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Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by tssva »

captainmuon wrote: post #112

Good to see it being in active development. But the one feature I'm waiting for is a network whitelist. For example, it should never connect over my home or office network, but only via anonymous VPN. (Edit: I know you can do this already with firewall rules, or containers, but I don't trust myself to not make a mistake. Ideally this should be part of the OS. You should be able to right-click somewhere in the window…

It already has the ability to specify an IP address to bind to. I use an OpenVPN up script to stop any running instance, replace the bind address with the current VPN interface address and start an instance.

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by stjohnswarts »

captainmuon wrote: post #112

Good to see it being in active development. But the one feature I'm waiting for is a network whitelist. For example, it should never connect over my home or office network, but only via anonymous VPN. (Edit: I know you can do this already with firewall rules, or containers, but I don't trust myself to not make a mistake. Ideally this should be part of the OS. You should be able to right-click somewhere in the window…

Not ragging on Transmission here but qbittorrent has zero problems getting out of my network and I didn't open up any ports or upnp either, give it a try. Transmission just has issues on my network that I don't care to figure out or open up ports for, qbit is quite good at navigating through NAT.

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by 0xC0ncord »

denton-scratch wrote: post #109
xpressvideoz wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FYI, transmission-cli is considered deprecated by the Transmission developers. Using both transmission-daemon and transmission-remote is the recommended approach. Actually, transmission-cli uses transmission-daemon internally and they share the same configuration. transmission-cli is still useful for one-off downloads, but I still prefer the recommended way because I'd like to seed older torrents some more time.

> transmission-cli is considered deprecated Wah! Bad news! I like to kick off a download from an SSH shell. Now I have to find out what transmission+remote is.

I was greatly disappointed too when I found out about transmission-cli's deprecation, but I have since found and replaced all uses of it with stig[1] which, for me, does the same thing and more.

[1] https://github.com/rndusr/stig

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by sylware »

laundermaf wrote: post #142
sylware wrote: post #85

A long time ago I was a user of transmission, then they moved to c++ and it was over. I would use other now.

How does that affect you as a user?

I am a developer user (yes, developers are also users), I understand why c++ is toxic for the humanity, then I did use other clients and I am still pushing to avoid it.

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by irusensei »

sylware wrote: post #85

A long time ago I was a user of transmission, then they moved to c++ and it was over. I would use other now.

I could understand if it was coded in a way that forces you to install extra modules like say PHP but stopping to use something because it went from C to C++ just makes you sound like a zealot.

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by daveidol »

capableweb wrote: post #96
lynguist wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Webtorrent allows you to download torrents from a stock iPhone: you use a JavaScript interpreter from the app store (that is allowed as per the app store guidelines, same for Python interpreter), then just run Webtorrent that works in JavaScript only. Like that I downloaded a lot of things while outside.

Wait, you're not allowed to run anything using the BitTorrent protocol on iOS? I never had the need myself, but I just assumed it would be allowed, because there is no reasonable explanation you wouldn't. Like the whole protocol is banned from the AppStore?

Sadly yes

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by thedougd »

captainmuon wrote: post #112

Good to see it being in active development. But the one feature I'm waiting for is a network whitelist. For example, it should never connect over my home or office network, but only via anonymous VPN. (Edit: I know you can do this already with firewall rules, or containers, but I don't trust myself to not make a mistake. Ideally this should be part of the OS. You should be able to right-click somewhere in the window…

Lately I've noticed that public trackers are behind Cloudflare. If you're on a VPN, you have a high likelihood of getting the Cloudflare captcha. Your bittorrent client will be unable to scrape those trackers, or bootstrap DHT, etc because of the cloudflare block.

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by Fiahil »

capableweb wrote: post #98
Y-bar wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For example, buying a 4K HDR movie on iTunes does not allow you to even cache it locally ( https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251320670 ), it is 100% streamed meaning you have to have a very sizeable and stable internet connection to watch it uninterrupted. Downloading it from a side channel means you can buy it on your favourite platform and actually keep it on your computer.

> Downloading it from a side channel means you can buy it on your favourite platform and actually keep it on your computer. That would give the distribution platform the idea that what they are doing is OK. In this case, just download it and don't pay for it, if they are not actually providing you of any service. Vote with your wallet.

> Vote with your wallet.

Just so you know (and stop using that phrase), there is no way scientifically or otherwise, to attribute the effect of non-sales to a feature, a service or anything else.

Your opinion on the matter just never shows up during product decisions, planning or analysis.

Your "vote" just doesn't exist.

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by Andrew_nenakhov »

BoxOfRain wrote: post #33
Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please, don't call copyright infringement 'piracy'. Piracy is a penal crime that involves violence, theft of property and is often accompanied by murders. Torrenting is just copying data.

I quite like embracing the word personally, I suspect it dates back to pirate radio in the 1960s which in parts of Europe actually did come from ships anchored just outside of territorial waters. Another interesting example of people embracing the pirate image was British submarines in WW1. The First Sea Lord of the day saw them as ungentlemanly and called for all German submarine crews to be hanged as pirates, this…

Embracing is exactly what corporations that abuse copyright want you to do. To quite rms,

"The term "piracy" is used by record companies to demonize sharing and cooperation by equating them to kidnaping, murder and theft." [0]

(Better read it in entirety, if you haven't yet)

[0]: https://stallman.org/articles/end-war-on-sharing.html

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