Reminds me of the guy who got his home raided and electronics seized for running a Tor exit node.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/austrian-man-raided-for-operating-tor-exit-node/

Seems risky and a huge legal hassle even if you don’t end up in prison.

Wikipedia article: Whisky War

How are you people able to see any detail?

I see a tiny thumbnail on Lemmy and then I don’t see the image at all on the page.

This kind of thing has been done before.

For example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DontDateHimGirl.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lulu_(app)

Great Again depression

I’ve never seen a .gay website before.

Check out the registry: https://ohhey.gay/

Something similar happened with NHL player Jaromir Jagr. An 18 year old woman threatened to publish photos of herself in bed with him if he didn’t pay. His response was that he doesn’t care.

https://thehockeynews.com/news/jaromir-jagr-blackmailed-with-photo-could-not-care-less-about-it

A friend of mine once downloaded something malicious to his Linux machine and wasn’t worried about it. Then some time later, while browsing his files from a Windows machine, saw it and was like, “hey, what’s this?” Oops.

He’s a tech savvy guy, so I’m guessing the fact he had downloaded it himself really let his guard down.

How are other VPN services able to do port forwarding without having this problem?

Years ago, I used an extension called Tree Style Tab. It’s better than just vertically displaying tabs. New tabs open as children, and you can collapse branches, so things stay organized when you have a ton of tabs.

An example I found: the string of digits 0123456789 occurs at position 17387594880. In this case, it took 11 digits to describe where to find a 10-digit number.

So I think such an algorithm would technically work, but your “start digit” would be so large it would use more data than just sending the raw file data. Not to mention the impossible amount of computing power needed.

Lol, I remember eMachines!

I can’t believe someone downvoted you for asking about the acronym.

I get frustrated when the title, body, and comments all use an acronym, but I can’t figure it out from context. Even more frustrating is when the linked article also doesn’t explain it.