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Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network

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Re: Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network

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Post by nsotelo »

genewitch wrote: post #30
jaytaylor wrote: post #26

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Blocking port 25 is pretty annoying. I know there are explanations, but a month ago I really wanted to run a mail server for jaytaylor.com myself. Only to find out it's basically impossible with mainstream ISPs. It's not a realistic option, regardless of Comcast, AT&T Fiber, no big boy ISP supports it at this point. I don't know if ATT even provides email with my service, much less for a custom domain. How did the de…

Which docker images? I've been having trouble finding "simple" mail servers for incoming and outgoing. Stuff like postfix and dovecot make my eyes cross, I just want to point DNS at an IP and send and receive mail there, securely. It's not that I can't set those other ones up, I just don't want to, nor should I have to for a small service...

maddy

It's a single go binary that supports IMAP and SMTP, with a CLI (maddyctl) to help you set it up. TLS can be added with acme.sh.

Re: Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network

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Post by WJW »

literallyWTF wrote: post #136
WJW wrote: post #124

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Tbh, you don't have to be Nordic to have a basic grasp of mythology from around the world and Yggdrasil is pretty commonly known. Even if people just know it from Marvel comics or heavy metal or something.

No it isn’t man. In what world it commonly known?

Mine, apparently. I don't have any particular connection to Norse mythology afaict, but I've encountered the term "Yggdrasil" at least half a dozen time just surfing on the net.

Re: Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network

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Post by hello0990911 »

aftbit wrote: post #20

>Nowadays, running a website from home is just about impossible. You may not have a public IP, and if you do, it likely changes from time to time. And even then, your ISP probably blocks you from running servers on it. I'm not sure about the author's country / ISP, but here in Midwest USA, our residential ISPs (cable or DSL, fiber if you are lucky) generally do not change IPs frequently (unless your router/modem is r…

This is one of the use case for the tor network. Gives access to local machine even if all the ports are blocked by isp

Re: Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network

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Post by Karrot_Kream »

msla wrote: post #11
buzzwords wrote: post #5

Would this be useful to people in countries like Iran, where the internet is restricted and completely cut out whenever the government needs to shut people up?

No. This is useful against assholes, not fanatics. Assholes will opportunistically shit on anything that isn't too difficult for them to worm their way into. Crapping up DNS by making all unknown domains resolve to an ad server? Sure. Making unencrypted HTTP unusable by inserting ads and blocking keywords? On it. Blocking any port they haven't heard of? Hey, who needs ports 70 or 23 anyway, am I right? Assholes can b…

You do it the same way it works in most of these politically-motivated-censorship countries: the sneakernet. Black market smugglers smuggle along USB sticks or preloaded laptops. But, yes, with a motivated despotic government aimed against a single individual, it's going to be mostly impossible.

Re: Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network

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Post by CRConrad »

jokethrowaway wrote: post #117
sannee wrote: post #80

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The first sentence on the website says: > Yggdrasil is an implementation of a new name-independent routing scheme and functions as an end-to-end encrypted IPv6 network. Somehow I don't think this project is aimed at "normal, mainstream people"...

The set of techies and the set of nordic people are both minorities in the world - but they don't overlap.

> The set of techies and the set of nordic people [...] don't overlap.

Huh? So there are no Nordic techies?!?

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