WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:07.880 So, today, on X, I noticed that VXDB, who consistently has been takes and breaks news 00:07.880 --> 00:11.480 regularly posted about how Dread was down, basically. 00:11.920 --> 00:16.380 And I pointed out that it wasn't down for me, and that's because I have a secret URL. 00:16.860 --> 00:22.920 But for the longest time, Dread had end-game instances up, and this is what prevented 00:22.920 --> 00:24.700 DDoS attacks from the capture. 00:25.200 --> 00:30.880 Two Dread mirrors existed that people knew about, and you can see them here on my site. 00:31.180 --> 00:33.660 Back when Endgame used to make you do a capture, there was a third. 00:34.520 --> 00:36.560 This mirror was called the magic mirror. 00:36.800 --> 00:39.460 It was something amazing that led to a magical place. 00:40.140 --> 00:43.140 And I'm kidding, it didn't lead anywhere magical. 00:43.680 --> 00:44.420 It led to Dread. 00:44.720 --> 00:50.420 The only difference was when you used the magic link, you didn't have to deal with the capture. 00:50.800 --> 00:57.620 And now that they're basically removed the captures, it's just an extra mirror that only 00:57.620 --> 00:59.000 donors actually have. 00:59.240 --> 01:00.840 And let's you circumvent the capture. 01:01.160 --> 01:07.060 And during this time of Dread being down, people still bet actually posting on Dread. 01:07.500 --> 01:13.280 Lounge is the paid member's only spot that typically has nothing going on, but now, 01:13.400 --> 01:14.920 we can clearly see it does. 01:15.380 --> 01:19.180 So even though it's down for everyone else, we can still browse and post. 01:19.900 --> 01:22.420 Huggbunter actually posted another downtime announcement today. 01:23.040 --> 01:27.140 One Reddit, which to me is kind of unfortunate and despised Reddit in general. 01:27.500 --> 01:29.580 I'd much rather see Huggbunter on X or something. 01:30.040 --> 01:34.720 And I have a feeling that might be happening soon, but we'll see. 01:35.240 --> 01:39.620 In any case, the post marked the third major outage in eight months. 01:40.100 --> 01:44.320 Previous ones were 22 days ago, four months before that and 01:44.320 --> 01:46.640 like four months before that if I'm not mistaken. 01:47.260 --> 01:50.760 Among the things that he actually said, some of the most important were, 01:51.320 --> 01:54.200 we experienced a minor DOS attack earlier today. 01:54.500 --> 01:58.660 But due to the instability of the patches we added recently, 01:59.080 --> 02:05.200 we've experienced a crash on the servers that publish our main onion to the network. 02:05.700 --> 02:10.580 Everything else is unaffected and premium mirror is online and stable. 02:11.120 --> 02:16.300 Working on it, but this is likely going to be a few more hours of downtime 02:16.300 --> 02:18.500 at a minimum, hopefully not longer. 02:18.980 --> 02:22.980 And much worse attacks, if we're being honest, have actually happened in the past. 02:23.180 --> 02:27.320 So it's not really any cause for like a alarm or worry. 02:27.800 --> 02:32.380 The technical explanation though kind of raises some questions, 02:32.580 --> 02:36.480 like how a minor DOS attack somehow crashed the servers. 02:37.000 --> 02:42.440 You know, pushing their main onion, but premium mirrors stayed online. 02:42.680 --> 02:44.080 I kind of wish you'd expanded on that. 02:44.080 --> 02:48.560 But the kind of constant cat and mouse with adversaries and 02:48.560 --> 02:53.200 the need for anonymity preserving architecture and the inability to use 02:53.200 --> 02:59.280 standard CDNs or cloud services kind of creates compounding technical debt for them. 02:59.580 --> 03:04.640 Every patch work around an emergency fix kind of adds another layer of complexity. 03:05.140 --> 03:10.420 Houdbunt has been carrying this platform with bears for almost a decade, 03:10.760 --> 03:12.280 like seven years or something. 03:12.900 --> 03:16.460 So the human factor definitely matters here. 03:16.660 --> 03:22.880 And he took his first break in a month and kind of the site just kind of went down 03:22.880 --> 03:28.700 for hours before he ended up realizing the real issue, though, isn't the downtime. 03:29.220 --> 03:33.600 The thing that's actually important here is none of this, really. 03:33.760 --> 03:37.760 It's the upcoming huge update that Houdbunt actually mentioned in there. 03:37.760 --> 03:42.060 And I've been hinting at this randomly in social media posts and videos. 03:42.600 --> 03:45.260 I've been trying to tell you guys some of the updates, 03:45.380 --> 03:47.340 but I really can't at the end of the day. 03:47.680 --> 03:52.940 There will be some major changes that I know personally and I'm pretty excited about. 03:53.320 --> 03:55.540 They're just like simple stupid fixes either. 03:55.760 --> 03:59.100 They're like legit features that will actually strengthen the community. 03:59.500 --> 04:04.240 And it's pretty crazy that these two guys for the last seven years 04:04.240 --> 04:08.700 have basically been working on this site virtually, continually. 04:09.480 --> 04:13.500 And the one thing that I will leak regarding this update is that the release 04:13.500 --> 04:18.380 notes are going to be like a full page, if not multiple pages. 04:18.540 --> 04:23.540 And this excludes bug fixes, which Shiny and Solar have found a ton of. 04:23.780 --> 04:28.300 I mean, I have a special video about the actual features coming up in another update. 04:28.440 --> 04:31.960 But there's a fourth URL, too, that Houdbunt told me about today 04:31.960 --> 04:39.160 that actually shows the updates as they're done and bug fixes currently going on. 04:39.800 --> 04:44.200 He said that the URL will display the testing version in so many words. 04:44.640 --> 04:48.520 And I'm going to annoy him basically until he lets me film it 04:48.520 --> 04:53.460 and speak to you guys about it and show you what some of the updates are. 04:53.900 --> 04:56.060 I know that he said that he expects it to come out. 04:56.660 --> 04:59.960 I think he said sometime this week, like he's going to have that sometime this week, 04:59.960 --> 05:04.960 usually with Houdbunter, those kind of deadlines get pushed back because things happen. 05:05.340 --> 05:08.760 And I get it because I run a one man ship here. 05:09.040 --> 05:12.640 Like, like all my videos, all my editing, all my shooting, all the lighting, 05:13.160 --> 05:15.880 the camera work, the recording, all that stuff I do solo. 05:16.300 --> 05:18.200 So it's it's it's hard. 05:18.400 --> 05:22.340 And with him, he's managing an oil tanker basically with with him 05:22.340 --> 05:24.660 and Barris essentially and a few mods. 05:26.300 --> 05:30.660 So it's definitely not an easy thing to be able to accomplish. 05:30.860 --> 05:35.080 In any case, I want to make the video because it gave me an opportunity 05:35.080 --> 05:38.300 to not only comment on, you know, the sites down. 05:38.520 --> 05:41.780 That sucks, you know, people that didn't do it. 05:41.900 --> 05:45.840 But to also talk about those updates that are happening. 05:46.100 --> 05:49.200 And I know I wasn't really giving you guys too much substance there. 05:49.280 --> 05:52.480 But the fact that we have like more than a page, right? 05:52.480 --> 05:56.540 I mean, if you think about how many updates that would actually be, it's a lot. 05:56.800 --> 06:01.240 And again, like there are massive features that are actually coming from this, 06:01.640 --> 06:04.000 not these just kind of singular one off. 06:04.200 --> 06:07.540 Well, we improved the UI and now you can pick your color or some, 06:07.580 --> 06:08.820 you know, wings, shit like that. 06:08.940 --> 06:11.620 And I'm not saying that's one of them because you're you always 06:11.620 --> 06:13.500 you do night and day move down. 06:13.720 --> 06:16.300 Anyways, anyways, the other thing I want to show you guys is like, 06:16.340 --> 06:18.620 this is the actual store, like right here. 06:18.860 --> 06:21.480 This is how you would go about actually doing it. 06:21.480 --> 06:23.500 You actually see my thing right here. 06:23.680 --> 06:25.500 And like the question is like, well, who cares? 06:26.080 --> 06:26.700 What does it do? 06:27.040 --> 06:31.400 And you can see here, this is a list of features that actually are available 06:31.400 --> 06:32.720 when you do donate. 06:32.980 --> 06:35.940 And again, just to kind of hit this point on, if you had donated, 06:36.320 --> 06:37.860 you would have access to this. 06:38.020 --> 06:42.820 And I like to hit on that now because it's really a great point to make. 06:43.320 --> 06:46.960 I think that with sites like this, right, 06:48.100 --> 06:50.160 that they're all community funded, right? 06:51.940 --> 06:56.520 And yes, they do take, we see them take the money from Dark Hat Markets. 06:56.600 --> 07:01.040 They advertise Dark Hat Markets, which that right there is why a hug bunch 07:01.040 --> 07:04.180 who would get a case like the feds caught them did smoke them. 07:04.340 --> 07:06.820 Yeah, there's a mod on there who thinks it's not illegal 07:06.820 --> 07:09.540 and he's a moron and I have a video coming out about him 07:09.540 --> 07:11.660 pretty soon, which I'm pretty excited about. 07:11.840 --> 07:12.780 Well, it's going to be long. 07:12.980 --> 07:15.800 So anyways, and I go outside to show I'm getting sidetracked. 07:16.080 --> 07:17.760 I just wanted to shoot this quick video off. 07:17.820 --> 07:20.440 This is actually my third time recording this because I've had 07:20.440 --> 07:23.880 massive, massive problems for some reason with audio 07:23.880 --> 07:25.960 and it just keeps messing with me. 07:26.440 --> 07:29.120 I'm really hoping that this third time 07:30.040 --> 07:33.220 it just sounds good and I can just I could put it out. 07:33.420 --> 07:35.920 And, you know, it doesn't mess up on me. 07:35.980 --> 07:37.840 In any case, again, I digress. 07:37.920 --> 07:39.720 You tell it's it's late. I'm like getting sidetracked. 07:40.560 --> 07:41.340 Thank you for watching. 07:41.500 --> 07:42.900 And I'll see you in the next video.