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This website loads at impressive speeds (from Europe)! Rarely seen anything more snappy. Dynamic loading of content as you scroll, small compressed images without looking like it (webp). Well crafted!


Magic of a CDN? Plus avoiding JS probably. Haven't checked source though.


'The Worst Comment "Been looking for something like this! Perfect. Thanks for the effort!"' - right. sorry about that one.



talkatv is a nice and Open Source: https://github.com/talkatv/talkatv


Backend in Python and front in javascript: "talkatv is a comment service much like DISQUS or IntenseDebate.

talkatv is open source and free to use.

talkatv is embedded on any page and uses XMLHttpRequest level 2 and Cross-Origin Resource Sharing to post the comment back to the server.

talkatv requires JavaScript, but has a non-javascript fallback which is a link to the talkatv server with an optional but recommended ?uri={{ page_uri }} argument. If the uri argument is not provided, talkatv will try to get the page URI from the HTTP Referer header."


I've heard development has stalled, can you confirm?


Been looking for something like this! Perfect. Thanks for the effort!


Thanks!


I am curious if it acts like a separate network or if it is simply the Tor Browser in separate hardware (without the protection from no-script and https everywhere). Has anyone here tried it out?


"Testing by the Swedish insurance company Folksam that compared Hövding to 12 conventional helmets found it performed at least three times better than the other helmets in a drop/hit test for shock absorbance" http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremybogaisky/2013/04/04/meet-t...


Working at a local hackerspace in Malmö (Sweden) a few weeks back a girl came in with one of these and complained that it was annoying that it kept poking her in the neck all the time. When she pointed to where it was itching it accidentaly exploded around her head. Sounded like a gunshot. No one was hurt, many where shocked. Better safe than sorry I guess.


This is done in Sweden by the project Creeper[1]. People embedd images on their websites and the site list all the ip adresses, belonging to the state, that visit those websites.

There is also a similar project, mediacreeper, for IP belonging to the press [2].

[1] http://gnuheter.com/creeper/senaste [2] http://mediacreeper.com/latest


Something similar exists in Germany, I forgot the name though.


In their FAQ they mention how they intend to connect serveral countries through VPN tunnels and using anycast so that personal traffic won't cross national borders: https://hemlismessenger.wordpress.com/2013/07/10/first-bunch...

This would stop FRA since they are not allowed to look at domestic traffic, only traffic crossing the border.


Like that has stopped NSA or any other spy agency before. But I guess what you mean is that it won't be legal for them to do it, not that it will "stop" them from doing it, necessarily.


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