The only question left is: do we get a redemption period, say half a minute or something, to undo the request without it actually being sent (via e-mail)? Not really motivated to test that, so if you happen to know please comment about it

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Well, they’ve just all been stolen – during my sleep like a proper robbery – by the FBI, who effectively took them away when they decided to shut down MegaUpload. Although I did have a backup of my most important files, I didn’t have a backup of most of the files, which were rather there for storage or archiving. They claim they did that to fight copyright infringement, well at least copying isn’t stealing. But taking away the files is. The FBI robbed my files, should I call the police? … or maybe I should call al-Qaeda?

Anyway, for you visitors, it means that at the moment, all the files I link to on Megaupload are sadly unavailable. For a few of them, a FileSonic mirror is available. I’ll try to upload some of the others there, too. But I don’t really have the time to browse all the site looking for every missing file, so in case you need specific files, drop a comment and I’ll give them priority for the re-up, if I have a backup of them.

Update (2012-01-23)

Well, this seemed to have scared the hell out of other hosts. FileSonic, the alternate mirror where I put some of the files, also SILENTLY (as usual when they do a crappy move) disabled file-sharing (since they delete uploaded files after 30 days with no downloads I really wonder what kind of a business model they can have now…). Good thing I hadn’t moved more files to them…
Since it seems that most file hosts are (or will be) chickening out too (which I guess is understandable since they get treated worse than terrorists), I’m left with the only option to host the files on this very server. This means that there won’t be big files anymore (bye bye Pioneer One…), and also probably I won’t keep an archive of old versions apart from a few exceptions.

Update (2012-01-28)

Looks like legal action is indeed on its way, see Joint complaint of those affected by the closure of Megaupload service. Of course, Megaupload’s Terms of Service said something along the line “we reserve the right to delete your hosted files at any time”, but it didn’t reserve the right for a third party such as the FBI to do so.

Edit: alright, I do the search for you:
- Noscript for Google Chrome / Iron (NB: the page fails to load for me for some reason, but that’s the URL I’m pointed to when searching for it both on Google and on the Chrome web store)
- NoScripts for Opera

Edit 2: Meh, Wikipedia itself is actually giving possible solutions. Oops.

As usual, I thought a bit about the best way to pack the pictures, decided that the moderate JPG gain wasn’t worth the quality loss over PNG, then squished the PNGs as much as I possibly could, using OptiPNG and PNGOUT.

The second picture, as can now be seen here, was about 472 KiB in size, substantially down from about a whole MiB (slightly less actually) as originally created with Paint or GIMP (not really sure which one I used this time). But when I grabbed it from PhotoBucket… it had inflated back to 920 KiB, a whopping 95% increase! I don’t mind PhotoBucket trying to recompress my uploaded pictures, but if they fail to improve the compression (particularly when they fail that much) maybe they should keep the original…

So, here are a few listings that seems to be regularly updated (as of today, at least):

• http://torstatus.all.de/index.php?SR=Bandwidth&SO=Desc: has lots of details (notably, they do make the difference between exit nodes and simple relays), but is probably not trivial to parse automatically. NB: if you’re on Firefox, beware that it will slow down the browser massively for a few seconds. It’s fine on Iron, though.
• http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/index.php?SR=Bandwidth&SO=Desc: pretty much the same as the previous one (still a Fx killer, notably!), but hosted elsewhere.
• http://torstatus.rueckgr.at/index.php: and the same again, somewhere else.
• http://www.ircproxy.net/torlist/: just a list of IPs, probably great to parse. Also mention the update date, even though I guess it’s not a guarantee.
• http://files.sabmx.net/pg2/tor_block.txt: also just a list of IP, indicated as IP ranges.
• http://teksimple.com/tornodes.txt: that’s probably the easiest one to parse: just a text list, one IP per line, update date and time on first line.

Note however that it seems pretty much impossible to perform a DDoS attack from the Tor network (limitation #1 being it doesn’t really have that much bandwidth available), so there’s no reason to be a jackass like Daniel Austin MBCS and ban all traffic from Tor nodes. Particularly, blocking traffic from non-exit nodes altogether is seriously retarded. Purely banning all traffic from Tor also means you’d simply play along SOPA and alike. You might want instead to maybe just make the spam filter harsher, or systematically manual, on contents coming from Tor.
Well, anyway, you got the list now act smart with it.