It was trading CD-R’s during my high school days… good times. Napster was just starting to take off by the time we had a CD-R trading network set up, Napster just increased the amount of CD’s that got passed around.
A good way to see what the future of places like the U.S are is to look at places like North Korea, where they do exactly this, move files around on flash media to avoid the state censors.
Torrents are often used for installers, but for packages it tends to be more trouble than what it’s worth. Is creating a torrent for a 4k library worth it?
I thought the whole point of torrenting was to decentralise distribution. I use torrents to get my distros.
In my own little bubble, I thought that’s how most people got their distro.
What happens when they just cut the underwater cables? Torrent over carrier pigeon for a linux distro would take ages
Pigeon latency is horrible, but the bandwidth is pretty great. You could probably load up an adult pigeon with at least 12TB of media.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
Just gonna leave this here for whoever wants to read more on the methodology and potential risks.
Sneakernet to the rescue. Some of you are too young to know about walking around with boxes full of disks.
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It was trading CD-R’s during my high school days… good times. Napster was just starting to take off by the time we had a CD-R trading network set up, Napster just increased the amount of CD’s that got passed around.
A good way to see what the future of places like the U.S are is to look at places like North Korea, where they do exactly this, move files around on flash media to avoid the state censors.
Tiny jump drives on pigeons is low key excellent imo
@Maroon I thought torrent technology to be a godsend for package managers.
Why none of them use it?
I mean, damn.
@AnimalsDream
git and the lot are a lot better at this than people realize.
Torrents are often used for installers, but for packages it tends to be more trouble than what it’s worth. Is creating a torrent for a 4k library worth it?
Turns out hosting a bunch of files is very cheap.