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Mr. Racewar1488 said:
If this Radish thing is real then it sounds like an easy way to get CP put on your PC.
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It's a play on TOR (The Onion Router). There's a few distributed filesystems like IPFS but I've never actually seen them used meaningfully.

HOWEVER, the privacy networks that also use distributed filesystems somewhat like he described are very much how you get CP on your device.
 
Regarding your ffpmeg commandline, this is what I use with my nvidia card. It'll cause ffmpeg to use the GPU which makes encoding a lot faster

Code: 
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "scale_npp=width:height" -c:v h264_nvenc output.mp4
Swap
Code: 
h264_nvenc
with
Code: 
h264_vaapi
for AMD GPU's.

Also it generally isn't necessary to change the FPS (as per your command example.)
 
This thread made my younger self smile.
Here have one of my older gems back when I used to sail the digital seas under a black flag.

A bit of some, interesting chatter. "Look for 'archivists' and 'underground broadcasters'" never seem too thirsty, or demanding, but there's a ton of people out there who treat collections like a personal curated library of Open Source repository. Piracy in the modern age, implies something a bit different, malicious profit stealing; specifically seeking out archivists and underground broadcasters however eh, morally grey ground, same area as going to a library and watching Netflix on a library account, if you get what I am saying. Or going to a bar that just so happens to have a TV playing the superbowl, but is also selling beer, beer snacks, and cigarettes.

It's really only piracy when the amount of content exceeds $500,000; or you are purposefully rerouting the services through your own pay to direct access to the content.
Case in point with the bar. If the bar says "We have an 120 Inch TV specifically to air the Superbowl, you have to pay $60 to sit in the TV room, that's piracy, and can get one in trouble; however, if you put a cover charge to the bar, and upmark the services of the bar in general, while also, not drawing any real attention to the giant TV, it falls under that morally/legally grey line of "Hey man, I'm just selling beer and beer snacks, so what if I have a giant TV airing the Superbowl?"

An archivist is just a data collector who preserves everything for the sake of preservation, and more often than not, are happy to share bits and pieces of their collection, but rarely their full collection; an underground broadcaster is a bit more open, but also, "Sometimes you need to pay attention to the tip jar, if there is one." Information and data is free media, especially when an IP is left unguarded and uncared for.

There is nothing worse to the eyes of an archivist than lost media, and it's a failure of collectors, against the beast of publishers.

This little advice means nothing, it is not an instruction, nor a guide, it is just a simple old man telling you "Go to a library sometimes, stand in a certain spot with a radio tuned to a certain frequency sometime; you'll be surprised."

 
Dante Alighieri said:
HOWEVER, the privacy networks that also use distributed filesystems somewhat like he described are very much how you get CP on your device.
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Yup, Freenet in particular. A neat idea, but completely dogshit implementation and utterly drowning in CP despite the devs' endless pleas not to use it for that (I legit feel bad for the OG developers; it's got to be aggravating to initially get excited to see people enthusiastically adopting your new "private and anonymized network" only to realize what they're really using it for ... it hurts to watch that rare academic naivety die that kind of death).
 
Here from the ad, has there been any discussion on the superiority of Usenet?

I just switched to that and holy shit is this so much better. The lack of headache of shitty torrents with no private trackers is worth $10.

Also, get all the *arrs, run them in a docker container with Prowlarr and a vpn service, then make another container for Plex. Shit runs great, I just need to get my lazy ass on a media encoding project and put my library on one single format (as well as organizing my drive).
 
The_Red_Man said:
Here from the ad, has there been any discussion on the superiority of Usenet?

I just switched to that and holy shit is this so much better. The lack of headache of shitty torrents with no private trackers is worth $10.

Also, get all the *arrs, run them in a docker container with Prowlarr and a vpn service, then make another container for Plex. Shit runs great, I just need to get my lazy ass on a media encoding project and put my library on one single format (as well as organizing my drive).
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I just stick to direct download sites for the most part. Always look for Gofile, Google Drive, and Fuckingfast (i shit you not, that's what it's called) as those are the best for sheer download speed.
 
Helping Friendly Book said:
I just stick to direct download sites for the most part. Always look for Gofile, Google Drive, and Fuckingfast (i shit you not, that's what it's called) as those are the best for sheer download speed.
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is there an easy way to search them for a download that hasn't been removed yet?
 
Hakase Shinonome said:
Please stop spreading misinformation for @My cravat doesn't flutter. The lad is a bit simple, he believes everything he sees. So please only provide him accurate information, like I do.
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Imma just buy more hard drives. I have the technical literacy of a double cheeseburger. There is no way I'm fucking with my little plastic rectangles.
 
The_Red_Man said:
Here from the ad, has there been any discussion on the superiority of Usenet?

I just switched to that and holy shit is this so much better. The lack of headache of shitty torrents with no private trackers is worth $10.

Also, get all the *arrs, run them in a docker container with Prowlarr and a vpn service, then make another container for Plex. Shit runs great, I just need to get my lazy ass on a media encoding project and put my library on one single format (as well as organizing my drive).
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Used it in the past (like 20 years ago). Probably going to go back to it. A lot of the torrent stuff has problems dealing with a VPN as well. So my qbittorrent container will randomly just stop downloading, so I have to restart the container.
 
The_Red_Man said:
Here from the ad, has there been any discussion on the superiority of Usenet?

I just switched to that and holy shit is this so much better. The lack of headache of shitty torrents with no private trackers is worth $10.
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Amen brother. I think I converted a couple people in the thread, but that was a year or two back.
 
moocow said:
Yeah he's still wrong, even in the theological sense. Not even God "erases" your sins. He forgives them, which is an important distinction. I will agree for most (but not all) types of crimes, a person should have a chance to repay his debt to society for it and attempt genuine reform, and if a person has done so to society's satisfaction, be allowed to rejoin society and participate again without that past crime forever being held over his head. That does not mean it should simply be "forgotten" so a person can no longer make an informed decision about the former criminal. A bank manager has every right to know that the assistant he's interviewing robbed a bank 20 years ago even if he repaid the stolen amount in full, served a prison term and has had a clean record ever since. To pretend otherwise is folly (and begging for more bank robberies).

And sex crimes are off the "forgiveness" table too. Once a pervert, always a pervert. People who try to argue "hey he only got caught jerking it in the janitor's closet 20 years ago adjacent to the girl's locker room, he's paid his debt to society so we should totally let him be a gymnastics-focused physician for the local junior high school now!" belong six feet under right alongside the deviants they defend.
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You can be forgiven for sin in God's eyes, you are not free from the consequences. Even if you think no one is beyond redemption, that doesn't mean their threads should be deleted and never spoken of again.
 
Hakase Shinonome said:
Please stop spreading misinformation for @My cravat doesn't flutter. The lad is a bit simple, he believes everything he sees. So please only provide him accurate information, like I do.

If you actually want to increase your storage there are only two ways to really do this legitimately, first is buying either secondhand or new from reputable sellers such as Newegg or other legitimate sellers. Amazon, Aliexpress and the likes are all independent sellers on the same platform. Secondly, if you want to increase storage is by downloading more from the internet. This works on the same principle as the Torrent file-sharing algorithm. Where people offer their own bandwidth to share parts of a file with you to ultimately provide you the entire file; in the same way, people offer a small amount of their disk space to you and you in return get a massive amount back. Seeders of the Radish storage-sharing algorithm only need to share as little as a gigabyte to others in order to gain up to an entire terabyte in shared storage. An open-sourced program for the Radish programs are few-and-far between, but an example is ramDownloader. It supports all operating systems because the Radish client is negotiable and automatically converts NTFS into EXT4 and MAC-filesystems and vice versa. Like bitcoin, the more people partake in the Radish program, the lesser your ratio has to be with seeding-to-leeching ratio, thus gaining more by inviting others.
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Thoughts on just going to MicroCenter and getting suggestions? Like I said, I have to be very sneaky with my piracy and the resident IT guy won't help.
 
My cravat doesn't flutter said:
Thoughts on just going to MicroCenter and getting suggestions? Like I said, I have to be very sneaky with my piracy and the resident IT guy won't help.
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You’re basically just looking for a heavy duty file server. Anything with intel graphics will be enough for video transcoding. Heck, you could get a mac Mini with a M series chip and plug a drive or drive array into it, most of the apps are on Mac/Docker now
 
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