@lanodan > apparently i trawled through the openwrt forums not long ago and they admit to it.... the non-free issue is not mere opinion sadly.
> meanwhile it's trivial to document so users can make choices in their best interests and developers clearly know where the problems are
i don't know what is meant here, when a vendor say proprietary blobs it pretty much means i have no idea if the thing is really secure, we are entering into a time where data is important and could mean life or death for really anyone. i just don't see how to move forward until devices are liberated. You could ask "what can a bad modem really do?" but they could do all sort of nasty things. If you asked me 15 years ago i wouldnt have cared as much, but today, i have to care. I wish i could un-care about our tools not being free, i just can't. the number of attacks against regular people are so high these days, i talk to totally random people and smart, careful people are getting into trouble, its clear that safer tools are needed.
thanks for your thoughts on the topic anyway, i wont bother u with libre-centric stuff now that i kno is not your realm.
@lanodan there are apparently proprietary blobs that openwrt allow (especially for the modems). They apparently allowed the blobs for convenience otherwise we'd have to go on a global #strike or something. Maybe we ought to.... is a pretty sorry situation really.
hi @lanodan, you jus mentioned #openwrt.... i recently formulated a spray to deal with DSL modems, none of which are able to be liberated with foss firmware. :(
@toiletpaper@sun trump is going to be on the list tho, so he'll need to answer questions about that if/when he does. i think everyone will, and what is going to suck is that i bet noone is going to provide concrete proof to back up there defence stories.
@sun serious question, we know that #jeffreyEpstein became interested in bitcoin late in his life. To what extent was he into #bitcoin relative to other things that he was interested in? according to #noamChomsky, epstien met with him to discuss friggin "AI" in 2017(?) iirc. what were his stated motives for his interest in btc? was it to continue his sordid #blackmail and #influencePeddling operations or was he trying to turn his life down a different path?
the " #AI " meeting with chomsky suggests something creepy but i don't want to jump to conclusions. genuinely interested. it could be that he was saddam-husseined
@sun did you get to the part in september when the central bank had to start printing $10 billion a day to stop the banks from stabbing each other in the back, and how the money printing did not stop and when covid hit that's when they allowed a hit to the market because covid gave them a narrative the plebs wouldnt question?
This is a paper on just how unopen so-called "open" "ai" systems are.
The digital #colonialism aspect is quite real, i think they were too objective and passive about it, but i suppose that is the role of being academic. They touch on #copilot and its criminal software theft. And the part about googl's cloud and #TPU sent alarm bells ringing.... read to the end, is not long.
their idea really is not, but it is about creating a sort of standard by which a host file is used.... as in MADE and REFERENCED.
Same as my idea.
NOTE: In i2p, a hosts file (mapping of name to public key, and ergo address) is different to a hosts file in linux (name to ip address, ergo address BUT WITHOUT the public key). The difference is that I'm saying the public keys to the site are ALSO provided, aka "vouched for" which is what we can use to remove CAs.
To get away from CAs (#certificateAuthorities) i think web servers and sites ought have a list of other sites that they can vouch for, to bujild a Web Of Vouched Encryption And Names (WOVEAN), and then ppl can, as they type a name, see their WOVEAN address book in real time and see the sites that were used to vouch for the name and public key.
So if my website links to a page then the public key of the site, in beech32 format (the format used by i2p) goes into a list for vouching. The more I use links to a site the stronger the "vouch" for that site.
i suspect that every site will have on average 200-400 sites that they'd vouch for, with 150 of those being strong "vouches" but a fediverse server might end up with tens of thousands of weak "vouches". A fedizen who wants to visit postal.com might just be able to ask and fediserver for all names that start with "po".... if that would result in too big a list then the fediserver can refuse and the fedizen can ask for all results starting with "pos", an extra letter etc. this continues until a mapping of names to B32s can be provided.
this sort of thing might work as part of an addon that i've been proposing to help fedizens crowd serve fediverse media over i2p. Media that they as INDIVIDUALS like and share, or (for improved #search) an INDIVIDUAL FEDIZEN might even share all posts that they can see, which use a #hashtag that they as an INDIVIDUAL have used. This proposed addon i have previously called #DCN (DeCentralized Network), which is ITSELF a tongue-in-cheek rebuttal of the oft-centralized #CDNs.
i2p has a weird and annoying quirk that has made it technically totally possible for the #nameservers to claim a "subdomain" of a site, eg. betty in betty.postal.i2p belongs to a completely different entity to postal.i2p.... but for what i propose, if a browser WANTS to know what the B32 of betty.postal.i2p is then it would HAVE to ask postal.i2p. and it should be possible for a subdomain to have the same public key as the toplevel domain (currently i2p address books dont allow this, which is sort of dumb to me).
does this sound compelling? really I don't think i'm outlining anything new here, ive just come up with an acronym, WOVEAN, which might help make the concept more palatable to the average non-techie,,,,
Eg. "Is your site #wovean?"
and i'm combining this with an addon proposal with overlapping functions.
a negative is it may add to the amount of responsibility that webmasters/servers have, but not for i2p natives, as most people who share links in i2p will often share them alongside the b32 link. We WILL however want the webserver to be able to detect when it is sharing a WOVEAN link, so that it might AUTOMATICALLY(?) go into the sites address list? The browser addon would detect that a site is WOVEAN from info in the html head, and ask the viewer if they would like to "Fetch the WOVEAN addresses"?
(If you dont interact I'll recommend to folks not to tag you, in subsequent resposes.)
@mangeurdenuage@sun yeah they are both bad, just look at what isreal did to lebanon, people dont expect their device to act as a chemical weapon but that line is now crossed.
@jeffcliff@Stellar@zonk lol yes, and actually i remember doing the research and our butterflies were in a coccoon for like 3 years lol, the original designer just added the quotation mark eyes a year ago, before that it looked very similar but it was made up of layering triangles. it didnt look bad but this looks much butter.
i believe Gabe is still hosting the whole set here (i2p/b32, tor)
@jeffcliff@Stellar dear @zonk , your dream is totally based on reality.... it is also just based
enter the :butterfedy1: :butterfedy2: :butterfedy3: fluttery verse :P
the only thing missing is the wings actually flapping, lol
seriously earlier in the year, when i stumbled over this as a proposal for an icon for :butterfedyC: fediverse i thought it was the only real choice, it is either this or putting a pentogram on ur website.
OMG #Biden has pardoned his own son.... if that sounds bad it gets worse.... Tell me if u spot the weird trick.
>In June, the younger Biden was convicted of three felony charges related to the purchase of a revolver in 2018. According to the prosecutors, he lied on his gun-purchase paperwork that he was not addicted to or using illegal drugs.
> In a statement issued on Sunday evening, the president said the “full and unconditional pardon” covers offenses which his son “has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024, including but not limited to all offenses charged or prosecuted.”
@sun@asa I would have assumed that he would've see a suspended sentence, if he was just an average person. But.... seeing as hes a public figure I think he would have got a year (read:3 months), because he should have known better, he was NOT just any public figure he was a vice president's son.
Biden's excuse for pardoning him IS terrible, because hunter SHOULD have been dragged through the ringer for his actions, and i would say the RNC didn't even make that big a deal out of it, really. they were more involved with other narrtives.
It ALSO terrible because it's basically setting a precident, everyone is expected to be lying when they sign "forms". "Forms"? lol #declarations? lol, #contracts? lol
I challenge someone to put things in their luggage and not decla(-SNIP, legal department)
I like frogs 🐸Interested in finding a mitra instance that doesn't do eth (monero/bitcoin are okay). One person said go here https://mitra.fediverse.observer/list but the site doesn't work over Tor browser.