8 Nov
2020
8 Nov
'20
1:37 p.m.
Ben Nisenbaum via luv-main wrote:
Hello Craig and all,
That's a super post of yours for me and my issues. I believe I can work through all
of them with the information you've provided. I am very grateful.
The "Pollock" hosts file which I mentioned is a hosts file from:
http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
Reading through Dan Pollock's introduction in the above I am reminded of
Balk’s Third Law: “If you think The Internet is terrible now, just wait
a while.” :-)
see
https://www.wired.com/story/is-the-internet-conscious-if-it-were-how-would-…
regards Rohan McLeod
9 Nov
9 Nov
9:07 a.m.
New subject: trouble with debian mirrors
On 11/7/20 9:37 PM, Rohan McLeod via luv-talk wrote:
Reading through Dan Pollock's introduction in the
above I am reminded of
Balk’s Third Law: “If you think The Internet is terrible now, just
wait a while.” :-)
see
https://www.wired.com/story/is-the-internet-conscious-if-it-were-how-would-…
Thank you for the reference. For my part, I try to concentrate on those
aspects of the Internet that are productive and beneficial, while doing
my best to ignore the rest.
9:25 a.m.
New subject: trouble with debian mirrors
Jason White wrote:
On 11/7/20 9:37 PM, Rohan McLeod via luv-talk wrote:
Jason;
just out of interest. would you see any aspect of the Darknet as
"productive and beneficial ?
regards Rohan McLeod
Reading through Dan Pollock's introduction in
the above I am reminded of
Balk’s Third Law: “If you think The Internet is terrible now, just
wait a while.” :-)
see
https://www.wired.com/story/is-the-internet-conscious-if-it-were-how-would-…
Thank you for the reference. For my part, I try to concentrate on
those aspects of the Internet that are productive and beneficial,
while doing my best to ignore the rest.
9:54 a.m.
New subject: trouble with debian mirrors
On 11/8/20 5:25 PM, Rohan McLeod wrote:
Jason;
just out of interest. would you see any aspect of the Darknet as
"productive and beneficial ?
I absolutely do not support or condone anything that involves criminal
activity, so I suppose that means no, unless it has legal and benign
uses as well.
12:55 p.m.
New subject: Productive and beneficial ? was Re: trouble with debian mirrors
Jason White wrote:
On 11/8/20 5:25 PM, Rohan McLeod wrote:
Well of course laws do change and some activities which once were
criminal are not now and vicar-versa
But my own interest in the Darknet springs from an increasing concern
with what might be called 'radical privacy';
this is the notion that individuals, commercial and civil organisations,
and municipal, state, federal and international;
regulatory authorities are not entitled to ask for any more personal
information from an individual;
than the task or service that they are being called upon to perform
for that individual, requires.
This is of course a radical departure from current approaches to
privacy; where privacy is regarded as something to be balanced,
against the needs of the state etc. Some how entitlement to privacy,
specifically anonymity seems to have slipped from the default;
to something which needs justification. "What do you need to hide ?
I mention all of this because on the Darknet, anonymity does seem to be
the default, in contrast to the Internet generally;
where account registration with username and password and payment via
traceable media (personal credit/debit card..etc);
seems to have become the norm,
regards Rohan McLeod
Jason;
just out of interest. would you see any aspect of the Darknet as
"productive and beneficial ?
I absolutely do not support or condone anything that involves criminal
activity, so I suppose that means no, unless it has legal and benign
uses as well.
1:55 p.m.
New subject: Productive and beneficial ? was Re: trouble with debian mirrors
On Monday, 9 November 2020 12:55:00 PM AEDT Rohan McLeod via luv-talk wrote:
> I absolutely do not support or condone anything
that involves criminal
> activity, so I suppose that means no, unless it has legal and benign
> uses as well.
There is good research showing that magic mushrooms, MDMA, and LSD can be
beneficial in treating depression and PTSD. Cannabis products have been shown
to be beneficial in assisting cancer treatment and some seizure disorders
among other things. Given the government's actions to restrict access to
these things and the unreasonable expense involved in travelling to a country
where treatment is legal (or permanently living in such a country for someone
who has ongoing issues) there are significant medical reasons for breaking
Australian drug laws.
As a matter of human rights, I think that to the largest extent possible
adults should be allowed to do what they want on their own or with other
consenting adults as long as it doesn't affect others. If an adult wants to
eat a different mushroom than most people eat for fun then I think the
government should have a very good reason to stop them, and I don't think they
have such a reason.
Well of course laws do change and some activities
which once were
criminal are not now and vicar-versa
But my own interest in the Darknet springs from an increasing concern
with what might be called 'radical privacy';
This is reasonable. Also there is probably a demand for a Tor based service
like Grindr.
A final point is that Tor is very good at getting past firewalls. If you are
using a VPN or something to access a server behind NAT then having ssh over
Tor can be a very good backup option in case of VPN issues.
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