Exactly. Just to clarify, this is the authority responsible for those multi-million dollars fines against faang

I'm really sad for people who can't run away from Windows because of work and/or programs they use or because they can't. Ads seem the solution for every failure in making money out of software and it's sad.

Some days ago I just randomly downloaded uTorrent and I was scared by the amount of ads they embedded. I think it's a taste of what Windows will be like if they take this direction.

I run Windows inside Qubes for work and get by well, but of course I took the time to learn how to do that and have a beefy workstation. I also don't have any special requirements for GPU acceleration or other hardware usage.

Side note, if you're not aware you should use qBittorrent, Transmission, BiglyBT or Deluge for torrents.

I've been at a Microsoft/.NET shop for over a decade that has a 90's MS employee as a key board director. However, MS is making such poor decisions with Windows and MSSQL licensing that it's become a high priority to migrate off everything they do going forward. I think it will take enterprise a few years but MS has signed their own death warrant on their old stack - good thing they bought GitHub and went all in on WSL.

uTorrent jumped the shark many many years ago. qBitTorrent is what you want probably since it's an open source uTorrent clone without the ads (alternatively Transmission if you want something really basic that just works).

I'm pretty sure there will be a way to hack things... e.g. blocking the ad servers in your host file...

Not saying it will be great, but screw the system if it only works against us.

The hosts file is ignored for Microsoft's own domains.

There is always an answer...

You could even address it at router level if things went really sideways.

utorrent became adware years and years ago... qbittorrent is a nice alternative.

This is true even for a torrent btw. And (un?)fortunately you can distribute anything on IPFS as long as it's encrypted.

No one is going to pin encrypted data they do not understand. And IPFS doesn’t get users to seed random files, you only seed stuff you downloaded. So really it’s not much different to hosting it on a personal http server except any downloaders can also host.

> No one is going to pin encrypted data they do not understand.

Select users who have the decryption key (communicated out-of-band) might be willing to pin the encrypted data for the benefit of others who also have the key. There are also for-pay pinning services who probably wouldn't care whether the data was encrypted. And whether it's pinned it or not, as long as it's downloaded the data remains available to be shared (at least until it's GC'd).

Ok but you could do that on literally any platform. I could encrypt data and stick it on google drive or aws and the hosts wouldn’t have any clue what it was.

Sure, but doing it through IPFS means that you aren't dependent on a particular centralized service. If you put the encrypted file on Google Drive or AWS and then later take it down, the link breaks. Or someone might edit the file so that the link no longer gives the same content. On IPFS the original link continues to work as long as anyone has the file, and the content is immutable, so there are some advantages compared to plain HTTP.

Sounds very similar to bittorrent itself

I knew I could do it, I just wanted to make a demo of the whole thing to see if it would have worked in practice. But yes there's space for a lot of improvements like compression and lazy load with sqlite (cited in a comment)

Great! I was honestly wondering because I didn't know if there were any technical limitations/problems, but it's quite interesting nonetheless.

Love this website too. But in this case the database and search engine is hosted on the server, it only uses IPFS to distribute a copy of a folder ready out of the box (db included) to be hosted as another instance (a backup).

You actually should be able to access it using IPFS at/ipns/torrent-paradise.ml or /ipns/12D3KooWB3GY1u6zMLqnf3MJ8zhX3SS1oBj7VXk3xp6sJJiFGZXp but it seems that clicking search throws an JS error :/

Very interesting, I could apply this for a specific list. Thanks. Btw I designed this specific website for non-tech users to let them share their dumps. Populating and dumping a database it's a bit hard for a non-it user, while I see it's very common to share csv files

Hello HN!

This website doesn't host any record/magnet, but it fetches a dump (csv file) from IPFS and then it builds a database locally on browser with 'flexsearch' so you can do text searches and find what you need.

By default, for the showcase, it's wired to a copy of a dump from TNT village (dead italian forum) by its CID, but you can add your own dump to IPFS and then share the dump by attaching the resulting CID as a parameter to the link like: giga.cat?list=Qm.....XyZ

It is nothing serious, it's not perfect, it was my first time using js with dozens of async/await.

I was bored a month ago so I decided to learn more about IPFS and I was surprised that this awesome project is also being implemented with javascript, so you can use it even without installation. I tested if was feasible to share a whole csv file of (title, magnet, ...) and how many records were acceptable because of loading time increase. Well it takes 7s to fetch, parse and populate from a 15MB csv file with ~100k lines. Not that usable, it's just an upper limit. I think it could work well for small communities.