Just a small way to help people get their FOSS. What are some other projects that have torrents that would be good to seed?

  • beeng@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 months ago

    Does anybody download iso’s via torrents? Or how to help the actual sites that serve these? Since I trust the source more than torrents… Especially for an image…

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      3 months ago

      Verifiying the checksum of an iso takes 30 seconds… You don’t need to trust anyone

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        3 months ago

        Ahh makes sense. I still direct download but I guess if I had Torrent client locally it might be nice. But 3-4GiB on direct download doesn’t take long…

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          3 months ago

          It’s more of a way to reduce costs for the CDN, using torrents everyone contributes and they only have to send a small magnet file.

        • ElectricMachman@lemmy.sdf.org
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          3 months ago

          It doesn’t, but thousands of people all downloading 3-4GB from the same site will put more load on the site. Torrents avoid this issue by downloading little bits from lots of different peers

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      3 months ago

      I prefer to download isos via torrents. You can easily check the checksum and signature once it’s downloaded. And you’re getting the torrent/magnet link/etc from the source so it’s not some random torrent from piratebay or something lmao