queerlilhayseed

I’ll be honest, that issue was kind of a bust, but you managed to return the other cheek on the next issue so I’m willing to put it in the rearview.

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I honestly don’t know how else to do it. I’m sure I could figure it out, but I don’t know why I’d fix what isn’t broken.

I do mean the latter. If not impossible, then as technically and economically infeasible as possible. I think it would be difficult and complicated to implement, and would require multiple layers that mutually cushion against attacks on any one layer. I think an international treaty around satellite internet that stipulates that any person can connect to it would be a start. That of course would be vulnerable to DOS attacks by nation-states or regional powers (which should be defined in the treaty as a crime against humanity), so there would also need to be robust and redundant ground-based networks and reserved citizen-band spectra that supplement the satellite coverage.

We need to make it impossible for any group (including governments and corporations) to turn off the internet for another group of people. Everyone deserves to be able to tell the world what’s going on in their lives. Especially if what’s going on is real bad.

They are in a cult. They never hear about most of the news that goes on every day, and what they do get is 100% approved by the republican censors. Maybe they get a dose or two on holidays when they’re forced to interact with the family Democrat, but other than that they are in a well-insulated information bubble that hardly ever breaks. That’s why they took over the radio stations and have their own ecosystem of news networks. The reason gas is the tipping point is because for a lot of people it’s the first visible sign that something is really wrong.

EDIT: also for what it’s worth, it’s not just idiots. Smart people get taken in by cults all the time and if you think you’re too smart to fall for a cult you’re a mark. You also do yourself a disservice if you think every Republican voting against their own interest is just a stupid yokel. They are victims of a vast and well-orchestrated information attack, and many of them don’t have the tools to defend themselves because no one ever taught them any. I had to learn about a lot of them myself, and even still I got lucky by being able to go to college and meet the right people to help me escape. Not everyone gets those opportunities. That doesn’t make them stupid.

Eastland family members acknowledged their father, Dick Eastland, who also died in the flooding, had insisted their evacuation plan for flooding was to shelter in place.

What thought process leads one to the only possible evacuation plan that isn’t an evacuation?

I think the point is to make it more likely that people who like Trump will get passports, and less likely for people who don’t like Trump. Then when you say that voters need to have passports to vote, you have a structural advantage.

They were for a long while, before they got borged.

Only the dead have seen the end of zero-days.

And the transition from one to the other is pretty seamless.

That sounds really nice. The peer network is definitely more of a long-term thing, but it would be really nice to have a strong municipal peer network in addition to long-range providers. I’m not saying ISPs need to go away entirely, but I would like the world to be in a place where they could disappear and the internet could still function.

Easy is the goal, but it turns out mobile OSes are hard to make, harder when the entire for-profit ecosystem is actively trying to undercut free solutions. Right now I’m working with old devices that, while they are running postmarketOS, are still pretty janky and have a lot of missing functionality. Still, a lot progress is being made, by an army of regular folks who pitch in when and where they can, and somehow the boulder of free software slowly but inexorably rolls uphill. It’s very cool to watch.

Not incoherent at all, that sounds really nice. One of my ambitions is to have my “main” cell phone just be a postmarketOS device that can receive calls and texts and select encrypted data from home base. Eventually I’d like to be able to just flash an image onto a cell phone and have it hooked into my VPN and basically just have it communicate solely with my home server, but that dream is still a ways away.

It would be really nice to have a community where everyone had household compute that was their “main” computer. They could be the hubs for communications that’s always on, and you could set it up to communicate with an otherwise anonymous public handheld, or just leave it until you get home and decide to get online. handhelds wouldn’t need to be repositories of sensitive data, they could just be thin clients that could be safely wiped and restored (without needing a corporate entity’s help or permission) in the event of damage or theft. Home networks could become overlapping network nodes, reducing or eliminating the need for regional or global internet provider services. We could really run the internet ourselves.

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It’s fun when my government decides which administration officials to shitcan via press leak vibe check.

Tim Burchett is a sack of shit and anything he says should be given zero benefit of the doubt.

Oh cool, not sure how I missed that. cheers

2 things come to mind: A lot of people have no idea how to parse those errors and have no basis for evaluating which popups are serious and which are not, and a lot of people are forced by their employer to use systems that are kludged together and often have serious security vulnerabilities that they have no control over. These two things combine to condition people to ignore warnings that they really should not because they often have to in order to do their job. I can’t tell you how many internal websites I’ve seen that throw certificate errors because the sysadmin never bothered to set them up (usually excused by saying “they’re completely internal, it doesn’t need a cert”). We’ve built a system that forces people to ignore safety labels and then blames them when they get hurt.