What are some (legal) torrents I can seed that help a good cause?
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Hey, so I have recently bought a raspberry pi 4 to use as a selfhosted Nextcloud and Immich server. I also thought about other stuff, I could host on there when I am not using the processing power and bandwidth and I came to the conclusion that I could seed legal torrents (I live in Germany, so I can afford no risks), that are ideally helping humanitarian projects (something like linux distros or open science data. Do you guys have some good ideas for where I could look for torrents that can effectively help people?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Kiwix - they have downloads of various educational resources including subsets of Wikipedia which can be taken on a USB-stick to far off remote places that don't have reliable internet access.
You can find the available downloads at library.kiwix.org
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Hey, so I have recently bought a raspberry pi 4 to use as a selfhosted Nextcloud and Immich server. I also thought about other stuff, I could host on there when I am not using the processing power and bandwidth and I came to the conclusion that I could seed legal torrents (I live in Germany, so I can afford no risks), that are ideally helping humanitarian projects (something like linux distros or open science data. Do you guys have some good ideas for where I could look for torrents that can effectively help people?
Linux distros often have torrents for their ISOs.
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Hey, so I have recently bought a raspberry pi 4 to use as a selfhosted Nextcloud and Immich server. I also thought about other stuff, I could host on there when I am not using the processing power and bandwidth and I came to the conclusion that I could seed legal torrents (I live in Germany, so I can afford no risks), that are ideally helping humanitarian projects (something like linux distros or open science data. Do you guys have some good ideas for where I could look for torrents that can effectively help people?
Debian Trixie just released, so...
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I'm building this hosting service and while testing the torrent aspect of it I uploaded the Linux mint torrent and I've been seeing it ever since.
In general, most large FOSS torrents benefit from additional seeders (although I don't think many are in lack thereof). Beyond that, I think I vaguely remember wikipedia and internet archive having a torrent component.
There's no warning anywhere saying so, but torrents have been broken on archive.org for years now. I can't remember the specifics but many torrents if IA is the only seed you'll get stuck at 99.9% and it'll never complete.
Infuriating.
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Hey, so I have recently bought a raspberry pi 4 to use as a selfhosted Nextcloud and Immich server. I also thought about other stuff, I could host on there when I am not using the processing power and bandwidth and I came to the conclusion that I could seed legal torrents (I live in Germany, so I can afford no risks), that are ideally helping humanitarian projects (something like linux distros or open science data. Do you guys have some good ideas for where I could look for torrents that can effectively help people?
Linux ISO, wikipedia and maybe even Openstreetmap.
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Hey, so I have recently bought a raspberry pi 4 to use as a selfhosted Nextcloud and Immich server. I also thought about other stuff, I could host on there when I am not using the processing power and bandwidth and I came to the conclusion that I could seed legal torrents (I live in Germany, so I can afford no risks), that are ideally helping humanitarian projects (something like linux distros or open science data. Do you guys have some good ideas for where I could look for torrents that can effectively help people?
Archive.org has a bunch that you can help with.
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Hey, so I have recently bought a raspberry pi 4 to use as a selfhosted Nextcloud and Immich server. I also thought about other stuff, I could host on there when I am not using the processing power and bandwidth and I came to the conclusion that I could seed legal torrents (I live in Germany, so I can afford no risks), that are ideally helping humanitarian projects (something like linux distros or open science data. Do you guys have some good ideas for where I could look for torrents that can effectively help people?
Linux ISOs
Depending on your jurisdiction, popular torrents on archive.org
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Archive.org has a bunch that you can help with.
Especially the pbs kids shows that the GOP is trying to cancel and ban.
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Especially the pbs kids shows that the GOP is trying to cancel and ban.
Ban? Like, making possession illegal? Like, they will be wiped from YouTube?
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There's no warning anywhere saying so, but torrents have been broken on archive.org for years now. I can't remember the specifics but many torrents if IA is the only seed you'll get stuck at 99.9% and it'll never complete.
Infuriating.
Yeah, it's like that for some torrents, but some also work fine. And the ones that don't work, you can revive by manually downloading the zip file from their servers, I guess.
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Ban? Like, making possession illegal? Like, they will be wiped from YouTube?
Yep, a 2TB external drive is enough to hold all of it
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Hey, so I have recently bought a raspberry pi 4 to use as a selfhosted Nextcloud and Immich server. I also thought about other stuff, I could host on there when I am not using the processing power and bandwidth and I came to the conclusion that I could seed legal torrents (I live in Germany, so I can afford no risks), that are ideally helping humanitarian projects (something like linux distros or open science data. Do you guys have some good ideas for where I could look for torrents that can effectively help people?
wrote last edited by [email protected]Tor (Tails Iso), other linux isos, internet archive stuff in public domain
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Hey, so I have recently bought a raspberry pi 4 to use as a selfhosted Nextcloud and Immich server. I also thought about other stuff, I could host on there when I am not using the processing power and bandwidth and I came to the conclusion that I could seed legal torrents (I live in Germany, so I can afford no risks), that are ideally helping humanitarian projects (something like linux distros or open science data. Do you guys have some good ideas for where I could look for torrents that can effectively help people?
Wikipedia zim
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Hey, so I have recently bought a raspberry pi 4 to use as a selfhosted Nextcloud and Immich server. I also thought about other stuff, I could host on there when I am not using the processing power and bandwidth and I came to the conclusion that I could seed legal torrents (I live in Germany, so I can afford no risks), that are ideally helping humanitarian projects (something like linux distros or open science data. Do you guys have some good ideas for where I could look for torrents that can effectively help people?
The large wikipedia(and others datasets) .slob files used for AARD2 and other offline readers.
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Debian Trixie just released, so...
Yup just started seeding the 64-bit PC DVD .iso since I figured I'd need it sooner or later, the .torrent links are listed there in the Debian download page https://www.debian.org/distrib/
And of course plenty of other Linux distros have their own torrent links.
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Tor (Tails Iso), other linux isos, internet archive stuff in public domain
Isn't tor risky with police?
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Isn't tor risky with police?
Not really, as long as you don't run an exit node
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Not really, as long as you don't run an exit node
But what if exit node was captured by police and they will get next node and etc
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But what if exit node was captured by police and they will get next node and etc
You're either trolling, or fundamentally don't understand how tor works. Exit nodes carry all the risk as they are the only ones who know what the exit traffic is. Every node before that is encrypted and doesn't know anything other than the next node. Police can capture an exit node all they want, its of no legal concern to the guard and middle if they do. The guard is the only one that knows the originating IP address. There are flaws in tor, don't get me wrong. But that's not one of them.
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But what if exit node was captured by police and they will get next node and etc
Running a Tor relay, even an exit node, is not illegal in most jurisdictions. However, exit node operators may receive a large number of abuse reports and legal threats, which they must properly answer to avoid further trouble and that's why it's not recommended for the individuals to run an exit node.
For those living under authoritarian regimes where Tor might be illegal, the risks are obviously significantly greater.
