ShellMonkey

joined 10 months ago

With both myself and my kids having a healthy dose, it's an eternal self learning journey. You might have some insights after years of living with it that they don't but you still don't entirely know their heads either.

I like to push the idea of known truth reflections. If things get confusing and chaotic take a bit to redirect towards some thing or fact that is undeniably true, and then use that pause to clear out the noise in the rest of things.

It's not saying anything is abnormal, but just taking a bit to clear the clutter.

[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 11 points 7 hours ago

Immunity for official acts, did he retroactively abuse and defame her in his capacity as ~~king~~ president?

[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

True, there where often these little green chilies in her stuff she was sure to warn about. Not sure what type exactly but the did bite back.

[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 4 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

From the few times I've had properly made Indian food, I'd generally not call things spicy, but certainly lively. The flavors don't tend to be subtle at all. Lady I worked with made her own curries and just a tiny bit was enough to flavor a whole bowl of rice.

[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Which one is that? If it's not bloated up with crapware it sounds like one on a future considerations list.

Everything they do should be treated with suspicion.

[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 74 points 1 day ago (18 children)

So many useful features lost in service to slim and waterproof theoretically. Replaceable batteries, external storage, 3.5mm jack...

At least Hannibal had a functioning brain that could maintain coherence.

[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Very cool, glad you found a hobby... 👍

They do that in regular court hearings too. The one asking questions has a story they want to present and details tend to make that more difficult.

[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The design with the original freenet could be described as a collective communal hard drive. No individual knew or had control of what content, or more likely portions of content, their node held. They simply offered up an amount of space to the net along with bandwidth.

The data was all encrypted and defined by content hash keys with each request being passed from node to node asking for the key. If the node had it then it was passed to the node requesting it from them, which may or may not be the originator of the request.

Same way with inserts of content. That passing back and forth up a chain makes things functionally anonymous, but easily bottlenecked if you have some slow node in the path.

By not knowing or having control what's stored on their own node it gives the operator plausible deniability in theory. Not sure if that was ever properly tested in a court.

[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Hmm, though it's exceptionally tough to corral illegal use without attribution, that notion of anonymous posting was one of the principal drivers of the original project. Whistleblowers and the like have solid needs to be able to get info out without it being traced back.

Of course, illegal would have to be defined as well. Inevitably disclosing classified info is illegal, but in many cases not immoral.

 

MN state investigators being sidelined by the FBI

 

So I was just renewing a contract with a VPN provider, and paid out for a couple years it works out to somewhere under $2/month.

ISPs around me can run from about $50-$150/month

If I'm putting the major bulk of my traffic over a tunnel that could eat up a sizable chunk of a given connection point for the provider that I'm sure costs more than $2/month to maintain. I would have to assume it would take the combined subscriptions of several users to pay for a given node.

So how does that work as a business model? Unless these VPN providers are getting a steal on their connections it's hard to envision how they can manage to pay their costs without these nodes being absolutely bottlenecked when a few people start streaming some shows.

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