#bittorrent

Por favor: sembrad esta maravilla clásica. Gran musical de comedia ¡y terror! #BitTorrent #LaTiendaDeLosHorrores 1986 de Frank Oz.

One thing that is cool and normal is how you could only buy #rickandmorty season 8 on #Amazon Prime Video in Germany.

And how they always give you the episodes which you paid for roughly 48 hours too late.

But they stopped that and haven't uploaded anything for the last 15 days. I don't think trying to reach customer "support" would be useful. So they just don't deliver the goods and services I paid for.

Quite literally, #bittorrent and not paying would have been the better user experience.

Just launched an experimental #RSS feed for the #Yggdrasil only peers #BitTorrent tracker, based on the #Aquatic + aquatic-crawler toolkit:

http://[302:68d0:f0d5:b88d::fdb]/rss.xml
http://tracker.ygg/rss.xml

Aggregation feed for the Mycelium network will be available a bit later, as I want to test the crawler on the more popular tracker first.

- this project is intended to be a replacement for the manually operated #YGGtracker catalog, which is currently offline.

...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...

#HDDVD #bluray #HDVMD

@StarkRG @jay @vildis personally I'd rather still compress stuff for speed reasons, as bandwith is the limiting factor, not computational power or storage.

That being said that too can be done by setting compression factor to 0.

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...

I just think that #RAR is bad by any modern standards and the whole "streaming" aspect can be facilitated both with #BitTorrent clients (see #PopcornTime) and #IPFS (by sequential-only downloads)…

@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!

#scienceunderattack #bittorrent #decentralizedbackup #libraryofcongress

@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.

But I guess they are too lazy to use #BitTorrent and/or #IPFS and merely want to prop up #Filehosting providers...

#tech #shitpost #tar #pax #bzip2 #bunzip2 #xz #compression

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."

#bittorrent #sciop

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

#sciop #Bittorrent #BittorrentIsStillHappening #ProtocolEvolutionEvenIfItsALittleCrusty #SeriouslyTheresSoMuchOpenSpaceInBittorrent

#Goals2025

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 working together

Become an expert on #MicroControllers #ESP32 #STM32 #RP2040 #MIPS #RiscV

Move as much as possible of my computing needs to the #Terminal and #Emacs. #CLI #TUI

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

#SelfHost over #I2P and as #OnionService

#SolarPowered servers

SelfHost a blog/wiki

SelfHost my own repositories
#Darcs #Mercurial

SelfHost my own #EmailServer, will only accept email from #KnownHosts #MutualEmailAcceptance and otherwise only if they contain an proper #OpenPGP signature

Share files via #BitTorrent over #I2P

DIY #HomeAutomation

Start #Gardening #GreenHouse #GardeningAutomation

Get a house cat

Start asking money for advice & technology support
…

#Incomplete #Ongoing #NotFinal

GitHub - Dahrkael/ExTracker: 以 Elixir 驅動的 BitTorrent Tracker
➤ Elixir 語言打造的高效能 BitTorrent Tracker
✤ https://github.com/Dahrkael/ExTracker
ExTracker 是一個以 Elixir 語言編寫的 BitTorrent Tracker，目前處於開發階段，但已具備基本功能。它擁有高效能、低記憶體佔用和無需設定即可運行的優點。專案支援多種 BitTorrent 增強提案 (BEP)，包括 UDP 追蹤協定、壓縮 Peer 清單等，並提供 HTTPS 支援、磁碟備份等功能。使用者可以透過直接從原始碼、發布版本或 Docker 容器等方式執行。
+ 這個專案看起來很有潛力，Elixir 的效能應該會讓它成為一個優秀的 Tracker。
+ 能夠直接透過 Docker 運行非常方便，省去了很多配置的麻煩。
#軟體 #BitTorrent #Elixir

I wrote a new BitTorrent tracker in Elixir

https://github.com/Dahrkael/ExTracker

#HackerNews #BitTorrent #Elixir #ExTracker #openSource #programming

復活已逝的 BT 種子追蹤器並發現 300 萬同行者
➤ 意外揭示的 BT 網路活力與潛在風險
✤ https://kianbradley.com/2025/06/15/resurrecting-a-dead-tracker.html
這篇文章記錄了作者復活一個已失效的 BT 種子追蹤器 (tracker) 的過程，並意外發現仍有龐大的 BT 網路依賴這些追蹤器。作者購買了一個域名，架設了 opentracker 軟體，結果在短時間內吸引了超過 300 萬個同行者和 170 萬個種子。然而，他也意識到此舉可能涉及法律風險，最終關閉了伺服器並釋放了域名。
+ 這篇文章讓我意識到 BT 網路的生命力，即使許多追蹤器已經失效，仍然有大量的用戶在使用。
+ 作者的實驗很有趣，但法律風險確實存在。這種行為是否構成「誘發侵權」需要進一步的法律判斷。
#科技 #網路 #BitTorrent

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

#bittorrent #BittorrentDrama #p2pdrama #IsThereATikTokHashtagForP2PDrama #P2PTok #PeerTok #PeerkTokPeerk

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.

#Bittorrent #Python #Sciop #NewWork

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.

I.e. #MetaMask is just garbage software and doesn't even work well, far less can replace #PayPal and do actual payments!

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://infocon.org/