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Its been affecting everyone on the network for over 24 hours now. Its been speculated that some three letter agency is responsible, due to the scale of the attack. If you've noticed any issues with your i2pd or similar software, this is why.

Update: A megathread was made on reddit for the situation: https://www.reddit.com/r/i2p/comments/1qvalmq/megathread_ongoing_attack_on_i2p_network_causing/

Some users suspect that this attack is somehow an attempt to try and deanonymize users, and it is recommended that you cease use of the network for now. Though i cant personally confirm or deny these claims.

Currently, if someone has a shiny idea (no matter whether it's software, political, or whatever else) it often just remains in his mind because there is no easy way to get anything done with it. Or sometimes the person performs a Rambo for a few months on some website, git repo, or whatever - and then it dies.

I want to eliminate this common pipeline, and make it easy to create projects (or find them if they already exist), join them, develop them, maybe provide crypto rewards, progress tracking, etc. Every shiny new idea would fit into this framework. And it would help it not die. But I don't know how exactly to do it. I suspect the components for it already exist, it's just a matter of putting them together.

We could have a database spread by torrents or other decentralized protocol that would list all the existing projects to join. And it might be hooked up to some website that would provide an UI for comments, crypto rewards, and progress tracking. The point of all this to me, is so that human effort and ingenuity isn't wasted because it's just too hard to launch. Which is what's commonly going on today. The Rambo loses steam and disappears.

What do you think?

Erm.

it should be abandoned by anyone who cares about these things. Not only does it leak a fuckton of metadata by default, there is a global censorship blocklist ran by a single person ( see xmppbl ) named jonas, which is implemented by a large portion of servers on the network and supposedly many clients, though i havent verified which clients implement it yet. for a "decentralized" network, there should not be a central authority that gets to decide who can interact with fellow users or other servers. The creator also actively tries to hide the fact that he is behind the service, and makes no mention of it on his XMPP wiki page. if this doesnt scream "ill intent" already, i dont know what does. previous chat logs proves that he runs it. the person also runs the jabber chat room search engine which has a history of censoring MUCs. To mitigate against this threat, its recommended to use darknet federation wherever possible. In an ideal scenario, like minded individuals would leave XMPP and opt for better alternatives, such as self hosting their own ircd over TOR and I2P, or using truly decentralized peer 2 peer protocols.

I would assume the majority of us avoid systemd, but odds are many of us are still running different standalone components from systemd/freedesktop/redhat. Lets post some alternatives to widely used freedestkop (or other) software that "sucks less", gnu replacement recommendations are also welcome. i'll start with a few:

udevd + libudev > mdevd + libudev-zero Works on my machine flawlessly, hotplugging devices works as expected with mice, keyboards, USB audio and external storage peripherals, etc etc.

wlroots > swc X11 sucks, but so does wayland, in my opinion wlroots largely contributes to that. wlroots has a huge codebase (~60k sloc, IIRC.), is overly complex, and often makes changes which result in compositors that are dynamically linked towards it to break after it is updated. a more stable and simple alternative seems to be swc, which has a much smaller and more manageable codebase, and writing a compositor with it seems to be a much simpler task, a good example might be velox.

GNU man-db > OpenBSD mandoc

gnupg > signify signify is an extremely simple utility used to cryptographically sign and verify files. it is not a replacement for file/message encryption.

whats some alternative software that you guys use, which "sucks less"?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42212169

I heard that Mistral Le Chat uses AWS servers. What are other alternatives that dont put money into us companies? At least datacenters.

I know that polish llm - https://bielik.ai/ chat.bielik.ai has own servers. What are other alternatives?

Why Le Chat is not using ovh or scaleway?

cross-posted from: https://narwhal.city/posts/525890

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cross-posted from: https://hilariouschaos.com/post/8292800

Via the software "Sharkey", which seems to be trannyware, but software is software.

Ok if so, but I was about to create an xmpp one, to bridge the gap so to speak. Since we live here now, I guess.