find you on fediverse

if julian assange were to be on fedi would the server he joins be able to handle it? or do u think he is already on fedi....and just anonymous because identifying oneself is overrated.

#honestquestion #julianAssange

@p @silverpill already answered here

https://mitra.social/objects/01a0764b-3d96-75c1-a137-f04e9951e9c1

thanks silverpill

the last blog post for #forgeFed was in jan last year, its as if nothing continues without me, lol.

https://forgefed.org/blog/networked-actors/

i skimmed it and it talks about testing some goose messaging protocol, getting federation actually working, praising NLnet for some funding, says the funding has been spent, and one of the last (ominous) things mentioned is going on a matrix throws up in mouth server being gatekept by cloudFlare.

after that its basically a black hole on the blog, the codeberg seems active till jun last yeat https://codeberg.org/ForgeFed

did funding dry up, did @pepe get sucked into a cloudFlare vaccuum of death???

sorry to see the forgeFed project not forging ahead, had hopes for that one @p @silverpill

maybe i need to show some very public enthusiasm for microshaft or something 😉

@silverpill @cy @cavallette i'm going to do both, advocate for a right tool like forgefed and complain that it seems development on it has stalled? This seems to have been a really bad few years for communication. I've now even seen a notice at the top of the Cdeberg page signalling they have caved to the sithlords. (see 2.) what does it mean, silverpill?

Book chapter on Taler as sCBDC technology (the 's' meaning synthetic)

ive not read the chapter yet but that seems like a dumb distinction.... why not just sDC (ie. synthetic digital currency). why conflate it with central banks? found the link via gnu's rss feed. dear @gabriel u might be interested.

rms has been suggesting the use of #gnuTaler for a looong time as just a way to help pay for things digitally in a more private way, eg not having to give a credit/debit card, name, address etc. and its a fine use case, iirc #taler is even supported by #btcPayServer lol. i must admit i'm more #fedimint inclined, but for people who just want to interface with a boring (ideally bitcoin-backed) local bank, i dont see any issue with taler, the main hurdle are the trashy "smart"phone themselves not allowing ethical libre firmwares and user freedom.

This site, which is dedicated to an alleged free software community in China, is hosted on servers in Germany. It is being mirrored on i2p (fsfans.i2p), im guessing, without the express knowlegde or permission of the webmaster (William Goodspeed?). One of the more delightful pages is this one https://learn.fsfans.club/

(the learn.* subdomain is not being mirrored on i2p)

Anyway the last post on the site was made in nov last year (2025) and Goodspeed explains with BRILLIANT CLARITY some of the issues facing the free software community, and that they are moving to hosting a fediverse server instead. Interestingly they chose a PieFed instance and according to the post they can only federate with other #PieFed or #Lemmy instances (?). I was super curious so I went to visit their instance only to find that the certificate was only for samsung domains?!

Beyond that point of course I expect that the site is broken, and true to form, fetching pages doesnt work and errors on the page reference an akamai domain (errors.edgesuite.net). For those playing along at home akamai is the last 'A' in the techno-fascists acronym CAGeMAFiA. but to be honest anything beyond the certificate issue is not important, just a curiousity.

can anyone shed light on what happened to this instanve? I was not on fedi at the time, having my 19 month forced-by-circumstance hiatus, lol @p @r @gabriel @rms @silverpill ?? if not i invite u to ingore this post completely.

@silverpill @nimda ideally all but yes in areas where they might not be expected are sort of urgent. Im happy to ttry and dig up the old posts that i made a few years so. if i cant find them i will report back, i wont be able to do this right now tho.

@nimda @silverpill in fact i'm going to assume that is the expoit. an end user can mathematically adapt the svg in realtime, moving a slider such that at some point along the slider the text or svg image for that matter reads to a human. if the text is never delivered in a human readable way then it prevents bots from ever learning from the content. in fact id say it would be a very good use of technology to defeat bots, lol. but it also means you will not be able to copy paste it, also.

@nimda @silverpill in conclusion, until svg are considered safe by Tor devs, we need (my recommendation) unicode fallbacks in mitra, for svg. Sad but true.

(I have tried talking to Tor devs on this issue but they for whatever reason (same as above??) do not care to identify why svg could be unsafe. It MAY be a social engineering exploit rather than a computer based exploit ie. malicious websites hiding their words from search and scraping tools by drawing the letters manually with svg???)

@nimda thanks for that and for pointing out how the interface is supposed to look, the 3-dot-menu button doesnt show in my browser. i use tor in safest mode, with the NoScript addon placed back into the toolbar (the way Tor was for years before they changed it) so i can enable javascript on a per-site basis, rather than having an all-or-nothing (aka unweildy/impractical/CPU-draining approach) that Tor Browser devs have forced on users to make it basically unusable for the next generation of privacy seekers).. This means that svg do not show. but

i have recently shared an article on RSS buttons that also has a very intesting, if possibly a bit incomplete (i dont think it mentions unicode) about an SVG fallback system, and i think you might be interested in it. silverpill has seen it recently. btw you might be surprised on who gets a special mention in this article.

http://undrss2l4ynldtgjjahsd2bx5oapy2vw75cowsusu5pncz76sqga.b32.i2p/rss-button-using-div-corners.html

a few yeats ago i went through how a lot of these non-show issues can be fixed with @silverpill there are many unicode character that can be used as fallback where unicode chacters dont work a replacement png MAY, honestly i think for the sake of ease we should just try to only use unicode fallbacks even if they are not perfect replacments.

Broadly, there does need to be a focus on fixing how Safest Mode works, for privacy-seekers, i think that sttarts withhighlighting how default settings in Tor are designed to hurt the user, for whatever reason (my guess is to make Tor a niche, geek-only tool and move people over to the worse, Brave browser, remember Tor devs are paid big money by govt these days and have to do what they are told). For Tor (Safest Mode) to be useful NoScript needs to be in the toolbar. That is how to use Tor fullstop, if we recommend this at almost every opportunity, we can assume more people will have the same issues (broken svg) and have fixes in place for them.

There is no guarantee in the future that i will remember to look for an invisible button because i use tor the way it is most useful with NoScript.

I hope that this post highlights a way forward. It would be nice if ppl stopped assuming that ppl use Tor without the NoScript addon in the toolbar to reenable js. Again most veteran Tor users will do this. It is therefore on us to cater to this group, and if we support the use of Tor is becmes plainly obvoius that we need to GROW this group, because tor browser is among the only ways to safely interface with a Mitra social server, or any website that requires js.

(im using the Mitra interface atm because wizardbloat.i2p has been down for a while.)

EDIT fix missing word "recommend"

Hi @nimda Why might no posts be appearing for the @i2p@mast(er)don.social account? I follow them now (only so i can find the post where they annouce the changover to their cloudfed website, then i will unfollow). is this instance denied their posts? masterdon.social and masterdon.online and many in the bofficial masterdon family are Fastly now.

i find it interesting that i got not a single interaction/proof-of-visability from an insight i gave to a davidrevoy@masterdon.onilne post the other day.

Fastly are likely sith now, tbh....can probably put them in the same category as CAGeMAFFiA (two 'F's)