ArneBab
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Comment · 1 month ago
Why 9? It’s 8 or 17+.
Comment · 1 month ago
Firstoff: "looked at the content that flowed through it" – if you tried, you would have seen that you cannot do that (without downloading illegal stuff yourself, which would be illegal if you’re not law enforcement with the task to do that, so I sure hope you didn’t).
And no one ever got prosecuted for the encrypted chunks of stuff they cannot decrypt on their disk. So this part is just fearmongering.
And to quote 2023: ”Freenet / Hyphanet shows up on hacker news and the top comment is advocating against running it because “we don't need privacy against the police“.” – “in the year after many states in the US outlawed abortion and police used period trackers to find women who might try to get an abortion”.
And the Russian poet who shares his poems on Hyphanet so they survive when police knocks at his door definitely does need this protection.
In contrast, the pedo-criminals around Epstein communicated via email.
And looking at the recent pedo-bustings, those communicated via WhatsApp, Skype, Game platforms, Music sites, and HD streaming, and they traded horrible material in volumes that exceed the current maximum storage in Hyphanet by orders of magnitude, and had 100x the members of the total user count of Hyphanet. Some info: https://www.infoportal-rg.de/2025/04/03/news-kinderporno-rin...
So the relentless fight within Hyphanet to not be a platform for pedo-criminals seems to work. It has moderation systems without centralized power but with sensible defaults.
Comment · 4 months ago
Summary:
1. takes unlicensed peptides, because the insurance declined to pay for what the doctor prescribed.
2. «“people generally don't try to quantify tail risks.” Among the people I talked to, this is true»
That’s a pretty bad outlook.
Comment · 5 months ago
If you work in the AI industry, it’s time to preserve the engineering innovations you built -- before the risk of a bursting bubble skyrockets.
- Did you build libraries to efficiently analyze specific data formats? - Did you work on lean and fast serialization? - Did you create optimizing orchestration tools for GPU-bound tasks with dependencies? - …
… then please try to get them released as FOSS!
That way you ensure that even if the bubble bursts, the fruits of your labor will survive and their legacy can improve software for decades to come.
(you’re welcome to extend the list in the comments)
Comment · 5 months ago
On Hyphanet (the original Freenet) there’s been working group chat via a Hyphanet-backed IRC server for over a decade (the server is named FLIP, the first working version was released in 2013, developed purely on Freenet/Hyphanet).
Comment · 5 months ago
There was no public debate, but he did start to talk to devs 18 months before, and the devs told him quite clearly that they strongly object to repurposing the name.
And that repurposing the name would cause lots of damage.
Comment · 5 months ago
yes, it chunks files, and aggregates multiple chunks per packet, and pads packets it sends around, so size analysis by the ISP cannot trace the path.
Comment · 5 months ago
There actually are: among the darknets, Hyphanet is the only one that has a main use for "deviant data resistant to censorship":
Example publication: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/135485651880663...
> What are the content patterns on Freenet? Four patterns were identified. Freenet is (1) an archive of deviant data resistant to censorship (2) a space dominated by content associated with masculinity, (3) a nonmarket space where commercial exchange is non-existent, and (4) an empty space with many requests not returning information, and many flogs abandoned. We asked a third question: How does the analysis of Freenet inform current understandings of hacker culture? Freenet, we suggest, can be understood as a type of digital “wilderness”. It is a singular darknet space, supporting a distinct set of hacker practices
Practically: people in Hyphanet blog about stuff they dare not blog about in the clearnet -- anything from radical politics (from all kinds, left, right, libertarian, …) over personal opinion pages to wilder stuff like magick (yes, in that spelling).
Not to forget the Russian Poet who’s posting daily poems with the goal (as he wrote) that those poems still survive after police knocked at his door.
(besides talk about hyphanet and privacy tech)
So yes: I don’t understand the downvotes either, because it’s a legitimate question with a pretty clear answer: yes.
Comment · 9 months ago
Last I checked the Koch Brothers weren’t Israeli. Do read up on them. Oversimplified narratives are bullshit.
Comment · 9 months ago
From the preface:
Why this book?
Providing a concise start, a no-frills, opinionated intro to programming from first define to deploying an application on just 64 pages.
What is Scheme?
Scheme is a programming language — a Lisp — that follows the principle “design not by piling feature on top of feature, but by removing the weaknesses and restrictions that make additional features appear necessary”.