This is why it’s more and more important to have tools like BitMagnet that allow you self host it, and crawl/index the DHT to essentially have your own torrent search database that doesn’t rely on 3rd party trackers.
Negotiators reached a deal two weeks ago that cuts the short-term capital gains tax from 12% to 8.5%, a business-backed move that has riled progressives who argue it gives a break to the wealthy. The compromise will cost the state $561 million in fiscal year 2023 and $1 billion a year starting in fiscal year 2027....
Child and Family Tax Credit – Eliminates two-dependent cap and increases credit from $180 per dependent child, disabled adult, or senior to $310 for 2023 and to $440 on a permanent basis, starting in 2024. An estimated 565,000 families will benefit, and this will be the most generous universal child and dependent tax credit in the county.
Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) – increases credit from 30% to 40% of the federal credit
Estate Tax – increases threshold from $1 million to $2 million with a credit that mitigates cliff effect
Short-Term Capital Gains – reduces rate from 12% to 8.5%Rental Deduction – increases cap from $3,000 to $4,000
Senior Circuit Breaker Tax Credit – doubles credit, indexed to inflation, which equates to an increase from $1,200 to $2,400
Single Sales Factor – shifts from three-factor apportionment system based on business’s share of sales, payroll, and property to apportionment based solely on sales
Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) – increases annual program cap from $40 million to $60 million
Housing Development Incentive Program (HDIP) – increases annual program cap from $10 million to $57 million in 2023, and thereafter to $30 million annually
Student Loan Repayment Assistance – exempts employer assistance for student loan repayment from taxable income
Dairy Tax Credit – increases annual program cap from $6 million to $8 million
Cider Tax Rate – applies lower tax rates to a broadened class of beverages
Lead Paint Abatement Credit – doubles credit to $3,000 for full abatement and $1,000 for partial abatement
Title V (Septic) Tax Credit – triples maximum credit to $18,000, increases percentage of eligible expenses from 40% to 60%; and allows taxpayers to claim up to $4,000 in any year, versus $1,500 in current law
Deductible Commuter Transit Benefits – adds public transit fares, RTA fares and bicycle expenses to deductible commuter expenses
Municipal Affordable Housing Property Tax Exemption – permits municipalities to adopt local property tax exemption for affordable real estate
Property Tax Liability Reduction for Senior Volunteer Services – permits municipalities to increase the maximum property tax abatement available to seniors who perform volunteer services from $1,500 to $2,000
Stabilization Fund Cap – increases the cap on Stabilization Fund deposit from 15% to 25.5% of budgeted revenues
I’m excited to announce the first alpha preview of this project that I’ve been working on for the past 4 months. I’m initially posting about this in a few small communities, and hoping to get some input from early adopters and beta testers....
Dude this is amazing! Exactly the sort of thing I’ve been hoping would pop up to further “decentralize” the torrent search experience.
So I’m trying to run it on my machine through the docker-compose option, and I’m seeing something weird. It shows as successfully running, but when I go to the port it should be running on, I get “unable to connect” on my browser.
When I check my containers running, it shows the 3 bitmagnet containers, but the port doesn’t show.
You can now install Tailscale on AppleTV. Tailscale is a sort of personal VPN service that allows you to directly connect your personal devices to each other over the internet. tvOS 17 added support for VPNs to run on Apple TV.
What this means in the case of AppleTV region coding:
If for example, you have a computer at home that’s running tailscale, and you take your AppleTV with you while on vacation in let’s say, Egypt, you can set Tailscale on your AppleTV to use the Tailscale node on your home computer as an exit node, and you’ll be able to stream Hulu on that AppleTV in your hotel in Egypt normally because the traffic is tunneling through your computer back home in the US, and it thinks that’s where you’re located.
Normally with commercial VPNs, that wouldn’t work because Hulu/Netflix/etc have a list of IP addresses associated with VPN services, and so they’d detect youre connected to that VPN and block you from using it. But in the case of tailscale, the IP address they see is that of your computer back home, so they don’t think you’re connected to a VPN.
This can also theoretically help get around Netflixes password sharing restrictions, because if the account owner runs an exit node on their AppleTV, and the other password sharers set their AppleTVs to use that owners AppleTV as their exit node, Netflix will think the logins are all coming from the same IP address located in one place.
Frasier’s wealth in the Frasier series is finally explained by writer and executive producer Joe Keenan. Kelsey Grammer is reprising his most iconic role in the upcoming Frasier reboot on Paramount+, which will mark the character’s fourth act. The new adventure will see him back in Boston — the same city where he was...
The real reason for their struggles in always sunny is because “who are they going to vote for to fix things? The democrat who’s going to blast them in the ass? Or the republican who’s going to blast them in the ass? Either way, politics is all one big ass blasting.”
Are you referring to Jack Dorsey? He’s not the owner, he just gave them grant money in the beginning. It’s a non-profit so technically no individual “owns” it.
“Prior to the seed round, Bluesky’s website described the company as a Public Benefit LLC owned by Graber and other Bluesky employees.[33] Post-seed round, the company describes itself as a public-benefit C Corp.”
I think that’s only if they detect that you’re connected to an IP address that they recognize as part of a commercial VPN service, since i’m sure they have a list.
I use netflix when connected to tailscale VPN on both my phone and apple tv and it works fine, since the exit node that netflix is receiving my connection from isn’t a commercial VPN IP
Sorry to nitpick, but I see the comparison of a company market cap with country GDP a lot and it’s a pet peeve of mine lol. Market cap is the value of the company, while GDP is equivalent to the total “revenue” that a country’s economy generated that year. So a better comparison would be 2022 Microsoft revenue vs 2022 GDP of a country.
The best alternative is one that you can self-host and/or isn’t centralized.
My favorite option right now is torrents-csv.ml, since it’s “a collaborative repository of torrents, consisting of a searchable torrents.csv file.”
Basically, the author of the project scrapes the torrent DHT network and compiles a csv of all the torrent magnet links into a CSV file that’s searchable on this site. You can selfhost your own private instance of the site by following the instructions on the repository here: git.torrents-csv.ml/heretic/torrents-csv-server
Tablets are good for “consumption” vs laptops/desktops that are better for “creation/production”.
If all you want to do is browse the web, social media, watch videos, etc then tablets are a simpler interface for doing that, compared to dealing with all the extra things involved in a desktop OS.
For creation/production, aka “real work”, laptop/desktop is obviously much more efficient and powerful for that.
In some thread someone said that certain clients, among which Voyager, were able to block whole instances. I’m not sure it’s true. Is this possible? And if so, how could I do it?
If you’ll notice on the bottom right, it says Mapbox, which is a framework/library built on top of Openstreet maps that provides things like these custom map overlays.
What mobile app do you use with your FreshRSS instance?
I downloaded FreshRSS is not updated and is really lacking in functionality… notifications!...
BatteryBoi: Free & Open Source Battery Indicator for the MacOS Menu Bar. (github.com)
Is there a method/tool that has the ability to search Mastodon for the most liked posts (in the last 24 hrs) with a specific hashtag?
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/9273379
White House announces $16.4 billion in new funding for 25 passenger rail projects on Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor (www.whitehouse.gov)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/8638019
FCC to propose a minimum 100mbps to qualify as broadband, with a future goal of 1gbps (docs.fcc.gov)
Scientific papers
Any sources to get scientific papers for my own interest? Doesn’t really matter if available as torrents or on the web to view. Thanks in advance!
Cambridge, MA passes new affordable housing rules, paving the way for taller buildings (archive.ph)
FileList.io shutting down by the end of the year :( UPDATE: not anymore :) (filelist.io)
One of the best private trackers out there. Sorry to see it go… You can read the reasons why in the link (in Romanian and English)....
Starlink Direct to Cell (direct.starlink.com)
Gov. Healey signs $1 billion tax relief package (www.bostonherald.com)
Negotiators reached a deal two weeks ago that cuts the short-term capital gains tax from 12% to 8.5%, a business-backed move that has riled progressives who argue it gives a break to the wealthy. The compromise will cost the state $561 million in fiscal year 2023 and $1 billion a year starting in fiscal year 2027....
Introducing Bitmagnet: A self-hosted BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler, content classifier and torrent search engine with web UI, GraphQL API and Servarr stack integration (bitmagnet.io)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/6301281...
Introducing Bitmagnet: A self-hosted BitTorrent indexer, DHT crawler, content classifier and torrent search engine with web UI, GraphQL API and Servarr stack integration (bitmagnet.io)
I’m excited to announce the first alpha preview of this project that I’ve been working on for the past 4 months. I’m initially posting about this in a few small communities, and hoping to get some input from early adopters and beta testers....
How the fall of the Roman empire paved the road to modernity | Aeon Essays (aeon.co)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/10358195...
Google Podcasts to be shut down in favor of YouTube Music (blog.youtube)
KartaView: Open-source and crowdsourced street level imagery (kartaview.org)
Looking for selfhosted app for managing and playing podcasts
I’d like to self-host an app to manage and play podcasts from any of my devices via local/vpn....
How Frasier Is So Rich As A Radio Therapist Finally Explained By Original Show Writer (screenrant.com)
Frasier’s wealth in the Frasier series is finally explained by writer and executive producer Joe Keenan. Kelsey Grammer is reprising his most iconic role in the upcoming Frasier reboot on Paramount+, which will mark the character’s fourth act. The new adventure will see him back in Boston — the same city where he was...
Nearly 500 Brands Exited Smartphone Market During 2017-2023 (www.counterpointresearch.com)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/5859880
Nearly 500 Brands Exited Smartphone Market During 2017-2023 (www.counterpointresearch.com)
What does Bluesky have that Mastodon doesn't?
Is it just the momentum and word of mouth, or are there improved features as well?
Mastodon gets better search, onboarding, and cross-server interactions (www.theverge.com)
Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month (blog.kagi.com)
Apple TV's tvOS 17 brings VPN support, which Tailscale now supports. (tailscale.com)
How do Germans pirate?
allaboutberlin.com/…/pirating-streaming-movies-in…...
PSA: The open source Raivo multi-factor authenticator announced they were acquired by "Mobime" (github.com)
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/5151368...
PSA: The open source Raivo multi-factor authenticator announced they were acquired by "Mobime" (github.com)
Unity Claims PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo Will Pay Its New Runtime Fee On Behalf Of Devs (twistedvoxel.com)
Is torrentgalaxy blocking users with adblock?
So, I’ve tried to get into torrentgalaxy to get some stuff and on the top of the website there’s this message:...
The iPhone 13 mini is dead, leaving small phone lovers in a lurch (arstechnica.com)
Are SolidTorrents.to and Bitsearch.to down?
I can’t seem to get either of them to load, anyone else?...
Several Lemmy iOS apps look to have left TestFlight!
I’m currently trying Voyager. Initial impression is that it seems like a great app.
Mullvad and Tailscale Announce Partnership (mullvad.net)
From the article:...
Mullvad on Tailscale: Privately browse the web (tailscale.com)
U.S. solar industry expects to add a record 32 gigawatts (GW) of new capacity in 2023, a 52% increase from 2022 (www.seia.org)
Simple and open source notes app for Android (github.com)
I abandoned my iPad for an Android tablet and didn’t hate it (www.digitaltrends.com)
blocking whole instances
In some thread someone said that certain clients, among which Voyager, were able to block whole instances. I’m not sure it’s true. Is this possible? And if so, how could I do it?
Sniffnet: an open source + multi-platform network monitoring tool (sniffnet.net)
Nicer Looking Map
Is it possible to get a nice looking overlay? Like this one: www.ecosia.org/map?q=lunga&coordinates=56.488…...