Searches with the readable filter on returned scrambles: with a random
4-letter query nearly every hit was one ("Zx5AjNaK-mh7CFg6Hf8uu",
"Description - Lt5nHjlo3RiuBb3C", "PsNdnYiugfZ", "bd5b...-addon"), and
15% of a 6,000-row sample of the catalog's readable names were. looksRandom
knows single-token shapes only; separators, spaces, a random "extension"
of any length and a packaging word hid the rest.
isUnreadableName (lib/release/readable.ts) and names::is_unreadable_name
read a name token by token: words (one case or Capitalized), scrambles
(letter/digit and case switches, lone letters between capitals, inner
capital runs, few vowels, hex) and neutral tokens (digits, codes like
S02E10 and 1080p, CamelCase, packaging words); a name is unreadable when
its scrambles outweigh its words. Scene tags' "i" for "I" and the
NZBSPLIT hash are read as such. On the evaluation sets: 554 of 559
random-search names caught, 0 of 630 real names flagged (LOG.md (129)).
The edge's readable flag and the prober's inner names use it; the drop
rules keep looksRandom, which is narrower. An unnamed release goes to the
pending store (decision f), so more of the obfuscated groups' releases
wait for a probe now. releases:readable clears the flag on the existing
catalog's rows by name (a dry run by default).
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pending_ladder.ts claims the oldest waiting pending releases' next target
(par2, archive, lone, 7z-tail in that order) as at least PENDING_SHARE of each
claim; a usable name (the largest named file of a par2 set or a listing, or a
lone file's yEnc name, neither packaging nor random) hands the release to the
namer, no name the next target or the end of the climb; climbs count on
pending_signatures per (tool, group, poster) and (tool, group), and a signature
with 100 climbs and 0.5% named or fewer is dropped: its waiting releases are
discarded without a probe, the rules' sample excepted. pending_namer.ts reads
a named release's articles again from the corpus or by XOVER and writes it to
the catalog under the pending key (source weak-stem, the name as inner name)
with its chunk and candidates. Migration 6400; config PENDING_*.
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7z keeps its file list at the end of the archive, so the 7z-tail
candidates (the last segment of the highest volume) were queued but
never probed, and the .7z.001 start only gave the type. The prober now
claims 7z-tail candidates after the archives; lib/sevenzip finds the end
header in the article, decodes the LZMA-packed header (a TypeScript port
of the LZMA SDK's reference decoder) and lists the files with their
sizes. An AES-encrypted header means passworded without names. Names
feed the inner name and the judge's fake rule.
An unsplit .7z of several segments now also gets a tail candidate, and
.zip files an archive candidate: their first segment's local headers
give the first entries and whether they are encrypted. Both in the Rust
edge and the TypeScript indexer.
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- XoverClient.bodies: PROBE_PIPELINE (8) BODY commands per connection at
once, replies read in order (one at a time it ran 3-10 articles/s on 6
connections against a queue of 1M).
- Claims in tiers: lone files first, then par2 sets and archives of
releases without a readable name (what the par2 merge needs), then those
of readable releases.
- probe_cache: final answers by message-id (status, inspection with the
16 KiB hash and par2 file list), PROBE_VERSION 2. A reset empties the
probe queue, not the cache; recreated candidates of probed articles are
answered from it without the news server.
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The prober stores, per probed article that starts a file, the MD5 of its
first 16 KiB (file_hashes), and per par2 body the set's whole file list
(par2_files, par2_sets): FileDesc holds the same hash per file, whatever
the file was renamed to. releases:merge (the merger service, no NNTP)
merges every minute the releases of one group, posted within 48 hours of
a release holding the set's par2, whose files the set describes, into the
one with the most files: chunks, probe candidates, inspections, hashes and
counts move; the par2's shared name when none was readable; release_merges
keeps what went where. Obfuscated uploads whose files were each a release
of their own ("[9/20] - "14f5999a…"", hep: 13,232) become one.
Also: corpus_sweep.py counts the marked ranges without psql's command tag.
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Lone candidates are often par2 volumes of random-named sets
("42507096….vol007+08.par2"): their yEnc name was taken as the inner
name. Packaging names are skipped for lone files too, and a name that
starts with the release's own name says nothing new.
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A release can have several candidates of a kind (two RAR sets): keyed by
(release, kind) both landed in one upsert ("ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE
command cannot affect row a second time"), and the batch was lost.
release_inspections is keyed by candidate now; the first run's results
are cleared and probed again. A random-named file's yEnc name is often
its random name: an inner name equal to the release's name is dropped.
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probe:run (compose service prober, PROBE_CONNECTIONS, default 6) claims
waiting candidates of settled releases (lone, then par2, then archive),
fetches each article with BODY over connections of its own (no
compression) and inspects it: the yEnc name and size, the content type
from the first bytes, a par2 set's files, a RAR volume's entries and
whether they're encrypted. Results per release and kind in
release_inspections (CHUNK_TABLESPACE, the HDD); on the release
passworded, inner_name (the largest content name) and inspected_at.
430 = missing, not yEnc = error, both final; connection trouble puts
the candidate back.
Fetch and parse in one process: an article takes ~0.1 s per connection,
parsing a few ms (no queue in between). Parsers from voyager 1 (lib/yenc,
lib/rar, lib/par2, lib/content sniff) with their tests; XoverClient.body;
yencode.
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