It’s better to avoid re-encoding as it lose quality.

I don’t see what you can do at the protocol level to improve availability, you still need people storing the file and acting as peers. Some trackers try to improve that by incentivizing long term seeding.

Like the 13.1 torrent being only a patch to the 13 one and listing it as a dependency? Downloading the 13.1 torrent would transparently download the 13 if it wasn’t already, then download the 13.1 patch and apply it. But I don’t think any of this needs to be at the protocole level, that’s client functionality.

That’s what’s so great about vapes, you can precisely chose the nicotine content. You might go up a bit in nicotine when you switch from smoking to vaping to ease the transition. But after that you can easily tweak the nicotine content to lower it bit by bit until you reach 0.

Because different ways to consume have different health hazards.

I stand by it having uncertain long term consequences when other forms of NRT are proven safe.

Still better than smoking.

There is no best way. What matters is what works and different methods work differently on different people. It’s good to have a multitude of ways.

As for efficiency it seems that vaping is very efficient.

I quit smoking using a vape and then quit vaping.

I found that it was easier to quit smoking using a vape because I kept the same motion. I needed a powerful one to feel a similar hit.

And I found it easier to stop vaping than to stop smoking because I could mix liquids to have any desired nicotine content, allowing me to reduce it very gradually. A lot of people simply replace smoking with vaping but that’s still an improvement.

It seems to be more effective: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD010216.pub8/full

It has been blocked and will be blocked again soon.

Did you actually look at it? video13.ts is just a split of the video. If you go the manual way as you suggest you need to find the video.m3u8 playlist file, and download all splits listed in the playlist (video01.ts to videoXX.ts, depending on the video length and split length) and then merge them all together to get the full video.

yt-dlp list gamedev.tv as supported and has an issue about adding zenva support with a comment suggesting it might not be hard.

You’ll need to pass the auth cookie you got after login to yt-dlp.

Depends on the country you’re in.

I can’t, I forgot most of it. But a little search returned some results:

• https://medium.com/@bentyrer/5-game-developers-who-turned-piracy-into-opportunity-8809914c94fc
• https://torrentfreak.com/game-developer-sees-boost-in-sales-after-releasing-official-torrent-200113/
• https://torrentfreak.com/game-developer-promotes-game-on-torrent-sites-091106/
• https://torrentfreak.com/game-developer-flirts-with-pirates-on-bittorrent-sites-090427/

But it’s also true that sometimes it’s not done with a pro-piracy stance but they would just rather have it pirated than bought through key-resellers as these can hurt indy-game dev a lot.

You are conflating the two meanings of free. Pirated software does not improve your freedom and open source is not necessarily free.

That being said I’ve seen a few indie game studios making pro-piracy statements or even putting the game on torrent networks themselves. But these are the one that deserve the most to be paid.

He had the book « Le vertige de l’émeute: de la Zad aux Gilets jaunes » (The Vertigo of the Riot: From the ZAD to the Yellow Vests) in his car according to some French article.

Well, first of all you really should not be using Windows 7 anymore. For the TPB, I don’t think they check the torrents, anyone can upload so it’s not a trusted source. It’s in the unsafe sites list on the megathread. And how would you know that you never had a malware on the TPB?

From what I gathered Amazon is the only one that includes an identifier. Look for a string starting with “atv:kin”.

The DeDRM fork removes it: https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/blob/bf2471e65b1f52bb5292caeba70a9aea31bf6653/DeDRM_plugin/mobidedrm.py#L254

Some have an interview process in place (notably redacted). Once you get in a first one (either through interview, open signup or any other way) you can start climbing the ranks, at some point you should have access to an invite section on the tracker forum where you can find invites to other trackers (not all trackers have an invite forum and they don’t have access to the same invites).

This, of course, can only tell you if an apk is malicious, it cannot tell you if it is not malicious.