- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
- privacy@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- technology@beehaw.org
- privacy@lemmy.ml
There is a lot of totalitarian shit going on, this being only one of the recent tragedies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fshsk8MCAf4
I always try to say to myself: don’t wallow in grief, organize and act!
Except for advocating for online privacy in one’s everyday life and being politically active when I have the ability to, do you have any tips on what one can contribute with technologically, from home?
I have:
- A 1Gbps up/down connection
- An RTX 3080
- A few Raspberry Pi:s
- 20TB storage
- A static public IP if I ask for it
What I have found so far:
- running a Tor bridge or guard/middld relay - bridge for the sake of our peers living in places where Tor in inaccessible and middle relay to contribute with bandwidth
- running a Monero node - although my GPU is LHR, so perhaps it wouldn’t contribute much to decentralization…?
I’ve taken an interest in Hyphanet recently too. It’s kind of like an ancient precursor to IPFS (large distributed filesystem + encryption and some anonymity built in). Not many users as far as I know, but I like the idea of it; being extremely censorship resistant (but has all the downsides that entails).
Just read the whole FAQ section and it’s a really cool idea on how to circumvent censorship and attain some level of plausible deniability! I’m not quite ready to run a Hyphanet node though, since I’m not yet comfortable with the notion of storing other people’s data on my drives in this anonymous format. Which is a bit hypocritical since I already contribute with nodes on other networks/solutions that don’t require me to store others’ data, just let it pass through my equipment… Maybe I just need to sleep on it. 😅 Anyway, thanks for sharing! 😊
https://github.com/hyphanet/wiki/wiki/FAQ#can-i-get-trouble-if-i-run-a-node