▲ 474 ▼ India blocks GitHub, after lobbying done by copyright trolls (torrentfreak.com) submitted 2 years ago by Moonrise2473@feddit.it to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 109 comments fedilink hide all child comments Who cares if nobody can work, the important is that those illegal streams are blocked
[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 45 points 2 years ago (1 child) The fediverse can't reach source forges fast enough... permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 15 points 2 years ago (2 children) Git really should be married with bittorrent for large files. At the moment it's GFS which requires large central storage, which doesn't really fit with git. Should be maglinks. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago Or IPFS. The issue in this context is that bittorrent would treat each version as a unique collection of files and you can't combine seeding of redundant files. IPFS has much better means to handle updates. permalink fedilink source parent [–] PlexSheep@feddit.de 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Git LFS exists, not sure how it works technically, but it's what the AI people use for AI model VCS. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 1 point 2 years ago So does using maglinks, it exists in git-annex. It's just the torrent client is super crap. Great idea, poorly implemented. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 15 points 2 years ago (2 children) Git really should be married with bittorrent for large files. At the moment it's GFS which requires large central storage, which doesn't really fit with git. Should be maglinks. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago Or IPFS. The issue in this context is that bittorrent would treat each version as a unique collection of files and you can't combine seeding of redundant files. IPFS has much better means to handle updates. permalink fedilink source parent [–] PlexSheep@feddit.de 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Git LFS exists, not sure how it works technically, but it's what the AI people use for AI model VCS. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 1 point 2 years ago So does using maglinks, it exists in git-annex. It's just the torrent client is super crap. Great idea, poorly implemented. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 years ago Or IPFS. The issue in this context is that bittorrent would treat each version as a unique collection of files and you can't combine seeding of redundant files. IPFS has much better means to handle updates. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] PlexSheep@feddit.de 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Git LFS exists, not sure how it works technically, but it's what the AI people use for AI model VCS. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 1 point 2 years ago So does using maglinks, it exists in git-annex. It's just the torrent client is super crap. Great idea, poorly implemented. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 1 point 2 years ago So does using maglinks, it exists in git-annex. It's just the torrent client is super crap. Great idea, poorly implemented. permalink fedilink source parent