+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@qoto.org

I think what might get lost on a lot of Westerners is that the Western internet is not the internet. What I mean by that is: the internet, widely, is already regionalized into de-facto intranets, to an effect. It's similar to how the Fedi has certain segments and clusters unto themselves while still remaining in federation---it's just that peoples and groups often tend to "stick to their own", especially when geopolitical, cultural, and language barriers exist.

Not everything is Meta, Twitter, CNN, Uber, Google, Netflix, Amazon, et al.. There are other similar or parallel foreign companies that exist globally serving their own domestic or regional clients. Surprisingly (sarcasm), users within those domestic or regional markets tend to utilize those services over Western counterparts since those services provide better or more relevant products and services to them. So, again, in many respects, the internet is already regionalized or, rather, comprised of de-facto intranets tied together to form a greater, collective internet.

Regarding the "great firewall of China", it primarily exists to make it extremely difficult, if not legally impossible, for foreign companies to threaten Chinese domestic IT markets---it essentially obstructs or prevents companies like Amazon to threaten domestic Chinese companies like Alibaba or companies like Google to threaten Baidu. Quoting Deng Xiaoping:

If you open the window for fresh air, you have to expect some flies to blow in.

The GFW is metaphorically putting a screen over the open window. It's function has more or less exhausted itself as this point as Chinese IT giants have secured dominance within their regional markets, yet it remains in place. One can consider it an "unfair" trade practice and it probably is, but that's its root purpose and function: a barrier to trade and a protectionist policy to shield (then) fledging Chinese markets from being dominated by foreign behemoths.

What it is not is an all-encompassing, surveillance-focused constellation of legislations and departments meant to annihilate privacy and security with heavy-handed fists and rows of sharp teeth like the United States's proposed "RESTRICT Act" here, whose sole ostensible purpose is not to provide a barrier to trade, but rather to "secure national security interests" (we all know what that means).

The GFW is virtually unenforced as far as average Chinese citizens are concerned. VPNs are plenty. Access outside of the GFW is trivially easy to circumvent and its circumvention by PRC citizens is irrelevant as far as the government of the PRC is concerned...because it isn't designed to be apart of a giant surveillance and control panopticon like the Patriot Act and this proposed RESTRICT Act are meant to be implemented. The GFW is there to keep Western IT giants out. These American acts are designed to provide the NSA with infinite quantities of data and toothed to put individual US citizens in prison.

RE: https://outerkosm.us/notes/9cwssqcafw

Know the difference

@settinger designed and printed a comic sans typewriter ball so we're testing it on my IBM selectric this afternoon and it totally does work!

Finished sewing all the dry bags, just gotta seam tape them now

Das Dritte Reich war ja überhaupt erst möglich, weil so viele gesagt haben "ich mach da nicht mit" - all die kritischen Stimmen, all die, die nicht alles abgenickt haben und gegen den Krieg waren, DIE sind Schuld am Dritten Reich und waren und sind auch heute noch voll die Nazis.

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Viel verstörender als die 180k fehlenden Stimmen finde ich die satten 400.000 Gegenstimmen. Den Leuten ist es also nicht nur egal, wie wollen und wählen ganz bewusst die Krise. Da bin ich einigermaßen ratlos. #berlin #Berlin2030 #berlin2030klimaneutral #klimakrise

>most of the ethanol croplands are corn or other suggar based plants
>meanwhile Panicum virgatum give 200% more output with 1000% less needed resources like water.

@DocScranton Sending you the urls
-This book is a good resume for how to garden in a way that doesn't harm yourself and the eco system. And when I say not harming yourself I mean not harming not only by not using chemicals that would be toxic for yourself but also methods that aren't useful for the soil and straining to the body.
https://archive.org/details/jeff-lowenfels-wayne-lewis-teaming-with-microbes
-There's also this video which is more focused on preaching rather than technical details but they are right and the details can be found in the previous books.
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=6rPPUmStKQ4
-Then there's Teaming with nutrients which is a second part of the first book focused on chemistry and explain what exactly does synthethic fertilizers and organic fertilizers, it also provides simple good diy recipes. For example the most basic and probably most useful is the usage of human urine, for 1L of it you dilute it in 8~10 liters of water, it provides tons of nitrogen for your plants that needs it.
I added it to this post
-Then there's teaming with fungi which I also added to the post.
This one focuses on fungi symbiosis with plants.
But honestly you don't need more than the first book if it's just for your own fun more than that and it's a hobby

I also recommend the work of Niggel palmer which also made a book named "The Regenerative Grower's Guide to Garden Amendments" he has a channel, that's how I learned to make shelf stable plant extract, which is very useful since they can be stored for months instead of just days.
https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCzoMsIE5fzg0P5Lj7Xyf-Pw
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=P9ELg7PmJEU

The small documentary/book "the one straw revolution" is also a very good read. Also added in the post.
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=XSKSxLHMv9k

don't use benzos

#onlyhens #menacing