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Rambler wrote (edited )

Dude, I love it. I stream some from the yggdrasil site occasionally. Some good albums on there.

I added it to my Yggdrasil directory and I believe it's on the I2P one as well.

Merry Christmas to you as well and thanks for the music.

EDIT: Jamming out to The Flaming Lips now. Saw them live a few years back and it was a wonderful experience. Things stream well over Yggdrasil and my slow-as-fuck rural commercial wifi internet connection. (C'mon Starlink, let me beta you!)

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Rambler OP wrote (edited )

Ah, hell. Even the only outproxy worth a damn isn't in the default subscription list: purokishi.i2p

I've been advertising this site (ramble.i2p) and getting people to join and check out the I2P network without realizing they can't access this site and suggesting purokishi.i2p as their outproxy when they complain about the slow false.i2p default outproxy without realizing neither are accessible out of the box.

Glad I did a default vanilla install to test something out as a brand new user and realized this.

Is there a reason why you have to do register your domain in different locations to be on different subscription list (and wait days) and why the default one can't just include everything by default? Seems like it'd be a lot more user friendly that way, considering you can spin up a .onion domain in seconds, the same with a Loki or Yggdrasil address.

I like I2P a lot and want to see it grow but I didn't quite realize the shortcomings of the default, vanilla product.

The vanilla help/documentation states:

Speaking of address book updates, this would be a good time to add some more addressbooks to your own subscription list. Go to your Subscriptions Configuration page and add one or more for an automatically updated list of new hosts:

http://stats.i2p/cgi-bin/newhosts.txt (stats.i2p)
http://no.i2p/export/alive-hosts.txt (no.i2p)

Why not just include them by default instead of recommending them? That would add functionality and access out of the box.

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smooth_jazz wrote

Although some points are worded a bit... extreme, they make sense.
Protonmail DOES redirect you to their clearnet site for signing up, but this doesn't mean they are compromised.
And as far as E2EE is concerned, this depends on your threat level. You could use a different email provider (or self-host) and manually encrypt your messages. Or you could trust somebody to do this for you. And as far as a normal user is concerned, protonmail is a good start. Other claims in the article do seem far-fetched.

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Rambler OP wrote

I also have a paranoid.mail address, but it's unclear to me if they're still "around". Although I was able to get the clearnet mailservers working fine, and I love the pop3 access, I wanted to use it over TOR and no matter what, with the information provided, I couldn't get Thunderbird to accept the TOR mailservers.

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Rambler OP wrote

As someone who has never gotten "into" crypto, that's' more or less my ignorant understanding on it. I know it's more complex than that based on skimming some articles in the past but it seems like an accountability / ledger system in a sense.

Hopefully someone will come along and hit us with some knowledge though.

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Rambler OP wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by RichardButte in Life Pro Tip by Rambler

Wait until you learn about food dehydrators. You can dehyrdate just about anything, things like pasta and chili do well. Sometimes you need to separate the ingediants, sometimes you don't.

Just add hot/boiling water and let it soak. Boom, you're eating homemade chicken fettuccine in the middle of the woods miles from civilization on a backpacking trip.

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Rambler OP wrote

The next step is rather to have personal end-to-end, peer-to-peer communication systems.

Which some platforms have, it seems, but then you're stuck communicating to only those within that platform. I believe ZeroNet has something similar, where you could technically email me at nxm9c2wjbjlhjsrc@zeroid.bit but I never check it because no one ever uses it. You can also mail me on I2P's network as well, at (I forget) @mail.i2p, but once again, it's network specific.

Whoever can get the major networks and up-and-comers to agree upon some sort of standardized P2P E2E encrypted mail system that can be accessed from anywhere, then you'd have a winner.

But I doubt that's possible with all the various networks working hard to implement their own vision.

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Rambler OP wrote

This article reads like an NSA operation to convince you to move away from a Swiss based provider (where they can't intercept) to a provider that is based in Germany (a 14-eyes country) or similar jurisdiction where US intel has easy access.

It very well could be, and it's hard telling in this day and age. I just stumbled across the article and thought it was worth sharing and discussing.

For what it's worth, I use protonmail myself.

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RichardButte wrote

Reply to Life Pro Tip by Rambler

If you put boiled spaghetti in a tumble drier you extract the moisture and they dry out again so you can save it for later. If you're not in a rush you can hang every individual spaghett to dry, they become straight when dried and they'll even fit back in the original packs!

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