Correct, services cannot tell where you are coming from when you are using Tor. However, the service itself has no such protection.

With the crackdown that is occurring on the internet, I think everything is going to have to go into hidden services to remain censorship resistant.

Edit: I think it best to prepare for a world where the only use for the ClearNet is to download Tor, similar to how the only use for Microsoft Edge on Windows is to download Firefox.

Eventually, there may come a day where the clear net is just not used at all.

I do as much as I can over tor and hidden services make it even better since the service doesn’t know where you’re coming from and you don’t know where the service is.

I download podcasts over tor (antennapod), update apps over tor (fdroid), connect to my monero node over tor (various), chat over tor (Signal and SimpleX), and can connect to home assistant over tor. If I could get away with it, I would just direct all of my system traffic over tor all the time. Hell, the only reason I don’t is because I need to log into my bank sometimes.

Always good to have hidden services instead of having to go to the regular clearnet using Tor.

I need a good porn tor hidden service. Any good ones?

Make sure to back up the simplex database and database password.

Unlike Matrix, SimpleX saves all the decryption data in the database and saves the database to your device.

As long as you have the password for it and the database file, you will be fine. Lose either and you’re absolutely fucked.

We’re at war with East Asia. We’ve always been at war with East Asia. George Orwell, 1984.

Eeh, with so many that do work that is super rotten luck

I have this exact same thought. I see things like this and I’m like, God, I’m glad I don’t have any of that shit.

You do realize that most Steam games now work on the next natively correct? It’s true, not all do, but a lot of them do.

Yes, places where this would work well would be street protests, concert venues, sports stadiums, etc. Could also be useful for conferences to send people in the same room links or something.

Edit: short range comms during net shutdowns like iran recently

What if I’m an adult and I happen to like Taylor Swift reaction videos damn it?

Another competitor web engine is Ladybird. You might want to take a look at that as well.

1. Visit LinuxMint.com

2. Press download

I can answer a couple of those questions. It will go through up to seven devices and with Bluetooth maximum range of 300 meters you can get 6,800 feet or around 1.2 miles at maximum.

Mind you, that would be with everything perfectly done, so it most likely won’t be that far.

There is a directory and you can find it by asking your favorite search engine for the SimpleX directory bot. As far as multiple devices goes, I’m not totally sure. I know that it’s supposedly able to be used on multiple devices, but I only run it on my phone, so I haven’t actually tried that functionality myself.

They’ve set the maximum at seven hops, but depending on weather conditions, that can easily be several hundred miles.

Nothing special is needed for a repeater except that you probably will want a node with a solar panel such as the seeedStudio solar. You would put it up as high as you can get it. I generally say if it’s more than 100 feet in the air, use router mode. If it is less than 100 feet but above 20 feet, use client. If it is less than 20 feet, use client mute.

Your node in your pocket or in your car should be on client mute mode since them broadcasting will not get the signal much farther and will just cause more channel utilization on high nodes.

You can use SimpleX for large chats. However, at least the current architecture is not the most efficient way of doing so. Especially not once rooms hit a thousand users or more. Does it work? Yes. Does it work well? Only somewhat. I think the developers were caught off guard when people wanted to start using it for large rooms instead of one-on-one communications and had not planned for that when they made the program.

They are addressing the issue by having devices connect to super peers instead of directly peer to peer in order to make large rooms work better. That way, instead of trying to maintain a thousand individual connections, your device might maintain two or three connections to Superpiers and get messages through them. I make it even harder on myself because I demand that my SimpleX do everything over tor.

I have moved my communications to SimpleX for very similar reasons.

I always found Matrix to be extremely clunky because of key management for rooms and stuff like that.

I’m used to using cryptocurrencies. I know how to manage keys, and yet I was constantly getting hit with the same issues with decryption of old messages, even when I properly saved my keys and imported them.

I figure if I’m not even able to use this thing properly, knowing and understanding technology, how do I expect people I talk to to understand how to do it properly?

Then, on top of that, I found out about all the metadata leaking to your home server. Sure, your communications might be encrypted, but if the sender, receiver, reactions, timestamp, etc. is not encrypted, that’s not good.

I still have it on my device, but it very rarely gets opened anymore.

Edit: I use a combination of signal for those I know, IRL, and simplex for groups of FOSS enthusiasts, etc.

It’s a way of doing fundraising without having to ask for permission.

Permission is being sought because they are removing fundraisers and in order to get them back you’re having to beg for them to be brought back.