[HN Gopher] Show HN: Mabel - a fancy BitTorrent client for the t...
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Show HN: Mabel - a fancy BitTorrent client for the terminal
Author : figbert
Score : 22 points
Date : 2022-06-19 17:47 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| KennyBlanken wrote:
| I wish more HN posts about software releases were like OP,
| providing not just a who, but a _what_.
|
| OP: does this support version 2 of the spec?
| tfsh wrote:
| It's built on top of this -
| https://github.com/anacrolix/torrent - so your answers probably
| there.
| [deleted]
| rakoo wrote:
| At this point torrent clients don't provide much if they don't
| have a really differentiating set of features:
|
| - torrents work if they are shared more than they are leeched, so
| it's just easier to have it run in the background. There's very
| little reason to not use the existing client/server models like
| transmission or tTorrent - indexing and search still relies too
| much on third parties. Integrate magnetico (passive indexing),
| bep 33 (dht-based scraping) and bep 51 (dht-based indexing) and
| the user gains an order of magnitude of autonomy because they
| don't rely on centralized authorities anymore - is there a
| possibility yo go further ? Make sharing files easier with
| bittorrent, or something like that ? Bittorrent clients should
| help with that
|
| Innovation in this sector doesn't mean nicer fonts, there are
| real avenues for meaningful change that actually improve users'
| life
| nr2x wrote:
| How many people are using torrents for non-piracy reasons?
| zahma wrote:
| You can download some Linux distros and other open source
| software this way, but yeah...it is largely used for piracy.
| crtasm wrote:
| Looks interesting, why does it require a special font? Does it
| handle the private flag?
|
| Suggest you remove the examples of downloading copyrighted
| content and the yify website from your readme.
| tfsh wrote:
| The custom font adds a number of glyphs which wouldn't
| otherwise be accessible. Specifically for the folder icon [1]
| and I'd have thought for the borders as well.
|
| Nerd Font is pretty cool, I'd give it a go - I don't know how
| terminals gracefully fallback if the glyphs don't exist.
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| 1: https://github.com/smmr-software/mabel/blob/main/desert.png
| acherion wrote:
| It looks like there's a few glyphs being used in this
| application (things like folder icons, etc) that normal fonts
| aren't going to provide.
| crtasm wrote:
| Ah - I'm not asking what it's for, I'm asking why isn't it
| optional. First time I've seen TUI software require a font.
| [deleted]
| ruined wrote:
| what, your terminal doesn't have Unicode support?
| KennyBlanken wrote:
| If memory serves this was one of the things that bit youtube-dl
| in the ass with github: the documentation
| described/demonstrated using it to violate copyright.
| crtasm wrote:
| Not in their documentation. Two or three of the many videos
| used in their unit tests were music videos, and wouldn't have
| been used if youtube didn't serve them differently.
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