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Comment i2p: A Foundation for Decentralized Social Media (Score 2) 170

by pain (#65108869) Attached to: 'Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative To the Tech Oligarchy'

The current state of social media is deeply flawed. Centralized platforms control access to information, dictate what can or cannot be shared, and are vulnerable to censorship. These issues stifle open communication and the diversity of thought that a truly decentralized internet was supposed to enable.

To build a better system, we need more than just new apps—we need a new foundation. This is where i2p comes in. The Invisible Internet Project (i2p) has evolved significantly since its inception in the early 2000s. As a privacy-focused, censorship-resistant network layer, i2p offers the building blocks for a decentralized, non-censored communication infrastructure.

We’ve seen what happens when centralization takes over. Consider Usenet, once the backbone of free, distributed discussions. With the rise of centralized web forums like phpBB, Usenet’s role was reduced to a niche, largely limited to alt.binaries.*. So much valuable information was lost when forum sites simply disappeared. Centralized platforms come and go, taking entire communities and archives of knowledge with them.

i2p offers a chance to reverse this trend. It provides a resilient, decentralized alternative where communities can thrive without fear of erasure. By leveraging networks like i2p, we can move beyond the limitations of the traditional internet and create a social media ecosystem that prioritizes privacy, permanence, and freedom.

It’s time to think beyond the surface-level fixes and embrace solutions that address the structural flaws of today’s internet.

Comment In it's features telegram is way ahead (Score 1) 50

I don't want to defend security on telegram but man did you check telegram features at all? It is a cloud storage system. Handy got lost? No backup? No problem with telegram. Upload 2GB or 4GB (premium) Files and have them stored in as many chanels as you like. Video call on groups. A formidable bot API. It is not just a "mostly plaintext social Media app".
Patents

Evaluating Patent Troll Myths 167

Posted by Soulskill from the wooden-stakes-still-work-but-they-like-garlic dept.
An anonymous reader writes "In a guest post on the Patently-O blog, Villanova University professor Michael Risch summarizes his detailed study into the methods and efficacy of patent trolls. He writes, 'It turns out that most of what I thought about trolls — good or bad — was wrong.... Perhaps the biggest surprise in the study was the provenance of patents. I thought most patents came from failed startups. While such patents were represented (about 14% of initial assignees were defunct), most came from companies still in business in 2010. Indeed, more than a third of the initial assignees were publicly traded, a subsidiary of a public company, or venture capital recipients. Only 21% were patent assertion entities at the time the patent issued, and many of those were inventor owned companies (like Katz) rather than acquisition entities (like Acacia). ... Another area of surprise was patent quality. While trolls almost never won their cases if they went to judgment (only three cases led to an infringement finding on the merits), the percentage of patents invalidated on the merits was lower than I expected.'"
Security

LulzSec Target the Sun After Phone Hacking Scandal 363

Posted by timothy from the it-was-a-fadeaway-fake dept.
nk497 writes "LulzSec have come out of retirement to target Rupert Murdoch's News International, hacking the website of The Sun, redirecting it first to a spoofed page reporting his death and then to Lulz's Twitter feed. 'The Sun's homepage now redirects to the Murdoch death story on the recently-owned New Times website,' the hackers said via Twitter. 'Can you spell success, gentlemen?' The hackers also started to post email addresses and passwords they claimed were from Sun staff, and said to have accessed a mail server at now-defunct News of the World."

Comment Not MD5! (Score 1) 375

by pain (#36524724) Attached to: Might iCloud Be a Musical Honeypot?

MD5 is not what Apple will be using, since every different bitrate and/or encoder will yield different files and thus different md5 sums for the same song. AND you will never know from the perspective of apple, which song we are looking at, if there are no meta information. So Apple will use some kind of audio fingerprinting system like MusicDNS or whatever. Look it up in Wikipedia. Probably they can even reuse information gathered by iTunes genius.
Earth

Robert X Cringely Predicts More Mininuke Plants 430

Posted by timothy from the make-them-bouncy-and-floaty dept.
LandGator writes "PC pundit Robert X Cringely had a life before writing 'Triumph of the Nerds' for PBS: He covered the atomics industry and reported on Three Mile Island. In this blog post, he analyzes the Fukushima reactor failures, and suggests the end result will be a rapid growth in small, sealed 'package' nuclear reactors such as the Toshiba 4S generator considered for Galena, Alaska. He thinks Japan may have little choice, and with rolling blackouts scheduled, he may be right."
User Journal

Journal Journal: Oh man... usenet is so not dead

Journal by pain

Today I learned of an all new Unison 2 for mac. What a pleasant surprise. I was fan to the original Unison for quite a while. One feature I especially liked was support for binary post. Grouping media by some clever subject to path name converter was working like a charm. Management of binary data in a newsgroup was very easy. As far as I used Unison 2, it seems to have all features I liked about the original - plus - I get some nice new features.
Apple

Steve Jobs Takes Leave of Absence From Apple 429

Posted by timothy from the get-well-soon dept.
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Network World: "A number of sites are reporting that Apple's CEO Steve Jobs is taking a leave of absence till June at least. Speculation over Jobs' possibly failing health has run rampant in the past few weeks. Prior to the recent MacWorld show, Jobs said he had a hormone deficiency that had caused him to dramatically lose weight. In a memo today Jobs told workers his health issues are more complex than he thought." Reader Bastian227 adds a link to this letter from Steve Jobs on Apple's website, which also says that Tim Cook will be responsible for daily operations, though Jobs will remain involved with major strategic decisions.
The Courts

RIAA May Be Violating a Court Order In California 339

Posted by kdawson from the play-nice-now dept.
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "In one of its 'ex parte' cases seeking the names and addresses of 'John Does,' this one targeting students at the University of Southern California, the RIAA obtained an order granting discovery — but with a wrinkle. The judge's order (PDF) specified that the information obtained could not be used for any purpose other than obtaining injunctions against the students. Apparently the RIAA lawyers have ignored, or failed to understand, that limitation, as an LA lawyer has reported that the RIAA is busy calling up the USC students and their families and demanding monetary settlements."
User Journal

Journal Journal: Usenet dead. Yeah. Sure...

Journal by pain

I don't know about you, but I still like the technical advantage of usenet, which is in fact *the only* world-wide distributed and mirrored message system available today. I still like it and it will not fade away as some of the slashdot folk thinks.

Move along. Nothing to see here.

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