more like “throwing yourself at the ground and missing”, but yes!

should have left the context out. ruins the enlightenment of discovery as you consider - also, to enjoy the comments battle over it.

but punchy nonetheless.

kudos on poking at the app privacy statement. the real interest in this is going to be running it locally on your own server backend.

so, yeah - as usual, apps bad, bad, bad. but the backend is what really matters.

I hate to +1 but yeah, this. get familiar with Tor. learn what it can do and when to use it. play around with hosting .onion sites to distribute information safely. use orbot on your phone similarly.

some distributed messaging apps like briar use Tor as their internet transport mechanism, so… why not go all in and really learn to use Tor for real. now. while is easier to do so.

Langley

deep, deep burn. CIA flights imminent.

more. middle-men gonna middle on that 25%.

just tell them “yes!”. they will figure it out :-)

tripped over her stock portfolio then?

the ferengi are moral giants when compared to any recent US administration - and, with the 2024 election, perhaps the us as a whole. :-|

nope.

holy shit! the FBI is communist?! cool, cool.

pretty much. learning things without a corresponding “oh… shit.” moment, just never quite stick with you the same way.

" …a mans gotta know his limitations." 👍

Those exceptions don’t do shit.

thanks for this. a reminder to scream this nugget of wisdom into the face of every “partial ban” supporter.

I imagine, sometimes, its the only way to cope with them. some people get paranoid, some do not. setting and grounding play important roles in this.

if you really want a deep dive (cuz your post suggests that), fire up wireshark on a speed test PC and capture the traffic while you test. look for out-of-order, missing and corrupted packets. you will also get awesome stats on the traffic - wireshark is your best friend. be warned, this is the entrance to the rabbit hole.

edit: because at some point you are going to want to slide wireshark between the cable modem and your router - for general troubleshooting (and funsies!) then things get interesting as you figure out how to do that properly.

test it early morning when your neighbor peeps are sleeping (or bulk traffic torrenting - QoS usually knocks them back down pretty quickly). at the least you are looking for rock solid ping times. if pings are wild your link or the community bandwidth is possibility saturated.

is something already pushing 300Mbps worth of traffic across the router? speed tests that are good at power cycle, but quickly deteriorate after, can sometimes indicate that you have unaccounted for traffic crossing a bandwidth limited i/f (your ISPs service).

check your router stats for the missing traffic.

edit: also, almost all ISPs have a “burst bucket” for quick but intensive bursts of traffic. you get super speed for a few seconds while your bucket fills up. once full/overcommitted, your ISP starts rate limiting your service again. that may be why you get nice initial speeds, but they drop off quickly. does your ISP give burst speeds and sustained speeds in its terms of service contract on your kids?

yeah, Alaska is such an odd one. ranked choice voting, prosocial economic policies wrt oil. and yet…

if anyone in the soverign nation of ak can fill in the blanks, it would be greatly appreciated!

CIA: “sounds like socialism, boys. you know what to do.”