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What FOSS projects in need torrenting? (self.opensource)

submitted 2 years ago by zephyr to c/[email protected]

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I read that The Internet Archive is having financial and legal troubles, despite being one of the most important projects on the internet.

Are there other projects that can be supported by "computing power"?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Back when COVID was in its prime, I was contributing CPU/GPU cycles to Folding@Home for protein folding simulations and working on a vaccine. Since then, I've reimaged my desktop twice. I should probably reinstall the BOINC client to contribute again...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Rosetta@home on BOINC did some great work on helping COVID-19 research https://boinc.bakerlab.org

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Wait I thought google solved protein folding.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

For donating compute/storage/bandwidth to community archiving, this is a great place to check out: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/

Just my opinion, but I think they're a great project to support.

[–] hyperreal 6 points 2 years ago

Perhaps not in as much need as TIA, but I like the concept behind https://academictorrents.com/ and seed what I can