It’s crazy to me to see so many people recommending these. I remember thinking ed2k was old when Kazaa and Morpheus came out.

I was looking at this page and it brought so much nostalgia. The days of viruses, “proggys” in Yahoo chat (I missed the AOL train), being a young teenage script kiddy on the Internet… That was the best time of the Internet for me. You could do and say anything and never felt like there was a panopticon watching you to slip up at any time.

Almost every single VPN site I’ve ever come across is just shilling referral links for the highest paying VPNs. Even the privacy sites with old good articles, their new articles for the best VPNs/most secure/ETC are all the best paying referrals.

VPNs are not good for anonymity. They are good for public networks, and stopping companies that are heavy on piracy to not send you DCMA warnings when you torrent. That’s it. If you are actually doing criminal things (or are in a country where you’re treated as a criminal) they can traffic shape and find out who you are quick. Even multihop VPN providers aren’t much better.

Funny eh? If you select show only mullvad-owned servers (pretty sure those are the only ones with encrypted RAM drives) then they’re all 5eyes and a couple other 14eyes countries. No USA though. They also disconnect constantly and are slow.

Obviously anecdotes

That’s the understatement of the cenozoic era.

That’s my point. Neither is Putin. Netanyahu’s approval ratings are rock bottom.

It’s the Mongols who allowed Ghengis Khan to commit his shit.

Uh oh, now you should be worried considering his lineage is in most of us. Those damn Mongol ancestors of yours. Why were your ancestors so complicit in the rape and pillage of continents? I think that makes you complicit, too, by your logic.

Pitchforks at the ready everyone.

Funny how everyone picked up on and quotes the single instance news story. Like litter boxes in school bathrooms, left-leaning edition. Let the hate flow through you

It may be a conversation worth having in a 1 to 1, but internet denizens crave hate and hate as much as they can when they can.

Usually I get downvoted for “let’s come together” comments that say things like all Israelis and Russians shouldn’t die in a fire, because they are not all bad, when people are calling for culling them. The internet is weird.

A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. - Agent Kay

So this is me coming up with the perfect comeback 3 weeks later in the shower, and Still going along with saying it.

Not a guess, only a statement: Real fucking sketchy from a privacy point of view.

Once they do? Stuxnet was what, 2010? And because of the coding error that caused it to spread outside the enrichment plant it was found out and only set them back something like 2 years.

From AP:

Iran, after the collapse of its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, has pursued nuclear enrichment just below weapons-grade levels. Tehran has accumulated enough enriched uranium to build several weapons if it chooses. However, U.S. intelligence agencies and others assess that Iran has yet to begin a weapons program.

Iran is “presenting a face which is not entirely transparent when it comes to its nuclear activities. Of course this increases dangers,” Grossi said. “There’s loose talk about nuclear weapons more and more, including in Iran recently.

Since 2022, Iranian officials have spoken openly about something long denied by Tehran as it enriches uranium at its closest-ever levels to weapons-grade material: the Islamic Republic is ready to build an atomic weapon at will. That includes Kamal Kharrazi, an adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who told Al Jazeera that Tehran has the ability to build nuclear weapons but does not intend to do so.

I downloaded the original archive as a zip file, let me know if anyone wants it to create a torrent.

https://www.justsecurity.org/10311/michael-hayden-kill-people-based-metadata/

That’s a great tip. Thanks ✌🏼

Thanks I forgot I2P had email and all the extra stuff. Do they have inproxies and outproxies or do both sender and receiver have to use the i2p service?

Can someone answer this from the “I am a criminal, if it matters” side as well?

Let’s not be biased now.

We don’t know what it’s worth, because we aren’t living in an alternate universe where the US and USSR weren’t in open dialogue through the cold war. We’re still in the pre-WWIII reality (for a few years, at least).

What’s this? Propagandiception?

пидорас Russian

Alternative forms

пидара́с (pidarás)

пдр (pdr) (SMS slang)

пдрс (pdrs) (SMS slang)

Etymology

Deliberate mispronunciation of педера́ст (pederást, pedɛrást).

How did you get a homophobic joke from a pederast?