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Post by Michael on Dec 6, 2023 23:02:04 GMT
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Post by Michael on Dec 6, 2023 23:14:16 GMT
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Post by Gerry on Dec 7, 2023 9:43:09 GMT
How could it go wrong if it was based on blockchain technology?!? To cite web3isgoinggreat.com: "Web3 is going just great ...and is definitely not an enormous grift that's pouring lighter fluid on our already smoldering planet."Markers are there: LBRY was founded by a Kauffman. And the SEC filed for $111,000. Plus $614, where the digits again add up to 11. But what it was really about, I can only guess. Maybe they did manage to make a quick buck off the blockchain & freedom enthusiasts who bought the idiot coins. At the same time, it was probably also a test to see what people would upload & watch. And a planned fail, to show us that this "free" approach is no good. Wiki has this citation: "you can't just sit there and be a Pollyanna and think that all information will be free ... There will be racists, and people will shoot each other." So it's now proof that we need censorship, it's just better for us. Generally, the whole "push for video content" is an oligopoly game. Regular people cannot afford to create smooth-looking videos, and cannot even afford to host them. So no matter what the nominal protection for those alleged "free" videos is, the big hosting companies can always delete them, just by stopping to host them. Which average Joe will step up and re-host untold terabytes of video content, most of which is random crap? |
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Post by Michael on Dec 7, 2023 16:56:28 GMT
Gerry All excellent points, I doff my cap to you once again, sir! That web3isgoinggreat.com/ is fire, I can see I am going to have some more reading to do (and I still haven't got to the end of your work), I honestly hadn't heard of web3 until yesterday. Just knew LBRY was based on blockchain. I knew crypto was suss but didn't know the whole thing was. Yes, Kaufman was a bit of a clue. I thought that from first hearing his name, but the programming against such prejudice is so strong, and I would like to keep to its general principles. My guess would be planned fail, it is very demoralising for alternative types to have to keep hopping to platforms that then let them down. Not to mention that there is diminishing audiences and that it takes time to build up an audience. Which, I am sure, is one part of why you and Miles steer clear of uploading to such places. They want to keep the one man and his smartphone siloed as much as they can. If they can make a quick buck while they are at it then all the better for greasing the hands. I think they close it down when they start getting scared of what the people may find out. Indeed, about the oligopoly. On top of that consumers want a "one stop shop" for content, they aren't going to go hopping around from site to site seeing what random videos there are to fill their time with. These things often come down to a big three. I suppose we have YT, tik tok and then facebook and Instagram filling a slightly difference niche. BitChute seems just to be a planned mess, from British intelligence I take it. Is rumble a CIA front? It seems very slick. I am sure it will go the same way once the net is full. On a slight tangent, I assume there is something off with "right to repair" evangelist Louis Rossmann, ironically now in Austin, Texas. He seems quite genuine to me but he is still on YT, has a massive following and is Jewish (which pains me to type, I really hope it is not so) would love for him to be a good guy and break the stereotype.
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Post by erwin on Dec 7, 2023 17:25:38 GMT
In the past I also stumbled upon this video hoster. 153news.net/ where 1 and 5+3=8. There where a few interesting bits, but at some point the Admin there flooded it with 'dramatic' (as in fabricated) Black-Lives-Matters protest videos, with the excuse that these were all historically important. |
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Post by Michael on Dec 7, 2023 17:31:35 GMT
erwin ha ha, that site is what I mean by "it is amazing how deep the control goes" that is such a shoddy site yet they have it out there, I presume as a distraction and a conduit for certain information that no sane person is really going to find and accept.
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Post by Gerry on Dec 8, 2023 11:41:22 GMT
I don't know Louis Rossmann, but if he criticizes key projects and is still allowed on Youtube, then he's supposedly on some kind of leash. He doesn't have to be an evil or fraudulent person, it's just that the controllers seem to be sure that he won't suddenly say something unexpected. The web3isgoinggreat website is also such a case: The author's bio says she was a software engineer, then she got a Harvard fellowship to do her research against the blockchain. Very unusual. Then she's also a Wikipedia administrator sitting on the arbitration panels where they decide what gets censored. And on Wikipedia, she writes articles about LGBT, Covid, and Satanism. And she had a highly publicized feud with a rightwing publisher literally named "Mr. Monster". She talks about monopolies & censorship problems with the blockchain all the time, but cannot see any problems with Covid, or with Wikipedia's "reliable sources" policy. So again, she doesn't have to be an evil or fraudulent person, but she's obviously up to her neck inside the matrix. She's controlled one way or another. Still, her criticism about the blockchain seems pretty valid, as long as you don't take her as a "reliable source". I can recommend these articles for summary:
What all these people cannot explain though is why blockchain technology is pushed so hard, when it's really unsuited for just about everything, and very expensive on top of that. My suspicion is that the blockchain mining networks can also be tapped by the secret services for decryption: Blockchain mining computes cryptographic hashes, and for brute-force decryption you also need to compute cryptographic hashes. Now in theory, the algorithms are a bit different. But many blockchain miners probably use pre-manufactured software from the big companies, so they'd probably never notice if the software would contain some variations internally, and some of their machine's computing power would go into computing something else. Does anyone here know the algorithms a bit better?
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Post by erwin on Dec 8, 2023 17:52:08 GMT
I don't know Louis Rossmann, but if he criticizes key projects and is still allowed on Youtube, then he's supposedly on some kind of leash. He doesn't have to be an evil or fraudulent person, it's just that the controllers seem to be sure that he won't suddenly say something unexpected. The web3isgoinggreat website is also such a case: The author's bio says she was a software engineer, then she got a Harvard fellowship to do her research against the blockchain. Very unusual. Then she's also a Wikipedia administrator sitting on the arbitration panels where they decide what gets censored. And on Wikipedia, she writes articles about LGBT, Covid, and Satanism. And she had a highly publicized feud with a rightwing publisher literally named "Mr. Monster". She talks about monopolies & censorship problems with the blockchain all the time, but cannot see any problems with Covid, or with Wikipedia's "reliable sources" policy. So again, she doesn't have to be an evil or fraudulent person, but she's obviously up to her neck inside the matrix. She's controlled one way or another. Still, her criticism about the blockchain seems pretty valid, as long as you don't take her as a "reliable source". I can recommend these articles for summary:
What all these people cannot explain though is why blockchain technology is pushed so hard, when it's really unsuited for just about everything, and very expensive on top of that. My suspicion is that the blockchain mining networks can also be tapped by the secret services for decryption: Blockchain mining computes cryptographic hashes, and for brute-force decryption you also need to compute cryptographic hashes. Now in theory, the algorithms are a bit different. But many blockchain miners probably use pre-manufactured software from the big companies, so they'd probably never notice if the software would contain some variations internally, and some of their machine's computing power would go into computing something else. Does anyone here know the algorithms a bit better?
I cannot answer that last question. No experience with crypto-mining or anything. Two thoughts 1) I think that, in the eyes of the PN, As long as it pushes society to the digital virtual make-believe world it is seen as progress, regardless of bumps in the road. 2) It may be something they want people to work on, because they want the technology improved and/or infrastructure expanded. I will have to read these again: mileswmathis.com/bitfraud.pdfmileswmathis.com/nft.pdf |
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Post by Michael on Dec 8, 2023 17:52:56 GMT
Thanks Gerry, much appreciated. Agreed about Louis Rossmann, it will either come out or he will fizzle out.
Interesting thoughts on blockchain, as you probably guessed most of it went straight over my head, which is not hard to do. I have only really heard blockchain pushed for crypto, which, being limited, made of fresh air and only worth anything if people want and trust your token a lot risky; and ,LBRY, for the lack of deletion potential - which I always thought was a stretch as there would (likely) always be a way.
I think I know why Molly White is against web5 now, I first thought she was an anti, now it looks like she is speaking for her paymasters. They don't want to lose control of the web - so in that sense she is an anti. Hiding as a progressive with this Play-to-earn games introduced a rentier class of managers who oversaw low-wage workers in countries like the Philippines, Vietnam, and Venezuela and took a cut of their earning in exchange for just letting them play the game in the first place.
Plus, some selling of censorship as a necessary protection of the free market, which has free in it so it must be good.
Though, I must say, I wouldn't touch crypto with yours (as we crudely say over here). It is clearly a game of smoke and mirrors at the moment.
And, having said all that it is a good article from someone we (thanks to you) know to be wary of. A phenomenon which I think too many in our circles discount the mainstream for and then go and read untrustworthy CONOP's.
I hav learnt to take salt with a pinch of salt - actually in USA they put additives in salt so......
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