AMule 2.3.3
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Haha same here, was even better then the defrag screen.
The introduction of CMake does not mean anything for users, but is a major feature.
Previously the different build systems were mixed and not integrated: autotools, xcode, vscode, shell scripts..
It should now be easier to maintain the code base.
Congrats!
A small p2p client like emule might provide a good alternative to RSS and Reddit if the only things shared are articles and comments. I'd love to see copy pasted HN articles with no paywall, distributed over P2P. Archive.is style. No Javascript nonsense. Text with minimal, clean markup. Fast and performant.
Cryptographically sign comments and share your interest graph - instant trust network and high signal social network.
I've often thought, the web isn't designed for efficiency, it's designed for scale. Scale around big tech giants, to concentrate wealth, exploit gray areas, and magnify harm.
I used to love JavaScript, but when I look at what it's become, I'm glad I left it. We weren't doing the world any favors by contributing to a massive body of casual execution of untrusted code.
The web was a mistake, but I think the internet, good old TCP/IP, still has a few tricks up its sleeve for us yet.
For that, your neighbor would have to run their own infrastructure, keep it updated, moderated against spam, hackers and whatnotelse. And most people don't have the resources to do that - time, money or a DSL uplink with at least something halfway decent upstream bandwidth.
> I've often thought, the web isn't designed for efficiency, it's designed for scale.
Not intentionally designed. But the economies of scale always win in the end - agriculture, manufacturing, even education. As a conglomerate, the Internet as a sum of actors has always converged to see inefficiencies as damage - and route and work around them.
If you want to find a documentary that ran once on TV, is not available commercially anywhere, you might have a chance that amule will find it. You may have to run your client for weeks because it goes offline from times and will only give you a few kb/s download rate, but you may get stuff you just cannot get otherwise.
Torrents really work only because there are centralized search sites like piratebay or 1337x
Sure, but decentralized search? Not many offers that, at even less of them still exists today.
> Bitcoin easily beat them all.
I'm sorry but what? Do you even know what Bitcoin is? How would Bitcoin help me search and download files today?
And why would the centralised or decentralised nature of the search affect user behaviour?
Same thing happened with TPB a couple of times, but amazingly it's still standing. We can only hope it remains so, but in the future we might not be as lucky. Not to say that plenty countries block access to TPB via having the ISPs block DNS/IP to known addresses.
All of these things wouldn't have been a problem if the search index was also decentralized.
Then you claim that since BitTorrent is more popular than eMule, that means "decentralized X" doesn't work.
How is it relevant what would drive the user behavior?
15 years ago, when I was using eMule, I made the switch to Torrent because Torrent was way faster for me. That's all.
A quick search some months back showed there were still some of them available (via a tag I used) which was a pretty fun discovery considering they're almost 20 years old.
The countdown goes to 0, and ... it downloads nothing.
I think I'm fine though.
But you have seen a few ads in the meantime, that's all that really matters.
Edit: ah, these are now behind the "Problems downloading?" button.