[HN Gopher] The Good Karma Kit
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       The Good Karma Kit
        
       Author : hkc
       Score  : 56 points
       Date   : 2022-03-28 14:25 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | nixpulvis wrote:
       | Run during the winter for bonus karma. You might even be saving
       | money on your heating bill. Double check my math though.
        
       | pg5 wrote:
       | There should be a warning at the top of the readme to tell people
       | that running this on any public cloud server will probably get
       | your account terminated.
        
         | fxtentacle wrote:
         | Why would it?
         | 
         | To me it seems to consist only of legal projects like web
         | archiving, folding, and a search proxy?
        
           | pg5 wrote:
           | VPS providers usually have a clause against proxies and tor
           | relays. Might be able to get away with it since it's a tor
           | middle node not an exit node, but I wouldn't want to mess
           | around if I'm using my server for anything important.
        
           | RL_Quine wrote:
           | A Tor exit node will get you banned absolutely everywhere,
           | and your VPS account terminated if it isn't. It's pretty
           | irresponsible to suggest people run one if they aren't aware
           | of the extremely high risk involved. Despite the screenshots
           | (why is there no screenshot of what this actually runs) this
           | only seems to run a Tor Relay, but similar caveats apply.
        
             | dewey wrote:
             | A warning is probably a good idea but "absolutely
             | everywhere" is just wrong for an exit relay and even more
             | so for a relay.
             | 
             | It also explicitly says the following in the description:
             | 
             | "Notes: Does not run a guard/exit node, only a middle relay
             | node"
        
             | beepbooptheory wrote:
             | What kinds of screenshots should a project like this
             | publish?
        
               | RL_Quine wrote:
               | One that doesn't show it running something it doesn't do
               | (an exit node).
        
               | dewey wrote:
               | Isn't the thing that's shown a search result of the relay
               | search and not the actual running service?
        
               | RL_Quine wrote:
               | That shows an exit node, yes.
        
               | dewey wrote:
               | Yes but it says "relay search", the screenshot shows you
               | that it has a search feature for the relay directory.
               | 
               | Just like if a media player project shows a screenshot of
               | a movie doesn't mean you'll get the movie by downloading
               | the media player.
        
       | monkeydust wrote:
       | If you like this check out Gridcoin which supports BOINC projects
        
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