https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDTC9USV5d-F6vK9QOJ_rgbcbAlaVgpDv
( & https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDTC9USV5d-EeMHz9RHCsfN9Aj8akVWOv )
could be worth a look. for #democracy & #freedom & so on. :)
#decentralisation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zwq0pnLdX0
various more interesting insights and ideas in this, more than i rabidly sporadically jotted down and paraphrased here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zwq0pnLdX0
#who and #wef on the day of announcement of covid crisis unleashed their action plan which was obviously pre planned part of their global thinktank corporate-superstate-autocracy totalitarian technarchy devoid of #democracy (which we can still mend and re-implement all over).
"totalitarianism's ultimate goal is to render human beings redundant to its functioning as a system of governance"
when cbdc comes we must resist it with everything we've got.
no one could want this horror, unless #problemreactionsolution raised on a series of appocalyptic threats, our #children, raised on #austerity, on national decline, on banking crises, environmental crises, on health crises. they graduated to #lockdown, and #masks and #vaccinemandates. they've been bombarded by fear. and they're being offered as a way out of that explicit~ out of that terror, these transhuman programs. and that's why it's up to us. one of the things we can do, is reaffirm the human being.
#imagine and #create a #better #future, #now.
a future not at fear.
not scared of each other. at our most human.
individual acts of #noncompliance
question capitalism, and the horrible society capitalism created.
#decentralise #decentralisation.
#presrvedata #presrvehistory #makedigitalbackups #makehardcopies #hardcopy #books #buybooks
... if you are reading this, you are the resistance. ;)
we can do better.
#isolation #totalitarianism #virtuesignalling #obedience #fascism #fundamentalism #environmentalfundamentalism
#perpetualreich #cbdc #dystopia #centralisedglobalgovernment #anthrocide #ratchetting #smartphone #panopticon #toolsofourenslavement #digitalid #digitalcamp #orwellian #rewritinghistory #digitalbookburning
#facethehorror
#jumpoutofwater #disobey
#wecanstillmendthis
#reaffirmthehuman
#refriend #reclaimthespace #read
unpaused this around 47 minutes... what's to stop them turn you off?
https://rumble.com/v2rus9k-how-elites-will-create-a-new-class-of-slaves-whitney-webb-the-glenn-beck-po.html
#transhumanism #technarchy #eugenics #neofeudalism #eternaltyranny #totalitarian #neverendinglivingnightmare #powercorrupts #dumbingdown #enslaving #destroying #psyop #gaslighting #othering #oligarchs #fascists #oligarchy #fascism #ppp #neoliberal #neoconservative #sameoldfascists #fear #wef #banks #darktriad #darktriadarchy #orwellianisms #domesticcontrol #populationcontrol #genocide #thenewmodel #noescape #norecourseofremedy #norighttoremedy #hegemony #totalitarianism #homogenisation #totalitarianisation #smartgrid #china #thechinamodel #thechinaconnection #conflictsofinterest #kissinger #pnac #globalgovernance #technocracy #technarchy #antifreedom #manufacturingconsent #manufacturedcrisis #warondessent #censorship #transhumanism #childabuse #childmutilation #totalcontrol #deidentification #governmentislikefire #paternalistgovernment #thecorporation #dependence #deskilling #agnogenesis #pridefullyignorant #dogma #usurption #mainstream #controlledopposition #juststopoil #climatechange #hypocrisy #control #manufacturedscarcity #disempowerment #thisisnotwhatfacilitarianismlookslike #thisisnotwhatdemocracylookslike #feadrivenpolicyacceptance #bytheiractions #divideandconquer #problemreactionsolution #climageforsale #weatherwarfare #terminator #terminatorgenes #deskkillers
#wecanstillmendthis #DISOBEY #learningthelies #orwellianismaware #exitandbuild #amish #decentralisation #creativity #vivaciousness #scrutiny #planttrees #planthemp #plantcannabis #cannabiscansavetheworld #overgrowthecorporation
https://rumble.com/v2j69hc-fox-news-to-pay-what-the-end-of-democracy-111-stay-free-with-russell-brand.html
& #tldw #heresthefuckingnews https://rumble.com/v2j7s88-the-nightmare-begins..html #mediaawareness #propagandaawareness
#areyoureadyforthis ? #suspect .
#wecanstillEndthis
#wecanstillMendthis
#robocop #skynet
#divideandconquer #problemreactionsolution #binary #usandthem #corporatarchy #hourofhate #adhominem #regulatorycapture #policemilitarization #centralisedgovernment #TheCorporation #agnogenesis #groupthink #manufacturedgroupthink #polarisation #centralisedauthority #theylie #weaponsofmassdistraction #silencing
#weareallinthistogether #connection #fearlessspeech #humanrights #retainprivacy #keepspeakingout #keepquestioning #stayfree #lookup #questionmore #understandeachother #doyourownthinking #questioning #payattention #observe #flapyourbutterflywings #youarepowerful #youcanhelpmendthis #decentralisation #lifessimplejoys #laugh
#freedom #freespeech #awareness
#KatTimpf #RussellBrand #YouCantJokeAboutThat
Hey everyone, I’m #newhere. Just trying to get a feel for place. I’m interested in #affinityserif, #alternative-energy, #alternative-medicine, #alternative_media, #awakening, #awakeningconsciousness, #covid, #crypto-currencies, #decentralisation, #nde, #open-source, #open-source-software, #out-of-body, #podcasting, and #public-domain. Onward and upward. Namaste.
Open Tech Will Save Us #21 — Moderation
A special episode of Open Tech Will Save Us on the topic of moderation. This can be a loaded term… and not everyone agrees on what moderation even is. We will explore with our guest what moderation is, what it means to moderate online communities, if it applies to decentralised projects as well, and will end up with practical examples on Matrix.
Yesterdays episode of Open Tech Will Save us from the fine people at Matrix.org is now also available on my PeerTube mirror: https://peertube.anduin.net/w/t3HR6YptqMNvT9Zz9iXJNQ
#OTWSU #OpenSource #moderation #FLOSS #decentralisation #fediverse
A bit of info to those #newhere:
The fediverse consists of a heterogenous mix of platforms/software that all speak to each other. They come in different shapes and sizes, and with different focus. While Mastodon is by far the most used software it is luckily not the only one. Your messages here are not called anything in particular. "Message", "post", "comment" etc work just fine. We don't need, and don't want ad-like branding of everyday concepts here.
So be inclusive and embrace the full fediverse! Avoid terms that only apply to one implementation.
Thanks, and a big weclome to you all!
#Money is the omnipresent #incentive
in every pore of the #system. And there has never been more of it, roaring for returns.
If this is not addressed, every initiative is like a leaf trying to float up the Amazon River.
There are initiatives to turn this off, for example by abolishing all fiat money and replacing it with (electronic) central bank money, which, because of the enormous concentration of #power, will probably lead the world into almost complete #slavery.
The best way (also for democracy) would probably be #decentralisation or #sharing of everything, which probably only works if systems rot themselves from within.
The most beautiful form of resistance is probably to change personal circumstances in such a way that one can work less.
#Change happens less through communication and more through joyful example.
Maybe it's already #happening. Where I live, a lot of companies can't find #employees even though the #economy isn't doing so well.
Give Up #GitHub: The Time Has Come!
source: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/jun/30/give-up-github-launch/
Specifically, we at Software Freedom Conservancy have been actively communicating with #Microsoft and their GitHub subsidiary about our concerns with “Copilot” since they first launched it almost exactly a year ago. Our initial video chat call (in July 2021) with Microsoft and GitHub representatives resulted in several questions which they said they could not answer at that time, but would “answer soon”. After six months of no response, Bradley published his essay, If Software is My #Copilot, Who Programmed My Software? — which raised these questions publicly. Still, GitHub did not answer our #questions.
#opensource #activism #freedom #protest #software #news #coder #development #gpl #decentralisation
Twitter’s Bluesky publishes a plan for a more hybrid federated network with P2P characteristics
The interesting part of this, and probably why they did not just go for adopting ActivityPub or SSB (some of these people are actually involved) is because they are trying to also address some shortcomings of these protocols. For example, if a server instance is to disappear from an ActivityPub network, then you have to change your ID (just as when your e-mail provider goes offline) to register elsewhere and this is a portability issue.
So the intention seems to be to create a new protocol and services which address existing shortcomings. For the techie crowd these may not seem like major issues, but for ordinary non-tech folks who are used to registering once as a central service, and just discovering their friends easily, eliminating these problems could mean a lot. This would also help accelerate adoption by the masses, especially if they can “migrate” existing Twitter ID’s into it.
“It could be described as a hybrid federated network with p2p characteristics, but it’s more descriptive to focus on the capabilities – self-authenticating identities and data – than on network topology. Our team has previously built leading decentralized web protocols and blockchain networks, and is working on synthesizing the best of what we’ve seen into something new. For some aspects, we’ll be able to use pieces that already exist, and for others, we’ll have to come up with solutions of our own.”
See their post at https://blueskyweb.xyz/blog/3-6-2022-a-self-authenticating-social-protocol
#technology #bluesky #socialnetworks #decentralisation #twitter
#Blog, ##bluesky, ##decentralisation, ##socialnetworks, ##technology, ##twitter
● NEWS ● #AralBalkan ☞ #Decentralisation begins at decentring yourself https://ar.al/2022/02/16/decentralisation-begins-at-decentring-yourself/
As per Andreas, 23 new #irc networks with notable number of users https://netsplit.de/networks/?query=applicant #internet #freesw #chat #decentralisation
" #Decentralisation isn’t a binary. It’s not a switch we flip one day. It isn’t the one tool that gets it “right.” It’s not just code or silicon. It definitely isn’t a fucking blockchain" https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/107569135346270486
web0 manifesto
web0 is the decentralised web. In other words, web0 is web3 without all the corporate right-libertarian Silicon Valley bullshit.
Sign here → https://web0.small-web.org/
#web #internet #decentralisation #decentralization #web0 #web3 #NFT #NFTs #blockchain #metaverse
I wrote a small piece on why I signed the web0 manifesto on my homepage:
The internet was designed around principles of openness, simplicity, and decentralization, but Big Tech’s private networks and protocols threaten the ‘net, say internet registries
So says a Study on the Internet’s Technical Success Factors commissioned by APNIC and LACNIC – the regional internet address registries for the Asia–Pacific and Latin America and Caribbean regions respectively – and written by consultancy Analysys Mason.
The document states that “a significant fraction of global IP traffic now consists of data that is moved between the datacentres and edge networks of large internet companies.” Those companies’ needs, and growing networks, lead the analysts to suggest that “over time, we could see the internet transform into a more centralised system with a few global private networks carrying most of the content and services.
Another risk is that when private networks break, many users suffer. Exhibit A: yesterday’s AWS brownout, which hurt Netflix and Disney+, among others.
Yet, if you look at nearly all the alternative social networks springing up, you’ll see decentralisation, openness, interoperability, chronological feeds, no Big Tech…
See Big Tech’s private networks and protocols threaten the ‘net
#technology #interoperability #BigTech #openstandards #decentralisation
APNIC and LACNIC worry about who will set the rules of future internetworking
E-Mail is 50 years old this month, and it works pretty much the same, which is good, otherwise we'd all have to use one e-mail company
Think about it, you can pick an e-mail domain anywhere and use any e-mail client on any platform, to send an e-mail to someone anywhere else... We just take that for granted, but if e-mail were newly invented today by a company like say Meta, all the billions of people in the world would have to belong to that same single company in order to send and receive mail to anyone else...
E-mail's greatest success lies in it's open standards and decentralisation. It will no doubt me replaced at some point in the future, as all technologies will, but let us hope that instant messaging and social networks go back to being open and decentralised (like they too were once).
See A Look Back at 50 Years of Email - SparkPost
#technology #email #decentralisation #openstandards #deletemeta
October 29, 2021 is a day to commemorate 50 years of email. Take a look back at how far email has come and where we're headed next.
Witajcie wszyscy, jestem #TutajOdNiedawna. Interesują mnie #decentralisation, #fediverse, #foss, #indieweb oraz #ungoogled.
Meet the Self-Hosters - Tired of Big Tech monopolies, a community of hobbyists is taking their digital lives off the cloud and onto DIY hardware that they control
It's no secret that a small handful of enormous companies dominate the internet as we know it. But the internet didn't always have services with a billion users and quasi-monopolistic control over search or shopping. It was once a loose collection of individuals, research labs, and small companies, each making their own home on the burgeoning world wide web.
“Self-hosting” is a practice that pretty much describes itself: running your own internet services, typically on hardware you own and have at home. This contrasts with relying on products from large tech companies, which the user has no direct involvement in. A self-hoster controls it all, from the hardware used to the configuration of the software.
It's not just for file sharing or backup, or hosting photo services, but many are now self-hosting decentralised instances of social networks too. The reasons are also not just about Big Tech surveillance and data mining, but often also for economic reasons (costs a lot to host large amounts of data), and the freedom to DIY and experiment with the source code.
See Meet the Self-Hosters, Taking Back the Internet One Server at a Time
#technology #selfhosting #decentralisation #privacy #BigTech
Tired of Big Tech monopolies, a community of hobbyists is taking their digital lives off the cloud and onto DIY hardware that they control.
Arthur C. Clarke and the Paradox of Distance
What strikes me in the video linked below is that Clarke not only falls for the fallacy of the immolation of distance, but that his example, communications satellites, is actually an exemplar of this.
If you've ever talked over a satellite link, you're aware of the time lag, about 1 full second for a round-trip, which makes the interaction quite awkward. (Today's Zoom calls and even mobile phones with slow codecs show the effect with even smaller lags.) Our human wetware is quite attuned to local and realtime conversations, and even a delay of 100 ms or so starts straining the limits of our natural conversational flow.
Communications satellites are now almost completely avoided for any realitime voice, or more importantly, data communications, because of that very timelag. Instead they're used for non-realtime data, and even then, only where access to the preferred alternative is unavailable. What binds the world together today isn't comsats, but fibre, sinews of optical cord laid across landscapes and seascapes. Even where delays are undetectable by humans, data transmissions, and financial trading most especially, lives and dies on 10μs advantages in latency --- less than 3 km at lightspeed, and coicidentally quite close to the maximum size of a preindustrial city.
That effect is compounded at slower speeds and for other functions, such that cities today aren't less viable but more viable than they were in 1964. The largest cities don't number in the millions but the tens of millions. China has over 100 cities with more than one million in population_ (in the US the number is ten: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Philadelphia, San Diego, San Antonio, Dallas, San Jose.) Wuhan is the city of eleven million you never heard of until 2020, very nearly larger than NYC and LA, combined.
What Clarke missed, and quite frankly what I did too until a couple of years ago, is that all the advantages technology affords at distance, it also affords close in. Plus all the other capabilities close proximity affords that cannot be provided at distance. It's subtle, but means that rather than decentralising, highly virtual activities tend to concentrate even more closely, as their limiting factors become the elements which are not virtualisable.
Technology is a power multiplier. Efficiencies breed monopolies.
You see this in film: cans, or digitally-distributed end-product can be sent around the world cheaply and easily. But it's the physical factors of productions which are fixed in physical space: sets, equipment, carpenters, speech coaches, costume designers, electricians, sound techs, equipment repair, and of course, the various back-office support teams who find in-person meetings to be vastly higher-bandwidth and lower-latency than the broadest and fastest of bands.
Or in banking, publishing, government, the technology sector itself, education (despite a century's efforts to virtualise, and another 500 years before through the virtualisation of the moveable-type press), music, fashion, and more.
Even in the physical world, cheap transport and multi-step, multi-location production does not result in parallel facilities available worldwide, but instead localised centres of specialisation, the failure of any one of which imperils a global supply chain. (See today's chip shortage, vaccine disruptions, and other similar examples.)
What provides localised redundancies are frictions, whether material or imposed. Film, mentioned earlier, is centered on its metonym, "Hollywood", but local film traditions, supported by language, culture, or government policy, emerge elsewhere, notably in the UK, France, Italy, Iran, India, China, and Japan. For many of these, production is largely for local consumption (though for India and China, a billion-strong local market rivals the rest of the world at least in headcount). Banking is regionalised in part by regulatory obligations. But markets such as cement manufacture, quarrying, dairy, and bread baking, and white-linen sit-down dining are constrained to locality by sheer mass of goods, cost of transport, or fragility or time-sensitivity of the product. (Many a food-delivery startup has discovered that there are only a few styles of dishes that survive even neighbourhood-based delivery, let alone regional, national, or international.)
I've been tracing the origins of the "technology and telecommunications will erase distance" fallacy. Much of the blame seems to fall on A.C. Clarke's shoulders.
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=wC3E2qTCIY8
#ArthurCClarke #telecomms #telecommunications #distance #ParadoxOfDistance #monopoly #centralisation #decentralisation
