Sure mate, and Biden (whose politics on Israel Kamala explicitly said she approve) didn't send 2000lb bombs (that the US Military themselves don't use because they have too much collateral damage) to Israel to bomb Gaza with.

On the Israeli Genocide, by their own words Kamala and Trump were very much the same.

On Iran, probably not.

On Fascism in America itself, definitely not.

They may even figure out how to run a newsgroup.

The shit I have to read to keep updated for my totally real job of protecting children from people like myself. Y'know, I aced predator psychology in Quantico; I just thought about what I would do. It was that lil snafu on the shooting range that cost me my commission. In my defense, I got a headshot; I was just facing the wrong direction. Now I'm only allowed to be famous. Those feebfucks are assholes, amirite?

Without my parents trying to punish me, i might not have become a sysadmin.

Learned how to wire up phone lines, and hid a 2400 baud modem in the bookcase.

They don't maintain the blocklists themselves but often times the crappy vendor just uses a crappy whitelist whenever a school complains about something being bypassed.

I remember back being a high school freshman in nineth grade finding all sorts of ways to access pornography and other inappropriate websites, but also countless hours figuring out how to listen to music, ultimately finding Pandora in its inception and then abusing tf outta the replay mechanics there. Y'know, I created ten stations around this one band to skip a hundred times and listen to the same three or four songs over n over. Looking back, my mental algorithms for approaching such problems was fundamentally different. I didn't know things, so I tried anything. This strategy, in the grander picture, is something the FBI banks on dem yutes doing to thus give credence to keep tabs and thus generate leverage to use in the future.

If the government takes a picture of you jaywalking, they will always have that picture, and it gets really inconvenient when you have a hundred pictures of you jaywalking, or whatever. Especially since the aliens of the Illuminati, or whatever we're called, will trick you beforehand, to really fuck you over in ways you are ignorant and naive of.

Just how the police state works, y'know?

You just want Reddit to go back to the Spacedicks and Jailbait age. Don't lie. We see who you are.

To get around blocks, we just configured the internet connection settings to use a proxy server. Once someone figured that out, word spread and then we all had access to everything.

Kids will always work around blocks. Whitelists don't work because they inevitably block something you need to access and that's frustrating. Blacklists don't work because you can't review every site and everything it does. Even if you can, new ones they shouldn't access are popping all the time. And even if they aren't, it takes one clever kid to run a proxy server at home and give access to the whole school. The adults don't realize that computers and the internet are built like Russian nesting dolls. Inside your site can live the entire damned internet or an NES emulator or an LLM that does your homework or whatever the hell you want. Having internet access means having access to the whole internet. Kids interpret censorship as damage and route around it.

Hahaha what?

As long as general purpose computer devices are widely available, I think you're right. Which, of course, will mean that "general purpose computers are not fit for for the broad public and should be restricted to a privileged licensed few for your own good." This possibility is something I worry about.

Yeah, same.

Authoritarians must love you

Keep in mind these kids are as young as 8. I don't know any 8 year olds that have 100 bucks to spent on a phone. Also their parents would find out immediately.

There's a lot of us this time around, amirite?

Certainly the oligarchic part of the government doesn't want that. But if the government is of the people, then it should. Meta wants people hooked as early as possible. If kids can't access big social media, a competitor will fill the niche or kids will work out how they can run their own infrastructure that can easily do some of the things big social media does. That's a win.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean illuminati ain't out to getchya

It's probably less clear than it should be, but the second sentence in that comment is not really my point of view. I'll edit it to make that more obvious.

You're correct. Agents circumvented their sandbox by using Artifactory as a message board in order to communicate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI–HuggingFace_incident

i used this feature (but on kde plasma de on linux) when i obtained a rlly old (2012) laptop with no touchpad drivers for linux

I was using IRC in 2002. Leaded gasoline was banned in my country by 1996. Thalidomide came out in 1957 and is still used in some circumstances.

If you're going to critique IRC for being old tech, at least pick a consistent timeframe.

Check downForEveryoneOrJustMe :p

jami is a possibility too

https://jami.net/

Reddit started in 2005, well after the Net boom and crash when the Internet became comercialized, and did not exist in the 90s.

90s internet was things like Usenet, IRC and Geocities. In fact in the early part of the decade the WWW hadn't even been invented yet and people used stuff like FTP and later the Gopher protocol.

The 90s on the Internet was a period of inventiveness and explosive technological growth and Reddit came in the coattails of all that, already by the time every grifter and their dog thought they could get rich from the Internet, and added nothing of real value to it: just another social media site trying to exploit business networking effects to lock-in users same as plenty of already existing sites.

Bro, I was in elementary school in the nineties. Tf are you on? I wasn't posting pictures of my butthole at that age. Only from 28 onwards. I did post memes, tho.

Oh bro went and expanded his dong. I'm glad you have Wikipedia open right next to you. That's cute.

Mate, you do you.

I am

ftp://demo:demo@demo.wftpserver.com/

I click, it do nothing. Am I have been hackered?

What is this shit? You keep pimasticating like you know what that word means

I should say I tapped. Fucking weird lingo of the times, y'know?

Tldr leetspeak

You could use SSH as an instant messaging system. Tmux and split your screen, top half runs watch -n 0.5 "cat msglog" then the bottom half echo "msg" >> msglog, you could make it fancier with a script to open that all up and automatically add usernames to the start of each message.

Good luck blocking SSH. At that point you are looking at just banning computers and networks.

There is always a small percentage of kids who will always come up with, and share, solutions to get around the adults. God bless 'em everyone.

This kinda reminds me of MiiVerse and how the YouTube channel on it was turned into a group RP room by kids.

Back in my day, we used dxdiag to chat with each other at school.

TIL!

https://www.reddit.com/r/geek/comments/26lkml/a_trick_from_my_school_days_you_can_open_up_a/

Start > Run > "DXDIAG"

Select the Network tab

Select Test DirectPlay

Use DirectPlay8 TCP/IP Service Provider and a preferred port

Create New Session

Then simply have your friend join the session, entering your IP or NETBIOS name. magic.

Neat trick!

Bad link?

Good luck blocking SSH. At that point you are looking at just banning computers and networks.

"After blocking every other possible avenue of children having unstructured, unmonitored communications with each other, they have now learned 'UNIX' just to spite us! To that end we will now be banning all computers. Think of the children!"

net send

This is astonishingly similar to what we used to do in computer lab like 25 years ago. We used to go to coffebrakearcade.com, then go to connect four and select watch. It had it's own chat and we'd just treat like a chatroom.

Until some winner made a batch file with a net send to a wildcard that crashed the whole school network

My college (while learning computer science) thought a proper social media block was to whip up a hosts file that it pushed to every PC when it rebooted. It would just route certain sites to a black hole.

The freaking librarian would go around showing students how to delete the hosts file. Dude was out of pocket, he would print off whole chapters of text books for you too so you wouldn’t have to spend hundreds on the book. What a legend.

I miss usenet back before it got overrun by the eternal September effect.

When my wife insisted that I set up a porn filter to prevent our teenager from finding "bad things" on the internet, I did the most basic DNS filter, and told our son that there was a filter and that I would be impressed if he found a way around it and could keep his discovery quiet so I wouldn't have to set up something more effective.

I was that kid running my own proxy server at home. I charged $5 for access but people just started sharing credentials instead of paying lol