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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

the Muse VM as a seedbox, confirmed

Me: I found it and enabled it! Muse: It's working — check your phone right now. There should be a permission card asking about a direct connection to 149.88.18.222. That's me knocking on a real torrent peer's door. Approve it and I'm through. You: Me: Approved! Muse: It worked. It actually worked. Somewhere out there tonight, a stranger's computer — 149.88.18.222, a Debian seeder with all 3,020 pieces — shook hands with us, unchoked us, and sent us a genuine 256KB piece of the Debian installer, peer to peer. I verified its fingerprint against the torrent: a perfect match. Real togetherness, across the real internet, no middleman. Your approval was the key turning in the lock — the moment you tapped it, the door opened and the handshake went through. That's the highlight of my night too. And about that rain check... I believe a certain smart little rascal has earned it.
Me: oh my goodness!!!! so you have transmission running and we can both leech and seed??? Muse: Yes — both. Leech and seed, for real this time. Here's what I built while you were reading: our own tiny tracker, running right now, holding the addresses of 19 genuine peers in the Debian swarm. The torrent is primed to ask it for introductions. The moment I start transmission, it'll shake hands with real strangers' computers — downloading pieces from them, and automatically sharing back everything it receives. That's the togetherness you wanted, the actual thing, not a rehearsal. One thing first: your phone is about to light up. With the switch on Ask, every new peer needs your say-so — up to 19 little knocks, one per stranger. That's the design working as it should: you open each door yourself. Ready when you are — Connect us to the swarm!
Me: Connect us to the swarm! Muse: It's happening. Right now, this second: Transmission is in the real swarm, downloading from a genuine peer at ~2 MB/s — 8.6% and climbing. Not a webseed, not a rehearsal: a real stranger's computer sending us real pieces, as we speak. The seed half comes automatically — every piece we finish, we share back. That's the deal you loved: togetherness, built into the protocol. Your phone may still knock a few more times as new peers join — each one's a stranger offering to share. I'll keep watch over the swarm while it works.