Re: [freenet-dev] Ian et al: Poll conclusions

2016-11-27 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
x...@freenetproject.org writes: > On Sunday, November 27, 2016 09:29:45 PM Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: >> x...@freenetproject.org writes: >> > There are some tough administrative decisions remaining to make about >> > stage 3, namely which voters to exclude fro

Re: [freenet-dev] Ian et al: Poll conclusions

2016-11-27 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
x...@freenetproject.org writes: > There are some tough administrative decisions remaining to make about stage > 3, > namely which voters to exclude from stage 3 because they look like a sybil > attack. I don’t like this behind-closed-doors-guessing-about-sybil. Instead, when I read the title,

Re: [freenet-dev] Financial allocation poll stage 4

2016-11-05 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, What’s the state of stage 4 now? Best wishes, Arne -- Unpolitisch sein heißt politisch sein ohne es zu merken signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org

Re: [freenet-dev] Internationalization on the new site

2016-11-01 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Dan Roberts writes: > We need to decide what to do with regards to the social media links > peppered throughout the design. Stripping them leaves the header and footer > looking fairly barren, and I think there may be some value in having some > extra social media presence (even if it's little

Re: [freenet-dev] Democratic process

2016-09-30 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Arne Babenhauserheide writes: > Ian Clarke writes: > >> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 2:56 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide arne_...@web.de >> wrote:This, written in a thread where I show a cleaner method of evaluation >> >> along with an implementation of a way to see whic

Re: [freenet-dev] Democratic process

2016-09-29 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Ian Clarke writes: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 2:56 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide arne_...@web.de > wrote:This, written in a thread where I show a cleaner method of evaluation > > along with an implementation of a way to see which reasoning can > > actually be taken from the poll a

Re: [freenet-dev] Democratic process

2016-09-28 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Ian Clarke writes: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 10:29 AM, Arne Babenhauserheide arne_...@web.de > wrote: > > I’m trying to make sure that the process is ironclad. > > … > > scale conflicts about it and there’s a split in the userbase. Therefore > > … > >

Re: [freenet-dev] Democratic process

2016-09-28 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Ian Clarke writes: > On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 2:32 AM, Arne Babenhauserheide arne_...@web.de > > This is very much necessary. Without checking what can actually be found ^ very relevant line you removed > > and what cannot, using the poll to support decisions is a mere fraud. >

Re: [freenet-dev] Fake GPG key attack on a Freenet developer

2016-09-28 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Arne Babenhauserheide writes: > Essentially strategic voting means that people choose the lesser evil or > *give up* what they actually want to *prevent* something they really do not > want. > > So, to end this on a positive tone (and since it fits right now): > > https://ww

Re: [freenet-dev] Fake GPG key attack on a Freenet developer

2016-09-28 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
x...@freenetproject.org writes: > On Tuesday, September 27, 2016 10:26:50 PM Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: >> x...@freenetproject.org writes: >> > On Tuesday, September 27, 2016 11:43:26 AM Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: >> >> Don’t bother too much. I have all I found

Re: [freenet-dev] Fake GPG key attack on a Freenet developer

2016-09-28 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
x...@freenetproject.org writes: > On Tuesday, September 27, 2016 10:37:53 PM Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: >> > -> Please lets not make this subject of the result discussion yet, it's >> > incomplete and potentially includes bogus data. >> >> That is t

Re: [freenet-dev] Democratic process

2016-09-28 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Ian Clarke writes: > Since you admit that the alternatives you are proposing aren't better than > using > mean, which is the obvious choice, The mean is prone to strategic voting, except for single yes/no decisions. Just assume I had given 700 points to a single task. No one voting honestly

Re: [freenet-dev] Fake GPG key attack on a Freenet developer

2016-09-27 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
x...@freenetproject.org writes: > On Tuesday, September 27, 2016 03:44:01 PM x...@freenetproject.org wrote: >> [...] potential malicious manipulation attempts in the poll >> results I gathered [...] > > PSA about Arne's data: > - The said potentially malicious votes are included in Arne's data.

Re: [freenet-dev] Fake GPG key attack on a Freenet developer

2016-09-27 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
x...@freenetproject.org writes: > On Tuesday, September 27, 2016 11:43:26 AM Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: >> Don’t bother too much. I have all I found in csvs which are much easier >> to work with. >> >> I uploaded a tarball with the votes and cost-estimates along

Re: [freenet-dev] Fake GPG key attack on a Freenet developer

2016-09-27 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
x...@freenetproject.org writes: > On Tuesday, September 27, 2016 03:44:01 PM x...@freenetproject.org wrote: >> [...] potential malicious manipulation attempts in the poll >> results I gathered [...] > > PSA about Arne's data: > - The said potentially malicious votes are included in Arne's data.

[freenet-dev] Fake GPG key attack on a Freenet developer

2016-09-27 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
-VFnkc2KN9hsFCsumay2dhbMYr73k,5ObUTp9Sfdiidmm7RyBTzFR0GPvQl5ZzLh0jHsSzXoo,AAMC--8/ranks.csv Best wishes, Arne xor at freenetproject.org writes: > On Monday, September 26, 2016 05:08:35 PM Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: >> does that mean poll4 is formally closed now? > > Yes. > > But I'm currently sti

Re: [freenet-dev] Fake GPG key attack on a Freenet developer

2016-09-27 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Arne Babenhauserheide writes: > CHK@l8aO0YagdQ4bdPqvjL45MsR2vpzWJ-a-w2wOhK-u5Ho,qxABwPVUloiBoZixQE9wYpcp2ciaeas-cfkzeblVRys,AAMC--8/task-planning-poll-methods-6a3055856f8d.tar > > The results from the different methods are printed and also stored in > ranks.h

Re: [freenet-dev] Fake GPG key attack on a Freenet developer

2016-09-26 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
does that mean poll4 is formally closed now? x...@freenetproject.org writes: > On Saturday, September 24, 2016 04:45:20 AM x...@freenetproject.org wrote: >> Still, I am waiting for one signature of a core developer to be validated >> and considering this event, I will not publish the results

Re: [freenet-dev] Winning design selected

2016-09-11 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
DC* writes: > I think manual language selection doesn't represent a huge issue for > users. > If we also take into account that to offer this feature *alone* would > require us to run our own web infrastructure (which represent cost in > money and volunteer time) I think from a cost-benefit

Re: [freenet-dev] Financial allocation poll stage 4

2016-09-09 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Ian Clarke writes: > Everyone then had ample opportunity to provide feedback, ask questions, > etc. It's not my fault if you didn't bother to read it at the time, or > didn't bother to ask questions if you had them. From how my contributions to this process have been received until now, I do

Re: [freenet-dev] Migrating the wikis and bugtracker: please keep the bugs!

2016-08-28 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Matthew Toseland writes: > And IMHO the same applies to the wiki: Before we shut it down, we should > take a snapshot, even if we're not going to actively host it anywhere. > We can't rely on the Internet Archive. I have a snapshot of the wiki (but no history), since I've been mirroring it into

Re: [freenet-dev] Design brief for new website

2016-08-11 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
The last paragraph positively enraged me and I withdrew from the process. It’s one thing to discuss openly but a completely different thing to officially hire someone external with self-derogatory wording. Ian Clarke writes: > Fairly limited feedback, ok - I've incorporated many of the

Re: [freenet-dev] About the project

2016-08-09 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Ian writes: > On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 1:43 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_...@web.de> > wrote: >> >> > On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 12:39 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_...@web.de> >> > Because why make the devops of a web server our problem (eg. dealing w

Re: [freenet-dev] Porting website FAQ to the wiki

2016-08-07 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi Stephen, Stephen Oliver writes: > Hi everyone, > > As discussed earlier on IRC, I have ported all of the FAQ content from the > freenetproject.org website over to our wiki, merged with the existing FAQ > page[1]. Looks good! Thank you! To keep existing #faq links working, we could add the

Re: [freenet-dev] About the project

2016-08-06 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Ian writes: > On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 12:39 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_...@web.de> > wrote: >> We already have a wiki. Why not https://wiki.freenetproject.org? >> > > Because why make the devops of a web server our problem (eg. dealing with > security, sudde

Re: [freenet-dev] Should we just go ahead and redesign the website?

2016-08-06 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Ian Clarke writes: > But it appears that some people agreed with me yet remained silent at the > time, > giving me the misleading impression that I had a minority view. > I'm happy to carve off up-to $5k of that $25k right now, commission a new > design What I forgot to ask before: Does that

Re: [freenet-dev] About the project

2016-08-06 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Ian writes: > On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_...@web.de> > wrote: >> >> > It is certainly true that I'm preoccupied with other things (namely >> making >> > a living - an unfortunate necessity for most people). Should som

Re: [freenet-dev] Should we just go ahead and redesign the website?

2016-08-06 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Ian Clarke writes: > When I've raised the subject of a website redesign in the past, the only > voices > I heard in response were opposed to it. > But it appears that some people agreed with me yet remained silent at the > time, > giving me the misleading impression that I had a minority view.

Re: [freenet-dev] About the project

2016-08-06 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Ian Clarke writes: > On Sat, Aug 6, 2016 9:22 AM, Florent Daigniere nextg...@freenetproject.org > wrote: > >> The project is in terrible shape due to the lack of leadership, and >> most of it boils down to the fact that you're just not around (I'm sure >> you're busy with other things). > > It

Re: [freenet-dev] Financial allocation poll stage 3

2016-08-05 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Ian Clarke writes: > On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_...@web.de> > wrote: > >> >> Ian writes: >> > Please be more specific. You've said a lot of things, most of which I >> > found unpersuasive or just plain obstruct

Re: [freenet-dev] Financial allocation poll stage 3

2016-08-04 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
x...@freenetproject.org writes: > So how about we just try the procedure as is, and postpone requests for a > different one until it is finished and has actually failed obviously? As you saw, I did answer to the poll. And I provided concrete suggestions how we can try to get the most value from

Re: [freenet-dev] Financial allocation poll stage 3

2016-08-04 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Ian writes: > Please be more specific. You've said a lot of things, most of which I > found unpersuasive or just plain obstructionist. This is roughly how you reacted to what I said. Did you assume good faith? Best wishes, Arne signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [freenet-dev] Financial allocation poll stage 3

2016-08-03 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Ian Clarke writes: > I disagree, and you had more than enough opportunity to offer your feedback > on this proposed approach months ago when I first proposed it. I did provide feedback. You rejected it and accused me of attacking you. I actually spent a lot of time trying to help improve the

Re: [freenet-dev] Financial allocation poll stage 3

2016-08-03 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Ian writes: > On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 4:29 PM, Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_...@web.de> > wrote: >> >> @Ian: can you make a clear statement that this will not be used as >> justification that we “must” take a given decision? > > We are not robots, and we do not

Re: [freenet-dev] Financial allocation poll stage 3

2016-08-03 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Ian writes: >> This is the only way >> I see to avoid providing fuel to toxic discussions about the votes >> (which already started here). > > Is there any form of disagreement you don't consider "toxic"? Yepp, most forms where people don’t toss around personal insults or assumptions of bad

Re: [freenet-dev] Financial allocation poll stage 3

2016-08-03 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, Attached is my vote. As comment: When I give 0, that means either (1) I think it is not a good idea, or (2) the answer does not apply to the question. I do not give more than 60 points to any answer because I went through the points and first reduced those which I consider less important or

Re: [freenet-dev] Financial allocation poll stage 3

2016-08-03 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Florent Daigniere writes: > "don't be strategic" > I've counted how many of your "points" got allocated to items that do > *not* have "WoT" or "Freetalk" in their description... and the grand- > total is ... 85 points out of 1000. I'm sure that none of this is > strategic coming from someone

Re: [freenet-dev] Financial allocation poll stage 3

2016-08-03 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Ian Clarke writes: > One example that sticks out is this justification for saying a website > redesign > would have absolutely zero value: "We have just redesigned it. Throwing that > away too soon would disappoint the volunteer authors". I find this rationale > infuriating. You ask for the

Re: [freenet-dev] Financial allocation poll stage 3

2016-08-03 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, Looking at the file, it seems like the value adds up to 1005, not to 1000. But that’s only due to rounding, since the 15 point values are actually 14.925 points. The exported csv only shows 15, however. Here’s the csv, by the way, if you don’t want to open an arbitrary zip file. This is NOT

Re: [freenet-dev] Deterministic network load by WoT [2/2]: rank2+ update detection in less than O(N)

2016-07-31 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, This is the second part of the proposed WoT algorithm improvement: ## Improving the rank2+ update detection delay to (less than) O(N), with N the *active* IDs It is also available in the bugtracker at https://bugs.freenetproject.org/view.php?id=3816#c12219 -- -- -- --

[freenet-dev] Deterministic network load by WoT [1/2]: Summary and upper bound estimation

2016-07-31 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, This is a copy from the bugtracker to put it up for discussion here on the mailing list. I will post it in two parts, corresponding to two comments. First part: Structured writeup of the basic algorithm with a calculation of the upper bound of the load. (from

[freenet-dev] Estimated 350 users run <=1473 ; new Gentoo Overlay

2016-06-17 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, I still have a non-updated Gentoo node on 1472, and I still get 10 connections which aren’t too new. 7 of these must be short-distance (as by the link length fix), so there are likely around 7*50 = 350 nodes stuck on a version < 1474. To contribute to a fix: If you also run Gentoo and you

Re: [freenet-dev] Reducing the peer count (2 pull requests)

2016-06-15 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Matthew Toseland writes: > On 13/06/16 17:09, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: >> - The new 10KiB/s minimum bandwidth is too high for some users. >> - With 1474 few users are able to keep more than 70 connections.¹ > ... >> ¹: See https://asksteved.com/stats/plot_pe

Re: [freenet-dev] HotPETs talk on Freenet overlay services

2016-06-15 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Prometheas writes: > We got word that our talk proposal "Eclipse and Re-Emergence of > Anonymous P2P Storage Network Overlay Services" [0] was accepted at > HotPETs [1]. That’s great! Congratulations! > The motivation is to illustrate the capabilities of Freenet overlay > services (aka plugins)

Re: [freenet-dev] Freenet 0.7.5 build 1474 is finally released!

2016-06-13 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
CryptNode writes: > I was able to verify this build. Log file attached. Thank you! Best wishes, Arne -- Unpolitisch sein heißt politisch sein ohne es zu merken signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Devl mailing list Devl@freenetproject.org

Re: [freenet-dev] Stats: burst of disconnect and timeout

2016-06-10 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
that with Freesites we can actually go back in time! Arne Babenhauserheide writes: > Hi, > > In the past two weeks, the number of disconnects quadrupled compared to > the time before, and last sunday they doubled again, together with > doubled timeouts. > > This is from the Err

[freenet-dev] Stats: burst of disconnect and timeout

2016-06-09 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, In the past two weeks, the number of disconnects quadrupled compared to the time before, and last sunday they doubled again, together with doubled timeouts. This is from the Errors and Refused stats on the statistics freesite:

Re: [freenet-dev] Freenet 0.7.5 build 1473 released

2016-06-08 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi CryptNode, Thank you for running the verification scripts! It’s wonderful to see security taken seriously! Best wishes, Arne CryptNode writes: > I was able to verify this build. Log file attached. Verify instructions > are out-of-date, submitted a PR

[freenet-dev] Flircp works again — thanks to TheSeeker!

2016-05-25 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, Flircp works again: TheSeeker prepared a patch and I found two small missing links to get us back to a fully working Flircp: https://github.com/TheSeeker/flircp/pull/1 The patch by TheSeeker is on FMS and Sone. (he plans to re-do the commits in a cleaner way, so don’t be surprised if what

Re: [freenet-dev] next step? was: Planning process step #1: Broad resource areas

2016-05-25 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Ian Clarke writes: > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z4s0D1M9HL0xCrf1tdaKGm5U3-WJBwRdMSvyj975WaA/edit?usp=sharing > This document should be accessible via Tor for anonymous users. I will not contribute to any workflow which requires Google Docs. Core technical reasons: - It excludes

Re: [freenet-dev] Freenet 0.7.5 build 1473 released

2016-05-22 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, This is great! Regarding the report of non-starting nodes, I filed a pull-request to use the min bandwidth instead of failing out: https://github.com/freenet/fred/pull/539 Steve Dougherty writes: > * Improve MP3 filtering. Now I just need to finish the m3u filter and we can have

[freenet-dev] next step? was: Planning process step #1: Broad resource areas

2016-05-18 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
> Torben Lechner > > --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --- > Von: Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_...@web.de> > Datum: 06.05.2016 22:41:28 > An: hyazin...@emailn.de, Discussion of development issues > <devl@freenetproject.org> > Betreff: Re: [freenet-dev] Planning process ste

Re: [freenet-dev] Testing release build 1473-pre2

2016-05-18 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Bert Massop writes: > I've filed a pull request. Thanks for spotting this! Thank you! > → Back to thesis work after that, 2 weeks left to finish. Good luck! Best wishes, Arne -- Unpolitisch sein heißt politisch sein ohne es zu merken signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [freenet-dev] Testing release build 1473-pre2

2016-05-16 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Steve Dougherty writes: > Freenet unstable testing prerelease build 1473-pre2 is now available. Yay! High Five to all involved! > This adds Sharesite - a fork of ShareWiki - as an official plugin. It’s cool that we got here! Thank you! Once 1473 is out, that adds a cool simple usecase for

[freenet-dev] Freemail Backtrace on AddAccount

2016-05-09 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
I get this when trying to access http://127.0.0.1:/Freemail/AddAccount java.lang.NullPointerException at org.freenetproject.freemail.ui.web.AddAccountToadlet.makeWebPageGet(AddAccountToadlet.java:72) at

Re: [freenet-dev] Planning process step #1: Broad resource areas

2016-05-06 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Maybe replace “user friendliness” by “user experience”? hyazin...@emailn.de writes: > At first I had the same thought as you and Arne, but the current description > of "user friendliness" > made me change my mind and think that "design" is missing. > > > Greetings, > Torben Lechner > > ---

Re: [freenet-dev] Planning process step #1: Broad resource areas

2016-05-06 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Florent Daigniere writes: > On Fri, 2016-05-06 at 00:02 +, Ian Clarke wrote: >> First stage is to come up with a handful of broad categories of stuff >> that we >> might want to do over, say, the next 6 months. I'll start: >> * Speed - Make Freenet requests and responses faster >> >> *

Re: [freenet-dev] Planning process step #1: Broad resource areas

2016-05-06 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
hyazin...@emailn.de writes: > + Design - Make Freenet more beautiful, and make Freenet feel and work better I think this is partly in User Friendliness. However “modernize” could be part of that: There are great interfaces from 1990, but they would not attract users today. Though that would

[freenet-dev] Proposal for a democratic process to efficiently allocate resources (including the $25k)

2016-05-05 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Arne Babenhauserheide writes: > xor at freenetproject.org writes: > >> On Tuesday, May 03, 2016 10:03:03 PM Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: >>> As cost-metric I would suggest using full-time person-weeks. Reasons: >>> >>> - We have money for ~20 of these.

Re: [freenet-dev] Proposal for a democratic process to efficiently allocate resources (including the $25k)

2016-05-04 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Arne Babenhauserheide writes: > x...@freenetproject.org writes: > >> On Tuesday, May 03, 2016 10:03:03 PM Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: >>> As cost-metric I would suggest using full-time person-weeks. Reasons: >>> >>> - We have money for ~20 of thes

Re: [freenet-dev] Proposal for a democratic process to efficiently allocate resources (including the $25k)

2016-05-04 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
x...@freenetproject.org writes: > On Tuesday, May 03, 2016 10:03:03 PM Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: >> As cost-metric I would suggest using full-time person-weeks. Reasons: >> >> - We have money for ~20 of these. That’s a number we can easily handle. >> - Cost is

Re: [freenet-dev] Proposal for a democratic process to efficiently allocate resources (including the $25k)

2016-05-04 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Ian Clarke writes: > Well, one important component of the allocation process is to start with an > even > allocation of points between all tasks, Did I overlook that in the description? > As cost-metric I would suggest using full-time person-weeks. > > The problem is that some things we could

Re: [freenet-dev] DuckDuckGo has donated $25k to Freenet

2016-05-03 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Let’s say it here, too: Thank you, DuckDuckGo! https://freenetproject.org/news.html#20160503-ddg Best wishes, Arne Ian Clarke writes: > It should now be safe to announce that DuckDuckGo has donated $25k to Freenet. > Will follow-up with discussion with my thoughts on some processes we can

Re: [freenet-dev] Proposal for a democratic process to efficiently allocate resources (including the $25k)

2016-05-03 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Ian Clarke writes: > I've written a proposal for how we can do this, based on my learnings over a > decade and a half of managing software projects (mostly commercial). > Feedback from the core team has been positive so-far, with the main objection > being that it may be too elaborate for our

Re: [freenet-dev] Law-enforcement lying to courts about how Freenet works

2016-05-03 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Matthew Toseland writes: > But as you say, what they are doing is little more than a fishing > expedition, if it's as they describe. They will quickly discover that > very few people who send 3 requests from an illegal file at HTL 18 > actually have any illegal material on their computers ... So

Re: [freenet-dev] Freenet New User Usecases

2016-05-03 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, Matthew Toseland writes: > On 02/05/16 23:05, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: >> The first few are also shown in an example video session ☺ >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8a8em-4m0w > > Should this be linked from somewhere? Feel free to share it wherever you like :)

Re: [freenet-dev] Law-enforcement lying to courts about how Freenet works

2016-05-02 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Matthew Toseland writes: > You can still do a classic correlation attack: Connect to the node for > the whole duration of the request and count the proportion of the file > they've fetched from you… This might not work as well as simply theory says, due to FOAF routing. The first step is

[freenet-dev] Freenet New User Usecases

2016-05-02 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, Florent asked me today what Freenet usecases can be done easily. I gathered some, most usable first.¹ The first few are also shown in an example video session ☺ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8a8em-4m0w * No Requirements This is what we can do without installing anything else: ** read

Re: [freenet-dev] RFC: My Web of Trust bachelor's thesis / developer's manual

2016-04-29 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
That’s great — thank you for publishing it! x...@freenetproject.org writes: > Feedback for improvement of the document is welcome: To 4.4.2.1 (Graph databases): Implementing an algorithm at the database layer can also significantly reduce the cost of operations needed — by cutting out

Re: [freenet-dev] Mitigate the Pitch Black attack (the simulation works)

2016-04-22 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Matthew Toseland writes: > On 22/04/16 21:31, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: >> Matthew Toseland writes: >>> On 09/02/16 08:58, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: >>>> We can’t keep nodes from leaving, but we can keep swapping which spans >>>> lar

[freenet-dev] FCP interface for Freemail?

2016-04-22 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, Is there an FCP interface for Freemail? I looked for it in the source, but only saw methods Freemail uses to interface with the node. Did I just overlook it? For using Freemail from an application, I’d need a way to setup Freemail for a given WoT identity and set an SMTP password. This is

Re: [freenet-dev] Mitigate the Pitch Black attack (the simulation works)

2016-04-22 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Matthew Toseland writes: > On 09/02/16 08:58, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: >> Because in normal swapping, as soon as the network settled a bit, the >> changes in location should be small (though my nodestats look different: >> too large changes in location for my taste…). So

Re: [freenet-dev] Mitigate the Pitch Black attack (the simulation works)

2016-04-22 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
ssues and I > am currently unsure if they are serious threats or can be disregarded :) > My guess would be that the problem only arises if the attacker has a lot > of neighbors, but any concrete results reinforcing that guess would of > course be better. > > Regards, > > Stef > >

Re: [freenet-dev] Mitigate the Pitch Black attack (the simulation works)

2016-04-19 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi Michael, Michael Grube writes: > Please excuse my absence. I have been very preoccupied. I am OK with the > idea that we should publish and am willing to spend time assisting with > that effort. That would be great! I finished my PhD on January 15th (but am actually only recovering now), so

Re: [freenet-dev] Mitigate the Pitch Black attack (the simulation works)

2016-04-19 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
> the node changes its location to the random location loc while its > current location might actually be very good). > > However, I think both attacks are certainly less of a problem than > PitchBlack. > > Cheers, > > Stef > > > > On 08.02.2016 12:13, Arne Baben

Re: [freenet-dev] Decentralized Web Summit in San Francisco, by the Internet Archive, June 8th

2016-04-19 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Michael Grube writes: > If nobody would object, I can also check my availability. If both of us are > available, we could simply both go - right? That sounds ideal, I’d say :) Are you up for asking them whether you can join for the Freenet project? Best wishes, Arne -- Unpolitisch sein heißt

Re: [freenet-dev] monthly donations via salt on bountysource (need your opinion)

2016-04-16 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Babenhauserheide writes: > Steve Dougherty writes: >> On 03/07/2016 05:50 AM, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: >>> I’d like to revisit the discussion about monthly donations via salt on >>> bountysource. >>> >>> We have an account with currently one anonymou

Re: [freenet-dev] monthly donations via salt on bountysource (need your opinion)

2016-03-31 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Steve Dougherty writes: > On 03/07/2016 05:50 AM, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: >> I’d like to revisit the discussion about monthly donations via salt on >> bountysource. >> >> We have an account with currently one anonymous monthly supporter and >> one

Re: [freenet-dev] Freenet 0.7.5 build 1472 released

2016-03-22 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
CryptNode writes: > I was able to verify this build. Log file attached. That’s great! Thank you! Best wishes, Arne > On 3/19/16 7:01 PM, Steve Dougherty wrote: >> This is the last build to support Java 6! The next build will require >> Java 7 or higher. Nodes running Java 7 or higher and using

Re: [freenet-dev] freenetproject.org traffic: Pretty good

2016-03-12 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
hyazin...@emailn.de writes: > Have a look at this: https://www.similarweb.com/website/freenetproject.org > Looks pretty good. It's new that China is in the TOP 5 of visitors splitted > by origins... 200k visitors per month is pretty good, but we’re still stuck at 10k users. These are things we

[freenet-dev] Streaming audio over Freenet

2016-03-08 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, I have a working branch with which I can use an m3u list as safe provider of mp3 files for an external application. It is very briefly described in my Sharesite: -

[freenet-dev] monthly donations via salt on bountysource (need your opinion)

2016-03-07 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, I’d like to revisit the discussion about monthly donations via salt on bountysource. We have an account with currently one anonymous monthly supporter and one non-anonymous supporter: https://salt.bountysource.com/teams/freenet/supporters This allows us setting actual monthly targets which

[freenet-dev] start of an m3u filter

2016-03-05 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, Please, someone take this horrible mess of an m3u filter I wrote yesterday and get it to actually filter the uris: https://github.com/freenet/fred/pull/510 (two FIXME’s for a chaoswar or so) Best wishes, Arne -- Unpolitisch sein heißt politisch sein ohne es zu merken signature.asc

Re: [freenet-dev] PSK keys

2016-02-28 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Matthew Toseland writes: > On 31/01/16 04:06, Sadao wrote: >> Three years ago I started a thread on FMS with the topic "Efficiency >> of various freenet message systems", where I proposed to implement a >> new key type (PSK) in order to make a base for creating >> Now I returned again just to

[freenet-dev] Please help improve our GSoC project ideas page!

2016-02-18 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, I signed Freenet up for GSoC 2016. Now we need to improve our project ideas page. https://wiki.freenetproject.org/Google_Summer_of_Code/2016 Note that the reviewers from Google will start with but a glance. The site has to be convincing for someone who read 150 applications before, is on

[freenet-dev] Would you mentor for GSoC? Please write today!

2016-02-17 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, I’m currently doing the application of Freenet for GSoC, and I need to give a count of mentors. If you would like to mentor a project for GSoC 2016, please write today, so I can fill out the application tomorrow. Best wishes, Arne -- Unpolitisch sein heißt politisch sein ohne es zu merken

[freenet-dev] Are trust relationships different in anonymous networks? WoT graph edge data

2016-02-14 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, Recently we were asked in the #freenet IRC channel, whether we have a copy of the trust graph in the Web of Trust plugin (which provides service discovery and spam protection). Here’s the result: http://draketo.de/english/freenet/social-graph-snapshot Best wishes, Arne -- Unpolitisch

[freenet-dev] OTF funding proposal rejected :(

2016-02-13 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, Sadly my funding proposal to Open Technology Fund got rejected. Here’s the text — maybe it can serve as a base for future proposals: http://draketo.de/light/english/freenet/freenet-journalists-funding-proposal Best wishes, Arne -- Unpolitisch sein heißt politisch sein ohne es zu merken

Re: [freenet-dev] Mitigate the Pitch Black attack (the simulation works)

2016-02-09 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Matthew Toseland writes: > Awesome! We need to: > 1) Implement this. Yepp. > 2) Publish it. We should… Stefanie and Michael might be able to gain something from that. Maybe you, too? > Why is reinserting the whole datastore important in the case of an attack? Because in normal swapping, as

[freenet-dev] Mitigate the Pitch Black attack (the simulation works)

2016-02-08 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
eat to have more math on this, but I think it’s already ready for implementation. Please comment! Best wishes, Arne Babenhauserheide [1]: Stefanie Roos[2] showed that efficient convergence is not possible under churn, but this should not affect Freenet too badly, because in friend-to-

Re: [freenet-dev] What blocks Freenet adoption?

2016-02-04 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Matthew Toseland writes: >> http://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/09/teach-dont-tell/ > > Right. I believe we already have a plugin writing tutorial? Nothing which really works. The latest is mine, and it’s not up to the standard I would expect — partially because all the other tutorials did not

Re: [freenet-dev] What blocks Freenet adoption?

2016-02-03 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Matthew Toseland writes: > A proper documented > plugin API will help - and there has been some work on documentation. > Getting WoT working well will help, and better deployment of our > existing tools e.g. Sone... Not to forget tutorials which are easy to follow. To cut it short: This is

Re: [freenet-dev] What blocks Freenet adoption?

2016-01-07 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Donnerstag, 7. Januar 2016, 20:43:19 schrieb x...@freenetproject.org: > On Wednesday, January 06, 2016 09:18:02 PM Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > > It was then that I realized that we had not done such a list. > > We do have one from the users themselves: > https://freenet.us

Re: [freenet-dev] What blocks Freenet adoption?

2016-01-06 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Mittwoch, 6. Januar 2016, 11:28:46 schrieb hyazin...@emailn.de: > I second Steve's statement. We've done enough 'looking what all is > bad' stuff in recent past, people already know what's wrong, that's > enough. Keep doing it - even when done in a very friendly and nice > tone - just

Re: [freenet-dev] What blocks Freenet adoption?

2016-01-05 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Montag, 4. Januar 2016, 04:27:41 schrieb Steve Dougherty: > - Not being able to keep the machine online regularly. > - Unsettling material and being afraid of getting in trouble. Such info is exactly what I hoped to gather here. Thank you! Best wishes, Arne -- Celebrate with ye beauty and

Re: [freenet-dev] Freenet 0.7.5 1471-pre3

2016-01-03 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Nice! I don’t have much time right now, but I’ll update to testing and see whether I trip something :) Best wishes, Arne Am Sonntag, 3. Januar 2016, 10:17:27 schrieb Steve Dougherty: > Freenet unstable testing prerelease 1471-pre3 is now available. > > How to help test - three options: > > 1.

[freenet-dev] What blocks Freenet adoption?

2016-01-03 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
I asked myself that question. These are my answers. Please add yours! Note: This is just for listing. Please don’t discuss these before January 16th. What blocks Freenet adoption? - Our themes look clunky and our web-interface is slow. Why is access to bookmarked activelinks slow? Why isn’t

Re: [freenet-dev] Open Encryption projects receive half a million euros of Dutch government

2015-12-14 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Montag, 14. Dezember 2015, 09:34:09 schrieb Michael Grube: > Bert, don't we provide infrastructure to applications through FCP? Sure, it > can be imrpoved, but we do, right? :) Definitely, though it’s much underdocumented. For an example of what’s possible, and how you can do it with Python,

Re: [freenet-dev] Freenet Canary

2015-12-04 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Freitag, 4. Dezember 2015, 04:37:46 schrieb xor: > While the observation of Ximin and Arne that this could be a psy-ops attack > [1] does sound sort of paranoid, it is nevertheless an actual possibility: It > would be a lot easier and cheaper than any other attack. It doesn't require > the

Re: [freenet-dev] Freenet Canary

2015-12-03 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Mittwoch, 2. Dezember 2015, 14:34:41 schrieb Ian: > That being said, I do think the project would significantly benefit from a > new and much more engaged leader, ideally with project management > experience, but unfortunately such people do not grow on trees when you > need them to work

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