Normies have learned a few buzzwords.

WTF I just read.

Especially their statement that they could not reconcile moderation with free speech,

The way I’d reconcile them would be when everyone can override moderation for what they themselves want to see, but without that the common default is applied.

That would be what we’d see in Fediverse projects if people were acting in good faith, too.

I dunno, somehow the best approaches I can imagine are those that existed in Usenet before it went out of use for discussions. Except for news servers having to store too much, and for spam protection happening after it gets posted, bad results. So probably things like group membership and post limits and such from today would be useful.

But in general Usenet was the way. I won’t change my mind, because a few different systems converged on models similar to Usenet, that being itself, Fidonet, Frost and FMS in Freenet, boards in Retroshare, even frankly places like Reddit and Lemmy.

We need a Usenet 2.0, with some precautions from it turning into a place for bots and pirates, like the old one. IMHO. It can even use Fediverse identities (but preferably not, identities should be cryptographic and untied from instances ; or maybe an instance would only be needed when an identity is created and posted into the network, but then it can be banned\removed on that instance all they want, it’ll be fully usable).

I thought I did the opposite.

Yeah, about online tests, I’ve taken it twice in the olden days, once I got a result (probably due to connection problems) fitting a rock, and once I got something egghead high (probably due to the same).

And I’ve never met people mentioning their IQ test results as an argument other than what you said.

No. Everything is still closed and not interoperable.

I’ve just read about Google Wave.

I think we need a global low-latency (no waiting an hour for a message to propagate) alternative to Usenet. And there should be two separate layers - unique article (or message) identifiers and the transport (be it lots of news servers exchanging articles as the main layer, or as an auxiliary level users exchanging them p2p with some way to verify an identifier and the fact that it was posted in some specific group by some specific person at some specific time). And cryptographic identities. And cryptographic alternative to DNS inside that - with name-to-identifier records signed and verifiable via a chain to some known name authority, not querying a service.

An article can contain many things, it can be a hypertext page. It can, maybe, contain some header allowing to build articles into hierarchies with such a naming service providing paths. And navigate those with a browser. So you’d have a system friendly to mobile devices, to privacy, to economy of resources, to preserving information, to indexing and scraping.

But I think I’ve missed something technical preventing this from being created in my thoughts.

The more important demographic to use temporary email addresses are people who think their identity is not your concern.

Ah, OK, that’s mentioned.

IMHO something like WoT in Freenet would be better. Having many cryptographic identities, but to start using one you have to spend effort confirming it’s real. Solving captchas or whatever. Of course it’s an obsolete solution, captchas are now solved by bots easier than by humans. But you get my idea.

There’s a particular kind of autistic people which is worse.

My dad who behaved as a normal person, even loved to disprove anti-scientific claims and expose freakery and all that, except he had that inferiority complex and thought foreigners exist to give him the big child candy and say absolute truths, and he also thought autism is like demon possession. I mean, people usually are not who they pretend to be, but he seemed to really like discussing interesting mathematical problems at some point, I was a kid and he didn’t try well enough to explain what he was talking about, though. But I expected him at least to talk to me first in such a situation.

So a bad person with a very foreign second name (not really, just the real second name is kinda famous, I suppose, the events also happened about some time after I called famous bearers of that second name bitches) said to him a few kind words, maybe even literally gave him candy, told him he’s very smart and his family is abusing him when, eh, criticizing his intelligence, and also told him I’m autistic (he didn’t even try actually learning what that is, just was terribly afraid of it and certain he’s not), and that moron started running around secretly “curing” me, yelling every morning probably to scare away the possessing demon or whatever, trying to force me eat a lot of weird food, and never directly talking to me. I hope he wasn’t “talking to me” via a fortuneteller or a medium. Fucking idiot.

Or my old friend who again ignored me, I’m sure it’s for some occult reason too. He’d routinely stuff bullshit names into roleplaying and worldbuilding from history freakery where Aryans built Egyptian pyramids a century between a nuclear war after which 16 century Europe emerged, or something like that. Doing that covertly, not telling where did he take that crap from. Every time someone would discuss actual analogies from actual history, looking suppressed-hostile and trying to stuff something again into the conversation.

Both felt like someone covertly putting pieces of shit into your meal and being certain they are right so everything is fine.

OK. This was completely offtopic, but at the same time maybe not.

I’m in Russia, I’ll probably see Taler here only after Putin.

Yes, I agree.

It appears GNU Taler is seeing some initial deployments. That’s for payment system.

An index can have centralized control, while being itself decentralized. Like for checking certificates you don’t contact some CA website every time, you have a certificate chain, cryptographically verified. That’s for CSAM and DMCA notices. That center can deal with them, sending deletion notices signed with their certificate or whatever, or recalling index entries. Those would have to propagate over the network fast enough, of course.

That system just has to allow plugging in paid services in a uniform way. Then the serious money part will not be as important.

With torrents one can have sequential downloads, and again, with paid services one could have those having new publications faster and with better download speeds.

The word “uniform” is the only thing differentiating this from the Internet we already have.

We’ve had bittorrent for many years.

The issue is creating a global index and dedicating some storage to the less popular (at the moment) data.

One can have paid storage provided over such a network, available only to subscribers. So you want to fetch a video from the global index, there are no peers having it online for free or their upload speed it atrocious, but there are some offering it not for free. You choose them and download, or maybe you have something like trade and auctions automation in MMORPGs - setting for auto-purchase and auto-sale with caps for what you would pay.

That requires a payment system, though, that one can seamlessly connect to identities in such a network.

I agree, but it’s still the place to look first.

They exist to protect US Politicians. They are servant soldiers. They do what they’re told. Period.

That’s not how your state is supposed to work. I’m writing this from Russia, which makes the situation kinda funny, but they are not servants and presidents are not masters.

Presidents can’t make some decisions. Risking their security this way would endanger the state simply because it’s a disruption if a president gets killed or kidnapped or spied upon or their orders falsified. The secret service is subordinate not to presidents’ whims, but to an institute.

I myself don’t think right and left correlate with any moral code, similar to green and purple teams in some game.

But about the post and the humiliation - it’s subjective. People for whom such a gift is not humiliating make up a huge proportion of world leaders. Our time is like that.

So - if there were some deep wisdom behind “our” system of morals where it is humiliating, we could call Trump stupid. We don’t know if there is, likely not since we are losing a war.

They mean - maximize irritation? Put ads in the most obnoxious way?

There’s a good global task for FOSS alternatives of YouTube and other places where life happens.

A decentralized scraper. Something similar to SETI@home, or that hentai analog for storage. So that based on some metric YT content would be divided between users willing to contribute their machines and accounts to scraping YT (a bit similar to searching DHT, and probably some kind of DHT would be useful), and then they’d download that and re-publish in some p2p alternative.

TBH probably also good for that little of the web that is still possible to represent as static pages and browse via links.

The issue is that alternatives lack content, and the closed nature of proprietary services gives them an advantage - there is content there which doesn’t exist outside of them.

And people just reuploading by hand what they themselves consider interesting are a little fraction of the majority that doesn’t bother.

An analogy:

Stalin took over USSR in 20s by pressuring specific councils (“soviets”), because a council could vote to recall its representative to a council of next level any time, and that would cause a chain reaction for that council and so on. So every representative of the upper level could be removed by pressuring\persuading only the initial council they were delegated from, and one wouldn’t have to wait for any election or such. Eventually one could get a jackpot combination by removing unpleasant representatives through pressure.

So with email, changing mail servers is not such a good solution, because one could still pressure a registry to unregister the domain name, a hoster to stop hosting it, an ISP to do something else …

Maybe cryptographic identities should be used for users and addresses and even name registries (using hex strings as addresses is inconvenient, I can’t even remember phone numbers), while storage and service should be separated from that. Like in NOSTR.

That’s probably because toxic corporate culture (we-ell, one can sometimes find contributions of heroes from Japan into FOSS projects, so maybe not so toxic, especially when you look at NetBSD) they already have, so they simply can’t afford breaking market laws, not in the slightest.

The rest think they can, which is wrong.

The economic stagnation in numbers is regrettable, though. I would prefer countries like Japan to grow (not on the map, I mean playing tall). And cultures.

Greek and ME people sometimes look very light. And face powders too exist.

So I wouldn’t say there’s anything too weird with her appearance. I suppose portrayal of Americans in North Korean war films is weirder.

If folks have to do their own healthcare they should be unfettered.

And closer to evolutionary mechanisms of having favorite pills taken every time you feel bad, and eventually winning the Darwin award.

Not sure.

A lot of countries have prescriptions required, but without such prices for everything as in the USA. Maybe that’s not the problem.

You just have to be the guy who turned a half-Sunni, half-Alawi city on the coast into half-Sunni, half-dead. Then after calls for stopping the murders and loads of videos with dead men, women and children he … forbid filming that.