@lovetwinks said in Does the Gaytorrent tracker support IPv6?:

I was wondering if the tracker announces your IPv6 address to peers so they can download from your pc? Also when I download I am seem to be connected to Ipv4 addresses only. Does the gaytorrent tracker support IPv6?

The DNS entries for tracker.gaytorrent.ru and tracker.gaytorrent.tw both resolve to IPv4 addresses only...

So, unless someone wants to share the IPv6 addresses privately, the answer is a solid no... the trackers are not reachable via IPv6.

If you ARE using IPv6, there should be no issue ALSO connecting to IPv4 addresses.... the translation mechanisms are well established and high performing.

I must say that I laugh at the aggressive way some people are for or against IPv6... it's just a different addressing scheme.

I also laugh at companies (esp larger ones) insisting that their LANs switch to IPv6! I've never heard any argument about IPv6 that wasn't based on the premise that "we're running out of IPv4 addresses... but that's only public Internet addresses! IP addresses for LANs are re-used all the time (probably 50% of all users on this system have an IP address in the 192.168.0.x or 192.168.1.x range... that's 10's of thousands of users, and only 500 available addresses, no? Well... NO - because those are LAN addresses... no one OUTSIDE of your LAN uses those addresses... when you "get to the Internet" your router "changes" your address to your "public" IP address.

NOTE: This is why, when you have roommates & you're all on gaytorrent.ru, you get flagged for having multiple accounts! You're all using the same public IP address!

@mrker1234 said in You shouldnt use NORDVPN for torrenting anymore.:

@bi4smooth JSYK, I sporadically see an issue with a torrent getting started when SOCKS5 is up. In that case, I make sure the VPN is on and turn off SOCKS5 and once it starts can turn it back on. It isn't often, and not a big deal to me to make sure I have torrent actually started before walking away.
I'm not technical enough to know why even on those torrents it hesitated with, it works fine once downloading. My theory is that is having issue with tracker site, but once stared is dealing directly with the downloader.

I have not been able to get a SOCKS5 connection going in my qBitTorrent... and since what I have works, I'm not really motivated to find out why LOL

I will add one more thing... sometimes, when I tire of the limited countries that have P2P servers available, I'll connect to a "regular" location - and I've never had an issue there either. In fact, if anything, the non-P2P sites tend to be a little faster? I think maybe because Nord is so heavily used for P2P-ers, the P2P servers get more heavily loaded... just my opinion/guess: I have no way of testing that theory without too many other variables...

@archfire65 said in Greetings from Louisiana!:

Nice to meet you all! I've finally gotten around to creating an account on this lovely site. Excited to share and download great content!

Greetings - and welcome! Love to have you here!

A few quick pointers:

• The only downloading rule is that you have to maintain a sharing ratio.... see this link for a complete (complex) reading of the ratio requirements!
• There are a number of uploading rules that you should read before you add your own torrents... see this link to that set of rules.
• The forum also has rules - mainly to post in the right places and remain respectful of others...
• The exception in the forum is the politics section - where it's sometimes fiery and you should wear your asbestos long-underwear in there, as the rhetoric can get heated. As well, some of the posts in the politics section can be (and are) offensive - but that's allowed in that section. If you're easily offended (or just don't care for that kind of stuff), you can easily filter that channel out.

So - enjoy the porn! Get some more lube, buy some toys, and get to work! Your prostate has missed the workouts!

@mrker1234 said in You shouldnt use NORDVPN for torrenting anymore.:

I have to agree with the other's comments, I have been using NordVPN for 5 years and have managed to upload 4.4tb and download a similar amount on just this site. Mostly I have it set on the P2P setting, sometimes not, but get pretty similar speeds.

As for the SOCKS5, I am currently pointing at atlanta.us.socks.nordhold.net and it is working. I tend to leave that on in qBittorrent because I have had a couple instances where my system restarted the qBittorrent and I didn't have the VPN running at the time (turned it off to let a friend connect to my Plex server) and got one of those nasty "you were being a bad boy" emails from my FiOS provider.

Ewww.... I got one of those - which is why I switched to a VPN... I used another one for a while, at first, but then read that their "no logging" policy was a lie... an email to their support revealed that they kept no "long term" logs... that was enough for me to ditch them in an instant. I've been with NordVPN since (NOTE:Always re-up with one of their sales!)

I was not aware that the socks5 proxy issue had been resolved... I'll try that on a system and see... thanks for sharing your use-case!

@kekkaishi said in Once again, Biden can't stop lying:

Just out of curiosity, for how long have you two been at each other's throat in regards to politics?

@raphjd is the Administrator here - AFIK, he's been posting this stuff since its inception.

I've been countering some of his drivel since about 2019 - although I've been on the site since 2008, I've only been active on the forums since about - 2019/2020? It was the latter part of Trump's administration, and things (evenpre-covid) were starting to come off the rails...

That's when the overt hyperbole and outright (sometimes laughable) misinformation started... so that's when I started to reply.

Because @raphjd is so Trumpist and extreme in his posts, and I correct the record when he goes overboard, it may seem that I'm Biden (or even liberal cause) supporter - I am not... I am, in fact, a registered Republican - a non-Trump supporting, non-Q-Anon-believing Republican. (We're as rare as albino dolphins these days, but we DO exist!)

For example, even in the article I posted, the mention that the Israeli view of Biden - in 1973 - was that he was "fresh" and "full of respect" - he also "displayed a fervor and made comments that signaled his lack of diplomatic experience."

My point being, the article I quoted was not flattering to Biden (as @raphjd so gleefully pointed out) - but it did reveal his assertion that Biden was too new in the Senate to have made the trip (as a Senator) at all (if you ask me, the now-President keeps recalling this trip because it was his FIRST (obviously) as a Senator, and it made an impact on him), was wrong. And with that being wrong, his hyperbolic claim that Biden was lying all around falls apart - Biden got one thing wrong: the name of the war.

Truth matters - and that's the biggest problem I have with Trumpist followers: not that the ideas they have are so wrong, but that they keep trying to sell people on them with "misinformation" and divisive, hyperbolic rhetoric... and that's not helpful... IMHO.

@raphjd said in Once again, Biden can't stop lying:

Biden's latest blatant lie of the day is that during the 6 Days War, he went to Israel as a liaison, at the request of (then) PM Golda Meir.

Biden was still in law school (his 2nd year) during the 6 Days War, but don't let facts get in the way of a good lie. Golda Meir was not the PM during the 6 Days War. Golda Meir did not become PM until 2 years later.

Liberals are quick to claim that he is actually referring to the Yom Kippur War, but he had only been a Senator for 9 days when it started.

Biden is a pathological liar and the left loves him for it.

Yes, he got the name of the war wrong, but the rest is accurate [source: Times of Israel]

He's a dottering old man, and his memory isn't what it once was - but what the hell should we expect from a guy who will turn 80 next year! (For those not paying attention, Trump is only 4 years younger! We were going to set a record for oldest President ever after the 2020 election, no matter WHO won!)

I have no issue with you reporting that he got the name of the war wrong - that's valid and true... had you left it at that, I likely wouldn't have even replied! But no - you had to add all the bullshit... your own lies.... THAT part I object to, and felt the need to set the record straight.

By the way: the Times of Israel article about Biden meeting with Meir in 1973 dates to 2020 - just before the election here. So, unless they were prescient, the article had nothing to do with Biden's claims during the hanukkah celebrations at the White House...

Still: It's time for their generation (octogenarians) to "pass the torch"...

@georgeval820 said in You shouldnt use NORDVPN for torrenting anymore.:

@bi4smooth
From summer I cann´t upload and download ! Nothing! And of course that I had used P2P servers from start, and try with proxy as Nord say at their help pages but NOTHING.
So, I do not believe to you!

Well, fortunately I'm not Tinker Bell, so I don't need for you to believe in me... but I will say that my NordVPN subscription is 7+ years old now, and I've successfully seeded over 25TB of data thru this tracker.

I originally used the SOCKS-5 Proxy setup directly on my torrent client (vs. the Windows Client), but they stopped supporting that at all... so now I use a Windows VM (that I wind up throwing away periodically - for virus infections, as I do not install AV or MalwareBytes on the VM) with the NordVPN Windows client and qBitTorrent... the VM stores the downloads onto a NAS device...

I do nothing to the NordVPN setup (other than bouncing around the globe), and very little to the qBitTorrent setup (beyond what the tutorial here suggested).

I just dl'd a FreeLeech torrent today - 9.3 GB - it downloaded with an average speed of 14 MBps and is currently seeding at a rate of 1.5 MBps (only 2 leechers are connected to me, out of 18 - too bad for the others because I can seed at over 50 MBps for whose who have the bandwidth!)

Look - I'm not saying you aren't having an issue... I'm sure you are! (I recommend re-installing the NordVPN AND torrent clients from scratch and trying again)...

What I am saying is that I'm using it as described above and not having an issue.

@raphjd said in Waukesha Christmas Parade SUV Attack:

@bi4smooth

"Fair and balanced" doesn't have to ALWAYS support my worldview, BUT when it never, ever supports my worldview on any topic that shows extreme bias.

For you, or the news organization?

@raphjd said in Biden has no interest in meeting with the families of the dead in Waukesha:

@bi4smooth

But your BFF is the President.

True, only the "crimes" that can be racialized need a Presidential visit, according to liberals.

You can't imagine any part of life or existence separate from your polarized, politicized glasses, can you?

This didn't rise to the level of a Presidential response... and you're upset by that?

If it HAD received a Presidential response, what would your reaction have been then?

You're like the obese woman who asks her boyfriend "do I look fat in this dress?" - there is NO good answer to that question! It's a trap! LOL

@raphjd said in Biden has no interest in meeting with the families of the dead in Waukesha:

Jen Psaki has said that Biden won't be visiting with the families of those killed in the Waukesha terrorist attack.

Biden has met with Jacob Blake and others.

Clearly, Biden loves black criminals (just like BLM admits they support) but doesn't give a fuck about the victims of black criminals.

I don't see Trump lining up to go visit them!

Not EVERY crime victim needs to get a visit from the President (or ex-President) for the crime to be important! (All crime matters - all crime victims are... well, victims!) But not all crime (or their victims) are "created equally"...

@raphjd said in Smokers and coffee drinkers are healthier, sorta:

According to a new (but small) study, smokers and coffee drinkers have a much higher step count than those who do not partake in either.

I'm not sure why we needed this study, as the results should be obvious.

Coffee drinkers walk back and forth to get coffee. Likewise, smokers go outside to have a cigarette.

Some of you may remember the study I posted a few years ago that showed that smokers and coffee drinkers spent more time working than those who didn't partake. According to the study, smokers and coffee drinkers felt guilty about going away from their desks for their vice, while non-smokers and non-coffee drinkers felt they were owed time away from their desks for "equality" sake. The non-vice people falsely believed that they spent the same amount of time away from their desks as those who engaged in smoking and coffee drinking. The study showed that the non-vicers spent as much as 3 times as much time away from their desks as the vicers.

Interesting... completely believable, although I would say the results are more akin to:

Smokers and coffee drinkers exercise more

I understand the correlation of "healthier" with "take more steps", but that's clearly not the overall case.

For example: caffeine itself is a diuretic (it takes water to process in your body) - BUT the amount of water needed to process a shot of espresso (much less regular coffee) is a fraction of the water in the drink itself! Thus, when you drink a cup of coffee (or espresso), the net intake of water is POSITIVE, not negative.

Similarly, the health benefits walking outside to get a smoke, in my mind, are likely more than offset by the detrimental effects of the nicotine (albeit, perhaps less so if you go outside to put on a patch, vs actually smoking!)

Kind of a "prove the obvious" study - which, as the 2nd half of your post reveals, sometimes is surprising, as the "obvious" isn't really the truth in all cases! SCIENCE!

@geobear40 said in Co-founder of Christian TV network that railed against vaccines dies of Covid-19:

@eobox91103 A man died show some respect.
He took a risk based on his beliefs, FREEDOM to weigh the risks and to make your own decisions is the AMERICAN WAY

If the guy was just my next-door-neighbor and had these goofball beliefs (you would need to have watched him on his network to get the full breadth of his wacko-ness), I would agree completely: he had and lived his beliefs, and he died because of them - his right, his life, his freedom.

But this ain't that...

This guy didn't just evangelize for his beliefs, he attempted to sway others to his beliefs - not by convincing them with facts or proof, but by conflating his anti-science beliefs with Christian faith, and insisting that anyone who didn't believe HIS version of things - things having nothing to do with Bible teachings, God, or Jesus Christ - that you were not a "good christian.... and he all-but-extorted money out of his "followers" to boot.

Sorry, I have to agree with the scorecard:
Science:1
Dumbass: 0
Evil caused by dumbass: still uncountable, but not climbing so fast anymore!

@raphjd said in Waukesha Christmas Parade SUV Attack:

@bi4smooth

Even in the UK where they have a legal requirement to be "fair and balanced" (especially true for the BBC due to its royal charter), there are massive liberal leanings in the news.

The various media outlets in the US and UK claim that their news is non-biased, but admit they do editorial programing as well.

Well, if your idea of "fair and balanced" is "supports my point of view", then - especially in your case - the mainstream media is all biased - against you (as-if you didn't think you were persecuted enough already! - Poor white man!)

As for "editorial bias" - I think my comment about their always being some bias in the decisions on what to air, vs what not to air... you can't escape that! There is only so much air time!

If your claim is that the mainstream (broadcast, not so much cable) media has always had some bias, that's probably true (whether liberal or conservative might be up for debate, if you look back)... but if your claim is that the mainstream media is no more biased now than it ever was... well, then you just never paid attention more than 10 years ago!

@harakendo said in all gaytorrent.ru trackers not working:

I'm having this problem still

Is there something I need to reconfigure in my client?

Start by restarting your client program. (Make sure the program really exits! For example, if you "quit" qBitTorrent, it usually still runs in the background... when you "restart" it, you just open a new window - to the same background process that was running before).

@kima112 said in You shouldnt use NORDVPN for torrenting anymore.:

I just found out, that NORDVPN, that has been promoting free data and privacy like crazy over the years has gone over to the dark side.

They say that they don't have anything against P2P, but they throttle the upload speed to 0 INCASE you do something illegal, Privacy is "a state in which one is not observed or disturbed by other people." that is something they no longer adhere to.

I do understand that people use VPN to illegal things, duh..

If i want to upload something or download in privacy and they spy on what software you use (example) that is no longer privacy. VPN is security for privacy.

That policy makes you a criminal by default even when you actually upload your own stuff.

its sad.

this is not my first language, so im sorry for spelling etc

I'm guessing your mileage is different, but I use NordVPN personally, and have no issues uploading (or downloading) content on their P2P servers (you DO need to use their P2P servers, not the standard ones!)...

There are also issues with their service if you allow too many network connections... I limit my per-torrent connections to 8 (I like powers of 2 in computing!) - but if you think about it, that makes sense: hundreds of users on a single server, only 60K ports to use all-total (a TCP thing, not a config thing)...

Anyway, I just thought I'd chime in with my personal experience... I don't know why you're having issues... and I can't really offer to help you debug... but I (myself) am not having the issue you're reporting... maybe call their customer service?

@maximopoder said in Ratio of not so popular torrents:

Good afternoon,

I have downloaded a few torrents, however such torrents are not very popular, so even though I leave the PC mostly on all day and with the ability to upload, my ratio doesn't go up.

How to improve my ratio in this case? I'm afraid to do some other download, and that download isn't searched often either, thus worsening my ratio.

can you help me?

BY FAR the easiest way to improve your ratio is to catch a FREELEECH torrent shortly after it has been FREELEECHED, download (it's free already), and then seed - at least for the remainder of the FREELEECH time (it should be shown in the torrent).

You should have good luck if you catch the FREELEECH when there are FEW seeders (and absolutely IDEALLY, few leechers so far!)...

The reason this works is that:

• The FREELEECH torrent is free for you to download - and anyone else, too!
• FREELEECH torrents are POPULAR! So there will build up a LARGE number of leechers - usually in a short amount of time!
• If you are one of a FEW SEEDERS and there are hoards of LEECHERS - then it only follows that you will wind up sharing MULTIPLES of the data size as more and more people download the contents.

Again, tho - they KEYS TO SUCCESS are to:

• download a FREELEECH torrent while there are FEW seeders (and preferably, few leechers too!)
• KEEP SEEDING - even past the freeleech time, as some users don't pay attention to the END TIME of the FREELEECH timer, and will still download it -- in the ERRONEOUS belief that if they start downloading it as a FREELEECH, it will stay that way. (It's only free while it's free! and the tracker counts BYTES, not downloads, for ratio!)

@raphjd said in Waukesha Christmas Parade SUV Attack:

@bi4smooth

Even before FOX, the news was biased.

Go back and read the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times. The Trib was clearly conservative and the Sun was clearly liberal. Fox had nothing to do with this because they were always different.

But yeah, let's blame Fox since they are the liberal boogeyman.

You're confusing print newspapers (which have always had an "editorial slant") with the broadcast (television) news.

In the early days of TELEVISION, the FCC insisted that the new (not news) networks (and, indeed all TV & Radio stations) provide a certain amount of their broadcast time to "public service"... some stations (and both of the original networks: NBC and CBS) did this with "unbiased" news coverage (to the extent that any decision of what to broadcast and what NOT to can be unbiased)...

Because this programming was a "public service" the earliest newscasts didn't even have commercials in them! Names like Walter Cronkite & Edward R Murrow (CBS), and John Chancellor & John Cameron Swayze (remember the Times commercials later - in the 60's and 70's?) for NBC rose to considerable fame. NBC switched to a 2-anchor scheme (Chet Huntley and David Brinkley)... and the new ABC network (originally, nearly all sports boradcasts) joined in the fray in the 1950's with houehold names like Peter Jennings, Howard K Smith, & Harry Reasoner - as did the other network (few have ever heard of, as it didn't survive): DuMont.

It didn't take long for advertisers to want a piece of the action, but the networks limited them (originally) to being a "sponsor" (The Camel News Caravan on NBC, for example) - but there were no commercials INSIDE the newscast (which originally were 10 or 15 minutes long, not the 30 common today!).

These newscasts were modeled after the "newsreels" that were produced and distributed to movie houses in the 30's and 40's - and that used to come before the main show - another thing completely taken over by commercials today!

Virtually everyone "trusted" those news anchors - and their departments BENT OVER BACKWARDS to remain "neutral" in their news reporting. NBC and CBS routinely battled for "the most trusted man on television" honors (a precursor to more detailed "ratings wars" to come later)... once established, that was a title Cronkite never relinquished - much to the chagrin of the folks at NBC news.

For what its worth, DuMont also had a news department, but as a network it closed down in 1956.

Some of the older folks may remember the famous sign-off messages:

• Swayze would say: "Well, that's the story, folks. Glad we could get together"
• Cronkite would say: "And that's the way it is, <day of the week>, <calendar date>.

In any case - BACK THEN the news departments were NOT-FOR-PROFIT and the networks paid their reporters from profits that came from the "entertainment" department of the network...

Fox was the first network (they came along in 1986, originally as a purely-cable enterprise) to ask the NEWS division to make a profit... and once they were successful, the other networks were quick to follow... and THAT was the demise of the "trustworthiness" of TV news - in its entirety... CNN and all of the other cable news outlets included! (IMHO)

Honestly, while I think we DESPERATELY NEED a news source that is "in the public interest" (vs. a profit generator), I don't see how we ever get back to that...

Just guessing here: someone hurt themselves, or their car, on someone's mailbox - and they sued the mailbox owner?

Proof that lawyers will sue over ANYTHING!

The lawyers who brought such a suit should probably be sanctioned...

No, if you put an IED under your mailbox, that might be something... LOL Just being a Devil's Advocate!

Proof positive that the Republicans (Q-Anon & Trumpites) DO NOT have a lock on insane extremism! Dems have them too!

@geobear40 said in Here we go again: Fox hosts say Omicron Variant is a Democrat plot!:

@hubrys
What both liberal and conservative media are not following the science. Omicron is very mild and treatable without inpatient care or death. It we allow it to spread around and people get over it and then have natural immunity Covid19 will be a yearly thing like the flu is. If you are high risk you get the shot if not then it is your personal choice.

Brandon & Co don't want to follow the science because that mean they loss control of our personal freedoms granted to us by the Constitution.

Republican won't stand up because they are still afraid of the WOKE mob.

• The only thing Republicans fear right now is their own Right Wing, and therefore Trump.

• The BIGGEST fear the Dems have is their own LEFT Wing (the "Progressives") - but it's not their ONLY fear... because they're "in power" they also have a plethora of other "fears" that go with that... Having the reigns of power is a double-edged sword!

• We don't know much about Omicron yet:
  We don't know its infection rates (Beta's was quite low, while Delta's was much MUCH higher than the original);
  We don't know the "lethality" of it yet;
  And, most importantly, we don't know how well protected we are by the current set of vaccines yet.
  Learning that it exists is a FAR CRY from understanding it! We've really just learned that it exists... Scientists are good and smart, but they're not magic... it'll be Feb (?) before we know the full effects of Omicron!

• While I generally share your optimism that Omicron will be less than the original: less deadly, less communicative, less of the threat in every way; the fact is we can't make those judgments yet.

• COVID-19 is a "force of nature" - anyone who blames Trump for the COVID-19 virus is a political opportunist of the WORST kind, and an idiot on top of that!
  The same goes for Biden and this new variant. These are politicians - not Gods! They can only REACT to the virus - the same as they can only REACT to hurricanes, earthquakes, and the like...

• Blaming Biden for low vaccination rates among Republicans is like blaming the inventor of the seat belt when your loved one is killed in a car crash - while NOT wearing one!
  But, you can't blame Trump for that, either! He has publicly said (multiple times) that he thinks everyone should be vaccinated!
  Sometimes it does make you wonder: between the Q-Anon freaks and Trumpites, which is the dog and which is the tail? LOL

• With all the nicknames, I no longer really know who @raphjd is talking about... c'est la vie...