"Although ZeroNet can't run scripting languages like PHP or Ruby, you can create dynamic sites using ZeroNet's API (called ZeroFrame), JavaScript (or CoffeeScript) and the built-in SQL database."
I know. Video stream is 720x480 (3:2 or 1.5 ratio) flagged as anamorphic 16:9 (or 1.66666). Screenshots are better be 16:9 since that's how video is supposed to be displayed (and video stream has that information), but doing 3:2 screenshots is also reasonable since that's how raw video is. System does neither and makes screenshots in 50:27 ratio (or 1.85) which is wrong and that's why I pointed that out.
They won't be uploading .torrent files to other web sites/torrent indexes, but they still seed torrents and distribute magnet links (even with a couple of torrent trackers).
You got both points right. The ideas are there. What's missing is the traction from user side. That will be, in time. As you may have heard Turkey banned Wikipedia (rofl) so that time might be sooner than we expect.
Also hope you're happy, I made an account here cuz of you. Now admin knows I called him a 17 y/o girl.
Hyperboria is awesome, and something like that is the future for sure. However, it needs to pass a threshold of adoption locally for it to work at all. On the other hand, things like the SAFE Network, that build on the existing internet infrastructure, can smoothly scale up from sparse global adoption.
Libswift is barebones bittorrent, right? It looks like a good idea, but it doesn't provide something fundamentally superior to bittorrent (e.g. privacy, that stuff would stay seeded, etc), so I doubt it could take over.
how does this help AT? whole nyaa tracker (http://open.nyaatorrents.info:6544/announce) is dead, air go most of it's seeders. You'll be lucky to get some seeds on DHT.
It's all about utility v.s. cost. Bittorrent is becoming costly because nobody has a few years to throw away in jail. With that pressure in place, and as long as the alternative is just as easy to use (and maybe even superior in some other ways, too), there's no reason it wouldn't get adopted fast.
Yea, I'm mostly targeting this post to those who can understand it and care about it, but somehow have missed it so far. I'm not expecting much, but still it's worth getting the word out :)
You are right, it needs to get to the point where users don't need to understand or care about how it works. It will take some time. If a random qualified person here gets excited and joins the effort, that may make it a week or two faster.
As for the adoption, it will be super fast, exactly because of torrents. Once something is up there, it's accessible for anybody with minimal investment (client install is already one-click, and it's just the test nets!), except no worrying for copyright trolls and governments, and no dead files. It's a no-brainer, especially for the lazy-ass bastards who's the majority.
Most ppl on this site and otherwise will think you've gone insane. They can barely understand how http or bittorrent works yo.
That being said I'm 100% percent behind techs like maidsafe, zeronet, ipfs. Problem lies like always between chair and keyboard. Without mainstream adoption these will always be useless. There won't be people to download from there, hence to people to release there which equals no traction. Maybe, MAYBE if some really draconian laws (and enforced too) appear then people will migrate. And I mean arresting thousands of ppl and such. Until then why should they. Nyaa went down . Big deal. Plenty of torrent sites around (tokyotosho,anidex, anirena). Plenty of release groups (animerg, hi10dl, kametsu) that offer ddl or even http. Not to mention AT. 1 script change and it's business as usual. If you're a hipster you can even try IRC and XDCC. There's only like a gazillion tutorials and hey, no ads. Free clients too: xchat, nettalk.
So yeah, maidsafe will remain a tech demo until some really serious shit happens.
If you're really passionate about this kind of stuff look into hyperboria for a truly awesome idea. Also as an aside google "libswift multiparty" for some neat protocol.
^Magnet & Torrent Search Engine, indexing nearly 87,000,000 submitted torrents on the net, including all Nyaa's torrents, Anidex and many other public and semi-private trackers, and updating. I personally find it really useful.
It's gonna be a fully decentralized storage and communication network, designed explicitly to make it impossible to eavesdrop on users, or to block it.
Data is spread across many computers, almost like torrents, but everything is encrypted, so nobody knows what's on theirs. The network takes care that everything is stored redundantly, but not wastefully, and when things get popular, there will be more copies: a DoS attack will just make it faster, basically. Files are split into blocks like torrents, and the master copies of those blocks will be stored on "vaults" (software you can run and earn money with) depending on their hash v.s. the vault's hash. What this means is that you can expect each block of a file be stored on a different computer: your favorite 8GB rip can download in parallel from 8000 different computers (if you can handle the bandwidth, that is.)
Your "account" is just another data block on the network, addressed by the hash of your username and password together. The twist: nobody knows that data block is your account, or that it's even an account, and no password is ever sent to anybody, not even encrypted. Good luck, copyright trolls :)
It's also a replacement for the web, so you can build websites, just using different paradigms. You won't necessarily use a server, you see, so we'll have to use mutable shared data (one of the fundamental types on the network) for dynamic content.
To keep things civil, uploading will cost some coins (the thing has its own cryptocurrency), but storing data (running a vault) will earn you the same kind of coins, so no worries. If you will, think like it's a private tracker, except anybody can join, and nobody can shut it down.
It's also a framework with an API, so you can develop apps to run on top of it. The whole thing is open-source, anybody can look, play, develop.
Anyway, this thing has been in development for quite some years, but now we've seen several alphas and test releases, each testing a new part of the required feature set. The devs are very professional and devoted, and they are 100% unwilling to compromise on the vision, that's why it's been taking so long. When something is not working, they go and find a way, no matter how much work or time it takes, basically.
Disclaimer: I'm *not* working for them, I'm just super excited, because nothing like the Nyaa shutdown could happen when it will be built on this thing :)
These backups come with all the categories: https://srotonpaga.appspot.com/nyaa/. The old stuff is sqlite, but it doesn't have the uploader or even timestamps, just the id, the name, and the hash. The updates are json, and they have the timestamp and the description in addition to those. Still no uploader though, and the status (e.g. "trusted") is missing.
Categories from the sqlite file: Literature, Software, Anime, Audio, Live Action Sub-categories: English-translated Literature, Raw Literature, Applications, Games, English-translated Anime, Raw Anime, Lossless Audio, Lossy Audio, English-translated Live Action, Promotional Live Action, Raw Live Action Status: normal, remake, trusted, a+
It's not something I'm planning, as it's some work having to manage that. Hence the preference for aggregator sites. But it's not completely out of the question...
Your data could close some of the gap between other mirrors, e.g. https://srotonpaga.appspot.com/nyaa/, where the last entry is from Sep 14, it seems. If Nyaa has indeed fallen, there will be those who have the (or some of) data, those with the resources to build a site, and those who can host it. As those three categories don't necessarily all overlap, I'm hoping for some cooperation.
It's indeed sad that almost nobody have a proper backup. To be honest, it's unfair to expect a high-risk service such as Nyaa should stay up forever, and still...
Ideally, there would be multiple servers that automatically sync to each other, yet they would be maintained by different people or groups. They would be less like mirrors and more like independent git repositories, with automated pull and merge with trusted peer servers.
It may be possible, but there's a few hurdles. One major one is they don't do categorisation of any kind, so I can't filter out non anime stuff easily. Do you happen to know of a way to do this?
Torrent links appear in both RSS2 and Atom feeds. Magnets aren't there, maybe I can add it (though ultimately, they're just a pointer to the torrent anyway). Searching in feeds has been mentioned in the past, and something I'll need to see if doable. A few technical hurdles to deal with unfortunately.
It may be, and I'm considering it. Unfortunately they lack a lot of metadata that the AT script uses, so there's some hurdles to deal with. I also prefer not to get too specific with fetching (hence the preference for aggregators) but I may make an exception for HS.
I kinda want to keep torrents the way they are for now, as somewhat of an archive. Users can manually add trackers or rely on DHT. I can consider add some to magnet links though (easier to implement than changing torrents), any suggested trackers?
If people are interested, I can consider looking into it. There's a lot to do at the moment, and I don't have infinite time to do everything in. My current focus is to try and source more content. Everything else is a lesser priority for now.
The test setup is something I already have, so didn't take too long to set up. As for now, it's a way for those interested in recent Nyaa content. Is there something else you'd think others would do with the data there?
It is interesting to note how there hasn't been much of an effort to mirror the data by anyone else though. Actually I've never really bothered either, it's mostly a coincidence that I have that.
03/05/2017 14:30 — Anonymous