Writing during the Third World War or Fourth Industrial Revolution or Fourth Reich has a multiplicity of challenges.
Many many Trojan horses and limited hangouts everywhere .
I have never trusted the Musketeer. I don’t “trust” SS but then I am not in the habit of needing to trust corporations. I like what SS has accomplished so far but trust is too great a stretch. Maintain perspective. So far, so good.
Great post - remain vigilant and protect your work.
I have some sympathy for Elon in business terms, basically not allowing free adverts for competitors makes business sense, especially when twitter is far from making a profit. I do think Notes is an attack on other's territory, and I worry that Substack might get broken by trying to change into something it was not. For me, the appeal of Substack was that it was about long form communications. One of the main reasons I started writing on substack, was to back up posts I had written on facebook, which would vanish if anything ever happened to my fb account. Sad that I now need to back-up my stacks!!! On publishing own blog, are things like wordpress or squarespace "safe", or is there any evidence of them having pressure to put or of them censoring whole websites?
I have a preference for whatever provides the fewest intermediaries possible, and where possible I try not to combine them. For instance, if you own your domain with one registrar and hosting with another, provided you have backups you can simply change providers if needed. I figure the odds of upsetting them BOTH would be rare.
A lot of providers offer inexpensive hosting options for managed WordPress instances. In general it's cheaper to DIY it a bit, but everyone's mileage will vary on that. You may find https://ghost.org/ interesting, they seem to be wanting to inch in on what WordPress provides.
What's great about both systems is that you can always eventually migrate to a self-managed system eventually if you want.
Gabe, thank you for your ongoing efforts to educate & encourage. People have become so lazy & cheap that many seek the “free & easy” solutions which are ultimately a questionable, if not outright bad, option. Keep teaching!
Over the years I have tried to motivate people to move to Linux / FOSS community, but there they find different conditions: (truly) FREE BUT EFFORTFUL! No financial cost, but there is effort involved in learning & trying different software. I’m still trying to figure out how to get my new HP ultralight to “awake from sleep/suspend” with Mint. Ultimately I want to run Qubes but have more to learn.
And the real effort comes from those who volunteer their time updating and auditing FOSS apps/programs (still can’t get used to calling everything “apps”) ... as well as people like you who seek to reorient the masses.
I have an idea for a future operation called "bankroll" where I list all the FOSS/FOSH projects I recommend supporting. I've collected many over the years. Would be hard to make it an exhaustive list, but it's a start.
"Free but effortful" does seem to be the deal at this stage, it's getting better.
If nothing else I like that there are a lot more options with pre-installed linux now.
I simply wish I had jumped into the BTC community when I first heard of it (<$10 range), I could see this as an EXTREMELY worthwhile use of a few hundred BTC! Given the geeky-tech nature of the early involvement, it seems that there must be some BTC million/billionaires who could underwrite both some development & infrastructure.
Linux itself is not as secure as I had thought. Sure, the typical viruses & malware aren’t an issue, but this article is eye opening to me. As you have said, simply keeping backups of a static page can mitigate damage, but I have to believe that the NSA has plenty of people working on Linux exploitations. They must realize where opposition “not drinking the kool-aid” are likely to go as they flee Gates & Apple.
Musk has replied to a thread by Bret Weinstein / Matt Tiabbi
"1. Substack links were never blocked. Matt’s statement is false.
2. Substack was trying to download a massive portion of the Twitter database to bootstrap their Twitter clone, so their IP address is obviously untrusted.
Writing during the Third World War or Fourth Industrial Revolution or Fourth Reich has a multiplicity of challenges.
Many many Trojan horses and limited hangouts everywhere .
I have never trusted the Musketeer. I don’t “trust” SS but then I am not in the habit of needing to trust corporations. I like what SS has accomplished so far but trust is too great a stretch. Maintain perspective. So far, so good.
Great post - remain vigilant and protect your work.
I have some sympathy for Elon in business terms, basically not allowing free adverts for competitors makes business sense, especially when twitter is far from making a profit. I do think Notes is an attack on other's territory, and I worry that Substack might get broken by trying to change into something it was not. For me, the appeal of Substack was that it was about long form communications. One of the main reasons I started writing on substack, was to back up posts I had written on facebook, which would vanish if anything ever happened to my fb account. Sad that I now need to back-up my stacks!!! On publishing own blog, are things like wordpress or squarespace "safe", or is there any evidence of them having pressure to put or of them censoring whole websites?
I have a preference for whatever provides the fewest intermediaries possible, and where possible I try not to combine them. For instance, if you own your domain with one registrar and hosting with another, provided you have backups you can simply change providers if needed. I figure the odds of upsetting them BOTH would be rare.
A lot of providers offer inexpensive hosting options for managed WordPress instances. In general it's cheaper to DIY it a bit, but everyone's mileage will vary on that. You may find https://ghost.org/ interesting, they seem to be wanting to inch in on what WordPress provides.
What's great about both systems is that you can always eventually migrate to a self-managed system eventually if you want.
Gabe, thank you for your ongoing efforts to educate & encourage. People have become so lazy & cheap that many seek the “free & easy” solutions which are ultimately a questionable, if not outright bad, option. Keep teaching!
Over the years I have tried to motivate people to move to Linux / FOSS community, but there they find different conditions: (truly) FREE BUT EFFORTFUL! No financial cost, but there is effort involved in learning & trying different software. I’m still trying to figure out how to get my new HP ultralight to “awake from sleep/suspend” with Mint. Ultimately I want to run Qubes but have more to learn.
And the real effort comes from those who volunteer their time updating and auditing FOSS apps/programs (still can’t get used to calling everything “apps”) ... as well as people like you who seek to reorient the masses.
I have an idea for a future operation called "bankroll" where I list all the FOSS/FOSH projects I recommend supporting. I've collected many over the years. Would be hard to make it an exhaustive list, but it's a start.
"Free but effortful" does seem to be the deal at this stage, it's getting better.
If nothing else I like that there are a lot more options with pre-installed linux now.
I simply wish I had jumped into the BTC community when I first heard of it (<$10 range), I could see this as an EXTREMELY worthwhile use of a few hundred BTC! Given the geeky-tech nature of the early involvement, it seems that there must be some BTC million/billionaires who could underwrite both some development & infrastructure.
Linux itself is not as secure as I had thought. Sure, the typical viruses & malware aren’t an issue, but this article is eye opening to me. As you have said, simply keeping backups of a static page can mitigate damage, but I have to believe that the NSA has plenty of people working on Linux exploitations. They must realize where opposition “not drinking the kool-aid” are likely to go as they flee Gates & Apple.
Linux vulnerabilities: https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/linux.html
Musk has replied to a thread by Bret Weinstein / Matt Tiabbi
"1. Substack links were never blocked. Matt’s statement is false.
2. Substack was trying to download a massive portion of the Twitter database to bootstrap their Twitter clone, so their IP address is obviously untrusted.
3. Turns out Matt is/was an employee of Substack.
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I'd be very curious about the details of #2.
When/how did substack get access to the twitter database?
#1 is misleading in it's own right, the "this link isn't safe" isn't technically a block, but it's a barrier nonetheless.
Goes to show you never can tell:
https://open.spotify.com/track/0BjPesQ5R1GbeAqziScKAs?si=2bf707549d874474
I'm kinda pissed the ADL didn't list me. I would have loved to sue them for defamation.
🤣 Rooting for you!
What did these twits think was going to happen?