What do you mean by “mainstreaming”? https://hamishcampbell.com/what-do-you-mean-by-mainstreaming-2/ It’s what happens when people take grassroots energy and repackage it in #NGO boxes or #dotcon business plans. The result? We end up feeding the monster we’re supposed to be fighting.
#dotCon
Talking about grassroots media as a step away from the current #techshit
Hamish Campbell on the #openweb and rebooting indymedia Hamish Campbell, a veteran of radical media for more than 30 years, argues that mainstream technology and culture are failing us. The rise of the #dotcon platforms has commodified our lives: closed silos like #Facebook and #Instagram harvest our attention and data, locking us into systems that serve profit, not people. Attempts to build alternatives around an #encryptionist agenda have gone nowhere. As a result, the tech giants […]https://hamishcampbell.com/talking-about-grassroots-media-as-a-step-away-from-the-current-techshit/
The #Hashtags Tell a Story: Building Trust in a Messy World
We live in a time of crisis. Climate, community, communication, all are breaking down. Our tools and platforms no longer serve us. To make sense of this, we need to tell stories. And in the digital world, hashtags are one of the most powerful ways we do this. But our hashtags don’t just tag, they trace the roots of our problems, and signpost paths out. Each one is a seed. Together, they are a map.#dotcons – From #openweb to walled gardens. Once, the internet was a place of openness, […]
https://hamishcampbell.com/the-hashtags-tell-a-story-building-trust-in-a-messy-world/
What do you mean by “mainstreaming”?
At its core, #mainstreaming is how we, often unconsciously, uphold and reproduce the values of the dominant system. In our time, that system is #neoliberalism, or what I metaphorically call the #deathcult. It’s the air we breathe: shaping our politics, our economics, even the food we eat and how we relate to each other.
In activist terms, #mainstreaming too often means pushing this dominant worldview into alternative spaces, building careers and institutions that play progressive on the […]
https://hamishcampbell.com/what-do-you-mean-by-mainstreaming-2/
https://companydata.tsujigawa.com/press-20250317-002/
PUMPMAN株式会社（本社：東京都あきる野市、代表取締役：小澤辰矢）が開発した透水性コンクリート「Dotcon（ドットコン）」が、インドネシア共和国においてその高い性能が評価され、国内の住宅地で試験採用されることが決定しました。
■プレスリリース配信元-PUMP MAN株式会社
https://companydata.tsujigawa.com/company/9013101006518/
Linking isn’t just about navigation; it’s about connection, community, and championing the values that keep the #openweb alive. So, before you engage in criticism or fall back on #dotcon habits, take a moment to consider the broader context. And then, share that non-mainstream link—it matters more than you think.
The 4 opens
Published Date 10/19/15 9:38 PM
The #dotcon can not be fixed, the #fashernistas who keep flocking to new “ethical’ish” ones are a problem not a solution.
The #4opens:
Are a simple way to judge the value of a “alt/grassroots” tech project.
Open data – is the basic part of a project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_data with out this open they cannot work.
Open source – as in “free software” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software this keeps development healthy by increasing interconnectedness and bringing in serendipity. The Open licences are the “lock” that keep the first two in place, what we have ain’t perfect but they do expand the area of “trust” that a project needs to work, creative commons is a start here.
Open “industrial” standards – this is a little understand but core open, its what the open internet and WWW are built from. Here is an outline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_standard
Open process – this is the most “nebulous” part, examples of the work flow would be wikis and activity streams. Projects are built on linking trust networks so open process is the “glue” that binds the links together. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process
Slow-boil threats to #Fediverse.
One attack seems to involve random people spinning up instances they can't maintain and then they put them on #CAGEMAFIA-servers with reasoning like they can't afford the money to setup things properly, they are under attack, they are ill etc.
Then there are influencer-type accounts, and once they have a lot of followers they simply move them, with their followers to a #dotCon server.
These could legitimately be called #DotConCatFishing.
@aktivismoEstasMiaLuo
They seem to be following thought processes similar to what we suggested at one stage. Ie. Do they own too many IP Addresses? Yes? Block.
Not a bad metric but IPv6 is setup to issue a psychotic numbers of #IPAddresses though, yes?
How many IPAddresses does Sucuri control?
Did you see the section on building your own list for a #dotcon? Might be useful as an addition. Apparenyly they haven't explored IBM and a couple others yet either.
Interesting. We checked a while back and found that the three initial banks were being #MITMd by #CloudFlare and another #dotcon.
Allegedly, "#bitcoin-accepting" #banks are being targetted. Ie. banks that allowed people to move between bitcoin and #fiat are the ones having their confidence undermined. Apparently #ElizabethWarren is partly involved for an open letter that caused an initial run.
No doubt they will try to capitalise on all this by starting the #CBCD.
What we are saying is CloudFlare, as a USA-based #dotcon that is supposedly helping to combat #cyberattacks, but has in fact been serving somes sites that pirate content. Why might that be?
These websites are often designed to look like Russian websites but would a real Russian really allow their website to be mass surveilled by the worst USA MITM Attack (CloudFlare) the world has seen? We doubt it.
See #astroturf, #frontGroup or #controlledOpposition for more.
Articles laud a particular team at a #dotCon for finding vulnerabilities in a #modem.
The funny thing is the #vulnerability appears to be in the #firmware and not the modem per se. The firmware is likely #propietary, so this is *not* not the great success story for the dotCon as the #securityTheatre-hungry talking heads may suggest.
Modems will be safer when they are fully #FOSS
#routerFreedom #modemFreedom #RCE #gooGlE #remoteCodeExecution
@lispi314
That is the latest from their I2P implementation.
Re timing of the attack: its likely a response to being integrated into the #bitcoin network. First a #botFarm attack on #dotCon-based #messageBoards in an attemp to have I2Ps page banned. Then other network attacks followed, now zzz and their site is completely disappeared.
While #I2Pd exists and is a good, its targetted to the power user and lacks a native #torrenting client. Though, the last thing zzz did was release a standalone.
Do the fools have just the weekend to #getOffGitHub? Haha
How about a new icon for #dotCons. A #jackInTheBox with #daggers. Just change the colours to match the particular #dotCon you are talking about.
@armact
Thanks for sharing.
Their website (https://peaceAndJusticeNetwork.ca) is pretty safe for TorBrowser, but we would suggest to them to never use #tinyURL.com because it goes through CloudFlare, which allows the #dotCon goliath to track people, or track what might be popular and/or not popular, and allows people to be targetted.
Thanks for sharing.
It's looking like #Rumble is being positioned as the next cool, hip #dotCon.
Users seem to think #Rumble has has their back.
When we tell them, its a #surviellanceApparatus that blocks #internetAnonymisers, then it clicks for them, "Oh yeah, they wouldn't let me do XYZ until I gave them my name and contact details".
People are not learning from fairly recent past mistakes, here.
We just discovered that a #WorkersUnion for one #dotCon is having its web traffic intercepted by another of the dot-cons, namely CloudFlare.
Having a little chuckle about that.
@lykso
> everyone *should* do
We meant to have wrote, "should and generally are taking the time to" do
> which form a bottleneck and bring the whole thing down to that level
Yes and no, we a seeing one-click solutions emerge to some difficult problems in the space.
> IPFS
Yes that sounds exciting. We think part of the reason it hasn't taken off might have to do with the #dotCon dominance, which may be waning.
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