2015-10-13 at 2:19 AM UTC
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ATTN: Crazy Mike.
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
lolwatt
I was going to say that's just a standard smf index file, nothing interesting, then I realised it was actually on taintedbrowser... wtf why does it do that? did someone create a copy of the index file or is it quirk in htaccess or something?
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
haha, I saw it on steam and had to buy it. I bought like 10 gift copies and randomly send them to people - pretty funny to see someone open the gift (you can't see what you've been gifted until you accept it) then their profile fills up with all their friends asking 'dude wtf is wrong with you'
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
what's wrong with it? it serves it's purpose as a bbs fine. the only issue I have is speed, but that might just be due to location
2015-10-12 at 3:09 PM UTC
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An Alternate Internet
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
that'd give you some degree of anonymity, but it won't bypass ISP blocks on services that a multinational deems 'damaging to their profits'.
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
yeah, that's theory on the ADS he was referring to.
last I checked, the americans had built riot suppression vehicles, truck-mounted microwave transmitters that were powerful enough to cause serious burns if concentrated on a person for several minutes, but the process was slow enough (likely by design) that people had plenty of time to get out of the way before BAD THING HAPPAN (again, same project).
both russians and americans have recently unveiled microwave transmitters designed to incapacitate or destroy drones - russia's unit appears to be more powerful, boasting they can bring down drones up to 10 miles (16 kilometres I think?) away. I wouldn't want to stand in front of that thing.
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
lol, I was wondering whose alt you were
2015-10-11 at 3:28 PM UTC
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An Alternate Internet
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
I suspect the landscape of the internet in general is going to change (drastically) for the worse in the next few years - the likely ratification of the TPP is bad enough, but if it passes, the specific language used signals a pivot away from free exchange of information to a paid dissemination platform, starting with the end of net-neutrality and ending fuck knows where.
maybe that's a paranoid interpretation, maybe go fuck yourself.
the point is, how could we replace the internet if it stopped being viable to use for free expression? in the past I've considered shortwave/narrowband radio, but it's not ideal because issues with latency, speed and transmission quality would restrict the data that could be sent/received and the number of parties connected to a session.
we could potentially fall back on the old dial-in BBS model, but it'd be very easy to track and shut down.
could we repurpose old hardware, like decommissioned satellite networks or unused copper that the phone company laid? I've heard ideas like this thrown about in the past, but looking into it, I believe you'd need to set up your base stations, repeaters, interpreters etc. on the line for it to be viable for more than two people only a few km apart.
something I've been interested in is alternate data streams - for example if you wanted to share a file but couldn't use traditional methods for whatever reason, you could potentially record some random voice, encode your file into the audio (possibly in metadata, otherwise you could encode it into the raw audio but that would sound fucked up if anyone listened to it) and stream it via skype to another person (ideally a platform that uses tcp rather than udp).
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
lol, compile
what is even the point?
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
lol at the guy who came running in at the end and slipped
2015-10-10 at 10:10 AM UTC
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Deep web links
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
given the forum he posted in I'm assuming he wants tor links for this site
'deep web' is a hugely ambiguous buzzword though, was actually thinking of making a thread to talk about all the 'popular' hidden and decentralised networks like tor, i2p, anonet, dcnx etc
aldra
JIDF Controlled Opposition
oh yeah, should mention I find his little Captain Planet references hilarious.
on revival, "BY MY POWERS COMBINED!"
when triggering his special, "earth! fire! BLOOD!"