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Comment · 3 months ago
Recently came across the NymVPN project (https://nym.com/), which makes use of WireGuard like fabric and a blockchain/smart-contracts, that implements a mixnet to obfuscate header and timing information of packets in transit. Is advertised to be more secure and better at ensuring privacy/anonymity than Tor. The service has been public for about a year now, but the interview with Harry Haplin, a founder of Nym, provides interesting insight into both motivation and what goals Nym is trying to achieve.
Comment · 4 months ago
Wow, lots of generalisations are being made in the comments. I'm German and have lived in the south-west for most of my life. I hope it goes without saying that Germany is a big country, both by space and population. We have some very dense urban areas (Frankfurt, Munich, and Berlin come to mind) but also very open "arsch der welt" hinterlands with villages of 100 people or fewer. This creates huge diversity in standard of living conditions as well as life experiences (and expectations). Some places are better than others, this isn't unusual. Thus, many experiences that people have written about can't be applied with any certainty to large swaths of the populace.
Regarding the DW article, yes language is a constraint and does cause issues with finding/keeping a job and integrating into one's area. Believe it or not, this can also affect us locals too [1]. The bureaucracy is often _difficult_ and people behind the counter can be unhelpful.
We definitely suffer from institutional inflexibility, leading to absurd situations, for example with our population of economically active refugees who will probably be forced to leave, which will lead to an even bigger job market deficit and possible economic decline [2], or how we blunder large scale projects like Stuttgart 21 (or 35 or 70?!?!)[3]. The German concept of identity and unity is also very complex [4,5], and sadly this reflects somewhat on our interaction with migrants. Couple this with complex domestic and international economic and political issues [6,7], and we now have a situation that is far from ideal for people coming here to work and build a life.
All this can be difficult to deal with for you who are planning to come here or those who already live here, and I really wish that weren't the case. Please don't be discouraged, we want and need you, for more than just helping to prop up our economy and welfare state (by the way, thank you!). I believe that the diversity of experiences and ideas you bring is a boon to our future.
[1]: https://archive.is/20240627085213/https://www.faz.net/aktuel... [2]: https://p.dw.com/p/539wt [3]: https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/stuttgart/s... [4]: https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/auf-der-suche-nach-der-deutsc... [5]: https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article13813483/Nati... [6]: https://www.focus.de/politik/deutschland/deutschland-ist-lau... [7]: https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/research_institute/hri-...
Comment · 4 months ago
Yup, use it regularly in order to jump through networks where a VPN/Wireguard setup is not possible. It can also forward DNS requests and handle local NS operations reasonably well, such that it can be used as a low-key split-VPN client (i.e. only forwards traffic for a specific domain or IP range without redirecting any other traffic). Note that for integration with `systemd-resolved`, one needs to jump through a few hoops, but I feel its works very nicely: https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle/issues/688#issuecomment....
Comment · 4 months ago
Nice! The project also has a 16-bit variant https://github.com/luke8086/gentleos, not clear if it works on 8086 IBM PC, but I'll give it a go. Been looking for a reason to power up my IBM PC again.
Comment · 9 months ago
fully agree!
Comment · 4 years ago
I really like this, nice work! Only thing missing for me is police sirens with flashing lights chasing me, on coming traffic, and Limp Bizkit and Bush playing in the background.
Comment · 4 years ago
Thanks!
Comment · 4 years ago
This is so cool!!! Props to author for the work, and also to ESA for allowing this kind of 'experimenting' :) .
Aside, it blew my mind that these cubesats are using sdcards for storage, is this intended for production or only now during the development phase? Is sdcard storage safe from electromagnetic interference in space, including solar wind?
Comment · 4 years ago
Wow, just began reading the article on a mobile device without an adblocker and am shocked to find that I don't follow it... There are so many in line adverts and image links to other articles, which share the same typographic style, it isn't clear to me what text is part of the article or an advert. It mind boggling that people even read this given the horrid UI.
This reminds me of a scene from Ready Player One, where the evil exec explains to the shareholders that they can fill like 70% (I don't remeber the exact number) of a player's field of view with adverts before the player suffers from seizures. Ad blocking might become health critical into the _not_ so distant future.
Comment · 4 years ago
Related: https://youtu.be/mzAfich6mow
Comment · 4 years ago
Maybe fairphone 4? From factory it comes with android 11, but a beta release of /e/OS is now available for it [1].
[1]: https://e.foundation/leaving-apple-google-e-os-is-available-...
Comment · 4 years ago
Very cool, but from 2017. I would have loved to see this in person.
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