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Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion

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mococa · 1789921664 · focus · HN ↗
Steam & Blizzard (probably others) used to delivery games through torrent protocol in the past, before CDNs became cheaper.
When StarCraft 2 was lauched, the installer (before Battle.net installer crapware) had a complete graphical visualization of seeders & leechers.
Reference: <a href="https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Blizzard_Downloader" rel="nofollow">https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Blizzard_Downloader
1. alexpotato · 1789921895 · focus · HN ↗
  I've worked at trading firms where the "reference data master" file is usually a big json or equivalent.
  To get the file out to 100s or 1000s of machine they would often use private bittorent to distribute the file out.
  1. mococa · 1789922036 · focus · HN ↗
    Same here. Inspired by both, I used to delivery videos over torrent to in door machines since at that time, there's no CDNs (or it was difficult to get one).
  2. mitxela · 1789924274 · focus · HN ↗
    As a private network, they have the option of multicast.
    alexpotato · 1789933331 · focus · HN ↗
    When I retire and/or get "F You" money, I'm going to publicly tell a story about multicast, bittorrent and "not invented here" syndrome.
  3. ehe78qhe · 1789928003 · focus · HN ↗
    I've seen this used for distributing container images in networks with awkward network topologies (e.g. a lot of bandwidth within a site or sub-site but limited bandwidth to central registries)

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