Are they going to try a full court press on Hasan?
this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2024
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Why do I get the feeling 4chud is going to be left completely untouched, if not be the ones cheerleading this?
Western antisemites always have this weird fetish for Israel, like an older brother that tells the guy bullying his younger brother “Messing with him is MY job!”
Western antisemites always have this weird fetish for Israel
as far as i can tell it comes down to 2 things. one is that they generally hate arabs more than jews so they like the genocide going on there. two is that they like the idea of all the jews leaving whatever country they live in and going to the middle east. sometimes it's a full mask-off fascist "we should all just have ethnostates and then everything would be fine" take
You forgot the third thing: Evangelicals that truly believe in their apocalyptic fanfic of the bible requiring all the Jews to return to israel to fulfill their death cult prophecy and bring about armageddon.
This is the kind of shit that anti-semites spew, about the Jews controlling the media, and then the ADL goes and tries to do.
It’s been said, but Israel does more to propagate anti-semetism than just about any other entity in the world.
Absolutely, and their stated goal of being the only place where Jews can be safe implies that everywhere else cannot be. It's mutually exclusive
“Trying” implies at least the possibility of failure. They’re not trying anything.
True
Hexbear is going to be one of the few places on the internet where you can say "death to Israel"
Death to Israel.
Is there a plan for if/when that happens? Something that we should all be aware of just in case the site goes down and never comes back up.
I'm not sure where I would even start to look if it did disappear.
Also I think I'd probably stop using the internet all together if I lost this site.
My plan b: 
man , i would be so sad if hexbear really goes down. losing the chapotraphouse sub(s) sucked too, but that wouldn't be as bad as hexbear
They will turn the screws on the hosting providers if (and when) it comes to it.
And even if the hosting provider doesn't, the US government can just seize the domain. .net is administered by US-based Verisign.
So what's our plan B? If the domain is seized, I'm assuming that we'll get updates from the fediverse account. But if there's some sort of problem there (matapacos.dog is seized, or no updates get posted because those with access to the matapacos @hexbear account have been arrested, or other unforeseen problem) how do we re-group?
There are secondary / tertiary methods of contact. People have accounts on other platforms like Twitter, Matrix, Telegram, Discord, Mastodon, Reddit, etc. There are other watering holes people can regain contact. The community would be utterly fractured, but such was the case when Reddit dropped the hammer on us. I think our past experience served well. Establish a life raft. Gather the troops. Plot a course forward.
That said, we were relatively lucky last time. The regime of censorship has sharpened significantly in the past four years since then. If the US government were to lean on Hexbear's ISP (or domain registrar), a life raft on a service like Discord would fold like a house of cards (not to mention being 100% wiretapped). We would need more robust options. There is the Matrix server, but it is tied up with the same infrastructure. The people who use it have accounts distributed among various Matrix servers though.
The fracturing of the community is what I worry about most. Sites and software and services come and go. All that matters is that the community can find each other again quickly.
finally, the dream of hexbear.su will come to fruition
I don't know how it works with hosting but we've got both lib.rehab and chapo.chat
No. We lost lib.rehab See for yourself.
wait what, when did that happen??
$ whois lib.rehab
Domain Name: lib.rehab
Registry Domain ID: f265d2b186ee4f149136727a11e3155c-DONUTS
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.dynadot.com
Registrar URL: http://dynadot.com
Updated Date: 2024-07-30T13:43:50Z
Creation Date: 2023-06-15T13:43:25Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2025-06-15T13:43:25Z
[...]
The registration probably lapsed (because it was a meme domain) and somebody snapped it up in June 2023
While I'm at it, chapo.su also lapsed (but I doubt someone is going to bother stealing that. You need to apply and provide ID to the Russian state to register those domains. You can't just plug a credit card number into godaddy).
That's good to know, thank you! I've bookmarked both.
we need significantly more resilient communications infrastructure. though this applies equally to disaster prep since the internet is extremely fragile. i see this as a problem with a bunch of parts, but some of the main pieces look like this to me:
- organizing computers (spare phones, spare laptops, actual server hardware) into cloud-like infrastructure components
- writing software that actually works well running on trash (fediverse nodes really hate it when hostnames change, so hexbear itself may not adapt well if the domain gets seized. they aren't a good match for disaster services either since you can't guarantee that global DNS will work)
- building overlay networks to connect nodes over the internet (yggdrasil+i2p looks like a winner in the short term)
- building a physical mesh network to link nearby computers together over fast links (BATMAN for no se vende mesh here in LA)
- developing a mobile adhoc mesh routing protocol that can setup a usable internet using only smartphones that interoperates with the fixed mesh noted in 4 (this will likely replace BATMAN, but is also a research problem and would represent a novel capability)
there are a bunch of shitty mesh apps and hardware components out there that may also be applicable, but its hard to get anything useful out of them without more planning and coordination. (meshtastic, briar, secure scuttlebutt, simplex, et al. come to mind)
i've been working on minibase for the micro-cloud component in an experimental capacity for years using alpine linux (just cuz i like it), but I've recently started working on a production version based on nix.
4: building a physical mesh network to link nearby computers together over fast links (BATMAN for no se vende mesh here in LA)
5: developing a mobile adhoc mesh routing protocol that can setup a usable internet using only smartphones that interoperates with the fixed mesh noted in 4 (this will likely replace BATMAN, but is also a research problem and would represent a novel capability)
I think there is a strong tendency to put the cart before the horse when it comes to mesh networking. People imagine how cool it would be to have widespread mesh networks, but setting up a digital radio doohickey accomplishes nothing if there is nobody listening on the other end. We need social organizations first. Then, communications technology can be built to serve the needs of these organizations. It is very much a local organizing problem. The tech does not circumvent this.
The other issue of course is that mesh networks only work in very densely-populated areas.
I'm in full agreement on your points about organizing being the real task, not the tech side.
lemmy or lemmygrad both have Mali domain names, decent place to regroup if they aren't taken down at the same time. I think the hosting provider is the same though. Hoping the admins in charge of the infra and with access to that account aren't US-based though
I never needed the internet to be centralized around a cluster of corporate walled gardens, I've been rolling my eyes since the first time I noticed Facebook pruning my friends' posts in 2008. The medium is the message, the message being 'Fuck you, serf'
My browsing life gets better the less I interact with the tech giants
“Serfs up! Don’t forget you’re bored.”
I got a month-long ban on Fascistbook for telling a Boer IDF soldier that me and his wife "did it like 2 Barbie dolls in a washing machine", with the infraction cited as "bullying".
Infinite DF-51 launches on "israel"
On the other hand I reported a comment that was verbatim ""I want to kill n-words" for racism and got a response that they decided it didn't infringe on their terms of service.
Edit: wait that was twitter
Apartheid Defense League in action
There is no censorship in the U.S. 
Americans don't notice censorship the same way that fish don't notice water.
Hexebear is the only democratic site tbf
Dead internet that's all bots and Hasbara and AI boobs and hands.
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To be fair they did hit asmongold for his "Palestinians are subhuman" bullshit rant thankfully. Not sure how permanent or long it was for though as I really don't care for that twat
asomngold got 14 days for that. This group of streams got 30 days for being on a panel at the last twichcon where there was a tierlist where F-tier was "likes sabra hummus".
Twitch also unbanned this guy on the same day. He allegedly harassed people at twitch con and was transphobic.
yeah he looks like a guy who would do that.
they also unbanned Sneako, an actual neo-Nazi.
can't ruin what's already SHIT
Id prefer no Twitch personally.