Hey, so I have recently bought a raspberry pi 4 to use as a selfhosted Nextcloud and Immich server. I also thought about other stuff, I could host on there when I am not using the processing power and bandwidth and I came to the conclusion that I could seed legal torrents (I live in Germany, so I can afford no risks), that are ideally helping humanitarian projects (something like linux distros or open science data. Do you guys have some good ideas for where I could look for torrents that can effectively help people?

  • zarathustra0@lemmy.world
    73·
    2 days ago

    Kiwix - they have downloads of various educational resources including subsets of Wikipedia which can be taken on a USB-stick to far off remote places that don’t have reliable internet access.

    You can find the available downloads at library.kiwix.org

          • JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.de
            13·
            2 days ago

            Running a Tor relay, even an exit node, is not illegal in most jurisdictions. However, exit node operators may receive a large number of abuse reports and legal threats, which they must properly answer to avoid further trouble and that’s why it’s not recommended for the individuals to run an exit node.

            For those living under authoritarian regimes where Tor might be illegal, the risks are obviously significantly greater.

          • EmptySodaCan@lemmy.world
            42·
            2 days ago

            You’re either trolling, or fundamentally don’t understand how tor works. Exit nodes carry all the risk as they are the only ones who know what the exit traffic is. Every node before that is encrypted and doesn’t know anything other than the next node. Police can capture an exit node all they want, its of no legal concern to the guard and middle if they do. The guard is the only one that knows the originating IP address. There are flaws in tor, don’t get me wrong. But that’s not one of them.

      • JoeKrogan@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 days ago

        Sorry I wrote with haste (Updated my original comment), I meant to say Tails which for those who dont know is an anonymous linux live OS that is preconfigured to use Tor. So I was talking about seeding the Tails disto img.

        As for Tor and running a node , it depends on the country. I have been running a non exit node for years with no issues in Europe.

  • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
    22·
    2 days ago

    I’m building this hosting service and while testing the torrent aspect of it I uploaded the Linux mint torrent and I’ve been seeing it ever since.

    In general, most large FOSS torrents benefit from additional seeders (although I don’t think many are in lack thereof). Beyond that, I think I vaguely remember wikipedia and internet archive having a torrent component.

    • BurgerBaron@piefed.socialEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      There’s no warning anywhere saying so, but torrents have been broken on archive.org for years now. I can’t remember the specifics but many torrents if IA is the only seed you’ll get stuck at 99.9% and it’ll never complete.

      Infuriating.

      • BennyTheExplorer@lemmy.worldOP
        7·
        2 days ago

        Yeah, it’s like that for some torrents, but some also work fine. And the ones that don’t work, you can revive by manually downloading the zip file from their servers, I guess.