Show HN: Mabel – a fancy BitTorrent client for the terminal
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#2Looks interesting, why does it require a special font?
Suggest you remove the examples of downloading copyrighted content and the yify website from your readme.
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#3I wish more HN posts about software releases were like OP, providing not just a who, but a what.
OP: does this support version 2 of the spec?
Re: Show HN: Mabel – a fancy BitTorrent client for the terminal
#4Looks interesting, why does it require a special font? Suggest you remove the examples of downloading copyrighted content and the yify website from your readme.
If memory serves this was one of the things that bit youtube-dl in the ass with github: the documentation described/demonstrated using it to violate copyright.
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#5I wish more HN posts about software releases were like OP, providing not just a who, but a what . OP: does this support version 2 of the spec?
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#6How many people are using torrents for non-piracy reasons?
Re: Show HN: Mabel – a fancy BitTorrent client for the terminal
#7How many people are using torrents for non-piracy reasons?
You can download some Linux distros and other open source software this way, but yeah…it is largely used for piracy.
Re: Show HN: Mabel – a fancy BitTorrent client for the terminal
#8Looks interesting, why does it require a special font? Suggest you remove the examples of downloading copyrighted content and the yify website from your readme.
If memory serves this was one of the things that bit youtube-dl in the ass with github: the documentation described/demonstrated using it to violate copyright.
Not in their documentation. Two or three of the many videos used in their unit tests were music videos, and wouldn't have been used if youtube didn't serve them differently.
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#9Looks interesting, why does it require a special font? Suggest you remove the examples of downloading copyrighted content and the yify website from your readme.
The custom font adds a number of glyphs which wouldn't otherwise be accessible. Specifically for the folder icon [1] and I'd have thought for the borders as well.
Nerd Font is pretty cool, I'd give it a go - I don't know how terminals gracefully fallback if the glyphs don't exist.
1: https://github.com/smmr-software/mabel/blob/main/desert.png
Re: Show HN: Mabel – a fancy BitTorrent client for the terminal
#10Looks interesting, why does it require a special font? Suggest you remove the examples of downloading copyrighted content and the yify website from your readme.
It looks like there's a few glyphs being used in this application (things like folder icons, etc) that normal fonts aren't going to provide.