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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgOPtoich_iel@feddit.orgich🛑iel
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    13 hours ago

    Ja. US-Amerikaner: “Safety first! Let’s use a great deal of words in the single, de facto main language here to accurately describe the situation and make sure everyone is up to speed with workplace standards. Oh my, how well the DON’T WALK / WALK pedestrian traffic light works!”

    Europäer:















  • Your client must have downloaded entire chunks, including parts of adjacent files to those you wanted. I think most clients will discard them but it’s possible they are stored somewhere hidden to enable seeding them again. Pretty much every client will tell you something like “66 chunks (have 11)” and/or progress on a per-file basis, from which you can deduce which of these behaviors is used. Badly written ones will make a file as big as the previous episode to the one you want and fill it with zeros so that the few MiB are physically in the right spot. Obviously, that fills your drive with junk unless compression is enabled at filesystem level.

    It’s always better to seed something even if it’s not an entire file. Peers are usually upload-bandwidth-limited so being another person providing just a few chunks helps download speeds. Unless you meddle with their progress files, torrent clients will not announce (offer for download) chunks they cannot reassemble. Only people who have 100% of the data are listed as “seeders” in the swarm.



  • I’m willing to take the risk. It’s like saying “your web browser supports WebGL”. Unless you’re on Opera Mini or something text-based or ancient, we can assume it’s true.

    How does changing an extension break verification? It’s just a rename again. I have successfully changed an extension using qBittorrent before and the check passed again. Via its web interface, even!

    And no client hashes filenames because they just aren’t what is hashed. I think even TUI ones have internal support for different filenames even if they don’t have a rename function because you can reach limits of your filesystem (path length, character support etc.)