You don’t need to. But it’s probably a good idea for the same reason as with BitTorrent.

Reading through the docs about it here, it sounds like it’s only an indexer, not a tracker.

Well fuck me. I mean I don’t think that’s an immediate issue for me but that does suck.

EDIT: Although if we’re being honest, has PIA been found doing anything shady in the 7 years since they were acquired?

Do people not recommend PIA anymore? I’ve used it for a long time and never had issues. Supports port forwarding. Audits have shown they don’t store activity logs, and they even run RAM-only servers.

EDIT: Just looked at AirVPN. It’s nice they don’t request any identifying info on signup.

I agree the transport layer is good and having anonymity in a different layer works. I think my main gripes with it today are:

1. Anonymity is paid for and trust-based. It’d be awesome if something like I2P started working well enough that anyone could have anonymity for free without needing to trust a company or worry about poor performance.
2. Private trackers. While I understand the logic behind this form of community (incentivize seeding and make bans meaningful), I think it’s possible to solve those problems with a public tracker. I have ideas on how this could work if anyone is interested.

I haven’t tried SoulSeek. What does it do better than Bittorrent?

EDIT: After playing around with SoulSeek, it seems pretty cool, although the amount of time it takes to scan your files on startup is laughably bad.

Public trackers never seem to have as good of releases or swarm health, except for the most popular content.

The main point of OP is that this was a misunderstanding that turned into an overreaction. It sounds like there was never any confusion among the maintainers that they were trying to create a policy to prevent LLM slop PRs and reduce maintenance burden. Somehow non-maintainers derailed the discussion into an anti-AI tirade that was completely unproductive.

So basically: yes people should shut up if they don’t have anything productive to add to the discussion.

It was clear he was referring to anyone involving themselves unnecessarily in the business of maintainers trying to create a policy. This tends to happen whenever maintainers discuss things openly.

It didn’t seem condescending to me. You have to accept that non-contributors simply don’t get as much weight as contributors in this kind of discussion. So when a lead maintainer sees non-contributors starting debates and criticizing the project when they don’t have their facts straight and it really wasn’t any of their business to begin with, they have a right to call them out.

I’d love to see a language with structural types where functions are always unary and tuples don’t exist. Every function call would look like either f () (no args), f 1 (one arg) or f (foo: 1, bar: 2) (multiple args, names mandatory).

I started building a language like this but I haven’t worked on it in a while.

Yea I currently own all of my domains through cloudflare’s registrar and use them for authoritative DNS. Migrating to another registrar and DNS authority sounds pretty annoying.

Kent Overstreet

There are still various incompatibilities between the two, and it becomes relevant if you need to work with any organization that has standardized on Docker-specific tooling.

What exactly is your problem with Docker? It’s open source.

Also closed-source container images exist.

nixpkgs

Why would you want your entire home folder in syncthing?

You don’t know the direct impact of this project on data center usage because you haven’t observed the development process. And you don’t know whether it infringes on copyright because you haven’t read the code.

How do you know it was built irresponsibly without reading the code, which is something you should be doing when adopting a dependency anyway?

OH! tmux obviously. It’s rock solid.

foot has been pretty solid for me. No complaints.