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Re: Deluge BitTorrent Client

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Post by hifikuno » Thu, Jun 09, 2022, 5:47 AM UTC

forlorn wrote: post #26

Nothing against it but I always wonder what leads to posting a link to a website out of the blue sky. No news, no releases, just a link to a frontpage.

I was just wondering the same thing. Maybe it's to simply bring awareness to those who haven't seen it before?

Re: Deluge BitTorrent Client

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Post by dsissitka » Thu, Jun 09, 2022, 5:50 AM UTC

pkhamre wrote: post #18

Is torrents still a thing? Genuinely curious. It looks like a cool piece of software with lots of nice features, but I mean.. I don't need, as far as I know, a client-server stack for downloading stuff.

> Is torrents still a thing? Genuinely curious.

The Linux ISO crowd has kept Usenet alive. I feel like torrents will be around for a while yet.

Re: Deluge BitTorrent Client

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Post by Cyph0n » Thu, Jun 09, 2022, 5:52 AM UTC

Transmission is a much better option imo, mainly because this amazing container exists: https://github.com/haugene/docker-transmission-openvpn

Of course, the idea has been used with other clients, but I have yet to find a more complete solution.

Re: Deluge BitTorrent Client

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Post by LanternLight83 » Thu, Jun 09, 2022, 5:56 AM UTC

forlorn wrote: post #26

Nothing against it but I always wonder what leads to posting a link to a website out of the blue sky. No news, no releases, just a link to a frontpage.

I often think it's a program or set of docs that someone happened upon for the first time themselves, but that can't explain all of them; regardless, I love these kinds of posts, for the opportunity to encounter something that others might have assumed to be obvious and the spontaneous discussions that occur

Re: Deluge BitTorrent Client

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Post by andrelaszlo » Thu, Jun 09, 2022, 6:00 AM UTC

The main reason I switched to Deluge is that it has great support for Socks proxies. Surprisingly, the support is terrible or non-existent in other clients that I tested (Transmission).

If you use a proxy that's only available through your VPN, you'll be protected if the VPN connection goes down.

Re: Deluge BitTorrent Client

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Post by manigandham » Thu, Jun 09, 2022, 6:07 AM UTC

RyanShook wrote: post #28

Can someone explain to me what the benefit of dapps is/will be over BitTorrent?

Bittorrent is reliable peer-to-peer file transfers by chopping up the entire payload into tiny bits that can be shared directly amongst all users.

Dapps are decentralized systems to run complex logic (aka smart contracts) without a single point of failure and with whatever consensus mechanism is used by the underlying chain.

There is no "benefit" over one or the other because they're completely different things.

Re: Deluge BitTorrent Client

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Post by broodbucket » Thu, Jun 09, 2022, 6:23 AM UTC

pkhamre wrote: post #18

Is torrents still a thing? Genuinely curious. It looks like a cool piece of software with lots of nice features, but I mean.. I don't need, as far as I know, a client-server stack for downloading stuff.

Downloading something from a server is a single point of failure. Power outage, cease and desist, any amount of infrastructure failure or human error, etc. What doesn't go away are a whole bunch of people around the world. Want something wacky from 2 decades ago? Your options are usually either hoping it's on archive.org, or some random guy still seeding the torrent from Uzbekistan that you now have a silent bond with.

Re: Deluge BitTorrent Client

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Post by jacob019 » Thu, Jun 09, 2022, 6:23 AM UTC

andrelaszlo wrote: post #35

The main reason I switched to Deluge is that it has great support for Socks proxies. Surprisingly, the support is terrible or non-existent in other clients that I tested (Transmission). If you use a proxy that's only available through your VPN, you'll be protected if the VPN connection goes down.

If my wireguard VPN goes down then I lose connectivity. What garbage VPN tech would silently disable on failure?

Re: Deluge BitTorrent Client

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Post by donio » Thu, Jun 09, 2022, 6:24 AM UTC

forlorn wrote: post #26

Nothing against it but I always wonder what leads to posting a link to a website out of the blue sky. No news, no releases, just a link to a frontpage.

There are ton of junk posts like that every day. The more interesting question is what makes some of these occasionally gain traction and upvotes seemingly at random.

Re: Deluge BitTorrent Client

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Post by yieldcrv » Thu, Jun 09, 2022, 6:30 AM UTC

donio wrote: post #39

forlorn wrote: post #26

Nothing against it but I always wonder what leads to posting a link to a website out of the blue sky. No news, no releases, just a link to a frontpage.

There are ton of junk posts like that every day. The more interesting question is what makes some of these occasionally gain traction and upvotes seemingly at random.

activity brigading just like anywhere else

some organic, some brigading laundered into organic

but some people coordinate elsewhere and send a post here