...and that worked, because if we've to ask who won: HD-DVD, blu-ray or HD-VMD [lol], you'd say #Netflix or #BitTorrent or god forbid #YouTube, but I digress...
...and that worked, because if we've to ask who won: HD-DVD, blu-ray or HD-VMD [lol], you'd say #Netflix or #BitTorrent or god forbid #YouTube, but I digress...
@StarkRG @jay @vildis personally I'd rather still compress stuff for speed reasons, as bandwith is the limiting factor, not computational power or storage.
https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114789676621551304
I don't host, seed, download or distribute anything copyrighted, but like with @vxunderground and @VXShare do for #Antivirus I've seen enough groups also do some basic #encryption as to avoid any #ContentID-style matching and thus automated #DMCA takedowns...
@jonny this entire thread is amazing, top-notch tool development for a noble cause.
@ #academia : if you feel desperate about the wholesale breakdown of science under the current US administration, consider helping out with #SciOp: Decentralized backups of datasets under threat, in a torrent swarm.
Have a disused laptop or Raspi? Make it part of the swarm and take the data outside the US (or any) administration's grasp!
@iamada people #BitTorrent|ing #fansubs is "the revolution"!
@vildis +9001%
Why they don't go with tar
or pax
or plain bzip2
/ xz
is beyond me.
if anyone is bored or wants to contribute to gray archive tech, i've done all the hard parts around this, but here is a set of things you could do to make "practical repack
mutability for torrents" happen: https://codeberg.org/Safeguarding/-/projects/19508
so we have an indexer and a cli tool that can interact with clients. if we added one link table that allowed people to declare relationships between torrents - like e.g. if one replaces another, or is an updated version of, successor to, and so on, then one could plug in the pieces so the cli periodically checks for updated versions of torrents and swaps them out in the local client.
this could be your name in the credits: "what if bittorrent trackers weren't just static repositories of torrent files and generic peer connection machines but could facilitate socio-technological resolutions to basic problems in the protocol."
I just closed da loop on the first example of the distributed, bittorrent backed, "archiveteam-warrior except anyone can do it and not necessarily have uploading to archive org being the only means of sharing". .. thing. And it's pretty good. In a couple months we've slowly spread our octopus tentacles over the whole bittorrent/scraping stack and it's cool to start seeing the pieces connect.
We have a basic problem: someone recognizes a dataset will disappear, then we would have to have a whole convoluted forum process where we post what we're taking, blah blah heroism, volunteerism, solving hard problems on the fly, love this group. Except that sometimes only half the data would show up, or it would end up with one person needing to seed 20TB from their home connection. So uneven labor distribution
Anyway once we get the frontend and docs writ we'll have a sketch of an idea: what if not just distributing the data, we also distributed the scraping. making it possible for deduplicated, distributed crawl tasks that feed automatically back into feeds of torrents. Once we convince arvindn to make webtorrent enabled by default, we've got some cool news with the replayweb.page folks to share. Along with being able to share the work and mutually validating snapshots of the web, that's your distributed wayback machine.
Then it's time to start the federation part where it gets really interesting - making AP groups that can mutually coordinate archival work and publish it in private, overlapping torrent bubbles
Edit: here is the thing in code form, docs are the cherry on top: https://codeberg.org/Safeguarding/-/projects/18027
#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
Moving away from the constant upgrade cycle & moving closer to the ideals of #PermaComputing #MalleableSoftware
Design and setup a redundant system of old/used, cheap, low-power devices running ia: #Guix, #Linux, #FreeBSD, #macOS, #HaikuOS, #Plan9Front, #X11, #P9, #NFS, all working together
Become an expert on #MicroControllers #ESP32 #STM32 #RP2040 #MIPS #RiscV
DIY sensors which sing like birds to communicate their status
DIY robots "drones"
Move as much as possible of my computing needs to the #Terminal, #Emacs, #Rio #CLI #TUI #P9
Get an #3DPrinter and learn to use it
Design and build my own portable 8dot #braille terminal & try out if 3x3 or 3x4 dots is also workable.
Design and build my own low-power computers, their OS, and tools
Writing more of my own tools #DIY
#SmallTalk #ObjectPascal #Prolog #Scheme #Racket #CommonLisp #Haskell #Rust #Go #ObjectiveC #Swift
Deploy #LoRa #ReticullumNetwork #RNodes #MeshCore #Meshtastic
Start an #InternetResiliencyClub
Add #Tor, #I2P support by #WebProxy
#SolarPowered #SelfHost over #I2P, #OnionService #Blog #Wiki #Repositories #GopherHole #Darcs #Mercurial
#SelfHost my own #EmailServer, which will only accept email from #KnownServers #CommunityEmail #MutualEmailAcceptance
Share files via #BitTorrent over #I2P
DIY #HomeAutomation
DIY #GardeningAutomation
DIY #GreenHouse
Get a house cat, train the cat, use voice and gestures
Start asking money for advice & technology support
Build/program my own opportunistic and strange cryptocurrency miners #BTC, #XMR, #ZEC, etc #Art
#MakeMoreArt #LearnToDraw #Learn3DModeling #LearnGenerativeArt #LearnToComposeAmbientMusic
#ReCreateJottit #ReCreateInstikiWiki
#WriteMore #PublishMore #Letters, #Essays, #Missives, #Reports, #Treatise
…
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
torf
).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?
@radmin @vozercozer them featuring #Bitcoin #Ethereum, #BraveBrowser and not #Monero, #TorBrowser & #BitTorrent shows that the original creators (not the OP!) are #CryptoBros and #TechIlliterates as they shove in #Blockchain garbage everywhere and fail to acknowledge shortcomings.
Also noone wants garbage like Ethereum, #Filecoin and/or whatever other #Shitcoin they pitch!
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/
@sl007 +9001%
Schnell mal #BitTorrent / #MagnetLink & https://12ft.io nutzen!
(more FOSS news in previous posts of the thread)
qBittorrent 5.1 released with security improvements, support for the Thunar file manager on Linux, support for the “eXact Length” parameter when creating magnet URIs, support for fetching the tracker list from URLs, announce_port support, drag support to the torrent content widget, ability to display the external IP address in the status bar etc.:
https://9to5linux.com/qbittorrent-5-1-open-source-bittorrent-client-released-as-a-major-update
Redis goes open source again (kinda), offers Open Source edition from version 8:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/5/redis-goes-open-source-again-with-the-launch-of-redis-8-under-the-agplv3-license/
UN ditches Google Forms for CryptPad, as part of their initiative to adopt FOSS technologies:
https://news.itsfoss.com/un-ditches-google-form/
@jherazob @leberschnitzel they already exist...
I think it's bad #TechPopulism to think that #Anubis will fix all the issues.
Just block all the #GAFAMs ASNs & #hosters that host #Scrapers so the industry cracks down harder on them than on #IRC, #Tor #ExitNodes, #CSAM & #BitTorrent combined!
#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