johnny cash - the man comes around

blowininthewind · 2021-02-19T14:52:40+00:00

hate to say it but there are both good and bad people on both sides

those talented at a political movement know when to use whom, btw.

blowininthewind · 2021-05-08T07:37:10+00:00

first of all, i don't think so. free speech does not constitute really harmful shit like bot speech and such. in case i'm wrong:

if you're hardcore conservative i suggest gab and voat and such.

if you know really really sensitive shit i suggest either don't risk your life or wikileaks, as you should know.

blowininthewind · 2021-05-29T07:03:08+00:00

would be interesting to see 'x online' on the site. i don't think it's too hard to implement.

blowininthewind · 2021-02-19T15:52:13+00:00

well when i saw the rather uanimous comment below i got a bit nervous and chose this phrase to sound perhaps a bit more unbiased and stuff. idk.

blowininthewind · 2021-02-13T10:57:08+00:00

eh...parler #2?

blowininthewind · 2020-07-01T16:25:18+00:00

when you want to recover ecology of a mountain, first you plant certain types of trees that live for ten or twenty years that are easy to survive on next to nothing, and then you bring in more diverse species of plants. i think something similar applies to smaller forums like saidit.

blowininthewind · 2021-03-05T03:04:55+00:00

first wave (me included) was reddit exodus

then it's gab exodus(edit:, which is now.)

blowininthewind · 2020-06-21T19:02:17+00:00

ultimately class trumped race.

blowininthewind · 2020-06-03T23:04:58+00:00

a hundred thousand people died. in the mean time, one was choked. everyone: OMG they killed George! you bastards!

blowininthewind · 2023-06-01T11:33:28+00:00

the main objective for saidit right now is growing its user base and produce better content, making whatever policy changes that adapts to those goals, right?

blowininthewind · 2023-06-09T06:42:50+00:00

apollo shutting down as well. reddit might be in trouble.

blowininthewind · 2021-06-30T02:37:24+00:00

jewgle...is this what we decide to call it now? lol

blowininthewind · 2021-06-07T03:56:37+00:00

i think the fate of a nation rests on its centrists. those are the serious people. it's sad to see them fade into obscurity.

blowininthewind · 2020-08-06T22:41:33+00:00

if i were you i'd probably talk to fellow asexuals on say discord forums. just make sure they're really asexual though.

blowininthewind · 2021-04-25T15:34:21+00:00

i mean this will lower performance dramatically though.

blowininthewind · 2021-03-25T15:08:33+00:00

there are many levels to privacy, the highest being the safest setting on tor (edit on a open-sourced OS under strong code review, like freebsd). there's this site that tells you how unique your electronic fingerprint is using the browser you're currently using. in other words, vpns don't really do that much. if you want to evade from an organization, it might help. if your vpn is provided by an organization that's good at computer security, that might help too. but if you just got one of those vpns recommended by youtubers, you can't prevent the government from tracking you. for more detail, see these two links:

btw tor is made by the us navy if i recall correctly so american government is kinda an exception to tor tracking...though they might allow perfect privacy and anonymity because it's really a double-edged sword.

blowininthewind · 2020-06-13T09:13:26+00:00

although i do not agree with the video, i do not agree with the censorship either.

blowininthewind · 2020-06-01T03:11:09+00:00

just found the site searching on ddg for alternatives to reddit, took a few jumps but am finally here. yeah i remembered aaron that's pretty sad. my uni. computer security prof. said 'he did a lot of good'. anyways looking forward to a new forum!

blowininthewind · 2021-05-04T16:00:34+00:00

in this case...well just put some sorta bot detection in place.

bot speech is not free speech, it's an abuse of it.

blowininthewind · 2021-04-02T12:00:45+00:00

nice meme, but saidit is not all clan members.

blowininthewind · 2021-06-15T10:01:21+00:00

reminds me of a south park episode

blowininthewind · 2021-06-10T18:21:15+00:00

https://www.qwant.com/

blowininthewind · 2021-06-07T03:14:20+00:00

aaron schwartz did an experiment a long time ago and wrote an article called 'who writes wikipedia?' in which he points out that there's an inner circle of wikipedia users, a couple hundred people, formatting and re-organizing all the articles on it, making well over half the edits on the entire site. yet the bulk of information is contributed by the masses, he concludes.

i've seen conservative wikipedia somewhere. i forgot where. but if you could provide a source that'd be great.

also, in the future, please have constructive conversations that are based on facts, not opinions.

blowininthewind · 2021-05-17T11:10:40+00:00

blowininthewind · 2021-05-14T11:49:13+00:00

use a vpn.

i'm using a vpn that hooks me up to somewhere in the US and typing that query into google (caused this url: https://www.google.com/search?q=Getting+Disappeared+by+Google&oq=Getting+Disappeared+by+Google&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.237j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8) yielded many results.

duckduckgo fed some more anti-google articles, of course. for example this is the first result typing the same query into duckduckgo: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/05/getting_disappeared_by_google_.html

if you can't use vpn, try using tor (the onion browser).

good luck.

blowininthewind · 2021-05-14T11:46:11+00:00

i mean this is correct in a sense from a classic liberal standpoint (john stuart mill) that the individual ought to be free to do as they wished unless they caused harm to others.

blowininthewind · 2021-05-05T00:20:10+00:00

don't worry about this.

blowininthewind · 2021-04-08T23:52:48+00:00

does saidit have a csrf token? i did not see one on that reset site.

blowininthewind · 2021-03-25T15:14:33+00:00

reddit is into some deep shit. on one side the pc culture is getting quite stiff really, which is not good for the pc culture itself. on the other hand you got all the bannings and shit. i think it's gradually going down and idk if it will ever gain its old place in the internet again.

blowininthewind · 2021-03-02T17:01:26+00:00

so, you know how you can't post behind a vpn on 4chan let alone via tor and they ban a lot of isps

blowininthewind · 2021-03-02T11:30:42+00:00

just checked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Sanger#Encyclosphere this is real, pls do make this happen

blowininthewind · 2021-02-28T15:41:16+00:00

idk, i felt biden can endure a lot of things before coming to the top and in that regard he's similar to xi. i think he is a sophisticated politician who's able to plan things out and achieve them step by step and is much more capable than trump in that regard.

blowininthewind · 2021-02-20T00:16:41+00:00

this is quite dangerous trend, eric hoffer has this book called true believer describing this. i mean, revolution is really the costliest way to achieve one's political goals but blunt disagreement to the other side without any kinda tolerance to a more centrist view is driving society towards revolution. i would go so far to say that biden does a lot of right things in that regards of keeping that kinda pressure low but i think there are still very fundamental issues to the solved. oh well that's my two cents what do i know.

blowininthewind · 2021-02-13T10:56:31+00:00

define the word diversity.

also define the word cultural revolution.

blowininthewind · 2020-06-03T23:14:00+00:00

good times create weak people. the cycle continues.

blowininthewind · 2023-06-02T14:34:08+00:00

modern llm's cost change caused this in some essential way (see hackernews).

blowininthewind · 2023-06-01T11:32:00+00:00

yeah i did nofap for months once and i realized that building a better life and don't care about masturbation is better than doing nofap in general.

blowininthewind · 2021-06-15T00:35:46+00:00

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Paul_Graham_(programmer)#/Graham's_hierarchy_of_disagreement

also why is debatealtright sub gone?

blowininthewind · 2021-06-10T18:18:08+00:00

eh...isn't science about being skeptical and falsifiability and all that?

blowininthewind · 2021-06-09T10:48:04+00:00

fucking chill already. i'm just a layperson who think about these things a lot and have some ideas about where things might go from here.

aaron became aaron because he wrote a lot of useful code, made a lot of real effort to change the world. from a very early age he excelled at both of these, and thus people made a documentary about him, the internet's own son. so when he's thirty years old, some of his programs became standards of the internet, and some of his ideas became congressional bills (SOPA, i think, look at his wikipedia page, or .gov page if you don't trust wikipedia).

if you really want to mold the world by your will, earn some serious money, write some really nice code, develop neat pieces of technology. then you have a real say in this world. because you can give your money away and become a part of an interest group or you can use your technology to gain productivity at scale.

humanity 101: we value productivity. whomever provides we respect.

blowininthewind · 2021-06-04T16:06:56+00:00

kinda a lol moment looking at us army recruitment

blowininthewind · 2021-06-04T16:00:19+00:00

explain zionist supermacy cause it doesn't produce a wikipedia page.

blowininthewind · 2021-05-17T15:49:24+00:00

i felt joe made a mistake by moving to spotify but idk.

blowininthewind · 2021-05-05T00:22:24+00:00

if ur a real human then sure. say whatever you wanna say. if you use bots well, 'we'll see' i guess.

blowininthewind · 2021-05-02T16:12:24+00:00

(in case you can't tell the sarcasm...)

blowininthewind · 2021-05-02T14:40:08+00:00

happy international worker's day!

enjoy the american factory!

blowininthewind · 2021-05-02T14:27:30+00:00

the more i got into these online forums, the more i notice how everybody says they're open-mided and in the mean time banning everybody that does not agree with them.

'half the people can be part right some of the time. all people can be part right some of the time. but all people cannot be all right all the time.'

then bob dylan adds 'i'll let you be in my dream if i get to be in yours.'

blowininthewind · 2021-03-24T17:54:35+00:00

link to hackernews discussion about the sub: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26568960#26569556

we should really create a decentralized forum.

blowininthewind · 2021-03-05T02:50:49+00:00

i think chomsky once cited a study done in the ninties showing a linear relationship bewteen funding of a campaign and its turnout.

blowininthewind · 2021-02-22T03:42:14+00:00

there are mirror sites that digs up these things like revddit, removereddit, ceddit, etc. and there are smaller forums like saidit, 4chan, raqqus, nab, etc.

now, if you provide true and important information you're increasing all these sites, vice versa.

you're given a power, use it for what you believe in.

blowininthewind · 2020-08-08T06:22:03+00:00

yes, but generally apps do sim country code checks and more so it's a bit harder to get some apps working than others.

blowininthewind · 2023-06-18T11:26:36+00:00

dude....that's badass

blowininthewind · 2023-06-14T01:09:10+00:00

blowininthewind · 2023-06-01T20:44:58+00:00

if reddit were to pause 3rd party apps we will see growth across all of its alternatives though.

blowininthewind · 2021-06-09T10:41:35+00:00

i'm only repackaging very well known stuff, bert, gpt, etc. basically all the sota nlg stuff if you're in this business. just today i saw something new and popular coming up along these lines.

blowininthewind · 2021-06-09T10:35:48+00:00

Because you haven't skeptically researched it. Once you start it all becomes very clear very quickly.

scapegoats are used throughout history. if you read memoirs like the forgotten soldier (guy sajer), you'd find that germans are quite egalitarian among themselves (sajer himself has both french and german blood but you can still feel the egalitarian kinda atmosphere between the soldiers, the german home front commoners, etc.). so the only way to rally them up for war is to find such a scapegoat. and then there's chomsky, who's stance on israel is quite well known and is much much more well-read than many history professors i think. go search holocaust on chomsky.info.

i can only respond loosely to the other comments. but basically it's like this: a bat caught a cold, or something else, and suddenly the world is a much more dangerous place for many very well-off humans. twitter and facebook happened and the russians learnt SEO and suddenly trump was president. the black swans are creeping up to every aspect of our lives.

blowininthewind · 2021-06-07T04:55:33+00:00

sure, i'd spend some free time to make a saidit bot then. here's the project link: https://github.com/simin75simin/saiditchatbot i've wanted to do this kinda thing for a long time, machine speech is not good.

if you're a reader and not a commenter be sure to check out my libgen mass book downloading project: https://github.com/simin75simin/libgencrawl

lol.

blowininthewind · 2021-06-07T04:24:03+00:00

i don't think holocaust is a huge exaggeration, in that the allies have no need to exaggerate it at its discovery in '45. the allies knew from world war 1 that it's best to heal the wounds than tear your opponent apart, as france did to germany in the inter-war period. hence the marshal plan, the democratic germany PM's kneeling, the EU, etc. under this narrative it'd be best for the allies to downplay the holocaust. i think the fifties is a moment when good miraculously won over the evil.

as to our different view on history, here's what i think: vietnam turned capitalist, russia turned capitalist, the brilliant cccp scientists failed to produce a good computer that lasted til this day, americans and the west produced the backbone of the brand new computer industry by freely roaming around, really. china turned capitalist, cuba is now opening up. on the other side look at iran, north korea. all the balkan states are capitalist now. seriously the only social democracies that is genuinely good are all in northern europe.

oftentimes history is like: i planned this, then that happened, so the entire thing becomes another, totally unexpected thing. why? because history runs in parallel. a million things are happening simultaneously and you never know which ten of them is going to determine the main course of the future.

blowininthewind · 2021-06-07T03:09:04+00:00

i'd agree that all politicians are mobsters. but note that the best mobsters are quite civilized when they make money. it's the lower level mobsters that do the dirty work.

russia suffered the greatest loss in world war 2, the second is china, but the holocaust is remembered, along with the rape of nanking, because they're not warfare. if warfare is white and ethnic cleansing is black, a lot of world war 2 is grey. but those two events are completely black: trained and armed soldiers against virtually defenseless civilians. nanking put up a very fierce fight using what was the best of the chinese military at the time, so in a way the japanese were letting out their anger. but holocaust is planned from beginning to the very end, however malicious its adversary (jewish people) might be, they're virtually defenseless.

history is full of coincidences, not planned actions. in the long run, nearly all plans fail, and nearly all coincidences happen to shape the course of history. external conditions (geography, climate, etc.) have much more effect on history than plans. to say history can be planned by a few plotting in the dark is to say command economy is effective ---- since a few can plan history by themselves, why don't half a dozen socialist nations produce a single good command economy?

blowininthewind · 2021-06-04T01:34:19+00:00

perhaps i'm playing a sorta devil's advocate here: if you look at history he's got a point.

edit: so some ppl clearly can't distinguish a real human being from current level machine-generated text. for this purpose i created a project that generates text and do low-frequency posting on saidit: https://saidit.net/s/technology/comments/7yb2/saidit_chat_bot/

blowininthewind · 2021-06-01T14:16:48+00:00

'the pursuit of the uneatable by the unspeakable' ---- charlie monger, citing wilde to describe crypto currencies

blowininthewind · 2021-05-30T03:07:16+00:00

i think there can be filtering techniques for registration and stuff, but at this point it might not be a concern as they help saiditors to 'fake it til they make it', you know.

blowininthewind · 2021-05-25T09:51:53+00:00

from a famous post (gist): DON'T USE VPN SERVICE) [https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29]

blowininthewind · 2021-05-17T03:14:26+00:00

got blocked using a vpn visiting the site. any mirrors? thanks!

blowininthewind · 2021-05-07T07:37:11+00:00

yeah i do not want to see disgusting things in general.

but if you watch the thread on hacker news discussing this, various things were revealed on these sites. and that i think matters.

blowininthewind · 2021-05-06T04:03:34+00:00

rand is one hella thinktank predicting the first non-victory by america - the korean war.

blowininthewind · 2021-05-05T12:50:39+00:00

not really, i know a couple of jews quite well. none of them makes me paranoid.

also, this is not paranoia i'm having. when you see half a dozen posts each having the same number of upvotes by the same user with the same content, you say: it's a bot.

blowininthewind · 2021-05-02T14:24:18+00:00

the left eats itself, gonna happen.

blowininthewind · 2021-04-08T23:54:18+00:00

i could not wrap my head around that one. my head is filled with occam's razor to operate in the world tbh.

blowininthewind · 2021-03-25T15:42:24+00:00

retardit...well that's a new one

blowininthewind · 2021-03-24T18:01:10+00:00

where? there are ways to filter spam in foreign languages as there are certain patterns to them. unless they hook up some modern language model to their bot.

blowininthewind · 2021-03-24T17:58:24+00:00

reddit is quite successful but there's facebook and twitter. perhaps there is a way to channel users to another forum through these platforms in the long run. i think forums like parler and gab has definitely used some other channels to do just this.

blowininthewind · 2021-03-18T09:46:38+00:00

yeah 3b1b and hackernews are both great forums. next time plz link to hn if you got the link from there.

blowininthewind · 2021-03-18T09:43:13+00:00

i did notice a couple removed posts. next time pls do what i said in the previous comment?

blowininthewind · 2021-03-17T16:09:26+00:00

i feel like the general line for reddit is no trump supporters. the general line for saidit is no 8kun conspiracy stuff. then on the other side there's 8kun, gab, voat, raqqus, etc. might do an analysis (tfidf, etc.) to find out.

blowininthewind · 2021-03-17T16:04:40+00:00

create your mirror site or your own saidit if you feel like defending yourself. i can help if i got time, for free speech's sake. but i think magnora's okay because i checked a lot of what he posted.

blowininthewind · 2021-03-17T09:38:08+00:00

this seems really concerning at first. but could you provide more examples or have a mirror thread on gab or raqqus or such? like publish a pgp key on your profile page or something. i'm sure that's legal. because otherwise, i think based on the logs saidit's just been banning trolls, really. and that's kinda reasonable.

blowininthewind · 2021-03-15T03:32:36+00:00

yeah tor is probably good for most fingerprinting methods. good call.

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