Re: CoCo torrent?

Don Barber via Coco <[email protected]> Tue, 2 Jun 2026 08:45:20 -0400
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Hi Allen, Torrents are fixed; they contain hash values and changing the cont=
ents means a new torrent so what you=E2=80=99re describing won=E2=80=99t wor=
k.

What you=E2=80=99re describing is closer to my understanding of hypercore an=
d syncthing. I=E2=80=99ve never run those myself but might be something to l=
ook into.

If you want I can give you some s3 credentials to sync into an AWS bucket in=
 my account; from there others can sync down. We can probably do something c=
reative to make a =E2=80=9Cpublic read=E2=80=9D version of the mysql dump an=
d mediawiki conf files with the account and db passwords stripped out. Even t=
ho the account passwords are all stored in one way hashes, still best to not=
 make those too public.

Don

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> On Jun 2, 2026, at 8:24=E2=80=AFAM, Allen Huffman via Coco <coco@listserv.=
adelphi.edu> wrote:
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> =EF=BB=BFAny BitTorrent experts out there?
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> It seems we could benefit from a CoCo mirror of stuff as a torrent, allowi=
ng anyone who wanted to obtain all the files to just get them that way. Like=
wise, it would distribute all the files so there were redundant backups.
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> But can a torrent change? Or is it fixed once you make it? Like, if we mad=
e a torrent for scans of Rainbow, and then a new issue was added or somethin=
g needed to be changed, how would that work?
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"auto">Hi Allen, Torrents are fixed; they contain hash values and changing t=
he contents means a new torrent so what you=E2=80=99re describing won=E2=80=99=
t work.<div><br></div><div>What you=E2=80=99re describing is closer to my un=
derstanding of hypercore and syncthing. I=E2=80=99ve never run those myself b=
ut might be something to look into.</div><div><br></div><div>If you want I c=
an give you some s3 credentials to sync into an AWS bucket in my account; fr=
om there others can sync down. We can probably do something creative to make=
 a =E2=80=9Cpublic read=E2=80=9D version of the mysql dump and mediawiki con=
f files with the account and db passwords stripped out. Even tho the account=
 passwords are all stored in one way hashes, still best to not make those to=
o public.<br><div><br></div><div>Don</div><div><br id=3D"lineBreakAtBeginnin=
gOfSignature"><div dir=3D"ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir=3D"ltr"><br=
><blockquote type=3D"cite">On Jun 2, 2026, at 8:24=E2=80=AFAM, Allen Huffman=
 via Coco &lt;[email protected]&gt; wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div=
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tent-type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dus-ascii">Any BitTorrent experts o=
ut there?<div><br></div><div>It seems we could benefit from a CoCo mirror of=
 stuff as a torrent, allowing anyone who wanted to obtain all the files to j=
ust get them that way. Likewise, it would distribute all the files so there w=
ere redundant backups.</div><div><br></div><div>But can a torrent change? Or=
 is it fixed once you make it? Like, if we made a torrent for scans of Rainb=
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