Man this looks slick, going to give it a shot. Love the ability to be able to download a magnet link from the CLI and not worry about what some fancy GUI is doing in the background cuz I am paranoid.
Show HN: Bt – BitTorrent library in Java 8
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Re: Show HN: Bt – BitTorrent library in Java 8
#22Man this looks slick, going to give it a shot. Love the ability to be able to download a magnet link from the CLI and not worry about what some fancy GUI is doing in the background cuz I am paranoid.
Thank you! Make sure to install http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jce8... to allow 160-bit cryptography and use -e flag to be completely safe!
I also have a simple shell script locally, that wraps the java command, so I have to just type `btmagnet AF0D9AA01A9AE123A73802CFA58CCAF355EB19F8` to download to a pre-determined location (hardcoded in the script). I wonder if I should share it on the CLI README page
Re: Show HN: Bt – BitTorrent library in Java 8
#23There are many great BitTorrent clients out there, yet I've made my own and willing to share and attract collaborators!
thank you!
Re: Show HN: Bt – BitTorrent library in Java 8
#24It looks great but the top GIF makes it seem like you are offering a command line BT client. If I were you I would have it slowly scroll through the code of the client in the GIF or put a few frames of code of the client and or some compiling and then show the current top GIF.
Oh, I didn't expect this :) Sounds good, but I'm not sure I have patience do this right, it's such a pain to record gifs - I always misspell or misclick something, and by take #47 go completely nuts
How about put a picture of source code above it then?
Re: Show HN: Bt – BitTorrent library in Java 8
#25Man this looks slick, going to give it a shot. Love the ability to be able to download a magnet link from the CLI and not worry about what some fancy GUI is doing in the background cuz I am paranoid.
Thank you! Make sure to install http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jce8... to allow 160-bit cryptography and use -e flag to be completely safe! I also have a simple shell script locally, that wraps the java command, so I have to just type `btmagnet AF0D9AA01A9AE123A73802CFA58CCAF355EB19F8` to download to a pre-determined location (hardcoded in the script). I wonder if I should share it on the CLI…
do it! that'd be my use case more or less.
Re: Show HN: Bt – BitTorrent library in Java 8
#26Man this looks slick, going to give it a shot. Love the ability to be able to download a magnet link from the CLI and not worry about what some fancy GUI is doing in the background cuz I am paranoid.
Credit to OP, this looks like a really solid project. The CLI aspect of it reminds me of peerflix (https://github.com/mafintosh/peerflix), which I've been using for a while and am pretty happy with (no affiliation, promise)
Re: Show HN: Bt – BitTorrent library in Java 8
#27It looks great but the top GIF makes it seem like you are offering a command line BT client. If I were you I would have it slowly scroll through the code of the client in the GIF or put a few frames of code of the client and or some compiling and then show the current top GIF.
Oh, I didn't expect this :) Sounds good, but I'm not sure I have patience do this right, it's such a pain to record gifs - I always misspell or misclick something, and by take #47 go completely nuts
Try using asciinema. It records your terminal session and works so well. Of course typos and such are still an issue...
Re: Show HN: Bt – BitTorrent library in Java 8
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you! Make sure to install http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jce8... to allow 160-bit cryptography and use -e flag to be completely safe! I also have a simple shell script locally, that wraps the java command, so I have to just type `btmagnet AF0D9AA01A9AE123A73802CFA58CCAF355EB19F8` to download to a pre-determined location (hardcoded in the script). I wonder if I should share it on the CLI…
do it! that'd be my use case more or less.
Re: Show HN: Bt – BitTorrent library in Java 8
#29I'm curious, it looks like the screenshot shows the author is using a Mac. But Mac OS hasn't shipped with Java in several years. So why Java? Is it simply familiarity, or are there other reasons?
This is a library for development. If you wanted to ship a client based on this, you could do that and package it with the Java runtime.
Re: Show HN: Bt – BitTorrent library in Java 8
#30Man this looks slick, going to give it a shot. Love the ability to be able to download a magnet link from the CLI and not worry about what some fancy GUI is doing in the background cuz I am paranoid.
Thank you! Make sure to install http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jce8... to allow 160-bit cryptography and use -e flag to be completely safe! I also have a simple shell script locally, that wraps the java command, so I have to just type `btmagnet AF0D9AA01A9AE123A73802CFA58CCAF355EB19F8` to download to a pre-determined location (hardcoded in the script). I wonder if I should share it on the CLI…
> Make sure to install http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jce8.... to allow 160-bit cryptography
Or don't use the Oracle proprietary distribution but the OpenJDK of your operating system which normally doesn't exclude proper crypto algorithms.
(be aware that the JDKs downgrade silently if certain libraries are missing in your host)