I think when I said open port 22, I was giving an illustration of the hordes of bots that will show up at your doorstep. Best practice is to use ssh keys and rotate them.

spotify has a whole economy of bots signing up, uploading fake songs listened by other bots and earning lot of money in the process.

Sure, I understand gaming the system. I have tracks on SoundCloud, and the same economy exists there too. I just do it for fun tho, I’m not interested in any monetary or commercial pursuits. It seems to me tho, that a relatively small number of accounts doing massive scraping would raise an eyebrow or two, no? Roughly, the average a 320 kbps audio track would be around 8 MB +/-, which gives you 10,616,832+/- tracks. Damn!

I came across this thread searching Lemmy for another query, and it intrigued me. How does 81 TB of data get scraped without Spotify knowing? That seems like a server administration failure on a large scale. I mean, 81 TB is nothing to dismiss offhand. OTOH, they are probably burning through petabytes daily, but still. IT: ‘I wonder why these few accounts are downloading TB’s of data, daily?’

hmmmmm…

Not saying you are a fucktard OP, it was a random selection as you directed. I don’t see any evidence of IG. Not saying that DDG couldn’t or wouldn’t sell your data, but I find no evidence of such given your vague criteria. You’ll probably have to open the image in a new window.

Wouldn’t that efficiency thing largely depend on what silicon you’re using though?

I would think so, but anecdotally, I didn’t see a horrific rise in electrical costs. Most of my equipment is 5 to 10 years old. Some people spend way more on their hobbies so I figured my costs were in-bounds. If you are in a locale where electricity is at a premium, yeah, I’d probably want equipment more modern that has less power consumption. If OP did a little diffing around on ebay, they could probably pick up a dual nic, small form factor, fanless for pretty cheap.

I don’t think you have to worry about security with old(er) computers that have been reassigned to be a server. You’re going to most likely be running an up-to-date Linux OS, and as long as you keep everything updated, you shouldn’t have any issues. Couple that with security deployments, and I think you will be good.

The problem is that very old computers are not as efficient when it comes to electricity to run them. Will it run your power bill up an extra $100+/month. Probably not. I would stay clear of old enterprise equipment because they definitely are power hogs. It really depends on how expensive electricity is in your local. For me, it’s relatively cheap. I think I saw an increase of about $25 which is probably a nominal amount that most people would spend on a hobby.

YouTube link.

Yeah, I’m not much for YT videos even using Invidious. Give me some reading material. I was hoping ‘Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.’ was some type of summary, but it’s just a YT promo.

Prohibition has never been a deterrent to consumption.

I did the old Magic Mirror 2 with an iframe feed off the server. Hangs in the living room, gives general weather updates, displays calendar, randomly displays pictures, can pull up various security cam feeds, etc.

I cannot change the world, I am but one man. I can only try to influence and guide those around me. They influence and guide others around them. So you pick up a few new converts and that may seem pointless until you realize the global impact of your actions.

Commercials have been part of TV since the beginning.

Traditional advertising whether on a billboard, magazine page, radio, TV are benign afaic, annoying, but benign. Advertising on the internet is an insidious evil because of what is happening behind all those pretty little pictures. Not only are they attempting to sell you product, they are stealing your data to bolster the profits of said company, without giving you due compensation. If my data is so valuable to corporate America, then it’s worth a mint to me and until they cough up the $value$ I determine for my data created with my labor, I’m going to keep as much of my data out of their hands.

I’m partial to Privacy.Sexy. I like to be able to see the code and know what’s being done when I click the button. There is also WPD, which is good too. I also employ scripts from Black Viper’s work, reducing the number of unnecessary services that run in the background. These scripts are based on Black Viper’s scripts.. I also use a program called HostsMan which allows you to block various things like Windows telemetry in the host file itself. Some people have reported that Windows treats hostfile modifications as a virus, but I haven’t encountered that on W10 Pro.

At the blinding speed of technology development in today’s timeline, I rarely go back more than a couple years. It’s usually stale and outdated even just 2 years ago.

Not to be hypercritical, I’m not a published dev so take this in that light. I always find it sketch to happen upon a GitHub repo that has no description in the right column. The software may be tight, but in the back of my head I’m wondering, why didn’t they take 5 minutes and provide a description?

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On the other hand, it’s always comforting that it is being actively maintained:

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Just random thoughts from the old head.

Windows telemetry (which honestly can be tamed for the most part)

Yea, with 59,741 host file entries. LOL But it does work. I took a butcher knife to my W10 Pro. Then I made an image of the total install so that if the wheels fall off, I can always drop back to the image without having to reinvent the wheel. I do use W10…I know Boooo! I also use Linux and Mac. Linux for the most part solves all my problems. If you are a gamer, that arena is exploding on Linux which is great to see. Windows allows me to run BlueBeam Revu, which I have never found a Linux alt that matches BlueBeam feature for feature. If anyone knows of one, please tell me. Mac lets me pretend I’m one of those hipster nerds. LOL j.k

Nice try Mr. Europol. /s

Well, fuck.

is it possible with a windows oem license that came with the laptop?

Well, since I’ve never had a W11 OEM, I am not 100% sure you can acomplish this, but doing a cursory search it seems that you can:

https://www.howtogeek.com/751145/how-to-downgrade-from-windows-11-to-windows-10/

fast forward a decade later and here i am typing this on a laptop that came with windows 11. lol

Why can’t you downgrade to W10?

Anyways, I’ve buttoned up this install of Windows, blocked all known telemetry points of access with an extensive block list in the .host file as well as others, and a litany of other modifications. I make images of my setup so that, if the wheels fall off, I can always spin up an image and be back in business without having to reinvent the wheel.

I do use Linux and Mac in my network as well. However, I have one piece of software I use for my private business, and I have never been able to find a exact opensource/Linux equivalent. In fact I don’t think there is anything out there that does what it does. So, W10 is it for me.

I’ve drawn the line at W10. They can have W11 nonsense.