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Hello folks,

I have a mini PC which I use to host my website and some lightweight services. The mini PC idles at ~10% cpu usage. I was wondering if I can contribute 90% of CPU to the community. Thinking that maybe I can host other people's websites for free.

How can I do that? Should I host some fediverse software? What do I do with this much processing power?

Thanks in advance!

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[–] Lyricism6055@lemmy.world -4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

Pretty sure tor is a honeypot... Not sure the alternatives though

Edit: maybe honeypot is not the right word, but at the nation-state level this won't keep you anonymous I'm guessing. Good for normal people who want more privacy

[–] FrederikNJS@lemm.ee 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

That's definitely not what I've heard, please elaborate.

[–] Lyricism6055@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Tor itself may not be, but private users are competing against NSA resources or something

Take everything I say with a grain of salt. I don't think the protocol itself is broken with enough people doing exit nodes, and I think normal people will benefit from privacy granted by tor.

But I bet with high certainty that if the NSA wants you it can probably find you.

The below YouTubers I've seen before but I also can't independently verify whether they are just click baiting or not...

https://youtu.be/pvBAaUPzvBQ

https://youtu.be/Ml99dXffRXk