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File: 1769415566706.png (101.89 KB, 860x817, tor-onion-logo-black.png)

 

If you've been running the tor daemon for the last year or so, you've likely experienced several outages and maybe even spotted reports of a compression bomb left in the logs. In fact i've seen other people report having to disable their daemon for a week for a week or so. Previously, for me it was easy enough to grep the logs for the offending node sending compression bombs and blacklisting it.

This morning though, i was faced with at least a dozen malicious nodes clogging the network, so i did what any self-respecting operator would do: I inserted a longrun into my s6 service pipeline, to automatically scan the logs for compression bomb incidents and heal itself by appending the offending node to a blacklist file, that is included within torrc. I'm posting this while my daemon is still under attack, so i would definitely deem this a success.

My script currently runs as root, which is not ideal, but completely appropriate for the privileges involved in restarting services and editing system-wide config files. I others may benefit from my method, thus the run file of the service is reproduced below:

#!/bin/execlineb -P
forstdin -E line
foreground {
echo $line
}
if {
heredoc 0 $line
fgrep "Unable to decompress HTTP body"
}
foreground {
backtick -E ip {
heredoc 0 $line
grep -c "[0-9]\.[0-9]\.[0-9]\.[0-9]"
}
redirfd 1 -a /etc/tor/bombs
echo ExcludeNodes $ip
}
s6-svc -r /run/service/tor

Project Idea: Integrate your Onion Service with a local self hosted instance of Wazuh SIEM.

The OP actually had several errors and only worked, because they resulted in tor recreating circuits, until they stopped containing malicious nodes. This is the corrected version:
#!/bin/execlineb -P
forstdin -E line
foreground {
printf "%s\n" $line
}
if {
heredoc 0 $line
fgrep -s "Unable to decompress HTTP body"
}
foreground {
backtick -E ip {
heredoc 0 $line
grep -o "[0-9]*\\.[0-9]*\\.[0-9]*\\.[0-9]*"
}
redirfd -a 1 /etc/tor/bombs
printf "ExcludeNodes %s\n" $ip
}
s6-svc -h /run/service/tor

Flood detected; Post discarded.Flood detected; Post discarded.



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Hello, I'm using this thread to ask for ideas on what to do with a Meshtastic compatible board. Specifically, I would like the capability to track, record , perform counter surveillance of the growing militarized surveillance state of my country.

Could I detect those nasty AI cameras used by law enforcement ? Track suspected federal employee vehicles? Please give me some ideas. I'm also wondering if theres something I can do with SDR dongles.

>>32353
>Could I detect those nasty AI cameras used by law enforcement
Maybe you can go out now and make experiments, put the device you are going to use promiscious mode and check if they have some fingerprint you could use. Then you would have to deploy a considerable amount of them (how are you going to finance it?) which I find it hard. Are you in an org? You would help more that way than with individual action.

>>32360
Also, have you tried considering asking on lainchan? If you do try to make a good OP post so it doesn't get flagged as soykaf, lurk there a bit or ask on their IRC (I guess)

1. Publicly participating and posting your results makes you a target.
2. When FLOCK understands that everyone is signal hunting their gear, billionaire money will be dumped into SIGINT Hardening.
3. I know under good authority that their are ALPR Cameras designed to look like bolts that are present on busy roads. I don't know who is using them or where. I just know that these are used. Stealth Cameras will be the name of the game. When FLOCK internalizes that they will always be treated as the enemy, they will focus on stealth cameras.
4. Self Driving Cars, Ubiquitous Smart Doorbells, and centralized standardized Government CCTV Access of cameras will create greater and greater dragnets. This will make focusing on any one system a waste of time.
5. Meshtastic is a low bandwidth tool per legal requirements. Maybe repurposed software built for meshtastic scales up into 5G 10KM tech? Maybe not? Either way, you want a secret hidden hunter that transmits nothing and receives everything. You will take your data and turn it into a viewable project that can be shared over onion addresses.
6. Cybersecurity you might want for this project: Qubes OS, VPN, Encrypted DNS, IDS/IPS, and self hosted gear. You know you will be angering authoritarians. You know that sniffing traffic is legally risky. Go in knowing you can't get help from AI's you don't host yourself.

TLDR: Surveillance State Grows, diminishing impact of sniffing any one system. When they learn you are doing this, they will adapt as their resources are superior to yours.

One big thing I forgot to mention in my last post is the "so what" principle.

PRISM leaked, the public said "so what".
XKEYSCORE leaked, the public said "so what".
Insert Scandal here leaked, the public said "so what".

You could pour your time and money into this project, only to be treated with a "so what" attitude. They will also say, "I have nothing to hide".
Whistle blowing and investigative journalism almost served as a normalization engine to government programs.

People who mistrust the government usually get on-boarded to the reality of surveillance pretty quickly. Rather than prove the reality of surveillance at great cost to you personally, focus on promoting mistrust of the government among boring liberals aged 18 to 25. Then sneak in some surveillance knowledge.



 

So, I remember using Cheat Engine without any problems some years ago and for a game I'm currently playing I wanted to install it again but apparently the installer comes with adware (and some other stuff even if youre careful and decline all the options). Atleast some users have started complaining about stuff being installed on their pc without consent. Alot of those complaints started about three years ago. What makes me also pretty sus is the developer being very unhelpful and going down hard on alternative download sources (those that come without the ads) not too mention him being called out on github multiple times and his responses being fishy as fuck. Anyone got an either an alternative or has some experience with this?
Links regarding sussy behaviour on github:
https://github.com/cheat-engine/cheat-engine/issues/2105, https://github.com/cheat-engine/cheat-engine/issues/2470, https://github.com/cheat-engine/cheat-engine/issues/2027
On mobile so excuse the formatting

it's been known to bundle adware for years, you need to compile cheat engine, it's not super hard, luckily

Infecting lazy script kiddies who can't even be fucked to compile their tools is based.

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Been using GameConqueror on Linux and it works for basic search and set values. maxed out my ennies in cyberpunk 2077. preem.



 

so is this guy in the epstein files or why was he cancelled again?
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>>32460
Saint stallman is just really autistic in semantics

>>32464
Not even esr?

>>32470
why would he be in the files, in the large scheme of things he's some random from UPenn, RMS would be more likely to appear since he's from MIT. I just don't think that Linux was big on Epstein's interests, seem like he was more focused on AI and NLP, thus Marvin Minsky and Chomsky were huge Epstein pals.

>>32462
Probably anti-Indian sentiment as can be seen here: >>32458

>>32474
I don't even get why Stallman would say that. Microsoft developers are less than ten percent Indian.



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You know why I hate Mastodon and Bluesky? They pretend to be an alternative to Big Tech platforms, but these "alternatives" are walled gardens, just like the Big Tech platforms. Neither on Bluesky nor on Mastodon can you search content without an account. If you don't have an account, you don't get any search results. Totally hypocritical.
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>>32422
No, you still don’t get it.

The entire rest of the fedi is NOT ‚connected and neutral‘, it’s just the extended HOA empire with slightly looser borders. The big ‚normal‘ instances (mas.to, troet.cafe, chaos.social, flick.social, etc.) are all run by the exact same German/NL/US progressive NGO-academic caste that runs mastodon.social. They all defederate the same targets on day one, they all have the same 40-point rules list, they all instantly gang-silence anyone who uses wrongthink keywords.

There is no ‚everyone else is connected‘ zone. There is only the Greater HOA Reich and then three or four isolated ghettos (chud, loli, and whatever’s left of the old weird fedi).

The whole promise of ‚join any instance, you’re still on the big network‘ is a lie. In practice there are exactly two networks that matter:

1. The progressive elite monoculture (90 % of active users, perfectly sealed, zero tolerance for dissent)
2. A handful of leper colonies where the outcasts were kindly allowed to go

Mastodon didn’t create a million free communities.
It created one gigantic, perfectly sanitized palace for the ruling class and then a couple of reservations for the undesirables so the palace dwellers can keep pretending they’re the tolerant ones.

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>>32425
Your premise hinges on the idea I implied that the HOA was just manstodon.social and not every too-large-to-moderate instance.

Any instance too large to reasonably moderate resorts to HOA tactics, as the trust that admins and federation as a mechanisn can actually protect against spam breaks down, causing hypervigilance to be an acceptable mindset.

The "The big ‚normal‘ instances" are like that because they hare hypermassive and can't stop expanding despite demonstrably being unable to handle the load.
>A handful of leper colonies where the outcasts
That's where the rest of fedi is. That's where all the activity is pubbing. As I keep telling you, everyone else either defederates from or limits these hypermassive instances due toetheir spam problems.
>were kindly allowed to go
You went into poteticism without thinking of what that represents. The HOA instances don't allowance anything to the rest of fedi, the rest of fedi are seperate websites that block or limit them. They are the twitterlerite lepur colony that keeps the rest of fedi free of that shit, not the other way around.

The reason why you see it the way you do is because you resonate with the culture of the HOA instances more, judging by how quickly you rejected picking a furry instance. You just want a twitter out of a technology that structurally evades being twitter on purpose, and breaks down when treated as a twitter.

>>32369
The real sin of mastodon is being a twitter clone. Twitter is a terrible format

>>32431
I like that misskey tries to break the mold a bit by replacing ⭐'s with emotes, but yeah frontends have only scratched the surface.

>>32369
Nice new phone



 

The traditional critique of "screen addiction" is built on a flawed premise: that a human being can exist in a state of pure, self-sustained autonomy. By framing smartphone use as a failure of discipline, we ignore the biological mandate of the brain. The human mind is an open system; it requires constant stimulation to maintain its structural integrity. Without input, consciousness does not find "freedom", it collapses into aggression, stagnation, or existential dread.
In this light, our reliance on digital interfaces and AI is not a sign of weakness, but a rational adaptation to a world that often fails to provide meaningful analog stimulation. We are not "addicts" in the clinical sense; we are operators of our own neurochemistry, using external tools as cognitive prostheses to stabilize our internal state.
The goal, therefore, should not be the impossible feat of total independence from the "system." Instead, we must shift toward a strategy of functional optimization. If dependency is a fundamental condition of human existence, the only meaningful choice is to exchange high-cost, destructive dependencies for those that are manageable and sustainable. We must stop fighting our nature and start engineering our environment.
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>>32357
wrong. they are my original ideas and i used llm to enhace them. learn the difference.

>>32355
fact: there is no such thing as "autonomy".

its pointless to discuss with idiots who don't know this.

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>>32350
>We must stop fighting our nature and start engineering our environment.
Human nature is on the one hand a Spook (in the sense of being a relatively fixed restrictive idea), and on the other hand all that there is in human beings. There is no environment independent nature of man, yet all man does is a result of his biology, his nature, environment or even ideas can quickly constitute a second nature, but time is all that makes this second to a first nature. Human nature is something like the divine right of kings used to justify what currently exists which all sucks.

A question of mine, which relates, is why does the will exist? Or does it? Or does it have to? Why is there not simple wanting then doing? An LLM answered mostly with antiquated Spook filled notions of blame assignment in social and personal settings, and ranking of temporally separated wills, which seems like it could be completely automated. There was maybe something to do with planning, but I don't see the issue here either, you want so you plan and then you do.

>>32362
>Why does the will exist?
>Why is there not simple wanting then doing?
I suspect what we're talking about here is not the will but the idea of feelings of cognitive exertion even though there's no cognitive resource that is being exhausted. My guess is that our will needn't be effortful, this is even true for non-habitual choices, and happens when there is little internal conflict. So it turns out the vast majority of our human actions aren't effortful, but the question that follows is: why is this internal conflict not resolved effortlessly? I couldn't find a satisfactory answer to this, but it probably doesn't matter at all, the whole point of will is that you just ignore the strain. none-of-this-is-real.jpg

>Or does it have to?

Empirically people who think the will is a depletable resource tend to have a depletable will, while those who don't do not, so it's not out of the question that there could be some sort of psychological mechanism at play here. Not only a "spook" but a "spook" that artificially constrains us. My best guess presently however is that the main artificial constraint is not with the presence of the will but with the idea that we need to respond or even focus on strain. Real tough guy stuff: regular exercise, cold showers, meditation.

>>32350
I agree with >>32354 but this logic is just silly. Are all addictions myths? The fact is addiction exists, but the solution isn't to individually abstain from a powerful technology that is extremely integrated into daily life. We need to address the issues that make it addictive at the social (and for some individuals possibly medical) level, the same as other addictions. That will transform our relationship to these technologies. But saying it's not addictive is ridiculous when the big social/media companies literally run social experiments and engineer their platforms to be as addictive as possible and push the content that is specifically addictive to you as an individual.



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I am currently in search of a new online home. Having experimented with numerous platforms over the past two years, I was captivated by X for a long time. However, I believe I have now discovered something superior: Substack.
​In truth, I appreciate X for its seamless integration of text, video, and imagery, not to mention its unparalleled diversity of perspectives. Yet, my main grievance with X is the brevity of its text content. This is precisely why I am exploring Substack; it captures the best elements of X but offers the space for more long-form writing.
​The platforms are relatively similar in terms of free speech, but Substack prioritizes high-quality 'effortposts.' You can publish in-depth articles or share shorter, tweet-like updates called 'Notes.' I wasn't aware of how much Substack had transformed!
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>>32342
I think you're being overly cynical though? There's a lot you can reclaim out of your digital life as long as you have the interest to. Like, okay so basically I have a homserver at home, just an office pc I got for like £30, stuck a hardrive of 1TB alongside the preexisting SSD that came along with it. Stuck ubuntu linux into it with a simple ssh login with no display so that it sips as little power as possible.

I'm now able to stream MLP episodes form a nginx webserver with mpv I'm hosting in my own home with no reliance on Netflix. And I'm even storing some family photos. Just maybe as a bit of ecnouragement, here's my docker-compose file: https://codeberg.org/compuhsition/homeserver

>>32342
I'm also running a booru using shimmie2 alongside this too! Which I use to just host a few anime art references for fun. I make sure to block AI crawlers using anubis + I also use Cloudflare tunnel so it takes a lot of the bandwidth and security concerns away.

>>32342
All I'm saying is, as long you're willing to put in more effort, you can definitely be as uncensored as possible even in 2026. As long as it isn't like literally illegal.

>>32342
>because nobody will find my site!
Just link it on fedi or a minecraft server or whatever. No one will find you on anything if you don't share it with people you know. A website is just more stable and you can do more with a full HTML toolkit than what a social media post composer can provide. (rip cohost)

>>32189
did anyone else noticed, that substack is flooded with AI generated articles and substack doesn't seem to care? actually, it looks like they have completely embraced it.



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>Just centralise the whole decentralised internet under like three critical providers, bro. what could possibly go wrong. It's brings economy of scale, bro.
How do socialists answer to this?
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>>32179
we have to retvrn to OStatus/GNU Social

>>32178
>grok_image

>>32178
You can't reply to a redeet (or whatevr reddit post is called) from twitter, nor can you like a youtube video from facebook.
You can do several interactions with any misskey instance on any mastodon instance as long as they're federated, even being able to migrate between instances.

Like what more do you think it was promising to be? The most decentralized option is just making a website, and every individual website is centralized.

>>32179
Oh your issue is right wingers can't spam peter-theilisms, gore and CSAM to every existing instance, and that it isn't just recreating the sophism machine.

>>32365
Solved by posting in all of them



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i hate it, that all these big tech platforms are psychologically manipulating us all and there is basically no way out. the current internet is mostly a boring and dull wasteland and the only places to find something interesting, are the walled gardens. but at the same time, these walled gardens are the ultra manipulators and they shove stuff in your face, just to make you feel bad and play with your personal insecurities. thats it i am going to delete my google account again. this game is so unfair, its either all or nothing. its either the boring wasteland or the hyper algorithmic mindcontrol. fuck this, man.
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>>32334
Use an instance that isn't in the Home Owners Association archepeligo. That's why I reccomended furry instances, the HOA defederates from people that don't set their biometrics as their pfp.

Many of these instances operate on a "does not defederate by association" basis, so by agreeing to be on that list, those instances are all okay with non-HOA instances, meaning there are no mini-HOAs in there.

My post is stupid and off topic. Probably much more than being manipulated is who you're being manipulated by and for what ends. I think it would be perfectly acceptable to be manipulated for the sake of human flourishing, or inline with my other goals and interests by a third party - to some extent this is inevitable in human interactions where people care for one another. The problem then is that the mechanism governing this power really only wants to maximize interactions with the ad network, which is completely orthogonal to even successful use of the product for ones own ends, as enshitification has proven they're even willing to do this at the expense of the product. Am no longer certain that power in itself is bad.

There's nothing worthwhile online. Go outside and get in a fight with the homeless.

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>>32337
>>32338
>There's nothing worthwhile online. Go outside and get in a fight with the homeless.
Looked over the ~500 YouTube searches or videos I'd clicked on over the past two months. If I had to guess there was something like 15 videos which seemed worthwhile. It's so easy to use these (Anglo) platforms to just waste away - which is at least permitted by the design.

Meanwhile my LLM (trained on the Anglo-brained internet) seems to be slowing my progress or just giving me guesses as much as it's giving constructive advice, and it takes way too long to load. I'm going to seriously attempt to moderate my usage of this technology, despite being as tempting as it is - this includes turning off instant answers in my search.

My duckduckgo searches are equally trash - though much less frustrating, or distracting. I may attempt to use this technology less too. Very rarely do you concerted effort over a time to achieve any goal whatsoever.

I would blame the technology, and the natural reaction is to just smash the machines wherever possible, however really I think the problem is how these terminally Anglo-brained individuals are using this stuff. How many of these terrible videos, or websites turn out to be festering with Anglo abominations? Even watching Germans play a Swedish video game it's clearly entirely in the paradigm of Anglo-brain, that there's nothing but Anglo in this interaction. And YOU are the problem too.

>>32348
>(Anglo) YouTube
I've made an attempt to block this now.



 

its all part of hiros plan. he wants to turn the site into a total pay-to-post site. he is changing the business model of 4chan. no pass? no post. but he needs to boil the frog slowly. make these captach more and more annoying. until users give up and buy the pass.
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>>32244
please, just stop justifying these horrible captchas. the only reason they exist, is to sell the stupid pass. we are witnessing the enshitification of imageboards in real time and anyone who mentions it, gets banned.

The captchas that haven't already died from the rather draconian third world captcha farms paying pennies per captcha are destined to be destroyed by LLMs. The only future is in filtering the content before it can even be posted with LLMs.

>>32239
anyone bought these? genuinely curious

>tenbux hiroshimoot edition
Rest in piss.

>>32247
The only reason anybody ever paid a pass was to givr monry to Moot. No one want to pay to use 4chan, and now it's so bad that no one want to use it even for free



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