OP here. Lately another person has been answering for me here :)

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I really like dillo! :)

Such a great lightweight browser for lighter hardware, or reading (linux phones / pinephone and such).

I wrote an article / i2p blog post about this, relating to past political schemes of Reagan and more for any interested: http://righttoprivacy.i2p/breaking-tiktok-blocked-in-usa-another-politician-hero-presentation-plan/

will someone give this man fakeboobs already

Hi.

For reference there was not an absolute yoke. It can't be for centuries. Rulers or the territories (principalities) were trading and making agreements with mongols. Probably normal people had not the best days, because the render fall on their shoulders in the end. But no one asked their opinion. And the rulers started to create alliances against the mongols when the conditions became worse and worse and the Great Horde weakened.

And as I don't believe that revolutions are made by masses, there is no way something like this can happen in Russia now. Maybe there is some kind of conspiracy happening right now in the higher circles, but it will not change anything. Maybe even more delusioned FSB official will have the power.

I'm afraid all this is for decades. Until all the Putin's generation generals, FSB higher ranks and so on become weak or even die.

Maybe I am to too pessimistic though.

Hi.

1. Russian propaganda picks one weird buy and will quote him over and over. Like Tucker Carlson or some ex-military. When talking about normal people, those who I know and are against the war, do not generalize the nation. They understand that from foreign perspective we all may look like orcs, but people who can think, will not generalize too. So to summarize, pro-war think that all Americans are enemies. Those who are against the war do not think of enemies, but rather just individuals.
2. Not really in general. Muslim regions are more religious. Most of the people in cities are secular I believe.
3. Well, I don't think that literature is censored by the origin per se. Mostly social networks: ex twitter, facebook, instagram, even linkedin. The reasoning was different: from demands to delete anti-russian posts to demands to move the servers to russian data centers. All of these demands were obviously ignored. There is weird situation with youtube though. It is not officially blocked, but rather slowed down to be totally unusable without ani-dpi measures or vpn. And officials regularly state that the slow down happened because of 'google cache servers degrading' whatever that means.
4. 90's were tough for many people. My parents sent me to the country area with my grandma because it was possible to have a vegetable garden there. And neighbors had cows and chicken. It was not all the years so difficult for us, but some were. And we lived in Moscow. I'm sure it could be much worse in smaller cities.
5. These things sound like a joke here nowadays. There were absolutely ridiculous cases. Like journalists were almost prosecuted for the banners which contained quotations from the constitution. And the case was about... extremism. And don't remember what was the penalty. Maybe it was just a fine but the idiocy of this case was astonishing. And it happened in 2013. Since then many things changed. People were prosecuted for a blue/yellow flower on a woman bag, for ani-war statements in a private conversation. Police can raid into the club looking for gays (yes, LGBT is admitted as extemist organization and :facepalm:), line up everyone and make them sing some pseudo-patriotic songs. The law works only one way. If you face against some military/police/agent, you are almost rightless. The power is the law now more that any time before. It is not a Mordor though. If you do not take part in any anti-war discussions, clubs, meeting, chats or whatever, you will be fine. You can walk, travel and live a normal life. You won't stopped, questioned or ensearched.

Well I'm not the topic starter, but live in Russia as well and can try to answer from my perspective.

1. I don't. Lot's of people are in favor of Putin and politics Russian government carries. It happens because of various reasons. Massive propaganda is one of them. Anything against the current political course is forbidden. Most of tv time is given to propaganda shows and news. I can't really say that there is majority in favor or against because everyone against has to stay silent and everyone in favor can scream as loud as they want. People with anti-war points can be prosecuted even for statements in private conversations or chats. And besides, revolutions are not organized or carried by masses. They are made with money and massive help from outside. I don't believe that any of these processes is happening right now in Russia.

2. Yep, that's exactly what they do. News mostly contain of war success stories (if any), some dad jokes about Biden or other western politicians, some worst stories from US or any European country. Like some ridiculous woke story or shoplifting in LA or even fires. And there always will be some connection to military help to Ukraine. Not exactly fighting for the motherland, because there is no actual existential threat so far. Some Kursk land was occupied but it is not widely covered because it is an obvious military fail. Narrative is more like fighting for peace in Donbass and Lugansk against Ukrainian nazis and NATO mercenaries and NATO weapons which wants to surround and weaken Russia. So as it is a mixture of nonsense and some reasonable things (which do not justify the invasion obviously), but still makes it easier to flush the brains.

if you're talking about running a reseed server through a vpn i think you could do this but i wouldn't. pretty sure you need an outernet domain name with ssl cert. if the vpn has a dedicated ip this could probably be setup, or look into doing reverse proxy through one of those dynamic dns things. never tried that so no idea if or how it'd work, but probably be easier running off a vps somewhere sans vpn. i know everyone loves cloudflare but that could also be an option https://homepage.np-tokumei.net/post/notes-i2p-reseed-over-cloudflare/

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I hope my guide helps you.

Thanks for the reassurance, I always make sure nobody has physical access to any of my devices unless I'm there with them. I'll look into the linux hardening tips as well

This is super cool, thanks for the link!! I'll def look into this

In short, unless the attacker has physical access to your box, you don't have much to worry about.

More info:

• https://eclypsium.com/blog/bootkitty-linux-bootkit/
• https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-research/bootkitty-analyzing-first-uefi-bootkit-linux/

For some hints on hardening Linux, try installing lynis and following the advice.

I'm involved in a project with the goal of improving security of Linux systems. The project is called: The Sovereign Project (http://sovereign.i2p)

The project's scope is to secure digital and physical resources accessible from Linux based computers. It uses elliptic curve digital signatures (Monero protocol) for authentication and supports Monero Proof-of-Payment in authentication policies. The Monero Proof-of-Payment provides for securing resources with the electrical power (watts) consumed by Monero miners globally (estimated at about 80 megawatt hours).

The project recently developed a Linux Pluggable Authentication Module that authenticates using monero digital signatures and optionally authenticates via Monero Proof-of-Payment to secure Linux systems. There is a bounty (currently 17 XMR) for anyone able to compromise a Linux system via SSH (Attack Bounty #1). The secured system for the bounty is addressable only from an I2P destination:

e5xemz5wfdbq4ujm6vvlvhtpjn3hp55a6pk5noo4jouigkd7de4q.b32.i2p

The Sovereign protocol is a message passing protocol (JSON messages) over the I2P network or SSH Tunnels on private networks and I2P and SSH Tunnel connections are interoperable.

The project was started in 2024 and its still in its early days and is targeted for highly secure systems.

Sovereign Project - Approach to effective cyber security: http://sovereign.i2p/steps-to-effective-cyber-security.html

The project is for those serious about security with technical competencies. It may or may not be suited to your needs.

Browse the eepsite to investigate: http://sovereign.i2p

I Agree with you.

I thought the problem was the same as with all the current Linux controversies. The woke PsyOp agents have infiltrated the major Linux distributions and are attempting to exorcise them of all rationally minded and free thinking people, creating instead a communist religion based on sexual deviancy.

Both localmonero and agoradesk state they have wound down last month.
Do you know what alternatives there are now?
Is openmonero.i2p reputable?

Edit: I see someone claiming the associated clearnet site openmonero.co is a scam, I will mask the link for now.

Edit Edit:
openmonero .i2p and .co are scams, I reached one of the sellers whose info had been copied. I found success in using retoswap (haveno-reto).

A famous super hacker recommends Lisp. See "Programming languages" and "How to learn programming" section.

Thank god I wasn't on Ramble this November, otherwise I would've failed right away

But I want to the snex

I'm sad that I can't like this more than once :(

Thank you very much.

Or maybe they're the ones who have something to hide, lol.