Hey, so I have recently bought a raspberry pi 4 to use as a selfhosted Nextcloud and Immich server. I also thought about other stuff, I could host on there when I am not using the processing power and bandwidth and I came to the conclusion that I could seed legal torrents (I live in Germany, so I can afford no risks), that are ideally helping humanitarian projects (something like linux distros or open science data. Do you guys have some good ideas for where I could look for torrents that can effectively help people?

  • Zarathustra@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Kiwix - they have downloads of various educational resources including subsets of Wikipedia which can be taken on a USB-stick to far off remote places that don’t have reliable internet access.

    You can find the available downloads at library.kiwix.org

  • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksMEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I’m building this hosting service and while testing the torrent aspect of it I uploaded the Linux mint torrent and I’ve been seeing it ever since.

    In general, most large FOSS torrents benefit from additional seeders (although I don’t think many are in lack thereof). Beyond that, I think I vaguely remember wikipedia and internet archive having a torrent component.

    • BurgerBaron@piefed.socialEnglish
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      4 months ago

      There’s no warning anywhere saying so, but torrents have been broken on archive.org for years now. I can’t remember the specifics but many torrents if IA is the only seed you’ll get stuck at 99.9% and it’ll never complete.

      Infuriating.