History shows that the conquered are taught that they are free. When a nation or people are conquered, their 'liberators' begin the task of educating everyone about how the conquest is actually, 'liberation'; how the revolution that killed so many innocent people was actually for everyone's 'benefit'.
Every conqueror establishes institutions to mold the thoughts of his slaves into obedient thoughts. These obedience mills are called LIBERATION, EDUCATION, PATRIOTISM, and RELIGION.
Each class of slaves in each of its mills of mind molding believes himself to be superior to and 'freer' than the other slaves. If someone with a free mind points out their state of slavery the other slaves will consider him to be an insane troublemaker.
Every conqueror convinces each generation that theirs is freer and more enlightened than the prior generations. Then he educates them about the 'freedoms' that yet need to be won, always in line with his imperial agenda. He uses his mind molding mills to highlight the 'injustices' that people need to fight against, so they never fight against the actual conquest that has enslaved them to his imperial economy and trade. As long as the slaves fight against 'injustice' as defined by imperial parrots, the real injustice of the invisible conquest will never be addressed. The slaves will revel in their slavery.
Orwell was right:
Slavery is freedom.
Ignorance is strength.
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[#]Freedom #Liberty #Slavery #Imperialism #Brainwashing #Patriotism #Religion #Education
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@infodump@a.gup.pe @mastodonindians@a.gup.pe
The main feature missing from ActivityPub (Mastodon).
The THREAD should be a first-class OBJECT and the OP_USER of said thread should be the ACTOR with admin AUTHORITY of that THREAD object.
TL;DR ... the user who starts a top-level toot thread should have administrative power over that thread network-wide. All canononical links for that thread should point to the OP user account where signed revokes would be found to suppress or moderate network-wide. This lessens the importance of appealing to server administrators to moderate every troll, spam, or offensive post, allowing the OP user to clean up the thread as it will be seen by all users seeing the thread.
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The goal is to allow the originating user of a thread to have maximal ban hammer power over all child toots in that thread for all views of the thread from the entire network. Signed control messages in the back end automatically sort it out for all compliant instances, bypassing administrators and relieving administrator workload. Moreover, this method also lessens the knee-jerk suppression based upon mere viewpoint, since if the thread OP wants to allow the comment to remain, the remaining users have the option to hide the thread already, or mute particular users.
The OP of a new post thread should have the power to moderate that thread regardless of where the followups come from. If I post a thread I should be able to remove comments from it network wide. This gets rid of the pretext for server-level censorship by politically motivated admins, allowing the OP and participants to decide which threads and comments they wish to tolerate or delete. This would also frustrate trolls and spammers, which is a good thing to be desired.
If some moron wants to post unnecessary profanity and baiting slurs in a thread that I started, I should be able to click a button to ban that moron from that thread and remove the moron's offending posts from that thread. Let the moron start his own thread about his vaunted superhuman superiority, which I won't ever have to see or deal with.
Instances should pull signed followups, deletes, edits, and bans from the server account of the OP account that posted the opening post for a thread. This would resolve a lot of issues and eliminate a lot of hassle for admins as well as a lot of motive for admins overusing the ban hammer. Every OP would have the ban hammer for threads started by OP.
Each instance should cryptographically sign OP key in thread responses, so that by default a signed revoke by OP key is proof of authority to revoke, causing compliant instances to reject the revoked object and not pull it in the first place, and to delete it in the second instance of discovery.
It is not enough to just mute a user. When some clown comes in to simply disrupt a thread the OP of the thread should have authority to resolve it. This is much better than filing a complaint with admins and waiting who knows how long for a response or resolution.
[#]ActivityPub #Fediverse #Mastodon #Moderation #Censorship #Threads
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@filesharing@lemmy.ml
[P2P] File Sharing Questions ...
[#]P2P #FileSharing
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@grunfink@comam.es
Is there a way to make a local snac2 instance block all images, both remote and local? I would like to run one disabling all image uploads and embeds for a text-only experience.
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== Usenet: Network News Free Speech Network ==
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[#]# Contents ##
Do you remember Network News, AKA Usenet? At over 40 years old, Usenet is the original 'social network'. Usenet is the oldest bastion of digital free speech networks.
Usenet is highly resistant to censorship. For decades Usenet has served as a free speech haven. It has also served as a platform for secure and anonymous messaging.
I suspect that many of GenY and GenZ have never heard of Usenet. We can change that. We can alert them to this censorship-resistant network as an alternative to highly censored social media.
[#]# Ways to access Usenet ##
There are multiple ways to access Usenet:
[#]# Links to Usenet hosts and software ##
Users can access Usenet to read and post by installing free client software or by visiting a host that provides web browser access.
[#]# Rough traffic count ##
A few days ago when I counted, more than 16 thousand articles were posted in Usenet threads in a 24-hour period. I checked today as of a few minutes past midnight GMT, and almost 12 thousand articles were posted in the past 24-hour period. At this rate about 4.4 million articles would be posted in a single year.
Share this information with your friends!
[#]Usenet #NNTP #NetworkNews #SocialMedia #SocialNetworks #FreeSpeech #Censorship
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=== Usenet: Network News Free Speech Network ===
(303 words. Read time 2-3 minutes. Save and share!)
[#]# Contents ##
Do you remember Network News, AKA Usenet? At over 40 years old, Usenet is the original 'social network'. Usenet is the oldest bastion of digital free speech networks.
Usenet is highly resistant to censorship. For decades Usenet has served as a free speech haven. It has also served as a platform for secure and anonymous messaging.
I suspect that many of GenY and GenZ have never heard of Usenet. We can change that. We can alert them to this censorship-resistant network as an alternative to highly censored social media.
[#]# Ways to access Usenet ##
There are multiple ways to access Usenet:
[#]# Links to Usenet hosts and software ##
Users can access Usenet to read and post by installing free client software or by visiting a host that provides web browser access.
[#]# Rough traffic count ##
A few days ago when I counted, more than 16 thousand articles were posted in Usenet threads in a 24-hour period. I checked today as of a few minutes past midnight GMT, and almost 12 thousand articles were posted in the past 24-hour period. At this rate about 4.4 million articles would be posted in a single year.
Share this information with your friends!
[#]Usenet #NNTP #NetworkNews #SocialMedia #SocialNetworks #FreeSpeech #Censorship
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[#]Saturdog #Dogs #Memes #Jokes
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I just now found out about the Canada Post Strike ... two weeks after the fact.
[#]CanadaPost #Strike #Unions
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I have been studying about some snakes lately. There are good snakes like the Eastern indigo snake, the King snake, and other non-venomous snakes that even in the wild will usually calm down and snuggle your hands shortly after you grab them. Even if they do bite, most non-venomous snakes are not dangerous and they don't do any significant damage in the bite area. Of course giant constrictors like pythons, boas, and anacondas would be the exception because they are very big with very big teeth that can cause wounds requiring stitches. But most other non-venomous snakes are chill in comparison when it comes to the nips they can give a human.
There are countless species of non-venomous snakes that are good for human habitats--many of them eat the venomous snakes! I think the indigo snake is one of the most beautiful of all wild animals. Right next to that is the speckled king snake, which is very gorgeous.
In my area snakes abound. I recently stood a foot away from a cottonmouth as I shooed it off the road. It bolted away like lightning. A while back I stood over a copperhead that looked up at me with terror in its eyes--fearing I would eat it. I could sense how afraid the snake was. I shooed it off the road and let it go on its merry way.
One may find youtube videos showing indigo snakes and king snakes eating diamondbacks and other venomous snakes. Such spectacles are fascinating and brutal and a reminder of how unfair and cruel nature is.
[#]Snakes #Reptiles #IndigoSnake #KingSnake #Vipers
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@grunfink@comam.es
It seems that in order to run Mastodon and similar ActivityPub servers a mastodon-sized storage space is required. With snac a mouse-sized storage space is required. So it is like a 'mousetodon' or 'hamsterdon' compared to the mastodon. I suppose rodent analogies can be a good thing.
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New guppy group for JARGON -> @jargon@a.gup.pe
If you coin a new silly word or phrase ...
If you find a strange or ancient word ...
... you can share them in this group.
I am a 'word nerd' or, 'jargonista'.
JARGONISTA , n. (humorous) : one impelled to collect and study jargon and new words with their related ideas; a student of jargonism ; a word nerd ; a militant neologist ; a vocabulary rebel ; a philology phreak ; a loony linguist ; one who baffles with meaningless blather, babble, blatherskytery, bluster, or boolskeit while sounding quite erudite and right.
If you like exploring new and weird words this group might be your rage room. Subscribe to see posts in this group. @mention to share your jargon with the group.
CC: @bookstodon@a.gup.pe @histodons@a.gup.pe (remove if replying)
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@shufflecake@fosstodon.org
From the ShuffleCake site:
Let me tell you about our Lord and Savior Rust
https://dorinlazar.ro/240228-i-hate-rust-programming-language/
Just to compile a tiny Rust program I had to download 1GB of library data. That is ASININE at a minimum. Then it downloaded all that data for a version that didn't match the version required to compile. I immediately uninstalled Rust and I want nothing to do with it. First blush was enough for me.
The Rust cultists will want my head on a pike for saying this. Don't let their hype overcome reason. The OLD SCHOOL languages and compilers are the ONLY way to go with a critical security application: C, C++, Ada, Spark, Pascal, Component Pascal, Oberon, Modula, etc. If you want to maintain C compatibility but use a newfangled lingo then Zig is a sane choice.
If memory safety is a real sticking point, then using FreePascal without invoking any pointers is as safe as it gets while maintaining speed and performance. If coding standards and verifiable security of code are paramount then Ada or Spark are ready made for that. Just my 'nickel's Wirth' ...
If I started with C then I would probably stick with C. The C language is not going anywhere.
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@grunfink@comam.es
I want to ensure that follower and followee data is not publicly accessible to users on other instances, and possibly not available even to users on the local instance. How might I configure snac2 to ensure that visitors and bots can not discover followers and followees on the local server?
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