JD Vance "is Thiel’s creature", so personalized mass-surveillance just started its way into the White House.¹
If you’re not a Trumpist, you can be sure that all your non-confidential communication will be analyzed and used against you, so use the remaining month you have to setup confidential communication with your friends.
Signal may suffice for the start, but if you want confidential metadata, you may want to run and connect Hyphanet now:
https://www.hyphanet.org/freenet-hyphanet-build-1498-debian-package-optimized-networking-layer-richer-websites-ux-safety.html
@ArneBab Sounds a lot like freenet, are there major differences?
@hllizi Hyphanet *is* Freenet, but we¹ were forced to rename because the creator of the project decided to take the name freenet for his new pet that doesn’t have privacy as its goal.
See https://www.hyphanet.org/freenet-renamed-to-hyphanet.html
¹ the people actually working on the project, doing releases and so on, but not sitting in the board of the non-profit. See the archived mailing list thread linked in the article if you want to know why along with the renaming also separated completely from FPI now.
@kami_kadse You’re welcome
Please write if you run into any problems.
@hllizi
@ArneBab @kami_kadse think I'm also going to set it up. But iirc it only really makes sense if you run a local server, right?
@hllizi It is a local server, but if it only runs during usage, it also works. Though for example the Sone microblogging is more efficient if it runs over a longer time.
Typically it should work well 1-3 minutes after starting the local server.
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@ArneBab @kami_kadse ah, I thought performance was severely reduced if it isn't kept live constantly. Thanks!
@hllizi Once it has at least 10 connections, performance should be pretty solid.
It works with 5, but the difference between 5 and 10 is huge. 20 peers is still much faster than 10, but I consider 10 peers to be the level from which it starts being nice to use.
@hllizi It usually connects pretty quickly if you don’t restart several times per hour — I think there’s some blocking if you try to re-connect too frequently.
Efficient entry into the network is done via seednodes that search for your ID to find the nodes to connect to to get good routing.
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