@tlkoss501 said in Bad Torrents:
Spritzz - Best of Berlin Male 3 - Straight Secrets.mp4
I downloaded this one torrent & had absolutely no issues.
You might try browsing to the file location vs. using the torrent client to open the file? Or use the torrent client to "recheck" the download? Also, check file space on the drive!
You're such a tool... mostly of the Russians, but of other extremist views as well.
Arguing with you about these things is like arguing to a Nazi that fascism is bad, or arguing with a Christian that Mary couldn't have been a virgin, or arguing with Trump that he lost in 2020...
All worthless arguments because the other participants will not listen to reason or logic, and will not accept the existence of facts that do not support their views.
To wit: what's the point?
As I've pointed out already: this argument has already been won - the State Department made no claims about gender, they simply wished members of the Armed Services well on a special day set aside for that.
They used a common English idiom that is intended to be inclusive (and is: in its intention, use, and accepted meaning). Even with @raphjd's "literalist" interpretation, their well wishes covered 99.7% of people serving in the US military today.
@raphjd, having been accused of being transphobic himself, now sees transphobia everywhere - and seeks to actively point it out EVERYWHERE - likely so as to normalize his own feelings.
I'm going to let him DO that now... maybe it will soothe him, but his claims are so outlandish and childish, no one, save for himself, takes him seriously, so it's not worth my time to pursue this any further.
As to my claiming to be smarter? By not subscribing to your "religion," I am not smarter or less smart than you - I just don't believe in the same set of unbelievable (IMHO delusional) beliefs as you. My arguing with you over your "voodoo" evangelism is no different than a Christian evangelist trying to persuade his peers NOT to fall for the tricks of a Haitian VooDoo Priest!
@raphjd said in US State Department says there are only 2 genders:
So when liberals get butt hurt about "forgetting" the other genders, their issue is what exactly?
It seems that you people are intentionally flip-flopping on the topic (all topics, actually) so you can demonize conservatives.
We all know that if I made that tweet, you lunatics would be pissed because I didn't include every TikTok gender.
I know it shocks you to the core every time I say this, but I don't speak for other people! That's your specialty!
I have no idea what goes through the minds of Liberals when they make stupid comments. Indeed, I have no more insight into their insanity than I have into yours!
I don't explain other people's thoughts, I challenge them.
My people, for the record, are mostly conservative, and mostly Republican (though several of my friends have announced their departure from the party, preferring to re-register as independent or libertarian).
I don't demonize people. I generally try to understand them (as I did you, at first). The ones who genuinely believe differently from me, I greatly respect - and often have wonderfully deep conversations with. But, the ones who can do no more than spout / repeat others' words without being able to explain or provide further insight into them... well, I think this forum has shown, I have little patience or tolerance for them. They don't even KNOW what they believe, they only know what they're told to believe, and they generally have no curiosity or desire to know why... only to be "right."
One of the hallmarks of the "thought follower syndrome" I detest is the insistence that any argument against them is completely and totally against them in every way... like your insistence that my Republican Values are closer to Democrat views or are Chinese influenced. Solely because I dislike using falsehoods, fear, uncertainty, doubt, and outright lies to prove a political point.
Nuance is lost on you. "You're either with us 100%, or you're against us, 100%" is your modus operandi...and it's how I successfully lampoon you so often here!
It's been a fun hobby for a while now, but you've become even MORE extreme - and, as this post shows as an example, I don't really need to poke fun at your stuff anymore, because it's so far out there that you are a caricature simply by posting it!
@raphjd said in US State Department says there are only 2 genders:
Are you saying that they didn't tweet what I quoted?
Or, if you admit they did tweet it, then they only acknowledge men and women.
I think you are making excuses for them.
No, he's saying the Gov't made a generalized statement that covered over 98% of the population - and because it was not talking about gender, it failed to specifically include any of the 66 other recognized terms than can be used to describe human gender identity.
They did not do so to be exclusionary - only you have done that.
BTW: If you ask sociologists, they would tell you that "men and women" covers 99.3% of the population - but I personally think that trans and other gender non-conforming people are under-reported, so I expanded it - claiming only 98% of the population...
Just to be perfectly clear, up-front, and honest about it...
@raphjd said in US State Department says there are only 2 genders:
Ah, so you, a diehard leftist, view trans-men as men when it suits your agenda.
Any exclusion of trans-men from "men" is transphobic, except to the lunatic left who make up the rules (for any topic) to suit their agenda.
Thank you, Humpty-Dumpty, for your explanation of the entire English Language!
As was pointed out, and you now have confirmed:
YOU: @raphjd, Lord of the English Language, keeper of all dictionaries, thesauruses, and other reference manuals, Lord, Emperor of the Internet have decreed:
Henceforth, all use of the term "men" shall include trans-men, but not intersex men, and only cig-gendered men when they're not colseted trand-women, and not anyone under age 18, unless emancipated by a court...
Clear and simple!
@raphjd said in US State Department says there are only 2 genders:
But trans-men ARE men unless you are a transphobe who is "othering" them.
As a liberal, you should know all of this.
I see - so the fact that the term "men" can sometimes include trans-men and other times not is hard fro you to understand...
I understand... that's a difficult subject to wrap your hands around. Indeed, I can see now why the Governor of our Great State of Florida wanted to keep the topic away from 8-year-olds! He must know you!
@raphjd said in Over 60K Voters on Rolls Are Dead, or Registered Twice: NC Report; Ballot Harvesting Lawsuit in WI:
Blah, blah, blah
Your extreme TDS is showing.
Hillary, Stacey Abrams, and many other Dems still claim they won elections they lost, but I don't see you slagging them off at every turn. But of course, as a troll for the DNChina, you can't bad mouth them.
Also, GWB-Gore was 2000, not 2020.
LOL - yes, I made a typo!
I'm going to run and hide now, I'm so embarrassed!
EEK!
Way to redirect away from the argument you're losing...
@raphjd said in US State Department says there are only 2 genders:
You are the clear transphobe, since you deny that men can have periods and get pregnant.
All you liberals make excuses when your own violate your own trans dogma, but screech and bleat when conservatives disagree with your bullshit.
Men cannot get pregnant... Trens-men can.
Men do not have periods... Trans-men can.
Here you are, back to your Humpty Dumpty mode:
What other people write means exactly what you say it does, nothing more, and nothing less.
You need a class in the English Language.
The word "men" can have many meanings... some are specific, some are generalized, and in English, sometimes "men" means "all people"... and sometimes, "men" means cis-gendered adult males.
You know, even Russians get this right... only you seem to have a problem with the concept... I guess you're just a poor student! Which explains why you were exiled from Mother Russia and posted in your little back-water village...
So now, Humpty Dumpty, please regail us with your twisted logic about how trans-supportive you are... indeed, how you are the MOST trans-supportive person in Scotland, no - in the UK, no, in all of Europe, maybe even the WORLD! Maybe even the Universe! Yeah! That's the ticket!
@raphjd said in Over 60K Voters on Rolls Are Dead, or Registered Twice: NC Report; Ballot Harvesting Lawsuit in WI:
Once again, liberals can't get past the 2020 election.
I have always been against election fraud and always will be.
Since you are stuck on Trump, because of your TDS, let's not forget that you liberals spent 4 years claiming that Hillary actually won 2016.
There are plenty of Dems that claim so and so actually won the election they lost.
Plenty of Dems were ass-hurt when Gore lost to Bush-43 over NOT counting the votes in Fla in 2000... too bad, so sad, that's what happened... build a bridge and get over it!
What, we can't take our own medicine?
Gore won the election everywhere BUT the Supreme Court and the always-flawed, always-a-shit-show State of Florida. And the results of the 2020 Election was actually, ironically, certified - with Bush-43 as the winner, by Al Gore himself (as the sitting VP!)
I give him credit - he put on his big-boy pants and took the loss like a man.
Trump has never been a man. He's always been a child, just an exceptionally wealthy one. It was no surprise to me that he put on a fresh diaper and started a years-long tantrum insisting that he did NOT lose!
@raphjd said in US State Department says there are only 2 genders:
Ah, so liberal hypocrisy on trans people is being pro-trans.
The funny thing is, I have been far more supportive to trans people than liberals have.
Just like Trump was the "Greatest President in all of history for Black People, except for Lincoln, no, maybe even better than him!"
Just because you CLAIM something over and over and over (ad nauseum), does not - EVER - make it come true!
@raphjd said in Fairfax County VA public schools to suspend students who misgender:
Sorry, but after our discussion about the teen porn book being in schools, you word means nothing to me.
You got extremely abusive and ran away when I proved that book was in at least one elementary school. It was also in junior high schools.
A picture says a thousand words:
@drekkin said in Leecher before torrent is visible:
I've recently when I have uploaded a new torrent that as soon as I have added it to my client there is already one leecher, before it even has time to become visible on the search page. Literally seconds after hitting the "Do it!" button. It's always the same German IP address and as soon as they have snatched the file they disappear without seeding.
Anyone know what's going on there?
It is possible to setup something called an RSS feed that will automatically download new torrents.
If you do this, you'll need a LOT of hard drive space!
@raphjd said in National School Board Group Considered Asking Biden To Deploy ‘Military Police’ Against Parents:
But clearly, if I'm biased, so are you.
You hate anything and everything conservative unless they slurp Pelosi's vag.
We ALL have biases, dearest... however, just because I object to your pro-Russian, Trumpian bias does not mean my bias is polar opposite of yours... That you think so is, however, a reflection of your Trumpian roots: you're either with me 100% or you're against me 100% - no middle ground, no room for anything else. Binary and simple (I would say for simple minds... 
)
@raphjd said in National School Board Group Considered Asking Biden To Deploy ‘Military Police’ Against Parents:
Interesting how people making idiotic requests from the LEFT is perfectly ok with you.
You twit - I kinda think I called this an idiotic request, no?
Of course, you missed that... what with your head stuck 3/4 of the way up your ass...
@raphjd said in National School Board Group Considered Asking Biden To Deploy ‘Military Police’ Against Parents:
Interesting how people making idiotic requests from the RIGHT are perfectly ok with you, but from the left (or even the center), and you get your panties in a wad.
FYI: In the US, the military (police, or otherwise) are not allowed to be deployed on local soil, unless there is a national emergency. Theoretically, the National Guard could be deployed, but for a local event like that, it'd have to be deployed by the local Governor... the only way the President gets that authority is if they're called up/into Active Duty...
Long story short, they panicked and asked for something impossible. (I'll be they'd have taken light sabers to defend themselves! or better yet, Phasers [set to stun, of course!])
@urx585 said in torrent files that only load correctly in a few clients:
I work in the IT industry, so this is kind-of "up my alley".
- I hadn't thought of it, but yes - a non-padded torrent WOULD appear significantly smaller... however, as I noted in my post above: those "padding" files are created as "sparse" files with all zero data. ACTUAL XFERED DATA is practically nil! Depending on the filesystem you download into, they may also store as practically zero-length files (in storage, not in the OS listing of the file size).
#2 is unfortunately incorrect for most torrent clients and filesystems. When I download a 32MB file of all zero bytes from my seedbox, it takes exactly as long as downloading a 32MB file with non-zero bytes.
I wouldn't be so sure. Firstly, compression on networks isn't like compression on old-style modems: it's enabled , generally, by default.
Secondly, the way "sparse" files are designed to work is to be "invisible" to the end user. The OS reports the "size" of the file as the "advertised" size. There is another field that is illustrative in Windows: "size on disk".
That said, many NAS devices do not support "sparse files" and if your external drives are using an older FAT32 or older NTFS filesystem, they won't support sparse files at all. But that is not the fault of the torrent uploader.
Same for ratio: when I download a torrent with lots of padding in Tixati (my alternate client when rutorrent doesn't work) all of the padding bytes count against my ratio. Not that I care, I have a 2 petabyte buffer, but some people have to worry about their ratio.
Tixati is new to me... however, it tries to be ultra-lightweight, so I suspect the logic to process sparse files (or padding files) may be absent.
For instance, when I deleted the .pad directory for the ASG torrent, I got about 34 GB of disk space back. File with all zero bytes are only more efficient if you're using compression. If you're not using compression, then on the disk, and through the network, there is no difference between files with just zeroes and files with both ones and zeroes.
That may or may not be true - that depends on your OS and filesystem. (My Macs support sparse files, as does my Linux VM where I do most of my torrent traffic. My Windows desktop does not - at least not on the NAS device where I store my porn...
qbittorrent may never actually download the padding files at all. I believe the default behavior is to completely hide everything having to do with padding. That's why so many Uploaders don't know their torrent client is adding pad files, I usually have to ask them to click on [See full list] before they believe that such a thing exists. So if you're using qbittorrent, the pad files may indeed appear to take no time to download, because they're not being downloaded. However most torrent clients don't have this feature, so they treat the pad files just like any other pic or vid file.
Again, this isn't a qBitTorrent thing, it's a libtorrent thing. Deluge, qBitTorrent, and about a dozen smaller, less popular, torrent clients all use the same core library.
#3 I don't want to require anyone to do anything, but this error was introduced recently, and it would be very nice if we could "patch" it by removing whatever extension field or metadata that's causing this error in so many other torrent clients.
I will again use the analogy of web browsers. There are still some sites out there that require IE to operate properly (pity, now that IE is officially D-E-A-D... RIP). We've all adjusted to websites being a little different on different browsers, why is it so hard to apply this to torrents?
Having said that, I do agree that a recent update to libtorrent appears to have broken backward compatibility with some other torrent clients - and that definitely should be addressed. (And as you point out below, maybe it already has...). My point is that this isn't unprecedented territory in the history of the Internet - indeed, it's actually been commonplace!
I've read a lot of comments from frustrated users on the torrents with this error, and it appears most people only use one torrent client, so when they get an error, they think there's something wrong with the torrent file, they don't think there's something wrong with their torrrent client, and they don't try a different one.
Maybe they'll learn something here, as a result of our discussion.
BTW, it's possible this error was fixed by an even newer version of qbittorrent/libtorrent, because I've recently seen a few large torrents with lots of padding files that load correctly in rutorrent. So maybe the solution is to ask all the libtorrent users to do one more upgrade. I don't know for sure, because I can't figure out what's causing the error. However when I look at the headers in these .torrent files it seems like there's some entries I haven't seen before.
#4 I download a large number of multi-file torrents from other sites. You're right, no other site has anywhere near the content that we have here, but I get probably a third of my torrents from other sites, and many of them have those pesky .srt files and thumbnail pics etc. This particular error (fails to load in rutorrent, Transmission, and others) started a few months ago. On GT, I run into this error maybe once per day (I don't post every link here, and I didn't start this thread until recently.) On the other sites, I've never had this happen, not once. Just based on the numbers, I don't think it's coincidence.
Yes, Uploaders create the initial .torrent file, but this site's processing engine modifies them too. When I upload a new torrent, the .torrent file I download from the post-upload page is not the same as the .torrent file I initially created with my torrent client.
You confuse the .torrent encoding (the blocks and checksums) with the torrent metadata - which includes the tracker URLs... thoe tracker URLs are unique for a private tracker like ours - it's how the tracker knows you're you, and who to "apply" upload and download credits to... That's a FAR CRY from editing the contents of the torrent stream data itself!
Maybe the other sites are using some logic that strips non-standard extensions and metadata from .torrent file headers.
There are other sites that edit the metadata, but without the source data, it'd be a tall, TALL order to rebuild the stream cheksum data.... just saying...
Again, really appreciate you taking the time to discuss this. If there's a solution, it may apply more broadly, and shield us from the next bug that the programmers will inevitably introduce...
I am personally hopeful that libtorrent will see the error of their ways (wrt backward compatibility) and release a patch soon. In the meantime, just as our site is best viewed on Chrome, maybe some of these torrents are best managed by Deluge or qBitTorrent? Just an idea...
Peace be with you...
@raphjd said in Cake gender - more liberal insanity:
And back to the topic.
How does an admittedly non-gender gender make you trans?
Ya'll fucked in the head.
You're fixated on this subject, and it just makes you look silly.
You are such a juvenile! If we all admit that there is, and always has been, some amount of vote fraud, you want to explode that into the Russian KGB message of "you can't trust elections".
When we point out that the fraud found for the past 50+ years of Presidential elections (as far back as reasonable records go), that the fraud that has been detected has been statistically insignificant to the result, you scream that we don't care about fraud.
When we point out that fraud in 2020 was generally on BOTH SIDES, and generally speaking, perpetrated by individuals, not massively coordinated groups of people, you claim that's because we overlook (or refuse to look) at "all the evidence" from the 2020 election.
I have news for you... PEOPLE HAVE LOOKED! Even your own, hand-picked, "auditors" (who were wholly unqualified to act in that capacity) found NO EVIDENCE of "massive fraud" - and came back with AZ vote counts that TOOK AWAY Trump votes!
You are the same idiots who think that Drs and Scientists from around the world got together in a perverse experiment to fraudulently claim that COVID-19 was dangerous (lethal to many)... it was all a HOAX - intended to cost Trump the election (which, I might add, WAS a major contributor to his surprise loss, but certainly not the CAUSE!). "Don't trust the Dr's" --- no, instead trust that guy whose background and expertise is so amazing he warrants his own YouTube Channel! (Those are hard to come by! You gotta meet some REALLY HUGE criteria there... as I understand it tho, you do NOT actually have to have a heartbeat tho... so, there's that...)
@raphjd said in Cake gender - more liberal insanity:
As the TikTok crazy says, "cake gender" is not about gender.
It's not about gender, despite using it in the name "cake gender" and considering themselves trans.
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Before our resident troll arrives to spew his shit, let's not forget his extreme transphobia.
He loves to misgender me and after 15 years to the contrary, he believes that men can't have periods and get pregnant.
Thanks for the mindful seeding of my thoughts...
I just wish you spoke Spanish or French, or some other latin-based language... they apply gender to almost everything! (English is, for those unaware, germanic, not latin-based).
What's more trans-phobic? Including trans people in discussions of LGBTQ+ issues, but not force-feeding trans issues into every possible discussion? Or forcing trans-issues into every possible non-trans-related discussion?
And "gyrl" - I swap your gender pronouns from time to time the way people in gay culture have for more decades than you or I have been alive!
There's a WORLD of difference between calling your queen-bee self a "shee-devil" and forcing you to use a specific bathroom, or insisting you identify as a gender that you don't belong to.
BTW: More than trans people, I fight for the rights of the tiny-minority of intersex people!
@hottie124 said in US State Department says there are only 2 genders:
@raphjd How, specifically, would you have redone their statement?
He wouldn't - you see, there is some context here: some time ago, @raphjd said some things about trans people that some others took issue with (not really me, I just thought he showed himself to be clueless about actual trans people - but he directs ALL his ire to me, so I took up the cause! Mostly because of his childish overreaction to the whole thing - which this posting is perfectly in line with...)
What do I mean? LOL
He was called a trans-phobe, and he pulled a Donald Trump-like "I'm the least trans-phobic person in the whole world, I love trannies" kind of response out of his ass. (NOTE: You will never catch @raphjd admit to an error, or apologize... Again, like Trump, it's just not in his armory!)
So now, any statement that references people, but fails to specifically include trans-people, is a trans-phobic moment for him! He seems to think that calling everything not trans-inclusive (specifically & literally) trans-phobic, will somehow "fix" is faux pas. (Instead, it constantly brings it back up!)
My grandfather taught me young: "Son, when you make a mistake, admit it, own it, and get past it. That way it'll die and be forgotten. Otherwise, it just might stick to you and hold you back for the rest of your life!" Good advise in the 1970's, and equally good today, IMHO!
@raphjd should have just let it die... now, he can't let it go!