ladfrombrad 🇬🇧

not called Brad but rather a lad, from Bradford in the UK.

Enjoys breaking apps, escooters, spam rings and sometimes bones, but not my own. That sucks.

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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • I’ve got to be honest, FACT might keep on yammering that they’re nailing these “IP” pirates in the UK but all the dodgy firestick sellers I’ve ever met, all the guys who have pirated since god knows how long I’ve never ever once heard of someone getting done over here in Britbongland?

    Worst I’ve had is two emails to one of the 10 email addresses BlueYonder supplied us with (yes, I’ve had my BY/Telewest that long…) telling me I’m naughty for torrenting two episodes of Animal Kingdom back in 2016/7. And, because they use a Gmail backend for their email stack I didn’t even get notified and only noticed them because I got bored, printed them out, and rolled them around my toilet paper roll for shits and giggles.

    Seriously, is there anyone around here from this same land and heard of anyone getting “done”?


  • remotely is a challenge for me right now

    I’ve seen you mention this a few times and like mentioned elsewhere in here, set yourself a Tailnet up.

    It’s fugging brilliant, the docs are wrote by some very clever people (note, I am best described as a copy / pasta person?) and are through, and you can use a github or even a Google account for authentication.

    Even grabbing a cheapo raspberry pi4 gives you a 1GB port (the rpi3 only has a 100Mbps rj-45 port and would still suffice for lesser needs) for your own VPN Wireguard to home, that is P2P encrypted and can be used as an Exit Node / subnet router

    ie: if you’re on someone else’s internet/cellular you can simply hit up your exit node to break out of any nanny filters, stop anyone else noseying at your traffic (obv bar your ISP seeing outgoing requests unless you have a another…VPN on your router), and also view and/or manage any devices on your home network/Tailnet by IP address.

    Hell, I dumped a rpi down at a family members house that is part of the “stack” so I can help out remotely but it seems someone has knocked the aerial out of the HAT again :/

    Best thing ever.



  • They’re not services per se, but are a stack of software that you can kinda “clump” together for the lack of a better word.

    For instance I started using qbittorrent client recently instead of Transmission that I was using before as my torrent client because I can’t find a way for Transmission to not download malware, and you can also do the very same with the indexer clients such as Jackett or Prowlarr which then talk to other software such as Radarr/Sonarr via API keys and is usually where most get caught out.

    Read the docs, get thoroughly confused, and probably do it in docker too as everyone says if your hardware is sufficient.