https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(network)
Not NSA and no backdoor so far. It's not needed, control enough hops and you can trace a lot and even deanonymize clients.
Tor has it's weaknesses, maybe implemented just for that. But afaik they're mostly caused by design.
This.
While being annoyed by one of my grandmothers giving me bed sheets as a birthday present when I was around 10.
I now totally understand and like it. Haven't really bought much clothes since ever, cause my mother and sister are currently fullfilling my grandmother's task for years now xD
And it's nice to use the money I would have spent on clothes to buy me more tech stuff I really want.
Been there, started scripting with PowerShell to have an after-setup-script to change reg entries, install tools (mostly through choco), run them (like dism++ cleanup and o&o shutup10 privacy tweaks) and migrate data from backups.
Setting up and migrating took me usually 3-4h of work, sometimes more. With the scripts it's just: Install Windows, update, reboot, update, reboot, run the script, reboot. Done. It's like 30min of work.
Good thing I changed to linux, cause you can automate the whole process and preseed it into a debian image or kickstart rpm-based distros.
It's possible to do customized Windows images too. I have tried a lot of times. It never worked like it was supposed to.
Fedora Silverblue enters the chat :)
Haven't had a single hiccup so far. Only ublue spins are a pain in the butt imo. That's why I configure everything by myself.
Exactly the same in many parts of DE.
In Bavaria we have cable (docsis 3+) from Vodafone and then there's copper and fibre from Telekom (most other ISPs use their infrastructure). Depending on where you are in Germany, cables is provided by another company. There are some fibre companies too.
I'm currently moving from Nuremburg to a smaller town next to it. Currently I have 250/50Mbit/s and in the street I'm moving I can only utilize 100/40... Like wtf, 100m down the road there's the citiy hall, they have fibre and it's street to the next small city will get fibre next year. I won't until idk years. C'mon I would pay a shitton to get synchronous 1 Gbit/s.
I'm gonna test 5G there too and maybe for my high bandwidth stuff that's an option.
Still fucked up.
It's 2023 an we still live in the stoneage of the internet. Fuck our politicians...
Netcup is my favourite hoster in the EU, but I live in DE. 2€/m for 2c, 2/4gb ram, lots of traffic. They have coupons from time to time or xmas/easter/... deals. The whole front- and backend works like a charm too. Upload your own isos/qcow images, download backups, KVM is awesomely implemented too.
Sadly they don't take crypto and you need a call verification or id via mail for your first purchase (understandable as a german hoster), besides that just wonderful :)
Has some1 tested this under Wine/Proton yet?
I love community remakes! ManicMiner (Lego Rock Raiders remake) and OpenTyrian being one of my favourites.
So many childhood memories of the 90ies gaming era coming back with stuff like this.
That's why I have abandoned private trackers.
I only use public ones with a seed ratio of 2, because I like giving back.
Everything else is downloaded with Real-Debrid and jDownloader2 (mostly OCHs or sometimes torrents, when there aren't much/any seeders and the speed is unacceptably slow).
Buy a cheap VPS, setup a Wireguard or OpenVPN server (wg-easy is quite nice). Then something like Nginx Proxy Manager or plain nginx and expose your services over that.
Edit: if you need help, hit me up, love sharing my knowledge
I think there's lot less potential abuse, if you control your tracker and the peers.
If I remember correctly, you usually have to seed till a specific ratio is reached.
I doubt that any copyright-infringment-abuse-company tries to get acces to those trackers, if they have to upload stuff at first.
Tor traffic is for some ppl a no go. Better obfuscate it with bridges or use a VPN then.
Think of this:
You're hosting a darknet market and there's lots of traffic going on your site.
That Tor traffic can be used to find your server, which uses Tor connections and has a lot of Tor traffic. Oh w8 thats bad.
With a VPN you can hide that lots of Tor traffic is coming from your server.
Why not use sth that is based on OpenWeather? Weather from FDroid comes to my mind. For Windows idk. You can find some Gnome Extensions for Gnome (Linux DE) which can use OpenWeather too.
I think we alread know, that Temu is fraudulent.
They pay 30 bucks for every order out ouf their hand. The app itself is malicious and should be able to execute any command from the Temu servers.
The German news website heise.de had an article about that.
I did a little bit of research and cars are beyond being doomed. Biggest problem is the propriertary part in the software.
What should work:
No sim inside the car, no bluetooth connection from any mobile phone (sound is the only privacy friendly part in there, no phonebook sharing and stuff), and a GPS jammer.
He's good in doing so, compared to the old guy with a neckbeared using his fingers to count to one. Oh, do you know his name? It's Microsoft, named after his dick xD
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(network) Not NSA and no backdoor so far. It's not needed, control enough hops and you can trace a lot and even deanonymize clients. Tor has it's weaknesses, maybe implemented just for that. But afaik they're mostly caused by design.