Wrongthink

Some more lines in the streak of command line $THING editing, I’d like to now cover handling images.

ActivityPub has slowly been siphoning user capital away from giant corpo walled gardens, much to my delight.

Municipal libraries have been given special exemption to operate outside of typical copywrong framework through a lending right scheme.

If you grew up in the ’90s you may have found yourself witness to such ongoings as parents denying their children Pokemon cards or Harry Potter books on the grounds that they are ‘unchristian’.

Instead of relying on the good graces of some other host, I have finally gotten around to establishing a PeerTube instance to call my own.

Blacklisting tools need to resist the temptation to centralize their blacklists.

The hundreds of informational resources aggregated largely under the efforts of a good acquaintance, 12bytes (12bytes.org), comprise the Alternative Information Directory, or ‘AID’.

POV: You are a sociopath.

Today I am uploading my edits and additions made on top of xiMatrix as ‘paraMatrix’.

File hosts that accept uploads with minimal friction come and go.

A half dozen or so extensions sit happily running along in your browser dutifuly, according to the various “privacy” sites that recommended them, foilng trackers.

It may not currently be possible, using only libre toolsets, to extract podcasts hosted on Spotispy into local audio files.

Enough time has elapsed that stragglers to the old neocities site should have gotten the message by now that wrongthink.link has replaced it as the primary site.

According to a writing by a presumably younger netizen, the turning date for when the web went to shit was “around 2015”.

You may be running some hotrodded addon suite that blocks the various attack vectors which the modern web likes to throw at you.

This is a friendly critique of James Corbett’s known online research loadout.

Some express grievance over needing SIM cards, phones and Google to navigate in unfamiliar places, but it doesn’t need to be this way.

After receiving unwanted flack from astute critics, an only-partially awake tech normie had recorded a diatribe lamenting how he just has no choice, woe is me, but to continue to use software which continues to dictate his operations.

A threshold was crossed once the opinion moulding echelons had succeeded in getting the public to begin referring to “a mask” as “my mask” and “the shots” as “your/my shots”.

In 2014 Voat became a destination of migration for groups who found themselves banished from REEddit.

The average user, if you can believe, continues to decline in their capacity to understand how to use the technology they find in their hands.

Richard Barnet was covering topics such as government monopolies on violence and technocracy decades before those terms would ever come into the forefront of today’s discourse.

Using an alias and keeping secret the whereabouts of one’s property are a good start for anyone putting themselves out there in the name of truth, however please respect that opsec needs only a single slip up in order to be compromised.

Without accounting for level of technical aptitude, and assuming one seeks security as in security from corporate or dragnet state surveillance, there may be a few hardware options out there.

If you’re a libertarian anarchist and you use proprietary technology then you might not be practicing what you preach.

If you are “helping” somebody, perhaps a friend or family member, by setting them up with Linux or some free software tool and leaving them to swim on their own, you may be doing more harm than good.

Whispering under one’s breath.

This might be stating the obvious, but there is no doubt a disproportionately high number of transexuals (See: UNIX trannies) within the computer industry and hobbyist spaces.

It was during the age when everyone knew it unwise to share real names and information anywhere online.

A scary thing is happening.

Phones suck, and so does the new expectation to have one or otherwise be excluded from family, work or increasingly from everywhere.

Civic infrastructure is rapidly coalescing around centralized disservices as towns, cities and states foolishly move away from in-person and pen & paper solutions.

When I was devising my DNS solution (DNS as a standard is still so broken for privacy as of 2022, shame on root name server operators for brushing away cryptography efforts!)

mpv, ffmpeg and youtube-dl/yt-dlp.

It is time for this site to practice what it preaches and claim a space on the web through more independent infrastructure.

It is true that back in the day, I used to play all manner of video games, even including console games.

In addition to the fact that the [clown] world relies on certificate authorities remaining honest for HTTP Secure to do what it actually advertises, there is another standing issue that erodes my zeal to keep scrapping together workarounds.

Despite the terms ‘privacy’ and ‘anonymity’ being used interchangeably by many, and particularly by VPN marketing, I want to first highlight the key difference being that VPN connections are not anonymous but only private.

A while ago I tried out the Sway window manager.

Many credit the miscalculation of entry into Russia during the winter, along with the waging of war on two fronts, as the downfall of Nazi Germany’s efforts in the second world war.

Your department store seeks to set a unique atmosphere while shoppers browse about.

Amidst the waves of sweeping away voices critical of the 2020 health scare deception was Brian Rose, podcaster turned video interviewer.

You have just come into great wealth and find that you no longer need to work.

I am relocating away from clown town USA to a more natural setting.

Windows junkies often toss around the rhetoric that Window$ has support available, therefore it is more fitting for the individual user.

Joining SaaSS and GaaS, I propose CaaH.

Bitcoin is a tragedy.

You might be a zombie if… You believe that the winners of all historic conflicts have always been the good guys.

A recent fediverse discussion had me ruminating on how the face of the internet, and tech in general, has changed drastically as it gets molded by powerful interests.

Anyone reading this probably has measures in place to cleanse their web experience of invasive garbage.