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Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by wpietri »

ok_dad wrote: post #222
wpietri wrote: post #209

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I think we agree. That would fit within my definition of "things" in "make things easier". They can only do more/better with computers if the software is built to support them in that. If instead we insist that people focus on understanding the computer rather than doing the things they want to do, then they will do less and/or worse.

I would be fine with users doing less with their computers, if they in turn understood how they worked and why we all get angry here about things like: politicians likening cryptography to criminal activity, companies hoovering your data from every site you visit, etc.

I see. In what areas are you prepared to make the symmetrical deal? That you'll do less and get less while investing more time in understanding areas other people are less expert in?

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by RockRobotRock »

lynguist wrote: post #79
squarefoot wrote: post #57

If someone asks me to install a Torrent client on a single machine, my favorite would be QBittorrent, however at home I use XigmaNAS' Transmission client extensively, and operate it from other machines in the LAN using the Transgui interface (also available on Windows and MacOS). This allows me to turn off everything but the NAS, which with all RAID disks spun down and a TDP of 15 Watts makes for some good energy sav…

Qbittorrent unfortunately turned into a buggy mess and has no leadership. The github has hundreds of known issues that are not addressed. No qbittorrent client works reliably on Windows or Mac for at least a year or two. It gets hung up scanning downloaded torrents etc.

This really bums me out to hear. I have used many torrent clients over the years, Azureus -> uTorrent -> Deluge -> (transmission on mac and linux, although it didnt work great on Windows), until finally landing on qBittorrent and loving it.

I hope they figure out their maintainer issues.

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by Barrin92 »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #231
Barrin92 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

we had literal pirate parties as fairly legitimate political actors, I think the term has long been reappropriated

You should probably learn the difference between 'literally' and 'figuratively'. Literal pirate parties exist in Somali and prey on nearby shipping lanes.

literally has been used as figuratively for rhetorical purposes for a long time my overly literal friend

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by systoll »

alcover wrote: post #181
yborg wrote: post #174

15.7 MB binary on macOS, in an age where it's usual to deliver a 400 MB Electron package. I kneel.

Let me stay upright. 15M seems a lot. What's in there ? High-def country flags for Retina ? edit: ok, size is ~4.5M on my Debian, of which transmission-gtk accounts for 3.6. Maybe graph libs are bigger on mac ?

3.8mB is an auto-update framework – https://sparkle-project.org

3.5mB is for a Quicklook plugin, so that Torrent files can be previewed in the Finder.

4.5mB is UI 'stuff'. The Cocoa 'nibs' that define the application UI tend to be bigger than comparable GTK XML files.

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by sounds »

zaik wrote: post #221
netheril96 wrote: post #215

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Ad blocking is a cat and mouse game. Anti censorship is a cat and mouse game. Anti fraud is a cat and mouse game. Anti spam is a cat and mouse game. I don’t see people giving up so easily on those problems.

I can't think of any way to solve this problem if a majority of clients in a swarm is malicious.

The swarm eventually gets abandoned as new users can't reach 100% completion?

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by MayeulC »

theptip wrote: post #200
MayeulC wrote: post #91

I'm really excited to see support for torrents v2. If only because transmission will stop chocking on hybrid torrent files, which should lead to more adoption across the board. I wish transmission supported mutable torrents (BEP46). It would allow completely re-thinking distribution: grab a torrent of your favorite distribution, and have it auto-update to the latest version. Or grab a "super-torrent" that lists isos…

This is a cool feature that I've idly wondered about in the past, but I didn't know it was actually spec'd/implemented in Bittorrent. You could imagine hierarchically pushing the entire of TPB or whatever into the DHT. And even, each torrent having an `index.html` that renders a page containing links to the rest of the sub-torrents, so that the entire site is hosted in the DHT.

Right, and we saw some examples of Sqlite+torrent in the past; those databases could be made editable more easily (although it would be nice to de-duplicate unchanged parts, not sure if sqlite DBs can be chunked).

Not necessarily sqlite, that said. It might be useful for openstreetmap tiles/db, or indeed repositories like library genesis, wikidata/wikipedia dumps, etc.

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by Andrew_nenakhov »

yaddaor wrote: post #120
Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #18

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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.

Even if the technical process is just "copying data" there is a whole world of legal and ethical issues around it. Torrenting non-free products from unofficial sources is illegal.

This is the silliest argument ever. Helping slaves escape to Canada was once illegal. The society understood that such laws do more harm than good and changed them. Same will happen with copyright laws.

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by Andrew_nenakhov »

pessimizer wrote: post #240
Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #231

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should probably learn the difference between 'literally' and 'figuratively'. Literal pirate parties exist in Somali and prey on nearby shipping lanes.

If your political party documents and registration are under the name "The Pirate Party," you're quite literally the pirate party.

And you plunder ships in high waters?
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