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MrCoconut OP wrote

Reply to comment by johnbaconator in The technology is mature to form the first truly digital nation. by MrCoconut

I think that all cryptocurrencies lack the underlying asset to back their value, I am not saying they are worthless because the ability to make almost anonymous transactions has some value. Nevertheless I could not care less about cryptocurrencies, I care about the tools that these systems offers us, because what I am proposing is not replacing money it is replacing the government. What is needed to entice people to use this future system is security and fairness. To that end the system should have some immutable code at the center (this part would not be negotiable any change will ban the user of making any transaction within the community). Also and for me very important to the success is that this core code should include a basic income for all those registered as citizens, this compensation will be covered by the only possible tax the system will be able to make, which will be from a percentage of each transaction. Also important to avoid conflicts of interests receiving a basic will exclude you from the electoral pool. Anyway the thing is simple at the core but maybe is way too complicated to explain in this post.

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c00kiepast3 wrote

Reply to Cool I2P-hosted blog found (b32 only) by Yolli

I found this site from Lemmy.world two weeks ago. His clearnet address is something written in japanese with domain being .xyz, but the japanese letters get converted. Too bad I did not save it to bookmarks, but glad there is .i2p and tor domains too.

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z3d wrote

Reply to SimpleX Chat by revisionista

Best really is a question of what you want from a chat application. There is no best, just the best option for a particular user. For some, reliance on 3rd party servers to relay messages between participants is a point of weakness, not strength.

If you want a chat client designed natively for I2P that routes messages directly between users without the need for an intermediate server, I2PChat may be worth a look.

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banneredMare wrote

Reply to Is it possible to install I2P in portable mode under LINUX? by underk

I don't see what's so difficult, you need to point the installer to wherever the usb drive is mounted, usually /run/media/user/something/name-of-the-drive or similar, alternatively you can just manually mount it each time on /mnt/i2pdrive or something like that. All that ultimately matters is that all devices you run this on will have to mount it in the same directory and have a working java installation.

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Override wrote

Reply to New to I2P, have a few questions by ChilledPiano

+1 for looking at the tutorials from simp. It's a really useful website.

Here's a TLDR (but still look at simp's tutorials) :

  • Tor is centralized, in that there are a handful of special nodes called "directory authorities" that can essentially control the network. They are used to say who's a bad or a good node. They are in the hands of "very trusted people" but heh, it's a point of failure. I2P deals with threats differently, testing constantly every node it can find on the network and banning what it deems bad actors.

  • In Tor, nodes are run by volunteers. In I2P, everyone is a node. This means that more bandwidth should be available to I2P users and less DDOS or a more usable network. It also means that I2P is much more decentralized than Tor (something like 12 000 nodes vs over 40 000) despite having less users. It also means your computer relays the traffic of others and your traffic is "mixed" with traffic that isn't your own. It's very difficult to know if someone has a server, if they are browsing the internet, or are just running a basic node and relaying traffic.

  • As I2P is p2p, this means that you need to connect to other computers. People can know that you are on the I2P network, but don't know what your doing on it. However, unless you use special hidden bridges your ISP likely knows you are browsing Tor too. (And if the bridge is discovered, they will know you were on Tor).

- Tor is circuit switched. Once a circuit is build, all of the data will go through that route. In I2P (and if I understood correctly), a portion of the info you will send can go through any tunnel you build to the destination. A portion of the information will take a different path. Tor tunnels are also bi-directional and not unidirectional like I2P : when the server answers, it will answer to you through the same path, while in I2P, it will go through a different computer.

  • Tor only supports TCP while I2P supports TCP and UDP. This potentially allows for more applications to be built on I2P and also use less bandwidth.

The TLDR is that Tor is older in it's design and wasn't really designed for darknets. it's more a consequence of how it works. I2P aims to create a decentralized network and is designed from the ground up at darknets.

Now go read simp's webpage and fact-check me.

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Apron wrote

Reply to Is Dread's I2P mirror still up? by Zeroday

Somehow, someway, the Tor link is not working. I pass the verification and get a 502 bad gateway. Someone actually talked about this on r/DreadAlert - Anybody got hit with the 502 bad getaway ?. That was 3 days ago.

Dread has been down for a few weeks now and I am getting increasingly more concerned about HugBunter day by day. Wish you the best, man! <3

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cumlord wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by Super751 in Maybe someone knows what this site is hiding ? by Super751

haha could be anything, to me it looks like "there's a bug, i'm broken please fix" but it could be anything

tons of abandoned sites on routers from people that keep them running

for all we know it could be a front, some people do this as a honeypot to see what the vulnerability scanners are up to so they can protect their main sites better

there could be something else on another port or you need to auth somehow to see the "real" site

probably just a dead site though but you never know

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Super751 wrote

Reply to So what's being drunk like? by sleepycat

Wellll, maybe it's not a regular case, but if you taking some antidepressants or neiroleptics ..... the result is gonna be a different every time, but never that you wanna, you gonna behave unpredictably, and when I was on the party (actually I don't like to come to the parties, after truing some of them), we drunk some alco on the backyard of the club and it was a nice euphoric feeling, but then I was trying to talk with some of the guys I came with, but it completely wasn't successful, so I came to the club in hope that I will find a girl there, but because of the alcohol I was feeling my self more stressful then regular, so it was completely impossible. I tired to stay inside and came out to smoke some, but then one of my friends took me to the dance pool, it's actually not a great feeling when u don't wanna to dance completely, but then think like, "why not" "maybe it's gonna be fun" and a lot of your friends staying around u, what you have to do ? Well I came out from that club back to the dormitory and I decided not to go to any party, because I don't feel fun in that. But when I drunk with my friend (And it was a green Jack Daniels) it was just a good time, a little bit euphoric, but you must decide with who and where you will drink.

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