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		xenator on Oct 24, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Protomaps – A free and open source map of the worl... You can't modify files, because torrent file itself is just sequence of chechsums. But there is RSS extension that allpo to pipe updates of new files.

nextaccountic on Oct 24, 2023 [–]

But with BEP-46 you can, right? (BEP-46 apparently doesn't use RSS)

I was asking like, how widely is BEP-46 adopted in practice. It's a spec from 2016!

https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0046.html (discussion on HN at the time, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12282601)

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