Transmission v4.0 • Hacker News Board

calvinmorrison wrote: post #96

> Transmission is a great bittorrent client, but last time I checked they purposely didn't want to support sequential downloads, which is useful for media streaming, so I'll stick with qBittorrent. I hate ideologically driven coding decisions

There's a long history of antisocial-behavior-prevention stuff in peer to peer sharing applications. Overall they're usually a good thing.

I'm with them on this. Sequential downloading leads to a bias in what pieces are available.

If you're not sequentially downloading, you're contributing evenly back to the swarm. If you sequential-download, you're not...and you're potentially leaving the stream much sooner (if you don't finish watching etc.)

Re: Transmission v4.0

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Post by jobs_throwaway » Wed, Feb 08, 2023, 9:27 PM UTC

youstolemybits wrote: post #111

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But the evidence tells us that piracy increases purchases, not deters them. So it seems that by censoring bittorent clients, we're harming those who make a living selling their intellectual property.

Re: Transmission v4.0

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Post by par » Wed, Feb 08, 2023, 9:28 PM UTC

revskill wrote: post #104

On the Mac, this is the only working bittorrent client for me. The uTorrent client moved to the web is simply broken.

the uTorrent client on web feels like straight up malware (which it probably is.)

Re: Transmission v4.0

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Post by smcl » Wed, Feb 08, 2023, 9:28 PM UTC

haunter wrote: post #107

I use it but I don't like how the app language = system language, you can't change it >It's not technically challenging to add a drop-down list of languages to the UI, as least for the Qt client, but I'm still not convinced it'll be used by a lot of people. https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/1152

Oof yeah that's a faux pas. Apps also frequently use the wrong setting and try to set their language using location rather than the user's selected language. So on Windows VLC for me is in Czech since that's where I chose my location (for the correct time), even though my UI language + kb layout is US English. Quite a few apps make this mistake :-/

Re: Transmission v4.0

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Post by Avamander » Wed, Feb 08, 2023, 9:29 PM UTC

eatbitseveryday wrote: post #48

> Newly-added seeds can start immediately and verify pieces on demand, instead of needing a full verify before seeding can begin. This is a huge annoyance for me with torrent clients. Files that are 80GB or larger take days to verify before they can seed. Having this feature (which makes sense to do) is a more sane way to do it.

Days? I don't think even my 2nd gen RPi hashes files that slow.

Re: Transmission v4.0

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Post by jabroni_salad » Wed, Feb 08, 2023, 9:31 PM UTC

youstolemybits wrote: post #111

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Do you write similar screeds for HTTP and CD-RW? I've committed piracy with both of those in the past as well.

As a sysadmin I have used bittorrent many times to ship legitimate bits over subgrade connections. Hard to think of a more durable and reliable protocol and it absolutely has a place on HN despite it being the favored tool of pirates.

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Post by eastbound » Wed, Feb 08, 2023, 9:31 PM UTC

par wrote: post #116

revskill wrote: post #104

On the Mac, this is the only working bittorrent client for me. The uTorrent client moved to the web is simply broken.

the uTorrent client on web feels like straight up malware (which it probably is.)

uTorrent desktop used to mine bitcoins. Which is a pretty good deal for a free product.