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  • PuDLeZPuDLeZ Member
    edited November 2025

    @CatBro282 said:
    While writing this, I couldn't help but wonder: why do people use VPNs? Bypassing blocks, changing locations, getting a permanent IP address that doesn't change, accessing/connecting to Tor. Feel free to add to this and share your ideas; I'd be interested in reading this.

    Besides what you mentioned
    *keeping traffic on a network I don't own private
    *torrenting my favorite linux ISOs

    P.S. VPN+tor https://gitlab.torproject.org/legacy/trac/-/wikis/doc/TorPlusVPN

    Edit: also to get to some machines/devices as they're not exposed to the public internet

    Thanked by 1CatBro282
  • @MrEd said:

    @dustinc said:

    @sh97 said:

    @MrEd said:
    @dustinc we need a resource GA! :)

    I would prefer storage, but anything would work :)

    can i get a bday special GA @dustinc ;)

    A little late, but better late than never! Let's do this.

    @sh97 is lucky, his bday is during such events... Such events don't happen in end of April :)

    or in the beginning..

  • @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @bchot said:

    @noob404 said:

    @DeusVult said:

    @noob404 said:

    @DeusVult said:

    @noob404 said:

    @DeusVult said:

    @BasToTheMax said:

    @DeusVult said:
    let's start to shake this thread! Where's the list of the biggest posters?

    Welcome to the thread! You were here last year too, right?

    Yes, I was =). I remember you too

    Remember me though :lol: ?

    Of course =)!

    How has our year been? Checked the prize list? Found soemthing you love?

    Good year, pretty fast, huh? Yes, I did, k-dramas, which is my biggest love rn lol

    Suggest a few. Recently, I got back into animes, finishes Jujutsu Kaisen recently.

    my fav anime adjacent recently were MMA ANIME
    titles like
    KENGAN ASHURA - kinda 3D i think
    BAKI (2 or 3 series about BAKI) - more hand drawn
    very captivating.. I recommend!

    My all time favourite will always be attack on titan.

    i tried, and i watched some of it, but generally i wasn't impressed
    before i was REALLY into Innuyasha, Bleach, Naruto - the longer it goes, the more i'm into it.. but these days i mostly watch 4k TV shows and movies.. if it is not 4k - i am not watching it. and obviously cartoons.. South Park for instance, and many others. Love cartoons. But only 1 cartoon I know of that really utilized 4k - Disenchantment by same people who made The Simpsons, that I also love and watch..

    I guess, the first few episodes and even the first two seasons are slower, but, the last season is just fire!

    love those shows where you gotta make it thru the beginning few (episodes or even seasons) that turn out to be fire later on.. =)

    I am the kinda guy who sits through shitty shows and movies just because I began them. I only abandon extremely bad movies.

    same!

  • @dustinc said:
    Hi @noob404 -- not a bad choice at all, especially with all the RAM shortages going on right now. By the way, even with everything happening in the hardware market, we still managed to pull off some seriously solid value for this year's Black Friday :)

    y'all did great! solid offers. it's hard to keep same price over multiple locations, IMHO

    Thanked by 1dustinc
  • @PuDLeZ said:

    @CatBro282 said:
    While writing this, I couldn't help but wonder: why do people use VPNs? Bypassing blocks, changing locations, getting a permanent IP address that doesn't change, accessing/connecting to Tor. Feel free to add to this and share your ideas; I'd be interested in reading this.

    Besides what you mentioned
    *keeping traffic on a network I don't own private
    *torrenting my favorite linux ISOs

    P.S. VPN+tor https://gitlab.torproject.org/legacy/trac/-/wikis/doc/TorPlusVPN

    Edit: also to get to some machines/devices as they're not exposed to the public internet

    VPN+tor should so slow tho right?

    Thanked by 1CatBro282
  • @xpress7 said:
    Seems like lots of giveaways are going on.. have fun guys.. :D

    come join us brother =)

  • @CatBro282 said:
    While writing this, I couldn't help but wonder: why do people use VPNs? Bypassing blocks, changing locations, getting a permanent IP address that doesn't change, accessing/connecting to Tor. Feel free to add to this and share your ideas; I'd be interested in reading this.

    For me, only bypassing blocks. I only use private trackers so i don't bother with using it for torreting

    Thanked by 1CatBro282
  • @BasToTheMax said:
    So quiet in here....

    sarr, sarr, i was eating my first big meal of the day. now i'm back, ready to crush it!!

  • @dustinc said:

    @noob404 said:

    @BasToTheMax said:

    @noob404 said:

    @sh97 said:

    @TrK said:
    @sh97 today birthday? Damn son, happy birthday, party hard and let's ask bossman for some GAs on the way

    thank you - one can hope.
    would love a chef entry, but thats reserved for the main BF event, so I'll be happy with some GAs, especially resource ones!

    RAM or CPU core, which one would you choose for your bday?

    I'd probably choose ram, as that's my main bottleneck

    Yah, most of us ended up choosing RAM last year, as everyone recommended getting RAM instead of cores. But, I guess, this year, I am gonna get more cores, if I do win one.

    Hi @noob404 -- not a bad choice at all, especially with all the RAM shortages going on right now. By the way, even with everything happening in the hardware market, we still managed to pull off some seriously solid value for this year's Black Friday :)

    Will plans get more expensive due that?

  • @noob404 said:

    @Homwer said:
    So you all woke up 😅 8 pages in 2 hr?

    That's nothing compared to what we are actually capable of. Welcome back.

    I've seen 20 pages per day.... lol

  • @bchot said:

    @BasToTheMax said:
    So quiet in here....

    sarr, sarr, i was eating my first big meal of the day. now i'm back, ready to crush it!!

    let's goooo

  • @bchot said:

    @dustinc said:
    Hi @noob404 -- not a bad choice at all, especially with all the RAM shortages going on right now. By the way, even with everything happening in the hardware market, we still managed to pull off some seriously solid value for this year's Black Friday :)

    y'all did great! solid offers. it's hard to keep same price over multiple locations, IMHO

    And with the ram shortage problem too!!

  • @CatBro282 said:
    While writing this, I couldn't help but wonder: why do people use VPNs? Bypassing blocks, changing locations, getting a permanent IP address that doesn't change, accessing/connecting to Tor. Feel free to add to this and share your ideas; I'd be interested in reading this.

    opening ports in my case, as in being behind NAT, also file-sharing - your real address is hidden, some people use it right in their routers to present a different geo and watch different content in Netflix or similar.. sometimes simply to hide your activity from internet provider, as it appears lately there's more and more oversight from the big bro..

    Thanked by 1CatBro282
  • @CatBro282 said:

    @Homwer said:

    @CatBro282 said:

    @Homwer said:
    Any news on the EU specials :D Would love to get one - but the 6$ is just not worth it.

    There is France, haha

    Yes but it's 6$ more, for that price you can get a whole vpn server sometimes ;)

    The server price surcharge in the EU is more of a company policy. It's probably expensive. Taxes, transportation, internet…

    i actually red somewhere that to sell VPS in a different country, you don't actually have to have a physical server there, - it is enough to have IPs assigned to that country, and VPS + such IP will be widely considered as being in that country..

    am i wrong?

    Thanked by 1CatBro282
  • I would like to double my bandwidth.

    Order Number: 8131160698

    Thank you!

  • @bchot said:

    @CatBro282 said:
    While writing this, I couldn't help but wonder: why do people use VPNs? Bypassing blocks, changing locations, getting a permanent IP address that doesn't change, accessing/connecting to Tor. Feel free to add to this and share your ideas; I'd be interested in reading this.

    opening ports in my case, as in being behind NAT, also file-sharing - your real address is hidden, some people use it right in their routers to present a different geo and watch different content in Netflix or similar.. sometimes simply to hide your activity from internet provider, as it appears lately there's more and more oversight from the big bro..

    Which country would you choose for such purposes?

  • @DeusVult said:

    @CatBro282 said:
    While writing this, I couldn't help but wonder: why do people use VPNs? Bypassing blocks, changing locations, getting a permanent IP address that doesn't change, accessing/connecting to Tor. Feel free to add to this and share your ideas; I'd be interested in reading this.

    For me, only bypassing blocks. I only use private trackers so i don't bother with using it for torreting

    behind NAT ports are all closed. if i wanna be useful and actually share, gotta be connectable, gotta use VPN where all ports are fair game..

    Thanked by 1CatBro282
  • @bchot said:

    @CatBro282 said:

    @Homwer said:

    @CatBro282 said:

    @Homwer said:
    Any news on the EU specials :D Would love to get one - but the 6$ is just not worth it.

    There is France, haha

    Yes but it's 6$ more, for that price you can get a whole vpn server sometimes ;)

    The server price surcharge in the EU is more of a company policy. It's probably expensive. Taxes, transportation, internet…

    i actually red somewhere that to sell VPS in a different country, you don't actually have to have a physical server there, - it is enough to have IPs assigned to that country, and VPS + such IP will be widely considered as being in that country..

    am i wrong?

    Whaaat... a virtual server within a virtual server with an IPv4 subnet for internet access? My world will never be the same…

    Thanked by 1bchot
  • @DeusVult said:

    @bchot said:

    @dustinc said:
    Hi @noob404 -- not a bad choice at all, especially with all the RAM shortages going on right now. By the way, even with everything happening in the hardware market, we still managed to pull off some seriously solid value for this year's Black Friday :)

    y'all did great! solid offers. it's hard to keep same price over multiple locations, IMHO

    And with the ram shortage problem too!!

    personally I haven't upgraded since 2018 and probably won't for a few years, unless I get the gaming rig, so I am not even bothering to look into what's happening in the world of advanced technology, well, i mean, rather new hardware and sich.. i bought top of the line parts back then, put them together, i did upgrade ram a couple of years later, i think, but otherwise everything old and outdated, i got ryzen 7 that is easily outperformed by new ryzen 5 right now, not even joking up to 80% more power with less threads.. but it's going well for me, does what it has to do.. plus being heavily involved in file sharing before, i have like 30TB of HDD space that I simply clean out every few years and no need for new space, plus there's USB 13TB long term storage, so I'm well set for easy tasks..

    Thanked by 1CatBro282
  • @bchot said:

    @DeusVult said:

    @CatBro282 said:
    While writing this, I couldn't help but wonder: why do people use VPNs? Bypassing blocks, changing locations, getting a permanent IP address that doesn't change, accessing/connecting to Tor. Feel free to add to this and share your ideas; I'd be interested in reading this.

    For me, only bypassing blocks. I only use private trackers so i don't bother with using it for torreting

    behind NAT ports are all closed. if i wanna be useful and actually share, gotta be connectable, gotta use VPN where all ports are fair game..

    nat is the worst thing humanity has ever invented. It doesn't support ports 80, 22, 443, 8080, or 3889. But it does support any 20, up to 65,000.

  • @DeusVult said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @CatBro282 said:
    While writing this, I couldn't help but wonder: why do people use VPNs? Bypassing blocks, changing locations, getting a permanent IP address that doesn't change, accessing/connecting to Tor. Feel free to add to this and share your ideas; I'd be interested in reading this.

    Besides what you mentioned
    *keeping traffic on a network I don't own private
    *torrenting my favorite linux ISOs

    P.S. VPN+tor https://gitlab.torproject.org/legacy/trac/-/wikis/doc/TorPlusVPN

    Edit: also to get to some machines/devices as they're not exposed to the public internet

    VPN+tor should so slow tho right?

    tor in general is slow :lol:
    You don't really gain anything from using a VPN with tor. Really, the only times you should use one is if you know the VPN server is more secure than the network you're on or a VPN is the only way you can connect to tor (ie, it fails on your network). Most of the time though, it just give folks a false sense of security/privacy when using a VPN+Tor

    Thanked by 1CatBro282
  • YES, WE WANT A GIVEAWAY, THE KIND OF GIVEAWAY THAT HASN'T BEEN DONE YET! BRING IT ON!

  • I have been looking for a place to host a small business's website that I manage, as well as a place to host some of my servers that I need to keep online, since the beginning of the year, and I have just now stumbled upon Racknerd. I like what I'm seeing, so I decided to finally jump in.

    My order number is 9989270034 for the double of the good stuff. Can't wait to dive in and get started on this.

    Thanked by 1CatBro282
  • @CatBro282 said:

    @bchot said:

    @CatBro282 said:
    While writing this, I couldn't help but wonder: why do people use VPNs? Bypassing blocks, changing locations, getting a permanent IP address that doesn't change, accessing/connecting to Tor. Feel free to add to this and share your ideas; I'd be interested in reading this.

    opening ports in my case, as in being behind NAT, also file-sharing - your real address is hidden, some people use it right in their routers to present a different geo and watch different content in Netflix or similar.. sometimes simply to hide your activity from internet provider, as it appears lately there's more and more oversight from the big bro..

    Which country would you choose for such purposes?

    you mean Netflix? I haven't done it, but let's say what's in EU is not always available in USA, same for Asia, although they've been putting lots of Korean shows and Japanese on Netflix, there's still a ton of titles that don't go both ways, same for EU - they often do this with a USA based VPN IPs to get content available in USA only. it's a very well known practice, but if you're caught, - lose your account for sure. me here, I mean, I don't need it, plus I don't have a router to begin with.

    My VPN though I use Sweden as my outgoing IP, freedom of speech and all that. Sweden is awesome. I'd LOVE to go live there.. Another country where it's hard to get a cheap VPS for some reason though. Or in general, hard to find an offer in Sweden. Wonder why is that.. Does TPB take up all available servers there? =)

    Thanked by 1CatBro282
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  • @TrK said:

    @TrK said:

    @PuDLeZ said:

    @TrK said:
    You guys can try the API live on https://let.redcode.uk/211640

    My scraper isn't all that powerful and slow, i have set the intervals randomly from 5 minutes to 10 minutes. Sometimes it just fails, but overall, that was a good exercise.

    Seems like CF is saying there's a host error but it looked cool from the screen shots you shared!

    Took it down working on scraper enhancement and Don't want the db to be botcher in between

    It should be working again.

    hehe, I just get some JSON when I go to the page, not the prettier page you showed previous but it's cool. I was just going to check it out and see what the analyze stuff did :)

  • bchotbchot Member
    edited November 2025

    @CatBro282 said:

    @bchot said:

    @DeusVult said:

    @CatBro282 said:
    While writing this, I couldn't help but wonder: why do people use VPNs? Bypassing blocks, changing locations, getting a permanent IP address that doesn't change, accessing/connecting to Tor. Feel free to add to this and share your ideas; I'd be interested in reading this.

    For me, only bypassing blocks. I only use private trackers so i don't bother with using it for torreting

    behind NAT ports are all closed. if i wanna be useful and actually share, gotta be connectable, gotta use VPN where all ports are fair game..

    nat is the worst thing humanity has ever invented. It doesn't support ports 80, 22, 443, 8080, or 3889. But it does support any 20, up to 65,000.

    maybe i was saying it incorrectly.. with my internet access, i am behind a CARRIER-GRADE NAT aka CG-NAT, where all ports are closed sans maybe port 80.. port forwarding is simply impossible in such situation..

    Thanked by 1CatBro282
  • @scaryhairytoes said:
    I have been looking for a place to host a small business's website that I manage, as well as a place to host some of my servers that I need to keep online, since the beginning of the year, and I have just now stumbled upon Racknerd. I like what I'm seeing, so I decided to finally jump in.

    My order number is 9989270034 for the double of the good stuff. Can't wait to dive in and get started on this.

    you definitely did yourself a favor by joining the ranks of RackNerd's customers. Good service, nice people, awesome speeds!

  • @bchot said:

    @CatBro282 said:

    @bchot said:

    @CatBro282 said:
    While writing this, I couldn't help but wonder: why do people use VPNs? Bypassing blocks, changing locations, getting a permanent IP address that doesn't change, accessing/connecting to Tor. Feel free to add to this and share your ideas; I'd be interested in reading this.

    opening ports in my case, as in being behind NAT, also file-sharing - your real address is hidden, some people use it right in their routers to present a different geo and watch different content in Netflix or similar.. sometimes simply to hide your activity from internet provider, as it appears lately there's more and more oversight from the big bro..

    Which country would you choose for such purposes?

    you mean Netflix? I haven't done it, but let's say what's in EU is not always available in USA, same for Asia, although they've been putting lots of Korean shows and Japanese on Netflix, there's still a ton of titles that don't go both ways, same for EU - they often do this with a USA based VPN IPs to get content available in USA only. it's a very well known practice, but if you're caught, - lose your account for sure. me here, I mean, I don't need it, plus I don't have a router to begin with.

    My VPN though I use Sweden as my outgoing IP, freedom of speech and all that. Sweden is awesome. I'd LOVE to go live there.. Another country where it's hard to get a cheap VPS for some reason though. Or in general, hard to find an offer in Sweden. Wonder why is that.. Does TPB take up all available servers there? =)

    Overall, you're right. The market is occupied by the most common locations. And in Asia, traffic is very expensive.

  • eeh. today i found this... my favorite cup said goodbye.. oh, why wasn't today's giveaway all about cups? =)

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