A video about the Wayback Machine deleting some sites immediately was deleted from Reddit. You can't even find out who posted it.

danuker · 2020-03-13T17:47:15+00:00

I never knew PCM existed. I love it!

https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalCompassMemes/top?t=all

danuker · 2020-03-23T23:19:14+00:00

Come on. Here's Richard Stallman, actively working against big corporations and the government oppressing you. Guess what? He's Jewish.

danuker · 2020-04-06T12:17:15+00:00

Could be paid people/bots trying to undermine the site. I suspect Facebook or Google's language model would be adequate for generating such content.

danuker · 2020-04-04T09:56:20+00:00

I just ran into this while trying to archive the Romanian list of authorized telecom companies.

This is serious censorship, a la Ministry of Truth.

danuker · 2020-04-06T12:28:00+00:00

Obscurity (for now), and the critical thinking of you and I. Edit: It won't stop them from getting the site, but at least from getting to our minds.

danuker · 2020-03-02T19:06:05+00:00

Sad. Monopoly mafias (corporate hand-in-hand with state) bury you to stay in power and get away with it. Look at the justice served to Assange, Snowden and Manning, countless other journalists, Epstein, JFK, and feel free to mention others.

When the direct fight is unwinnable, you have to opt-out: defect from the economy, pay the least taxes (zero if possible), refuse to work for the monster, and refuse to buy from it. Only this way can we weaken and starve it.

Still, I'd expect some more covert work and better OPSEC from Aaron.

danuker · 2020-06-16T09:35:45+00:00

Use the /s/friends sub to only see content from people you added as friends.

danuker · 2020-05-22T20:35:48+00:00

This is likely. You should make the account creation captcha harder or longer or more varied.

danuker · 2020-03-28T19:41:15+00:00

In case you are wondering about the anti-communist comment, Tencent owns part of Reddit, and my hypothesis is that the other owners agreed to make it China-"friendly" so they can sell more.

danuker · 2020-05-21T22:27:41+00:00

Please mention the "Friends" feature and the "Friends" sub, it allows for content filtering through whitelisting, and not blacklisting (like moderation).

This is useful when you feel like reading less but higher quality content.

danuker · 2020-04-03T17:14:41+00:00

Nope. It's just the numbers that were embellished.

danuker · 2020-03-27T21:10:00+00:00

I believe us humans are resourceful, and will likely overcome whichever wrench nature throws into our gears.

The Malthusian catastrophe didn't happen.

Markets send signals through prices. Too little food? Price goes up, and more humans start working on the problem, profiting from the opportunity, and helping the rest of us in the process.

danuker · 2020-04-06T14:43:36+00:00

Brave also spies on you.

danuker · 2020-04-05T13:37:33+00:00

I'd advise against addons in Torbrowser.

danuker · 2020-04-04T16:03:53+00:00

You can experience it for yourself by trying to archive my list. Archive.org says it's done, but when you click the link, it says it's never been archived.

Edit: clarifications

danuker · 2020-04-06T15:27:50+00:00

Yes, but they spill over into regular subs, and they create accounts in droves (perhaps autonatically), so it's pointless to ban them also.

I would fork Saidit to warn and auto-block people who consistently lower replies on the pyramid of debate.

danuker · 2020-04-06T11:34:15+00:00

Raises the risk of dying by 6%? During its peak 24h period in Italy, coronavirus increased the risk of dying by 54%

Calculation: 919 / 1700 = 0.54

danuker · 2020-04-03T17:23:31+00:00

When companies get so big that they can afford to lobby, I'd say they need to be broken up.

danuker · 2020-03-12T19:06:12+00:00

How is Invidious any better?

There is also Bitchute, D.tube, and maybe others. They all feature centralized access points, no different in vulnerability to censorship.

If I were to choose where people move next, I'd go for Diaspora, Freenet, or some bittorrent-like protocol with dedicated client apps, crypto accounts and comment sections.

danuker · 2020-03-12T07:28:41+00:00

What would be the point? Other people doing something doesn't mean much.

danuker · 2020-03-02T13:58:20+00:00

Oh. I see fluoride just overtreats the people drinking the water, it does not disinfect the water. Toothpaste already has fluoride.

My mind is blown at the corruptness of the US water works. Thanks for the reply!

danuker · 2020-06-09T01:05:40+00:00

Well, we broke free.

I told my friends about it also. The cat is out of the box.

danuker · 2020-05-21T23:46:01+00:00

Proudly safeguarding your files since 2009.

danuker · 2020-04-06T19:16:30+00:00

I can argue you are introducing chaos, by undermining Big Brother's plan.
How exactly do they gain power? Do you call sabotaging your own economy winning? To what end keep everyone in their house?

danuker · 2020-04-06T16:33:33+00:00

Part 1. It's the best guess of the authorities.

Part 2. What does the military have to do with this?

danuker · 2020-04-06T09:05:11+00:00

Whether they are padding anything or not, the US has had the most confirmed deaths in the past week, and shows no stopping of its exponential growth.

danuker · 2020-04-04T11:00:19+00:00

I tried to save some pages with tables today, but it didn't save them, after it showed me the page once.

danuker · 2020-04-04T10:38:15+00:00

very cleverly

I'm sorry if it looks that way, but I can't find older data either. Even the Fed's archival site only shows data from 1979 (or I can't find it). Real wages seem stagnating since then.

danuker · 2020-03-23T15:17:18+00:00

My country's constitution has loads of references to other laws, and even open-ended references, such as "with any legal exceptions that apply."

I guess that's not much of a constitution.

danuker · 2020-03-23T01:06:58+00:00

https://www.reveddit.com/ sure is trying.

danuker · 2020-03-11T20:39:06+00:00

To this man, 23 years in prison is a life sentence.

The AVERAGE male life expectancy in the US, including people OUTSIDE prison is on the order of 76 years. The current sentence says he'll get out at 90.

danuker · 2020-06-24T22:49:27+00:00

Thanks for your reply.

I believe he writes in a brutal and savage form, but also that he is honest.

I think he dragged down only the form and tone, but not the ideas. I believe he was trying to expose "shills" which are corporate or gov actors undermining the discourse; I think "shill" was a bad use of the word; he had no trouble with anyone promoting their own work (actual shills).

This, and because the ban was sudden, is why I think you should give him another chance. Of course, I will still respect your decision since it's your site, and have explained why you banned him.

The prospect of a shadow mute/ban is chilling to me. Thanks for the explanation!

danuker · 2020-06-13T10:49:16+00:00

Masterpiece my ass. Everyone I've talked to outside their "movement" knows the protests are about police brutality.

It's just the state, the media, and the paid protestors that disagree.

danuker · 2020-06-11T18:42:09+00:00

Is the attack ongoing?

danuker · 2020-06-09T18:36:13+00:00

These all work for me:

Bitchute: video link: youtube-dl https://www.bitchute.com/video/nf_rzv1SW9E/
Twitter: just the status link: youtube-dl https://twitter.com/AlexLehnertFox9/status/1265409119843954694
Reddit: Comments link: youtube-dl https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/gyg9dm/absolutely_messed_up_man_is_kicked_out_of_his/
even Invidio.us (same as YouTube I guess): youtube-dl https://invidio.us/watch?v=LTilng4Dugs

List of supported sites: https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html

danuker · 2020-05-22T10:33:33+00:00

You could host each others' personal server ( such as Nextcloud), though that might take a bit to set up.

danuker · 2020-04-06T15:42:55+00:00

I recommend IceCat.

danuker · 2020-04-06T15:20:54+00:00

Saidit is mum on this subject as well it should be. I will venture one: Oh that's just terrible.

What the hell are you talking?

danuker · 2020-04-06T11:07:43+00:00

In Italy, the typical death rate is about 622 thousand people per year. This translates to about 1700 per day.

But Coronavirus killed 919 people in a 24-hour period ending on 2020-03-27.

Assuming it added deaths to the regular rate, you were only 1.84 times more likely to die of other causes, not 218x.

danuker · 2020-04-06T08:54:02+00:00

Public health and the US constitution are incompatible. It should stay that way, that is the point of the constitution.

Edit: > nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law

Perhaps infecting someone with a disease is depriving them of "life, liberty, or property" by making them sick, requiring them pay for treatments, and perhaps killing them.

danuker · 2020-04-06T07:54:46+00:00

Hungary suspended media independence.

danuker · 2020-04-05T14:41:30+00:00

Credit to Abstruse Goose, Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.

danuker · 2020-03-27T21:12:41+00:00

Oof. While I love the idea, this should be an SVG or a PNG, not a JPEG.

danuker · 2020-03-24T08:55:17+00:00

I wish they had blocked it because it devalues the currency - which would have been more conservative of the liberals than the conservatives themselves.

danuker · 2020-03-24T08:50:21+00:00

He might have communist tendencies, which I don't appreciate. Also, his head is in the clouds many times. He speaks out against surveillance (be it government or corporate) - I hope you see this hints at him not being totalitarian.

Without his Free Software work, our freedom to communicate would be much more limited.

I grew up wanting to become a "hacker", so I used Linux, and ended up being a software developer. He's one of my personal heroes.

danuker · 2020-03-03T01:28:00+00:00

I am happy she has the courage to take on the state.

~~Lawmakers seem all too happy to experiment with the delicate balance between ability to consent of a minor and difficulty of gender change.~~ mistaken - see tabletopGamingFan's comment

An adult would be expected to make decisions and live with whatever the outcome. But we deny minors the ability to consent for a reason.

danuker · 2020-03-02T14:23:54+00:00

While this law would reduce planned obsolescence, it would also add another hoop for any potential competitors to jump through.

danuker · 2020-03-02T11:40:41+00:00

Do you think chlorine is better, like we have in Europe?

danuker · 2020-06-14T12:08:18+00:00

Step 1 in gaslighting: "they are telling you this lie with a straight face". You are lying in that there is no self-defense.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/here-there-and-everywhere/201701/11-warning-signs-gaslighting

danuker · 2020-06-13T09:23:16+00:00

Are these lies then? https://www.shouselaw.com/self-defense.html

danuker · 2020-06-08T00:34:15+00:00

We should do it like Stack Exchange: anything off-topic is only permitted in comments, but extended comment conversations get moved to chat, which gets frozen and/or deleted at some point.

danuker · 2020-04-07T10:54:33+00:00

To clarify my angle: Big Brother is the state.

The state's duty is, in theory, to ensure rights of citizens.

Among other rights, people vulnerable to COVID have the right to live. But people less vulnerable will spread the virus.

I personally believe the state response is proportional to the danger.

Do you have arguments showing otherwise?

danuker · 2020-04-07T09:32:33+00:00

How about we just quarantine those that are at risk?

I think that is a good idea and wonder why it's not more talked about. But some countries have extra strict quarantine for older people. I.e. in Romania where I'm from, they're only allowed to go out between 11 and 13 o'clock.

A problem is, many old people are being cared for at home by working adults. I suppose you would advise quarantining them too?

just to protect some old and sick people

Because they have the right to live, same as you and I! They worked their lives to build what we have now.

danuker · 2020-04-06T21:22:47+00:00

What if there's an invisible teapot floating on the orbit of mars?

The burden is on you to prove the government is wrong.

danuker · 2020-04-06T19:46:49+00:00

You also have a right to life, not just assembly.

If you're the grandpa of one of the kids, and one of them is infected, you can get the disease and die.

Governments are stuck between a rock and a hard place. Enforce, people say you step on them. Let loose, people say you aren't doing enough.

What would you do? Quarantine? Quarantine just a bit? Or leave people alone, at the risk of letting lots of them die?

danuker · 2020-04-06T19:12:49+00:00

Incitement to violence disgusts me. How do you call this funny?

danuker · 2020-04-06T16:37:22+00:00

I suppose that's possible.

danuker · 2020-04-06T11:57:31+00:00

The school library had it. That's different from forcing pupils to read it, or even recommending it to them. The kids had to ask for it.

danuker · 2020-04-05T13:35:52+00:00

I edited the comment so it's clearer.

danuker · 2020-04-04T12:23:11+00:00

I see your log plot, and raise you a log-log plot:

Covid Trends

danuker · 2020-03-31T19:23:58+00:00

Can you close it with a sticky pointing people to a Saidit sub?

danuker · 2020-03-12T08:21:28+00:00

That's just what's missing!

danuker · 2020-07-21T16:12:51+00:00

This guy looked at everything browsers send and receive:

https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/browsers.html

danuker · 2020-06-28T05:24:25+00:00

Which organization was it?

danuker · 2020-06-17T08:52:41+00:00

VPNs are a scam. They are a centralized point of surveillance.

danuker · 2020-06-14T23:24:26+00:00

To me it looks like the cop wanted him dead rather than escaped with a taser on foot while drunk.

The cop got tired of the struggle and ended it - though they could have traced him later from documents.

It's a pretty dumb move to tase a cop. But the punishment should fit the crime, and cops should not do the punishing.

danuker · 2020-06-14T08:57:04+00:00

Well, you could sell it. I'm sure some BLM adepts are eager to play this.

danuker · 2020-06-13T10:52:11+00:00

Would fail the Turing Test to a Hidden Markov Model.

danuker · 2020-06-09T19:14:16+00:00

Still waiting for that second book sale lol

Sorry to hear that :(

I want to give you some advice.

First of all, your websites should feature prominent links to the place to buy books. Perhaps something like: "Want to support my work? Buy a book of mine here." below the Orwell quote, in a visible rectangle (check out "call-to-action buttons"). A little design goes a long way.

The current links in "NEWS FLASH:" are quite low on the page, and look like regular text part of the article.

Also, I'd shorten the profile here to, say, 50 words, so the books are visible without needing to scroll down.

Second, perhaps look into more avenues of advertisement where your target audience might be around:

Reddit (perhaps they still want your money in spite of banning you?)
4chan, 8kun (formerly 8chan)
physical ads: newspaper/classifieds, flyers - perhaps near train stations (people who use trains like privacy).
DuckDuckGo: https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/company/advertising-and-affiliates/
Anonymous Ads
FB, Google (if you want to feed the beasts, and if you get ROI? but I doubt your target audience looks at oligopoly ads).

I'd invest a book's worth of cost (or some other small amount of your choice at first), and see what they bring. Don't keep investing if they bring no visits.

all advertising is just propaganda

Yes it is, but some people might be actively looking to spend money for something, but not sure what. If the advert is well-targeted, and if it's respectful to the user, then the user might like the recommendation.

I usually block all third-party requests on a website for privacy reasons, but if I like the website, I might let ads through to both support the site, and perhaps see something interesting.

Edit: lists require an empty line before them.

danuker · 2020-06-09T01:37:55+00:00

Ah, but you see, lobbying doesn't work as well in Chicago as in DC.

danuker · 2020-06-08T23:03:06+00:00

Unless the looters get shot in self-defense first.

danuker · 2020-06-08T11:51:36+00:00

Hats off!

danuker · 2020-06-08T01:35:30+00:00

Huh. Thanks.

Link says Tor Browser relied on certificates issued by authorities to update extensions. But this particular bug was fixed, they say.

Also, WikiLeaks trusts Tor:

https://wikileaks.org/Press.html#submit_help_contact

danuker · 2020-06-08T00:57:06+00:00

I second the sandboxing. Check out Qubes OS.

danuker · 2020-06-08T00:39:36+00:00

I think I got it, but it didn't make me laugh.

The organizers were very slow to decide to postpone. Title is part of the joke, implying they wouldn't postpone even if all athletes had COVID.

danuker · 2020-06-08T00:24:32+00:00

Maybe it happens. We can not find out if someone purposely gamed their IQ test to get a specific goal.

But I believe your main point is realistic. There is little incentive for high IQ people to put up with boredom AND physical risk, as opposed to just boredom, such as in software development (at least in my experience).

As for salaries, I don't have data.

danuker · 2020-06-07T20:28:49+00:00

Politicians need no training, yet they make the laws the lawyers have to interpret, and the cops to enforce.

danuker · 2020-06-07T20:27:55+00:00

You'd have to lie in order to serve society more effectively, huh.

You'd be like a reverse politician, who lies in order to mooch off society!

danuker · 2020-05-22T09:38:32+00:00

A GPG-signed canary would allow you to publish authenticated messages irrespective of the security status of the website.

The only attackers that can fake a valid signature from a consistent key are the ones that have access to the computer used to sign.

danuker · 2020-05-21T22:13:57+00:00

I feel you.

Here's a clue: the pyramid of debate is not very enforced. It's very few mods against a sea of content.

I have thought of quitting Saidit and all other "mass" chat tools because of people who spread misinformation with the sole purpose of destroying your time - say, being hard to debunk, but of no consequence or applicability to the real world.

A saidittor pointed out these might be covert ops trying hard to undermine inconvenient organizations.

Still, there is the Friends tool. If you find a respectful or enjoyable person, friend them. If you find they waste your time or that their behavior changed (account sold, bait & switch, etc), unfriend them.

Then, instead of browsing the main site, browse the Friends edition.

I can get my kicks like this, and I still lurk for this reason. Hope you find it useful.

Also, magnora7 says you should report people who disrespect the pyramid - they definitely help. But I have seen not much consequence, when I reported lots of posts one day. So, that is why I use the "Friends" whitelist instead of the reporting blacklist.

danuker · 2020-04-07T17:01:56+00:00

Sure, my argument is very simple, and falls short on accuracy. But it should give you an idea of the relative scale compared to the typical death rate.

danuker · 2020-04-07T12:01:51+00:00

First of all, you edited your comment and added a CHANNEL, NOT A VIDEO, while I was replying. That is dishonest.

Second of all, you have not addressed any of my comments in the comment.

danuker · 2020-04-06T16:54:55+00:00

I guess soldiers are paid to die for their country if needed. But they shouldn't die foolishly, and their superiors shouldn't ignore their concerns.

danuker · 2020-04-06T16:46:45+00:00

This isn't funny to me.

In Italy, the regular death rate is about 622 thousand people per year. This translates to about 1704 per day.

But authorities say coronavirus killed 919 people in a 24-hour period ending on 2020-03-27.

This means the extra risk of death on that day was about 54% higher.

danuker · 2020-04-06T15:19:04+00:00

No, sorry, I only responded to your first sentence. The school didn't give the LGBT book to kids, only had it in stock.

danuker · 2020-04-06T15:01:56+00:00

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Your contradiction of every government is an extraordinary claim.

danuker · 2020-04-06T14:59:02+00:00

While your incitement to violence does not have an imminent component, it still disgusts me.

danuker · 2020-04-06T14:45:06+00:00

I use RedReader (Client for reddit.com) - https://f-droid.org/app/org.quantumbadger.redreader

Also, as a browser, I use IceCat, which does not spy on you either - https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/icecat.html

Though admittedly I don't use LibreJS (too extreme), but uBlock origin with 3rd party blocking - https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock

danuker · 2020-04-06T11:01:02+00:00

I read porn when I was growing up and I turned out fine.

danuker · 2020-04-06T10:59:06+00:00

I thank you for accepting my argument :)

danuker · 2020-04-06T10:54:16+00:00

To what end?

danuker