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  • I assume you are from Russia since you speak in first person, however, if the laws are so stringent against self hosting or private hosting, why is it a large portion of Warez sites emanate from Russia? They exist all over really, but it seems a lot of the very popular ones are in Russia.

    because you might be surprised, but warez is not illegal in Russia. We have slightly different legislation in the field of intellectual property. Only the person who profits from warez can be held responsible. That is, either an organization that uses it commercially, or a seller. If I break the software or record a movie for the sake of art or love for my neighbor without money or donations it’s legal. of course, websites are responsible even if they receive income from advertising, well, many of them are blocked for Russians. I go to rutracker via VPN =)

    But just try to talk with a voice call via telegram… You won’t be able to do that, because direct calls without anti-threat systems (i.e., after completely listening in on calls) are illegal.

    UPD: how that look right now


  • It is impossible to place telephone nodes in Russia without equipping the server with threat protection equipment. Of course, I won’t buy a box for hundreds of dollars to use a home PBX, so technically I’m outside the law. =) It is also impossible to host sites with more than 10,000 visitors without registering with Roskomnadzor. and all accounts with authorization must support logging in through the public services portal or by phone number. considering that only legal entities can do this, of course I don’t do it.

    The United States and the European Union have data protection laws, so if you decide to save money on hosting for friends and install a server outside the Eurozone, depending on the data you store, you are also formally violating the law.



  • so why you think that a public pool of docker images is as secure as an aqua checked image in Google’s infrastructure? It’s a mystery to me. An ordinary user like Hilary can be checked even without a warrant, it’s enough to are plenty of vulnerabilities already.

    As someone who has been building infrastructure for over 10 years, I can say that friendship is one thing, but no one is willing to share sensitive data with their friends. People prefer to use services out of border, not self hosted.

    UPD: of all my friends, only 7 agreed to use mail on my domain, and after moving from Google Workspace to a private server, only three remained. one of them simply transfers mail to another mailbox, just in case. this is the result. not theoretical, but real.



  • I do not know about Amazon, but in telephony you simply have to install a threat management system in accordance with the law. I think Amazon has the same thing. if there is a court decision, the servers will be arrested or a request for data will be received. It’s exactly the same thing.

    what is configured on the server may or may not be enabled. and your neighbor just knows some of your data (your name, address, etc.), which increases the likelihood of an attack. To an Amazon engineer, you’re just bytes out of nowhere.

    the normal story would be to encrypt everything on the client before anything gets to the server at all. but who exactly is going to bother so much? in this case, you might as well upload a bunch of encrypted data to Google.



  • because most people are not looking for new ideas, but only for confirmation of their own. So it’s not evil businessmen who drive people into the echo halls, but they’re just happy to be alone in the echo halls. After all, the world is much simpler when you’re the same as everyone else and everyone is the same as you, rather than when you’re alone in a crowd of opponents.

    so there were already a decentralized part of the nodes because “well, it’s obvious that they’re talking nonsense.” people were clearly just uncomfortable with the comments.

    It’s especially fun to watch someone calculating upvotes and downvotes on a decentralized platform where anyone can endlessly turn a switch in any direction.


  • The average person doesn’t understand anything about technology and probably won’t even be able to install an operating system. The Internet literally became what it is now precisely because everything was left to corporations. For example, sip telephony is as decentralized and secure as possible, but how many people keep their own telephone exchange? therefore, it is more realistic for the average person to simply use services outside the jurisdiction of the state than to install something on their own. In some countries, it is also illegal to engage in self-hosting.

    but if we talk about people who are interested enough, then yes, you can do self-hosting. However, people who are ready to understand at least a little, for example, according to the latest steam statistics, make up about 5% of the total mass.









  • The only way to connect the SIM number directly is to hack the VoWiFi protocol, but this is not trivial and you still need to install the SIM in the server.

    Option 2 - Buy a home SIP2GSM gateway. But it’s quite expensive (by the standards of my region anyway). SMS work with SMPP, calls work too. For goIP I wrote telegram SMS gateway if you interesting: https://github.com/lifespirit/telegram-smpp-bot

    Or use SIP providers from your region/operators that support SIP connectivity and then enable full calls redirection. For calls ok.

    UPD: or just use VoWiFi from mobile phone. But you need sim slot in phone.

    Anyway in all another way you need install asterisk/freeswitch and write config fot it. And linphone client.




  • This is quite quick. Last time I looked the it was around 3 years. Most of the cost comes from buying the hardware.

    my calculations were made without taking into account the growth of the network’s complexity. So, when I tried it last time, the network’s complexity had increased so much in a year and a half that the equipment was not bringing in much, and it was not worth the risk of investing. However, things may be different now, and I may be mistaken.

    UPD: Now I just buy Bitcoin on exchanges, and it brings me the same % of income as mining. But I don’t have to deal with equipment, follow ridiculous laws, or waste electricity. =) That’s why I say that many peole just tkabe bitclin to cold wallets. Less bitcloin exists on exchage then grow price.