T. Hex

https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.en.html

Sounds like you were a 1337 H4X0R back in the day

You can also “simply” raw-dog Wireguard. It’s built into the Linux kernel, so you barely have to install anything besides the userspace tools.

Basically, I objected to being reliant on the generosity of a for-profit company. “We do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy.”

This is a rough sketch:

• Create a Linux server. It can even be a VM/container if you get the networking right.
• Create a Wireguard interface and pick a private IP address subnet that won’t conflict with your home subnet: https://www.wireguard.com/quickstart/
• Define PostUp and PostDown rules in your Wireguard config that modify iptables to masquerade traffic from the Wireguard subnet
• Also set net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 with sysctl. (There is probably an IPv6 equivalent but I live in the past.)
• Generate keypairs and configs for each device you want to use
• Set up dynamic DNS, e.g. https://freedns.afraid.org/
• Forward UDP port 51820 to your server
• Install the Wireguard app on your client devices. If Linux, you can just write a client config containing the necessary magic words and start it up with wg-quick.

Boom. Tailscale’d.

I’m sure I’ve forgotten some steps. I have some janky automation that’s broken in a new way every time I try to use it.

I have no opinion of them, but I’m curious why advertising would imply untrustworthiness. Are you saying they’re too eager or something? Spending money on ads is also consistent with a company that’s making money by charging for a service — I’d be more suspicious of free VPNs.

Oh, in that case all OP needs is cat.

Oh my god, enough already! Please give someone else a chance to reply! You’re taking up all the internet space.

What does “maintain a lower profile” mean specifically? I think the point of a private tracker is that you don’t need to enable DHT, which effectively broadcasts to the internet that your IP address is trying to download content identified by a specific hash.

Isn’t that the whole point of a private tracker?

To be positively translucent, even someone with $1,000,000 in the bank has 1000x less than the poorest billionaire. For other disturbing facts, see https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/.

This all hinges on when you count the number of problems you have. But that’s why you have two eyes! Read the same page of books 1 and 2 in parallel and obliterate 100% of your problems.

Without the distracting colors, now I can see this says MAPOD

That’s no octocat! It has 10.1 tentacles by my count.

I always interpreted it as a person that has devoted their life to the topic of the meme with monk-like devotion.

Kyle Gass?

MlT (MlT): please accept this honorary PhD

Cryptocurrency is not necessarily anonymous. Buying bitcoin from a broker leaves a record connecting your payment method to your wallet. Even if you mine them yourself, doesn’t your IP address show up on the public ledger? I guess if you somehow bought bitcoin in cash…

Is there a more private cryptocurrency I’m not considering?

The implications of “magic is data” are fun. It leads to stories like Unsong where you can brute-force enumerate incantations until you find a good one. I also like the concept of Wizard’s Bane. I haven’t read it, but my understanding is that magic turns out to be Turing-complete, and the protagonist creates a LISP evaluator in magic, which enables them to outcast their enemies who are still doing the magical equivalent of writing assembly.

The wizard on the wall (disguised as a skeleton) uses NixOS and also happens to declare their incantations in the Nix language.

Won’t someone please think of the children…'s unkicked faces

I imagine that you simply snap your fingers and a serf brings over a step stool