#qBittorrent 5.1.1 Open-Source #BitTorrent Client Improves #Wayland Support on #Linux https://9to5linux.com/qbittorrent-5-1-1-open-source-bittorrent-client-improves-wayland-support

posted in the "why is webtorrent not implemented in libtorrent" issue and have incited generational warfare among the pirates
https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/issues/7283#issuecomment-2911287354

here is a sneak preview of a very simple python package for creating and handling .torrent files.

https://torrent-models.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

https://github.com/p2p-ld/torrent-models

• Full v2 and hybrid torrent support.
• model-based validation, editing, and parsing with modern python type annotations and metadata.
• Reasonable to use object when loaded with kind serdes handling (not just a wrapper around a bytestring dict)
• Fast enough to use with a tracker/web service (a surprising amount of the existing packages have O(n2) spots for no reason, this is ~dozens-thousands of times faster than torf).
• TODO: implement the rest of the BEPs, add methods for partial rehashing, more testing.

I was surprised this needed to be written since torrents are a relatively simple file format, but it did - none of the existing packages are suited for use as a library e.g. for tracker/client software and most can only do v1. I wrote this for sciop, where we want to be experimenting on the format, but also do stuff like dynamically modifying torrents to add trackers, webseeds, and other metadata. I'll do a full announcement after implementing the rest of the BEPs.

So, #BitTorrent

If someone had a seedbox now, and wanted to get onto a really good private music tracker, is there anyone here that could maybe help out with that?

We have rebuilt our primary #bittorrent server and are reloading seeds now. In the next few days all the rainbow tables, wordlists, and cons should be available again!
https://media.defcon.org/

#qBittorrent 5.1 Open-Source #BitTorrent Client Is Out Now as a Major Update, Here's What's New https://9to5linux.com/qbittorrent-5-1-open-source-bittorrent-client-released-as-a-major-update

Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #157: Music Piracy.
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#Piracy #music #riaa #youwouldntdownloadacar #fail #musicpiracy #bittorrent #limewire #illegaldownloading #didyouknow #trivia #funfacts #facts #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn

TIL you can use torrents to seed+distribute s3 files. I wonder if anyone has written the reverse, an s3 frontend backed by torrents. That strikes me as useful for fedi media caching (though perhaps the deduplication of hashes/IPFS would suit better)

https://carltonbale.com/how-to-create-and-seed-a-torrent-download-on-amazon-s3/

#discord IS LITERALLY THE PROBLEM!

• It's worse than any #IRC, #Mumble or even the old #TeamSpeak & #Skype for that matter.

• It combines the disadvantages of #Forum, #paywalled #documentation, #chat and #voicechat with 0 redeeming qualities (unlike #Zulip & Mumble & #XMPP+#OMEMO) it's just an #InformationBlackhole!

I'm shure fecking #dread has better moderation and I'd rather use #MicrosoftTeams + #Slack cuz those at least have proper #moderation tools.

• And I'd rather subscribe to the #LKML and see my inbox getting hosed than using any shitty #SaaS!

Case in point: I'd rather #SelfHost all my comms infrastructure than to ever use something like Discord or any other #GDPR-violating SaaS that is just enshittification.

I'd rather recommend people to instead choose a tool that does everything but horrible to go with multiple smaller & good tools

• Public Chat? IRC!
• Group Voicechat? Mumble.
• #Documentation? #mkDocs-material.
• 1:1 Chats? XMPP+OMEMO.
• E2EE Group Chats? #deltaChat.
• E2EE Calls? #WebCall.
• Filehosting? #IPFS, #BitTorrent, oshi.at, etc. ...
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Check @alternativeto and @european_alternatives for options.

are there any bittorrent clients that support bep-052 and offer a cli?

Search your feelings. You know it to be true. The world, and Internet was a better place, when most of our bandwidth was spent sharing TV shows on Bittorrent. #piracy #bittorrent