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  • A Word on Omarchy

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  • Oh that’s a good point. I have only ever encountered these on Lemmy or similar places where you are clearly clicking a link that starts with “xn——————“ and then seeing how it ties together on my phone’s browser.

    Maybe we shouldn’t be using these. I did find myself looking at domains with emojis in them, weirdly enough for someone who doesn’t use or really like them. But the fact that this extends to basically any Unicode character is an absolute security black hole.

    Unless the standard is extended to have more guardrails/to make it impossible to resolve domains with the most egregious fake characters. Or better, to make characters interchangeable the same way domains aren’t case-sensitive.

    The learning curve for understanding the actual web and its protocols looks more and more insurmountable to me every day lol

  • A Word on Omarchy

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  • Welcome to today’s 10,000. Today’s episode is about Punycode. It’s basically a standardized way of putting unusual characters in a domain name.

    The way the link is shown in your interface/client, it’s giving you the encoded version that looks nonsensical. But if you click on it, the link in your browser’s address bar will more likely render properly.

    I’ve seen this done with URLs that contain emojis, this one contains katakana (?) characters.

  • Small question about the VPN service, for those of you with subs. Specifically if it's possible to set up someone else's device for VPN use without giving them access to the entire account.

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  • This might be the best way to go about it. Wireguard has an iOS client and it should be easy to set up. I’ve done this for dumber devices, should be okay.

    Or frankly, some others here are mentioning that logging in to one service doesn’t automatically log you into all of them. So maybe I’d be giving my family member more flexibility by not limiting them to a small number of servers as defined in the configs, since each one needs a file and picking among them is annoying if there’s an issue.

    That said, going from 5 euro a month for Mullvad to 5 + 10 to add Proton does add up, and to be honest, a second free Proton address and a second Mullvad subscription (and investing in a more local solution instead of getting tied down to Proton Drive) might be better for me.

    But I haven’t made any decisions just yet. The 500GB of storage might just end up swaying me.

  • Finding a New Favorite Food (by Jake Likes Onions)

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  • I feel like the dialogue in the last panel is unnecessary.

  • Feeling increasingly nihilistic about the state of tech, privacy, and the strangling of the miracle that is online anonymity. And some thoughts on arousing suspicion by using too many privacy tools.

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  • I’m sorry I didn’t namedrop enough purveyors of tendies after the first bit to keep your attention all the way to the end of my post. I can do all the privacy stuff in the world but if that gets me thrown into a cell for suspicion of espionage, because of how uncommon (ie suspicious) it has become to not sell your soul to the worst companies on earth, then how has that helped me.

    The commercial internet exists and we have to know how to interface with it, and to be able to do so on our own terms. Most Fedi instances are hosted on commercial rack space, does this make both of us hypocrites for not exclusively hosting our own micro-instances with blanket IP bans on every hyperscaler?

    If you use VPNs then you are still playing pretend.

    This tells me all I need to know. What even compels you people to write like this, there’s no way you don’t know better.

  • Feeling increasingly nihilistic about the state of tech, privacy, and the strangling of the miracle that is online anonymity. And some thoughts on arousing suspicion by using too many privacy tools.

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  • I kind of get what they mean. Sure the physical infrastructure is pretty decentralized, and sure we’re not as dependent on overbuilt East Coast data centers outside the US. But digital infrastructure still revolves around the US, and most large hardware vendors are joined by the hip to US IP law and stuff like that.

    As for me, even if I do believe that the modern financial system doesn’t reflect reality, “the money is fake” and all that, I know that an AI bubble meltdown will fuck my country over just because of how sensitive we are to anything the US does. We had the gold reserves and our own bubble to cushion us in 2008, now I don’t know what might happen.

    There’s a saying around here that translates to (and “it” here is understood to be some sort of catastrophe): “If it gets pregnant in China, it gives birth in Lebanon”. Basically a grotesque, nihilistic interpretation of the butterfly effect. “Any disaster that brews elsewhere is about to occur here.” Although writing it out in English makes it look like some sort of Western immigration brainrot slogan.

  • Feeling increasingly nihilistic about the state of tech, privacy, and the strangling of the miracle that is online anonymity. And some thoughts on arousing suspicion by using too many privacy tools.

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  • I’ll definitely reach out. Just knowing the culture of HAM radio though, I feel like it’s a coin toss whether they’ll be happy to give advice to a godless miniaturized-digital-Aliexpress-SDR seeker such as myself.

  • Controversial ‘ICE List’ features photos and names of 100 immigration agents

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  • Et tu, Phoenix Jones?

  • Feeling increasingly nihilistic about the state of tech, privacy, and the strangling of the miracle that is online anonymity. And some thoughts on arousing suspicion by using too many privacy tools.

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  • It’s a weird situation. I think there is an amateur radio club, although last I checked their website it was last updated a few years ago.

    I just looked. Latest update is from 2018, it’s about a licensing exam. I guess I could get certified, but it’s anyone’s guess if they’re still holding exams. Every single ministry is broke at the moment, so non-essential services like amateur radio licensing doesn’t seem like something they’d be doing. But I can call them directly and see.

    Sorry if this seems condescending or patronizing to point out, but getting a license isn’t a solution if one person in charge gets a bad impression of you or what you’re doing. Maybe where you are, showing an officer a license can make a big difference. I can theoretically get full licensing and pull every possible string to get explicit permission from the Ministry to do anything within reason. But one army official can look at a LoRa deployment or an antenna they’ve never seen before and call me in for questioning. It looks like espionage. My computers are encrypted and I network exclusively through VPNs. Not a good look for someone who claims to have nothing to hide, eh? That’s what I was going for towards the end of my post.

    I should look into it, but given the security situation at this moment I’d be poking a bear. Not a sleeping bear, a scarred, paranoid one.

  • 'We're not entirely sure what's going on': Jordan Peterson taken down by moldy room, daughter raises possibility of 'spiritual attack'

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  • I really do think there’s a very definite before and after. At one point, he seemed to figure out exactly the cadence and wording that young men especially wanted out of a wisdom-dispensing fatherly figure. He got a lot of mileage out of whining about that one Canadian law proposal, at a time when transgendery things were (for better or for worse) less understood by most people. So even if you were sympathetic to them, there was a chance that what he was describing would raise your eyebrow. In my case I didn’t think I had anything against them, but he painted this picture of a law that could be easily abused, even if it was ostensibly in good faith. And he was careful not to comment on whether or not he thought it was one. Didn’t matter that the narrative he was peddling was pretty much fiction in the first place.

    And then COVID broke his brain, and he very suddenly became terrible at hiding his power level. Part of his audience just knew him as that guy who wrote that book, but after selling increasingly political books titled “All you need to do to live (part 4, last one)” and “All you need to do to live (part 5, okay no this is the last one I promise.final)” that illusion also fell apart.

    Right now most of the people who looked up to him at the time, even those who both still are (and even those who acknowledge) that they are right wing, think he’s lost the plot.

    It’s not a great reassurance that those who let go of him may still have probably been swayed net-rightward by his stuff. But his spiral and widespread perception as a laughing stock, and as a clear example of lack of moral integrity on the right, is also a major piece of what he represents now. His red crying mug in his messy room has become a meme with a life of own. This is what he really is: a pompous, pontificating, fragile prick who can’t even use the good parts of his advice for his own sake. Even if it’s as simple as touching grass and cleaning up your shit.

    At one point in my life, during his rise, I had a vaguely positive view of him, after he was presented as a guest on what was definitely not a conservative podcast (great moves Ethan, proud of you!). I even bought his book. I viewed myself squarely as an open minded liberal person, and saw him as just a moderate. Coming from a socially conservative part of the world, no alarm bells rang for me. But after continued learning, and meeting new people, I was able to rebuild a much more robust and morally sound view of the world and how it works. I recognized how caustic a lot of my beliefs, many that he confirmed/reinforced, actually are.

    One of the few things I miss from the old site is /r/ExLobster, it was so enlightening to see how many others went through the same process I did with this guy. It also took the edge off the embarrassment I felt about falling into his world in the first place. I was just vulnerable to his shit at that point in my life, it was literally designed for people in my situation, and there’s no shame in picking yourself up and moving forward. And then COVID happened, in parallel with a multidimensional meltdown in my country, and while he put himself in a coma and cooked his brain, I was out there, supporting the medical system, doing charitable work and then mutual aid work, and I came out the other side with a radically new and solid foundation for my beliefs. A model of how society should run that ran counter to a lot of what he preached as common sense.

    But you know what was the tipping point for me? It’s a very silly little thing I saw, and I don’t recall particularly when. Probably while I was still a bit in it. I always used to intentionally avoid his subreddit because I thought I was an enlightened centrist (finding the good in his work but not uncritically engaging with it) who was above those weird right wingers who dominated that community. But I opened it on a whim once. And someone was asking about “Jordan-Peterson ideology compatible Anime”. Not sure what the exact words were. But there you go. Sometimes you need to see a word salad like that to see how ridiculous the company you’re keeping actually is.

    I think he’s a fascinating case study of the grift economy. I genuinely think that if he was truly the conservalib old-soul psychology professor with an interest in the way Christian theology and vague folktale cosmology influence modern worldviews and narratives, he would definitely be someone I’d pay attention to. At least for his areas of expertise. I still yearn for someone like that to exist. Shitheads should not monopolize any topic.

    But we know now that he was always mad as a hatter, that he was trying to get famous a decade before he actually did, and that his actual beliefs don’t deserve an iota of public recognition. That the ways he couched them are the sum total of what he was bringing to the table.

    The mythological Jordan Peterson isn’t necessarily a bad guy, the original character, as played in like 2016. The actual one is a pathetic, and now failed cult of personality grifter, an enabler of great evil.

    I hope he feels a fraction of the pain he has caused before he kicks it.

    Edit: changed some things to be less winding.

  • Has YouTube just blacklisted every Mullvad server in some countries?

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  • Thing is, even with how bafflingly evil Google is, the one corporate service I could see myself paying for is the YouTube subscription. I use the phone app a lot, it would make sense for me.

    The problem is that they’re notoriously ban-happy with paying VPN users, due to some of them using their exit countries to pay less for a service. Thing is, if I tried to pay for premium from a country I’d exit from, I’d be paying more compared to where I am. I’m perfectly content overpaying slightly for a few things online with this situation, I don’t buy much, I’m fine. I also don’t know where the line is. If I pay for my account with a card from my IRL location, using the pricing for said location, will I get my account suspended after I jump back on the VPN? It’s not like they’ll publicly announce a clear breakdown of what is and isn’t okay.

    Google knowing I use a public VPN on Google services is not an issue for me. I don’t do anything sketchy, I really just want an uncensored internet out of the eye of my ISP.

  • Adam Friedland is on MSNBC rn

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  • Something something Overton window.

  • 2022 vs. 2026 FIFA World Cup ticket prices

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  • It’s the most popular sporting event on the planet in a country with 300 million people, this is nothing like the Club World Cup that was held this year. The lack of tourists might not be a problem, save for maybe atmosphere.

    This chart, with the huge ticket prices, is why the US was chosen.

  • Post in r/Reddit alternative about r/Lemmy being banned

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  • Interested in knowing what they posted. I feel like I was the only Lebanese regular on Lemmy/Piefed, or at least the only vocal one, until a few months ago.

  • remember to be inclusive this revolution

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  • I remember seeing this or something like it before. I know it’s good for the cow, but still, freaky to see.

  • Discord now has in-app ads for an AI company that you can't turn off easily. Fun.

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  • I think they used to allow them outright before, or at least were very lax.

    RIP that one CLI Discord client. That had all I wanted out of Discord for 90% of the time I have the app open.

  • Trump shares AI video promoting imaginary ‘Medbeds’ believers hope will cure diseases

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  • That’s… concerning.

    I definitely don’t expect to find solid resources on the Q fallout in the Middle East. But getting to grips with the actual magical political mechanics that millions of people now believe in? That’s what I want. Everyone around me is using the words “deep state” now, it’s not funny at all.

    I think YouTube would nuke my recommendation algorithm from orbit if I commit an hour every week to this guy’s videos. But I’m glad there’s light being shed from that perspective.

    I know there was a short podcast series that goes through the cliff notes of the whole thing’s history by Jake Hanrahan some time ago but this stuff has evolved so much since that was recorded like two years ago. That’s more of what I’m interested in, a more journalistic look structured for someone who is a complete outsider.

    Your guy is talking from an American Christian perspective, and American Christianity is basically an alien cult to me (I hope nobody takes offense to this, but Christianity here is much more… grand and ancient and focused on bringing people together and not deeply horrifying?). Like you joke about the rapture but American Christians invent a new rapture every other week, while our guys’ rapture is set in stone to be in the indefinite future, and anyone in my society claiming to have a date for a rapture would be referred to a psychiatrist by the clergy. I typically have more bad things than good to say about the church but comparing to what you guys have makes me feel like it’s not so bad at all.

    I think the average person is seriously underestimating the horrific damage to people’s mental models of the world this movement? Cult? Politico-occultist messianic dispensationalism? Virulent cognitohazard thing is unleashing on humanity.

  • Trump shares AI video promoting imaginary ‘Medbeds’ believers hope will cure diseases

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  • I always wonder if it’s worth trying to find good resources on what’s going on or if it’s just a way to completely lose your mind.

    These ideas are trickling down into peoples’ worldviews right here in Lebanon and it’s getting harder to track. It’s the ultimate big tent conspiracy theory, and it’s supercharging decades of concerning currents in my own society.

    Is there a straightforward sane place to read up or listen about this stuff from an outsider’s perspective?

  • Bosch to cut 13,000 jobs in blow to Germany's auto industry

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  • That’s a shame. Never had any of their household appliances so I wouldn’t know. I’m mostly thinking about power tools, auto parts, and like those laser distance things.