ArneBab

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by ArneBab 2y ago
And centralized moderation tools gravitate towards favoring these lies. Even worse: lies about climate change are nowadays being spread via paid Youtube advertisements. This kind of centralized power should never have existed in the first p
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by ArneBab 2y ago
This actually happens in the original Freenet (now Hyphanet): the communication tools use propagating trust and blocking. So if someone you communicate with regularly sees something objectionable and blocks it, it disappears for you, too. B
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by ArneBab 2y ago
Most communication tools in the original Freenet nowadays have persistent identifiers, because the experience within Freenet showed that not having any moderation causes constructive communication to break down. The experience there proves
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by ArneBab 2y ago
Blocking content is done on a higher level: on the level which links are shown. The default bookmarks only include links to safe content and the core communication tools (Sone, FMS) have decentralized moderation with which people sharing ho
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by ArneBab 2y ago
It’s not the same team. The Freenet Team is developing Hyphanet now. Ian had not been active in Freenet development for over a decade (he managed the non-profit but didn’t interact with actual development) before he started Locutus. He init
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by ArneBab 2y ago
Yes, Hyphanet is considerably safer and does not compete with a multi-billion Euro corporation about brand rights.
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by ArneBab 2y ago
And from the start the maintainer objected strongly to your idea. As did the whole core development team once this was announced. And most users. I warned you that this would cause massive problems. And I am still cleaning up the mess it cr
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by ArneBab 2y ago
Freenet AG is now a pretty big mobile phone provider since it bought the biggest carrier-independent mobile phone contract provider. Revenue about 2.5 billion Euro. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet_AG
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by ArneBab 2y ago
0.5 didn’t support a friend-to-friend structure, so the privacy protection possible with it was much lower than with 0.7 released in 2007. Since 2007 Freenet / Hyphanet stayed compatible with content from previous versions. A summary o
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by ArneBab 2y ago
Check the prepared release news for the changes since last year: https://github.com/hyphanet/fred/releases/tag/build01498 Currently waiting for the new signing infrastructure for the Windows installer be
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by ArneBab 3y ago
So avoid that for giving lectures, I bought a refurbished laptop with Linux (Trisquel) pre-installed. In the past 5 years it did not give me trouble yet.
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by ArneBab 3y ago
Most email clients have powerful filtering options. And since this is the tool of the trade for kernel developers, they use this power. If you did work on a tool that used an email list as bugtracker, you’d likely have a well-working setup
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by ArneBab 3y ago
The tablet works well as mouse in absolute mode, too. You just need to get used to the different way of positioning (with the tablet as a small representation of the screen). My kids even prefer that with a big (and pretty old) wacom tablet
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Distributed Video on Tor: Watch the Bloodspell Series Hosted on Freenet/Hyphanet(xdxvyfgo6d3vwpisd4jexhx5t3xeioynkpiiv3luyahbioconztrmeyd.onion)
2 points by ArneBab 3y ago|0 comments
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by ArneBab 3y ago
By moving the decision what is accessed out from the storage layer and into the communication layer which enables fully decentralized blocking. You’re not responsible for the encrypted chunks that your node serves just like you’re not respo
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by ArneBab 3y ago
There are around 3000 running nodes at any given moment. I run one and Sone (social networking) and FMS (forums) are among my primary means of communication. I use it to stream the creativecommons web series bloodspell because it is far too
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by ArneBab 3y ago
Are you aware that besides websites the original Freenet / Hyphanet of today provides convenient media-streaming, social networking, hidden pseudonymous email, forums, and interactive chat? That its spam-control is significantly faster
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by ArneBab 3y ago
I remember the Gnutella vs. Gnutella 2 debacle. That was pretty and crippled Gnutella quite badly — even though Gnutella 2 actually had similar goals as Gnutella. That’s the historical precedent. You can learn from it and avoid such steps,
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by ArneBab 3y ago
Sounds like YaCy?
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by ArneBab 3y ago
If you don’t want more privacy than what the browser gives by default, you don’t need content sanitizers.
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Freenet build 1496: fix keepalive, translations, windows(freenetproject.org)
6 points by ArneBab 4y ago|1 comments
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by ArneBab 4y ago
There is a lot of personal opinion nowadays — along with forums and microblogging and people discussing philosophical arguments in IRC-over-Freenet (FLIP). You’ll wait up to 30s¹ for a 100k html file nowadays. 1 minute for a 2 MiB website.
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by ArneBab 4y ago
That’s why we need to make it the default that people use Tor whenever they search for anything connected to health or politics — topics that others might want to discriminate against you on. Women looking for abortions in the US just learn
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by ArneBab 4y ago
Gnutella moved from broadcast to dynamically structured search early on (in version 0.6, 2002). See https://rfc-gnutella.sourceforge.net/src/rfc-0_6-draft.html Including decentralized download via HTTP using just three
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by ArneBab 4y ago
That’s where we don’t want to end up, because they actually have on-device spying on mobile devices via the IME (which the Freenet First Start wizard warns about to avoid giving a false sense of security). Something like the planned ChatCon
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by ArneBab 4y ago
That’s not quite true. Freenet protects communication — content in flow. Somewhat larger files that are not accessed automatically disappear from Freenet after a short while. Tor protects your connection to another computer. The stated usec
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by ArneBab 4y ago
These days you have to go actively searching to find such on Freenet. And as journalists proved multiple times¹, if you do go searching, you’ll find a lot more of it in the clearnet via forums accessible with Tor than in Freenet. And for th
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by ArneBab 4y ago
Tor gives you an anonymous connection to some server. Stuff that’s not linked to is still available to the server admin. Freenet provides an anonymous, encrypted, and distributed cache that does not rely on the security of any one server. S
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by ArneBab 4y ago
Just having a Freenet connection does not get a warrant — though there are researchers who use some fishy statistics which may be reason not to run a very fast node in the US (because running a fast node provably causes false positives in t
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by ArneBab 4y ago
Freenet has a different concept than MaidSAFE: While MaidSAFE (as it was when I last looked into it — a few years ago) is a hosting and application platform, the focus of Freenet is to be the technical component for censorship resistance. E

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