ReversalHatchery

@ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org

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Signal leaked random contacts to me! (feddit.de)

When I press on some message to forward it, it shows me Random usernames of contacts I don’t know. And it even shows some Mobile Numbers I don’t know. For example, one number starts with +964 that’s Iraq. I’m from Europe tho. These contacts and numbers are from all over the place....

ReversalHatchery,

So Signal does not protect against those that fill their contacts with every existing number?

But also, this does not explain why is it only happening in the desktop app for OP

ReversalHatchery,

piped.video is working fine now, including subscriptions listing (it even shows some privated videos!) and playing a video

ReversalHatchery,

Even you were comfortable giving your address and name to 4 other parties

They have never said that, did they?

ReversalHatchery,

Where did they say that they were comfortable doing that? I don’t see a word or an acronym of it.

Sometimes you must do things that you are not comfortable doing, but you just can’t avoid it. Doing that for the ISP (who need to set up the cable into your home and the gateway) is not the same as doing that for e.g. netflix or facebook.

ReversalHatchery,

I can also google that the earth is flat

ReversalHatchery,

Or, you could just shut up and not say “just google it” anymore. I think that’s the real solution.

ReversalHatchery, (edited )

See, here I searched for it in the internet, the earth is flat: duckduckgo.com/?q=the+earth+is+flat&ia=news

Even The Guardian confirms it!

This is a garbage method. You can find everything and the opposite too by searching for it on the internet.

ReversalHatchery,

Oh, that’s sad news. These are really great tools :(

ReversalHatchery,

I was experimenting with the Cadence tools from KXStudio. These are mostly made for JACK, but PipeWire has a JACK interface so it should work. It’s similar to helvum, but with more options.
Not sure right now which one (maybe Carla), but one of these programs also support adding sound effect nodes that have their own GUI! You probably want to use it in multi-client or patchbay mode

ReversalHatchery, (edited )

Well, yeah, about the speed… it’s not fast. And probably never will be fast as plain internet. Just imagine what is happening: each service you connect to is usually 6 hops away, which in the worst case (where each pair of peers is the furthest possible from each other) would require traffic to take 3 rounds between e.g. west asia and the usa. Here’s an other explanation with a diagram: geti2p.net/en/faq#slow
But that’s just the latency, and it can be tuned. If you want to play online games with a group of people over I2P, you could use for instance a 1-hop tunnel, and ask the others too to use a 1-hop tunnel, and now it’s totally different. Of course this hurts your and the other players anonymity, but it could be acceptable, especially if you make it select a router relatively close to you.

Bandwidth is again a different topic, I think that could improve even without sacrificing on the tunnel length, with more (relatively) high bandwidth routers joining the network, but of course your tunnel’s bandwidth will always be limited by the slowest router in the chain. Fortunately there are ways to have a tunnel through more performant routers.

On how does it work: when you start up your router (a software package, through which other programs can use the network), it asks a bunch of preconfigured servers about known I2P peers, through a process called reseeding. Afaik there are currently 12 preconfigured reseed servers, but you can bring your own, or if you know someone with an I2P router who you trust, they can make a reseed file for you which you can import.
After that, your router will talk to the other routers it now knows about, and ask them too about the routers they know.
This means that it’s better (while not necessary) to have a dedicated machine on which a router is always running and online, instead of having it run for the 30 minutes every time you power on your desktop. It doesn’t have to be powerful, it can be a low power consumption SBC (like a raspberri pi or similar), and I think it’s also possible to set up an unused android phone for this purpose with an app, but you probably don’t want it to use your mobile data plan.

On why is it better for torrenting: I don’t remember the details on that.
What I remember is that it’s often said that the protocol was “built for that”.
But there’s also another thing: vandwitdh is naturally less of a scarcity here, compared to Tor. Connecting to the network requires the use of a “router”, which besides giving access to it for you, also automatically contributes to the network with your internet connection’s bandwidth capacity (except if limited by the tech of your ISP, like with CGNAT; it can still contribute some but usually it’s less), and in turn most users will provide a “relay” to the network. On the Tor network, most users are just users, their clients are not participating in routing the traffic of other users, and so they are only consuming the capacity provided by others.
Also, afaik torrenting on Tor always needs to make use of an exit node to access the tracker and all the peers, while on I2P it all happens inside the network, without placing a huge load on outproxies (exit nodes in I2P terms)

Also, here’s a comparison between I2P and Tor: geti2p.net/en/comparison/tor

It may seem that I2P has a bunch of downsides, and it may discourage you from using it, but let me tell you how I think about it.
I don’t use it for everything, just as I don’t use the Tor network on a daily basis, but when I need it it’s there, it makes me easier to search on a few private matters, and it runs in the background so I’m basically effortlessly helping the other users, when not counting the initial setup and the electricity costs of course (the former was not much, and the latter does not depend on this in my case)

ReversalHatchery,

Do we hate them, all of them? Personally, I don’t.

ReversalHatchery,

How is it not decentralized?

Traffic is flowing through computers of volunteers, that part is indeed decentralized, but your client needs to find them, and that happens through a centralized service, through a “directory authory” if I’m not mistaken

ReversalHatchery,

I’m using something developed by Russians, said I’m not disliking Russians, and now I’m a russophobe. Ok. You do you.

ReversalHatchery,

Yes, it is not as decentralised as you have thought. I thought this is a fairly known fact. If you need something truly decentralized, I2P is probably the way.

ReversalHatchery, (edited )

Here is the list of the currently available directory servers: metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/flag:author…
This article claims that their list is hardcoded, but honestly I’m not sure right now whether it means you can change it.

I2P has a mechsnism for banning routers, permanently or temporarily.
It looks it knows what to block from a local blocklist file and from a “blocklist feed”, but I don’t know what’s the latter right now. I hope you can excuse me on that, I’m also quite new on the topic.

ReversalHatchery,

I remembered this XKCD from the image: xkcd.com/1683/

ReversalHatchery,

Or “but it does not compile”

ReversalHatchery,

So this is not about ubuntu, but really just any kind of linux? What a shitty title

ReversalHatchery,

If course it’s not on the OP, it’s on Phoronix. This is a shitty title from any party, but from them last least I would have expected more, instead of just attributing the performance to a specific distribution, the most corporate-y one no less.

ReversalHatchery,

Isn’t Nothing a phone manufacturer?

ReversalHatchery, (edited )

If you find the torrent files or the magnet links you used, and you add them to your torrent client again, it should be able to pick up your existing files and seed them (if you haven’t renamed or moved the files). Before you do that, make a backup of the files at least for the first few torrents, in case the client starts overwriting your existing files. In that case you may need to do something, like to start a “recheck” operation. If it hasn’t done that for the first few, it’s safe to assume it won’t either for the remaining.

ReversalHatchery,

“This connection is untrusted” “SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN”

The irony.

ReversalHatchery,

I’m not sure if at this point the browser verifies whether the cert is even legit for github.com

ReversalHatchery,

I remember reading there, when it wasn’t on github pages but it’s own website, the recommendation to keep your critical dotfiles permissioned to a different user account of yours. I don’t think that’s bad advice. Yes it is probably not needed if you use the system as a pro sysadmin for server purposes, but for desktop use it’s just natural that you’ll run a lot more programs in a much less controlled manner.

Of course there were ones that I thought they went overboard, but it has at least a few good pieces, if not more, I don’t really remember.

ReversalHatchery, (edited )

I would be interested in a proper solution, but recently I have found a way to make custom icons for specific Konsole instances. Maybe you could use a similar approach.

I have made a copy of the program’s desktop file and placed it in /usr/local/share/applications/ with a slightly different name, and given it a new icon. Then I have made a new window rule, that sets this desktop file for windows that start with a title having a specific pattern, and made Konsole to start with that title using an undocumented command argument I have found on their bug tracker.
This is very hacky and I don’t like it, can’t wait until it breaks, but it’s all I have found.

An alternative way may be to make a symlink to Konsole and start it through this symlink, and somehow identify the window by the executable path… but window rules don’t support that. Maybe through some other way? KWin has a scripting API… hmmm…

But a problem you’ll probably have to deal with when setting the title is that the program can set it’s title any time, and at least some of them (including Konsole) routinely do that, in that case based on the selected tab’s title. There’s a setting to turn that off… but as I have experienced, it doesn’t do what I expect, if anything. Maybe by listening to title changes you can force your will, if that is possible.

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