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Dutch court convicts engineer to 5 years for maintaining crypto mixer Tornado Cash
www.patrick-breyer.de Conviction of Tornado Cash programmer: Privacy is not a crime!

On Tuesday a Dutch court sentenced the programmer Alexey Pertsev to five years in prison. The court found him guilty of money laundering because the "Tornado Cash" software he developed enables criminals to carry out completely anonymous and untraceable crypto transactions (so-called "crypto mixer")

Conviction of Tornado Cash programmer: Privacy is not a crime!
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  • This is possibly something you could implement in a meta search engine like SearXNG, though there are some privacy concerns.

    Maybe it could locally store which domains you personally tend to click (and stay) on. Then automatically raise those domains when it sees them somewhere in the output of the underlying engines. This isn't perfect because you wouldn't get data from other users. But I think it could do a lot to improve search results.

    I might actually clone the repo and see if I can get somewhere soon

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  • I pirate a bunch of VSTs from audionews.org. It's private but they give away 10 invites a day in their telegram. You should be fine just pirating stuff older than a few weeks by trusted groups like R2R since malware will get taken down (if it gets detected). Personally I think the risk is tolerable but it's obviously never 0.

  • Things I want to be functional in Linux
  • 1 and 2: Just pirate. Any company that disrespects the user by enforcing DRM like that deserves to lose out on money.

    I don't know what NowTV is but sometimes you can bypass restrictions like this by using an extension that switches your user agent to chrome on windows.

    All the rest: Yeah... It sucks... Most of these issues would be solved if enough people used Linux to make porting stuff a worthwhile investment. It's a chicken and egg problem but I'm hopeful with the ongoing enshittification of Windows. Surely one day enough people will be tired of eating shit and finally stop doing it.

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