If the ebay seller is the same as https://serverpartsdeals.com/ then they’re great and have good standing in the community from what I can see. Contact them and get a replacement. This kind of thing happens with used drives.

It means you have no fking clue how any of this works. Libertarians don’t want a society that functions well for everyone.

Their community spaces are largely unmoderated because of the libertarian belief that they’ll just regulate themselves.

It shouldn’t be that hard. What you really need is bandwidth.

The podcasting 2.0 spec has tags for alternate means of distribution as well. I’ve been wanting to see torrent magnet links in there, but it hasn’t happened yet as far as I know

good shows, just don’t get involved with their community, its an unmoderated, libertarian nightmare.

That’s a tarpit that you’re describing, like iocaine or nepthasis. Those are to feed the crawler junk data to try and make their eventual output bad.

Anubis tries to not let the AI crawlers in at all.