For those interested, John Hammond did a video a few months ago about .lnk extension (and other 16 hidden extensions on Windows).

He doesn’t go to much or to deep into the subject, but you get a general view how this could be exploitable.

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We are in the mess that we are because less than 50% people vote in the first place.

Even if 90% people vote, if they only have choice between a turd or a piece of shit, that’s not really a choice 🫠

I just recently learned about azireVPN.

Any thoughts?

Azire looks great ! I’m interested on why you choose azire over protonVPN?

Maybe all package managers default to libtorrent 2.0.X, but that’s not true when downloading from the website.

Maybe you are a windows user?

Close enough… Got MacOS, Windows and EndeavourOS and there’s also an appimage available on their site so it’s not only because you’re a “Windows user”.

Okay thank you :). We will see after a few years I guess?

It doesn’t look like an “emergency alarm” to switch over to another database. However, I was already thinking of switching every container to postgres. Maybe that’s the push needed.

Hummm… Can someone tell me if this is good news or bad news?

Generally a buy-out is mostly bad news, but I can’t tell here in this specific case.

If only it would be that easy… First hurdle there is no “enable i2p on qbittorrent” ! After searxing around and coming across the last comment of a reddit post (not even the official forum), you have to download qbitorrent with libtorrent 2.0.x series.

On the qbittorent download page chose the qbitorrent version corresponding to your system with lt20.

Don’t make it sound I2P alongside qbitorrent is easy. It’s not ! There isn’t any proper tutorial on how to use i2p and eepsites in the first place. Don’t get me wrong, I’m doing my part, but for newbies/newcomers this sounds like an “install/forget” situation while it isn’t !

I have no idea what’s the status of piracy where you live in, but for good practice and to avoid some bad surprises with your ISP (Internet Service Provider) you should always use a VPN (virtual private network) that allows peer2peer networks (torrents) to hide your traffic from your ISP. There are other solutions but a VPN is probably the easiest way for your right now. Depending where you live, you could get in trouble !!!

The first step is to find a P2P BitTorrent client, I would recommend qbitorrent which is multi platform (windows, linux, macOS).

Second step is to find your torrent file, for anime I would recommend nyaa.si. If you search for The snow queen you will come across a few results and the one that’s probably interesting for you is the following: [Live-eviL]_The_Snow_Queen-Batch-[h264&MP3].

Why? Because it’s english translated (subtitles), It has 5 seeders (in green) and 1 leecher (red).

On [Live-eviL]_The_Snow_Queen-Batch-[h264&MP3]'s page you have 2 solution:

• Download torrent where you download the torrent file and need to open it in your BitTorrent client
• Magnet which will automatically add the torrent to your BitTorrent client

Either way is good, there’s more to it but that doesn’t matter here and now. Something important to note is that it has not much seeders (green) so the download speed can be a bit slow. There are a ways to speedup your download speed but this would take to long to explain everything specially if you’re new to torrenting.

The most important part (after you get used to how to torrent files), is the philosophy behind torrents. It’s a peer2peer network based around sharing (seeders). Every person shares the files he already downloaded to others, if there are no seeders, there would be now way to download your file ! So after you downloaded your file, please keep it alive and become a seeder (not a leecher).

How to? Simple, just let your downloaded file sit where they are and keep qbitorrent open, it will automatically seed the files to others ! If you are limited in download/upload quota from your ISP, you can limited the upload speed a bit.

Helpful resources:

• https://forum.qbittorrent.org/
• https://www.theloadguru.com/torrent-guide/
• https://www.howtogeek.com/31846/bittorrent-for-beginners-how-get-started-downloading-torrents/
• https://www.tomsguide.com/us/bittorrent-how-to-guide-torrent,review-2429.html

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I have downloaded the files and I’m seeding it so your download speed will get a bump :) The quality is much better and you will probably appreciate the quality boost compared to streaming.

If you’re into selfhosting komga is a great alternative eBook, epub reader. Their native web reader is great and works flawlessly and your reading is synced on your server, so you can finish off where ever you’re ! (Yeah you need to be online sorry :/)

Though there isn’t a native reader for offline reading, you can install mihon and the komga plugin to fetch your server’s PDF files (doesn’t work with epubs). However, mihon only syncs your finished chapters.

That’s why I recommend to read with komga’s PWA as it works great and syncs on what page you finished off.

InnerTune is also a YouTube Music frontend. Dunno what trick they use but having a similar experience (even better?) than YouTube Music for free is a godsend !

I was a die hard VLC user but now I can’t live without MPV.

VLC does work great on Windows, but I had some issues on Linux & Android, solved by MPV. One simple example is with jellyfin on android. VLC as an external player sometimes doesn’t work great with ASS subtitles. VLC fell a bit behind on Linux/Android devices.

However on Windows, VLC would have been the first thing I would install alongside with Firefox.

animension DOT to. I tried a few links and they worked. However the quality looks ass and unwatchable :/.

IMO the best solution would be torrenting the whole serie.

Strangely enough, like the wikileaks scandal… Most people are forgetful. But not on purpose…

That’s how good they are in manipulating people’s mind.

That’s kinda reductive… But okay ! I use mostly protonVPN because of their free tier and being able to route all my traffic through the same tunnel.

I never played the SH serie, not because it looks bad but because it looked way to scary to play back in the days.

I have only heard good things about it, but I think I would profit more playing the remake, because graphics, sound design and technology changed way to much.

I know all of the die hard fans are going to down vote… The power of nostalgia. But have you tried to replay the first tomb rider, first metal gear, first resident evil…? While they left some good memories from the past, replaying them today will just scatter your memories into some strange soup-feeling you wished you never touched !

Either way, I’m happy I can finally give SH2 a shot :) I heard it was the best from the serie.

Now that I know a bit more about security and obfuscation I rather not use any pirated games/software anymore. If they know how to crack/reverse engineer some complicated stuff, you can be sure they add some shady stuff in it.

• silent cryptominer
• info stealer
• hidden DNS ads requests
• trojan
• …

They need somehow a way to earn there living expanses ? It’s a service we think it’s free but nothing comes without a counterpart.

Naaah I was talking about zlibrary (free ebooks and research paper library) getting targeted by the governement because free knowldge is illegal !

Alot of bad things happening these months… Nintendo, youtube, streaming sites, zlibrary, manifestV3, EU laws on cryptography to protect “the children”…

Dark days ahead? :/

There is always going to be a divide between people who have done restaurant closings and those that haven’t.

Naah every service that expects that “the client is king” philosophie have sentiment for all kind of people working in the same area.

I mean, I did retail jobs a few years ago, and still today when I go shopping or at restaurants or any other service, I always chose my time accordinlgy to not bother them to much… Because I know how people can be stupid assholes…

But from time to time you get some chill lovely creatures and that always brightened my day ☀️