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BUS-HIT.ME

Austin Huang
Est. January 12, 2022

Nitter continues to be unavailable, as Twitter's refusal to moderate the
platform means Nitter hosters carry great liabilities over the content (even if
we're legally in the right).


ABSTRACT

A suite of various privacy-focused services, operated for learning purposes and
for (possible) public enjoyment, hosted on a free Oracle Cloud instance.


CONTENTS

 1. List of Services
 2. Terms of Service
 3. Privacy Policy
 4. Takedown (DMCA, legal request, etc.)
 5. Contact
 6. Miscellaneous


LIST OF SERVICES

 * CryptPad: Document storage with embeded editor.
 * Libreddit and teddit: reddit frontends. Libreddit has a look similar to the
   new reddit layout, whereas teddit uses the old one while additionally serving
   an API for your RSS/JSON needs.
 * Nitter: Twitter frontend.
 * PrivateBin: Encrypted temporary text storage ("pastebin").
 * rimgo: Imgur frontend.
 * RSS-Bridge: RSS feed generator.
 * Scribe: Medium frontend.
 * SearXNG: Frontend for various search engines.
 * SimplyTranslate: Frontend for various translation engines.

More services will be provided, so stay tuned!


TERMS OF SERVICE

bus-hit.me and its affiliated services ("Service" hereafter) are operated from
Québec, Canada. The terms may change at any time without notice.


PROHIBITED BEHAVIOUR

You agree to not use any part of the Service to engage or facilitate any of the
following activities:

 * Any activity deemed illegal under Canadian and international law;
 * Interference of the Service's operations, including spam, hacking, (D)DoS,
   and distribution of malware;
 * Excessive usage of resources, such as scraping (this includes running
   unauthorized uptime checks);
 * Harassment of others, including hate speech;
 * Commercial activities, unless explicitly permitted by the Service;
 * Conducting sweepstakes with prize value over 100 Canadian dollars. See here
   for the relevant law. It was designed to combat organized crime, but nowadays
   this simply opt all Québecois.e.s out of most giveaways.


NO WARRANTY

You understand and agree that the Service is offered "as is" and without
warranty of any kind, either express, implied or statutory. In no event shall
the operator of the Service ("Operator" hereafter) be liable for any claim,
damages or other liability arising from, out of or in connection with the
Service or the use or other dealings in the Service. The Operator expressly
disclaims all implied warranties of title, merchantability, fitness for a
particular purpose, and non-infringement. The Operator does not warrant the
reliability, accessibility or quality of the Service. You agree that your use of
the Service is at your own risk.


PRIVACY POLICY

The policies may change any time without notice (especially when we start
providing a new service).

No identifiable data is shared with third parties, unless such data transfer is
initiated by the user, required to combat abuse, or operationally necessary.

Some services require the use of first-party cookies and/or local storage, which
are required to provide the service (such as remembering user preferences) and
are not collected by anyone. None of the services employ third-party cookies.


DATA COLLECTED BY THE OPERATOR

NGINX ACCESS LOGS

Unless otherwise noted below, the nginx access.log, containing your IP address,
timestamp, path, and User-Agent, is retained for a maximum of 2 days. The logs
are used to combat abuse, debug, and collect aggregated usage statistics.

CRYPTPAD AND PRIVATEBIN

Document paths, paste IDs and deletion tokens are not recorded in the nginx
access log. However, even if I am to record them, I will not be able to decrypt
the contents, as the decryption token is located in the URI fragment, which is
not transmitted to the server, unless malicious JavaScript is injected into the
page. If you're concerned about that, then simply compare the fetched resources
to the master branch of the upstream repositories or any other instance that you
trust.

The contents, including attachments and comments/chats, are encrypted and
decrypted client-side, so that only those who have the full URL may decrypt
them. The encrypted contents are stored in the disk (for CryptPad) or a database
controlled by the Operator (for PrivateBin) according to the specific directives
as given by the user.


THIRD PARTIES

Oracle Corporation ("Oracle") provides the servers, which are located in the
"Canada Southeast (Montréal)" region , as defined by Oracle. Their privacy
policy is available here.Some websites mistakenly identify this server as being
in the US due to the IPv6 address, which is indeed located in the US. (The IPv4
address is located in Canada, reflecting the server's physical location.)

Information regarding abusive behaviour occuring on the Service may be shared
with other parties in the interest of mutual protection.


TAKEDOWN

Please read the following carefully before requesting takedown for any content
on bus-hit.me and its subdomains.


FOR LIBREDDIT/TEDDIT, NITTER, RIMGO AND SCRIBE

These services act as proxies (aka. "frontends") for their corresponding
platforms. It is our understanding that the services are compliant to the
provisions set out in Article 31.1 of the Copyright Act, as well as 17 U.S. Code
§ 512. As such, takedown requests regarding content on these services should be
sent to the proxied platforms (reddit, Twitter, Imgur and Medium).

Any takedown requests that are addressed to us regarding these services will be
ignored. Repeated attempts are considered abuse and will be reported to other
hosters.


FOR CRYPTPAD AND PRIVATEBIN

If you have the full URL, please contact me. Otherwise, by design, the Operator
is unable to read the contents of the paste and thus no takedown can be served.


CONTACT

See here.

You can also follow me on the fediverse!


MISCELLANEOUS

 * If the services are useful to you, consider donating to both project
   maintainers and service operators. For the former, the links should be
   included in the services' respective project repositories. For the latter,
   see here for this server.
 * The homepage uses LaTeX.css (MIT License), available here.
 * All services are hosted on various resources provided by a Oracle Cloud free
   tier "subscription". Currently, all services occupy a 2-core 12 GB RAM Ampere
   A1 Compute, which uses armv8 architecture, requiring alternative docker
   images.
   * CryptPad: The unofficial nicholaswilde/cryptpad docker image is used. This
     instance is updated to the latest release.
   * Libreddit: The official spikecodes/libreddit:arm docker image is used. This
     instance is publicly-listed and updated regularly to the master branch.
   * teddit: The unofficial 1337kavin/teddit docker image is used. This instance
     is publicly-listed and updated regularly to the main branch.
   * Nitter: The semi-official quay.io/unixfox/nitter docker image is used,
     which uses a fork, so it's not synched up to the upstream master branch,
     but it's good enough. This instance is publicly-listed. The uptime is
     tracked.
   * PrivateBin: Ran directly from the master branch, which I have contributed
     to. This is the first (if not the only) PrivateBin instance that uses an
     Oracle database as storage. This instance is publicly-listed and updated
     regularly.
   * rimgo: The official codeberg.org/video-prize-ranch/rimgo docker image is
     used. This instance is publicly-listed and updated regularly to the main
     branch.
   * RSS-Bridge: Ran directly from the master branch. Restrictions: Feeds that
     are related to Meta Platforms Inc. (more popularly known as Facebook), are
     already provided by other services (reddit, Twitter, etc.), or have a high
     probability of returning pornographical content, are removed. This instance
     is publicly-listed and updated regularly.
   * Scribe: quay.io/austinhuang/scribe, a fork (due to this issue) of this
     unofficial docker image is used. This instance is publicly-listed and
     updated regularly to the main branch.
   * SearXNG: The official searxng/searxng docker image is used. This instance
     is publicly-listed and updated regularly to the master branch.
   * SimplyTranslate: This unofficial docker image is used. This instance is
     publicly-listed and updated regularly to the master branch.
 * The following services will only be considered if there exists sufficient
   demand: Facilmap, Mumble, Wallabag, various multiplayer game servers.
 * The following services will likely not be operated:
   * I will not consider services that can be used locally and offer no clear
     benefit for usage on servers.
   * Any RSS reader service: I have been told that they use a tremendous amount
     of resources...
   * Bibliogram: F*cebook's authoritarian ratelimit practically crippled it.
     Also this.
   * Croodle, Framadate: Abandoned.
   * EtherCalc: How old is it?
   * Etherpad/Hedgedoc, Yakforms: Not encrypted.
   * FilePizza: Doesn't seem to work consistently.
   * Invidious/Piped, Lufi/Send, Jitsi Meet, ProxiTok: Resource constraints.
   * Wikiless: Pointless. If you're skeptical of Wikimedia's practices, just
     download an offline Wikipedia database...