[–] 37 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

Great post. I always like to remind Mormons how exactly Nephi got the plates from Laban. Mormons venerate vigilante justice - it shows in their history and in the current day.

I think there's a lot to be said about their recent attempts to join "Greater American Christendom" and how much this Tyler Robinson episode could do to de-rail that whole effort. I know they're powerful inside Utah and the West, but I've always maintained that the Mormons could once again become targets via fascist infighting. Their "allies" view them as heretics at the end of the day. No amount of rebranding or relaxing of orthodoxy will change that.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago

    i guess new people connect to the internet every day, right?

    seriously though. dont post stuff online that you wouldn't want to see on a billboard next to your face and name. if you're going to post inflammatory or potentially incriminating information, consider the risks and study opsec first, or better yet just dont post it at all.

    this whole place is enemy territory until the panopticon terror nexus is abolished forever.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    It is incredibly bleak. A good friend I've got nearly 10 years of work history nearly unrecognizable to me today. At first I suspected substance abuse but when I had a chance to really chat, they confessed to me. It could also still be substance abuse too sadness

    It's actually been something that's forced me to shift my perspective. I don't buy the propaganda of the luddification of anti-AI folks, that we'll be like those who refused to learn computers before the turn of the millennium. I actually think the technology is useful in niche and potentially broader situations. I will however never understand why the hell everyone is so comfortable providing their training data to other people's servers FOR FREE??? Some of them even pay for the privilege! This isn't even touching the data heists being pulled off in clear daylight which should at the very least land some people in prison.

    I could go on, but... these days I feel more comfortable keeping my thoughts off the Internet.

    Reminder to USians to download DeepSeek before it gets banned.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    this is likely the solution for the time being. it's also what cloudflare's CEO recommended a couple weeks ago.

    really interested in seeing how this changes things. i think we're already witnessing the loss of "the internet" as a place, or a refuge of sorts. as people need less and less interaction with computers in order to get the information they're looking for, they will not look back. i'm already starting to see this with friends in my life who have onboarded AI into their lives completely.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Not long ago I stumbled upon the RNode (I think on this website?) as a cheap, long range transmitter that should be able to easily retool for solar power. However a lot of the radio technology quickly gets out of my wheelhouse. May be showing my ass here, but wouldn't you need a license to operate one of these?

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    Hey c/technology,

    I've been enamored by this idea of an internet that runs solely off of solar power. To my surprise, a project like this already exists. It's not exactly like I pictured it, and it leans off a lot of existing infrastructure, but it actually exists unlike my imagination. I'm not involved with this project in any way, I only found it recently and well, I think it looks pretty fucking cool.

    Anyways, after seeing the discussion on the Mozilla post yesterday (https://hexbear.net/post/3606323), there seems to be a lot of real desire amoung users here for an alternative to the bloated cesspool known as the modern internet. A common thread I read was this desire to return a more text-based, less rich media focused content. Oh, and LESS ADS. The limitations of a solar web server not only encourage a focus on these but actually require it. An excerpt from the Solar Protocol Manifesto says it way better than I ever could:

    "In response and by working within natural limitations, we have deliberately chosen not to use large assets nor energy-intensive tracking technologies on this website. A solar-powered web could reduce the opportunity for these kinds of surveillance and data-driven practices and the business models that go with them, something that is likely to have desirable political effects. As Timothy Mitchel points out in Carbon Democracy, different energy regimes create different political possibilities. "

    Sounds tight to me. I didn't see any previous posts here so I figured I'd create this discussion to see what c\technology thinks. As for me, I'm pretty close to ordering a few panels myself and get my hands dirty using the blueprints from Solar Protocol. I think it looks fun as hell.

    Anyways, enough of my rambling. What does c\technology think about this? Follow up question: would there be any desire to make a solar protocol-compatible Hexbear instance?

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