lostuser

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[–] lostuser 3 points 5 days ago

Kimwolf Botnet Swamps Anonymity Network I2P #63863 (github)

LOL. Looks like someone had their entire botnet connect to the network, though it wasnt malicious.

[–] lostuser 3 points 5 days ago

As for this idea, it sounds alot like that monero development program which has progress trackers and rewards, which does seem to work somewhat well for getting stuff done, atleast in the monero community.

[–] lostuser 2 points 5 days ago

Would you rather have a big community, or a few people who actually are competent? The problem with having a big community is that it becomes diluted with irrelevant people and eventually enshittified, as seen with your previous chat. It would make more sense to focus on building connections to actual competent and like minded people, instead of having a big place for discord privacy refugees and the like.

[–] lostuser 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Found this: https://git.sr.ht/~shrub900/neuswc "a fork of swc with many more features and fixes implemented, including wallpapers, screenshots, and better cursor handling"

Pretty sure its from the derive linux guys.. they seem to be doing alot of good work at making wayland "suck less".

Also see this site: https://wayland.fyi/

[–] lostuser 1 points 1 week ago

Shut up and post 2hu.

[–] lostuser 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"easy" is a stretch. Another user already posted about this:

"My understanding of i2p is that it's extremely difficult to have any impact with DDOS on the i2p network. It's basically impossible if you cycle your Id and eepsite. Who ever is doing the attack on the network has to have a huge margin of the bandwidth to control/ throttle data. It's how the network protects itself from these types of things specifically, and why many tor users switched, including myself a few years ago when tor was on a month long ddos site hostage situations constantly and most services couldn't be accessed.

This literally shouldn't be possible unless someone is hosting an absurd amount of the network. Like a letter agency or some entity similar.

This kinda of is a validation to me that invisible internet is a optimistic dream rather then a reality we can strive for away from abusive surveillance."

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by lostuser to c/tech
 

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.

[–] lostuser 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

r*****n spotted

[–] lostuser 2 points 2 weeks ago

yeah, what the other guy said, didnt reddit already exist?

[–] lostuser 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

freer

i just told you how its not, unless you mean "free software"

private

debatable

Matrix

sucks

[–] lostuser 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

people, even in so-called hackers/nerds/privacy communities, tend to use whatever’s popular and convenient at the moment, not what’s “good”

fair point, but odd of you to assume that XMPP is whats popular at the moment, when its probably the most least used thing. i mean, just join a few chats, youre bound to see mostly the same names in every roster. maybe its convenient, especially for phone users, but thats neither here nor there. XMPP clients themselves have alot of issues, that is no secret. also, if youre relying on a "smart" phone for communications, how much do you really care about privacy? i bring this question up because you said "user-friendly clients (including mobile ones)". as for "hacker/nerd" communities, ive managed to find much more productive ones on IRC, and barely any active ones on XMPP, especially if you have more niche interests.

Not that I’m defending those blacklists, but it doesn’t change the fact that server operators aren’t forced to implement them, right?

yes, youre correct. but its still a problem when a large portion of the federated network implements it, because even if you dont use it, your server or JID can be added to it, and youre still blocked from a large portion of the network.

Edit: a solution might be to try and convince other server operators to stop using it, but good luck with that.

[–] lostuser 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

In which ways did you find it limited?

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by lostuser to c/xmpp
 

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.

[–] lostuser 2 points 2 weeks ago

A friend recommended ministral 3b. On your own hardware. Runs on "lower end" equipment.

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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by lostuser to c/tech
 

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"?

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