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  • The idea is decent in theory, but not in execution. The idea is that token staking is done by node operators which makes it much harder to pull of 51% attacks as it requires hundreds of euros in money to be put aside. It also protects against poisoned nodes, which is theoretically possible on something like Tor because of how easy it is to spin those up for cheap. Besides that the token also funnels a tiny amount back towards the developers in an anonymous way that would help them during development.

    In practice though they should have just went without the blockchain. I have been very interested in Session but their blockchain model was always one of the biggest things that might kill the whole project.







  • I like the idea of SearXNG, but I don’t see why so many people like it for self hosting. You’re still querying search engines with your IP which in many self hosted cases is the same IP as the one you browse the internet with. I think SearXNG is really good if you setup a service on a server IP (like a VPS) and it gets used by multiple people, or if you tunnel it trough a VPN, but then again you could also just VPN your search engine searches.

    So why do you like it? Is it for the aggregation of multiple engines? Or maybe the fact that it doesn’t link your specific browser to a search? I really wonder and am not hating.




  • I use Prowlarr with Flaresolverr.

    Setup the Flaresolverr indexer proxy in Prowlarr:
    - Tags: flaresolverr
    - Host: http://flaresolverr:8191/ (or whatever host+port your flaresolverr

    And then I use these:
    - 1337x (Add Tags: flaresolverr)
    - TorrentDownload
    - Knaben

    It’s not the best and Knaben is mostly just TPB + Rutracker. But this setup gets me everything I need. Everything wrong is filtered as I made my setup look for HEVC with specific bit rate ranges. Invalid file extensions are filtered out.

    For actual downloading I use RDT Client with the TorBox debrid service.

    Sometimes some indexing services time out but I’ll get the content later.

    In my experience, with this setup, I really don’t need Usenet or private torrent trackers.