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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by emotional_soup_88@programming.dev to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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There is a lot of totalitarian shit going on, this being only one of the recent tragedies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fshsk8MCAf4

I always try to say to myself: don't wallow in grief, organize and act!

Except for advocating for online privacy in one's everyday life and being politically active when I have the ability to, do you have any tips on what one can contribute with technologically, from home?

I have:

A 1Gbps up/down connection
An RTX 3080
A few Raspberry Pi:s
20TB storage
A static public IP if I ask for it

What I have found so far:

running a Tor bridge or guard/middld relay - bridge for the sake of our peers living in places where Tor in inaccessible and middle relay to contribute with bandwidth
running a Monero node - although my GPU is LHR, so perhaps it wouldn't contribute much to decentralization...?

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[-] emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks for the heads up! For now, I only want to contribute with bandwidth and decentralization, so I won't be using the network myself. :)

[-] sobchak@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

I've taken an interest in Hyphanet recently too. It's kind of like an ancient precursor to IPFS (large distributed filesystem + encryption and some anonymity built in). Not many users as far as I know, but I like the idea of it; being extremely censorship resistant (but has all the downsides that entails).

[-] emotional_soup_88@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Just read the whole FAQ section and it's a really cool idea on how to circumvent censorship and attain some level of plausible deniability! I'm not quite ready to run a Hyphanet node though, since I'm not yet comfortable with the notion of storing other people's data on my drives in this anonymous format. Which is a bit hypocritical since I already contribute with nodes on other networks/solutions that don't require me to store others' data, just let it pass through my equipment... Maybe I just need to sleep on it. 😅 Anyway, thanks for sharing! 😊

https://github.com/hyphanet/wiki/wiki/FAQ#can-i-get-trouble-if-i-run-a-node

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