Screenshot of a portion of transmission-gtk, a BitTorrent client, showing a file named `debian-13.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso` that is Seeding to 1 of 39 connected peers at a rate of 352.5 kB/s. It is a 3.99 GB file, and my peer has uploaded 5.32 TB worth of data associated with the file, a ratio of 1,333.

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>And this is exactly why Linux distributions have been distributing ISOs using torrents for years. Aside from the sort of piracy thing, that's the other thing that BitTorrent gets used a lot […]

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RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116218229348059739

impossible to quote myself because i am always speaking in like a 10-layer run-on, but, still thinking about private/public social systems that support resilient digital social systems, around 33:45....

> instead of it being one #sciop […]

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We were on librarypunk again to talk about #sciop. True to form I talk too much and they had to split it into two parts... Again...

librarypunk.gay/e/160-sciopnet-feat-jonn...

We spent a bit too much time talking about bittorrent and not enough time talking about the […]

Service Provider/Designated Agent Information Service Provider: Peertech Global Cyberindustrial Concern 8 The Green Ste A Dover, DE 19901 Designated Agent: Copyright Compliance & Essential Fluids Reclamation Division Peertech Global Cyberindustrial Concern, LLC. 8 The Green STE A Dover, DE 19901 Status: Active Effective: March 1, 2026 to Present

#sciop is now DMCA registered agent official thanks to a generous corporate sponsorship by Peertech Global Cyberindustrial Concern, LLC.

Micky (@mickylindlar@digipres.club) *digipres-related job opportunity in hannover* Are you interested in the intersection of webscraping, BitTorrent and safeguarding research data? ;-P As part of the DFG funded project SHIELD @tibhannover@openbiblio.social is looking to fill 2 TV-L 13 positions, full-timed, fixed term through dec 31 2027: Research Software Engineer for Digital Research Infrastructure https://www.tib.eu/en/tib/careers-and-apprenticeships/vacancies/details/stellenausschreibung-nr-7-2026 Data Engineer/ Research Data Manager https://www.tib.eu/en/tib/careers-and-apprenticeships/vacancies/details/stellenausschreibung-nr-6-2026

(This is a job to come work on #sciop)
https://digipres.club/@mickylindlar/116025881444877358

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Have had to work on some other things lately, but returning to #sciop and wrote a blog post about current status and our plans for federation - it's about that time. Just need to do one more feature (commenting) and finish up some work for main job responsibilities, and it's off to implementing […]

It's full. Learn more: #resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #sciop #torrent #publicdata

It's full.
Learn more:
#resist #fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive #sciop #torrent #publicdata
#democracy #usa #gop #fascists

👉 Vote 'em Out!

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Here's another #FEP for representing torrents on activitypub :)

short, sweet, and with a reference implementation and tests!

towards a federated bittorrent tracker with #sciop !

PR: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/714

Discussion […]

It would be nice if #sciop linked to the actual document for datasets tagged with "takedown_issued"

Would #FreeBSD be better for seeding massive amounts of data over BitTorrent than #Linux because it's better at disk I/O?
#sciop #AnnasArchive #archival

A "whats new" box embedded on the sciop.net homepage, it's styled as a windows 98 alert box, blue gradient header bar, pixelated bitmap fonts, and beveled edges and all. it contains two posts: The Modern Webseed 25-08-29 - Jonny - sciop-blog We have added the ability to add and validate webseeds to torrents from the website, so even if you can't run a torrent client, you can join the swarm and keep endangered information alive. Welcome to SciOp The Blog! 25-08-26 - Jonny - sciop-blog This is the start of the sciop blog! and the alert messages at the bottom read Swarm Churn: Optimal NAT Holepunching: Occasional

the haters all scoffed when i "embedded a whole set of bitmap fonts for a single use" but i knew i was following the light and the way. #sciop is in its "intelligibility" era, where we will do things like "tell people what is going on" and "comment on […]

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Indexing 233 datasets with 927 uploads. 13416 peers, 8590 seeders sharing 216.8 TiB in 8514732 files. Swarm capacity 1.0 PiB

#Sciop hit a Petabyte (actually a Pebibyte but nobody knows that word) of total proven capacity a week or two ago. That's all the seeders * the size of the things they are seeding. All volunteers, zero dollars in funding, piggybacking off existing resources […]

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First post on the #sciop blog - on adding webseeds from the web interface and why this is cool for bridging archives and bringing bigger systems into the swarm. If you can't run a bittorrent client but still want to seed, this post is for you!

with art from @aud and @lina […]

Im making a blog for #sciop because we keep doing dope shit and not writing it down. Putting a call out for guest artists who want to contribute fake GeoCities era banner ads

Datasets - SciOp Preserving Public Information

Worried about #Smithsonian data and collections? We are too. Our friends over at #SafeguardingResearchAndCulture have been hard at work helping with #DataRescue and adding Smithsonian information to #SciOp.

Check out their available datasets and please spread the word: sciop.net/datasets/

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#Smithsonian #sciop

jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social) Last week trump announced plans to "review" 8 Smithsonian museums. Today he doubled down, very explicit about the intent to revise history to reflect the ethno-nationalist fantasy of US history. You ...

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#Smithsonian #sciop

sciop-scraping scraping code to use with sciop-coordinated scrapes

documenting things, or adding a crawler of your own and calling a scrape quest, you are more than welcome - sciop isn't just for what we target, it's a place for any threatened information and anyone can participate.
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#Smithsonian #sciop

codeberg.org/Safeguarding...
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#sciop as well as a bittorrent client running on the machine (currently qbittorrent only, but prs welcome for other client integrations), so if you have logged in, then the torrent will automatically be uploaded to sciop and added to your client.
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#Smithsonian

• We write scrapers for each set of things that need to get scraped, hopefully refining the process so we need to write less each time

The sciop-cli can manage your login to #sciop as well as a bittorrent client
running on the machine (currently qbittorrent only, but prs
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#Smithsonian

the first round of scraping is almost done, but if there are any remaining parts to download by the time you see this, then the scraper works like

• Sciop has an API for claiming a dataset/part, so the CLI queries the api for the next unclaimed thing to download
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#Smithsonian #sciop

smithsonian - Tag - SciOp Preserving Public Information

digital archives of those museums on sciop.

You can take direct action to preserve the historical artifacts the right wants to destroy:

1) you can download a copy and seed it, every seeder counts. Subscribe to the #Smithsonian RSS feed to auto-download torrents as they are scraped.
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#sciop

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if you are seeding anything on #sciop (or anywhere else too) using qbittorrent (and probably other clients too), you should increase your max torrent size to something like 2GB - that's what's causing the recurring problem that many people have flagged to us where their torrents seem to […]

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Last week trump announced plans to "review" 8 Smithsonian museums. Today he doubled down, very explicit about the intent to revise history to reflect the ethno-nationalist fantasy of US history.

You can do something about that! We are backing up the digital archives of those museums on sciop […]

2025-08-09_WHY2025_publish.pdf Link für 2025-08-09_WHY2025_publish.pdf freigeben.

The slides of my talk at #WHY2025 "Safeguarding Research & Culture: Save public data from the digital bookburnings!" are now online:
https://hu.berlin/SRC-WHY2025

More context: https://program.why2025.org/why2025/talk/B8DANE/

#SafeguardingResearch #SciOp

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Some of you may have seen the news re National #Climate Assessment Reports
www.cnn.com/2025/08/07/climate/wrigh...

A friendly reminder:
They are all accessible here in this archive from November https://globalchange.govarchive.us/

As well as on […]

I just downloaded every single #torrent from #SciOp and am ensuring that all of them are now in the #antifa torrent server. btw does anyone want the complete 1.2 gigs of torrents from SciOp in one ZIP package? #resist #...

I just downloaded every single #torrent from #SciOp and am ensuring that all of them are now in the #antifa torrent server.
btw does anyone want the complete 1.2 gigs of torrents from SciOp in one ZIP package?
#resist #...
#democracy #usa #gop #fascists #fascism

👉 Vote 'em Out!

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man i just had a series of extremely good ideas* that are very simple and very implementable for #sciop that i think will cause an absolutely disgusting amount of (good, intrinsically deduplicating, actually decrease server load by creating a supporting swarm of peers) public data scraping to […]

@ai6yr open call for radio people to team up with @SafeguardingResearch and #sciop to snatch the data from the satellites, decode, and re-upload as torrents to replace critical infrastructure with something even better