Where the Sidewalk Ends: An Internet Story

[General Disarray]

I just signed up for $10 a month (poorfag here). Glad I read the thread to determine how I can do so without BTC, anonymity be damned. The saga of Yaniv's plights pulled me in and I cannot in good faith remain entertained without contributing, Thank you Null!

 

[Pepito The Cat]

The FBI has very, very, very little interest in the Internet unless it involves CP, drugs, actual commercial scale piracy, money laundering, or some actual normie crime involving lots of money or where politically connected people are involved.

I dunno about your ways that well but if I were in charge of a task force assigned to tail a PoI or a particular organization or movement, having a group of 5000+ autists archiving data, cross-referencing information and publishing full doxes just for fun, it would be very helpful.

 

[Null]

There are ways to make it difficult to determine where your equipment is located, and to minimize dependency on any single party, but I think having your own IP space (and now ASN) is the wrong approach. Having to physically ship equipment around the country every time someone sends a few nastygrams to your host is not ideal. I think you'd be better off, as @Marvin has suggested before, renting expendable servers to be used as reverse proxies to a well-hidden origin server. If one shuts you down, no big deal, you just stand up another that you have waiting in reserve. The process could be mostly automated. Others have walked in your footsteps before and settled on this approach.

I'm very much aware of what a reverse-proxy is and we did do that for a number of years. After dozens, maybe a hundred or more VPS providers, I am truly fucking done with that cat and mouse game.

I like this. You want to unplug the server? You better feel so strongly about it it's worth canceling a contract, hundreds of dollars a month, and a dozen manhours to package everything up and ship it out.

The Kiwi Farms does not break the law and I utterly, completely refuse this idea that it should operate like a pirate service. I will not use Tor, I will not VPN hop, I will not start up shell companies in India to get payment processing. If you want our shit gone, you have to call me and tell me that "Kiwi Farms" is too hot for your service.

 

[AnOminous]

In for $20/mo with my powerword, I just don't give a fuck anymore. Worst comes to worst, there will always be toddlers who want to sort an array.

I got 40 BAT the first month with Brave, when I was clicking ads fairly often partly out of the novelty of it. Only 20 BAT the second month because the ads were super autistic and repetitive. I'm not sure how sustainable the model is. I guess it depends how much shwag people paying for ads are actually selling.

 

[Inquisitor_BadAss]

$500 a month! You can buy a wife now.

 

[Francis Dollarhyde]

$500 a month! You can buy a wife now.

Better to get a nice lease. That way you can keep trading in for a newer model.

 

[Wake me up]

4. Gopniks beat Null with a baseball bat.

Do you want undead Null to come back and haunt the entire Internet? Because that's how you get undead Null to come back and haunt the entire Internet.

The only threat then will be Brianna Wu’s moon rocks.

And MarzGurl's arms. We'd need a Pluto-backed radio relay network to be 100% safe. Someone call Elon Musk ASAP!

 

[An Sionnach Seang]

fuck yeah, go Null! don't let the bastards win!

1. Locate Ukrainian gopniks.
2. Give Ukrainian gopniks 1000 euros and a few bottles of Smirnoff.
3. Tell gopniks "This man Nool is feg and is hoarding all the menthols".
4. Discover that Null's already a high ranking member of their gang.
5. Get beaten with a baseball bat by Gopniks.
6. Null uses euroes to keep the site alive longer.

the best thing is that euros aren't even legal currency in Ukraine
(the Ukrainain currency is the hryvnia; at current rates 1 USD is about 26 UAH)

 

[ES 148]

yea people need to chill out about the KF being awful
look at it this way: if @ICameToplaY is on the site, how bad could it be

 

[Teri-Teri]

yea people need to chill out about the KF being awful
look at it this way: if @ICameToplaY is on the site, how bad could it be

ONEEEEEEEEEEE-CHAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!!!!

 

[Caesare]

A brief random screen shot of the kind of things that have ASNs.

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If this fuckery keeps up eventually they'll teach Null how to make his own Internet with blackjack and hookers.

"The Kiwi Institute for Advanced Shithead Studies".

 

[Safir]

I got 40 BAT the first month with Brave, when I was clicking ads fairly often partly out of the novelty of it. Only 20 BAT the second month because the ads were super autistic and repetitive. I'm not sure how sustainable the model is. I guess it depends how much shwag people paying for ads are actually selling.

I don't get ads in my region, and I suspect if/when they're finalled rolled out to here, I'll be worth substantially less to advertizers than ad-free browsing is worth to me. The only thing stopping me was having to dox myself via a card payment. Woke up today and realized I don't give a fuck, it's not the dox that make a cow.

 

[DuckSucker]

I dunno about your ways that well but if I were in charge of a task force assigned to tail a PoI or a particular organization or movement, having a group of 5000+ autists archiving data, cross-referencing information and publishing full doxes just for fun, it would be very helpful.

Yeah welcome to America. We dont do things normally here. Im a fuckin bleeding heart liberal but Ill still admit if you can find an obtuse way of doing something, the government has found it first and found a better way of being less efficient about it.

 

[KimCoppolaAficionado]

(the Ukrainain currency is the hryvnia; at current rates 1 USD is about 26 UAH)

And the Russian currency is the ruble, but that doesn't stop street crooks from getting paid in sweet, sweet greenbacks or Euros.

 

[Cosmos]

Thank you for keeping this place afloat despite all the difficulty, Null. Thank you for providing a place for all of us to come home to.

 

[James Smith]

I got 40 BAT the first month with Brave, when I was clicking ads fairly often partly out of the novelty of it. Only 20 BAT the second month because the ads were super autistic and repetitive. I'm not sure how sustainable the model is. I guess it depends how much shwag people paying for ads are actually selling.

You do not get more BAT for clicking on the ads. Them being displayed to begin with is the only thing you're paid for.

 

[Beavis]

There are almost 600 niggers logged in right now. If every one of us gave null a $5 per month sub he’d be on easy street.

 

[Particle Bored]

You do not get more BAT for clicking on the ads. Them being displayed to begin with is the only thing you're paid for.

Are you sure about this? I was watching my click counter, and it appeared to only go up if I clicked the ad and let the page finish loading.

 

[James Smith]

Are you sure about this? I was watching my click counter, and it appeared to only go up if I clicked the ad and let the page finish loading.

Reddit (archive.today) (archive.org)

No advertising network could survive if it paid users to click on the ads. Advertisers would be giving free money to publishers and publishers' viewers in exchange for basically no increase in sales. That's why DSP got permabanned from AdSense for asking viewers to click on ads.

 

[CavoloNero]

OK. I am mad on the Internet.

Null can have extra sour cream on his borscht because I am now using Brave and, despite being a technical moron (as well as a general all-purpose moron), have just set up a direct debit system to help keep the Farm going.

Edited for clarity and because I am a moron.