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Zlibrary.org - a book archiving site with many instances, has had an instance closed. There are other instances, but centralized sites (like Voat) are vulnerable to censorship like this.

https://www.voat.xyz/viewpost?postid=6365de5a05cc8

Voat needs to find a distributed platform which is more resilient than its current, centralized home and the search should begin while co-ordination is still possible.

To help start the search, here are two viable options, which can be used as points of comparison to any other suggestions:

Aether:
https://getaether.net

Plebbit:
https://github.com/plebbit/plebbit-react/releases


Aether is more established, battle tested. Plebbit will hopefully and eventually become even more resilient and effective against censorship. It is currently under active development and is hiring javascript developers, if you are interested.


The Voat communities on Aether /b/ and on Plebbit /p/ are here:

Aether:
aether://board/f2c944108971c509c3718a43e8bc77d95d3591746241b6a490e537f00122d98d
Plebbit:
p/QmSkZ7KSeFWDvSUDua7sshzinp2rPeKtYTXULFZ16mfcXk

A lot of people are curious about how Aether's network operates. The typical process is explained in the above documentation.

@GloryBeckons kindly [mentioned](https://www.voat.xyz/viewpost?postid=628ac172928c4) some concerns about Aether. I would like to quickly try and respond to some of the points he raises.

**Content**
The content on Aether is text only. By default, thumbnails are off, so you don't download or see any images. You can whitelist individual or lists of websites which you find acceptable.

**IP Address**
I think most people use a VPN, TOR, i2p or something like that. Your node will connect to a few others on the network in its neighbourhood.

**Associating a Node with Content**
@GloryBeckons is correct. With a lot of work, it would be possible through a process of elimination to eventually work out which node on the network was producing which content and it might then be possible to connect the node to an IP address. Of course, this is not desirable from an anonymity perspective, however you might be curious to know that there are strong grounds for making this concession, explained here in **Aether's Security Model**:
https://getaether.net/docs/faq/how_private_is_aether/

>Let’s think through this step by step.

Aether needs to be a tool for the masses. This means, it needs to be exceedingly easy to use, and be accessible for the regular user.

Any improvement to the privacy of an average user is multiplied by the number of people using the app. The most good in this respect can be done not via making sure it works for the expectations of users with extreme needs, but by making sure that it is as private as possible while retaining excellent user-experience. Good user experience brings a lot more folks to the yard than theoretically perfect security on paper.5

As a result, this is Aether’s security model: It’s designed for the average user who wants privacy. If you’re looking for an escape from corporate surveillance, or indiscriminate dragnets, it’s very useful.

Aether isn’t an app that tries to pitch privacy as one of its main features. Rather, it’s a communication app that can stand on its own merits, that also happens to come with excellent (qualified by the paragraph above) privacy.*

**TL/DR** The more people using Aether, the stronger the anonymity, and Aether aims to grow anonymity by ease of use.

**TOR**
Aether does support TOR. If you know what you are doing, you should be able to configure it.


**Protection against State actors**
As @GloryBeckons [points out](https://www.voat.xyz/viewpost?postid=628a93198b892&commentid=628bfe4b8629f), Aether isn't designed to resist a concerted attack by state actors. It would be great if we had that level of protection. For such communications you are probably better off using e.g.:
* [Session](https://getsession.org)
* [MuWire](https://muwire.com)
* [OnionShare](https://onionshare.org)
I encourage people to use these applications when higher levels of security are required. The problem is, and i am sure @GloryBeckons will agree, that it doesn't end there. You then have to ensure that your Operating System is reasonably secure too, for example:
* [Qubes OS](https://www.qubes-os.org/)
You would have to learn how to maintain and use that OS too, and also have it with you when you need to communicate. You would probably want to ditch all your hardware too and go back to something running:
* [LibreBoot](https://libreboot.org)

It takes discipline to stick to the Free Software that you can audit. You need also to persuade your friends and family to use your systems too. The task is enormous. Aether takes the approach that it is easy,anybody can do it, it is fun to use and it is actually pretty darn secure.

**Ephemeral**
By default, the settings are that your node will only retain content for 6 months. If you want to archive and have a few Gigabytes of storage to spare, you can increase that to 6 years or 60 years.

Voat.co is, sadly, dead. Aether was around back then and it would have been better if people started using Aether then and survived. SearchVoat.co has announced it will die in a couple of weeks. It is time Goats established Voat on a strong platform. Take a look at Aether. Alternatively, try https://gab.com, which has come along in leaps and bounds and is a far more likely candidate to survive as an http platform.

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Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has outlined the result of the ‘Defence Command Paper’, a white paper outlining the shape and size of the British military over the years to come.
You can read ‘Defence in a Competitive Age‘ for yourself here, below is a brief summary of the main points broken down by service.

Royal Navy
HMS Trent, a Batch 2 River-class patrol vessel, will be permanently based in Gibraltar, and HMS Tamar (P233) will be permanently based in the Indo-Pacific.
A new surveillance ship will be acquired, tasked to deal with protecting critical national infrastructure, such as undersea cables.
Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel and Sandown-class minehunter will be replaced by autonomous minehunting vessels.
A Bay-class landing ship will be converted to a littoral strike role for the Royal Marines, who will also evolve into the Future Commando Force and be forward-based.
The Type 83 destroyer will be developed to replace the Type 45 destroyers in the late 2030s.
Two Type 23 Frigates will be retired early, before an increase in numbers with the introduction of the Type 26 Frigate and Type 31 Frigate.
Harpoon will be retired and replaced by the interim Surface to Surface Guided Weapon; the Type 45 Destroyer will also receive upgraded air defence weapons.
British Army
The British Army will be reduced in size, to 72,500 regular personnel by 2025, with no change in reserves.
77 Challenger 2 Main Battle Tanks will be retired, with the remaining 148 upgraded to Challenger 3.
The planned Warrior upgrade will be cancelled, and instead the vehicles will be retired upon the introduction of Boxer in the mid-2020s.
£250 million will be invested in Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS).
£800 million will be invested in a new automated fires platform.
The Infantry will be restructured into four new administrative divisions.
A new four-battalion Ranger Regiment will be formed, from the Royal Scots Borderers; 2nd Battalion, Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment; 2nd Battalion, Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment; and 4th Battalion, The Rifles. The new regiment will sit within a newly-formed Army Special Operations Brigade.
A new Global Readiness Force will be formed, consisting of a newly formed 1st Combat Aviation Brigade, and 16 Air Assault Brigade, the latter of which will be reinforced by a further infantry unit.
The British Army will be re-organised into 7 self-sufficient Brigade Combat Teams (BCTs) – two heavy, two light, one deep strike, one air maneuvre, and one combat aviation.
The 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Mercian Regiment will be amalgamated.
A Security Force Assistance Brigade will be formed to assist and train partner nations.
Manning will increase in the areas of electronic warfare, air defence, and unmanned aerial vehicles.
23 Gazelle, 20 Puma, and 5 Bell 212 will be replaced by a new medium-lift helicopter.
Royal Air Force
£2 billion will be invested over the next 4 years, into the Future Combat Air System, alongside further development of the LANCA UCAV system.
The UK will commit to grow the F-35B fleet beyond 48 aircraft.
24 Typhoons retired in the next few years, Hawk T1 will go too.
Five E-3D Sentry early warning aircraft will be replaced by a more capable but smaller fleet of three E7 Wedgetail in 2023. These will be based at RAF Lossiemouth.
The UK will retire the C130-J Hercules in 2023, after 24 years of service. Twenty-two A400Ms, alongside the C17s remain.
Counter terrorism operations are currently supported by nine Reaper RPAS (‘drones’) which will be replaced by 16 Protectors by 2024.
The UK will further develop combat drone swarm technologies.
The UK will upgrade the remaining Typhoon jets radars and introduce Spear Cap 3 deep strike capabilities.
Other
£200 million will be invested in enhanced electronic warfare & signals intelligence capability.
£6.6 billion will be invested into space over the next 4 years.
You can read greater detail from the Ministry of Defence here, including the paper.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/defence-outlines-2030-vision-for-the-armed-forces?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&utm_source=b49a066d-c04c-4399-9289-b05fc2007fe2&utm_content=immediately