So you're considering using a qBitTorrent client for GT.ru?

Good choice! Although there many opinions on which torrent client is better, I personally like qBitTorrent because:

• it's truly public (meaning: no ads)
• it's well-written (meaning: it's highly scalable & uses memory/CPU resources efficiently)
• it looks & runs nearly the same on all of my clients: Windows, Linux, and MacOS!

Win, Win, & Win!

Of course, if you want a list of other options, try Wikipedia.

Also, you will see that throughout this tutorial, I capitalize the 2nd T in qBitTorrent - that is because many people tend to miss the 2-t's in the name, so I highlight it!. It's just a personal whim...

So, let's get started with qBitTorrent on GT.ru:

Step 1: Getting & installing qBitTorrent:

The official website for qBitTorrent is qBitTorrent.org, and you can download their software: here <=- That's a link there!

• Windows users will want to use the TOP portion of the site to download & run the installer. (IMPORTANT: Use the 64-bit installer if you can... and you probably can!).
  NOTE: If you don't like the download redirections, try one of my favorite tools on the Internet: Ninite - (yes, that's a link there, too!) Just check the box for qBitTorrent, download your Ninite, run it, and IT (the ninite installer you downloaded) will install qBitTorrent for you - answering all the questions and making all the right choices for you... its magic!)
• MacOS users will see that support for you is there too, as a DMG (a disk image). Just download the latest DMG file, and load the qBitTorrent client from there.
• Linux users will see support near the bottom of the page. Unless you're using a rather uncommon Linux install, you should see your distribution listed in the 2nd level of drop-downs (first choose Linux, then choose your distro).
  NOTE: Some Linux distributions include qBitTorrent in their own distribution repos - you will be told as much here when you choose your Linux distro...
• If none of these options are for you, there is a tarball option available.

NOTE 1: I will not go into more detail than that about basic installation here... you need to know the basics of installing software on your system in general before continuing here!

NOTE 2: There exists a CLI (command-line interface) for qBitTorrent that I will not cover - at all - here. Google is your friend, however.

Step 2: Basic qBitTorrent Configuration

When you run qBitTorrent for the first time, you will have to admit that you understand that you will be sharing files (content) on the Internet, and that you are responsible for what you share! (vs. the qBitTorrent programmers).

• Click the "I Agree" button here, or stop and go play somewhere else...

That's all there is to it - except that the default settings likely will not be optimal for you... but some of the basics (like associating .torrent files and magnet links to your qBitTorrent client) are already done.

Still, while the settings below are all optional - and some are complex - you should follow along with this guide and make certain changes... I will try to explain each as we go through.
To get to these options, you will click on the GEAR icon at the top of the window (Linux users: it's actually a Wrench/Screwdriver icon for you).
That said, there are thousands of options... I'm only going to cover the ones that I, personally change:

===

We start in Behavior, which is split into sections, the first of which is:

• Interface (including language): this also has an option for a completely different User Interface (UI) - which I have never changed.
• Transfer List: I usually change the option under Action on double-click for Completed torrents: I choose Preview file, otherwise open destination folder.
  In particular, I choose this on my Windows clients - where I nearly always have VLC media player also installed (see Ninite above for a quick and easy way to install VLC!)
• "Power Management": I choose to "Inhibit system sleep*..." on all accounts. This is a personal choice.
  Indeed, I disable sleep in general for all of my systems, preferring to let the turning-off of my display(s) be all of the "power savings" that I choose to do...

Those are ALL the CHANGES I make on this page...

So, moving on to the Downloads section:

• Delete .torrent file afterwards (checked) so that I don't keep all those tiny little .torrent files around AFTER they have been processed by qBitTorrent - it just clogs up my Downloads folder otherwise
• Also when addition is cancelled (checked) so that I don't keep any aborted .torrent files around either.
  NOTE: It says that you might lose data... true, you might lose a .torrent file that you want again later... but GT.ru is a private tracker... if you need it again, you download it again... these .torrent files are TINY in size, but can become quite numerous as you download more and more content!
• Pre-allocate disk space for all files (checked) - I do this so that, in the event I start downloading something that I don't have the disk space for, I'll learn about it sooner, rather than later!
• Append .!qB extension to incomplete files (checked) - I do this so that I can browse my torrent download folder and not get confused when I try to open media that's still downloading (which can be frustrating!)
• Default Save Path: (changed away from the default Downloads folder) - I like to have a special place for my torrent downloads, and this is where I put that place into effect. Maybe it's Movies or maybe its my NAS storage device... this is a highly personal choice, but I recommend NOT letting it stay the default.

All of the other options here are options that are not needed to make the program work, but can be setup to help you if, for example, you run qBitTorrent on a VM in the cloud and want to know when downloads complete, you can make qBitTorrent send you an email (or a text message!). There are tons of these kinds of options - and there is a LOT of online support for qBitTorrent's other features that I don't cover here.

Next is the Connection section, where we get into some of the "nitty-gritty". This is BY FAR the most techincal of the options pages, and I will try to explain my reasonings for each option I recommend. That said, this is one of the areas where people have alternative opinions - some of which are simply outdated, as the Internet does things differently in the 2020's vs the 1990's and 2000's...

• Peer connection protocol: please allow this to remain TCP and uTP (which is really UDP - but a special UDP for torrenting)
• Listening Port: This can be any number from 1025 to 65,535. I recommend changing it periodically (just use the random button) - I change it weekly. HOWEVER changing this value may require you to make changes in your router or firewall.
  Special Note: In the OLD DAYS this port was of VITAL IMPORTANCE because you had to manually open your local firewall port AND tunnel that port through your home router to make torrenting (in particular: seeding) work at all! However, unless you're using a router from the 20th Century (or the early 2000's), it is PnP compatible and you no longer have to do anything to your router with qBitTorrent (it can do it for you with PnP); and unless you're on an older version of Windows, you no longer have to adjust the firewall on your Windows system, either! (The same goes for MacOS users... but, Linux users WILL still have to change their firewalld settings manually to allow these inbound connections. Making that change is beyond the scope of this article. Send a message to GT.ru staff member WikiDude if you need Linux support.)
• Use UPnP/NAT-PMP port forwarding for my router: this should be left on for this kind of connection, but turned off if you're using a VPN or other advanced networking. BUT If you turn this off, you're on your own to manage the port forwarding in your advanced setup. Left ON, this feature allows qBitTorrent to reset the port forwarding on your router automatically (as I explained above). SWEET
• Use different port on each startup: This may be checked ONLY if you have some automated port forwarding mechanism in place: either the UPnP/NAT-PMP above, or a smart-VPN connection - like the one I'll explain below. I do use this option personally.
• Connection Limits: I'm going to group all of these together -- but the defaults are especially LOW. They actually come from when most torrent users were using DIAL-UP MODEMS. Increase these to the extent your Internet Connection allows. On my Internet-connected Linux hosts, I literally turn them off!
• Proxy Server: This would be used ONLY if you were using some kind of old-school (e.g. SOCKS-based) VPN connection. See my VPN recommendations below, in Section 2b.
• IP Filtering: it is unlikely you will need these, unless you run into some specific kinds of problems - unusual problems. If you think you need these, get help online. I have personally never used them.

Next is the Speed section, which is dedicated to making sure you can leave some Internet for your other programs, too! As with the connection limits in the above section, these limits default to a DIAL-UP MODEM level! Unless you happen to *actually use a dial-up connection, you WILL want to change these limits!
A good "rule-of-thumb" is to limit your qBitTorrent to using 80% of your actual available speeds.
WHAT? You don't KNOW your actual speeds? Just head to SpeedTest to find out!
NOTE: On some platforms, this apparently defaults to "infinite" (that is, no limits) - depending on your Internet speeds, you may be OK with that - I personally set them to 80% of my measured Internet speeds!

NOTE: Some versions of qBitTorrent have a section in here to Enable uTP protocol - if that is there for you, enable it!

Finally, the BitTorrent section controls some specific ways that qBitTorrent works:

• DHT can be disabled if you ONLY use GT.ru - otherwise, leave it on! For public torrents, this is needed to help you find seeders. (On a private torrent tracker, like GT.ru, it is not of any value at all).
• PeX falls into the same category as DHT above: leave it on, unless you will ONLY use private trackers, like GT.ru - in which case, it doesn't help.
• Local Peer Discovery can be left on - but it will only work if you're in a network environment - like a school or college - where other GT.ru members may be on your same network. HOWEVER, it can also be turned off - because this is highly unlikely!

I leave the other options here all turned off - but in this section, you can control how many torrents can be "on" at the same time, as well as many other torrent-based limitations. I, personally, leave these off.

The RSS, Web UI, and Advanced sections are all more advanced than this tutorial, so I would not recommend changing any of them now.

Step 3: Configuring qBitTorrent to run on a VPN (highly recommended)

First, I am not going to recommend a VPN provider here. While I personally use NordVPN, I will write another article (separate from this one) on making that choice. Neither am I going to spend time here explaining why a VPN is such a GOOD IDEA. Nope this part is just about configuring qBitTorrent to USE the VPN after you have that piece othewise managed...

Again, my configuration guidelines here assume that you are using an advanced (P2P friendly) VPN service, and not just some SOCKS-proxy or something.

Here are the settings you will want to CHANGE if (and you should) choose to run your qBitTorrent client behind a VPN:

• Kill Switch
  In the Advanced settings we avoided above, there is an entry for Network Interface...
  It defaults to "any" - instead, force it to use your VPN interface
  NOTE: When you do this, understand that: No VPN = No torrenting!

• Listening Port
  When you use your own Router and your own ISP, you may wind up having to manually manage the port-forwarding needed to make torrent seeding work. With P2P friendly VPNs, that is not a problem! Indeed, with a P2P-friendly VPN, I choose the option to randomly select new ports every time I restart qBitTorrent.
  (It's in Connection - Use different port on each startup).

• UPnP / NAT-PMP
  New routers understand special commands that can be put into the connection strings of your torrents... commands that tell the router to forward your ports automatically!
  If you're connecting directly through your router (bad idea), then this is great because then you don't have to do it manually.
  But, if you're connecting on a VPN, turning this on can actually defeat your VPN and trick your router into managing your torrents instead of your VPN - wasting your money and exposing you to lots of bad things.
  So, if you're on a VPN, turn this feature OFF
  (It's in Connection - Use UPnP / NAT-PMP port forwarding from my router).

• Encryption
  We spoke above, albeit briefly, about encryption. Technically, if you're on a VPN, you're already encrypting all of your traffic. Still, I prefer the qBitTottent setting of "Prefer encrpytion" (or "Allow encryption") - that way, if it's there and it works, great, but if it's not there, it'll still connect.
  I know some MAC users who have had issues with the "Require Encryption" option in the latest (4.3.4.1) version.
  (This is in the BitTorrent section).

• Anonymous
  qBitTorrent's Anonymous mode hides the client fingerprint from the peer-ID, sets the ‘User-Agent’ to Null and it doesn’t share your IP-address directly with trackers (though peers will still see your IP address).
  I have had no issues with this setting being ON, though with GT.ru, you don't really need to worry about the tracker knowing your IP address.
  NOTE: You still have to "share" your IP address when you connect to the site... setting this will not help protect you from multiple-account detection on GT.ru.

B'dit, B'dit, B'dit... That's All Folks!

WikiDude
GT.ru Staff

To be a duplicate (which would warrant the removal of your upload), the existing torrent must still be "live".

As a staffer, it is not uncommon for us to encounter a "Dupe Report" where the original torrent is dead. In those instances, the dead torrent is removed (deleted), and the new torrent is left alone. (For What Its Worth: the reporter does NOT get SBP awarded for finding these instances.)

In this case, I suggest you upload your torrent. If you REALLY want to be safe, reference the old torrent in your description and mention that it was dead on the date you uploaded yours!

@F46660T

Please stop with the scatter-shot posting of the exact same rambling "I'm so important, why won't anyone listen to me" Karen-rant!

This was answered in helpdesk, it was answered in another Forum thread.

You deleted your account. It's gone. Poof! Irreversibly gone. Your old torrents are artifacts, left behind... so long as others continue to seed them, they will (like happens with all other torrents) remain on the site! They don't now, and never did "belong" to you.

You want to get your old account back. No.

You want your old account's things given to your new account. No.

You want to throw a tantrum. No.

Is that clear enough?

@raphjd

For those not aware, the Forum is @raphjd's realm amongst the Staff. What he says goes here.

I will leave it at that. Case closed.

Hello all - WikiDude here - just checking things out...

@F46660T

Pardon me for having a sleep/work schedule that is not in-line with your expectations. My, but you ARE a self-entitled one, aren't you!

Just a suggestion: we're all volunteers here, give us 24-hours to respond, not 1-hour! Unless, of course, you don't mind paying $50/mo or so for access to the site so that we can PAY for support staff 24/7?

No? Didn't think so!

Since you've brought this into the public eye, I'll summarize my response here as well...

"Long story short: I'm sorry you feel entitled to recover benefits from your old account. But no. You can't. "

As for taking legal action, go for it. The first thing the lawyers are going to want to know is whether your activities are legal in the jurisdictions of yourself and of the site... good luck learning where that is, and they're probably NOT legal in your own jurisdiction... so yeah, that ain't gonna work.

Just an aside - to provide a level-set here:

We are ALL - staffers & users alike - GUESTS here. Our access - at whatever levels that may be - is granted solely at the site owner's discretion, and can be revoked at the slightest of whims, at any time, for any reason.

BTW: You agreed to these terms when you signed up....

And finally, I will say this: the squeaky wheel doesn't always get the grease... sometimes it gets thrown away!

Can I assume this topic is done then? (Sorry, I was away from this topic for a bit - distracted by other business)

Riddle me this, batman:
People are busy, living their lives in Minneapolis - relatively peacefully. Very little public unrest, save for being unhappy with the strong-arm tactics of their own police force (ala George Floyd).

While the locals are still trying to tamp down that level of unrest, you add a new "evil" - ICE ... to rile them back up - one who comes in like Derek Chauvin & pals on PCP! And you expected exactly WHAT response?

I'm not excusing the violent response -neither the one to the
Floyd killing, nor this. Civil disobedience is one thing, even civil unrest is OK in my book - but when it gets to the point of lighting cars and buildings on fire, you're WAY over the line.

But again, I ask you: in the same city that went CRAZY after George Floyd, what kind of MORON expects these same people to "sit quietly and do what you're told."

The desire to "clean out" illegal aliens is not a bad one... our immigration policies in teh US are - and have been for decades, not just under Biden - extremely broken... but the tactics being used are NOT helping, and it's likely to cost the GOP both the House and Senate later this year.

In summary: you can spout off all you want about how bad these people are behaving - but these Nazi-SS-esque tactics are overkill, and are causing more problems than they're solving - and if you couldn't PREDICT this response from Americans, then you are just ignorant of US culture (or possibly completely stupid, and I'm not discounting BOTH possibly being true).

WD

PS: Talking about DOXing ICE agents - a leaked roster of new ICE recruits (new as-in the past year or so, not as-in the last few weeks) looks like a who's-who of Proud Boys - many of which have criminal backgrounds that should have excluded them from ANY Federal Law Enforcement position, much less ICE.
Not saying they can't possibly be good agents, but I am saying that it's adding fuel to the fire. More people will be hurt, if not killed... its NOT going to die down until ICE changes tactics.

Here'e a Guide to using qBitTorrent (on Windows, Mac, or Linux)... including config info for this site...

https://community.gaytorrent.ru/topic/53086/qbittorrent-gt-ru-guide

@ianfontinell-0
It was the 70's - our parents and older siblings were fucking anything that walked on 2 legs, so we followed suit!
It helped that I was a latchkey-kid - so I had the house to myself for a few hours each day in the afternoons...
I sported an all-over tan in the summer - a shocker to classmates with whom I went on a spring trip to Spain - when we got to the beach in Torremolinos, nearly all the guys were naked and the women topless... so I shucked my shorts, and the girls followed suit taking off their tops (not without some prompting).. the problem was: their tits hadn't seen direct sunlight - EVER! Those white-skinned tits shone like beacons in the sun, and most (all-but-one) of them wound up with SERIOUS sunburn (even tho we were from FL)!
Keep in mind - in those days, they sold "tanning oil" not "sunscreen" LOL

Thanks for proving my point.
You win.
If only there was a MUTE option in the forum....

@ianfontinell-0
It was the 70's - our parents and older siblings were fucking anything that walked on 2 legs, so we followed suit!
It helped that I was a latchkey-kid - so I had the house to myself for a few hours each day in the afternoons...
I sported an all-over tan in the summer - a shocker to classmates with whom I went on a spring trip to Spain - when we got to the beach in Torremolinos, nearly all the guys were naked and the women topless... so I shucked my shorts, and the girls followed suit taking off their tops (not without some prompting).. the problem was: their tits hadn't seen direct sunlight - EVER! Those white-skinned tits shone like beacons in the sun, and most (all-but-one) of them wound up with SERIOUS sunburn (even tho we were from FL)!
Keep in mind - in those days, they sold "tanning oil" not "sunscreen" LOL

I was 9, nearly 10 - in the 3rd grade. The walking path I took to/from school went thru a wooded area. I caught two 5th grade girls semi-naked, showing themselves their breasts along the path. When I caught them, they INSISTED I show them my cock - which I did gladly, as nudity wasn't uncommon in our household.
They showed me how to jerk it, and while it was hard and felt AMAZING, I didn't cum. They were giggly over the fact that one of them said my dick was bigger than her brother's and he was in the 6th grade! (No, I'm not hung - I'd say he was just a late bloomer, or perhaps really small.)
A few weeks later, a neighbour kid (boy) was at our house - we had a pool. I'm not sure if he was in the 5th or 6th grade, but he was older than me by a bit. He pulled out his dick and started jerking, so I did the same. Our dicks were about the same size - which he wasn't surprised by, so I'm guessing one of the girls said something to him.
Again, I didn't cum.
Later that same week, he was over again, and we were jerking again, and he put his mouth on my cock. After a few moments (it didn't take long!), I told him he had to stop, something was wrong... but he didn't stop, and I shot my first ever load into his mouth (well, the first shot went into his mouth - he got off my cock and spit out my cum pronto).
I was REALLY worried I'd done something wrong, and he just laughed at me... told me I'd "cum" and that I'd learn all about it as I got older.
He wasn't wrong.
He was also the first boy I ever fucked! (and the first who ever tried to fuck me, tho that wasn't successful the first time)
That wasn't until I was 11 tho... another story for another day.

One final note - I heard just about 2 weeks ago that THAT boy, the one who gave me my first orgasm, had just passed away. Heart attack.

@blablarg18 said in Anti-ICE leftists wreck ICE vehicles, loot rifles, dox federal agents on livestream in Minneapolis:

@WikiDude said in Anti-ICE leftists wreck ICE vehicles, loot rifles, dox federal agents on livestream in Minneapolis:

Riddle me this, batman...MORON...you are just ignorant of US culture (or possibly completely stupid

Ugh, the inter-commenter name-calling begins

You incorrectly assume I'm trying to have or start an argument. I was simply making a factual observation: if the expectation of this kind of militaristic ATTACK in US Cities was that US citizens would just lay down "and take it" - then you're a moron!

Not unlike expecting to take a rocket to the moon & not packing enough food, assuming you'll just load up on cheese while you're there!

I won argument

OK - you win. I let my 3 year old grandson win at games too... a very similar situation, wouldn't you agree?

---

Derek Chauvin

....is, btw, innocent of murder.

MUCH evidence was excluded, at his baboon-level show trial.

• Medical report showed, George Floyd died of all that fentanyl & meth George Floyd took, & his congenital heart condition.

• Floyd said "I can't breathe" already while standing up, like drama or telling officers to ignore him.

• Other evidence woulda showed, Derek Chauvin followed training with that knee-on-neck, no way he intended to kill.

They shoulda called ambulance sooner. U could go with negligent-involuntary type manslaughter.

But murder? absurd

I didn't comment on Derek Chauvin's crimes - a jury made a determination, and barring some legal misdoings that get him a new trial, he's been found guilty. Wouldn't be the first innocent found guilty, nor would he be the last. But, for now, the FACT is he's been found guilty of murder. My own opinion (as with yours) is irrelevant to his case.

But also, its irrelevant to my point: the citizens of Minneapolis RIOTED in the streets after that level of police violence. If you expected them to just sit back and accept an escalation - especially to the level ICE is operation at these days - then you're just plain stupid! ("Read the room")

You should also read the part where I said that the GOAL of deporting illegals is 100% spot on... it's not the goal that's got Minnesota (and 1/2 the rest of the country) protesting ICE - it's the TACTICS! Even my new hometown in western NC has had ICE protests!

This is America - and these people are ARMED! On both sides!

The only part of this that wasn't predictable is that more people haven't been killed already (again - on both sides). This isn't Russia or Iran or North Korea - where the populace is going to be forced - even by litary might - into compliance!

This is why the GOP is going to suffer so badly in Nov. I fear it'll be catastrophic and may take a long time for us to recover. (Yes, I'm a GOP voter, even if I despise the authoritarian and self-aggrandizing of our POTUS).

WD

@blablarg18 said in Terrorist in SUV tries to ram ICE agent; gets herself shot; Libs omit her guilt, glamorize her. (update: Renee Good):

@WikiDude said in Terrorist in SUV tries to ram ICE agent; gets herself shot; Libs omit her guilt, glamorize her. (update: Renee Good):

Watch HIS video

Way ahead of you. See entire thread above.

She clearly, CLEARLY, turned her car at him & rammed him. It's on video. WATCH HIS VIDEO. (I said it with more CAPS than what CAPS u put in, so mine is more true. - joke)

Sorry, but all you have to do is watch her hands. But, I get it, there are people who've been over these videos 100k times, all trying to prove THEIR point. We can't KNOW what was in the thoughts of either party. But, the direction of her wheels is ancillary to the point of my statement: BOTH were in the wrong!

You still seem reticent to the idea your new hero could have been in the wrong, and so I'll stop arguing here: Basically I keep saying "Water is wet" and you keep replying "she's at 100% fault"... its incongruent, and so not worth repeating.

It'll likely cost him his career.

If only because now Antifa will dog him specially, which is not useful to ICE. But he'll have a new career after he gets thru $1 million of donations to him.

Not unlike the Ford auto-worker who called Trump a pedo-protector during his factory tour & got suspended by Ford. He raised over $1M in 2 days.

That's American society today... reward bad actors who support your ideology!

Its truly sad - and also why I'm trying to get a work visa for Australia! (I have family there, it's not supposed to be hard - but apparently they're FLOODED with applications!) - but that's another post for another day...

@blablarg18 said in Terrorist in SUV tries to ram ICE agent; gets herself shot; Libs omit her guilt, glamorize her. (update: Renee Good):

@WikiDude By Becca confession, they PURPOSELY set out to OBSTRUCT law enforcement, physically & violently.

"HE WAS WRONG for standing where he was" - when she turned car at him & rammed him No.

Watch HIS video - she turned the car away from him. No, he can't see the wheels - but he CAN see her hands on the steering wheel, frantically turning the car to the right (her right) - away from him, and towards the opening. She wasn't looking for a fight here, she was fleeing - in fear.

In fact, that's the point everyone is missing here - they were BOTH in the wrong, and they were BOTH acting out of fear.

Only thing tho - and what may cost the officer his career: not only wasn't supposed to have been in that position, but he ALSO acted out of fear (likely based on his recent experience in a similar situation) - but he's supposedly a trained officer - his training SHOULD have stopped him from reacting there out of that fear. It'll likely cost him his career.

"NO ONE WINS HERE" - Agreed, in sense that 1. kid lost his mom 2. any death is sad. But in this case, it seems that terrorists of Antifa needed & got a lesson, thus, people of Minnesota & USA won.

Sorry - the State & society didn't "win". Your sense that they did is a reach - and a long one - to satisfy your programming that there has to be a winner and a loser.

That philosophy is incompatible with the human experience.

WD

Some of you people are simply ridiculous!

Imagine a world where an ICE officer - only 6-months out from being critically injured by another motorist - AGAIN violates basic safety measures (ICE policy directs officers to NOT stand in front of occupied, running vehicles). HE WAS WRONG for standing where he was, & he was WRONG to fire into the vehicle subsequently.

Now, imagine in that same world where 2 moms go out to, as they see it, peacefully protest ICE in their own community. The mom at the wheel is told by one officer to move the car - which she resists at first, but when that officer begins (in her eyes) to attack her, she - in fear - decides to comply (to try to leave). She WAS WRONG not to comply - immediately. She was WRONG in trying to flee when the officer tried to open her door.

Wait - what? BOTH can't be in the wrong, can they?

Yes - this isn't a storybook - the only "author" trying to make one side good and the other evil are the IDIOTS (many of whom are shown here) who can't fathom a world where it's not "good vs evil" as the overall plot-line.

They both made mistakes. Even so, there shouldn't have been a loss-of-life here, and that there was is a tragedy... one resulting in a funeral for one family, and possibly a loss of a career for another...

Sorry, idiots, but NO ONE WINS HERE!

WD

Riddle me this, batman:
People are busy, living their lives in Minneapolis - relatively peacefully. Very little public unrest, save for being unhappy with the strong-arm tactics of their own police force (ala George Floyd).

While the locals are still trying to tamp down that level of unrest, you add a new "evil" - ICE ... to rile them back up - one who comes in like Derek Chauvin & pals on PCP! And you expected exactly WHAT response?

I'm not excusing the violent response -neither the one to the
Floyd killing, nor this. Civil disobedience is one thing, even civil unrest is OK in my book - but when it gets to the point of lighting cars and buildings on fire, you're WAY over the line.

But again, I ask you: in the same city that went CRAZY after George Floyd, what kind of MORON expects these same people to "sit quietly and do what you're told."

The desire to "clean out" illegal aliens is not a bad one... our immigration policies in teh US are - and have been for decades, not just under Biden - extremely broken... but the tactics being used are NOT helping, and it's likely to cost the GOP both the House and Senate later this year.

In summary: you can spout off all you want about how bad these people are behaving - but these Nazi-SS-esque tactics are overkill, and are causing more problems than they're solving - and if you couldn't PREDICT this response from Americans, then you are just ignorant of US culture (or possibly completely stupid, and I'm not discounting BOTH possibly being true).

WD

PS: Talking about DOXing ICE agents - a leaked roster of new ICE recruits (new as-in the past year or so, not as-in the last few weeks) looks like a who's-who of Proud Boys - many of which have criminal backgrounds that should have excluded them from ANY Federal Law Enforcement position, much less ICE.
Not saying they can't possibly be good agents, but I am saying that it's adding fuel to the fire. More people will be hurt, if not killed... its NOT going to die down until ICE changes tactics.

@urx585

Since the point of the padding files is to "shift" the start of each separate file to the beginning of a new "block", it most certainly DOES affect the CRC encoding: the contents of the blocks - even the NUMBER of blocks - is altered.

Let's use a simple example - say I have 3 files, each exactly 1kb in length, and let's suppose our .torrent file has been coded to use 4kb blocks.

• without padding, the FIRST 4kb block would contain ALL THREE FILES - so, no matter what you "selected", you would have to download all 3 files. 1 block total though (and it would be a "short block": only 3kb of the max 4kb block size).
• WITH padding, you would have to download 3 separate 4kb blocks ... 12kb in total, for data that is truly only 3kb in size! (Actually, you would download 3 blocks, but the last one would NOT have any padding - it would be a "short block", with only the 1kb of data - that last block, and ONLY the last block, is allowed to be (expected to be) "short"... so, in FACT, you would download 9kb of data (4k+4k+1k)).

Thus, using padding is a decent idea when you have a torrent with lots of MOVIES (large files), but it is much less so when you have a collection of short (picture) files. In fact, a collection of 1000's of pictures would be absurdly large if used with padding...

Just some thoughts....

Can I assume this topic is done then? (Sorry, I was away from this topic for a bit - distracted by other business)