Hey guys I am new to life on the high seas. Could someone please point out websites from where I can access torrents for Megastat and Minitab software (Crack versions). These two different software are used in statistics. I am teaching myself business statistics and need access to these software. They are both paid software.

  • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    21·
    1 year ago

    Minitab:

    magnet:?xt=urn:btih:925d2464b9cc100aecefb06251ff8191b2ce5e3f&dn=[FTUApps.com] - Minitab v21.3.1 (x64) Multilingual Pre-Activated

    I never crawled a megastat torrent sorry.

    • ellipse@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I don’t think we should encourage downloading a magnet link from a random stranger on lemmy, could you link the site or aggregator where you found this?

      • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I cannot because there isn’t one. I crawl DHT nodes from a magnetico instance I host.

        The site or aggregator would be exactly as trustable as me, anyway. You don’t know me and you don’t know what is on the site. If you’re worried about the magnet’s content, your client should have a way for you to check the torrent’s content before you actually pull the files. If that’s not enough for you then I don’t know what would be.

        • Barzaria@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Would you be so kind as to explain what DHT nodes are and what a crawler is? I’m new and haven’t heard these terms.

          • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            For a while now, clients on the torrent protocol can find other clients that happen to have the same torrents as them through the Distributed Hash Table. The simplest explanation i can manage is that if you know a torrent’s hash (kind of an ID number specific to that torrent), you can derive through math and a bit of networking magic (and some public servers) where to find other people who also have this torrent’s hash and ideally the files you want. i’m skipping over a lot but this system means that if all trackers on a torrent go down, you can still hopefully do this process and find other people who have done this process without the aid of a tracker which is a point of centralization.

            This is all pretty bonkers but it gets better: consider the previous, and now ask the question:“who’s to say i have to know a torrent’s hash before finding people who have it? what is stopping me from simply doing the derivation math on random numbers and finding out if people do have any torrent with that hash?”. that’s the basis behind DHT crawlers. i have a server at home that runs Magnetico, which generates random hashes, finds out if there is a torrent with that hash that people are seeding, and if so gets the file list and title and saves it to a database that i can query with a web interface.

            Of course, most of the time there isn’t a torrent with that hash (there is math you can do to have better odds but ultimately i’m carried by my fibre connection), but if you spam hard enough you do find some torrents, most of which are porn, and if you find enough you start finding things you care about. i have been crawling for 6 months (only during night time. the networking specifics mean that my home router gets really bogged down by the amount of connections i make, and using the network normally becomes really slow) and to date i have found about a million and a half torrents total. far from being a complete collection but a great way of finding both popular and niche things.

        • ellipse@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Ah I understand about the dHT. There must be a way to find the original source tho right? I’m not sure I agree when you say that the site is as trustable as you. Sites and uploaders are vetted. That’s why there’s a wiki, if a trusted uploaded includes malware he would be banned, if he isn’t banned, the site would be removed from the wiki.

          • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I guess the original source is right there in the magnet’s name. I have never visited that site though so I cannot vouch for it.

            I guess my point was that whatever site you would find such obscure tools on wouldn’t be on the wiki’s list (and/or if it was OP would have checked there first wink wink)