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    2 months ago

    But not run by the original owners. And the current team is really shady. I wouldn’t trust downloading an .exe from there.

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            2 months ago

            In that case your comment doesn’t make much sense, because when people say “don’t trust that torrent site” they mean the contents of the torrents hosted there. In fact, if you use magnets, you don’t download anything at all from torrent sites ever.

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                2 months ago

                So is your point to argue semantics?

                “Downloading” colloquially referes to the proces of saving some data onto persistent storage device. When you open HTML pages they are loaded directly into RAM. They might be saved to drive if they are cached. But no regular person would refer to that process as downloading. Even I, as a webdev, don’t.

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                    There is a vocal contingency on this website that have no fuckin’ clue how any technology works, and they get really combatative when you even attempt to help them learn. It’s really weird.

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                    2 months ago

                    I suppose, at this point, I want to understand whether you accidentally misinterpreted the context of the original comment (downloading .exe from TPB) or intentionally misinterpreted it for “comedic effect”.