I think that’s a relative matter…

I mean do I think I’ma good person? Not really.

Do I look around and go “What the fuck is wrong with these sociopaths?” Yes, very much so.

Yes, you can run into some vile content, but we had Kiwi Farms up and running on the clear web and teh various chans have had plenty of terrible things on them. Heck, before I purged Meta I’d “reported” hardcore porn ads on Facebook to them they just load because someone paid them to and nobody bothered to check the content before delivery. Granted, the type was pretty normal so not really scarring, but seeing it pop up on what is supposed to be a SFW feed, especially when I had to go directly to the page of actual friends to see stuff that was just posted but they buried, because you’re letting a corporation filter and prioritize what you see…

You do have to take precautions, but I download cracked games from a Russian bot network and have had no issues, I just check the content manually and make damn sure anything I run (or even open) is sandboxed.

We might end up with a resurgence of scams like McAfee if that became normal, but I think it would be worth it, plus people learning to watch out for themselves again would probably raise the quality of the Internet that has been steadily falling since the Eternal September began.

They do, but it’s much less likely to be cut off than being evicted or starving, so if you have to not pay something the power company is the first to be skipped.

I have about $60 in late fees on it, now, which is actually pretty low for late fees compared to most places.

Perhaps because we’re all hydro, here, and don;t have a datacenter explosion… Yet.

It’s pretty standard to have to choose between paying rent and eating, now. My electric bill is three months overdue. I’d not even be online if I wasn’t pointing a cantenna at the store down the hill. I think the only bills I’m current on are my email, which I’m not sure I’ll be able to swing $50 a year when it is due, but for now it’s current… And my VPN.

Look up the TOR project tutorials, they have quite a bit on setting up a .onion site, which is the easiest way to go as it will load pretty simply once you’re on the network.

There are other things like the LoRa systems with their own hosting projects to maintain sites on a distributed network, Freenet has stuff that is coming along nicely as well, though it seems they’re still in beta but are functional already.

The fact that we all traded privacy for “safety” ended up as it always does. You lose the rightrs, and don’t get the benefits. We have Facebook hosting scams in their official ads because they get a cut of the profits and that’s somehow better than the scams you used to get back in the 80s and 90s. I trust a bunch of Russian hackers and pirates running Telegram bot networks a fuck of a lot more than I do corporations or governments.

We need universal ranked choice voting.

Or at least people showing up to the PRIMARIES and kicking these pieces of shit out before they become the DNC annointed one.

I’ve not really seen any options, but it seems like there should be. Any time one system becomes the system it tends to end up bad, eitehr intentionally, or from creep dumping more stuff in to make it “better” until it’s broken.

They’re all bought, pushing them only gets pointless promises during campaigns that will be ignored as soon as they get your vote.

Whether it’s a pedophile MAGAt, or that piece of shit Jeffries, they’re all a joke…

And it’s not funny.

The most anti-semetic thing one can say is that Jews are something related to the new Nazis running Israel.

RedHat has been so obnoxious I moved from Fedora to Debian.

I’ve seen a lot of tech bro “Shove our crap into everything and make sure it is too hard to not use it so we become the new Microslop” kinda crap coming out of them to want anything to do with it.

Yeah, the AI integration sent it stright to the bin.

You know, all the reasons I didn’t want a Chinese car are now also present in American cars…

We need to start raiding junkyards for old cars, and working on making electric conversions without corporate cloud connections and integrated spyware more accessible.

If they have a host and a processor that does not bow to fascists the Internet is pretty robust. Now people may need to connect to you IP, if all the DNS providers pull your name, but they can;t stop you from reaching it. Not really a good way to be found, though, but we can bring back webrings and directories.

The prevalence of fuckery on the corpo-fascist web does lead me to believe that we should be migrating to a parallel system, though. We’ve had the dark web for ages, though it scares people to go back to a time when the crime was done by people not corporations and governments, and there are distributed P2P hosting systems out there that just need people to use them to be viable.

This story reseasred by ChatGPT.

Oh, one of them is Substack which I am considering dropping because it updates ten times a week and gets worse every time…

The other is a bank app, which does not require Google Play Services, but only releases via PLay.

I already gave up on CashApp, they are so embedded in the derp… And it used to work, evenm on Lineage.

Meanwhile the two apps I still use not on F-Driod or able to pull with Obtanium are downloaded from Aurora.

Fuck. Google.

It simpliefeis and unifies things too much, which is nice for making things “Just Work” but not so nice for making things work well.

Same reason I went back to init from systemd.

I like a more modular and intentional apprtoach, even if it is less simple.

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Well, shit, I’d only heard of vaxry because we seem to share an opinion on D-Bus.

rm -rf /

The only thing I want to feed GPT.