kornhole

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by kornhole 3y ago
All information can be considered propaganda as defined by Edward Bernays in his book Propaganda. Yes groups game social media to propagate information. Yes centralized algorithmically controlled platforms are easier to manipulate conversat
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by kornhole 3y ago
Social media is the most important counter measure to propaganda. Before social media, we had a one way stream of information from the media outlets without much opportunity to question, discuss, and debunk. The fediverse resolves the probl
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by kornhole 3y ago
Fuel additives in any vehicle can put stuff in the air. If you look at these sites to see what they are intentionally spraying into the atmosphere, you will never look up at the clouds and airplanes in the same way.
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by kornhole 3y ago
The only way water after being distilled by the sun to pure H2O can be contaminated with these chemicals is if the chemicals are in the air. To my knowledge, we have zero regulations on what airplanes are allowed to spray into the atmospher
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by kornhole 3y ago
That is a threat if the West confiscates Russian assets that have been frozen, Russia will retaliate in kind. https://www.rt.com/russia/591905-russia-asset-seizure-warnin...
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by kornhole 3y ago
How do we access the Russian based search engine, and will it still serve English language results? The European business will fall under the Digital Services Act and EU directed content moderation. I sometimes want to see results of indepe
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by kornhole 3y ago
You would need to convince them that it is a philanthrocapitalist endeavor. If they see how it can help them avoid taxes and steer policy to benefit their investments, they might join on. Unfortunately open source SW goes pretty much opposi
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by kornhole 3y ago
I know at least a dozen ways to discover, scrape, and share music. What is really needed is a relatively easy way to pay artists. I have accounts setup at Patreon, Locals, Librapay, Buy Me a Coffee, KOFI, and others. Most people don't
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by kornhole 3y ago
If it is running 24/7 for years, watts add up. Running cool and quietly is another benefit. My Orange PI 5 has been running Nextcloud, Mastodon, Jellyfin, XMPP, Cryptpad, Vaultwarden, and about a dozen other services/sites for abo
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by kornhole 3y ago
There is much more to these stories than you seem to know. It somewhat evidences the effectiveness of propaganda and censorship in this country. Wikipedia is written by the CIA. NPR and Japantimes are state affiliated media that weave narra
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by kornhole 3y ago
I generally do not engage with people who call me a child nor spend much time on state propaganda designed to garner support for more censorship and war with other countries, but I will point out some glaring flaws in this narrative. Try to
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by kornhole 3y ago
I don't have a solution, but I tried to do something similar and asked my friend who is a manager in data and identity management at Facebook how I could create an account for some experimentation. He explained to me that they are very
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by kornhole 3y ago
Oh thank you for the sweet compliment. However, I am probably older than you and have studied psychological operations and cognitive warfare for many years. I am not sure of what point you are trying to make about Russia by sending a US sta
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by kornhole 3y ago
There were several, but the Hamilton 68 hoax is one where censors claimed many accounts were Russian bots but were actually mostly American. Twitter found a relatively small amount of the identified accounts to be actually tied to Russia.
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by kornhole 3y ago
Yes Russia did have some accounts and bought ads on US social media some years ago, but analysis showed it had marginal effect. They are outsiders on US run social media platforms. The real power is in the hands of those running the social
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by kornhole 3y ago
I probably did not explain well. Technology is often a double edged sword. If it can be used to prevent someone from committing suicide, it can potentionally be used to encourage someone to commit suicide. OpenAI and DOD said that it would
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by kornhole 3y ago
The ostensible application to prevent veterans from committing suicide indicates they could use it to do the opposite. Simply making an enemy very depressed will disable him by ensuring he loses will to fight or protest.
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by kornhole 3y ago
People would buy overpriced sugar pills from Infowars because that is how the whole operation is funded. Many of the supplements are good and sold elsewhere for a lower price, but again people want to support the independent media they prod
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by kornhole 3y ago
If a company creates a back door for a government in a way that it looks like an oopsie vulnerability, it gives them plausible deniability. If someone reports the vuln and they don't fix it, this somewhat shatters the plausible deniabi
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by kornhole 3y ago
You should be using a phase diagram rather than a venn diagram here. It depends on persistence or tenacity of the adversary. Legal and administrative measures is the first phase. If that fails to deter adversary, non-traditional and perhaps
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by kornhole 3y ago
I know of some projects that were on Github and received cease and desist letters. So they moved their project to one of these other repos. It is entirely possible but of course only speculation.
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Both sites run on donations. That would be trying to squeeze water from a stone.
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by kornhole 3y ago
I recall trying to archive a story on a Des Moines local news site. It was publicly available and searchable. I understand people can request of IA not to allow their content to be stored, and there are situations where content is removed o
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by kornhole 3y ago
That is a great solution for local copies. Archivebox is on a web server to make the archives available to anyone on the internet.
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by kornhole 3y ago
I spun up my own Archivebox after archive.org wouldn't let me archive some news stories and I heard about them removing other content. Instead of calling the Internet Archive the wayback machine, I now call it the maybe back machine. I
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by kornhole 3y ago
It doesn't but can help you quickly start using a new single inbox. Over time, you can change the addresses with the senders to go direct to your private box.
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by kornhole 3y ago
For anyone looking for a non commercial option, https://joinmobilizon.org/en/ has made some great improvements lately.
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by kornhole 3y ago
I am often confused by people who have loads of money, live in big houses, and drive nice cars who are not willing to pay a few bucks a month for a private email inbox and other services. I assume they are trapped or too lazy to buy a domai
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by kornhole 3y ago
You may not have read enough. It went way beyond law enforcement which would have been fine and legal. People were censored for talking about dangers of vaccines, war with Russia, and whatever the administration, FBI, or other government ag
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by kornhole 3y ago
If you look at the extensive reporting done by racket.news around the Twitter Files and Facebook Files, you can learn about the direct back channels many government agencies had to directly report thousands of people to be banned or shadow

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