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Why 9? It’s 8 or 17+.

Firstoff: "looked at the content that flowed through it" – if you tried, you would have seen that you cannot do that (without downloading illegal stuff yourself, which would be illegal if you’re not law enforcement with the task to do that, so I sure hope you didn’t).

And no one ever got prosecuted for the encrypted chunks of stuff they cannot decrypt on their disk. So this part is just fearmongering.

And to quote 2023: ”Freenet / Hyphanet shows up on hacker news and the top comment is advocating against running it because “we don't need privacy against the police“.” – “in the year after many states in the US outlawed abortion and police used period trackers to find women who might try to get an abortion”.

And the Russian poet who shares his poems on Hyphanet so they survive when police knocks at his door definitely does need this protection.

In contrast, the pedo-criminals around Epstein communicated via email.

And looking at the recent pedo-bustings, those communicated via WhatsApp, Skype, Game platforms, Music sites, and HD streaming, and they traded horrible material in volumes that exceed the current maximum storage in Hyphanet by orders of magnitude, and had 100x the members of the total user count of Hyphanet. Some info: https://www.infoportal-rg.de/2025/04/03/news-kinderporno-rin...

So the relentless fight within Hyphanet to not be a platform for pedo-criminals seems to work. It has moderation systems without centralized power but with sensible defaults.

Summary:

1. takes unlicensed peptides, because the insurance declined to pay for what the doctor prescribed.

2. «“people generally don't try to quantify tail risks.” Among the people I talked to, this is true»

That’s a pretty bad outlook.

If you work in the AI industry, it’s time to preserve the engineering innovations you built -- before the risk of a bursting bubble skyrockets.

- Did you build libraries to efficiently analyze specific data formats? - Did you work on lean and fast serialization? - Did you create optimizing orchestration tools for GPU-bound tasks with dependencies? - …

… then please try to get them released as FOSS!

That way you ensure that even if the bubble bursts, the fruits of your labor will survive and their legacy can improve software for decades to come.

(you’re welcome to extend the list in the comments)

On Hyphanet (the original Freenet) there’s been working group chat via a Hyphanet-backed IRC server for over a decade (the server is named FLIP, the first working version was released in 2013, developed purely on Freenet/Hyphanet).

There was no public debate, but he did start to talk to devs 18 months before, and the devs told him quite clearly that they strongly object to repurposing the name.

And that repurposing the name would cause lots of damage.

yes, it chunks files, and aggregates multiple chunks per packet, and pads packets it sends around, so size analysis by the ISP cannot trace the path.

There actually are: among the darknets, Hyphanet is the only one that has a main use for "deviant data resistant to censorship":

Example publication: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/135485651880663...

> What are the content patterns on Freenet? Four patterns were identified. Freenet is (1) an archive of deviant data resistant to censorship (2) a space dominated by content associated with masculinity, (3) a nonmarket space where commercial exchange is non-existent, and (4) an empty space with many requests not returning information, and many flogs abandoned. We asked a third question: How does the analysis of Freenet inform current understandings of hacker culture? Freenet, we suggest, can be understood as a type of digital “wilderness”. It is a singular darknet space, supporting a distinct set of hacker practices

Practically: people in Hyphanet blog about stuff they dare not blog about in the clearnet -- anything from radical politics (from all kinds, left, right, libertarian, …) over personal opinion pages to wilder stuff like magick (yes, in that spelling).

Not to forget the Russian Poet who’s posting daily poems with the goal (as he wrote) that those poems still survive after police knocked at his door.

(besides talk about hyphanet and privacy tech)

So yes: I don’t understand the downvotes either, because it’s a legitimate question with a pretty clear answer: yes.

Last I checked the Koch Brothers weren’t Israeli. Do read up on them. Oversimplified narratives are bullshit.

From the preface:

Why this book?

Providing a concise start, a no-frills, opinionated intro to programming from first define to deploying an application on just 64 pages.

What is Scheme?

Scheme is a programming language — a Lisp — that follows the principle “design not by piling feature on top of feature, but by removing the weaknesses and restrictions that make additional features appear necessary”.

Freenet / Hyphanet 0.7.5 build 1503 is now available.

This is a shared release announcement for 1502 and 1503. 1502 fixed an inserter tracing vulnerability and added several features while 1503 is a hotfix release that fixes regressions in 1502. The main changes are:

- fix vulnerability

- reduce visibility on the network

- support animated webp and more modern HTML and CSS

- enable direct linking to Freemail’s “New Message” page

- dismiss alerts and convenience

- substantial routing optimizations

- bug fixes

Hyphanet is a peer-to-peer platform for censorship-resistant and privacy-respecting publishing and communication.

It’s beautiful how in the end he writes how this actually helps him.

My experience is that whenever I skip organizing my tasks with org-mode, I lose focus and time.

An example: While duplicating the gist of JIRA issues in my local org-file may seem wasteful, whenever I tried to leave it out, my completion time for tickets ballooned. I tried multiple times.

There’s just no other tool that worked for me, even though I’ve tried to use many over the years.

According to the Benchmarks Game, SBCL is roughly as fast as Node.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

You don’t let your kids jailbreak their Switch. Because it’s a damn online system, so any leaked info and Nintendo can brick the Switch. And their game states are far too valuable for the kids for that.

Correction: that is used to prevent spam.

I nowadays mostly use a simple static website plus minimal Javascript, but I still have PHP sites.

It still works. And PHP today is at least factor 3 faster than PHP was back then — on the same hardware.

So maybe just use PHP and ftps or sftp?

Don’t you have a virtual server? I’m pretty sure that my managed webserver runs on some virtual machine somewhere on a bigger server, and when it is not doing stuff, other tasks are running there and using the CPU and bandwidth.

There is likely some fixed memory and disk space cost, but those are negligible with todays capacities.

Yes, these problems shouldn’t exist. But they do.

One of the big strength of the Web is the commitment of Mozilla „do not break the web“.

But this is hitting its limits, because the scope of Javascript is being expanded more and more (including stuff like filesystem APIs for almost arbitrary file access — as if we had not learned from Java WebStart that that’s a rabbit hole that never stops gifting vulnerabilities), so to keep new features safe despite their much higher security needs, old features are neutered.

I lost a decentralized comment system to similar changes.

I know why I no longer have a mildly dynamic website: the security risk of PHP is not linear.

That’s where Javascript shines: if you avoid comments (those are actually a hard problem: a social one) and server-side data (security risk), it actually has this linear increase in effort without the jump in security risk.

And this risk has increased a lot since the early mildly dynamic websites.

That’s why moderation must scale better than lies.

In the original Freenet (now Hyphanet) it does, because when several people you communicate with block something, it disappears for you, too. When that was added (years ago, because having no centralized power means it was needed much earlier), communication got much more friendly in a pretty short amount of time.

You can create a new ID to see it anyway — or explicitly make a spammer visible — but there’s usually no need, because you’ll actually not want to see stuff your friends identified as lies. And you can see who blocks what, so if you should doubt your friends (i.e. because something you like disappeared), you can stop their blocking from affecting you.

Did you see that there is nowadays information about abortion on the original Freenet (now Hyphanet)?

I for sure did not expect that this would be needed for people in the USA. But that’s what happened.

And centralized moderation tools gravitate towards favoring these lies.

Even worse: lies about climate change are nowadays being spread via paid Youtube advertisements. This kind of centralized power should never have existed in the first place.

This actually happens in the original Freenet (now Hyphanet): the communication tools use propagating trust and blocking. So if someone you communicate with regularly sees something objectionable and blocks it, it disappears for you, too.

But you can always create a new identity that does not trust the other person — or set your own local trust — to see the content anyway.

The important point is that this way resistence against disruption of communication scales better that the disruption (spam, libel, harassment, ...).

Most communication tools in the original Freenet nowadays have persistent identifiers, because the experience within Freenet showed that not having any moderation causes constructive communication to break down.

The experience there proves that the methods used there for decentralized moderation succeeded at keeping communication friendly without centralized power or forced identification.

For more background see https://www.draketo.de/software/decentralized-moderation

Blocking content is done on a higher level: on the level which links are shown.

The default bookmarks only include links to safe content and the core communication tools (Sone, FMS) have decentralized moderation with which people sharing horrific content get blocked without creating centralized power structures. If you see something you think should not be there, you block it, and it disappears for all who trust your judgement.

And yes, it took a lot of work to get to this point.

The advantage here is: as soon as no one accesses that horrific content anymore, it disappears. So this moderation actually removes horrific stuff. Because the original Freenet is not actually for perpetuity: when a media file is not accessed for a month, it is gone.

It’s not the same team. The Freenet Team is developing Hyphanet now.

Ian had not been active in Freenet development for over a decade (he managed the non-profit but didn’t interact with actual development) before he started Locutus. He initially started Freenet in 1999, but had long been absent.

The renaming was done against the explicit objection of the core development team. For further background, see the links in https://www.hyphanet.org/freenet-renamed-to-hyphanet.html

Hyphanet is the original Freenet and the next release is just blocked by finalizing the new signing setup for the Windows installer. See https://github.com/hyphanet/fred/releases/tag/build01498

Yes, Hyphanet is considerably safer and does not compete with a multi-billion Euro corporation about brand rights.

And from the start the maintainer objected strongly to your idea.

As did the whole core development team once this was announced. And most users.

I warned you that this would cause massive problems.

And I am still cleaning up the mess it created.

Freenet AG is now a pretty big mobile phone provider since it bought the biggest carrier-independent mobile phone contract provider.

Revenue about 2.5 billion Euro.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet_AG

0.5 didn’t support a friend-to-friend structure, so the privacy protection possible with it was much lower than with 0.7 released in 2007. Since 2007 Freenet / Hyphanet stayed compatible with content from previous versions.

A summary of the changes since 2007 can be found in the presentation “Freenet / Hyphanet: the long game”:

https://www.draketo.de/software/freenet-hyphanet-the-long-ga...

This is auto-translated from the German original which was presented at SUMA e.V.:

https://www.draketo.de/software/freenet-hyphanet-the-long-ga...

https://suma-ev.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/SUMA-Kongress2...