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Backstory: much of the darknet (including Tor, dread, I2P) has been down due to DDoS attacks for months, and the largest darknet market (AlphaBay) has seemingly been compromised by feds. We have reached peak darknet cope and seethe. If you don't have tor browser already, you should get it just so you can have access to darknet drama 
Okay, here is the article for you clearnet strags:
The Tor Times
The Tor Project is Trying to Fix Tor's Problems
Published by Elmer FUD on Tue, Feb 28, 2023 | Tagged DDoS, I2P, Tor | 40 Comments
In May 2022 someone posted on the Tor mailing list complaining about a Company called Team Cymru being one of the Host's of Tor's website.
Here's a vice article about companies that buy what's known as "netflow data" from Tier 1 ISPs and sell it to third parties. Team Cymru is one of the biggest such brokers, and as such, a bunch of security industry reps lick their balls rapaciously.
Anyway, this May 2022 mailing list post complaining about Team Cymru hosting Tor's Website.
OP just gets shit on by everyone who responds. (paraphrasing) 'The CEO of Team Cymru, "Rabbi Rob Thomas," has been on the board of directors of the tor project since 2011, and they've operated bridges for years,' we learn. 'OP needs to remove his tinfoil hat,' they say.
Ok, skip ahead to Tor Browser Bundle changelog update in October same year (2022):
Bug tor-browser-build#40633: Remove Team Cymru hard-coded bridges
So they weren't just hosting bridges, but default bridges hard-coded into the Tor Browser Bundle itself. In other words, when you click the "give me a bridge" button in tor browser (this option not available in Tails, and I see the sense in it not being so now), at least two such default bridges were operated by Team Cymru.
Rabbi Rob Thomas still sits on the board of directors.
Three new board members added to Tor last month
I2P now getting the shit ddosed of it, as an inadvertent result of Tor's incompetence (assuming it's the same attacker). I2P dev on /r/i2p:
As you already know, the I2P network has been targeted by a Denial-of-Service attack for the past ~3 days. The attacker is flooding the network with malicious floodfill routers, which are responding incorrectly or not at all to other routers and feeding the network false information. This results in performance and connectivity problems, because the floodfills provide peer information to the participants in the network. The result is a form of sybil attack which is used to cause widespread denial of service. The attacker is changing specific characteristics of their attack as they carry it out. The focus for mitigation is to find general strategies which address the issue regardless of who is carrying it out, and which do not require the use of a fixed ban-list and which can provide long-term protections.
This attack has degraded the performance of the network but it remains intact and usable. Java I2P routers still appear to be handling the issues better than i2pd routers. Various mitigations should appear in dev builds of both Java and C++ routers in the next week.
BUT DONT WORRY! The Tor project is fundraising to fix the problem, they just hired two new onion devs! JUST HIRED!? THIS HAS BEEN HAPPENING SINCE JULY, AND EVEN LONGER AGO BEFORE THAT!
So the Poor folks at Tor just need another measly $155,000 to fix the problem guys. Funny if you split that in two you've got about two onion dev salaries and a handful of first class private jet flights to wherever the frick.
Maybe Rabbi Rob can chip in? No, no he's already donated so much money AND RESOURCES DONT FORGET THE HARD CODED BRIDGES.
If Dingledine wasn't still at the top of Tor, shit would be so much more fricked up right now. I am sure of it.
The Joseph Cox guy who wrote the vice article I linked earlier does some decent reporting actually.
From August 2022, a story none of us heard about in the mainstream im sure: Facebook and Twitter Take Down a U.S. Propaganda Operation Targeting Russia, China, Iran. The USA conducting a propaganda campaign identical to Russia 2016. Some of the accounts had been active since 2011.
Let's take a look at some comments:
Cymruontop:
have no idea what i'm reading frick feds
295f49d0d6:
tl;dr: tor project worked with one of the biggest private data collectors
putin sucks balls:
i c*nt read
FRICKTHEM:
frick hugbunter and the FBI
I should mention hugbunter is the guy who runs dread, and DeSnake is the guy who runs AlphaBay
Dingledine:
Millions of $ in funding and they still want more. Frick off
6c7ab867ec:
Stop funding TOR, you don't know where the money is going and you're dumb enough to trust anything with your money to begin with
DeSunshine:
Put me the heck off using tor default bridges as tvice says they are compromised
DeSunshine:
*Vice
G:
tor and i2p gone. freenet here we come!
gotoJAILfree:
jailnet there you go
hugbunter:
hugbunter needs to stop ddosing the markets
DeBunter:
Source: trust me bro
Jai Hind:
lol, Snowden, Satoshi and DeSnake are the same personas ddosing Tor. NSA is overlord!
kek:
lmao
frickhugbunter:
Why wouldn't he my guy?? Now that his monopoly Alphabay is gone hugbunter needs a new cash cow (Incognito). Check /r/darknet you can see shakybeats leaked messages about all that dirty ddos shit.
6b9c887554:
>Three new board members added to Tor last month
they hired a NFT
This guy is a true dramatard:
d9abe40a54:
I'm going to frick DeSnake in his butt and fill it with c*m.
later raises prices 
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iCucks and EUCels seethe 
as apple decides to gimp USB-C. iPhone 15 USB-C Accessories to Have Limited Data and Charging Speeds Without Apple's MFi Certification
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Apple requires third-party accessory makers to pay a fee to get certified access to select parts and technologies like the Lightning connector. This system is called the Made For iPhone program, and it was thought to be going away thanks to USB-C, but a repeated rumor says otherwise.
In the replies, Shrimp states that Apple will limit data and charging speed for cables connected to iPhone without the MFi certification. It seems this will be allowed, as Apple will be cooperating with the EU mandate to move to USB-C, just providing an obstacle to users.
/r/apple sneed https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/11e36d2/iphone_15_usbc_accessories_to_have_limited_data/?depth=9
/r/iphone sneed https://old.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/11e3e3m/iphone_15_usbc_accessories_to_have_limited_data/?depth=9
Honestly, if this is true, whatever. The worst part of USB C is that the quality of the cable is a complete unknown to people at a glance, the only way I can tell my Thunderbolt 4 cable from any other USB C cable is that the TB4 cable has a larger boot around the connector. But even that isn’t a guarantee to it’s quality, data rate, or power transmission. If mfi means that it meets a minimum spec, fine by me. If not though, then Apple can pound sand.
Hey everyone, let’s all be outraged about an unsubstantiated rumor regarding a product that has not even announced or released.
If this is true, would apple even be allowed to do this? I thought the whole point was to standardise the port??
Probably. They just have to allow charging over type C. Never said they can’t use proprietary sauce for faster charging, as long as standard chargers still work
Just buy Anker cables then they aren’t expensive and are MFi certified.
scam company omegalul
Android starts to get attractive more and more as the years pass by. Even though you dont have years of support for your OS like with Iphones, you can get the newest flagship one year after its release for huge discounts
considering how r-slurred USB-C charging/transfer is these days, I don't blame them but at least they should stick to USB-PD which is USB-C's only saving grace
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reuters last month
"No layoffs" - CFO
Detroit Free Press - Today
subreddit - so many posts about this today, interrupting normal feed of pics of cars and customer complaints
- Lv999_Lich_King : If they don't write all their code in notepad then they aren't a real programmer. simple as
- THOMAS : ITT a buncha NERDS
hiring manager shares his IDE-based hiring practices
- DickButtKiss : Memphis, Aero and Flat can suck my frickin peepee but that Y2k brings me back to the good ole days
.webp?h=8 "Fedora (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) - Reminds me of 2004")
asks what dead-man 
(very schizo but still an interesting discussion).
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Majoring in computer science is about 5 times less likely to produce regret than majoring in one of the humanities. pic.twitter.com/adsG6cEIZp
— Monitoring Bias (@monitoringbias) February 27, 2023
people take this guy seriously? lmao
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My Linux user boss is evangelising Linux to me and I plan on dual booting soon
I have zeroed in on KDE Plasma as the DE, but don't wanna use KDE Neon because it is based off of (((Ubuntu)))
My boss uses Fedora, so should I get the Fedora spin with KDE? How does it compare to other distros running KDE?
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It came to my attention that Microsoft Edge will set Yandex as the default search engine for people from Moldova 🤡 It used to do the same for Ukraine. @MicrosoftEdge could you help here ? Are you sharing data with Russia / automatically configuring your browser to do that ? pic.twitter.com/LheQTpAIU8
— Nicu Soare (@NicolaeNMV) February 25, 2023
Orange Site:
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Was at the top of orange site with no upmarseys or comments for some reason : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34906691
If you don't know what a community team is, don't worry I googled it. See this helpful article and attached pic
https://cmxhub.com/moz-community-management-team-hiring-startup/
The 9 Most Common Functions of a Community Team
Organizing the community and establishing initiatives and programs to serve them
Forum moderation and starting conversations
Empowering others to moderate and keep conversations going
Blogging and content creation
Empowering others to share user-generated content
Event planning
Social conversations
Gathering product feedback
Identifying new members and partners and sharing symbols of membership (i.e. swag)
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This is the guy who my hit post was about so I figured I owed it to him to shill his course.
edit I linked the wrong post:
https://www.computerenhance.com/p/performance-aware-programming-series
creates a website for highly liked Mastodon 
posts. Reactions range from “Cool project dude! 
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Go ahead. Tell me I am not a real programmer. Tell me how much you would approve if I die. 
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- Rafflebot : This is the best possible outcome for drama mashallah
s and wokeness.
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Holy fricking based for cracking the game and schizoposting
https://old.reddit.com/r/Gamingcirclejerk/comments/11a07g2/aaaand_there_it_is_yall/
https://old.reddit.com/r/CrackWatch/comments/119q40c/hogwartslegacydeluxeeditionempress/
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