The most privacy oriented tech is a paper book.
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Nikhotmsk
@nikhotmsk@vmst.io
Retrocomputer demoscene and stuff
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@omar@mastodon.bsd.cafe mastodon is cool. TCP filtering is not cool. We need to circumvent TCP filtering so more people can achieve mastodon.
It is global problem called internet fragmentation. Filtering evolves, and very soon I will be unable to reach outside of my zone, which happens to be RU, and no TCP based proxy will help because there will be no TCP. Your country may implement similar technique at some point in the future.
So, before the link goes down, my last message would be: please, accept it as a challenge. I am not able to solve this alone.
https://vmst.io/@nikhotmsk/116125295461052201
#freedom #censorship #meshtastic #freifunk #lora
I will probably be unable to post anything on Mastodon very soon.
Reason: Russia uses internet filtering based on white lists, it is hard to circumvent and they are evolving. Googling "white lists in Russia" will get you an idea on how it works.
Please, help.
#censorship #freedom #network #freifunk #meshtastic #lora #diy
If freedom is criminalized, then only criminals can afford freedom.
https://youtu.be/NLqSc8uiSCk (Loyal Moses on 3d printer ban in USA)
Today books are not burned on city squares, they are deleted by single click, by opaque algorithmic decision. We used to collect books, now we collect subscriptions.
https://youtu.be/_qDgIXlsMlg (YouTux channel)
There is a special place in hell for those who paywall a wheelchair.
See the github page by @elfy@chaos.social and a talk given at Chaos Communications Congress for more info.
Github: https://github.com/roll2own/m5squared
Video on demand: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-pwn2roll-who-needs-a-599-remote-when-you-have-wheelchair-py
I modified the code of Maelstrom (1992) video game. I got a special variant of it so if the player picks up an ACME canister the effects are preserved across deaths. Call me a cheater if you wish.
This variant is more fun to play.
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@srtcd424@mas.to There are wireless mesh networks in RU - Meshtastic and Reticulum. It allows for public chat room and it looks promising.
I really appreciate germans who build a Freifunk - the largest public mesh wifi network I know. It looks like a ready solution for the problem I try to solve.
The problem is - internet fragmentation - Freifunk can be augmented to bridge the gap. Also it enables privacy tools to function, which is also a valuable thing to everyone.
This is a public service announcement from Norway, it is also a good comedy sketch on internet enshittification and right to repair.
https://youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ
#righttorepair #enshittification #norway #internet
A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator
The most important site still works.
Mastodon Aliases and Migration 101.
The purpose of the move mechanism is to move followers (not posts) to the new Mastodon server.
You are locking up your old account and set a redirection to a new one.
It does not solve the concern of a Mastodon node go offline unexpectedly. Your old server must be online to confirm the move.
Also, move is irreversible. Think before pushing.
If your old node is announced to go offline permanently, its admin will probably advise you to migrate your followers.
I tell it is a move because old server will dispatch an ActivityPub 'move' method to other servers where your followers are.
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https://youtu.be/CvLWcP_bD4w
The truth is more complicated though. See the full video by Oceanliner Designs youtube channel.
@Herne@corteximplant.net thank you for your node.
I think skyjake - the author of lagrange gemini viewer - must add automatic page archiver to save the nodes that go offline.
Darrell Edward Issa - U.S. representative for California's 48th congressional district. A representative who actually cares about right to repair.
Read here for excerpt from congress hearings.
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@srtcd424 The most obvious symptom is shaping of everything that is not a big network, say, my small internet site is shaped to 16kb per every TCP request. So is the dwarffortresswiki and other small projects. TOR on its own is useless without an entry point. VLESS protocol is under mass blocking right now. AmnesiaWireGuard is still working (I am using it right now to access mastodon).
Yggdrasil is cool but require a complicated setup on user side. I didn't figure it out, cant say if it is up or down.
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@patcharcana@furry.engineer sure thing. You summoned me, I think I can respond. ZX Spectrum 48 were the most cloned model, a lot of russian documentation there on paper.
Next comes the БК-0010 machines. Were used in school computer classes. Technically it has a PDP-11 instruction set, otherwise it is pretty unique.
Yamaha MSX also were used in schools.
At the production there are plenty weird PLCs with LED boards. https://habr.com/ru/articles/402929/
Every time I commute on suburban train I hear this thing announcing each stop. It is an ms-dos flashed into ROM. It is more like early PC https://habr.com/ru/companies/timeweb/articles/733688/
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@lagrange@skyjake.fi I have a feature request. I want Lagrange to perform automatic saving of contents of all visited pages into local archive file. This will be handy to rescue content of nodes that go offline.
What do you think?