♪ Longe vá, temor servil ♪
I may post/reply/boost in:🇧🇷 🇺🇸 🇪🇸 🇯🇵 🇳🇴(or close languages)
I also may boost posts I make with alts, but I'm mainly here so that should be rare.
You'd be putting your life on the line, so a suggestion if you go through with this idea:
Have someone you can entrust the site to that wouldn't be targeted by the regime (at least immediately, maybe a foreigner?) in case you go MIA, or someone "suicides" you.
Also, hosting an anti-dictatorship platform fully within the borders the dictatorship controls means it could easily hunt down those hosting it. They wouldn't need to pick leaves one by one if they chop the whole tree down, in an analogy. From what I follow of news about Iran, its regime appears to be more immediately an enemy of the US, Israel, Lebanon and Russia, and the EU governments appear to be shifting to be openly against it, so maybe worth looking for VPS providers aligned with those countries, I'd think.
Also, people often use Telegram, but internet being cut makes it somewhat unreliable. Alternatively, what P2P or other portable relay technologies are there, so that even if the origin of the network disappears or internet is cut, it keeps floating around? I can only think of amateur radio broadcast, similar to how Poles did in the Iron Curtain time, but similarly to there back then, you'd need to be on the run after each short broadcast, so you're not easily found.
Block what bothers you and move on. Unlike Reddit, at least here you can find alternatives if you do it.
Communities aren't populated automatically. Maybe your instance hasn't fetched any posts from there yet?
Maybe Gulliver?
Not an usual name for a cat afaik, and going by a movie I like, the 1930's animation, to suggest.
Beeg, chonk, an absolute unit even. But not Gatze streicheln looking at its posture.
#blurrypicturesofcats
Interesting!
About challenging the industry, I remember reading some years ago that Visa/MC enforced higher taxes on the companies that also accepted crypto. If that is/still is a thing, might give a hint of why it isn't more widely accepted.
Elo the "bandeira" (forgot the name), similar to Visa and Mastercard. But about Pix, now that you mention it, I think PayPal does too? Although not in some countries.
Without having watched the video, but having an idea of what it's about given seeing a few places and creators I follow being sanctioned because the payment processors getting butthurt, I think it's worth mentioning crypto and direct competitors to the Visa and Mastercard mono(duo?)poly.
On crypto, if issue is that it burns too much energy, afaik generally new technologies are like that, improvements to consumption happening over time.
And about direct competitors, Russia made one from what I read, Brazil has Elo, and I think the EU was introducing their own recently. All 3 countries/country-like territories with their own problems, but I think it's a worth idea to copy and improve upon.
Also fomenting use of physical cash is a good idea too, me thinks.
I'm suspicious of anything that gets pushed too hard too suddenly.
To add to that, let's analyze what Microsoft themselves say:
No typing, no guessing, no “forgot password” drama.
If you don't type your passwords, you forget them, which Microsoft themselves say in the same paragraph:
With passkeys, you don't need to create and remember passwords.
This would take away agency of the user for his/her passwords, and towards Microsoft.
Considering the company seems to be supportive of "you will own nothing and be happy", at least by how they operate, this seems suspiciously aligned.
Also:
Instead of typing a password, you use your phone or device to confirm it’s really you, using your face or a fingerprint.
...Oh, hey, facial recognition. Because big bro Microsoft must know the human behind the 0s and 1s too.
Passkeys are incredibly easy to use and intuitive, eliminating the need for complicated password creation processes and the hassle of remembering them.
"The users are dumb therefore we must take agency away from them. And they will be happy."
Also https://xkcd.com/936/ comes to mind. Engineered problem perhaps?
Also the article mentions PINs besides face identification and fingerprinting, two things that are generally constant for an individual unless enough time passes, they go through surgeries, and/or some terrible accident happens.
But about PINs, I'm not too familiar with them, but if they're constant ("hardware keys"?), using them would say to the service it's the actual person logging in, or someone the person was physically close to. Basically a means to physically track the user based on logging in.
And if the PIN is one of those that changes every few seconds/minutes, from what I would follow on the matter, the more reliable ones at least on Android are those that do Google Play's verification. Or at least the ones that are the most commonly supported. Also throughout the article, Microsoft mentions in a few key moments their services, which added to the ad-style tone of the article and the company's usual modus operandi, it sounds a lot like they are pushing even more to centralization, towards themselves if possible.
Other companies don't seem to leave as obvious documents of pushing for passkeys, so thanks Bill Gates, I guess?
And talking about Bill Gates, since apparently he is involved in other population control scandals outside of the realm of technology, the chain of trust seems to indicate a bigger problem at hand.
Even commercial, service-based LLMs demand a great effort of quality control, with their hallucinations and all. With local ones being mid in comparison from my experience, my suggestion would be that if your company does try implementing any, they should make sure to at least pay a nice extra to the QA folks.
Imo it's a good use. But do make sure you read the outputs throughly. Even hand-made OCR tools can go crazy some times. Also if the AI can be fully offline / self-hosted, that's even better imo.
Video softwares are a tad scarce, the main ones being Peertube (based on Youtube) and Loops (based on TikTok).
Peertube channels appear as communities on Lemmy from my experience. Loops I don't think I've seen being federated to Lemmy before, so I imagine posts from instances using it get treated as pure microblogging, meaning barely anything gets fetched by Lemmy.
If a video platform has RSS feeds for their creators/channels, you could generate bots that send links to updates (new videos) as fediverse posts. Might be a good idea if you can't find who to follow within the network here.
I have yet to explore options on the "threadiverse" (Reddit & billboard-inspired forums), but on platforms such as Mastodon & Misskey (microblogging) and Friendica & Mbin (threadiverse / microblogging hybrids), you can generate new bots with @birb@rss-parrot.net.
And lastly on this point of RSS, aside from Youtube (for obvious reasons) and Peertube (since you can follow natively), sadly not many have RSS feeds natively, the major ones I know being Odysee, NicoNico and Newgrounds. Others you may be able to generate RSS bridges, but they could not work (those aren't official means after all), and RSS bots might not take these links (e.g. RSS Parrot avoiding certain types of links to avoid spam).
Odysee has native RSS so setting up fediverse bots should help at least have some form of integrated feed.
Depending on the service, you don't even need an app. The instances' sites can usually run fine on browsers, and when they don't, Lemmy, Mastodon and the sort can usually play the videos embedded.
@zak@blog.goodanser.com a tool with no documentation and no users that know it and are also abstraction-capable, is asking for something to break massively down the line.
Since LLMs are in use, I'd at least suggest asking for them to generate a documentation for it, and trying to make a documentation based on it.
...Or the intention is extinctionism by making an actual Skynet, which then hope it is unsuccessful - I'd imagine most people like being alive.
Academy is great at draining energy, so maybe try leaving it last? Also potassium sources like bananas are good, since afaik exercising drains the mineral, making you drowsy.
Also, for hobbies, maybe wake up some hours earlier to do them, since at the opposite point of the day you don't have energy anymore?
Would it be a publicly available page, or accessible only for you?
If it's a public page, you could possibly host shareware games or with other licenses with a similar effect.
And there's plenty of games you can legally buy as ROMs (e.g. homebrews on Itchio), games that include ROMs in their files (e.g. River City Girls 0 on Steam, most Neo Geo releases on PC platforms and pretty much any MS-DOS game rerelease), and if you're from a region with laws not as draconian as the DMCA, there are games with ROMs embedded in their files and that can be extracted. So if it's a private page, you could go for those too.
I can think of optional integration to other services as being an useful feature while at the same time relatively friction-free.
Some examples that come to mind that could give some integration ideas are Facebook the company with Threads the social media (but is tarnished by the company itself), Bridgy Fed, Wafrn, and Friendica bridging AT Protocol and ActivityPub (the first one seemingly being very popular), NeoDB allowing cross-referencing and importing entries from other databases and platforms, and RSS Parrot sharing posts from RSS feeds as ActivityPub posts (though sadly in this last one, interactions are one way only).