xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

I learned that there is a WIP fediverse project that seeks to implement forums over ActivityPub. If it matures, it would be enough to convince me away from akkoma and pleroma.

The one failing point of traditional forums IMO is that they are all siloed into their particular interest niche. Federation fixes this.

For instances that want some ddos protection, both nginx and apache have modules that help protect against ddos. There's also options like syn cookies.

I've said many times before: There's nobody coming to save us. We can only save ourselves.

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Cloudflare, the internet's new single point of failure, seems very widely adopted around here. Apparently, 3,299 instances sit behind Cloudfed, 14.5% of fedi's 22,761 total instances.

The same people that think Google and Facebook are evil appear to forget how Google and Facebook got where they are, and they say "B-But it's free DDoS protection! 1.1.1.1 is free DNS upstream! They're just trying to give us nice things for free!", trying to justfiy their own part in enabling the next Google.

Remember: Cloudflare has IPO'd and valuation is about market capture: they will burn money until that 14.5% is 84.5% and then they start clamping down. This isn't some kind of theory, this isn't abstract, I didn't make this up. This *is* the strategy. It's not just the strategy, it's a legal obligation: once you have taken the VC money or you are a publicly traded company, you have a fiduciary duty to not misuse the shareholders' money. You take their money and you promise to do your damnedest to turn a profit, that's what stocks are. The hedge funds, pension funds, money market accounts that hold your stock, your board of directors, they can sue if you leave a dollar on the table, and your board will toss you out. You don't get blind-sided by this, either: if you're executing the strategy, you plan to see it through, and if you take that money, you are executing that strategy. It's already naive to put your trust in a third party, but it is completely retarded to trust a company that is publicly traded or that has taken a Series A.

Cloudfed has already hung at least three large instances out to dry, sinblr.com because FOSTA-SESTA passed, poa.st (just the media servers; API remains behind boat-clicker), and kiwifarms.cc because of a Twitter mob. Say what you will about those instances (I don't feel like anything of value was lost when KF went down), but it's a bad precedent and if it worked once, it will be used again, and you might not like the next target. If most of the web is dependent on a single service and that service is willing to censor just because some lunatics on Twitter got mad, then we are all fucked. Amazon decides not to host you and Cloudfed decides not to provide "free" MitM services and what do you think is going to happen? Using Cloudflare gives random shareholding entities and Twitter mobs veto power over what you do.

Here is a TSV of all the instances that live behind Cloudfed.
cloudfed_instances.tsv

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@Shadowman311 Parents should have fought to the death over their right to the minds of their children the first time government instituted mandatory, compulsory schooling and basically kidnapped people's children to do it.

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There is plenty of evidence that the UK still secretly owns the US:

* The Treaty of 1783 contradicts America winning the revolutionary war - The first paragraph refers the King as the Prince of the Holy Roman Empire and the United States and the treaty was signed by Ben Franklin, John Adams, and John Jay who were listed as an "Esquires", which is a title of high nobility granted by the King, just below the rank of a knight. It seems like the treaty is truly meant to give America more privileges and not true independence.
* The Treaty was also signed years after the war ended. Why would there be a need for a treaty if the Americans had already won the war?
* Johnathan Williams, the first superintendent of United States Military Academy, wrote in his book, Legions of Satan that Cornwallis told Washington in his surrender, "a holy war will now begin on America, and when it is ended America will be supposedly the citadel of freedom, but her millions will unknowingly be loyal subjects to the Crown.” ... "in less than two hundred years the whole nation will be working for divine world government. That government that they believe to be divine will be the British Empire.”
* The Treaty of 1783 just removes the kings liability of the United States. He just wasn't responsible with supplying them anymore. Title 26 even shows one situation where the king still collects taxes from Americans.
* The 1776 North Carolina Constitution created a corporate charter which reserves land to the King. “And provided further, that nothing herein contained shall affect the titles or possessions of individuals holding or claiming under the laws heretofore in force, or grants heretofore made by the late King George II, or his predecessors, or the late lords proprietors, or any of them.”
* To this day American taxes are STILL going to the king/queen of England. The 1040 is a tax that goes to the UK. (BMF 390-399 reads U.S./U.K. Tax Treaty Claims). The Treaty of 1783 has NOT been ratified.
* During the war of 1812, why didn't the British leave after burning down the White House? They could've easily taken over the government, unless that actually still own the US government.

More info here (also talks about connection to the Vatican):
https://www.informerarchives.com/james-montgomery/the-united-states-is-still-a-british-colony/

And here:
https://invidious.poast.org/watch?v=13rO-cI26sA

Anyone remember Parler? Looks like they went away two days ago.

I finished up my winter/spring game reviews:

Fire Emblem Engage
Hi-Fi Rush
Ratchet and Clank: Rifts Apart
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim

I’ve also created a better index for all my game reviews:

https://battlepenguin.com/gaming/

America Is Under Sabotage Attack As Food, Manufacturing Plants, Rail Lines Destroyed - CDMedia
We've all heard of East Palestine, PA. However, did you know about all the other train derailments, food processing fires, manufacturing....
https://creativedestructionmedia.com/news/national/2023/04/16/america-is-under-sabotage-attack-as-food-manufacturing-plants-rail-lines-destroyed/

Friendly reminder Federal Reserve is backed on thin air.