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| >Do any of you g/U/rls use it?
I use it (with knode, which is the newsreader from KDE)
>If so, what for?
For communication/discussion mostly about IT stuff.
>It seems pretty expensive for something torrents can do for free
I have no Idea what you're talking about.
The Usenet is a free discussion plattform. I never paid for it. And what do torrents have to do with it?
| Ah, I see. It's a commercial binary usenet server which promises secure filesharing against copy right law for money. Well, I think it's not that secure. It may be more secure than torrenting, which technically uploads stuff when you're downloading sth. But how should this usenet server be different from downloading/streaming via https (with registered account)? Or even from an IRC server via xdcc.
The problem is: everyone can register, including police.
| Could someone give me a rundown of what Usenet is?
##Dev:Lain##
| I still browse comp.lang.c on eternal-september. Don't post much though.
| Any suggestions for Android browsers?
| Depends on what you want to do. If you want to do illegal stuff, then you should at least be smart enough to find out by yourself.
If the goal is privacy, there are VPNs against the government and common sense against corporate tracking.
| >>440641
Unfortunately I only know the cli-mail-client "mutt" and the text-editor "gnu-emacs", which can be extended as newsreaders with plugins. On Android you could use them with termux, but it's not really the hottest user experience^^
Maybe there is a chance to get knode working on plasma-mobile which is under heavy development for a long time now^^
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| Do any of you g/U/rls use it? If so, what for?
It seems pretty expensive for something torrents can do for free