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Decentralized imageboard

I'm building a decentralized imageboard on Freenet (aka Hyphanet). Posts go through one of several "moderators" of your choosing, everything is stored in a decentralized fashion.

Why bother:
forced anonymity — there's literally no way to cave and start blocking anonymizers, since the whole thing runs on one
no network effect trap ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect ) — you know the situation: a few massive boards, a bunch of half-dead microboards that go dark every couple months
no mod power trips — a moderator just shares their opinion, and you decide whose opinion to apply, without the pressure of the network effect

Freesite: http://127.0.0.1:8888/freenet:USK@fc5NZ5g6aBhN~aHvcR5QTYWVfsJO747vgY6cC7GZNuY,J~RkZx0JDpEhYwFWWvAA2IBVJCyxkNX9naul6qoKT2Y,AQACAAE/index/-1

How to try it: download and install Freenet — https://www.hyphanet.org/index.html. Then grab (or build) the binary and double-click it — a browser will open with the default board UI, pretty bare-bones. Differences from a normal board: post IDs are very long (they're Freenet keys), and there's a moderator selection feature. If the browser doesn't open on its own: http://127.0.0.1:8891

Heads up: Freenet is PAINFULLY SLOW. Loading and posting take tens of minutes. Everything loads and sends in the background of course, no need to sit staring at a loading screen — it's designed to run in the background while you go about your day, you come back when you feel like it and it's ready to present information immediately.

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>fr*enet
>the deprecated darknet that technologically requires you to host 'P on your computer to participate
>quarter into the 21st century
>when I2P has been invented and solved the problem

>>33673
you don't actually know what you're hosting if I remember correctly, so it's fine

>>33674
>you and the other 90 people using it still, 89 of which are convicted sex offenders
you can do that if you want

What measures exist to prevent botting in projects like this?

>>33654
It's actually not as bad as it initially seemed. Uploads are much slower than downloads, and even those get faster once the node exists for some time and integrates, like i2p
>>33657
Many more hurdles. Freenet is a storage, i2p is a transport, so on top of it I'd need some decentralized storage model, which I guess could be torrent, but the torrent client needs to have an api and have advanced features like updateable torrents. So such a project would be an order of magnitude more complex for questionable benefit.

>>33673
Hate to break this to you i2p also transmits other people's data through your node
And i2p doesn't even attempt to "solve the problem" because it's anonymized transport, not anonymized storage.

>>33825
Spam prevention works the same as on regular imageboards with the added benefit that if a mod lets spam through you can unsubscribe.



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The neverending quest to rewrite vichan -

Archived threads:
https://archive.is/xiA7y
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Today had opencode add the thread posts, I didn't really like the way it structured the model code so I had to fix this.

Had another idea: a "difficult" POW for newly created accounts. This is roughly equivalent to banning everyone by default and having a default ban length. With this you could have actual user Actors instead of just the Group, but purely optional usernames, and still have bans that make some sense. Sort of think I no longer have the energy to dedicate to this project. Might just wait for the LLMs to get good enough to write this themselves.

Reincarnating this project once again.
Another cycle around the wheel.
Some interesting technical deviations.
Post-modernist feature set planned.
Skepticism of synthesizing the negated.
Leaving the unnegated pieces whole.
Designing to leave nothing behind.
Pragmatic enough to be completed.
Performance somewhat lacking.

Islands from Deno/Fresh.
Repos injected into functional cores.
Design to test, though I haven't yet.
MongoDB instead of translation or SQL.
Zod for schemas, and form validation.
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Drafted a two-thirds page "spec", and stepwise "plan" for implementation of Group Person interactions. It's closer to what you'd use for a shed, than for the golden gate bridge, still way better than what have been doing. The only trouble which seems legitimate was that for threadiverse Groups to receive inReplyTos you have to Follow. The solution to this is that you can't Undo Follows, because this would break listening for inReplyTos, and so we replace it with a toggle for various visibilities. You also must Follow in order to Create(Note) on these other communities, which is not so bad.

guess tor is kill, rip; imagine how bad it would be if this site was compromised…

I didn't want to post this yet as the projects still in infancy.
But here's a somewhat topical list of features planned:
  • Follows and feeds (including for remote).
  • federated cross-posts a la >>33832 (You)
  • option for Group's which can post as the Group without login.
  • tags on Groups.
  • granular per tag moderator permissions.
  • "invisible" local karma (HN algo. sorting)
  • LLM rewriting of posts.
    • raw site with original Notes.
    • cooked site with rewritten, and click to raw view.

  • tor posting with email verified accounts.
  • websockets for liveboard.
  • pagenated CDN caching.
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https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge
Program that bridges API calls from Windows VST in Wine to DAW

I heavily recommend using u-he plugins if you don't care about using proprietary software, especially the new Zebra3 (a CPU hog but sounds sublime and insanely versatile), Repro-1 and 5 (Prophet-5 and Pro-One emulations) and Uhbik2 (great suite of effects).
A lot of people swear by Diva, and Bazille is also pretty interesting if you are into weird modular sounds.

TAL also make good plugins with Linux native versions. Haven't tried AudioDamage stuff, but I've heard it's good too.

Otherwise, with yabridge, ValhallaDSP plugins run perfectly for reverb and delay. I had good experiences with the FabFilter suite in the past too. Native Instruments stuff generally works okay. Lightweight plugins from small companies that don't use iLok kind of shit DRM tend to work pretty well too, like Madrona Labs' Aalto or AberrantDSP SketchCassette II and Digitalis.
However, I had no luck with Serum 2 and Lexicon plugins, but I can do without them.

The only thing that sucks is that yabridge hasn't been updated in a long while, and it has a mouse cursor glitch with the latest versions of wine-staging, but it works fine with the normal version in Mint's repos. Let's hope they eventually fix this problem, but so far, I think there is everything needed to make great sounding tracks on Linux.
No Ableton Live and Max For Live sadly (there is Bitwig and PlugData tho), and tinkering and random bugs can be pretty annoying sometimes, but I think there is something really satisfying about having an audio setup working fine on Linux. It used to be much more complicated and restrictive 10 or 15 years ago.



 

was looking into minimal self-hosted alternatives and found texttotalk.org. plaintext only, no images, no markdown, no js tracking. sign up doesn't ask for email, just a username and password (hashed, not stored plain, checked).
no algorithm either, board is just sorted newest/top, nothing ranked to keep you scrolling.
somebody called out the site's html for being div-heavy instead of semantic in a comment, and the dev actually fixed it instead of getting defensive. small thing but tells you something.
worth a look if you're tired of platforms that call themselves "free" while quietly profiling you.
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>This site requires Javascript to work
do webshits really? it's fucking text

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How dose this look?

It has accounts

>>33731
no email requred create a million accounts

>>33732
What's stopping bots from flooding the place?



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are you aware of the blatant FUD campaign happening
against PGP?

people are bringing irrelevant and wrong facts up about PGP just to call it insecure

somehow most (if not all) of them shill signal at the same time, some of them even suggesting whatsapp instead of PGP.

signal is a centralized IM app that requires your fucking phone number to register. they have huge aversion against 3rd party appstores and don't want any custom fork / implementation of "open source" signal client. somehow this is much better than PGP encrypted email over an anonymous network.

(taking gnupg as reference)

"it's old therefore it's bad"

it's continuously updated / modernized and uses a separate library for all crypto operations anyway. it even supports PQ crypto

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Use Dillo. It only has ~80,000 lines of code. That's smaller than some terminal browsers, even. Firefox and Chromium are like operating systems w/ 10s of millions of lines of code. That's why compiling Firefox on Gentoo is a fucking nightmare. With Dillo, it just takes a few seconds. And minus the proprietary js attack surface since it comes without it because it's a legacy browser with its own engine instead of using Google/Apple like Otter browser or Suckless Surf.

i'm not using a browser called dildo

for a web browser to be called a "web browser" it needs to be able to browse the web. dillo cannot browse 99% of what is known today as "the web", therefore it is no longer a web browser. see how that works?

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This is the stupidest way you could pitch Dillo, but it's been a while since I've tried Dillo, so I'll see if it has ublock style filters and javascript whitelisting yet.

You also posted this on Kiwifarms and it wasn't funny there either

post that on texttotalk.org



 

Uhh exilent question, I like to use youtube and a bit of touching grass what about you guys?
also I like playing online games
There are plenty of social medias out there

>Youtube

>X
>Reddit
>Discord
> AND I don't fucking know
I'm banned from reddit and X is full of bots
So I only use discord and Youtube

God I fucking hate how everything has a Discord now, It almost makes me wish the old php forums could make a comeback, regardless of how toxic they could be sometimes.




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systemd implemented age verification guess that about wraps it up for linux being the free and open operating system LOL

to all systemd apologists: we told you so
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yeah i dont think its bad its just gonna make a second internet that doesnt suck or have the drawbacks of the darknet

>>33110
I mean if it is an open standard it shouldn't

>>33108
It's not yet certain that laws of one country will be applied to citizens of another country where such laws don't exist. They could do this with cookie notices required in EU because it doesn't break websites, but this would break them completely by definition.

>>33109
Western, particularly burger Internet has almost absolute monopoly outside of a few isolated countries like China and Russia. And it encompasses much more than just propaganda, there's a lot of technical and hobby stuff hosted on burger servers. If I want to look at source code or docs or submit a patch to a certain library hosted on a popular git hosting server, then in most cases I have no alternative but to visit to burger servers. Same goes for any other banal and hobby stuff, there's a lot of useful information out there hosted on burger servers. Cloudflare and Google captcha faggotry is already hellish enough.

>>33113
>Western, particularly burger Internet has almost absolute monopoly outside of a few isolated countries like China and Russia. And it encompasses much more than just propaganda, there's a lot of technical and hobby stuff hosted on burger servers. If I want to look at source code or docs or submit a patch to a certain library hosted on a popular git hosting server, then in most cases I have no alternative but to visit to burger servers. Same goes for any other banal and hobby stuff, there's a lot of useful information out there hosted on burger servers. Cloudflare and Google captcha faggotry is already hellish enough.
I know, but those will be archived (or not, maybe you shouldn't use discord as a forum) and then moved to alternatives. Like lemmygrad did with the genzedong subreddit

>>32924
Some of us like color management



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What if for the entirety of July we didn't use AI chatbots, or AI searches at all, using duckduckgo or other search engines with no AI intergration instead.

AI just makes me dumber and makes thinking for myself harder, it would be really cool if some people here could help spread this!

Make some posters for this in the thread.
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>>33707
both are reinforced learning,but one relies on human feedback and the second relies on AI feedback

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Saw this at the shops the other day, the boast of "tips from real experts, not AI!" nearly killed me

>>33721
when you see mags like these in the shops you just know the bubble isn't going to hold much longer. im sure these were dime a dozen in the dot com bubble, crypto, etc…

i think i will have this AI july because my "AI-first" company has a quota so strict it's not even funny. I blew my quota just by asking a straighforward question. This shit is so over man.

>>33721

it's like we're back to the medieval era where anytime a person handled money they had to go through this whole ritual where they test each coin to make sure they're not counterfeit because forgery was rampant and there was no social trust at all.



 

>Benn Jordan examines the security vulnerabilities and privacy concerns surrounding consumer-grade autonomous robot dogs. Through technical investigation and hands-on testing, the video explores how these machines are being integrated into public and private surveillance, while questioning the implications of their widespread deployment and potential for unauthorized remote access.



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