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.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Your browser downloads the web pages which includes the magnet text

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don't know what you want

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago

There aren't that many. A good chunk of us here are Linux nerds. You don't have to be condescending about confronting (I assume) intentional misinterpretation of comments.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 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".