alt Hacker NewsWe probably wouldn't have had LLMs if it wasn't for Anna's Archive and similar projects. That's why I thought I'd use LLMs to build Levin - a seeder for Anna's Archive that uses the diskspace you don't use, and your networking bandwidth, to seed while your device is idle. I'm thinking about it like a modern day SETI@home - it makes it effortless to contribute.
Still a WIP, but it should be working well on Linux, Android and macOS. Give it a go if you want to support Anna's Archive.
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Great name haha. Is Anna a reference to who I think it is?
Nice project. I think it would be worth mentioning the legal implications, it’s illegally sharing content right? Best to run behind a VPN or on a VPS in a country that won’t come after you.
How is the anti-P2P enforcement these days? I think there are companies gathering bittorrent swarm data and selling it to lawyers interested in this sort of bullying. In Finland at least you can expect a mail from one of them if your IP address turns up in this data. However I think it is mostly focused on video and music piracy.
Did you just create Pied Piper IRL?
> We probably wouldn't have had LLMs if it wasn't for Anna's Archive and similar projects
AA and similar projects might make it easier for them, but I'm quite certain the LLM companies could have figured out how to assemble such datasets if they had to.
Hmm, seeding torrents with the added excitement that you don't know what torrent's you're seeding, and the client is written using LLMs. What could possibly go wrong?