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We will still need VPNs to get good connectivity to other residential ISPs until some government entity (or market condition) inspires ISPs to invest in more hardware and peering with each other. CDNs and VPN providers are now sadly a requirement for the internet to work the way we expect it to.
How do VPNs improve connectivity between residential ISPs?
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I2P has a community of people that actually use the darktubes, as opposed to Tor. 99% of Tor users use Tor to browse the vanilla internets just. There is no real 'Tor community'
> There is no real 'Tor community' What a bold statement. r/onions has 400k members. Where else would you sell someone's credit card or fentanyl? Ebay?
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Wait, but if the copyright holder is sending the actual payload to you as a client, couldn't you make the argument that they implicitly authorized you to have it? AFAIK, cops can't deal you actual drugs and then arrest you for it.
Cops can absolutely do that. Cops posing as prostitutes can arrest you for attempting to purchase sex from them as well.
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Not really. Java was built from the start to run on microcontrollers and is still running fine on billion of small phones. It is now powering the apps inside a billion android devices. You are likely referring to awful enterprise frameworks like Spring that make a lot of noise. Some ten years ago it was JBoss giving a bad fame to Java. You won't be finding those enterprise frameworks being used by most open source pr…
Okey, Can you then provide me some info about those Java compiler/LVM stuff? Last time I used Java was in time it had Sun Microsystems logo :) It was sth like Java 1.5.x. JRE installer was 16MB, so for my standards its already quite heavy. My old ruby static that I provide with scripts is under 1MB. I wonder if I am missing something...
Compiled as JVM bytecode the same app is around 16 MB. For my standards this is quite OK when considering the maintainability across the next centuries.