>>>How can you possibly make due diligence when everyone around you is incentivized to lie?
Jolly doo wiggly jingle dee. This is actually the blueprint for society that I believe most of us are following to fine details. It's been largely rehearsal hitherto, but I do fear the show has begun and any moment now we'll have the doors to the theater welded shut and quite regardless of Amendments, someone's gonna yell fire, too late. And it'll get warm and fuzzy.
My vigilance is unaffected by my absence of optimism and I hold tightly to my values with clean ears to listen to those of others; but here's a scary consideration:
Those that are optimistic that this imminent hellscape can be managed tend to be either not very, or too intelligent. The intelligent ones forget in the bliss of creativity and grit that they are an extreme minority. They may see solutions everywhere, but if they were brave enough to stop and express this to random strangers, things wouldn't go well for long. In theory it could, but in practice wouldn't, and one would find the middle spectrum has been forged with indifference, hostility and abundantly rewarded for self-imposed ignorance and therefore has no time or patience to even hear. Although some might listen while staring at their phone, actual considerations would be outliers.
This is getting worse, not better. The filter bubble has gone live.
Future mitigation will be by necessity in accordance with public obtuseness. What of this mitigation that can be mustered will not be passive, nor pleasant, if any at all beyond headless self preservation. I foresee an inextricable mess, compounded by the winds of time which inevitably must change to carry back all the problems that for so long we have discarded into it. Environmental, social, fiduciary, tectonic, cosmi-oceanic - you name it - it's a big harsh universe and we've been taunting and shitting at it for too long.
Fraud, my friend, is our new religion. Speak against it too loudly and you'll get one tall wooden leg with a nice perpendicular one to secure you high upon it.
If folks knew just how many people had pinworms, they'd remain indoors. The nasty fuckers (or their eggs) can stick to dust particles and land on sandwiches and such. A motivated fart can propel them.
Denmark comes to mind, with an abnormally high infection rate. Then there be all the other worms. Had I time to consider things before it happened, I might have elected to stay unborn. Just too many worms for me to take this place seriously.
Thanks for this link. Opening reddit links on mobile is very frustrating for me because it opens the app and messes with the browser back button for me. Not sure if others have that problem too.
That's because you're not supposed to open reddit links anymore, you can just share your content directly with AI companies and ad brokers and cut out the middleman.
On iOS Safari, long-press the link and select Open (or Open in Background). That will open the link in the browser instead of in the app, and Safari will remember that preference for the app. Select Open in Reddit to revert.
I'm a grovelling Linux fiend and usually support related posts. I tried to visit the url and saw it was blocked. Didn't want the post to die so archived it asap.
Note too, that NextDNS blocks archive.is et al by default unless you manually add redirects.
I’ve noticed that even on VPNs, US exit points sometimes block archive.is. Not sure if that is DNS related or what. Non-US VPN exit points don’t seem to be blocked at those times that the site navigation fails on US ones.
I believe NextDNS is headquartered in the US, which may be related to the site nav issues we’re both experiencing.
Curiously, uBlock Origin and my blocklists seem to block content on archive.is from loading from mail.ru, which may be related to the blocks, but I have never heard anyone on HN or elsewhere mention this, so I am, so that it can be known and explained if any explanation exists for why mail.ru scripts on archive.is are present. I don’t seem to see those scripts on the Tor version of archive.today, which archive.is is a mirror of today; apparently the original domain is the .is one, in any case.
Consider my curiousity piqued!
More info about the archive.is|.today mirrors including the Tor (.onion) version of the site are on the Wikipedia entry for the site:
I'm sorry I was unable to add anything. Keep digging though and it'll all soon be clear. And if you find anything substantial, butt into one of my comments sometme and let me know
Appreciate the feedback, I will do so more research and see what I can turn up. I had a quick question if you have a sec.
> Note too, that NextDNS blocks archive.is et al by default unless you manually add redirects.
Can you explain a bit about what you had to do to get archive.is to work with NextDNS? I have used their service/app before, but I’ve never dug into redirects via NextDNS, as I didn’t even know that was a thing you could do via the service.
I mean that the page doesn’t even begin to load. I get early and often Google reCAPTCHAs on archive.is and its mirrors under normal operation over HTTPS/Tor, but I was referring to the site not loading in at all, and getting some kind of PTR/SSL error iirc when it happens, which is most/all of the time when using US VPN exit points over HTTP(S). I don’t experience these errors at all over Tor, because their Tor site doesn’t use certificates. I run HTTPS-only mode in the clearnet, so perhaps others don’t experience this issue on their machine(s), but I don’t want any kind of MITM and/or downgrade attacks to slip through the cracks, just in case.
On Android "Redreader" is the only third-party Reddit app that somehow survived the third-party-app-purge. Still free and open source, and much more pleasant than the official one.
The day Apollo died is the day I stopped logging in to Reddit, or going there regularly. I use old when I have to go there for more than a top-level reply from a Google search. I want to say they really goofed up, but tbh Reddit seems fine without me. I’m mostly fine without it, but I do miss a few of my communities.
Thanks for this, I was resorting to creating a PWA on old reddit (which has horrible ergonomics for mobile) per subreddit (you can't rename them so I remember which is which by position) thinking all the reddit clients that don't require login are gone.
Them sandisks need to be pretty tough to not vaporize whilst cooking your USB ports. Ever notice how infernally hot they get under large file transfers?
Very cool! You lived down the street! And yes, Kerouac's turn toward health mainly counteracted the booze.
Oh, and another fun fact:
Kerouac once befriended a former minor league baseball player who'd also played college football. He encouraged the guy to try acting. In a roundabout way, we have Jack Kerouac to thank for Paul Gleason, one of the '80s movies' most memorable villains. (An interesting man in his own right.)
(There are enough quotes and parentheses in this reply to resemble a LISP program, sorry about that.)
Why your comment is being dragged down I think is best described by staring at The Torment of Saint Anthony. The creatures you see are the creatures here, fondling the arrows that point in the only direction they know.
I wonder if you might advise me. I'm presently using yt-dlp with python selenium to expose censorship of comments, analyzing triggers and exposing the multi-universe false presentation of public discourse falsely presented by shadow-banning, url manipulation, mobil vs desktop and cookie or login status.
People are literally seeing different realities of serious (sometimes) discourses. Additionally, Shadow-banned commenters see their comments in the thread but no one else does.
I'm analyzing both yt-side and channel-operator side censorship and its arguable effects on society.
There's more, but my comment will become grayed out soon so not really worth saying more.
Do you have any opinion on tens units? I have found them ineffective, but perhaps one can be modified?
If you happen to be aware of a diy poor man's hack, maybe point me yonder. I gots lots o' problems. I'm also interested in zapping me 'ead, but that's more complicated and... seemingly expensive.
Don't take the following as an obnoxious distraction. I've not fully imbibed the featured article yet, but the entire area (region) is verily a bedlam of magnificence and wonder.
Those unfamiliar with Derinkuyu must change this hastily. Do your own research, but please see this image (pardon the url - I've been flagged for... browsing the Internet and can't access it directly):
There is/are video/s available and they are more than worth watching.
I can't remember how to spell the many other regional wonders, so won't try.
Edit: ignore anyone who comes along and tries to dismiss this particular example or the surrounding region as trivial, insignificant etc. Explore for yourself and be rewarded accordingly.
I'm wondering about the negative reactions to this post. It mystifies me and I don't know whether my fear was correct and there truly is hostility to this subject or it's that some of the readers here are too stupid to recognize my use of the word bedlam as complimentary and take self-righteous pleasure in fighting for some deranged precept of honor. I guess I'll never be certain, as those offended don't have the substance to express their reason.
But it does please me that I'm wise enough to treat this place as a den of reptiles. I am right about that much, often enough.
PS: Derinkuyu is amazing, reptiles or not. And so is Turkiye
The deghoulgled cellphone sphere (us) is pretty depressing if affordability is a factor.