I had to ask mapleAI and this is what it gave me:
### **Is DTAN-SERVER a Replacement for The Pirate Bay?**
**Yes and no** - it's more accurate to say it *replicates* what TPB provides, but with a fundamentally different architecture:
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### **What It Replaces in Practice**
DTAN-SERVER replaces **multiple pieces of software** in a torrent workflow:
| Function | Traditional Setup | DTAN-SERVER Replacement |
|----------|-------------------|-------------------------|
| **Public Index** | ThePirateBay, 1337x, RARBG (RIP) | Your local replica of aggregated indexes |
| **Meta-search** | Jackett, Prowlarr (searching multiple sites) | Built-in search across all synced torrents |
| **DHT Crawler** | Manual DHT scraping tools | Automatic P2P metadata replication |
| **API Provider** | Individual site APIs + proxies | Single local API for all *arr apps |
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### **Key Differences from The Pirate Bay**
| Feature | The Pirate Bay | DTAN-SERVER |
|---------|----------------|-------------|
| **Architecture** | Centralized website | Decentralized P2P network |
| **Hosting** | Single server (vulnerable) | Self-hosted by many users |
| **Data Freshness** | Real-time user uploads | Synced replicas (slight delay) |
| **Search** | On their server | On *your* server |
| **Availability** | Prone to downtime | Works offline once synced |
| **Legal Risk** | Operating public index | Running private replica* |
| **Censorship** | Domain seizures, blocks | Much harder to block |
*Legal status varies by jurisdiction; consult local laws
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### **What "Replacement" Actually Means**
Instead of **visiting TPB's website**, you:
1. Run DTAN-SERVER locally
2. It automatically syncs torrent metadata from the P2P network
3. You search *your* copy instantly and privately
4. Your *arr apps query *your* server instead of public sites
**Think of it like this**: TPB is a public library. DTAN is a network of friends who all photocopy the library's card catalog and share updates with each other. You search your photocopy at home, but the original books (torrent swarms) are still out there on the internet.
### **Limitations**
- **Doesn't host content**: Still needs torrent swarms to exist
- **Initial sync time**: Takes hours/days to build a large index
- **Replica lag**: New uploads appear after sync, not instantly
- **No user comments/ratings**: (unless that metadata is also replicated)
**Bottom line**: It replaces your *dependency* on TPB, not TPB itself. You get the same dataset (or similar) but under your control.
Banking apps can now scan what you’ve installed, and where it came from.
HSBC suspended account access after flagging a legitimate password manager installed outside Google Play.
Shared via https://pullthatupjamie.ai
How is the sandboxing of Apps that android does not preventing this sort of looking around? Or has android built some APIs to grab that info?
I have somewhat limited understanding of the wasabi coinjoin protocol, but isn’t the coordinator blinded to most of the information about the participants? What is the threat this is protecting against?
I really like the Mozilla projects and am using Firefox, Thunderbird and theuir MDN resources daily. Hence it'd be a no-brainer to donate open source money to an organization that supports the open source ecosystem. Unfortunately they seem to have fallen for the energy consumption/waste narrative and stepped back from accepting Bitcoin in 2022.
They should reconsider their stance on Bitcoin, especially as they seem to support AI nowadays without applying the same rigid moral standards.
https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/blog/reporting-back-on-mozillas-cryptocurrency-donation-policy/
P.S.: Reading some more of their blog posts, I now rather reconsider my stance on wanting to donate to them, as they seem to fall for almost all of the woke double standard BS. 😅
P.P.S.: Mozilla, I dearly love your products and mission, when it comes to making the internet awesome. Use sound open source money, so that you don't have to rely on government grants and the fiat mindset machine.
I’ve always been a Firefox fan, but I’ve been uncomfortable with Mozilla since they forced out Brendan Eich in 2014 for how he donated his personal money to Prop 8 in California.
It’s always weird to me when I hear “never going to give you up” played unironically on the radio.
It is becoming more clear to me that a lot of things that I considered common sense in parenting is not common at all.
//The Wire//2300Z December 2, 2025//
//ROUTINE//
//BLUF: UNITED KINGDOM OFFICIALLY LAUNCHES PLAN TO END TRIAL BY JURY IN MOST CASES. PRESIDENT TRUMP STATES THAT KINETIC AIRSTRIKES MAY BEGIN SOON IN VENEZUELA OR OTHER NATIONS.//
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-International Events-
United Kingdom: This morning Justice Secretary David Lammy announced the previously mentioned plan involving the removal of the right to trial by jury, reversing 800 years of legal precedent throughout the nation. A new category of "Swift Courts" will be created, allowing for rapid verdicts to be issued for crimes where a guilty verdict would result in a sentence of less than three years imprisonment.
-HomeFront-
Washington D.C. - President Trump stated that airstrikes within Venezuela might begin soon, and might not be contained to Venezuela itself. Per statements made by President Trump himself, the US will target narcotics traffickers in any nation that conducts such activities.
Analyst Comment: The comments made during today's press conference were vague, which is to be expected due to the secrecy needed to ensure the success of the impending military operation. Nevertheless, this is probably as clear of an indication and warning as we're going to get regarding the shifting of the operation to including ground-based airstrikes. Probably the biggest revelation is that the comments made today confirm what has obviously been building for some time; the US is not necessarily interested in just Venezuela.
-----END TEARLINE-----
Analyst Comments: Around the United States winter weather conditions have arrived as significant snowfall was reported throughout the northeastern and mid-atlantic regions. Multiple traffic pileups were reported from Missouri to Connecticut, and a snowfall record was reported in Louisville overnight. States of Emergency have been reported in several states, which were not prepared for roughly a foot of snow.
Every year the first wave of winter weather highlights gaps in personal preparedness in the form of calamity on the highways. As winter gets underway this year it would be wise to remember budgetary cutbacks which have reduced capabilities this season in many jurisdictions. For example, the village of Vernon, Wisconsin (a small municipality outside Milwaukee), approved a 47% budget reduction for the Public Works department earlier this year, so staffing delays and long wait times for road plowing have been reported. This is an important planning factor for many locations this year, as dwindling resources remain common in many small towns.
Analyst: S2A1
Research: https://publish.obsidian.md/s2underground
Disclaimer: No LLMs were used in the writing of this report.
//END REPORT//
What in the world is happening in the UK?
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I had to save the photo to my photo library on the phone. QR detection wasn’t happening in the nostr app.
I made it smoke, any photo evidence of the smoke?
Even when your AI chats are encrypted, someone watching the network can still guess what you’re talking about.
They call it "Whisper Leak" side-channel attack.
And in tests, models like OpenAI and Mistral gave away topics with 98% accuracy.
https://thehackernews.com/2025/11/microsoft-uncovers-whisper-leak-attack.html
Made me think of this product that Cisco rolled out several years ago:
I don’t think a lot of developers and systems admins realize how much info can be gleaned just from watching encrypted traffic patterns.
Sounds like apple designed a horribly insecure protocol for syncing and doesn’t want to have to expose how bad it is.
I tested it out and it won’t let you do any chatting without payment.
If the purpose of the mempool is to store transactions pending inclusion into the blockchain, then doesn’t it follow that the purpose of mempool filters is to keep transactions out of the mempool so that they aren’t included in the chain?
Did Remember the titans tonight as movie night with the kids. I had forgotten how good that movie was. Had to do a lot of explaining about the race issues in the movie.
This. There is so much hysteria about Core 30. There is already likely enough Libre relays that will relay transactions to miners that core 30 doesn’t really matter to stop that.
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If bitcoin can be killed by a mempool policy change — not even a consensus level change — then it was never going to succeed long term. I want bitcoin to succeed. I don’t think this change is nearly as big a deal as it’s been made out to be. I’m just tired of all the hyperbolic language around it.
I haven’t used it for root fs, I’ve only done it for large data drives. Not sure if it’s supported or not.
I’m mostly interested in the snapshots, compression and RAID like mirroring/parity. I’m not sure if it supports encryption.
That’s awesome.
Are there any projects out there to connect bitcoin nodes to each other over mesh wireless networks? Seems like it would be possible to get both blocks and transactions going across those links.
#asknostr #bitcoin
Trying out white noise. My pub key:
nostr:npub16wk3w9kvq5v9r6wxy642xxm9n5xpj3ftd2m7ulaczx9rvw9nl79sam9tr3
I buy new and then drive them as long as possible. Currently at 12 years and 133k miles. Small stuff is starting to break more often, but I’m looking to get several more years out of it as I’m a low mileage driver right now.
⚡️🚨 NEW - Hani Mahmoud reports that Israel continues to kill Palestinians as they try to collect food - shooting them in the head & the back.
https://blossom.primal.net/afc10db3d0ddc08578f62b25e6d2a8fde38d58d5b3065a5793e2235f06735a3c.mp4
I’m not an Israeli apologist, but this seems hard to believe. There isn’t a good reason for the soldiers or command structure to do this as reported. It seems likely the reporting on this is framed to purposely inflame. Any reporting like this that feeds 100% into on side’s demonization of the other makes me suspicious.