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All the download links are down at the moment. Here's a torrent link:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:j6ixrzpitvpmkx5tgroy6utcpqr5hhhj&dn=updated%20mosaic.png&xl=304863698&fc=1

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You can download/share via webtorrent

https://instant.io/#4f9178e5e89d5ec55fb3345d8f52627c23d39ce9

This is very cool. I've never used this site before!

You might also be interesting in file.pizza. Very useful. The webtorrent ecosystem in general is very cool tech.

updated mosaic.png seemed to not be a good long term name. On my local I changed it to "Moon 50,000 Image Composite by A James McCarthy 2019.png"

If only we had something like imgur but the images were stored on bittorrent network.That would be great.

This could work, but where would we serve the ads from?

PSA: Update your Transmission. A good chunk of you are running 2.92, which is susceptible to CVE-2018-5702[0] (which allows basically anyone to write arbitrary files to your computer from a webpage).

Also, cool trackerless magnet link, worked a treat.

[0]: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5702

Many might be running the version from Debian stable, which has fixed this bug:

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4087

This link works now. File is 291 MB

https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1lGDV6jOHc0v5UdkxcqYShqhKBz_U...

There's a 4k wallpaper version. 213MB. Moon centered in the screen.

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:6f64830246540020bf26b87b5c269088d563ac5d&dn=4K-mosaic.png

213 or 21.3? (link didn't find peers)

A 4k bitmap is still only 28mb.

Thanks! And now I'm sharing back out as well.

thanks for this! It is probably a smarter way to share the pic given the number o dead links...

bittorrent is the smartest way to share any file that's being viewed by lots of people at the same time. I am continually amazed why it's not used more often.

edit: i a word

Possibly the lack of adoption for native browser support.

Aside from the nontrivial security mechanisms that would be required to implement it safely, is there another reason why native browser support for torrenting doesn't exist yet?

I suspect it just doesn't look good from a PR perspective. who wants to be first to get slammed in the press for enabling piracy?

IIRC Opera used to have support for it at some point.

More like the lack of possibility of injecting ads and collecting data while using BT.

Brave browser has a built in torrent client, IIRC.

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