OffLib

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The internet is evolving into a fragmented “walled garden,” sweeping away digital freedoms through invasive ID mandates, age verification, and corporate overreach. As centralized control tightens and AI-driven platforms divide humanity, we face a critical risk of losing access to information. History teaches us that knowledge is fragile; libraries have burned, and reliance on corporate cloud infrastructure threatens to repeat the cycle of loss. We aim to reserve a future offline mitigation.
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Show threadOffLib3d ago
@UmWerker we tried HestiaCP for a minute, then had a look at the mess it made of backend configuration files and thought we'd never be able to efficiently maintain this from a SHTF CLI perspective. ISPConfig, though dated and somewhat lagging on containerization & one-click setups, has been a solid foundation for our ventures dating back to the early 2000s. It's full stack email server setup with RSPAMD is gold, especially today where many hosting providers lose the sovereignty of email to gmail
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@bonoky @openrightsgroup @JamesBaker Definitely.. I hope the GrapheneOS partnership with Motorola isn't a pipe dream and the release of Linux phones a budget-friendly option soon.
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@openrightsgroup @JamesBaker Everything starts out free. We remember the dialup modem, Netscape, and the world wide web at our fingertips, ready to learn new things.

Driving, for instance, is still a US constitutional right under the "right of abode", yet the public was convinced otherwise.

Now here we are with Open Source, Linux, and personal gadgets, all are getting the leash.

The public far outnumbers those pushing these agendas. Our uniting together can stop further human enslavement.

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@dima @happyborg Fresh account here stuck to 500chars.

Adding to my previous comment, to maintain equality with email & communications, we should inform the public our findings of gmail gating outside emails and to promote switching to private email providers outside the gmail ecosystem.

Most providers drop email hosting and I can see why, but in our view that strengthens the division.

Solution: Promote self hosting and howto deployment so users have more options, leveling the gmail gating.

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@dima @happyborg we had no problem setting up email to pass all the algorithms as an independent hosting provider: DMARC, SPF, rDNS, etc. Where things fell short was anything coming from outside gmail is considered spam or junk until flagged nonspam or sender is added to contacts. Meanwhile, if I setup a fresh gmail account and start sending out emails to gmails, they land in people's inbox without a hitch. Seem not about spam anymore for gmail, but a tactic to get everyone onto the gmail wagon.
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@blog Hi. Found your awesome note searching for "Internet is no longer public space". In a world of perfect little too rosy posts, it's a breath of fresh air seeing transparency in holding together a self-hosted site; the perfect reminder of what freedom looks like.

We're self-hosted too and rely on fail2ban with custom regex matching protecting WP endpoints and a custom ipset loading firehol1 banned ips. Additionally banning scrapers, but allowing SEO indexing.

Love the drive Piper!

Show threadOffLib4d ago

@gabrielesvelto @troed

AI is being treated like that movie "Blood Diamond". I believe many are unaware, due to the loss of transparency, the costs involved to pull off that simple free prompt generation, which creators were stolen from, which towns had their houses demolished, or what resources were extracted for AI infrastructure.

Quili.ai made an ethical point sitting in as a team of human AI prompt responders to save their town of water scarcity; revealing the community we have forgotten.

OffLib4d ago

https://offlib.org/ai-related/no-more-blood-ai-the-case-for-a-human-first-prompt-economy/

They told us AI would save us. Instead, it drained our rivers and stole our creators' work.

In Chile, a town refused to let this happen. They turned themselves into AI for a day to prove a terrifying truth about the AI tools we all use.

What happens when the "magic" behind your next prompt isn't a robot, but a tired human desiring fair compensation? Read the story of Quili.ai and the future of Analog Intelligence.

#Quili #QuiliAI #EthicalAI #WaterCrisis #HumanFirst

No More Blood AI: The Case for a Human-First Prompt Economy

Let’s get this out of the way first. This is not about being anti-AI, as it has multiple advantages, much like a calculator. Where that data and resource comes from, is being called into question.

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