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Freenet build 1495: new user experience and performance

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Re: Freenet build 1495: new user experience and performance

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Hey, try to be a social-nationalist anywhere, you'll probably even get jailed for your political opinions.

Fortunately most of the nationalists I know recognize the value of capitalism, and most of the socialists think globalization is a good idea.

Globalism is destroying the environment.

Re: Freenet build 1495: new user experience and performance

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>We dont yet life in the police state where everyone's political opinions need to be hidden in dark networks. Try being a communist in America. You will get fired and your life ruined for your political opinions.

No, do not try to be a communist, anywhere. It's a horrible political philosophy.

100m dead people agree with you.

Re: Freenet build 1495: new user experience and performance

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Freenet is well designed and well maintained, but it is a solution looking for a problem. We dont yet life in the police state where everyone's political opinions need to be hidden in dark networks. At the moment, freenet has a bad reputation for hosting very illegal content. That rep is so bad that if authorities ever look into your internet traffic, freenet connections are more than enough to get warrants that will…

>We dont yet life in the police state where everyone's political opinions need to be hidden in dark networks. Try being a communist in America. You will get fired and your life ruined for your political opinions.

Try disagreeing with the woke mob or being a Conservative. How many times have they tried to cancel Chris Pratt for being a Christian now?

Re: Freenet build 1495: new user experience and performance

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You don't live in a police state. My Russian friends definitely do. You can easily get a large fine (on the order of 2 average monthly salaries), or 5-10 years in prison for stating your political opinion on the internet. There are many countries like that and I am not at all surprised that the top comment does not even acknowledge their existence.

He said "we" maybe he thinks everyone here is from Arrakis or US?

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Re: Freenet build 1495: new user experience and performance

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Freenet is well designed and well maintained, but it is a solution looking for a problem. We dont yet life in the police state where everyone's political opinions need to be hidden in dark networks. At the moment, freenet has a bad reputation for hosting very illegal content. That rep is so bad that if authorities ever look into your internet traffic, freenet connections are more than enough to get warrants that will…

You don't live in a police state. My Russian friends definitely do. You can easily get a large fine (on the order of 2 average monthly salaries), or 5-10 years in prison for stating your political opinion on the internet. There are many countries like that and I am not at all surprised that the top comment does not even acknowledge their existence.

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Re: Freenet build 1495: new user experience and performance

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No, do not try to be a communist, anywhere. It's a horrible political philosophy.

100m dead people agree with you.

Stalin and Mao had nothing in common with communism they just called it "communism" (or more precise Stalinism/Maoism...the difference here is really important), please read Marx.

BTW: I don't say it's a perfect system but worth a look, and maybe one could mix both systems together.

Re: Freenet build 1495: new user experience and performance

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> We dont yet life in the police state where everyone's political opinions need to be hidden in dark networks. Millions of people are in places where acknowledging that they want abortions[1] or miscarried[2] can pique the state's interest, along with people who are trans[3] or have trans kids[4]. We have police using web searches to prosecute women for abortion[1], we have states compiling lists of transgender indiv…

That is what Tor is for. If all you need is protection from authorities, Tor is enough. Freenet is content-focused, designed so that not even the original uploader can ever remove popular content. Tor protects people and speech from the police. Freenet protects files from everybody.

Well.. Tor can create trouble for you as well, or at least it did for me. I used to sometimes go through Tor to visit competitors' websites when I used my work computer, just because I didn't want to leave a trail of my company's domain in the competitor's logs. That was quite innocent I thought. Then my sysadmin informed me that the national security monitor (or whatever it was called), which my company was connected to, got an alarm on that. Turns out they had a trigger on Tor connections because they considered it as something used for malicious purposes. It's even triggered if a passive Tor application is running on a mobile device connected to the wifi guest network, b/c it may sometimes probe a node even if not in use. So, uninstall it is. If it's that easy to monitor that someone is using Tor I don't see how it can actually be used by anyone anywhere, where it matters (for something more important than what I used it for).

Re: Freenet build 1495: new user experience and performance

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I dabbled with Freenet when it first came out in '99/2000 is but I found the performance just awful - think I once waited 30 mins for a 100k html file. And each year after they said "we solved that, works great now" but it didn't. I'd be curious to know what it's really like now. Well, I would, except that there was so much CP on Freenet I don't think I'd dare install it because of the risk of taint. Is there much legit anon material?

Re: Freenet build 1495: new user experience and performance

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No, do not try to be a communist, anywhere. It's a horrible political philosophy.

You've never experienced communism. So stop talking out your ass. I'd take it over this abomination that we have now any time. Vietnam. Cheap life, good life, friendly people. None of this "I'll try to screw you over and steal your money, because money is all that interests me" You have no idea.

We don't have to experience everything personally, because we have written an oral histories.

I assure you, I have a pretty good idea.

Re: Freenet build 1495: new user experience and performance

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That is what Tor is for. If all you need is protection from authorities, Tor is enough. Freenet is content-focused, designed so that not even the original uploader can ever remove popular content. Tor protects people and speech from the police. Freenet protects files from everybody.

Well.. Tor can create trouble for you as well, or at least it did for me. I used to sometimes go through Tor to visit competitors' websites when I used my work computer, just because I didn't want to leave a trail of my company's domain in the competitor's logs. That was quite innocent I thought. Then my sysadmin informed me that the national security monitor (or whatever it was called), which my company was connecte…

Yes Tor usage by default is trivial to detect because the list of Tor nodes your client connects to is public. The EFF has a nice interactive graphic that shows what different actors see if you use Tor [0] You can make that harder to detect by using a bridge. https://bridges.torproject.org/

[0] https://www.eff.org/de/pages/tor-and-https

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