@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... 
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@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!
@Kekkaishi said in Potential problem with ssd boot drive:
@bi4smooth I understand what you're saying. But the problem I see here is that I'm not one to invest on a new computer unless I absolutely must. I have no problem buying a brand-new computer (I also have the means), but as I already mentioned, it's very difficult for me to assemble my "dream" computer right now (shortages), and as it seems for the foreseeable future as well. So unless this computer dies beyond repair, I will not buy "old-new" computer
" when "last year's tech" is a fraction of the price, and only marginally less powerful "
can you suggest me a powerful build that I can most likely buy right now? I am not that tech savvy, but I know the enough imo.
as I mentioned before, money is not an issue, and I will consider it - go wild - only if you want to of courseBut thanks for the concern. as long as my files are backed up, I really don't care (but somewhat do) what happens to the computer physically
If it were my system, I'd probably wait to see if it glitches again... depending on the UPS you have your system plugged into, it could also have been caused by power fluctuations... or a dozen other rare things... without a system log, or the ability to visually inspect the MB, it's all conjecture (this is me talking, not my tech)
Believe me, I LIVE by the mantra: if it AIN'T broke, DON'T fix it!
@raphjd said in US State Department says there are only 2 genders:
On Armed Forces Day (21 May 2021), the US State Department tweeted this;
Today on Armed Forces Day, we celebrate the women and men who bravely serve across all branches in the United States military. We are grateful for their dedication and service to the American people.
I see - so, I can't say "Thanks to Apple Growers out there, for all the delicious food!"
Instead I have to say: "Thank you to the growers of each of the following fruits:
Gala
Red Delicious
Fuji
Granny Smith
Honeycrisp
Golden Delicious
McIntosh
Pink Lady
Braeburn
Ambrosia
Bramley
Charles Ross
Crispin
Early Victoria
Early Worcester
Ellisons Orange
Epicure
Gibsons Scarlet
Golden Spire
Greensleaves
Howgate Wonder
Ingrid Marie
James Grieve
Jonagored
Jupiter
Katy
Orleans Reinette
Peasgood Nonsuch
Red Gravenstein
Red Victoria
Rev W. Wilks
Ribston Pippin
Rosemary Russett
Spartan
Sturmer Pippin
Sunset
Superb
Tydermans Late Orange
Warners King
Winston
..."
I could go on - there are over 7,000 varieties of Apples around the world...
So, if I say "I love Apple Pie", please forgive me, growers of Granny Smith Apples, but I mean to say that I love "Braeburn Apple Pie", and the rest of you Apple Growers can go fuck yourselves...
Or, maybe, just a thought, sometimes we could have words or phrases in the English Language, that mean a WHOLE CATEGORY of things - all at once!
For example: "Men and Women" could include, cis-gender, trans-gender, and even hermaphrodite, inter-sex, and even eunichs! And even THAT is just a partial list! ... all without having to name each one, separately!
OMG - consider, just for a moment, how much easier that would make our language!
You know how when you buy a new car, all of a sudden you see that car .... EVERYWHERE!
Or, if you have a scary experience with a spider, all of a sudden, you see spiders... EVERYWHERE!
Or, if you get called out for being a transphobe, you suddenly see transphobia in EVERYTHING!
@Kekkaishi said in I don't like bubble butts, at all. Anyone else?:
@bi4smooth well I LOVE hairy butts and holes. In general I love hairy men, I guess in some way this explains my butt preferences
vive la différence!!
@Kekkaishi said in Potential problem with ssd boot drive:
Thank you both for replying
All of my important files are backed up to the cloud. other files and folders are located at different hard drives. Basically I keep the ssd for the operating system and installed programs, so I should be find in that regard (for the most part)I will however do as @eobox91103 suggested and turn off the computer and unplug it for a few minutes.
@bi4smooth To your point about upgrading the computer, I don't do that. I actually tried to assemble a new computer a few months ago, but due to components shortages I couldn't assemble my desired pc build. (covid)
I may do a fresh install of the os, it's just a pain in the butt....
I'm sorry, but my tech is adamant that this isn't likely a software issue, but rather a hardware one - the reason is because the restart didn't fix it (which resets all of the software), but a reboot/power cycle did (which resets the hardware).
If you still suspect an OS issue, rather than do a re-install, open an elevated command prompt (CMD or PS) and run the command "sfc /scannow" - it tells MS Windows to scan all of the installed OS files for corruptions.
Oh, and we (my tech and I) were not suggesting you upgrade components - only someone reasonably experienced with computer hardware should do that. No, we were suggesting a "new" (not brand new) system entirely. Because an 8 y/o motherboard that has been powered on for most of those 8-years is VERY likely to have bulging capacitors, which affects the voltages on the MB. And if you're going to replace the MB, you should consider that 8 y/o RAM is likely DDR3 at best, so upgrading the whole package makes more sense. So long as you're not paying top-dollar for CURRENT tech, when "last year's tech" is a fraction of the price, and only marginally less powerful.
Just saying...
And I'm not saying you NEED to do this - it's just that you asked for an expert's opinion - and that's my guy's opinion, and he's making $125k/yr fixing desktops today!
@Kekkaishi said in I don't like bubble butts, at all. Anyone else?:
I sometimes hear that the "perfect" butt is a bubble butt, but I strongly disagree. For me it's just not appealing. The more bubble butt you have the more unappealing you are to me. The way I see it is too feminine - it very much depends though on how you define "bubble", but seeing all the self proclaimed bubble butt owners on the web, I don't find it attractive
Now, give me some regular butt and shove it on my face!
I am particularly fond of "skinny" butts (aka: "no butt" butts!) myself! ESPECIALLY if it is smooth (I detest HAIRY butts! ewww... I don't even like typing it out!) LOL
I am a computer professional with over 30 years experience. I owned a computing services company that included desktop support, and I asked one of my old techs about this... his comments are (summarizing):
@fromdecatur said in Short film Atraccion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PugsnBRfQso
Short film on youtube posted by the director. I liked it a year ago but it didn't have English subtitles back then. I thought it was worth wider viewing so am suggesting it here.
What an excellent short film!
When I was younger, I fell in love with a woman (I've always been pansexual, though I haven't always self-labeled myself with that term)... when I married her and had a child with her, ALL of my gay friends dropped me like a hot potato!
I got really mad at one and called him a "hypocrite worse than Jimmy Swaggart (a televangelist who was about to be outed in 1988, but went on live TV and tearfully "confessed his sins" - albeit without details, so the nature of his "sins" remained secret for some time).
I told him something akin to "you insist that the world accept you as you are: gay, because God made you that way... yet you insist that I deny who God made ME to be so that I can fit into your closed-minded narrative! No thank you!"
We never spoke again... I had thought of him as a good, close friend... I am sorry it ended that way, but my now-ex wife and I had 12+ GOOD years together (of 15 total years of marriage).
If you care, I'm currently seeing a man - a gay man - who understands that my ATTRACTION to some women is no different than my attraction to some men. What matters is that I remain devoted to HIM, have sex with only HIM, and do not actively tempt myself to stray... those are actions, not attractions! (I can control my actions, but I cannot control my attractions!)
@kalayaan said in Star Trek Discovery TV Series:
Maybe I must be one of the very very very few who likes spoiler alert and I am not even joking
Did you mean that you like spoilers? I too like spoilers... sometimes, if I'm having a hard time staying engaged in something, I'll read the imbd entries, or other reviews - specifically to see if it's worth continuing to watch! (Sometimes, it isn't!!! That's how I dropped Discovery part-way thru Season 1!!)
@eobox91103 said in Star Trek Discovery TV Series:
@Dracula975 Thanks very much. I did some checking and it seems that I can get this material on Discovery + with an Amazon Fire Stick, which should plug into my smart-but-dumb TV.
I will be honest - I have been a live-long Trekker (re-watching TOS episodes for YEARS before TNG finally came out!).
I gave up on Discovery near the end of Season 1 (like I said, I detest these "multiverse" themes to "at a whim" just remake the environment where your story takes place). My path BACK to Discovery came through SNW (Strange New Worlds - the newest - and IMHO, best of the reboots so far, save for TNG).
I also enjoy Picard - I'm just starting Season 2...
Oh, and CBS All Access became Paramount+ (they wanted to be able to stream Paramount movies and other non-CBS TV network content too, so they re-named it and raised the rates! Boo!)