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[-] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

Good thing you don't download executables from torrent sites?

[-] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago
[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

From the torrents though

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Don't you ever pirate software?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

My point is the executables are delivered by bittorrent, not from the pirate bay.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

In that case your comment doesn't make much sense, because when people say "don't trust that torrent site" they mean the contents of the torrents hosted there. In fact, if you use magnets, you don't download anything at all from torrent sites ever.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Your browser downloads the web pages which includes the magnet text

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

So is your point to argue semantics?

"Downloading" colloquially referes to the proces of saving some data onto persistent storage device. When you open HTML pages they are loaded directly into RAM. They might be saved to drive if they are cached. But no regular person would refer to that process as downloading. Even I, as a webdev, don't.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

There is a vocal contingency on this website that have no fuckin’ clue how any technology works, and they get really combatative when you even attempt to help them learn. It’s really weird.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

There aren't that many. A good chunk of us here are Linux nerds. You don't have to be condescending about confronting (I assume) intentional misinterpretation of comments.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I suppose, at this point, I want to understand whether you accidentally misinterpreted the context of the original comment (downloading .exe from TPB) or intentionally misinterpreted it for "comedic effect".

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