The case by noyb referenced single player games. Stuff like session start, duration et cetera was being tracked.

I was one of the people that signed the SKG initiative after The Crew was taken offline. Not because I loved the game so much but it’s the principle. I payed for it and should still be able to play it.

On the same day noyb files a complaint including an accusation that in just 10 minutes, a single player game called to the servers 150 times

The man say Cutty can’t hang

Sadly that kind of language apparently resonates with voters more than intelligent speech. It’s happening all across Europe as well. As someone from the Netherlands, I had a bit of a laugh when the right wing populists found out that governing is not at all as simple as they make it out to be. It’s the embodiment of ‘fuck around and find out’.

It’s hardly new. The United States have always been like that one popular kid in an elementary school. If you act the way he wants, he can be nice to you and your on his team. Take one step in a different direction and they’ll start badmouthing you, preferably behind your back.

They’ve been doing this to Russia and China for decades. As long as they have the stage, they can create any narrative they want and the audience will most likely adopt the opinion and start saying the same things.

The thing about propaganda is that, if it fits in your frame or reference, you’ll be more likely to accept it. If it doesn’t fit, like when it is about you, suddenly you’ll realize that this is something they have been doing about others all along and that it doesn’t break any patterns, apart from the recognition patterns of the receiver.

You can run nginx in a docker container and define reverse proxies there. That will only require your to open up 443 in your router if you use SSL (which I highly recommend and is simple with Let’s Encrypt)

Then I’d recommend connecting to your arrs and torrent client in Nzb360 paid edition to manage everything in there.

As far as safety, well nothing is bulletproof. If they want to get in, they will. Best thing I can recommend is to run your arrs / indexers through a different IP address than your torrent client. But if they want to find you, they’ll find you. Thing is they probably won’t come after you if your ISP doesn’t report you uploading terabytes a day. SSL helps and keeping your arrs behind complex passwords (use a password manager) will keep the server itself relatively safe.

Unless of course, ISPs in your country suddenly start to crack down on illegal downloading hard.

Most flexible would be to make a PHP form with a MySQL/PostgreSQL database.

If you want an off the shelf solution maybe a Microsoft Power App or a FOSS alternative?

I’ve finally been watching Broadchurch. Do we still see the UK as Europe?

I think we’ve been conditioned to prefer the English language in our video entertainment. At least I am.

It’s pretty messed up that these days regular headlines read like The Onion headlines