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One of the latest “privacy-enhanced P2P” things I’ve found recently is OneSwarm. The idea behind it is that instead of using trackers to find peers, it uses an anonymous, distributed, friend-to-friend swarm to find things.

This seems at first glance to be a good idea. Only the people you trust know what you’re trying to find, making it very hard for your favourite government/corporate acronym to spy on you, and thanks to the “six degrees of separation” factor it shouldn’t be hard to find anything you’re after.

Of course, you have to find friends who are using it in order for it to work, but it’s not so bad — they have a handy keyserver where you can give it your GMail/GTalk data, and it checks with a server to get public keys for all your contacts.

Hmmmm… a registry which can link uniquely-identifiable public keys with email addresses? I thought this was supposed to make things more anonymous. That just sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. It does let you directly exchange public keys with friends, at least, which seems a safer route to take.

Still not entirely sure I trust it…

As at least one of you noticed, my HostMonster account got suspended — again.

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I like being watched as little as the next girl. But so far, the only Linux-based automatic PeerGuardian blocklist updater I’ve seen has been horribly inefficient, using over 200,000 individual iptables rules. It takes forever to parse, and can seriously slow down a low-end system.

I thought to myself, “here has to be a better way.” And, of course… there is. Here’s how.

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As part of a previous post, Sacred 2 Mods, I posted a modified items file for version 2.12.0 to remove basic no-clothes outfits and turn them into the game’s default underwear, or less if you have a underwear-changing mod.

For those with a different version, or who want to remove more clothes than just the birthday suits, here’s how.

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Yes, I Know I said I wasn’t going to release any more nudity mods. But what the heck, if I’m making it anyhow I may as well. Here’s a couple of topfree (aka topless) mods for Sacred 2: Fallen Angel.

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