I am now as it’s been pointed out many times in this thread. I didn’t even know they had audiobooks until they started showing up on the opening screen of Spotify. I got hooked listening to the Steven Fry narrated OG book and then went to buy the next 3 and the last book in the series was also included in premium so I listened without buying. Still, 13 hours (which makes up for any skipping) is not 15 hours, so there’s either a bug or they intentionally count unlistened to skipped chapters as being listened to.

I’m getting Libby setup today with my library card.

See: https://lemmy.world/comment/7069535

I purchased 3/5 books of the series. The 2 free books add up to 13 hours.

Let’s be gracious and round up. That’s 13 hours. Not 15.

You can only do so many chargebacks before you’re banned from using that payment network, which considering it’s Spotify they likely use one of the largest payment networks. I save chargebacks for when I got royally fscked, not just irritated inconvenience.

I don’t have time to sit down and read books. I have the disease of modernity. Will you read to me when I call?

I already use ReadEra for all my documents needs. Does it save progress well with audiobooks?

Does it let you have a folder of books and keep your place when you pause the book or exit the app? Many don’t seem to keep the progress very well.

High gymnast? It’s ok my ex-wife is a tard and she’s a pilot now.

Ow My Balls! plays in background

The Steven Fry narration really drew me in. He’s fantastic. I was bummed when I started listening to the others but quickly got used to it. Martin Freeman is a good narrator, if not as animated and loud as Fry.

Exactly. I pay for Spotify premium, I purchased 3/5 books in this series, and maybe it’s because 2 of the books were free with premium (incl this last book) that it’s time limiting me. But if that’s the case it’s also counting time listened during my paid-for eBooks. Absolutely crazy to me.

The OG HHGTTG is, the prequel and subsequent books in the series are not unfortunately. But I got used to the other guys voice quickly.

You reminded me I do have major regional library card access, if they don’t expire after a couple years.

The webpage was saved, but the zip archive was not. They don’t recursively crawl everything linked to on that page, just the page itself.

If you prevent search engines from crawling your site via robots.txt and use cloudflare free and a DMCA-ignored host (just search it) you’ll be fine. Don’t use a .com domain, use .ph .md .is .today, stick with the domains archive.today uses and you’ll be good. If you ever get kicked off of cloudflare, just point your DNS back towards your host.

You may need a program that uses a browser (not chrome headless) to bypass cloudflare. For non-DDoS protected sites, just use any number of free open source tools.

fsck it, I’m keeping it. It makes sense with the typo and without, just giving fully different meaning to the sentence 😅

I am once again full, friend! I’ll never think about ‘feeling drained’ the same again 😅

There’s nothing wrong with it at all. That’s why I gave them props for still giving all necessary info because search engines are a shitshow for things now. They just seemed like they were mentally drained but still trying to help I thought that was cool. Also possibly/probably projection on my part.

I was mainly basing it off of the quick rundown no unnecessary info and them saying that they described it terribly. I was just relating to it yesterday after I got off work and was drained.