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What else should I help seed? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Just a small way to help people get their FOSS. What are some other projects that have torrents that would be good to seed?

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (8 children)

At 16kb/s per connection , I think you have to ask yourself if you’re really helping. Have you checked your settings that you aren’t limiting your upload speeds?

Edit: people seem to be offended by this comment, so let me clarify by what I meant with “are you really helping”.

Torrent clients default to a fixed number of peers they download from. If you end up with only 16kb/s connections, you are being limited by those seeders in how fast you can download.

Whereas if there were less seeders but they could provide 1mb/s connections, you are limited by your own internet connection and are downloading full blast.

I hope that clarifies my statement.

[–] [email protected] 127 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'd rather have a 16kb/s seeder than a dead torrent

[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 months ago (2 children)

For real. I’m slowly downloading a documentary from one person right now, it’s been a few weeks and it’ll be a few more, but I thank them for it

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I have had torrents that ran at extremely low speeds and also intermittently were offline because the seeder ran a colossal seedbox but rotated “inventory” to be able to seed more than just what they could handle at once. So it was rotating content. I downloaded something for almost three months I think. But eventually I got it all. Funny thing was I seeded it for the next like 6 months to help, but literally nobody ever connected, so I felt very fortunate that being apparently the only person who seemed to want the thing, I had found a seeder.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How do you find seeders of rare content?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Well, occasionally I’ll just be lucky enough I’ll try a result on a tracker that says 0 seeds. I try those all the time if I really can’t find a torrent with seeds. Lots of the ones that are seemingly dead, will kick up again at some point. I’ve had a lot of luck with even dead seeds from results on magnetdl.com and bitsearch.to but the latter you really want to have adblocks because they load a dozen of those shitty vpn ads every minute and they’re new window pop ups. Without Adblock I’d never even visit that site. But they have an excellent catalogue so I do use them. Magnetdl used to be my goto but lately they’ve had all kinds of weird cloudflare errors. Cloudflare sucks.

But aside from that and if someone seeds something upon request it’s just blind luck. But my main point I guess would be don’t shy away from links with 0 seeds indicated.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If it makes you feel any better, I had a torrent that took about a week to download. 12 months later my ratio is 139 or something. I like to think I resurrected it with the help of that one lone seeder.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

No need to feel any better lol none of what I said was troubling. But it’s nice that the torrenting community in general is not just a bunch of leeches. I suspect that is because of the lack of widespread popularity which is good. This should continue to remain a subculture to a certain extent.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

same boat, what documentary?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Under an Arctic Sky. It’s about surfers going to Iceland to.. surf, I assume

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

https://tubitv.com/movies/100004335/under-an-arctic-sky?start=true&tracking=google-feed&utm_source=google-feed

use video downloaderhelper or internet download manager and rip it. this one is 720p, but if you find it on another site, should be able to rip it in 1080p at least.

here it is in 1080p - https://www.redbull.com/us-en/films/under-an-arctic-sky

i'm also adding this link to my seeds once it finishes - magnet:?xt=urn:btih:4e578d0794506d804554b409c5c71db8e3cb48ee

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

The torrents include the normal http download URLs and fetch from them too. Official torrents never die.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

At 16kb/s per connection , I think you have to ask yourself if you’re really helping

That's a rather toxic mentality to have. Any amount of help is always appreciated.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 months ago

Torrent clients are usually smart enough to decide what the best seeders are to get the best possible availability and throughput.

OP seeding at 16 KB/s to some peers might also just mean that the leecher's bandwidth is mostly saturated by other peers so they don't need that much bandwidth from OP.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

You'd be surprised to know that a 500GB hard drive can be theoretically copied in 1 year with a 16kb/s transfer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Don’t most clients switch to seeders that deliver faster? Over time, I mean?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Whereas if there were less seeders but they could provide 1mb/s connections, you are limited by your own internet connection

Gigabit internet connection gang rise up!

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 5 months ago

Not FOSS, but a library/archive: https://annas-archive.org/torrents

Popular Linux ISOs are usually mirrored across a lot of mirrors (duh), so availability is already very good.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You can take a look here: https://fosstorrents.com/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Be sure to check the checksum after downloading and check if the release is somehow up to date. They only list raspberry pi os images older than a year

[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (1 children)

new House of the Dragon episodes

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Based

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

EndeavourOS

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Added

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

OpenStreetMap: https://planet.openstreetmap.org/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Nice one!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

300TBs of zip bombs

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The Rotating Food Gifs Collection 1-5

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

Do you have a link to this torrent? I am very interested.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

Wikipedia torrents from kiwix

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

oh yeah torrenting them linux isos

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You're not seeding properly, check your upload settings or try qBittorrent.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

OP has acceptable seed ratio on the files near the bottom.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Anna's Archive can always use help

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

🫡

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

I'm seeding this 24/7. Feel free to join in.

Patriot Front Fascist Leak Exposes Nationwide Racist Campaigns

https://vault.unicornriot.ninja/patriotfrontleaks/patriotfront-repack.torrent

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

netbsd.org will love that

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

For projects that is on git system, better automate mirroring to your self hosted git alternative

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Does anybody download iso's via torrents? Or how to help the actual sites that serve these? Since I trust the source more than torrents.. Especially for an image..

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (6 children)

You grab the .torrent file from the source website (Mint, in this case) and it's safe

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Verifiying the checksum of an iso takes 30 seconds... You don't need to trust anyone

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

I don't think that is even necessary. If you download the .torrent file from a trusted source it will already contain a secure hash of the final file. Also every piece you receive also comes with a hash that can also be verified through the .torrent file. If you don't trust the source enough to provide a valid .torrent, I don't see how downloading the image directly from them makes any difference. Read more: Official BitTorrent BEP BitTorrent V2 and SHA-256

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Well you do need to trust the checksum provided. That is the one you are checking against. Better would be a signature from a key you trust.

In the end a modern torrent is just a hash.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I prefer to download isos via torrents. You can easily check the checksum and signature once it's downloaded. And you're getting the torrent/magnet link/etc from the source so it's not some random torrent from piratebay or something lmao

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