On: I took 50k images of the night sky to make an 81 M...

[k4r1]

All the download links are down at the moment. Here's a torrent link:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:j6ixrzpitvpmkx5tgroy6utcpqr5hhhj&dn=updated%20mosaic.png&xl=304863698&fc=1

[marci → k4r1]

You can download/share via webtorrent

https://instant.io/#4f9178e5e89d5ec55fb3345d8f52627c23d39ce9

[rietta → marci]

updated mosaic.png seemed to not be a good long term name. On my local I changed it to "Moon 50,000 Image Composite by A James McCarthy 2019.png"

[gibspaulding → marci]

This is very cool. I've never used this site before!

[apitman → gibspaulding]

You might also be interesting in file.pizza. Very useful. The webtorrent ecosystem in general is very cool tech.

[rohan1024 → marci]

If only we had something like imgur but the images were stored on bittorrent network.That would be great.

[jethro_tell → rohan1024]

This could work, but where would we serve the ads from?

[microcolonel → k4r1]

PSA: Update your Transmission. A good chunk of you are running 2.92, which is susceptible to CVE-2018-5702[0] (which allows basically anyone to write arbitrary files to your computer from a webpage).

Also, cool trackerless magnet link, worked a treat.

[0]: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5702

[teddyh → microcolonel]

Many might be running the version from Debian stable, which has fixed this bug:

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4087

[HenryBemis → k4r1]

This link works now. File is 291 MB

https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1lGDV6jOHc0v5UdkxcqYShqhKBz_U...

[PuffinBlue → k4r1]

There's a 4k wallpaper version. 213MB. Moon centered in the screen.

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:6f64830246540020bf26b87b5c269088d563ac5d&dn=4K-mosaic.png

[anon_cow1111 → PuffinBlue]

213 or 21.3? (link didn't find peers)

A 4k bitmap is still only 28mb.

[rietta → k4r1]

Thanks! And now I'm sharing back out as well.

[nbeleski → k4r1]

thanks for this! It is probably a smarter way to share the pic given the number o dead links...

[nakedrobot2 → nbeleski]

bittorrent is the smartest way to share any file that's being viewed by lots of people at the same time. I am continually amazed why it's not used more often.

edit: i a word

[stronglikedan → nakedrobot2]

Possibly the lack of adoption for native browser support.

[StreamBright → stronglikedan]

More like the lack of possibility of injecting ads and collecting data while using BT.

[nullinson → stronglikedan]

Brave browser has a built in torrent client, IIRC.

[Cthulhu_ → stronglikedan]

IIRC Opera used to have support for it at some point.

[throwawaymath → stronglikedan]

Aside from the nontrivial security mechanisms that would be required to implement it safely, is there another reason why native browser support for torrenting doesn't exist yet?

[leetcrew → throwawaymath]

I suspect it just doesn't look good from a PR perspective. who wants to be first to get slammed in the press for enabling piracy?