/tech/ - Technology

>>544465

Who is this fluid druid?

http://seedboxgui.de/

you can rent a great box for +/- $5 shrekels a month.

>tfw rtorrent is dead

>tfw i2pd lacks a good torrent client

>2016

>private trackers still don't allow VPNs or Tor

>still keep more logs than Google

why.jpg

>using seedboxes

>using vpns just for torrenting

>>>>>>>>>>>>>using any sort of paid service to facilitate piracy

The only time you should ever pay for piracy is if you're buying the media to give high-quality content to others, and someone else has probably already done that for you.

Use I2P.

I use my 8€ vps in sweden for illegal shit.

paying it with bitcoins and only accessing it via my vpn.

frostwire for android a shit

private trackers are fucking cancer. The point of torrents was freedom of information, but then they build up more walls just so they can feel like a secret club to the point where they'll pay to pirate with seedboxes just like fucking usenet dweebs. Then there's the whole collecting and sharing of user info that runs rampant in those communities...

>>544653

You can also use VPS' if you're poor and/or have bad internet and need the extra speed that downloading from a VPS would give you.

Plus you never again have to worry about disappearing torrents as in >>544650 this anon's case.

How the FUCK can I get 25GB of upload on WhatCD.

I need help.

>>544758

And then you have public trackers co-opted by hackers and the NSA with their releases chock fucking full of viruses. Private trackers are just the torrenter community protecting itself.

>>544801

How can I know when new freeleech picks happen?

According to my utorrent stats, I've downloaded 493GB and I've uploaded 622GB. Total running time: 2485 hours.

Am I good enough to join a private tracker?

>>544550

How is it dead?

>>544918

>µtorrent

dear lord

>>544465

>24%

>seeder

Are you literally retarded?

>>544927

The authos is absent, and rtorrent has tons of issues. I experienced some segfaults in it.

>>545020

peers seeding who cares

>>545021

>last commit 7 days ago

???

>>545024

Wow, it was revived.

>>544918

You're in for a ride if you think private trackers seeding works like piratebay's

>>544518

>paying for torrenting

W E W

>>544801

stop using meme trackers

>>544491

That's gay as fuck dude.

>>544559

Owners of most popular sites expect to make money from it. For trackers, sometimes it's not a lot, sometimes it is a significant inflow into a black market of cam- and disk rippers. Donations and promoted seedbox offers are the source of money, thus it is important to inject user base and releasers with propaganda about secret club and ultra super rare exclusive content. Any idea that can make average self-important user doubt the customs and the need for circlejerk is rejected.

Trackers are tools that should help file exchange, not prevent it. They should progress with the times. Ten years ago, torrent could be downloaded by less than 100 people in one year, take days, if not weeks, and a couple of cheating leechers could cause its untimely death. (It's still true for more obscure content today, but the selection is much wider, speeds are higher, and the ecosystem is more healthy.) Nowadays, with users managing hundreds of simultaneous torrents and bots sucking in thousands, load distribution among seeds, offer&recommendation systems, and keeping things alive in general are more important than muh precious upload stats. Little has been done in automating that.

You should also take human ignorance and stupidity into account. When Rutracker went ratioless, it had to do it in two or three steps, and there still were people who left in anger because no one would respect their contributions after ratios are gone.

>>544893

That's what average self-important user who once clicked on a big animated banner and double-clicked on an obvious executable believe. He is probably too young to remember TPB without ads anyway.

>>545019

I use utorrent 2.2.1. I think it's safe.

>paying to torrent

Hahahahaha Oh Wow

>>544465

Every private tracker can be described with having at least one of the following: being part of cabals, having god awful and corrupt moderation, having a hugbox community, having illogical rules, having a lack of content or putting zero effort into being original at all. The concept that there is not one that does not follow this principle to me is absurd. Oppaitime, despite still not reaching any decent level, is the best in terms of stemming away from this, probably because it was made by imageboard users. With this in mind, I think that it would be exceptional if /tech/ were to make one, with emphasis on impartial rules, high quality content, protection of anonymity and not bending over to cabals just to keep recruitment threads. Interesting ideas could also be tested to keep an overall great community, such as displaying a different login page to those with botnets such as Windows and Google Chrome in their browser headers, banning those who use torrent clients such as µTorrent or BitComet, having an imageboard instead of a forum and recruitment areas being put under a dedicated tab or having a specific area where people can trade tricks to cheat on other trackers. Of course however, based on previous the previous nature of tech, even if someone attempted an idea like this it probably wouldn't get past the stage of having a logo. A shame really.

>>545250

Nothing is safe for clearnet torrenting.

Nyaa.se

With either Deluge or rTorrent+ruTorrent

What.CD once I get in

>>545145

What is a good music source then?

I want muh autistic FLAC, and I also want to be able to reliably find any given album.

>>546427

Legit

>>546458

>nyaa

Almost no content nro seeders compared to AB (which is easy to get and have almost everything in freeleech).

>>546460

>What.CD

I listen to a lot of music (flac only) and I've never encountered something that wasn't on rutracker or public trackers. Sure you need it?

>>546471

Why aren't you satisfied with 128kbit MP3?

>>546491

?

>>546491

I don't know about that guy, but 128k mp3 is borderline ass-quality. It's just high enough to be semi-tolerable, but low enough to still throw up compression artifacts. It's like looking at a large jpeg where the thumbnail looks OK but once you pull up the full image it's got noticeable compression all over. MP3 is only good at V0 or 320k, and the minimum threshold of "tolerable" is V3 or 192k.

However, just because you download FLAC doesn't mean that you can't reencode it as something lossy to save space. A 96k opus has great quality comparable to a V0 mp3 but takes up less space (9.3MiB vs 3.8MiB on a track 5:03 long). Those numbers seem small, but they add up quick: if you hypothetically have 1500 of these 5:03 songs that's a net gain of 8.3GiB of space over mp3 with the same quality (14GiB vs 5.7GiB).

Of course, these numbers will be different with a real library but it still gives you a good idea of the amount of space you can save when you use a good codec.

>>546427

> Interesting ideas could also be tested to keep an overall great community

There's not a lot of ideas you can correctly test on a community of 10 people.

> displaying a different login page to those with botnets such as Windows and Google Chrome

Completely irrelevant.

> banning those who use torrent clients such as µTorrent or BitComet

This has already been done, even on totally plebeian trackers.

> having an imageboard instead of a forum

Cargo cult. In case you don't know, imageboard is a forum, and a forum engine itself doesn't mean anything.

> having a specific area where people can trade tricks to cheat on other trackers

Kid, get back to school and you'll be able to get a job that allows to have a decent internet connection.

>>546471

> inescapable animebytes shill

You might not believe it, but the weaboo sharing world was OK before animebytes and will be well after it. It's just another tracker, not a revelation. Nyaatorrents has a lot of live and active torrents. Also, it is more of a feed and archive than a tracker community.

>>546595

> MP3 is only good at V0 or 320k

V0 is 25% less than 320 kbps on average. Even the authors have failed to beat the idea that 320 kbps CBR encodes are as stupid and useless as “100% quality” JPEGs into your dumb heads. In some cases, it's even worse, on the level of saving 4 color pattern as JPEG file.

> A 96k opus has great quality comparable to a V0 mp3

> falling for Opus meme

> not seeing any problem with inference that some new codec magically compresses 2-3 times better than previous generation

> while it is widely known 100+ kbps bitrates are of little interest to audio compression specialists because of universal transparency in most listening conditions and need of logarithmic scale and experienced listeners to examine the difference

> while listening test results are widely available (and lack of high bitrate ones definitely says about something)

I request /tech/ header to be changed into “Lamers” because you all are pathetic.

>>546722

> Also, it is more of a feed and archive than a tracker community.

That's the problem. Anything not currently running read not shit is almost always under 5 seeds (and most of the time near 0).

> not seeing any problem with inference that some new codec magically compresses 2-3 times better than previous generation

>what is mpeg-2 vs mpeg-4

That's not magic, that's just mpleb3 being shit (even with lame). Opus only compress like 25% better than vorbis/musepack, though.

I'd say 128k for opus can be compared to v0.

>>546427

>>546722

>>546911

>duhh lets ban all dah windowz and chrome and make it MAH SECREEET CLUB!!!!!!

Well, you'll have a relatively dead tracker filled with nothing but semi-good anime and some shitty books. But you'll have your secret club I guess....

>>546843

There is still many active peers, especially on Boxtorrents backup torrents. You seem to believe that everyone who seeds does it on private trackers.

> mpleb3 being shit

I can only state once again that shitposters' memes doesn't give you any knowledge, and that your method is unsuitable for high bitrate encode comparison. Saying “96 kbps Opus has great quality comparable to a V0 MP3” is no different from saying “96 kbps Opus has great quality comparable to a lossless source” or “96 kbps Opus has great quality comparable to a Sacred Vinyl Signed by Plant Himself”. It doesn't take the differences between V0 MP3, lossless file, and vinyl into account and doesn't mention the margin of error for that “V0 MP3” mark. You should've said

> 96 kbps Opus is transparent to me,

which brings clarity, or

> 96 kbps Opus can be considered equal to 1xx kbps MP3 according to following tests: …,

or

> 96 kbps Opus is enormously better than 96 kbps MP3,

which is truth without any doubt.

>>546911

In last dozen or so years, there were hundreds, if not thousands, little trackers headed by admins that would ban you for having wrong tastes, wrong hardware, wrong intonation, or simply for not showing enough respect. Why do you believe yours will have a different fate?

Also,

> I already have a 100Mbps download and a 25Mbps upload connection. The idea wasn't projection, it was for less fortunate users living in shitholes.

> implying asymmetric connection does not scream “Shithole!”

>>546722

>V0 is 25% less than 320 kbps on average.

Yes, and that's fine because VBR spends more of it's bitrate on frequencies below 16kHz. That's where most of the sound is anyway (and mp3 has technical difficulties encoding anything that high up). CBR doesn't do that: it uses the same amount of bitrate for every frequency.

>> falling for Opus meme

Not my fault it's a great free codec that you seemingly don't like.

>> not seeing any problem with inference that some new codec magically compresses 2-3 times better than previous generation

>>while it is widely known 100+ kbps bitrates are of little interest to audio compression specialists because of universal transparency in most listening conditions and need of logarithmic scale and experienced listeners to examine the difference

>> while listening test results are widely available (and lack of high bitrate ones definitely says about something)

1. I don't think it's that much better than Vorbis nor Speex unless we're talking latency, in which case it totally blows Vorbis out of the water and is about 2x better than Speex

2. Opus also performs well even at low bitrates since that's what it was partially designed for.

3. 128k seems to be the cutoff for quality, hence the lack of really high bitrate tests. I mean, you can encode up to 510k but that's just retarded since a lower bitrate will probably do what you want in far less space.

I'm not sure where you were going with this point tbh

>>546923

>shitposters' memes doesn't give you any knowledge

this is true

>Saying “96 kbps Opus has great quality comparable to a V0 MP3"

>You should've said...

Fine, let me reword it:

>In my testing, a 96k opus can generally produce transparent audio comparable to that of a V0 mp3

Better?

>> 96 kbps Opus is enormously better than 96 kbps MP3

>Sacred Vinyl Signed by Plant Himself

i lol'd

>>546923

Could you read? I didn't mention 96k.

>>546923

>In last dozen or so years, there were hundreds, if not thousands, little trackers headed by admins that would ban you for having wrong tastes, wrong hardware, wrong intonation, or simply for not showing enough respect. Why do you believe yours will have a different fate?

>muh rulecuck

Of course these will exist, and not in little number. How does that make public trackers non shit, and good (or relatively good) private ones bad? I have 700/100kB 8, and private trackers are still better.

>>547091

8, except two accounts are inactive: SCC and GG.

PTP

BTN

What

Waffles

AB

MA

>>547095

How long until GG goes to shit _again_?

>>547096

Probably not long, but I don't play vidya so it went inactive like a year ago.

Ironically when I tried to reinstate my account when I had a long weekend it was shitting the bed. Like a month or so ago.

>>547091

AB, ADC and rutracker.

Basically the ones where your speed doesn't really matter.

>>547095

>>547126

>MA

>ADC

?

>>547146

MyAnonamouse

AsianDvdClub

>>547537

Fuck off.

>>547537

Fuck you

>>547537

country?

>>547537

if you don't have a vpn, torrenting anime won't get you in any trouble

>>548355

What about torrenting things that western jews have their hands in?