They were cutting files in smaller parts and spreading over multiple locations and countries. At least that was the claim in the early days, so anything illegal would require lawyers on many jurisdictions sending the same letter (e.g. DMCA takedown)

Ironically, it did work but now that Durov is in jail channel admins would do good to take precautions.

In case anyone needs the clarification, facism is not about exposing who thinks what. Facism is about extermination of the opposition, and minorities. And, one huge point against facism is that they can stop being bigots. Meanwhile, minorities that would suffer from a facist regime have no real option to stop having a skin color, religion, or sexual orientation.

That’s the whole point about exposing these “customers”. To make them feel shame (or threatened, if that works) so they disengage any political actions. It’s about disjointing fascist activities and the danger they pose to society.

I wish him a happy life, it would be great if he abandons his faith now that the farce is over. And it’s not late to repair on the damages he’s done during his political career.

Oh… I just saw your point. I’m comparing to Android (LineageOS) when it should be to iOS… void

Well, then this news are just sad.

I’m absolutely with you on point 5. As for the rest, I will have to admit that I may have said some things plain wrong. I’m just trying to drive the point that it’s not inmoral and people should be happy anyway. Perhaps in 10 years this is the OS we are all using on our desktops, phones, and wearables. It would be a pity that’s not GPL and it has ads, sure (like maybe Android on x-brand flagship mew phone). But we could then have the LineageOS version of this. And I’d be happy. My poiny being, if that happens (it turns out to be the biggest OS), it will be thanks to its license, allowing it to be a thing for both people, and companies.

We can’t really know if BSD “lost” a sell to Sony. Right? I ask sincerely, maybe there’s more to the case you cited.

From my naïve view, this new project can win new associated companies and get some income to pay new devs when some maturity is achieved on this framework since it’s quite innovative and those companies can really participate whereas with a GPL they would just be left out.

I only mean to say that we might be discussing if the glass is half empty or half full. That’s why I’m trying to put into this new perspective (like considering GrapheneOS as an example. In the long run, the license might not be that much of a hurdle. At least let’s hope that’s the case since they probably won’t change to GPL.

Linux made huge strides in the last years. But if we go back 10 years, or 15 things were quite bleak. And there are many reasons to that. It’s license is one. That’s my point. Correct or not, okay.

And Linux never embraced GPLv3 for reasons that are in common probably as to why this project chose a permissive license. So, I think we should all support them in that regard.

I’d love to live in a solarpunk world where intellectual property was abolished. In the meantime, compromises are met and it’s no horror at all.

I feel you, but maybe GPL is just an unpopular option (linux kernel never upgraded to v3, only a few oss web apps use affero, etc.)

As much as I love libre software, I have to say that Linux had bad support for drivers because of it, and its mainstream adoption for desktops was hindered for decades because of it. Only today, we celebrate a 5% user share.

An alternative permissive license doesn’t immediately mean companies will do the worst. We live under capitalism, perhaps we can’t just change that with a license. Their decision might future-proof the project to higher heights that are hardly seen today.

Look at Android, yeah it’s a hell of a locked down system when you buy a new phone. But it works quite well, and their user share is at the very top (or second to Apple? Maybe, if you’re American). However, Android allows us to have LineageOS and Graphene (which is MIT license, but that’s beyond my point, iiuc it could very well be GPL for all of its customizations), and no matter which license these forks(?) use, privacy is preserved and taken to new levels. Meanwhile, Android or any of these alternatives support ARM architecture with great integrated video acceleration that is low power. These are not simply “nice features” but a requirement (e.g. saves energy, improved user experience, competitive to other platforms, etc.) and privacy is not really compromised.

P.s. I’m suprising myself with this comment, nearly 10 years ago I was obsessed with libre software. Today I find it more of a niche hobby, or intellectual challenge. Valuable nonetheless, sure. And hell yeah I’d like to have a linux phone which fully supports all software and hardware… But then, reality.

Oh, it’s already happening. Discussion here: https://programming.dev/post/19211993

I’m all in for new takes that start with a clean slate, if that’s what happens in the near future (e.g. redox-os grows bigger than gnu/ linux *), yet it saddens me that there’s personal health costs on these developers that just wanted to contribute.

* after all, the year of the gnu/ linux desktop has already been past :P

Nice write-up. I’d take this as a blueprint. Anyone can swap 3rd-party services to their like (e.g. headscale, xmpp bot on that vps, backblaze s3, etc.) and extend upon (e.g. oidc providers, mailboxes, arr suite, etc.)

A cheap VPS with headscale. Or just ZeroTier.com free plan.

I wonder if this could help the IT workers from the public sector in Germany (E12, around 2500 €/month).

Anyone knows why it is like that?

Once, I heard about some speculative extra amounts made by guarantees in purchases. (Germans love guarantees, and any hardware purchase has a 50% surplus that can easily be split 1:1 between vendor and whoever was in charge. Yes, it would be illegal… But nearly impossible to prove.)

It’s okay to be proud of your actions but that’s different to robbing the value of other people effort.

You might be Messi and the other guy is Di Maria. The greatest football team of all time needed both :)

P.s. yeah, the example is not crystal clear but it sounded funny to me, so…

The week went by and this was left unanswered. Usually I research a bit to treat anything on these threads. This time, I’m on the phone, so I went lazy and directly to chatgpt. Hopefully this is not an AI hallucination and it sheds some light for you.

The performance difference you’re observing between AES128-CTR and AES128-GCM in OpenSSH with X11 forwarding can be attributed to several factors, including the nature of the ciphers and hardware acceleration support.

AES128-CTR vs AES128-GCM

1. Cipher Characteristics:

   • AES128-CTR (Counter Mode): This mode turns a block cipher into a stream cipher. It is generally faster because it can be parallelized and does not require padding.
   • AES128-GCM (Galois/Counter Mode): This mode provides both encryption and authentication (integrity check). The additional authentication step can introduce overhead, making it slower compared to CTR mode.

2. Hardware Acceleration:

   • AES-NI Support: Modern CPUs support AES-NI (Advanced Encryption Standard New Instructions), which accelerates AES operations. Both CTR and GCM modes can benefit from AES-NI, but the extent of the acceleration can vary.
   • GCM Overhead: Even with hardware acceleration, GCM mode has additional computational overhead due to the authentication process. If the hardware acceleration is not fully utilized or if the implementation is suboptimal, this overhead can become more pronounced.

Checking Hardware Acceleration

To determine if your system is using hardware acceleration for AES operations, you can check the following:

1. CPU Support:

   • Verify if your CPU supports AES-NI by checking the CPU flags:

     grep aes /proc/cpuinfo
     

   • If you see aes in the output, your CPU supports AES-NI.

2. OpenSSL Benchmark:

   • Run an OpenSSL benchmark to see the performance difference between CTR and GCM modes:

     openssl speed -evp aes-128-ctr
     openssl speed -evp aes-128-gcm
     

   • Compare the results to see if there’s a significant difference in performance.

3. SSH Configuration:

   • Ensure that your OpenSSH configuration is optimized for hardware acceleration. You can specify the ciphers in your SSH configuration file (/etc/ssh/sshd_config for the server and /etc/ssh/ssh_config or ~/.ssh/config for the client):

     Ciphers aes128-ctr,aes128-gcm@openssh.com
     

   • Restart the SSH service after making changes:

     sudo systemctl restart ssh
     

Conclusion

The performance difference between AES128-CTR and AES128-GCM is expected due to the additional authentication overhead in GCM mode. Ensuring that your system is utilizing hardware acceleration (AES-NI) can help mitigate some of this overhead, but GCM will generally still be slower than CTR. If performance is critical and you do not need the additional authentication provided by GCM, sticking with CTR mode might be the better option.

Oh. And an invite-only could also work for new accounts.

On an instance level, you can close registration after a threshold level of users that you are comfortable with. Then, you can defederate the instances that are driven by capitalistic ideals like eternal growth (e.g. Threads from meta)

But terrible handling of metadata. Which is the case for all chat apps AFAIK. Like, even with OMEMO, who talks with whom, and when, can be exposed. Which sometimes is enough to get legal issues (e.g. Ola Bini’s case)

The “other criminal activity” probably includes many horrible things. Not just a teen selling shrooms. So, I am not so sure that’s really what we want.