MrBlack OP wrote on December 23, 2020 at 2:25 AM

Reply to comment by self in How does a captcha prevent a DDOS attack? by MrBlack

Oh okay I guess that makes a bit more sense. I always thought a DDOS attack had to have a specific port or webpage as a target. But I don't know how one would be sent through the tor network and I dont even really know how they're sent through the regular internet other than it's just a bunch of requests from different locations.

Rambler OP wrote on December 23, 2020 at 2:17 AM

Reply to comment by self in What form of secure messaging is practical for every day use? by Rambler

I'll check it out, thanks.

self wrote on December 23, 2020 at 2:04 AM

Reply to What form of secure messaging is practical for every day use? by Rambler

The Matrix federated network offers E2E encryption and has plenty of pre made extensions/bots (open sourced) so you can link other networking services to Matrix.

self wrote on December 23, 2020 at 1:59 AM

Reply to How does a captcha prevent a DDOS attack? by MrBlack

From my understanding, the CAPTCHA is a very low intensity operation that barely takes any server load, while logging in ot registration or making purchases or even browsing like a script would do repeatedly to complete a DDoS attack. Having a CAPTCHA effectively prevents scripts from doing these high intensity operations multiple times per second.

For clear web sites this is an awful approach, but since you can’t really block IPs on Tor, it’s the best and most effective tool market owners have.

MrBlack wrote on December 23, 2020 at 1:31 AM

Reply to comment by self in If you could create any TLD, what would it be? by txt

That would be a good one for operating systems too.

pop_os is probably frothing at the mouth at the idea of http://pop.os

Toxicant wrote on December 23, 2020 at 1:21 AM

Reply to Facebook Is Facing Its 'Existential Threat' but It's Not From the Government. It's Apple. The two companies are battling back and forth over how big tech treats your privacy. by trevor

Not a fan of Apple products but if they want to fight for privacy rights I can get behind them.

Rambler wrote on December 22, 2020 at 11:01 PM

Reply to comment by Wahaha in If you could create any TLD, what would it be? by txt

Doesn't pretty much everything exist at this point already? I don't need any special top level domain.

Yeah, but unfortunately many names you want is taken. That's why the clearnet version of this site is ramble.pw, because it was available, and all the 'normal' TLDs were taken.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains

Most common word domains get squatted anyway. I've flipped many a domain in my time, and usually would just buy up things specific to a particular industry and then do nothing for a year or two then list them for sale. Buy a .com for $12, renew it once, got $24 tied into it total and then sell it for a few hundred to someone who will either actually use it or sit on it longer and re-sell it a year or two later for more.

Though my domain portfolio is empty nowadays, but when 'cloud' was the new buzzword for anything related to computing and hosting, boy did I make some extra coin.