IPV8

When someone says;

"Centralise Everything it is cheaper and easier and more convenient"

Walk away.
Go do something useful with your time.

https://lowendbox.com/blog/vibe-drafting-ietf-proposals-is-now-a-thing-the-ipv8-proposal/

https://www.ip.network/blog/what-is-ipv8-protocol

[ edit for a mistake with my pasting of links.]

IF the big corps/tech bros back this protocol ... then you really know.

Networks do distribution.
The above links cover this way better and more cogently than I ever will.
(or could)

My knowledge base here is too many layers down :)

#Protocol #Networking #IPV8 #IPV4
#IPV6 ?

I tried to look up why certain apps won't show up on the application dock for my OS. And the top-rated response was "If you don't know how to use that feature, you shouldn't be using it."

And just, like. Great. Thanks. Fuck me I guess. I'm glad you're a very smart special boy. Good job gold star.

I have been using email for 40 years. It used to work.

As an (independent) academic researcher, I need to contact new people, primarily in universities, to ask questions.

I refuse to use Google, Microsoft or the other American IT giants.

But they are increasingly preventing refuseniks from sending email at all.

I know what RFC, DNS, MX, SPF and DMARC mean. My email goes through small British companies with intelligent, friendly and helpful staff.

mxtoolbox.com says that I must have DMARC to send email to M$. So I set it up. I now get a dozen copies of the same report from G or M$ for each email that I send out.

They show that my email gets to G and M$ sites, but then it is marked as spam.

The stupid senior management of numerous universities has surrendered their staff email to M$.

Web searches and AIs preach about spam. I don't send spam - I want to contact my colleagues.

Rumour has it that previously unknown senders are treated with suspicion and their emails are sent to spam. In other words, it is impossible to **initiate** communication with someone.

Let's be blunt about this. They are a mafia that is enforcing an **oligopoly**. It's got nothing to do with reducing spam --- I have no doubt that they let through emails from "trusted partners", ie companies that bribe them enough to send their spam.

The result of this is that it will only be possible to send emails by paying M$ to do it, and then it will only be allowed to express "approved" opinions.

What can we do about this?

At the very least, those of you with senior positions in universities can tell your management to revert to competent standards-based email systems hosted on Linux systems.

it saddens me to think that young people who are into computers never experienced just how much *fun* computers used to be. the manageability of being able to fully understand a system, the relative repairability of old electronics, the very low latency to feedback on keypresses, most of all the absence of hostile design and the entire system, from the pixel art of icons to the order of buttons, designed to better serve the user, not to get you addicted or surveilled or lootboxed or anything.

I mean old systems sucked in many ways ofc but where they sucked it was incompetence, not malice. the difference in user experience was palpable.

if you're into computers and young I really recommend fooling around with retrocomputing for fun, on working period hardware. installing Linux From Scratch on a raspberry can be very educational and all and modern systems can do a lot more than the old ones, but what they can't do is to reproduce that joy of using a tool made to be a tool.

This morning we got one of our pending #curl security flaws reported a **4th** time.

Everyone is using (the same) AI tools now.

A weird failed product that I turned up scanning information on the RCA 301 computer yesterday, the 361 Data File jukebox, ca 1963

http://bitsavers.org/pdf/rca/301

#bitsavers