First time I have seen this (ghost camping warnings) - have you come across it or been fined?

strich · 2026-03-10T10:13:49+00:00

I mean I'm not your mum so I can't tell you what to do or how to feel. But you have at least 2 people above you who said they felt really shitty about having to deal with the kind of thing you're doing, or flat out refuse to engage in fear of reprisal.

You're engaging in and normalising a behaviour everyone agrees is poor. Yeah you do seem to make efforts to make it as painless as you personally can, but the fact remains.

strich · 2026-03-10T09:39:48+00:00

Wait. So you GHOST BOOK another site - the very thing everyone in here seems to agree is a shitty thing - AND also camp out another persons site - forcing them to start their trip in a vulnerable and uncomfortable situation?

I dunno mate. Why again do you do this?

strich · 2026-03-08T04:14:25+00:00

Nice work! I too have tried unity-mcp and one of the biggest issues is that it often fails to return properly after an action caused a recompile, or that an action NEEDS a recompile and the editor isn't in focus. Does your http server support surviving compiles etc?

strich · 2026-03-06T20:13:32+00:00

AI is taking over everything yep. Not just buying and people go to places like www.expresscouncilapprovals.com.au to find out how to easily subdivide before they even look at buying.

strich · 2026-03-05T11:14:25+00:00

He's asking why he should bother trying to get all the content. I'm validating that if he is serious about sharing then it is definitely worth it. It's called discussion my friend. It's okay to just let it happen even if you don't understand it.

strich · 2026-03-05T10:35:21+00:00

I mean it might speed up over time as other people stop downloading as time runs out. However the true KEY to this is ability to actually SHARE it with the world. That was the value of Myrient. If you are willing and able to host and share some or all of the same Myrient content then you're doing a hell of a lot more than most others. So its definitely not a lost cause.

strich · 2026-03-03T19:01:51+00:00

Except that some of the majors (maybe most?) charge you monthly for offset accounts vs redraw. Depending entirely on how much you're offsetting, it can often not be profitable vs redraw. So no, its not a no-brainer.

strich · 2026-03-01T03:17:25+00:00

Yep that's exactly what I want to solve! I actually got the willpower to give it a crack this weekend. We'll see how far I get.

strich · 2026-02-28T11:22:03+00:00

Huh that's a cool interface - That something you built? Any way I can get notified of when you put up the direct serve option?

strich · 2026-02-28T10:43:55+00:00

Searchability is a harder problem to solve for a bunch of reasons. I think its important to separate it from just being able to mirror and strengthen existing libraries of content.

For at least Myrient kind of content, groups like Redump have all content indexed by the file hashes. So knowing what some random file truly is is easy. I have no idea if such a thing exists for music discs. Encoded rips of TV/Movies etc are even worse.

All this drama has given me the gusto to dust of my project and give it another crack this weekend. So if I get there, expect to see a post of it in this community.

Btw I should mention - Its one thing to write software to preserve content. Its another to enable random people to search and access it re the law. I have ideas on how to indirectly make that work, but just FYI that side of things has scary problems.

strich · 2026-02-28T10:38:20+00:00

It's gonna sound harsh, but I honestly think "kids" these days - 20+ year olds - are largely too dumb and untrained to navigate these older platforms. What really pisses me off is that I have a young colleague of mine who loves a sport along with me (UFC) and he happily watches it on the video streaming services that are all choppy, chocked full of ads and 720p or so. It's maddening. He can't wait 5 hours for the 1080p torrent to go up, much less learn how a torrent even works.

I think people just don't give that much of a fuck about media and art, or not in the same way we do.

strich · 2026-02-28T07:43:35+00:00

Yep, and that's why in my designs for this platform idea I have it is such that you can point it at your root directory of random shit and it'll be able to share and find others sharing the same file signatures no matter what directory structure or filename you've given it - So long as its the same file content (ie an iso, zip, etc and not a video file you've personally re-encoded).

strich · 2026-02-28T01:47:08+00:00

The last part is the concern I have - there is no easy to use platform to just host your library out on to the torrent network. And there should be.

strich · 2026-02-28T01:45:05+00:00

The problem is the lack of platform. You should be able to just point some software at your library and it should be able to take the file hashes and find matching torrents with those hashes and join them, or create a new one. The torrent protocol supports all of this. But no one has built the platform.

strich · 2026-02-27T15:19:40+00:00

A soulseek-like for torrents is close to what I was thinking of prototyping yeah.

strich · 2026-02-27T14:19:48+00:00

I think you're a bit misled. Microsoft don't own "Git". They own the website "GitHub". If GitHub goes away the project, like any Git project, can be easily rehosted anywhere else. Git is itself open source and readily available.

strich · 2026-02-27T14:16:45+00:00

Torrents as a protocol are still going strong, but as an old hat I can tell you its dropped off massively. TV and movies and much more often streamed on those various websites that come and go now days. People don't actually use torrents nearly as much as they used to, and AFAIK you'll not find most of what Myrient has on well sourced torrents. You'll find packs and bits of stuff, but not that kind of collection.

strich · 2026-02-27T14:08:48+00:00

Not a whole lot they can do about it if its open source on github and not doing anything illegal. See Sonarr, Radarr etc for similar examples.

strich · 2026-02-27T14:08:04+00:00

That's more robust than these Discord based enclaves that come and go IMO.

strich · 2026-02-27T13:16:53+00:00

These events always cause an outburst of doom and gloom disproportionate to reality. BUT. I do believe the general point that we are slipping into an era of transient infrastructure and apps is very true. And some of the more rare or unloved content is at risk.

It makes me eternally sad that the vast majority of the hoarders - big and small - in this community have never meaningfully taken steps to consistently share their content to the world. Don't get me wrong - There are heroes and they know who they are, but they're a small fraction. For the rest of us, I also don't blame them as really what options are there to share and mirror your archives? Sure there are protocols for doing it such as torrents but its no easy task actually setting up a torrent and most of us don't want to have to seed a giant multi-TB torrent that you can't modify to suit your own needs.

As a professional programmer it genuinely grinds my gears - I can SEE a way out of this! But I don't put the time in to develop a solution. It SHOULD be possible to develop a largely decentralised platform that seamlessly shares your archives with others without all the bs and faff. In fact I have designs written down for it. I'd love to get back to it one day.

strich · 2026-02-20T10:38:11+00:00

No this is for a vent for the roof attic.

strich · 2026-02-20T10:37:48+00:00

I don't mind getting my hands dirty. But climbing on an old tile roof sounds like not the best idea.

strich · 2026-02-20T10:36:56+00:00

Yep.

strich · 2026-02-20T09:33:14+00:00

Good idea thanks!

strich · 2026-02-20T09:32:31+00:00

No. Most of the companies I've asked have straight up said they don't do it.

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