Nyuu VS libarchive

Hopefully that slowly stops being the standard: https://github.com/animetosho/Nyuu/wiki/Stop-RAR-Uploads

Can someone eli5 how to do it? I've looked at https://github.com/animetosho/Nyuu/wiki/Usenet-Uploaders but I don't know to how to install these. The github links on that page are confusing to me as I don't know where to click to actually download the programs.

* does depend a bit on how crazy/complex you want to go I suppose. My NNTP implementation ended up being a lot less straightforward, as I put a lot of effort into error handling / retry functionality (which I don't see implemented in most libraries), and speed optimised yEnc isn't exactly straightforward either

It's used as a poor man's BitTorrent equivalent for FTP, in some prominent sharing circles. Of course, BitTorrent exists, but getting some people to adopt technology invented this millennium can be difficult. It's also still used by many Usenet uploaders likely due to misconceptions on how the system works. Again, it makes little technical sense today, but it's an old environment with a lot of old traditions.

That's the conclusion I came to, but contrary to expectations, I saw newer uploaders lowering it to 700k for compatibility instead. - https://github.com/demanuel/NewsUP/pull/67 - https://github.com/animetosho/Nyuu/issues/1

You do not need to split your file. RARs are unnecessary on Usenet https://github.com/animetosho/Nyuu/wiki/Stop-RAR-Uploads

In theory, it's possible if there's no missing articles and uploaders stop RARing uploads.

All the posting tools make a NZB file as they upload https://github.com/animetosho/nyuu

Yet another reason to get uploaders to stop RARing uploads. Just spreading the word around ;)

29. October 2021 At this point Jia Tan pops up, and the first thing we see from him is an innocuous patch to the xz repository, and while a lot of people believe he started out trying his luck with another library also known as libarchive, this is not the case, I would bet it’s more of a backup looking at the dates, being that there are a few days in between as shown in this commit.

Potentially malicious commit by same author on libarchive: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/1609

Full agreement, and with the addition of xpk¹/xfd² as natural extensions to that extensibility too. I see things like xfd supporting xz¹, and I'm simultaneously amazed that it exists and happy that I don't need to do xz {,de}compression on 68k ;)

I guess we have something similar-ish with libarchive⁴, but nobody(including me) has pushed the extra mile to get file dialogs to support random compression and decompression formats.

Beyond OT: I didn't realise how much stuff was still going on at aminet, but I love love LOVE that people are still dropping new car sets for Geoff Crammond's F1GP.

¹ http://aminet.net/package/util/pack/xpk_User

² http://aminet.net/package/util/pack/xfdmaster

³ http://aminet.net/package/util/pack/xfd_lzma.lha

⁴ https://www.libarchive.org/

I don't have a preview channel install handy to check, but apparently they're using libarchive so here's the full list assuming they expose everything it supports:

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki/LibarchiveForm...

As announced at the Build conference back in May, this build adds native support for reading additional archive file formats using the libarchive open-source project such as

LibarchiveFormats · libarchive/libarchive Wiki · GitHub

Seems what they're using is BSD-liscensed: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki