Prophet Zarquon @ FordPrefect @startrek.website

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It did lead to one, but he didn't last forever, & again, I think it's pretty hard to argue they were better off before than after.

Similarly to I2P, IPFS sites can be relatively decentralized & censorship resistant; so, that & social features, are probably why Veilid was mentioned.

They're intrinsically more suited to private cliques than public sharing, so I agree that they don't really replace major public forums like TPB or the old KAT.

That said, TPB's continual relaunches are about the best a well-known centralized public site can manage, on a system as oppressive as the corporate-run "internet" we have today.

It's a lot harder to shut down P2P apps & devices, than websites on the clearnet.

It's planned to have communication features beyond file-transfer, but otherwise I'm not sure what similarity you're seeing, to what the OP suggested...

Which describes torrent apps 15 years ago. I'm really not sure what people think is missing?

True, and we have that already.

Search engine functionality goes in the sharing\communication app.

DHTs in the '90s already had search & tagging & even some rudimentary social networking, built in.

Networks like Tribler's don't really need a lot more features, so much as just raw usage; most people torrenting are still using the mainline DHT, which doesn't have a search layer.

That's largely on those users. Advanced DHT search with rich social features, already exists for those who decide to use it.

THIS is a good suggestion; I'm not aware of any decentralized search that also specifically helps find subtitles.

Apps being able to search opensubtitles.org\com via the API, are a great convenience, but I'm not aware of any comparably convenient way to submit subtitles. Currently, it's a bit of a pain, just to try & help. (For instance, .srt files with perfectly standard formatting, rejected for no discernable reason whatsover, requiring upload in .ass format instead.)

+1 to just use Tribler, as it already does most of what OP mentioned:

• Social features
• Discovery\follow
• Patronage\ratios
• Sync (via following \ autodownload)
• Curation\filtering\tags

Doesn't really do privacy, but P2P over corpnets ≠ private; for "privacy", use a proxy (or torrent exclusively things no one gets jailed for, like entertainment video\music\books).

(I know this sounds insane, but I don't use a proxy for torrenting, yet the only ISP that ever complained was CenturyLink, when using a friend's computer that lacked ad-blocking, to download extremely well-known torrents of a recent show, without removing the tracker URLs from the magnet link. Since 2005, zero complaints from my own torrenting, AFAIK...? I even torrent directly on my phone & cast to a TV. 🤷 I'm not recommending a no-proxy philosophy, just noting that I've never had an issue that required me to proxy\VPN up, even when DLing apps.)

+1 to those who said DHT.

There's no tagging support, but I'm not sure why I'd need tagging.
DHT crawling reveals pretty much every active public torrent, & finding what I want is just a matter of including it in the search terms.

"s04e10 2160p x265" brings up every torrent containing a file with s04e10, 2160p, & x265 in its filename.

I could foresee plenty of situations where tagging for quality, & for metadata beyond filenames & sizes, would be useful; I just haven't actually had it come up.

Everything I need shows up on DHT search.

Well, except .STL files, but that seems to be because they're given away for free so often there's no impetus to make torrents of them?

DHT crawlers find pretty much all the active torrents. No shortage of 4K content; as @burgersc12@sh.itjust.works said, just add 2160p to the search terms.

No trackers needed. (Omit the tracker URLs when loading magnet links too; they're not at all necessary.)

Godot is not bad for 2D & 2.5D, & it's a lot better at true 3D than it used to be, but as far as speedy usability, I'd compare it to UnrealEd 2.1 in many ways.

I really think the main reason anyone uses Godot, is the licensing & cross-platform support.

If Unreal 5.1 would run at all on any of my machines, I couldn't even really begin to make any kind of objective comparison between it & Godot; it's like the difference between having a bunch of clever hand-tools, versus having a bunch of really well-made power-tools.

Try making a mountainous landscape, sprinkle a handful of different trees, then carve out a tunnel that loops under itself with a ledge overhead. Anyone proficient with both the Godot & Unreal toolsets, seems to get good (& stable) results in moments using Unreal compared to minutes or hours, using Godot. Unreal's interface & free assets have set such a high standard for so long, that I find Blender is the only thing I could compare it to, but Unreal's workflows make Blender look like Maya.

Steam is even helping to push more people to Linux, by ending Steam support on WIn7, this January 2024.

I would probably have left Win7 running on several older machines, but like XP it's become so widely unsupported that I can't really condone using it online anymore even if the app-services allowed it. Unlike XP, there's a lot of apps that would run fine on Win7 if supported; but like XP there's just not much incentive for a dev to support such an old OS except as a pet project.

Win ≥8 is awful; I've helped Win10 users recover from the most insanely unacceptable issues I've ever seen in ≥35 years of using computers, with absolutely useless official responses made in each case. I will never poison one of my own machines with something so heinous as Win10, just for the sake of a game. And other than games, I don't see a compelling use case for Windows anymore.

So, Linux, & holding out hopes for decent Steam action on Linux, I guess!?

Aw man, that's just enough difference to make me notice.

Now I've got a weird question purely out of curiosity: Do you know of any makers of black denim cotton work jeans, in loose fit that isn't stretch knit?

Wrangler & Levi seem to have decided that black jeans which fit over one's thighs, are not important enough to make in all sizes anymore... ?

The fact that no one in these comments, seems to have had a really decent FOSS IDE \ engine to recommend for 3D game development, makes me sad.

Like, Unreal is pretty great, but it's not FOSS (& won't run on any of my machines anyway).

Is there anything FOSS that really streamlines 3D game development?
(I want to say Vulkan but I feel like that's some sort of perennial "gotcha!" joke, at this point?)

Shotcut crashes unexpectedly, on all the machines I've tried it on. Not frequently though, & it was so good I used it anyway.

I'm pretty sure that the masking features of OBS (potentially even VLC) could be paired with a camera aimed at the display, to crop interlopers out of a projected image, so that they don't get painted\blinded with projected light. Very niche utility, but I'm not aware of any hardware-only solutions for it, & its potentially show\life-saving

Yes, OnlyOffice has been my choice for a while now; not that I need it much anymore, thankfully

The number of times I've needed to do something, then realized VLC already did it... Wow

Even had use for the video wall options, a few times.

I do get annoyed, setting the hotkeys & seek distances, to something actually useful, every time I install VLC

Option 3 is the usual method, & it works quite fast on almost any machine that's even capable of decoding high bitrate video fast enough to keep up with its framerate, in the first place. On a HDD, that previous frame may briefly require seeking to get back to, but no such delay occurs with flash storage.

Of course, it doesn't need to be done fast; we're talking about long looks at single frames!

For best results, frame-capture apps use cross-frame interpolation with motion estimation (& these days, AI).

I don't remember the last device I saw, that would struggle with this in any way. It's basically just been dismissed as unimportant, by the VLC devs, rather than actually being all-that-difficult to implement.

I'm shocked that VLC doesn't offer reverse playback by now, given the absolutely enormous video resources & random access storage, we're all blessed with now.