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PaX @hexbear.net

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I support the protracted PaX war against domain landlords
Anyway I'm gonna go buy gay.site as a bit cos I'm one of the good ones

Feeling more and more like the only way to attack capitalism is on the ground
Hexbear should use this as a chance to go outside. I need backing here, I’m afraid to go outside and need to find more people like y’all in the physical world
- If literal Nazis can get up the courage to meet in person, I feel like we should too.
  
  Which actual, IRL leftist org is not mercilessly ridiculed on this website? We do a very poor job around here of connecting comrades to orgs

Maoist Digital Worldism

capitalism with MONEY PWEEESE characteristics

Truly disgusting, always has been.

https://www.gnunet.org/en/gns.html
- Is it possible to actually use this? I’d imagine it makes the internet absolutely tiny
- Yeah too bad gns implements rate limiting and bad actor protection by essentially mimicking butt coin and requiring proof of work.
  Trust is not a technologically solvable problem. This includes current DNS systems because ownership is effectively a proof of stake.

Just update your hosts file, or better yet, setup an alternative system - no one can stop you.

Why do Ford and Mercedes-Benz need to own chunks of IP addresses

Digital leeches are the worst.

What the fuck did I just read
a network engineer
- Hey buddy some of us jork it to the mDNS RFC every single day

I made a post about the exact same subject. Just a little less... unhinged lmao.
But I completely agree. If you're interested, there's a concept called petnames in the Spritely institute (made by Christrine Lemmer-Webber, lead author of ActivityPub, and others). In this concept, the name of your site would depend on how you name it / how other people nammed it. Here's the link: https://files.spritely.institute/papers/petnames.html#org1be8a0a

What is stopping someone from just starting up an alternative DNS system? Like, if you control some DNS servers, and convince people to use them, you can make any domain name point to any IP address, right? I understand the "network effect" barrier, but can we just make our own DNS (with blackjack and hookers)?
- Yes, and people have tried before (just running an alternate root). In this case, it's just the network effects that get you.
  There have also been decentralized attempts, but either they're not global (petnames) or they're shitcoins.
- hey I like making alternative DNS services and helping people who need them, take this

How are we still seeing this and posting?

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