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Would you be able to elaborate on these issues?

Nope, it isn't necessary. It just helps with peering, and the actual download will start faster.

Every single time something seems to claim to be untraceable or anonymous, it seems to hold for a while, and then there's a "<X> is not as safe as we thought" headline.

Seems to be a good rule to just not trust anything.

My subnet is blocked, but I'm going through my VPS...

Apparently the subnet I'm on has been blocked for bulk downloading.

Pretty much. Perhaps billing per minute if you're going to stay for longer than an hour, or per item if you're staying for less. Though that seems overly complex and a logistical nightmare.

There's a place I often visit in Shoreditch called Ziferblat[0], and I think that they have something of a solution to this (they have other places too).

Essentially, you are charged for your time and everything else is free. Presently I think it's about 7p per minute for the first hour, and then 4p a minute afterwards - there's also a cap.

While in there, coffee, snacks, etc, are all "free".

Perhaps this sort of model could work? Obviously if you're not willing to kick out all the remote workers. I guess this turns it into more of a coworking space though.

[0]: http://www.ziferblat.co.uk/

> The parent comment and an answer as a mobile link are making me feel old

If it helps, I didn't actually exist at the time

> I am not 100% whether Kademlia networks are censorship resistant but I think so.

Seconded. I'm almost certain they are, or at least, they're pretty damn hard to stop.

I was about to comment exactly that.

PhotoDNA would be an option, I imagine. Or at least something similar!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoDNA

Also using Gin, works really well.

Woah What Computers Still Can't Do sounds really interesting, I think I might read What Computers Still Can't Do.

Would you be able to tell me more about What Computers Still Can't Do before I buy What Computers Still Can't Do?

Probably not the best idea. While they do tend to summarise well, comments tend to be filled with opinion - generally a better idea to ensure you form your own, rather than rely on a potentially biased third party.

I agree with what you say.

I went to a British Secondary School, and am just about to leave Sixth Form - I took computer science at both levels.

The trouble is - again, at both levels - there are few teachers who understand the topic. Scratch and the like are easy to learn for more or less anyone, and teachers can teach it easily. I know that in some cases CS teachers are IT teachers who took on the extra subject.

With like Python, unless the teacher has actually written a decent amount of it then they're going to struggle to teach it well. If they've never properly programmed, they will also struggle to point out that "Twitter has an API that you may want to use to analyse tweet contents", for instance.

I'd just like to reiterate that I am not disagreeing with you, I would very much love a curriculum change. I just think that the lack of qualified teachers needs to be addressed as well.

A good read, though funnily enough the live departures board doesn't seem to work for the closest station to me. Nor does it seem to work for lines that have trains going in both directions.

Though to be honest most things don't, I blame being rural.