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?

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[–] 74 points 1 year 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

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Archive.org has a bunch that you can help with.

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    [–] 36 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Debian Trixie just released, so...

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    Linux ISO, wikipedia and maybe even Openstreetmap.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago

    Linux distros often have torrents for their ISOs.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

    Tor (Tails Iso), other linux isos, internet archive stuff in public domain

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Not really, as long as you don't run an exit node

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Linux ISOs

    Depending on your jurisdiction, popular torrents on archive.org

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    The large wikipedia(and others datasets) .slob files used for AARD2 and other offline readers.

    https://github.com/itkach/slob/wiki

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Not exactly legal as OP requested

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    if Facebook can torrent books and get away with it I should be able to too

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  • Wikipedia zim

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