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  • refalotoOpensourceA federated bittorrent tracker
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    8 hours ago

    Can you name any private trackers that actually have a need for federation?

    The biggest issue I personally have with BT (v1) is not being able to search for a file by its checksum. I think v2 can do this, but almost nobody uses it in my experience.












  • Georgia (and probably many other states) already doesn’t have restrictions for 16 and 17 year olds, and the rest of these things are just choices that each business can make on their own. Plus it’s not like the workers are being forced… if they don’t like the conditions they are free to leave.

    I really don’t see why there is such an outrage over giving businesses more choice in how they want to operate. The employees already have the choice to work there or find somewhere else that aligns with what they want.







  • What you’re doing is filtering out bots that can’t be bothered to execute JavaScript. You don’t need to do a computational heavy PoW task to do that.

    Most bots and scrapers from what I’ve seen already are using (headless) full browsers, and hence are executing javascript, so I think anything that slows them down or increases their cost can reduce the traffic they bring.

    Canvas fingerprinting filters out bots better than PoW

    Source? I strongly disagree, and it’s not hard to change your browser characteristics to get a new canvas fingerprint every time, some browsers like firefox even have built-in options for it.