The acti.link manifesto
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Just stumbled upon this gem of a manifesto. Hard to say if it's a troll or not (I've long since given up on figuring that kind of thing out), but here are some highlights:
- IPv6 should be avoided at all cost. IPv6 would give more power to evil megacorporations who want to litter the world with the extremely unethical IoT.
- Every human being should be allowed to have one random IPv4 address. 32^2 also happens to be the ideal number of humans on earth.
- He wants to abolish domain names. We'd all be using each other's assigned IP address (if you happen to be the 32^2+1st person on Earth, then I guess we'd all have human sacrifice festivities or something, or the person will be left without Internet, which judging by other parts of this manifesto wouldn't really be a huge loss, IMO)
- Navigation bars should be avoided in favor of sitemaps.
- All sites should be in English and French (why? Just because the author of this manifesto happens to speak it, so should everyone else!)
- "Flat file storage is one of the most important principles in computing. Some indieweb people agree with this, but unfortunately, file storage is not respected by most of them. Everyone should use flat file storage exclusively even if they are experts in relational databases systems."
- Email should be abolished, as should IRC, FTP, SSH, and every single other protocol besides https.
- The web should only be used by people for people. If you are a corporation, then you must use the IP address of the CEO to access it (if you really want your corp to have a web presence, which this guy apparently thinks should be abolished).
- Because of the tight coupling between person and IP address, I guess he acknowledges the real threat of identity theft being a serious issue. He responds to this by stating that the crime should be considered more severe than rape (but less than murder).
Hard to say whether this is a SpectateSwamp-esque rambling or a troll, but just be glad this guy doesn't control the Internet.
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@The_Quiet_One said in The acti.link manifesto:
32^2 also happens to be the ideal number of humans on earth.
Hopefully he meant 2^32... otherwise I'm gonna have my hands full depopulating the world down to 1024.
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@The_Quiet_One said in The acti.link manifesto:
32^2 also happens to be the ideal number of humans on earth.
Holy fuck. Even Hitler wanted a few million Germans left.
I think he meant to say 2^32, at least I hope so.
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@Maciejasjmj @blakeyrat Ha! I didn't catch that. Yes, seeing that he wants to have a one-to-one mapping between person and IPv4 address, that's got to be the case.
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@The_Quiet_One said in The acti.link manifesto:
the 32^2+1st person on Earth
WAT.
Edit: I like how literally the first
fourthree comments were about that specifically.
Y'all have interesting minds...Edit:edit: I should learn to count.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The acti.link manifesto:
Edit:edit: I should learn to count.
Nah, you had it right. Your reply about it was the fourth comment. Or should I say, the 2^2th comment.
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@The_Quiet_One You got that backwards. Should be 2^2th comment.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The acti.link manifesto:
Edit: I like how literally the first fourthree comments were about that specifically.
That's because The Quiet One is saying "oh yeah identity theft" when this guy's manifesto endorses killing over 6 BILLION people. Kind of burying the lede there.
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@blakeyrat said in The acti.link manifesto:
when this guy's manifesto endorses killing over 6 BILLION people
Well, that is one way to solve the whole "running out of IPv4 space" thing.
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Try selecting text on this site - each paragraph is selected in different color (in cycle of 4).
Unfortunately works only in FireFox, because he uses::-moz-selection
instead of::selection
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@Maciejasjmj said in The acti.link manifesto:
Hopefully he meant 2^32
That's still almost 3 billion murders.
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I am curious how many people in the world don't have internet and therefore wouldn't need an IPv4 address, that could be a large chunk of the 3 billion he is proposing.
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@Lathun said in The acti.link manifesto:
I am curious how many people in the world don't have internet and therefore wouldn't need an IPv4 address, that could be a large chunk of the 3 billion he is proposing.
Don't think so. @The_Quiet_One wasn't paraphrasing, this is exactly what the crazy dude wrote:
322 also happens to be the ideal number of humans on earth.
Sounds like 3 billion murders to me.
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If domain names should be abolished, he should start with his own.
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@NedFodder said in The acti.link manifesto:
@Lathun said in The acti.link manifesto:
I am curious how many people in the world don't have internet and therefore wouldn't need an IPv4 address, that could be a large chunk of the 3 billion he is proposing.
Don't think so. @The_Quiet_One wasn't paraphrasing, this is exactly what the crazy dude wrote:
322 also happens to be the ideal number of humans on earth.
Sounds like 3 billion murders to me.
They don't even have internet, is it really even murder?
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@NedFodder Try nearer 7 billion... 32^2 is 1024. Barely a small village's worth.
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@The_Quiet_One said in The acti.link manifesto:
SpectateSwamp-esque rambling
It's into the RabidBollocks and gavino league of batshitness.
I've been reading Remy's stuff for too long; I checked the source code for goodies. There were some. :)
The web, since its beginning, has always been, by far, the best thing the internet has to offer. I have enjoyed its incredible depth since the early 1990's. The web is one of the best thing that humanity has ever invented.
I consider myself one of the most advanced user of the web. In this article, I will take the fictional role of the leader architect of the web. I will criticize everything that is pertinent with the web and suggest many solutions or improvements that would lead to a web that is almost perfect.
In the community of being, the web or the internet will not be needed, but will most likely exist for quite a while. As you will find in this entry, almost all of the web must be abandoned so it can become more human. What is suggested here is a glimpse of the path toward transcendence of telecommunication so it becomes part of the immanence.
I don't think I trust myself to comment further without laughing myself out of my chair.
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Also, his choice of styling sucks ass. Darkish grey on black? Bleah.
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@dkf said in The acti.link manifesto:
The web, since its beginning, has always been, by far, the best thing the internet has to offer
PARSE ERROR: Invalid use of '{y} is ... the best thing {x} has to offer' - y is not a subset of x.
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I consider myself one of the most advanced user of the web.
Will Grumpy Cat get her own IPv4 address?
@Lorne-Kates
**Filed under:** "Where is grumpy cat?" - Mozilla's MOST ADVANCED USER!
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Damn it, Swampy figured out how to make SSDS generate web pages, hasn't he?
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@aliceif
It might actually be him.Instant Message
It would be great to have an IM system built on the indieweb principles. Currently the best IM solution is Firefox Hello.
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@sloosecannon said in The acti.link manifesto:
y is not a subset of x
...the web is not a subset of the internet?
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@sloosecannon said in The acti.link manifesto:
Invalid use of '{y} is ... the best thing {x} has to offer' - y is not a subset of x.
If pancakes are the best thing my mom has to offer, is my mom comprised of pancakes?
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@Maciejasjmj Does the pancake batter travel through a series of tubes or is she just dumping a truck load on the griddle?
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@boomzilla Is CDN a huge truck dumping stuff into a series of tubes then?
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@The_Quiet_One said in The acti.link manifesto:
https://acti.link/en/web
...- He wants to abolish domain names. We'd all be using each other's assigned IP address
https://45.79.143.9/en/web, Shirley.
Well if the certificate worked for it of course...
@Onyx said in The acti.link manifesto:
@boomzilla Is CDN a huge truck dumping stuff into a series of tubes then?
Depends on if the C that's being D involves letters...
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@Onyx said in The acti.link manifesto:
Is CDN a huge truck dumping stuff into a series of tubes then?
Hmm. Crud Dumping Network… well, that works for me.
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@Yamikuronue said in The acti.link manifesto:
@sloosecannon said in The acti.link manifesto:
y is not a subset of x
...the web is not a subset of the internet?
No because they're equal.
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@sloosecannon said in The acti.link manifesto:
No because they're equal.
Oh, you're interpreting “subset” to mean “strict subset”…
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@sloosecannon said in The acti.link manifesto:
@Yamikuronue said in The acti.link manifesto:
@sloosecannon said in The acti.link manifesto:
y is not a subset of x
...the web is not a subset of the internet?
No because they're equal.
So gopher, usenet, ftp, smtp, snmp, telnet are all 'web' now? I thought 'web' was what is generally served on ports 80 and 443.
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@PJH said in The acti.link manifesto:
So gopher, usenet, ftp, smtp, snmp, telnet are all 'web' now? I thought 'web' was what is generally served on ports 80 and 443.
My usual use of the term refers to the internet as a whole. "web" is the internet, as opposed to the intranet...
It's not particularly well defined though...
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@PJH said in The acti.link manifesto:
https://45.79.143.9/en/web, Shirley.
Well if the certificate worked for it of course...Which is funny, because I had to actually resort to typing out an IP address to go to one of my domains that has an HTTP server on a non-standard port. Apparently, since the browser knows that https:// with HSTS is enabled in the normal port, EVERYTHING must therefore be https.
So, attempting to visit http://mydomain.tsaukpaetra.com:9980/ causes almost all up-to-date browsers to silently redirect to https://mydomain.tsaukpaetra.com:9980/ , and since the web server there literally CAN'T provide https, it dies. The only way to access it is by IP, and by that I mean http://928.192.168.256:9980/ at which point the browser happily Does The Right Thing (well, Chrome turns the favicon into a blank paper with an earmark, but whatever, the site itself is built for IE6).
One day I'll get around to proxying the DVR's web-server to the main services, but I don't have five minutes to fix something nobody uses...
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@blakeyrat said in The acti.link manifesto:
this guy's manifesto endorses killing over 6 BILLION people.
When did the world population hit 10 billion? I'm asking for a friend.
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@FrostCat The same time they swapped the definitions of exponent and base.
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@FrostCat It hasn't.
When did you fail 9th grade math?
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@blakeyrat My guess would be in 9th grade.
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@blakeyrat said in The acti.link manifesto:
When did you fail 9th grade math?
Common estimates are that the world population is currently north of 7 billion, not 6. When did you fail first grade math?
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@FrostCat 7 billion is over 6 billion.
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@blakeyrat said in The acti.link manifesto:
7 billion is over 6 billion.
https://www.ispot.tv/ad/74M7/flonase-six-is-greater-than-one
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@Tsaukpaetra five minutes? You type pretty slowly. All you need is like one line of configuration:
proxy_pass
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@Tsaukpaetra Next time you jerks accuse me of being an ad industry shill, remember that I wasn't the one who pasted TV ads in response to a person who doesn't even have a TV.
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@ben_lubar said in The acti.link manifesto:
five minutes? You type pretty slowly. All you need is like one line of configuration: proxy_pass
I'm not at the machine, so I have to log in, traverse the jail to the config, modify it, save it, then tell nginx to restart.
An uber hacker I am not. ;)
@blakeyrat said in The acti.link manifesto:
I wasn't the one who pasted TV ads in response to a person who doesn't even have a TV.
I don't really either, but that's what came up when I searched "7 billion is over 6 billion" and I ignored the obvious math questions.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The acti.link manifesto:
An uber hacker I am not.
The taxi service breathes a collective sigh of relief there!
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@blakeyrat said in The acti.link manifesto:
7 billion is over 6 billion.
Congrats. Now, for third grade math, 7 billion is greater than 6 billion. Enough so, actually, that people don't usually use one of those numbers when they're talking about an amount that's around the size of the other.
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@blakeyrat said in The acti.link manifesto:
a person who doesn't even have a TV.
How were we supposed to know you don't have a TV? You don't live in England.
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@FrostCat said in The acti.link manifesto:
How were we supposed to know you don't have a TV? You don't live in England.
- Owning a TV isn't a necessary requirement for having to legally have that.
- You can legally own a TV without having to pay for that.
I've sure we've discussed the absurdity of that system before on here. Here's some from 3 years ago.
Edit:
- Oh, and it's the whole of the UK, not just England.
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@PJH said in The acti.link manifesto:
You can legally own a TV without having to pay for that.
Fun fact: in Poland, starting next year, you'll be paying for national TV just by the virtue of having electricity in your house. Added to your electricity bill.
'Cause you know, if you have power, you could be using it to watch the national TV without paying!
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@Maciejasjmj Oh, and since the law as it's proposed now doesn't really offer a way to find out who or what's using the power, that means one has to pay the fee for:
- a repair shop, store, and effectively any point of service
- your barn, if you happen to have it connected separately to the power grid
- an illuminated bus stop
Oh, and unlike the BBC, they still have the right to show commercial ads or product placement between the programmes. The only difference is that they can't have commercial breaks in the middle of them (unless it's a word from the programme sponsor).
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The acti.link manifesto:
@blakeyrat said in The acti.link manifesto:
7 billion is over 6 billion.
https://www.ispot.tv/ad/74M7/flonase-six-is-greater-than-one
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Every time I see that ad on TV I wonder what kind of idiot needs '6 > 1' explicitly said to them 3 times in the course of a 15-20 second ad.