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  • Huh. Did a little reading and it honestly does sound pretty useful. I'm not crazy about the corporate sponsorship of the consortium but there's a lot of open source licensing to promote adoption so it's not all bad. Neat. I could get behind doing a couple little custom home automation projects using that kind of network.




  • I think they're fine. All a web seed is, is a direct server download to your torrent client as if you clicked "download" in your browser. It causes no damage to the torrent if they go down, although if web seeds are holding illegal content they pose much greater risks to those hosting them.

    They're usually used to make the initial seeding go faster, since you can web seed to the crucial first 10 seeders very quickly via instead of piecemeal uploading the torrent to the entire peer cloud parts at a time and potentially never getting the complete torrent out for days and days.







  • This is why internet download manager (and other, similar download manager softwares) were originally created. Download managers track the amount of a file you've downloaded and will repeatedly retry when interrupted without restarting from zero.

    Getting Warez in the pre-P2P era meant grabbing bits and pieces over a glacial ISDN or 33.6k modem line (if you were lucky- some of us bastards got 28.8k, or even 14.4k...) Everything was "direct download". You had to use a download manager for anything larger than 30 megabytes because the chances of your line being interrupted were very very high, either by other phone users or by your ISP booting you off because you looked like a zombie modem being connected for 24 hours straight.

    They still have their place. Try something open source like JDownloader. Or just pirate the pro version of IDM.







  • I'm sure it's just autism, but I start taking machines apart in my head, or go through steps of a project I'm in the middle of. I can walk through step by step of how every part interacts, visualize how it moves and where the wear and contact points are, which tool I need for fastener X, Y and Z.... then go farther down, and think about how each part would itself be cast, machined, welded, and packaged for assembly. Somewhere in the rote repetition of it, I'll pass clean out.