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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by emotional_soup_88@programming.dev to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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...?

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[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

~~don't run tor bridges, they are publicly listed (the protocol needs this) and bad, influencial people put their IPs on IP blocklists for website operators. as I know, snowflake shouldn't be a problem.~~

monero nodes don't use the GPU, if you have the storage you can run a node too. maybe you don't want to host it on the clearnet, but only as a hidden service, you could do that on Tor and I2P. make sure it's listed on the monero.fail site

you can also run an I2P router. by just having it run in the background you contribute to the network with your bandwidth. if you have an always on computer, it's better to run the router on that, because in I2P routers do "routing commitments". if you just quickly shut down the router without waiting for these to expire, connections using your router will break. you don't need to take this too seriously, but just don't run it on the PC in public mode if you can't solve this there

[–] ElectricWaterfall@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago

Tor bridges are explicitly NOT listed. Regular tor nodes are listed but not bridges since that would defeat the point. Publicly listed tor nodes are blocked in places where they block tor. Bridges are not listed so users who need access to tor where it’s blocked can gain access.