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Desdinova wrote

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Aliens of that knowledge wouldn't interfere with us.

Nobody knows what hypothetical aliens would or would not do. We have lived on closely with dogs for thousands of years, and we don't even know why they do some of the things they do. We can't make any kind of educated guess what a creature that evolved in a completely different environment would or would not do.

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idk OP wrote

The reason we stuck with mtn for so long is that mtn checkouts are always resumable. You can get partial ones and pick up right where you left off. It was an incredibly important feature, and one that Git still does not implement for git clone. To do a successful checkout on the old crypto required checking out at --depth 1 and even then could take multiple attempts. Things are much better now, but it's still comparatively slow and inconvenient to check out a ~389mb repository over git than it was with mtn. But git is resumable once you have at least a shallow clone, and moreover git can produce a git bundle which is a file that works exactly like a git repository for the purposes of cloning. So what you do to turn the crisis(git non-resumability) into an opportunity(redundant copies of the whole damn repository history everywhere) is start is you start generating git bundles of i2p.i2p every once in a while, at regular intervals(I recommend the tenth of the month) and distributing them with bittorrent-over-I2P. That way, you can download a near-complete copy of the repository from many peers and spend a minute or two --unshallowing the result, rather than cloning to --depth 1 and repeatedly --unshallow until you have a complete repository.

There are actually even cooler things you can do if you apply some git-transport magic and a way of providing a single memorable alias to a series of infohashes, there are some systems that do this it's just a matter of porting their dependencies into the I2P network or replacing them.

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hideyourlies wrote

I'm not sure if this would work but would we be able to have avatars maybe, just to add something to our profiles, maybe awards like reddit but more exclusive rewards.

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Rambler wrote

Before anyone asks, yes, this is fine.

Links to markets, discussions about them, reviews, etc is okay.

Using this website as a direct platform for organizing purchasing or selling however, is not. Just assume if anyone PMs you requesting or offering anything like that, that they're a cop, because they probably are. Keep that stuff in the designated places of the web and we're good.

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Rambler wrote

Plus KeePassX has a nice extension for Firefox.

I literally did not know this. I've been ctrl+c ctrl+v'ing for years.

Hmm. I trust KeePassX more than I do things like LastPass. I may have to give that a trial run and see if it completely alters my internet life or if copy/pasting all day isn't so bad.

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hideyourlies wrote

I'm a big cocaine and ketamine user and I recently dabbled in psychedelics and my experience was out of the world, you vision the world a lot differently after an acid trip, or at least I did.

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hideyourlies wrote

I just like it's simplicity, the captchas can be a bit of a issue but it's never been down for me, always worked like a charm.

SIGAINT was a great mail provider on TOR but it went offline a few years back now and never resurfaced, I was thinking of actually setting my own TOR mail server up but never got round to doing it.

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Rambler OP wrote

After some mediocre debate involving the creator of the software that powers this website and her lack of support of free speech I figured I'd ask the community here what they thought. After all, this is your community.

While the main topics of discussion here stem around technology, privacy, information sharing and anonymity networks I also don't believe in stifling speech so long as it's in the appropriate, user created forum.

I'm working on a bunch of wiki content as well, and I'll go into detail as to how you can block both a forum and it's content as well as specific members of your choosing from your view. This way, if you have a moral objection to the content of any forum(s) or member(s) you can erase them from your existence here and carry on as if they do not exist, because to you, they will not.

But hey, that's just my take on it. What's yours?

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Rambler wrote

KeePassX.

Though it's a pain in the ass to use sometimes when you have a different password for every thing in the world, it just feels better than using something like Lastpass which is actually super convenient but I don't trust an in-browser password manager.

Bad thing is that it more or less makes it impossible for me to log into anything if I'm not using my normal devices, which is rare, but it is what it is I guess.

I learned my lesson years ago when some website database that had my information in it was leaked and I had several accounts hacked. You think Twitter is going to help you? Try regaining access to an account when the email address associated with it has also been compromised. It's a nightmare, and in the end, I gave up.

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Rambler OP wrote

Good point. Not to mention they'll have first hand knowledge of who you're communicating with, the frequency of community, length of communication or hours of communication. They probably have GPS data knowing where you were when this communication took place.

Without even knowing what is said, you can build a somewhat thorough profile on someone based off of just that.

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