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William Lindsey :toad:

"If this was an honorable court, a man like Alito would never have been appointed. If it was a functional court, he would resign. If it was a court composed of jurists capable of shame, he would recuse himself from election-related cases. But it is none of these things."

#Alito #SamuelAlito #SupremeCourt #LawandOrder #corruption
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TV adverts ----> Internet adverts ❌

➡️ TV 📺 ❓...
➡️ INTERNET 🌐 ❓...
➡️ INTERNET-AS-TV 🌐+📺 ❓...

(TV adverts) ----> (Internet adverts)
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"Leave the Americans as they anciently stood, and these distinctions, born of our unhappy contest, will die along with it ….

Be content to bind America by laws of trade; you have always done it ….

Do not burthen them with taxes…. But if intemperately, unwisely, fatally, you sophisticate and poison the very source of government by urging subtle deductions, and consequences odious to those you govern, from the unlimited and illimitable nature of supreme sovereignty, you will teach them by these means to call that sovereignty itself in question ….

If that sovereignty and their freedom cannot be reconciled, which will they take? They will cast your sovereignty in your face. No body of men will be argued into ."

💬 Burke

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Improving users as my #1 solution to systems of people failing (increasing user-to-user interaction on networks / match-making /encouraging closer social relativity... growing people essentially) 

Lately I've had a few good posts hinting to why are failing / missing out humans or what human systems need and are not getting. Basically to encourage each other and even hand-hold more (would have made me test Linux a lot more earlier for example or correct myself in my wrong thoughts previously) so more respect and interaction happens for those that are able and for others to be encouraged and do something more than Trump hating for example.... a few titles are below I thought were closer to what is 100% in short:

1 ➡️ fails when are not doing themselves (having system is not enough)

qoto.org/@freeschool/113823713

2 ➡️ Real work is the users and admin / and non- non- stuff... maximising the people-to-people work so = communication daily rather than mass-storage ...

qoto.org/@freeschool/113823094

3 ➡️ Up to us instead of waiting for others forever... who's ready to build trust? We need to work with those that can actually respond and reason here better already, rather than wait for others?

qoto.org/@freeschool/113822893

These are so deliciously close to saying what needs doing so more care and growing people (others growing others / apprenticeship / better examples of each other) happens.

But also practically giving ourselves more hints what to do each day or with each other (2 main branches) rather than default "job" and statesmen and middle-people in between who ultimately ruin / misuse it all.

My experience is that even fans or mutual appreciators don't seem to be able to get past a certain level and currently paranoia or "I'm busy" excuses happens (until people see how they can use others) but overall it's about how we all work for each other by building each other up and eventually doing more, especially as all the while communication improves (#1 solution to many things I think).

It's about motivation and enjoyment to from that and then suddenly people are not as busy because they make it part of their life. :thumbsup_hmn_h2:

As usual I write more which I believe Freemo helps shorten for people.

I see the potential from admins (who generally are more clever / multi-talented / able to multi-task) and users (who can be better or are clever in-the-waiting) to not miss the obvious point of social improvement but being / living in more of a two-way action and more 'manually' and deliberately doing it each day - it's not any system beyond messaging almost - automatic things systems cannot do what human need after ability to contact and see each other's profile and work.

So even if it's looking a 1 profile a week more closely and trying to work with them / help or having a broader spectrum of open-access with other... Then slowly but surely real work (people change) happens.

From to to all people are already doing something we might want to be part of or integrate / bridge together - and as a mix of people we're superior to just floating individual having mostly non-dedicated parts of life and one-way / one-message interaction as a way to get away from outside life that I think all this post helps get better inside and out.

"Improving user-to-user interaction" is the main work.

We can do as a main part of 'working' socially which traditionally isn't what today's "jobs" do..

(because "jobs" are more narrow fields / defintions / contracts of work towards profit mainly and at the cost of everything else almost along the way - including emptying the human they use like a battery at the end).

Deliberately-socially messaging has benefits which I think people themselves/admins are not doing because others are not doing it (and once people do it I believe they will or can be tested!). I believe people love to see progress in themselves and others and doing it gives others the power / potential to help fix things instead of stay victim (which is what you see a lot of posts about, powerless).

Everything in their life can be fixed but has to come from this slowly but surely approach while improving friendship or respect (even from afar, lower level to high and vice-versa).

The people work is social change and like human resources we have it largely unused online as I see it. So while it's not for everyone here
THERE IS PLENTY OF PEOPLE

and from those 'peer-to-peer- type post titles mentioned at the start I'd like to ask @freemo about this more as I see him as a potential Captain of the football team because basically he's solid enough already which we all need as leader or moderator and so often on the mark.

He has a sense of morality when even if you wouldn't agree you'd thank him for being far clearer, less emotionally capsizing, and more transparent than the other 'leaders' we see currently everywhere.

So Freemo does seem to do this work often anyway even if it's a small way and I feel people leave better from conversation and do come back again too (supply and demand!...) so why not this as a part-time thing or helping me to do it with his advice?

Points welcome even if it seems too dreamy... it seems totally doable even if slow-burn...

Cheers Freemo and here's to you in general! :wine:

And I know you have - this is not ignoring that, but a I think you also need a non-company version as "Ask Freemo" / "Free School" ( / ) as not everyone likes to play that games of first jumping into a company but can contribute or get there eventually from other safer or less embedded ways...

Better than us spending too much time on hashtags watching etc getting sucked into their attention and spreading their shit words instead of good ones...

Ok that's it - just sending for now, with your help will re-edit / shorten if you can guide a bit / re-say it / cut it down (even if not totally doing it now - just helps me find more meaning and people who obvious see other people as the main 'problem' to solve / improve from fault of bad people but also the good not working on making something for good in *this* people-to-people way...

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@jeremiak I didn't know did the same scraping as or don't even remember Sam being mentioned before or in the main documentary ... Is there anywhere more on this?

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Jeremia Kimelman

Major Border Patrol raids have been happening in the California Central Valley at a scale that some life-long Bakersfield residents say hasn’t happened before, reports Sergio Olmos for CalMatters.

“They were stopping cars at random, asking people for papers,” said United Farm Worker's Antonio De Loera-Brust of what appears to be the first large-scale raid in the state since Trump's election.

calmatters.org/economy/2025/01

#california #news

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Avoid the Hack! :donor:

#Google Starts Tracking All Your Devices In 6 Weeks—Forget Chrome And #Android

Long story short is that Google has made updates to its advertising ecosystem essentially _permitting_ the fingerprinting of devices for use in targeted advertising. In their words they are going to be “less prescriptive with partners in how they target and measure ads.”

Doesn’t mean fingerprinting wasn’t happening before, just that Google is giving the green signal to the rest of the ecosystem to do so… and will likely use this to maybe replace third-party cookies.

Use an adblocker. Seriously.

#privacy #ads #privacymatters #useadblockers

forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/20

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Can author say hello again ?

Can't find the msg from before AND

1 ➡️ searching in name isn't obvious

2 ➡️ Keet.io website doesn't have Mastodon link

(please improve the above 2 things...)

- ah well - a small "I give up for now..."

trying to do p2p with people is hard...

yawn at myself.

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xoron :verified:

id like to share some details about how my app works so you can discover/give me feedback on my app. id like to have wording in my app to say something like "most secure chat app in the world"... i probably cant do that because it doesnt qualify.

github.com/positive-intentions

positive-intentions.com/blog/i

im not an expert on #cyberSecurity. im sure there are many gaps in my knowlege in this domain.

using #javascript, i initially created a fairly basic #chatApp using using #peerjs to create #encrypted #webrtc #connections. this was then easily enhanced by exchanging additional #encryption #keys from #cryptography functions built into browsers (#webcrypto api) to add a redundent layer of encryption. a #diffieHelman key #exchange is done over #webrtc (which can be considered #secure when exchanged over public channels) to create #serverless #p2p #authentication.

- i sometimes recieve feedback like "javascript is inherently insecure". i disagree with this and have #openedSource my #cryptography module. its basically a thin wrapper around vanilla cryptography functions of a #browser (webcrypto api).

- another concern for my kind of app (#PWA) is that the developer may introduce malicious code. this is an important point for which i open sourced the project and give instructions for #selfhosting. selhosting this app has some unique features. unlike many other #selfhosted #projects, this app can be hosted on #githubPages (instructions are provided in the readme). im also working towards having better support for running the index.html directly without a static server.

- to prevent things like browser extensions, the app uses strict #CSP headers to prevent #unauthorised code from running. #selfhosting users should take note of this when setting up their own instance.

- i received feedback the #Signal/#Simplex protocol is great. completely undertsandable and agree, but wonder if im reducing the #complexity by working with #webrtc. while it has its many flaws, i think risks can be reasonable mitigated if the #cryptography functions are implemented correctly. (all data out is #encrypted and all data in is #decrypted on-the-fly)

- the key detail that makes this approach unique, is because as a #webapp, unlike other solutions, users have a choice of using any #device/#os/#browser. while a webapp can have nuanced #vulnerabilities, i think by #openSourcing and providing instructions for #selfhosting and instructions to #build for various #platforms, it can provide a reasonable level of #security.

i think if i stick to the principle of avoiding using any kind of "required" service provider (myself included) and allowing the #frontend and the peerjs-server to be #hosted #independently, im on track for creating a #chatSystem with the "fewest moving parts". i hope you will agree this is true #p2p and i hope i can use this as a step towards true #privacy and #security. #security might be further improved by using a trusted #VPN.

while there are several similar apps out there like mine. i think mine is distinctly a different approach. so its hard to find #bestPractices for the functionalities i want to achieve. in particular #security practices to use when using #p2p technology.

(note: this app is an #unstable, #experiment, #proofOfConcept and not ready to replace any other app or service. It's far from finished and provided for #testing and #demo purposes only. This post is to get #feedback on the progress to determine if i'm going in the right direction for a secure chat app)

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xoron :verified:

im aiming to create an #encrypted #secure and #private #filetransfer and #messaging app. (because thats the only type worth working on)

I've highlighted some features below:

- #Decentralized
- No #cookies
- #P2P #encrypted
- No #registration
- No #installing
- #GroupMessaging (coming soon)
- #TextMessaging
- #MultimediaMessaging
- #OfflineMessaging (in #research phase)
- #FileTransfer
- #VideoCalls
- #DataOwnership
- Optional #SelfHosting
- #Screensharing (on desktop browsers)
- #OpenSource

Check it out!
#Blog: positive-intentions.com/blog/i
#GitHub: github.com/positive-intentions
#Demo: chat.positive-intentions.com

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@xoron Can you tell me more what it's about, can't access link at the moment...

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@TotalBitcoin Can't see or save this vid, is the link there can you check?

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#p2p fails when #users are not doing the #peertopeer 

fails when are not doing the

Not just installing any or any but actually people doing the people work, almost literally🏃 running to each other 🏃 to see how and who they can help... and vice versa.

We have for example, who as people can't do communication and incrementing trust at all - so useless without someone doing something about that in itseld - literally re-training ourselves how to make friends and deal with imperfection.

Circle seem to mitigate / repair that with someone respectful in between...

So my question is, are the respectful one or person needing help if you agree it's not just '' to blame...

oh dear, trying to contact person who doesn't even put their mastodon on the website...
oh dear
and they contacted me and I can't find the message recommend me keet/// yawn fediverse - long way to go ass

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Schneier on Security RSS

Secret Service Tracking People’s Locations without Warrant

This feels important:
The Secret Service has used a technology called Locate X which uses location data harvested from ordinary apps installed on ... schneier.com/blog/archives/202

#Uncategorized #SecretService #surveillance #geolocation #tracking

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Jeremia Kimelman

Thinking of Aaron Swartz today & I’m stuck on this photo - he & OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (both circled) each scraped 1000s of docs but one did it to make the knowledge free for all while the other did it to make $$$$ through probabilistic plagiarism. The US DOJ only came after one of them & the other is feted by tech bros and executives.

Thank you Aaron for so much, for RSS, for Markdown, for Creative Commons and more. I’m sorry our society failed you.

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Real work is the users and admin / and non-google non-aws stuff... maximising the people-to-people work (p2p communication daily) rather than mass storage and mcdonalds... 

@maartenpelgrim @AliceStollmeyer @bert_hubert
@wlaatje
@AliceStollmeyer

Still holding long time 'grudge' that admin or creators of software like still don't / can't / won't suggest non-youtube links to people or filtered / proxy type links as another way to see videos safer than the code that awaits them at pure youtube.com links... (which is google)

...so the Mastodon users / our users aren't just another ad-farm with millions of clicks each day going out from our users there.

At least people can add a 2nd link if not implement an auto-alternative
(I know @invidious was off sometimes but still saved so much money going to wrong sides from adverts, and when working was great and a lot of up-time)... People then could fall back on the direct / unfiltered links, sure

So why I mention this after gargron said 'it's up to users' was related back to this post that people are somehow ok with huge US consumption of AWS and it's policies and dangers, with the massive filesizes, backups... it's so bourgeois coming from people who do good in 1 or 2 departments but can't even agree technically that 2Gb video files just for 'chats' is just bloat, (and then various versions of it - but not the lowest video bitrates of course for minimal user watching on smallest of screens), too much to ask perhaps - and even on PeerTube with US space not great for a variety of historical of reasons that still hold today not to trust that connection link... predominately - much more on that later...

So much to undo basically now it's all so cheep-cheep... which is why staying small helps and seeing we need to mazimise the people work i.e. increase user / admin brains and check that using a robust / less heckling ping pong... so people that can build and help reason the reasoning!... on measured / concrete things like what I said about Ytb / Google clicks and 'supplying' our users from Mastodon only to go to adverts

Also when we have open source projects we could use / at least link to and advertise once a month like @invidious .

/ is the opposite of many things - so it is up to us - even if we don't unite. To resist

❓ Anyone feel that / see it as a part of the ethos, even if it's not 100% following everything I say? ❓

FOR THE WAY...
Real work is working on the users themselves and some admin and do non-google non-aws stuff (or less) ... while maximising the people-to-people work (p2p communication daily to get brains with the swords they wield) rather than mass storage and mcdonalds ...

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Wladimir Mufty

@maartenpelgrim @baszoetekouw @bert_hubert @AliceStollmeyer

As @baszoetekouw mentioned it’s hosted on SURF owned infrastructure. We have 10+ years experience indeed with SURFdrive running on an OwnCloud-motor! Same will be the case for the NextCloud pilot. Differences (besides licenses/Kiteworks/enterprise support options) is the focus on full blown collaboration with the NextCloud suite where SURFdrive is extensively used and for storing files in a (community) cloud and sharing those files.

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Real work is the users and admin / and non-google non-aws stuff... maximising the people-to-people work (p2p communication daily) rather than mass storage and mcdonalds... 

@maartenpelgrim @AliceStollmeyer @bert_hubert
Still holding long time 'grudge' that admin or creators of software like still don't / can't / won't suggest non-youtube links to people, or filtered / proxy type links as another way to see videos safer that the code that awaits them at pure youtube.com links...

...so the Mastodon users aren't just another ad-farm with millions of clicks each day from our users.

At least people can add a 2nd link if not implement an auto-alternative (I know @invidious was off sometimes but still saved so much money going to wrong sides when working which was a lot of the time)... People then could fall back on the direct / unfiltered links

So why I mention this after gargon said 'it's up to users' was related back to this post that people are somehow ok with huge consumption of AWS, the filesizes, backups... it's so bourgeois coming from people who do good in 1 department but can't even agree technically that 2Gb video files just for 'chats', (and various versions of it - but not the lowest bitrates of course), are too much - even on PeerTube

So much to undo - which is why staying small helps and seing we need to do the people work i.e. increase user / admin intelligence and check that in a robust / less heckling way... so people that can help reason on measured / concrete things (like I said about Google clicks and 'supplying' our users from Mastodon only to go to adverts when we have open source project we could use / at least link to / advertise once a month). Google is the opposite of many things - so it is up to us even if we don't unite.
❓ Anyone feel that / see it as a part of the ethos, even if it's not 100% following everything I say? ❓

Real work is the users and admin / and non-google non-aws stuff... maximising the people-to-people work (p2p communication daily) rather than mass storage and mcdonalds...

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@maartenpelgrim @AliceStollmeyer @bert_hubert
It can be a problem. I set my instance up on Linode, which was a great small hosting provider specializing in Linux systems (and they still provide great service), but they were soon bought up by Akamai. 🤦‍♂️

It's better than getting bought by Amazon or Google, I suppose, but it's still worrisome. I may have to move at some point.

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