Notices by frogzone@wizard.casa, page 2

@p i mostly write gnu-linux, very occasionally i write libre-linux or linux libre to mix things up. The reason i occasionally mix things up liek that is I understand there is a non-gnu based fully-libre distro out there, according even to the gnu website, iirc.

@strypey @p @icedquinn @fish @phnt @silverpill @vii I have been invited by @p to examine this thread because i've not been on fedi for 11 months

Interesting.... i think if fedi has a future it is based around something like minimitra and the censorship resistance that i2p offers (although I'm now having to rethink how i2p is able to be distributed due to i2p.net being cloudGlare). i am pleased to see that a rust implementation of i2p has been developed but I need to learn more about it due to its use of m$-github I am not as excited as I probably should be.

Yes the "hey-hi" push is about surveillance and control, and what people in an indymedia roundtable recently noticed, making search engines a bit garbage, and being able to "meter out truth" even more slowly, even if today the LLMs are okay they will be made worse. I personally have never used an llm, believe it or not. One of the way to avoid search being taken over by LLMs is host a sites with ample Links to good sources. If enuf ppl shared links to (ideally hidden) services that they found useful, and enuf of those services had a good search function on their OWN sites, we can short-circut the search-to-LLM pipeline.

But if we allow them to get nuclear power for their datacenters the ability for them to construct false realities automatically and therefore imprison people within them will be off the charts, and can last for a fairly long time, long enuf to cause incredible harm to humanity in general. The reason it could last a lot longer than we might expect is the expansionist nature of the predators to use the land, or whatever resource, that they have expanded into. There is a cycle whereby spent/depleted uranium ends up in countries that they want to genocide and ethnically cleanse via warfare which means they extract more and more resources from lands that have been made inhabitable by them, and cycle continues.

The fact that iran were not allowed to have a civil nuclear energy program speaks to this fact, the genocidal class knows what they do with depleted uranium, which is why they want to deprive states they from having nuclear energy. But what's good for the goose is good for the gander, no one ought have that sort of assymetric power over others.

In febuary this year we saw a case study of this pollute-then-use method.... a month before (early feb) the genocidal regime (US/UK/Isra) started the war on iran (end of feb) they sprayed toxic herbicide over south lebanon to destroy the people's connection to the land. they ethnically "cleansed" it and now the land is being used by the "psychopath" (i prefer the term predator) class to further abuse others.

This is the sort of thing we see with depleted uranium, the predator class say they will handle it safely but i believe they NEVER do.... it really just ends up in the tips of munitions to genetically damage or ethnically cleanse (make refugees out of) peoples they dont like (iraq is apparently well known as an example where the population are genetically damaged from the dense uranium in weapons) but now we are seeing it acrss the middle east. From what i gather the extent of depopulation of regions in the middle east is INTENSE. All these refugees need places to go and so they go to other countries which enjoy GDP boosts because the demand for things like housing, etc, go up. It makes those economies look good on the surface, but its literally on the backs of genocide and expansionism. The corporate media therefore will never care about exposing this process.

The predator class can and are basically repeating this but for datacenters and polluting the world with streaming disservices and now to add to the damage, slop. Big tech predators don't even need to know what is real and not they can just destroy people's that stand in their way fairly automatically. Dissent becomes basically impossible and this allows them to get away with basically anything.

Ending uranium trade will be the most effective method to stop the degeneration, best way forward imv. Apparently the way this is done is by ensuring mined uranium diluted in a slurry and spread back over the land.

I also think the car is on the way out. Oil is on the decline. Part of the reason for the war on iran is so they can #blameIran for oil decline, not their overconsumption ideological control of citizens that they converted to consumers in the 1920s to maintain postwar production, that made them so much profits. EVs are intractable, and not really a viable option.

Invest in a boring old bicycle, and in getting a camel for dad.

I think one way we can build popular resistance is by jokingly covering up businesses' fb and instaspam icons with rss icons. Repurpose common plastic packaging that would otherwise go in the trash. RSS was identified early as the technogoly to destroy by the predator class, so I do think we need to work to restore RSS. Many fedi instances do RSS, and if they don't they should impement RSS imv. I think that is the wedge we can use, the fediverse icon deeloped by DSFSG (that i tried refining) hasnt taken off. So the only thing we have is the RSS icon, and NOSTALGIA. There is A LOT of nostalgia out there right now for the old web. Millenials will still recognize the RSS icon. When they see it it will evoke memory. If it is easy to remove, few will complain about someone sticking an RSS icon over their predator symbols. If you want to advertise a fediverse account write it out alongside an RSS icon. I would say that it our last chance to reclaim the web.

As the thread fragmnted I read less and less but this is my take, on the meat of it.

@p ive totally forgotten how to use bloat to get urls like that. I rmember there was a way to do it tho. maybe you can tag me in a reply on those posts until I remember.

@icedquinn how would u propose that be done. their are ways to attack commons abusers in roundabout ways anonymously. i like thinking of ways to anonymously attck bad systems but they tend to be speculative.

@nimda @silverpill Dear GOD! the geti2p.net website redirects to a cloud(Glare)flare server and sent my firewall off. i will need to completely reexamine how i introduce i2p to ppl now. bloody heck.

no more i2prouter for newbies? damnit. i knew this day would come when PRISM would control i2ps on-ramps. Maybe its for the best..... java/oracle/cia etc

maybe i should start devoting volunteering time to the rust implementation of i2p or something, if that community even exists, the i2pd crowd are on m$-git(Scr)ub last i looked. Maybe until the rust implementation is done, someone will want to mirror the i2p.net site from a non-CAGeMAFiA server??? @gabriel

is the domain name i-too-pee.net taken? 😆

@nimda @silverpill @gabriel omg even stormycloud's website is cloudGlare. When dd this takover by prism happen? maybe the real question is how did their get the domain i2p.net in the first place???

seriously.... i turn my back for only 11-18 months and THIS happens, roghan jolly gosh.

it may be time to fork 12p?
i3p (invisible internet AND INFRASTRUCTURE project). not even joking. appeasement to prism is offensive. notice how they have lost the link to their fediverse on their website and also lost the rss.

dear @i2p@mastodon.social what sort of direction is this....? this is not leadership imv sry. not sry.

@p fyi see above, i2prouter team have gone fully cloudfed, dropped rss, dropped fediverse (albeit "mastodom") mention from site.

i turn my back for 11 to 19 months and this, lol.

@nimda @silverpill @gabriel i may be putting myself out there to volunteer towards webdev for a fork into the i2p network. i really am very disappointed by infrastructure choices made at i2p. i should have seen the warning signs.... the degree to which prominent people in the i2p community were embracing datacenter slop, for example, maybe i should have tried harder to stay connected and ridicule such phony, pathetic and ultimately tacky interactions. At this stage im willing to even suggest the i2p team have been replaced by slop, and fixing the situation may require looking back years.

embracing cloudflare/prism/mitm attack as a service cant have happened overnight.

@r

Hi fedifrens, how are you? IM BACK... maybe... dont quote me.

Are we all enjoying the slow descent into a trashy, human-hostile, locked-down internet (or is that outernet)? I have been limiting the outernet stuff and sticking to only private communictions (XMPP, Tor, i2p, BtcPay Server). I am trying to live a low-profile, and boring and ordinaary bitcoin life.

What are you doing to bring down the US pedo-dollar, today?

DID YOU KNOW you cant spell #pedodollar without 'dodo'? #fascinating

#boringBitcoinLife

Connection still seems to be poor to this server atm for some reason, took 40 minutes to see that a post was accidentally published prematurely. Thanks @silverpill for your suggestion in August last year (when I last came on) to try tuba for improved latency handling, I will try that. Not sure when I'll be able to tho.

i realise everyone has probably forgotten me and with think, who is this spammer, but after 9 months without fediverse, I figured that i better login to explain myself.

Basically near the start of the year two things happened at the same time to make it impossible to access fedi. Anyway Im enabling #javascript in a browser now to tell you this but i NEVER enable javascript in this browser normally and will probably disable it again, hopefully not for 9 months but this #distrohop is a BIG one, more like a distro-leap! @nimda it would really help if the #BloatFE interface was available over #i2p. @silverpil is there anyway to force a non-js experience, using a specific uri combo? FYI ive been recommending #mitra more in the meatspace lately, so heads up you may be getting more traffic??? or not.... lol

@gabriel i LOVED ur interview on #corbettReport, it is disconcerting to see his non-acknowledgment of your interest in #fediverse. He has known about fedi for a long time and probably should have known better than to pump S.S. (i mean sCRubstack), anyway sorry to hear u were set upon by S.S. drones. I've been meaning to inform u that your libresolutionsnetork.i2p site is broken, it redirects to gabe.i2p, so i may be missing out on insights. i was enjoying your updates on ur health drive but havnt been able to keep upto date lately.

The recent #openSource orgs sign onto the #unitedNations pact is super creepy. The last clause, ie. to do the bidding of the United Nations makes me a bit squeemish, just because we all saw covid, right? Even the other clauses about "diversity and inclusion" a nasty, and seem to require developers identify themselves, meaning no more anonymous contributions? i expect better from the #libreoffice folks that to sign onto something like this (i already knew #gnome were heading down a nasty path by their locked-down communication channels). My feeling is this is a result of the engineered #inflation ( #covid / #nft / #moneylaundering) crises means people are grasping at straws to maintain their income and status, forcing developers to accept ridiculous contracts. i dont know. Maybe im talking out a nether orifice. If i hear that everyone is plotting forks of LibreOffice and GNOME, it wouldnt surprise me.

I'm also interested in what appears to be the lawfare-based extortion of archive.org, not able to research it lately. I bet a billion bitcoins (that will never exist, because bitcoin is capped at 21 million) that #archiveDotOrg no longer accept #bitcoin donations. AMIRIGHT? (i dunno again I might be wrong, i literally have not checked, lol but seriously they are partnering with the US government to be a repo of govt documents??? now???)

... and remember everyone, #iran is to blame for ALL OF IT. including of cause the genocide that almost everyone on fedi knew was a #genocide almost 2 years ago. Why would it take 2 years for people on corporate media pratforms to work this out.... INSERT THINKING EMOJI

anyway there is so much to talk about and i will not be able to do it now. and will not be checking messages, because my connection is REALLY, REALLY, REALLY bad now. and i'll be here forever and die. so this is just a i'm still alive, just working thru technical coincidental problems.

love you all, and hopefully i can be online proper, in the near future.

#fedimeta #gnome #opendocumentfoundation @stefano

@p @dcc @phnt @jae
>Where do you think the routers are going to go?
in a variety of strategic and convenient locations, and not (basically) all (70%) in DataCenterAlley Virginia, CIA

>we should have more (diversity of communications providers)
hail MARY, we have arrived

we do need someone that can move a petabyte in real-time?
i dont know bout "someone" and "petabytes" but we do need a resilient network of pipes, to shove i2p and tor traffic into, imo

@cereal @dcc @phnt @p @jae
>that means "no Datacenters".
agree.... i think the term #datacenters gaslights us into accepting an oppressive version of the internet, where we have to basically offer our machine to the govt or corporation that owns the "datacenter", to host a thing.... we should call them #datatransits or #routerCenters or something, no servers their

and then we have #servers at the end points, at the nearby businesses and homes and such, call me a dreamer, but i think "datacenters" are inherently problematic.

@p @dcc @phnt @cereal @jae
>The solution? Host it on a hidden service on Tor/I2P/whatever floats your boat. But now you alienated 98% of your possible site visitors/users of the service

im an onion maxi and garlic maxi, the only clearnet traffic there should be is the transport garlic and onion routed stuff, imho. the internet is broken because corporates want to keep us tied to their 'clearnet'. do i think domain registries and CAs have no sustainable future, yes.

>No, it's a place where people put their computers

all u've described is a form of assymetric warfare on the people, govt (or large corporation that is govt contracted) maybe partnering with other corporates to house their stuff, ie govt sanctioning of who is allowed to have a voice. in its most extreme sense, and we are effectively at that extreme case already. u can reference "independent datacenters" til u are blu in face, i just see oxymoron. they can't exist, they are a phantom, an oasis, i don't believe any claims that independent, govt-sanctioned datacenters exist. the only ppl at a routercenter ought be telcos, and govt, doing the very most driest things of keeping the routing smooth and efficient, but it would be fine for them to communicate with ppl in the area about things that may impact connectivity from one month to the next. they can have a server in the routercenter for that but they cant host other entities stuff there that would be antitrust imv.

@p @dcc @phnt @cereal @jae
> No, I said "place where people put their computers".

and i'm saying a govt sanctioned 'datacenter' and soon to be powered by nuke-leer energy owned by big tech supremacists, is a form of assymetric warfare, a fascist coming together of govt and megacorporation that will rule with extreme and brutal silent and assymetric hybrid warfare. we can agree to disagree forever til we are blue. or move on. but when govt and mega corporations meld like this WeThePlebs are dead.

in many ways we are already dead, so this just makes us more dead, i guess

@p @dcc @phnt @cereal @jae
i'll look at the top 500 "amazon-served" site at some point, i could disagree with the arguments raised but is not worth it. the people of the 1960s had valid concerns tho.

>Well, that's gloomy, but I'd rather improve the situation
we are on life support is what im saying, comatose, dead, the life we see is borrowed, i want to resuscitate. gloomy, no. just accurate. we cant get to where we need to be if we delude ourselves.

@p @dcc @phnt @cereal @jae
i dont know what else i can say, im going by my learned experience. a sober assessment is we need to be revived, because we have been made comatose. You can't fix this imv, by appealing to the lieks of CAGeMAFIA and the govt they will squash the alternatives. u say that there are indy datacenters, i dont see them, and honestly in today's world i wouldnt be able to trust them anyway. look at how many shell companies us, uk eu-backed israwl made to fool people they were getting a good device, when actually it was laced with explosives.

How bad is it? We can't outsource the production of our computers, we need computers that are made BY the civilisations that will use them, this is how bad it has gotten. in the same way i dont see an alternative to having our computers under our control the whole time and not outsourcing to a third party, and especially not one poisoning people and planet.

if you dont trust with your life, every person that walks into that datacenter u have a problem. this likely means there will NOT BE mega killer global apps in the future.... and good, those things have been fascist in every sense of the word 'fascist'.

the architecture of how we compute things is going to dictate whether we can be revived.

@silverpill @r @gabriel @marty_bent i also did some foraging a couple hours ago and found the these 2 glyphs ⼕￫ to imply "External link"

now this....

cc: @silverpill @nimda @r @Suiseiseki

@mms very intersting article about ditching (screw)tube trackers on a site.... even Goolg are against their trackware lol, thanks Michal.

a corollary.... for tor browser enjoyers that use Safest mode, i strongly recommend using ublockorigin (tor in tailsOS has it) and i recommend adding the following in ublock's 'My Filter' tab to block google trackware:

none of the above services work in tor browser safest mode anyway, so no loss and all (#privacy) gain.

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In the article a ▶️ play image is baked into the image, but this will double the amount of lossy artifacts or increase the image filesize. what has been interesting to me is to develop something using css.

it seems this instance purges images that are a few months old (see # DCN for a solution to this), so i am re-uploading the two gifs that i made in sept and published above this post.

if there is adequate interest in for this i will roll up the css sleeves. my css stills have not been honed in a while so the solution might not be the best. i'll probably use a <span> containing the domain name in an <a> tag that has the thumbnail as the bg, then a :before and :after psudo element for the external link emojis and the peertube emoji itself???

maybe there's a better way....

yes @r, normally i would agree with you and just embed a video with html5, you are most welcome to do this approch in Bloat, but then you will lose some of the couple of benefits of using peertube's js. also to quote @silverpill elsewhere in this thread:

>Mitra will not embed remote media into posts, and downloading the whole video is probably not feasible.

my css solution is really targeted at mitra, and its just about saying "its a video!" and "its external!", sorry if i created confusion by animating it over the Bloat interface. i think i would use a simpler style.... no movement animation or color if i were to do this for bloatFE. Something like "Video at <externalsite.com>" might be on top of the thumbnail and that would be all.

@nimda @Suiseiseki @mms