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Re: WebTorrent

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Post by shepherdjerred »

runarberg wrote: post #110
shepherdjerred wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> if a christian school does a search like that and punishes students based on what they do in their free time As an alumni from a Christian school, I can confirm that this is legal. [0] You'll get expelled if you're in a same-sex relationship, or displaying behaviors of such a relationship (e.g. holding hands). [1] > Harding University holds to the biblical principle that God instituted marriage as a relationship be…

Whoa, that is not good. I wonder if this has been tested in the courts with anti-discrimination laws as the legal basis. In the meantime using a VPN is probably a must for the students of these schools. PS. That is a lovely zine in the bonus citation.

I think they get a bit of leeway by both being a private university and a religious institution. I'm not a lawyer though, so I have no idea.

If you want a real fun trip down Christian college lane you should check out PCC [0]. One of my friends went there for a semester or two and it sounded... horrible.

> PCC policies govern many aspects of the students' lives, including dress, hairstyles, cleanliness of residence hall rooms, styles of music, borrowing, off-campus employment, and Internet access.[30] For example, "All students are expected to dress modestly, in conservative fashions and . . . men are not to wear effeminate hairstyles or apparel."[31]

> PCC also prohibits physical contact and interaction between unwed members of the opposite sex. For example, a chaperone and "day-pass" is required for a "mixed group" for students under the age of 23.[32] Students over the age of 23 are not required to have a chaperone on a date, but cannot go to a beach or a park after dark and cannot "visit the home of an unmarried person of the opposite gender."[33]

> Most stairwells, elevators, and parking lots on campus are segregated by gender.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pensacola_Christian_College

Re: WebTorrent

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Post by bityard »

brokenmachine wrote: post #113
alexb_ wrote: post #95

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This isn't even really a "terrible internet provider" problem - this stuff is getting way way more common across all of America.

So, terrible internet providers are way more common across all of America?

Terrible internet providers are absolutely the norm across all of America. Except for a handful of small regional ISPs and municipal ISPs, where they haven't been outlawed.

Re: WebTorrent

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Post by bityard »

worldofmatthew wrote: post #77
consumer451 wrote: post #13

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I am on a 200GB capped residential LTE internet connection. Upload is included in that data cap. If this was surreptitiously deployed that would cost me money and generally be not cool.

That is a you problem. The website is not responsible for your data plan.

I hope browsers will implement protections against this sort of thing the same way they currently do against crypto-jacking.

Re: WebTorrent

#135

Post by Widdershin »

baobabKoodaa wrote: post #64
Widdershin wrote: post #40

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STUN servers are only required for NAT punching, they don’t relay traffic. Only TURN servers are used as relays in the event that a direction connection can’t be established.

I had a mistake in my post where I confused TURN and STUN. It's been a while since I actually tried to do this stuff. The stackoverflow post has details on how I tried to achieve connectivity, if you check that you will see that yes I used STUN.

Ah that makes sense, thanks for clarifying.

Re: WebTorrent

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Post by m00dy »

greatest-ape wrote: post #116
m00dy wrote: post #31

I'm building a decentralized ai marketplace and guess what? This piece of software is the backbone of our off-chain file transfer protocol. It just works; however, its seeder (BitTorrent-tracker) depends on node-webrtc, and it is not an official node package for web-rtc. It has some weird issues. For example, when you seed the torrent through BitTorrent-tracker, and on the client side (chrome browser), I used chrome:…

If you run your tracker on Linux and an info hash whitelist approach would work for your use case, it might be worthwhile to have a look at aquatic_ws [0]. It relies on tungstenite [1] for websockets and achieves around 20x the throughput of the reference implementation when running with four threads. I don’t know of anybody who runs it in production, but its sister implementation (BitTorrent over UDP) handles 80k re…

Oh very cool. It looks like it is compatible with WebTorrent. Very cool, thanks

Re: WebTorrent

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Post by hinkley »

jMyles wrote: post #109
nightpool wrote: post #23

I've always been very, very nervous about the privacy implications of this technology. Creating a persistent, public record of every IP that has ever accessed a particular video is a HUGE step backwards compared to current video/file distribution systems, and I don't think end-users correctly appreciate the trade-offs yet of making that sort of information public and joinable across domains / different activity (i.e.…

What's worse? Having a record that is completely public? Or one which is only accessible to known bad actors (FAANG and the US State, for example).

Do we really have to keep underestimating the power of the mob?

Re: WebTorrent

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Post by Avamander »

xd1936 wrote: post #120

WebTorrent seems like the most obvious solution for distributing Linux ISOs. Instead of coordinating networks of volunteer http mirrors, the download webpage of various distributions could simply use WebTorrent and operate one webseed... Then every user becomes a seeder. They are usually going through the trouble of making torrent files anyway. I made a proof-of-concept of this idea during the pandemic for fun[1]. It…

I often use the torrent download option because it's faster than the HTTP download. Hopefully WT will offer that experience seamlessly at some point.

Though, not that many torrent clients support WT yet, so it'll take a bit for the swarm to become multiprotocol. Same with v2 torrents really.

Re: WebTorrent

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Post by turbo_fart »

baobabKoodaa wrote: post #34
Sean-Der wrote: post #30

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This isn't true. In 2017 appear.in published some numbers. They saw ~15% were not able to do P2P. https://medium.com/@fippo/what-kind-of-turn-server-is-being-... Reading your stackoverflow link my guess is that you aren't using STUN. A P2P connection can't be established without a NAT hole punch. Also if possible I would avoid the terms `Full-cone NAT` and `Symmetric NAT` they don't do a good job of describing what i…

> In 2017 appear.in published some numbers. They saw ~15% were not able to do P2P. https://medium.com/@fippo/what-kind-of-turn-server-is-being- ... Thank you for this. I guess P2P connectivity is more often possible than I thought! For the record, I have tried to form P2P connections with multiple different devices and multiple different network conditions, and although I have been able to achieve connectivity with P…

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