Posts by shibacomputer@post.lurk.org
(DIR) Post #AW0RAjNQh0axrXZYky by shibacomputer@post.lurk.org
2023-05-24T14:10:23Z
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I will never get tired of photographing these two. #shibainu #photography
(DIR) Post #AXFsWrKAeTNXPaGxNY by shibacomputer@post.lurk.org
2023-07-01T14:09:30Z
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In 2020, I published *This is Fine: Optimism & emergency in the p2p network*(https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/this-is-fine). It laid out a clear argument that the #fediverse is irreparably vulnerable because of its p2p nature and political naivete:*"Anyone with administrator access to an Instance can read anything that travels through that Instance’s infrastructure – including direct messages. The level of risk correlates with the number of cross-Instance interactions between users. If users from different Instances communicate, an attacker need only compel one Instance to reveal the direct messages between all of the interacting accounts. [...] In a peer-to-peer network without encryption, there’s no structure, no agreed-upon governance, and absolutely no protection. Compromising or compelling an Instance or its staff means that all of network traffic is laid bare to its assailant. [...] The decentralised community seeks to antagonise a powerful status quo whilst making tradeoffs that do not acknowledge how societies directly threaten their communities."*Today, Kolektiva - a anti-colonial anarchist instance - announced an FBI raid of one of their admins, which included the seizure of an entire copy of the Kolektiva instance.This is *literally* the kind of situation I warned about nearly three years ago.https://kolektiva.social/@admin/110637031574056150
(DIR) Post #AXFsWt8XufGh26qhXM by shibacomputer@post.lurk.org
2023-07-01T14:18:09Z
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At the time, *This is Fine* was shared pretty widely across Mastodon, Secure Scuttlebutt and other related communities. The piece generated a lot of discussion, but ultimately nobody wants to confront this undeniable reality: ActivityPub and all of the platforms that fall under the umbrella of the #fediverse will betray even its staunchest champions of decentralisation or anti-capitalism. The same is true for all other p2p or federated protocols. This digital movement is built on tools whose authors deny the very reality that even they themselves face.From the forensic immutability of Manyverse/Secure Scuttlebutt, to the backyard-run, un-encrypted, metadata riddled design of every Mastodon/Pleroma/whatever servers, to the utterly insane non-consensual and moderation-free data-storage design of Lemmy, you are all organising on platforms built by people who, quite simply, *have delivered a shockingly dangerous set of tools that will eventually be used against you.*It beggars belief that any such project could be seen as #queer or #feminist or #anticolonial, because every single server, every single instance is a packaged gift rich with data and ready to inform movements and structures that are out to destroy us.
(DIR) Post #AXFsWv8yS2nbG144Tw by shibacomputer@post.lurk.org
2023-07-01T14:31:16Z
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What do we do about this? Honestly, I have no idea. I've spent three years so far trying to get developers and advocates to care about this. I founded my own research firm, New Design Congress, specifically to get platform designers -- *especially in the decentralized community* -- to come to terms with this reality, that all infrastructure are expressions of power, and are at their very core political.We've been blown off consistently, especially by people who ought to know better and who now either steer massive emerging projects, or act as major ideological activists for these platforms.New Design Congress spent three years sending proposal after proposal to funders like @mozilla, Reset.tech, @EC_NGI, the @PrototypeFund, and others. We've been knocked back every time. We have **never** received direct support or advocacy from civic society organisations who champion the rebuild of a equitable Internet. We have **only** been able to continue our work and grow thanks to our NDC community and a handful of extremely forward thinking private organisations -- or, shamefully, organisations who have already been subjected to the precarity of decentralization.I despair for the future of the #fediverse #decentralization movement - #bluesky, #mastodon, #peertube, #ipfs, #dat, #lemmy, all of it.
(DIR) Post #AXFsWwwdks7aqLJFXE by shibacomputer@post.lurk.org
2023-07-01T15:39:58Z
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If you're interested in more of our work around this topic, here's a short reading list:The Limits to Digital Consent: a report that documents why ethical consent and data justice initiatives fail (this was produced as a side output from the Mozilla Rally project):https://newdesigncongress.org/en/research/the-limits-to-digital-consentOn Weaponised Design: an essay that explores the phenomena of systems and interfaces that harm users while behaving exactly as intended:https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/on-weaponised-designMemory in Uncertainty: a large research report that examines the politics of long term data storage and custodianship from the perspective of web archiving:https://members.newdesigncongress.org/memory-in-uncertainty-web-preservation-in-the-polycrisis/
(DIR) Post #AXFvVF6zXVWyTE1qzo by shibacomputer@post.lurk.org
2023-07-01T15:55:59Z
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@jeff yea m8 thats the point of the post
(DIR) Post #AXRmhZYcNrcWxVc8Ia by shibacomputer@post.lurk.org
2023-07-07T09:44:53Z
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@entreprecariat wish I could join this
(DIR) Post #AYm0Tf5hLsHj8anQH2 by shibacomputer@post.lurk.org
2023-07-27T22:34:15Z
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A prominent London gallery just released their first commissioned game on Steam, a largely inaccessible walking simulator with NFTs. It is barely played, and the reviews are universally negative.Europe's art scene is obsessed with games, but never funds anyone who actually plays them or lives within gaming culture. From unserious Minecraft Exhibitions to these borderline Unity asset flips, it's appalling how boomer the art world is towards a medium that right now dwarfs all others. This sort of work should discredit these institutions.From NDC's Para-Real Manifesto:"The metaverse cohort delivers an ideological confusion that poisons the public imagination of what the present is — and what the future could be. This will take years to reverse. In embarking on this ill-fated conquest, Meta, Tencent, Epic Games, FTX, OpenSea and friends turned every supermarket chain, every Fortune 500, every non-profit, every state-based cultural program of soft power, every newsroom and podcaster, and every art gallery into the world’s most boring game designers cum faux Fintech expert. What William Gibson and Neal Stephenson failed to anticipate is the metaverse’s true horror: despite its colossal infrastructure costs, the metaverse is really fucking boring."https://newdesigncongress.org/en/pub/the-para-real-manifesto
(DIR) Post #AYm0YzYUh1Oo3So4yO by shibacomputer@post.lurk.org
2023-08-02T08:30:05Z
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The crypto-pilling of the EU political and academic classes and their subsequent absolute absence of critical analysis borders on fanaticism. It should be the subject of an investigation.
(DIR) Post #AYm0aKU6MeCdFsOF9M by shibacomputer@post.lurk.org
2023-08-02T22:18:28Z
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vibing
(DIR) Post #Abrl5re5z2duXxCYme by shibacomputer@post.lurk.org
2023-11-16T11:07:10Z
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(DIR) Post #AbrlRXA6p1EnO9Vadc by shibacomputer@post.lurk.org
2023-11-16T13:59:08Z
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@lanodan happy to share this good news with you
(DIR) Post #AbwKd3U1Gc23qOtGVs by shibacomputer@post.lurk.org
2023-11-18T16:58:29Z
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#shibes #dogsofmastodon
(DIR) Post #Ad4A3ZuvYvLiavZuyW by shibacomputer@post.lurk.org
2023-11-18T17:56:18Z
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(DIR) Post #Ahz38bcrqyubecmGyO by shibacomputer@post.lurk.org
2024-05-05T23:51:05Z
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roblox car crashes dubbed with irl dash cam audio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slPO9c30J_E
(DIR) Post #AialnPLufGDNuvtJNA by shibacomputer@post.lurk.org
2024-05-26T11:18:52Z
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TIL that the GIMP project is sitting on US$1.45 million worth of Bitcoin donations in a wallet address that hasn't seen any activity for years, yet continued to exist on the GIMP donation page until its removal in June 2023:https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/address/1NVMCeoBfTAJQ1qwX2Dx1C8zkcRCQWwHBqhttps://web.archive.org/web/20230525032225/https://www.gimp.org/donating/
(DIR) Post #AoEx9iF77JNWi78eTg by shibacomputer@post.lurk.org
2024-11-20T12:46:55Z
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(DIR) Post #ApJwt9HrvzmuDRsfzs by shibacomputer@post.lurk.org
2024-12-22T11:50:08Z
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ETA: source https://www.tumblr.com/lesbian-moon-gf/760348315890122752/surviving-the-current-age-of-internet-means-saying(thanks travissouthard)
(DIR) Post #B07m8kcfB91HJ15qWe by shibacomputer@post.lurk.org
2025-11-06T16:15:55Z
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(DIR) Post #B0GpqH2iLms4HKf3fk by shibacomputer@post.lurk.org
2025-11-15T01:04:36Z
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2025 really did everything possible to literally embody this meme