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by frizlab 528 days ago
Love this. I continue to believe Torrenting is the best way to share files, particularly big files, rather than uploading them to some cloud instance with questionable privacy policies…
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I used the pipeline

   tar | gpg --symmetric | torrent
to transfer a 4GB collection of photos to a (technically skilled) friend on a slow mobile connection and it worked quite well. I could shut off my computer and it would resume the transfer the next day as if nothing happened.
Except when there's no seeds. Usenet seems to have solved this many moons ago.
And now with the added bonus that apparently anything goes, as long as you just say you're downloading training data...