Show HN: Rarbg on IPFS • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Rarbg on IPFS

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Post by Saris » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 10:35 PM UTC

lordofgibbons wrote: post #27

malikNF wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think your post needs to clarify this is true only if you use the ipfs client to access things hosted on ipfs. Accessing ipfs.io/ipfs/ doesn’t do anything you mentioned. Its just a gateway. You could take the link on the main submission. And replace ipfs.io with any (most, because some are offline) of the links here https://ipfs.github.io/public-gateway-checker/ And it will still work.

That's true, and I should have clarified that. However, is using a proxy like ipfs.io really using ipfs? If everyone did that, there's no point to using this protocol. The strength of the network comes from the fact that the content gets replicated/distributed when accessed. That doesn't happen when accessed through a proxy.

>However, is using a proxy like ipfs.io really using ipfs?

Yes! Because the gateway can go down and you can still access the content via local IPFS node or by using another gateway.

Re: Show HN: Rarbg on IPFS

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Post by Saris » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 10:36 PM UTC

I get an error on Firefox:

"DB worker could not be created

TypeError: second argument must be a function"

Re: Show HN: Rarbg on IPFS

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Post by tylersmith » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 10:41 PM UTC

remram wrote: post #52

mmastrac wrote: post #2

I was curious how this works and then I saw the sqlite requests in the network tab. It's amazing to see what we have access to these days -- SQLite over HTTP over IPFS to provide a giant, censorship-resistant database!

IPFS is distributed but not anonymized, so you can send abuse requests to people's ISPs to take content down (like with torrents). The HTTP part is also not censorship-resistant. ipfs.io has a DMCA process, and they could also be asked to reveal the IP of users.

IPFS can be accessed through Tor immediately through a gateway, and with a little work through the ipfs client directly.

Re: Show HN: Rarbg on IPFS

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Post by tough » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 10:42 PM UTC

thunkymonkey wrote: post #89

thyrox wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is just amazing work! I have a question for you as even playing with this or creating oss project using this sounds like inviting trouble. So if any programmer wants to create an open source project using this data (just for kicks) then apart from using a VPN and throwaway email do you need to be careful about anything else? Any tips?

Never link discussion of it with your other alts. ;)

Oops too late.

Can ask dang to remove

Re: Show HN: Rarbg on IPFS

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Post by Avlin67 » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 10:56 PM UTC

but why it cannot find results like original RARBG ? is it just a rarbg cache ? how can we fill up the cache then ?

Re: Show HN: Rarbg on IPFS

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Post by Avlin67 » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 10:57 PM UTC

Zopieux wrote: post #36

The sqlite db contains a imdb column but it seems like the author forgot to include it in the fts4 index, meaning one cannot search for "tt9916362" even though it's right there in the database. It's a shame because this curated mapping is the most useful aspect of RARBG. FYI, this dump has 826'201 magnets (torrents) with an associated imdb ID and 2'017'490 without, including lots of porn but also random music and sof…

> including lots of porn

but not all

Re: Show HN: Rarbg on IPFS

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Post by Avlin67 » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 11:02 PM UTC

KomoD wrote: post #81

mike31fr wrote: post #74

https://rarbg.tw still works for me. I don't get it, isn't Rarbg supposed to be down?

Because that's not rarbg, rarbg is "rarbg.to", not rarbg.tw, rargb.to, rarbggo.to, rarbgproxy.to, rarbgmirror.org, rarbgaccessed.org, rarbgget.org

but what's difference between rargb.to and rarbg.to ?

Re: Show HN: Rarbg on IPFS

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Post by T3RMINATED » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 11:08 PM UTC

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Re: Show HN: Rarbg on IPFS

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Post by wuiheerfoj » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 11:31 PM UTC

rahimnathwani wrote: post #69

wuiheerfoj wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Afaiu, [Lassie]( https://github.com/filecoin-project/lassie/ ) is the latest and greatest of IPFS clients and it does not store/provide any data that you access

AIUI Lassie uses indexers to locate content instead of using a distributed hash table (DHT). So a content identifier (CID) might be present on IPFS (and downloadable by a regular IPFS client), yet 'invisible' to Lassie. If my understanding is correct, it can't be considered a complete IPFS client. https://docs.filecoin.io/storage-provider/architecture/netwo... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kademlia

I think it uses indexer and saturn (which ought to fall back to the DHT if it hasn’t cached the content of a CID already). That said they have a GitHub issue tracking CIDs that are retrievable via Kubo (fka go-ipfs) that aren’t yet retrievable via Lassie - it suggests to your point that there must be some difference; it also suggests they intend for retrievability parity though, so fingers crossed!!

Re: Show HN: Rarbg on IPFS

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Post by Aachen » Sun, Jun 04, 2023, 11:40 PM UTC

I recently received a phishing email, hosted on IPFS. Seeing torrents on there too, now, makes me wonder how they deal with content that's illegal in whatever jurisdiction.