To eveyone on Mastodon:
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@LukefromDC We also need to be laying the groundwork for the next generation of decentralized social networking that can't be dismantled this way. The fediverse is incredibly vulnerable to DNS seizure (the technical part of the attack on A/I) to break federation and relationships across instances, and that vulnerability is entirely gratuitous from bad design choices in the protocol and failure to give users autonomous identity.
@dalias @LukefromDC on the one hand I really respect that Mastodon et al. Have managed to build a functioning system without getting lost in the sauce of cryptography, but yes we are literally at war with the ruling class so we need to be able to survive their attacks
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I didn't know about hawala, I've just read the wiki page.
That must be pretty convenient. I wish there was such a system here too.
@joeblowenarbol @thisislieven @LukefromDC@s1m0n4 @joeblowenarbol @thisislieven @LukefromDC it's worldwide. My dad knew someone who got stranded on a pretty remote island and needed money sent their way. No banks or Western Union could send money to that location. But the local Somali travel agency in Copenhagen? Sure, no problem. It's worldwide
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@ailurocrat @Recalcitrant @regendans @baedling @LukefromDC If I'm reading this right, terrorism is being defined as "competing against large commercial entities".
@gwadej @ailurocrat @regendans @baedling @LukefromDC terrorism is being defined as “letting the Kurdistan Workers’ Party have a blog or email address”
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@gwadej @ailurocrat @regendans @baedling @LukefromDC terrorism is being defined as “letting the Kurdistan Workers’ Party have a blog or email address”
@Recalcitrant @gwadej @ailurocrat @regendans @baedling Which is really fucked after the US was forced to help the YPG and YPJ fight in order to stop the cancerous growth of DAESH. Some "thanks" for their service in war!
Well, there's an old Kurdish saying that the Kurds have no friends but the mountains. At least the mountains are good friends to have..
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I think the #Fediverse is still under the radar for most fascists - but then again, the Fediverse is under the radar of everyone but its users right now. They tend to focus on #Bluesky as a hate target first and foremost, because most prominent liberals gather there.
That being said, improving the resilience of the Fediverse in any way we can is still an excellent idea - if Bluesky goes the way of Twitter, we will be the next target.
@juergen_hubert First up for Bluesky is ID based age verification. They already have to block direct access from one US state (Louisiana?) to avoid this law.
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@ailurocrat @Recalcitrant @regendans @baedling @LukefromDC If I'm reading this right, terrorism is being defined as "competing against large commercial entities".
@gwadej @ailurocrat @Recalcitrant @regendans @baedling
That's like Axel Springer whining if the RAF (the guerillas not the air force) had run a competing newspaper instead of blowing up his office.
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@joeblowenarbol @s1m0n4 @thisislieven @LukefromDC yes! And guess what, the ruling powers are also at war with hawala systems
@magnus @joeblowenarbol @s1m0n4 @thisislieven They are at war with all of Arabia, for the exact same reason Hitler invaded North Africa. The spice must flow...
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@gwadej @ailurocrat @Recalcitrant @regendans @baedling
That's like Axel Springer whining if the RAF (the guerillas not the air force) had run a competing newspaper instead of blowing up his office.
@gwadej @ailurocrat @Recalcitrant @regendans @baedling
A humorous note: Axel Springer actually worked as an editor for an officially approved newspaper in Nazi Germany.https://truthlytics.com/axel-springer-nazi-zionist-propagandist/
Therefore he had to sweat twice about being "bombed by RAF..."
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@clickhere @baedling @LukefromDC One of the easiest and best first step is probably to sign up for Tuta or Proton or something and start using it.
Start taking your privacy very seriously. Learn as much as you can about how much you are sharing and how to stop.
And I think they suggested trying to make as many people as aware of this as you can. If not, that should help also.
Insist on the type of communication systems they provided and don't settle.
@crazyeddie @clickhere @LukefromDC i use tuta, proton, and A/I emails, my phone runs iodeOS and has no service, i have mullvad vpn on everything, and i never use my name for anything other than like, banking stuff.
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@dalias @LukefromDC There's this thing called GNUnet, but it seems to be a very slow development...
@cbw @dalias @LukefromDC Yup. For those interested, a great watch about #GNUnet is this short introductory talk, given at FOSDEM 2020: https://www.invidious.tiekoetter.com/watch?v=qZYI-3Q1INI
> DNS [...] not only does not provide you any kind of security, but it's also arguably managed and governed by by corrupt organizations (which we have seen with the .ORG case just recently) [...] we cannot actually use it to build decentralized applications on top [...]
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> And that is where the vision of the GNUnet project actually starts. So, GNUnet wants to basically build a full stack that provides you with the individual layers of the ISO/OSI stack, so that decentralised applications can be built in a meaningful way.(03:00-03:44)
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@cbw @dalias @LukefromDC Yup. For those interested, a great watch about #GNUnet is this short introductory talk, given at FOSDEM 2020: https://www.invidious.tiekoetter.com/watch?v=qZYI-3Q1INI
> DNS [...] not only does not provide you any kind of security, but it's also arguably managed and governed by by corrupt organizations (which we have seen with the .ORG case just recently) [...] we cannot actually use it to build decentralized applications on top [...]
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> And that is where the vision of the GNUnet project actually starts. So, GNUnet wants to basically build a full stack that provides you with the individual layers of the ISO/OSI stack, so that decentralised applications can be built in a meaningful way.(03:00-03:44)
@cbw @dalias @LukefromDC Also, here's a 5-minute explanation on how a core component of GNUnet, the GNS (GNU name system) works: https://www.invidious.tiekoetter.com/watch?v=bB9SC4kD27Y
(Speaker is Christian Grothoff, who's also one of the lead developers of @Taler)
Let's spread the word!
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@Socltime @thisislieven @s1m0n4 @LukefromDC Hate to point out a rude awakening here, but... Good luck getting UK retail banks to support SEPA payments via IBAN correctly, at least, when I tried in the 2000s with Halifax as a personal retail customer, I got NO RESPONSE WHATSOEVER when I asked about it in writing, despite an earlier grudging compensatory response when I was the target of ATM card cloning. As far as they were concerned at the time, the regulations may as well not have been written, and I was well aware of them then and now. The situation may be somewhat better now, but it entirely depends on which specific UK bank one is using.
I can't do Revolut because they're avid LLM users and are too tied to Google in their tech stack, and their privacy policy is quite abusive. They make exercising GDPR Article 17 difficult as they are obstructive in that sense. I CANNOT condone or recommend Revolut in any way.
@bms @thisislieven @s1m0n4 @LukefromDC please don’t get me wrong, i do not support Revolut at all.
I just wanted to point out, that there are regulatory groundworks (SEPA) there already and there are indeed British banks that implemented this for their continental clients.
Currently 60 banks support wero according to werotracker.eu and 129 online shops. Too little of course, but a start: https://werotracker.eu
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@bms @thisislieven @s1m0n4 @LukefromDC please don’t get me wrong, i do not support Revolut at all.
I just wanted to point out, that there are regulatory groundworks (SEPA) there already and there are indeed British banks that implemented this for their continental clients.
Currently 60 banks support wero according to werotracker.eu and 129 online shops. Too little of course, but a start: https://werotracker.eu
@Socltime @thisislieven @s1m0n4 @LukefromDC Thanks.
I have no doubt the UK SEPA situation is probably considerably better than what I was faced with in the late 2000s where I was just looking to pay online German vendors without the overhead or fees of PayPal, but Halifax utterly giving me the silent treatment about something they were legally obliged to do was just unacceptable.
There was a pattern of poor behaviour from Halifax ever since their demutualization. My father was a charted surveyor by trade so he was aware of who the "good" UK home lenders were from the late 70s to the late 80s; they were not the same organization by the time I returned to them as a retail bank customer after bad experiences with RBS, nor are they now, having not long left one of their now subsidiaries.
Yeah, I was more pointing out that I'd tried Revolut to find I was being repeatedly asked for biometric authentication for relatively small things which their workflow demanded, i.e. changing email address. The "small print" points out the email address chosen has to be one which is accessible from the device where their app runs.
The pro-"AI", pro-Musk crap their app spews just dug a deeper hole for the offering. Into the bin it went, but now they have my personal information, even though I'm not an active or willing customer; their documentation actually has the gall to insist it's the customer's responsibility to ADD funds to allow zeroing the balance by a transfer out. That is just... weird. It puts the onus on me to deal with it in writing with a basic request and instruction, and to pursue action against them through the UK ICO.
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To eveyone on Mastodon:
The real lesson of the US attack on autistici/inventi is that WE ARE NEXT. Mastodon servers mostly do not run things like PRISM, are often based outside the US, and compete directly with the Tech Bros and their ad and tracker supported shit for an audience.
Also lots of anti-Trump activism here.
If we don't fight for autistici/inventi today, we will have to fight for Mastodon tomorrow. Domino effects are real with Fascists as we saw at the start of WWII.
@LukefromDC I suspect the saving grace is that in the grand scheme of things, there is nobody on Mastodon.
It's easy to forget from inside, but this place is barely a drop in the bucket.
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@tk @dalias @LukefromDC Suburbs and car-dependent nightmares beg to differ.
Sufficiently low population density and inability to link up with other clusters as to make mesh networks impractical.@lispi314 @tk @dalias @LukefromDC Is there a way to determine whether there's sufficient mesh density in my suburb to make buying a mesh setup worthwhile?
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To eveyone on Mastodon:
The real lesson of the US attack on autistici/inventi is that WE ARE NEXT. Mastodon servers mostly do not run things like PRISM, are often based outside the US, and compete directly with the Tech Bros and their ad and tracker supported shit for an audience.
Also lots of anti-Trump activism here.
If we don't fight for autistici/inventi today, we will have to fight for Mastodon tomorrow. Domino effects are real with Fascists as we saw at the start of WWII.
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@LukefromDC btw I just read an article in Italian that describes Mastodon as an "anonymous social network used to discuss actions and ideas for subverting the status quo."
Hai un link a questo articolo?
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@lispi314 @tk @dalias @LukefromDC Is there a way to determine whether there's sufficient mesh density in my suburb to make buying a mesh setup worthwhile?
@msbellows @tk @dalias @LukefromDC Practical range of the various methods considered and a map (many meshnets have some with some currently known public nodes or repeaters on them, which can be helpful).
If you're in a city-attached suburb (there is probably a proper term for it, I do not know), it's possible that you have sufficient density assuming decent participation (a problem here for me), but linking up with the outside is where it really would have a better chance than others.
Omnidirectional signals can only go so far at legal emission strength (varies according to wavelength, which affects bandwidth), while directional point-to-point can often require somewhat expensive antennas and elevation (such as a tower). A nearby city may instead present peer nodes at a distance that doesn't require special measures to connect to.
If you feel like you can muster sufficient generalized participation (or have the discretionary budget to just install repeaters yourself), that would also make the task much easier.
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@LukefromDC I suspect the saving grace is that in the grand scheme of things, there is nobody on Mastodon.
It's easy to forget from inside, but this place is barely a drop in the bucket.
@Adept That could also be said of NoBlogs. In both cases the counter is that certain specific Mastodon instances (just like NoBlogs does) have some influencers on them that the Trumpists and their masters REALLY don't like.
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@LukefromDC this news is 14 years late, people needed to hear this when they decided to hunt Kim Dotcom like he was bin Laden
@feld Imagine how much different things would be today if Kim Dotcom had used some of his money to hire mercenaries and set a trap for those hunting him.
