Freenet

mnot, 24 days ago to random

Law enforcement is asking - yet again - for access to encrypted communications. This post tries to succinctly summarise why that's a bad idea.

https://www.mnot.net/blog/2024/04/29/power

Freenet, 25 days ago to random

There’s a test release for #Freenet / #Hyphanet build 1498: https://github.com/hyphanet/fred/releases/tag/build01498

If you want to help test 1498, go to Configuration → Auto Update, then Switch to advanced mode and change the update key to USK@wytBz~rduWSo9-MmVW4AVqY3ESebPPCP9vC-eSxe-vg,mZqWi0sHmhn5kt0idu-~K4pk~~8eNXxMeYen73FOfA8,AQACAAE/jar/1497

(more info is in Sone and FMS)

announcement: SSK@wytBz~rduWSo9-MmVW4AVqY3ESebPPCP9vC-eSxe-vg,mZqWi0sHmhn5kt0idu-~K4pk~~8eNXxMeYen73FOfA8,AQACAAE/changelog-1498?type=text/plain

glynmoody, 1 month ago to opensource

The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ #Backdoor Mastermind - https://www.wired.com/story/jia-tan-xz-backdoor/ "The thwarted XZ Utils supply chain attack was years in the making. Now, clues suggest nation-state hackers were behind the persona that inserted the malicious code." another reason for governments to support #opensource properly

Freenet, 2 months ago to random

Today (march 12th ⏰ ) is press freedom day! https://www.unesco.org/en/days/press-freedom

A great way to celebrate it is to set up a Sharesite on #Freenet / #Hyphanet to have practical press freedom:

→ https://www.hyphanet.org/pages/download.html

Freenet / Hyphanet is built to provide a technical pillar for freedom of the press.

An overview of its progress during the past 15 years:
https://www.draketo.de/software/freenet-hyphanet-the-long-game-de (German website)
https://www.draketo.de/software/freenet-hyphanet-the-long-game-de--google-translated-en.pdf (English slides)

Welcome to Freenet / Hyphanet where no one can watch you read!

kubikpixel, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to web

🛡️ When you are keen on web privacy, i.e. anonymity, what do you use? Is there actually a difference for you between @torproject, @i2p, @Freenet and #GNUnet and is their use important to you? Multiple selection possible.

(please share this survey, thank you :BoostOK:)
—
#webanonymiti #web #privacy #tor #i2p #freenet #spying #anonymity #webprivacy

CCC, 3 months ago to random German

Ob WhatsApp, Signal oder Facebook: Der Plan der EU-Kommission zur #Chatkontrolle sieht vor, dass sämtliche Chats im Netz gescannt werden https://www.zdf.de/dokumentation/die-spur/chatkontrolle-ashton-kutcher-thorn-eu-ueberwachung-100.html

Freenet, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

Reworked the audio-streaming setup: it now creates a site where people can listen to your stream right in the browser-interface of #Freenet / #Hyphanet:

https://www.draketo.de/software/stream-over-freenet

It auto-spawns nodes and stops them after the stream is done.

To stream https://theradio.cc:
cd /tmp && \
git clone https://github.com/hyphanet/re-stream-into-freenet && \
cd re-stream-into-freenet && \
echo -e "\n1\n" | ./re-stream-to-freenet.sh theradiocc \
"http://ogg.theradio.cc/" $(((3 * 24 * 60 * 60))) \
"The Radio.cc: theradio.cc"

Freenet, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to DataViz

Explicitly including the mean value in our performance measurements shows 5x better #Freenet / #Hyphanet download-times since Spring 2022. Mind the logarithmic scale.

Spring 2022 was release 1493 — I had not fully realized the extent of the improvements before seeing the updated plots, only read reports of users saying that it got much faster: https://www.hyphanet.org/freenet-build-1493-initial-user-experience-sneakernet-performance.html

Plot your measurements! #dataviz

And run Hyphanet! https://www.hyphanet.org/pages/download.html

Decentralized privacy respecting #FreeSoftware.

Freenet, 4 months ago to random

You want to earn money working on #Hyphanet while creating a better internet?

A merchant-interface using #GNU Taler that builds on https://www.hyphanet.org to provide anonymity for the buyer (the server / platform cannot be anonymous, but the buyer can) might get funding from the NGI Taler project:

https://nlnet.nl/taler/

If it sounds interesting, go for it!

That’s via NLnet, so bureaucracy is at a minimum (even I can fulfill it, and I am adverse to spending time on bureaucracy).

(only EU)

Freenet, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

We continue working on the next release of #Hyphanet:

• https://github.com/hyphanet/fred/pulls
• https://github.com/hyphanet/fred/blob/next/NEWS.md

Background: #Freenet / Hyphanet: the long game

• English slides (auto-translated): https://www.draketo.de/software/freenet-hyphanet-the-long-game-de--google-translated-en.pdf
• German original: https://www.draketo.de/software/freenet-hyphanet-the-long-game-de

Where we want to take Hyphanet in the next years: https://github.com/hyphanet/wiki/wiki/High-Impact-tasks

To try Hyphanet: https://www.hyphanet.org/pages/download.html (Windows, macOS, Linux, *BSDs, rough Android support)

polygon, 6 months ago to random

Godzilla reigns eternal thanks to years of tiny design changes https://www.polygon.com/23960731/godzilla-monarch-minus-one-tv-show-movie-history

Freenet, 6 months ago to random

pyFreenet3 0.6.0 updates the spawn source (it can now spawn an on-demand Hyphanet node version 1497) and freesitemgr no longer fails with a missing index.html

https://pypi.org/project/pyFreenet3/0.6.0/

aside: #Hyphanet is the original #Freenet 🐇,
a peer-to-peer platform for
censorship-resistant and privacy-respecting
publishing and communication,
in development since 1999.

Why the name: https://www.hyphanet.org/freenet-renamed-to-hyphanet.html
Install Hyphanet: https://www.hyphanet.org/pages/download.html

#pyFreenet

Freenet, 6 months ago to InitialD

Follow this guide to get a completely decentralized, sovereign #video channel that stays online as long as people watch your videos, even when you go offline: https://www.draketo.de/software/video-channel-hyphanet

It is a contingency plan for the time when your current video hosting provider goes down or starts on the path to #enshittification.

Once you have set it up, creating a new channel just needs:
git clone https://github.com/hyphanet/generate-media-site YOUR_CHANNEL_NAME
cd YOUR_CHANNEL_NAME/site && ./gms.scm --rebuild-only
freesitemgr add

CCC, 7 months ago to random German

Journalisten & Politiker mit #Staatstrojaner #Predator gehackt: Bundesregierung hält sich wieder bedeckt, Deutschland ist #Intellexa-Kunde https://netzpolitik.org/2023/staatstrojaner-predator-vietnam-wollte-offenbar-deutsche-us-botschafterin-hacken/

markusreuter, 7 months ago to random German

Ausschnitt aus dem Kinderbuch „Die Hochhausdetektive“ - wie schön:

Freenet, 9 months ago to javascript

If you run #Tor, you can now watch the #CC-licensed #Bloodspell #machinima series as video-on-demand via #Freenet #Hyphanet over a new inproxy: http://xdxvyfgo6d3vwpisd4jexhx5t3xeioynkpiiv3luyahbioconztrmeyd.onion:8888/freenet:USK@JzzvVJt-47Hby7c6i21I1HJjmUQT3EfkViJcXtH0jHk,Vtfn5lZf5lihVC6S-ymJHF69Z2qG8zHfcKNMGxrTcjQ,AQACAAE/bloodspell/32/chronological.html

(uses a version of https://www.draketo.de/software/m3u-player that’s been reviewed by the Core Devs to polyfill m3u playlist support, so it needs #Javascript enabled)

You can also run a node yourself to get better #privacy and speed: https://www.hyphanet.org/pages/download.html

#decentralization of #video — #CreativeCommons hosted without server.

Freenet, 1 year ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

An #introduction: This account writes information and news about the #Freenet / #Hyphanet project, one of the old networks from a time when crypto did not mean currency but privacy and freedom to communicate.

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

To get more information and join in, see https://freenetproject.org or https://hyphanet.org

A big thank you to floss.social for hosting!