Rambler OP wrote on December 20, 2020 at 8:14 PM

Reply to comment by Wahaha in Starting Sunday, cable companies can no longer ‘rent’ you the router you already own by Rambler

Loads fine for me but I block a lot of junk. I think I'll just start copy/pasting the full articles into the comments so that they can be read without having to give a click to what is more often than not a cancerous site for most.

XANA wrote on December 20, 2020 at 8:14 PM

Reply to Any interest in a multi-network IRC server? by Rambler

depends how it would work

Wahaha wrote on December 20, 2020 at 8:12 PM

Reply to Starting Sunday, cable companies can no longer ‘rent’ you the router you already own by Rambler

Why are news sites such horrible, broken messes that the only way to even read them is to look up the URL on archive.org?

chiefkeef wrote on December 20, 2020 at 7:12 PM

Reply to comment by Rambler in Has anyone done a FOIA request on yourself recently? How long did it take to get back? by rm_rf

though I'm not sure what all they'd share

If you haven't actually done anything to merit them investigating you (e.g. federal crimes, applying for a job with them requiring a background check) then not much. They certainly have access to a lot of data about you, but if they haven't slapped it in a report and filed it somewhere then it's not getting released under the FOIA. I only really bothered filing one for myself in the first place because I knew for sure there'd be something there.

Rambler wrote on December 20, 2020 at 7:10 PM (edited on December 20, 2020 at 7:23 PM)

Reply to A IRC chat room on Tor by piamie

Just so members know, someone has created dozens of accounts just to upvote this one submission.

Not saying it was /u/piamie but obviously I'd be suspicious and weary of any link that gets upvoted in such a dishonest and manipulative way.

Src: New user log with a bunch of new users using the format: [same-name][random-letters] all with 1 submission vote. Not hard to figure out what they're voting for when this is the highest voted submission on the site and when the amount of created accounts is within a few numbers of a 'normal' submission upvote. (Most things get 2 or 3 upvotes, so if there are 29 new accounts all with the same name, all that have only upvoted 1 submission... It's safe to say it's likely this one. I can't see what people vote for but I can see how many votes people have given out, but nothing specific.)

Rambler wrote on December 20, 2020 at 4:51 PM

Reply to When you've got the house to yourself so you get ripped and drink half a case... by MrBlack

Ha! I love Trailer Park Boys.

MrBlack wrote on December 20, 2020 at 4:11 PM

Reply to Overdose deaths far outpace COVID-19 deaths in San Francisco by Rambler

San Fransisco: come for the weather but stay because you slipped in a pile of human shit on the sidewalk and fell on a used hypodermic needle.

Actually it's not that bad but yeah they definitely need to do something to help out all the junkies roaming around. I don't give a shit if you do drugs, I do drugs too. But that place is rife with addicts and mentally unstable homeless. Not surprising drug use is up when it's tolerated and life sucks in general.

Rambler OP wrote on December 20, 2020 at 3:53 PM

Reply to Europol and the European Commission inaugurate new decryption platform to tackle the challenge of encrypted material for law enforcement investigations by Rambler

I've got a few opinions on the matter:

Rambler OP wrote on December 20, 2020 at 3:48 PM

Reply to comment by XANA in New I2P router is going strong. by Rambler

It's a server on a shared 1Gbps port, but the output depends on the I2P network demand and how congested the port is with neighbors.

Right now I'm averaging about 13Mb/s constantly, which in the last 12 hours or so the minimum demand was 8Mb/s and the max being 20Mb/s.

But if I wget a speedtest file...

$ wget -O /dev/null http://mirror.leaseweb.com/speedtest/1000mb.bin 
--2020-12-20 10:40:43-- http://mirror.leaseweb.com/speedtest/1000mb.bin
Resolving mirror.leaseweb.com (mirror.leaseweb.com)... 209.58.135.187
Connecting to mirror.leaseweb.com (mirror.leaseweb.com)|209.58.135.187|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1000000000 (954M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: '/dev/null'

/dev/null 100%[============================================================================>] 953.67M 46.8MB/s in 22s 

2020-12-20 10:41:06 (42.4 MB/s) - '/dev/null' saved [1000000000/1000000000]

Then I'm getting about 47Mb/s down while the router is still running/serving traffic.

Old server was 'faster' but I had monthly data caps and I never took advantage of the faster network anyway, I2P was never demanding enough to need to serve that much traffic at once:

wget -O /dev/null http://mirror.leaseweb.com/speedtest/1000mb.bin
--2020-12-20 10:44:16-- http://mirror.leaseweb.com/speedtest/1000mb.bin
Resolving mirror.leaseweb.com (mirror.leaseweb.com)... 209.58.135.187
Connecting to mirror.leaseweb.com (mirror.leaseweb.com)|209.58.135.187|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1000000000 (954M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘/dev/null’

/dev/null 100%[============================================================================>] 953.67M 60.1MB/s in 12s 

2020-12-20 10:44:28 (82.1 MB/s) - ‘/dev/null’ saved [1000000000/1000000000]

XANA wrote on December 20, 2020 at 3:47 PM

Reply to comment by TheMadCodger in What I like so far by RandomlyGeneratedUsername

You should talk to dr|z3d_ on i2p irc he will help you with setting up everything. Channel #saltr

Rambler wrote on December 20, 2020 at 3:05 PM

Reply to comment by !deleted261 in Which browsers can you trust enough to use? by Wahaha

What are you using now? Just curious.

Rambler OP wrote on December 20, 2020 at 3:05 PM

Reply to comment by !deleted261 in Google account banned? It's possible, and it happens - Android Authority by Rambler

Best thing to do, in my opinion. Never know when a company will flex to virtue signal... Shouldn't put all your eggs in the same basket.

Rambler wrote on December 20, 2020 at 3:03 PM

Reply to Best way to add an image to a Ramble post / comment? by jack_walking

Not yet, but I've got an idea. Hopefully will have something this week.

TheMadCodger wrote on December 20, 2020 at 3:02 PM

Reply to comment by XANA in What I like so far by RandomlyGeneratedUsername

My current problem with i2p is that I've never been able to really get it up and running. It seems to need a lot of configuration, which I can deal with, but I'm not sure if it's actually worth the pain of setting it up. Much like these others, there's not a lot of content out there (understandable), and I don't know that I really want to take that effort right now if the pay off isn't worth it.

XANA wrote on December 20, 2020 at 2:31 PM

Reply to New I2P router is going strong. by Rambler

What speed do you get?

XANA wrote on December 20, 2020 at 1:44 PM

Reply to comment by TheMadCodger in What I like so far by RandomlyGeneratedUsername

I2P is great. Cause it's not relaying on clearnet instead is like old internet without need to JS :)

jack_walking wrote on December 20, 2020 at 1:31 PM

Reply to comment by TheMadCodger in What I like so far by RandomlyGeneratedUsername

Totally agree with you.

Of course the situation right now is totally OK, but it may be useful to evaluate measures in case the number of new users skyrockets. Probably Rambler has all the statistics.

Seams I still can't remember how to symlink a user :(

Wahaha OP wrote on December 20, 2020 at 10:37 AM

Reply to comment by boobs in Which browsers can you trust enough to use? by Wahaha

It's truly sad that serving documents has morphed into the madness that are modern web browsers. And that we are kind of stuck with this.

TheMadCodger wrote on December 20, 2020 at 10:04 AM

Reply to comment by jack_walking in What I like so far by RandomlyGeneratedUsername

I agree with the first point. I don't live on Reddit like a lot of people and unless you happen to get somewhere just as a conversation is starting, you have no chance of being heard. That and it doesn't matter what stance you take on what subject, it seems like your inbox will always be flooded by a tonne of armchair experts informing you why you are wrong, usually in a less than civil manner.

As to your second point, do we know the number of users joining? I'm wondering if there's just an initial burst and then regrettably it loses steam?

TheMadCodger wrote on December 20, 2020 at 10:00 AM

Reply to comment by Rambler in What I like so far by RandomlyGeneratedUsername

Yeah wo/man, you've done an amazing job. Not only is it a very well put together site, the fact that you can access this from so many different platforms that I didn't even know existed a week ago is also super cool. By now I think I've interacted with this site from every direction that you offer except i2p... have never had good luck with that one in general.

Rambler wrote on December 20, 2020 at 9:25 AM (edited on December 20, 2020 at 9:26 AM)

Reply to New form of solar energy to enter US market by trevor

I wonder how efficient it is. Even modem solar isn't all that efficient in terms of electrical production. My old 100w Monocrystalline panels are more efficient than the cheaper polycrystalline panels but still kind of bad in regards to potential.

Polycrystalline panel efficiency ratings will typically range from 15% to 17% whereas monocrystalline panel efficiencies can range from 17% to 22%, so they still kind of suck. Not to mention producing batteries are harmful to the environment as well.

Would love to see the technology advance to very effective panels that can be mass produced so you don't need a crazy large array even for moderate power.

trevor wrote on December 20, 2020 at 6:47 AM

Reply to Poland's justice Minister announces online freedom of speech bill: social media companies will be fined for every post they take down that doesn't break Polish law by Rambler

I think this is a step in the right direction but with how the article is worded it makes it sound obnoxiously free speech. Like for example, if I were to say, "I think we need to make an ethnostate" and that got removed because it breaks the rules of that platform, am I still able to sue? Ruqqus has a good system for this where it doesn't outright remove anything, but allows mods to kick posts into a general board. But what about the platforms that weren't made with that in mind?

Rambler wrote on December 20, 2020 at 6:02 AM (edited on December 20, 2020 at 6:04 AM)

Reply to Which browsers can you trust enough to use? by Wahaha

Firefox ESR, since it what comes with Debian's desktop. But the browser alone doesn't do anything if your browsing and privacy habits are poor.

Definitely use some of the plugins mentioned here and use something like a Pi-Hole device to filter out unwanted junk (analytic trackers, ads, etc) at the network level. Can go all out and serve normal CDN junk locally too, things like fonts and javascript.

Just sort of depends on what you're wanting to do.

But to answer your question: Firefox for normal use (with some plugins and network stuff on my end).

RandomlyGeneratedUsername wrote on December 20, 2020 at 4:18 AM

Reply to Which browsers can you trust enough to use? by Wahaha

Tor Browser

https://2019.www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/

boobs wrote on December 20, 2020 at 12:25 AM

Reply to Which browsers can you trust enough to use? by Wahaha

there is no such thing as a trustworthy browser: https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/Reckless-limitless-scope.html

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