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TallestSkil wrote
Reply to Families of kids wounded in Uvalde school shooting sue suspected gunman’s estate by Rambler
What estate? He’s 18. They going to bankrupt his grandparents and kill them.
raincoat OP wrote
Reply to comment by Rambler in Idea for how Ramble can become the best (and maybe most influential) free speech forum by raincoat
I think the ramble.pw domain is really memorable. The “pw” makes me think of password, which fits since a lot of the discussion here is security related. OTR can stand for a lot of things. I’m guessing you might be thinking of “off the record” but others might see a url like otr.cx as just a series of randomly picked letters and not be able to remember it.
IMO it doesn’t make sense to make code open source and then get mad when people use it. Maybe she would feel better about it if you put something like “built with postmill” at the bottom of the page and put a link to the postmill repo. I don’t know why she’s mad though. Maybe after the community has grown more, some users who have a lot of experience with PHP can take a thorough look at the project and make the judgment call about whether it would be easier to continue with the postmill code or make something from scratch.
I think it’s good to have plenty of tech and privacy content. A lot of crazy tech related things are going to happen in the coming years. I think CBDC is the most urgent danger but there are also advances in AI, robots, gene editing, brain chips etc. that could be used in harmful ways by people in power so it will be important for there to be private censorship free spaces where people who are knowledgeable about technology can talk about these things.
If the site does evolve into something more broad, people can still follow the tech forums though. I think one disadvantage if it is too technology focused is that the site could miss out on some really interesting users. For example, a historian could come across the site or be invited to it and then after seeing the front page full of computer and privacy related links, feel like it isn’t the right site for them. I think some of the most interesting conversations happen when people from different fields and backgrounds come together to talk. For example, in response to some news article someone posts about the war in Ukraine, a historian, an economist, and a veteran discuss it in the comments. That’s probably going to be more interesting than replies from a few security researchers and Linux nerds. Another example, a programmer makes a post talking about a stock trading bot that he wrote. He might appreciate input from someone who works in finance or trading.
TallestSkil wrote
Reply to 2022.06.10 : New chip exploit!!! MIT researchers uncover ‘unpatchable’ flaw in Apple M1 chips that can partially be used to break into kernel combined with other leveraged hacks. Apple's new 'Gender Diversity' hiring in middle management of Chip Design team to blame? Retards! by smartypants
You need physical access, which means you already have access to all the data through much easier methods.
Wahaha wrote
Reply to 2022.06.10 : New chip exploit!!! MIT researchers uncover ‘unpatchable’ flaw in Apple M1 chips that can partially be used to break into kernel combined with other leveraged hacks. Apple's new 'Gender Diversity' hiring in middle management of Chip Design team to blame? Retards! by smartypants
Umatrix prevents loading of that site. Here's an archive: https://archive.ph/vz0a5
TallestSkil wrote
Yes, because they want a monopoly on selling the SSNs of their own citizens.
Rambler wrote
Reply to comment by raincoat in Idea for how Ramble can become the best (and maybe most influential) free speech forum by raincoat
Well, there is still the idea of rebranding to https://otr.cx which is a domain I own that I'd like to put to use and I think is a better 'fit' for what I really wanted this site to be.
The thing about this site is the software that runs it is near prohibitively difficult to work with and is developed by someone who is completely against the idea of this site using her software. (It's open source and public: https://gitlab.com/postmill )
My coding skills are, well, pretty non-existent. Outside of some basic PHP and bash scripting you won't see anything created from scratch by me. And trust me, I've gone through the entire fleet of available projects found of github / gitlab as well over the last few months.
Unfortunately, anything like feature requests are just out of the picture at this time. If someone is actually capable of the task and wishes to implement some changes, I'll happily sponsor an adequate VPS for a non-public RAMBLE dev site.
Definitely a lot of unmet potential here. I'd like to keep the site more geared privacy and technology, but have it still be a source of news and discussion, even if it's controversial.
raincoat OP wrote
Reply to comment by Rambler in Idea for how Ramble can become the best (and maybe most influential) free speech forum by raincoat
I get it. It’s really easy for tasks, errands etc. to pile up during times like that. Sometimes you have to block out almost everything except the most important and urgent tasks (and maybe hire or get help for some tasks). Don’t worry too much about how the site is doing. The functionality is good. I think most people report bugs so you are aware of them, not to put pressure. And feature requests are just ideas. The site has a lot of potential even with no new features. Guessing it might just need around 15 or 20 more users to really start taking off. An invite system could outsource the work of promoting the site, but it makes sense to postpone any coding and new users coming to the site until you’re less busy. Invite-only could reduce the regular bad actors but probably not the ones who emit a mysterious light.
Rambler wrote
Sorry, Tor posting got restricted temporarily due to abuse. A glowie got banned and I got tired of cleaning up the utter trash and illegal stuff stemming from Tor since I'm mostly unavailable nowadays to monitor content.
Ckearnet, I2P, and Yggdrasil connectivity was unaffected because those networks don't generate as much risk for this site.
Rambler wrote
Reply to Idea for how Ramble can become the best (and maybe most influential) free speech forum by raincoat
I haven't forgotten about this place, though I do have regret that my focus being temporarily shifted elsewhere has negatively impacted RAMBLE. I've got a lot going on both in terms of my career and personal life.
I'm going to try to manage and balance my time better. I'd like to shift things back into gear here.
/u/raincoat , thanks for this post. Glad to see it.
DcscZx5idox OP wrote
Reply to CTemplar E-mail is shutting down by DcscZx5idox
CTemplar sold lifetime subscription.
https://old.reddit.com/r/ctemplar/comments/uc9hfi/closing_notice/i697tzd/
I perfectly know what you mean, as I said in a previous comment I had a lifetime subscription with them, so I'm now pretty much fucked.
raincoat OP wrote
Reply to comment by Wahaha in Idea for how Ramble can become the best (and maybe most influential) free speech forum by raincoat
I can only think of one person off the top of my head, but for me it would be easy to find more since I have a reddit account where I save interesting posts. If you go on other forums, you could just keep the idea in the back of your mind when reading and if there's someone who's really knowledgeable about a subject or has interesting ideas or research, you could invite them or make a note of their username to invite later. Like I said, it doesn't have to be a strict Mensa thing. The main caution is to avoid inviting NPCs from either the left or the right.
Wahaha wrote
Reply to Idea for how Ramble can become the best (and maybe most influential) free speech forum by raincoat
I cannot think of anyone that I would invite, though.
raincoat wrote
I ran into the same thing when I tried to post while using the tor address
BlueHat wrote
Not sure why a localhost IP got banned. Perhaps some internal server fuckery.
Do you have the exact error message?
J0yI9YUX41Wx wrote
Did you try calling your ISP to ask them to unblock 127.0.0.1?
J0yI9YUX41Wx wrote
Reply to Anyone can get monkeypox, but CDC warns LGBTQ community about 'greater chance' of exposure now | CNN by awdrifter
Oh God. I hope you'll all take the time to read this article. It's a monument to politely dancing around an inconvenient truth.
“Anyone, anyone, can develop [and] spread monkeypox infection, but … many of those affected in the current global outbreak identified as gay and bisexual men.”
Yeah, anyone you have anal sex with. XD
J0yI9YUX41Wx wrote
Reply to Anyone can get monkeypox, but CDC warns LGBTQ community about 'greater chance' of exposure now | CNN by awdrifter
Come on, people. Every big city has cases of monkeypox. Don't be -phobic.
BlueHat OP wrote (edited )
Reply to comment by solstice in My server on the yggdrasil network by BlueHat
My assumption was that the 500 was somehow caused by the link I posted. I noticed that it's quite common for parsers to break around IPv6 links, like how they sometimes mess up when you put them in markdown or how Firefox tries to encode the square brackets in the url when you copy it from the address bar. Perhaps developers will pay closer attention to these issues if IPv6 ever becomes a norm.
Wahaha wrote (edited )
Reply to the internet is fun by solstice
If you do not look for approval from other people it hardly matters. At least homosexuals only have to deal with disapproval from a few people. For me there were concerted efforts to ban/censor part of my hobby starting back in 2009 and they've been succeeding.
solstice wrote
Reply to This will change your life. by GravimetricJammatronics
Error: the file existed but was deleted.
The link is dead.
solstice wrote
Reply to 2021.12.28 : Fucked! Nearly EVERY HP SERVER has been Pwned or firmware rootable since 2020 from a ARM SOC on the main server board!! Every server from HP defenseless! Minority Hires in middle management to blame? Idiocy! by smartypants
OP, do you have brain worms? If these people you seem to hate so much were as incompetent as you say they are, then how did they purposely create a backdoor this sophisticated?
solstice wrote
Reply to comment by BlueHat in My server on the yggdrasil network by BlueHat
I'm using the clearnet version (six months later, I realize) and I'm still getting the same errors you got, so I don't think it's a Yggdrasil issue.. I had to delete a duplicate post, though.
solstice wrote
Reply to What are some good podcasts to listen to? by Rambler
You're Wrong About, Pretend Radio, and This Machine kills are some good ones
burnerben wrote
Reply to I've Been Getting Back into Growing Mushrooms by Hitch
sounds cool only mushrooms ive grown were blue oyster.
Wahaha wrote (edited )
Reply to A Partial Review of the Jellyfin Suite of Multimedia Applications by HMTg927
I've been using Jellyfin for years and am quite happy. Not really using it myself, but let people in my family use it. Back when I decided I went with it since I wanted to have multiple users.
It's nice that it supports not only video and music, but also pictures and ebooks.
Though, I had it a lot easier installing, since I just used docker, so I was done setting everything up in ten minutes.