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"An open network for secure, decentralized communication"
They started with a protocol spec and *then* built a reference implementation.
And they've already built gateways for a lot of existing things, such as IRC. Very very interesting. We may have to tie Citadel into this.
I looked at that when it first started, something i didnt like about it. I cant remember now. Something concerned me about the protocol or something.
Over the years I've considered a project that I never got around to implementing. I'd be interested in hearing what this crowd thinks of it, whether it's a good idea or a bad idea, and/or whether you know of anyone else already doing this.
The idea is to build a meta-wiki that is a front end to all the wikipedia competitors, and to wikipedia itself. In a way it would act as a search engine, but it would have the user interface of a wiki. The user would configure it with a list of sites they want to use, and the order in which they should be prioritized. An example user story -- let's say I'm a patriot and my normal research workflow is to check for a topic on Conservapedia, then RationalWiki, then Wikipedia as a last resort. I'd configure the site to prioritize them in that order, and then when I go to the main page and put in a topic, it would search them in that order.
Naturally, whichever site has the page earliest in the search order will be the one displayed, but at the top it would say "This page is also available on..." with a drop-down of the remaining ones.
They could be configured in whatever order you want, of course; so another user story might be someone who prefers humor over serious research. That user might prioritize Encyclopedia Dramatica over the other sites.
The working name I thought of was going to be "Metapedia", but it turns out that name is already used by a site that Wikipedia describes as "fascist, far-right, white nationalist, white supremacist, anti-feminist, homophobic, Islamophobic, antisemitic, Holocaust-denying, and neo-Nazi" -- which is what they call anyone who does not bow to the cancel mob. So we'd have to come up with another name, something that implies that it is a "wiki of wikis".
And of course the landing page would have a section "Who runs this?" which would say "...the same people who brought you UNCENSORED!, the free speech forums that have fought against censorship since 1988."
In the words of MST3K ... "What do you think, sirs?"
Meta collection services are good.
2021-07-04 16:38 from IGnatius T Foobar
Subject: "meta" wiki
Over the years I've considered a project that I never got around to
implementing. I'd be interested in hearing what this crowd thinks
of it, whether it's a good idea or a bad idea, and/or whether you
know of anyone else already doing this.
The idea is to build a meta-wiki that is a front end to all the
wikipedia competitors, and to wikipedia itself. In a way it would
act as a search engine, but it would have the user interface of a
wiki. The user would configure it with a list of sites they want to
use, and the order in which they should be prioritized. An example
user story -- let's say I'm a patriot and my normal research workflow
is to check for a topic on Conservapedia, then RationalWiki, thenconfigure the site to prioritize
Wikipedia as a last resort. I'd
them in that order, and then when I go to the main page and put in a
topic, it would search them in that order.
Naturally, whichever site has the page earliest in the search order
will be the one displayed, but at the top it would say "This page is
also available on..." with a drop-down of the remaining ones.antisemitic,
They could be configured in whatever order you want, of course; so
another user story might be someone who prefers humor over serious
research. That user might prioritize Encyclopedia Dramatica over
the other sites.
The working name I thought of was going to be "Metapedia", but it
turns out that name is already used by a site that Wikipedia
describes as "fascist, far-right, white nationalist, white
supremacist, anti-feminist, homophobic, Islamophobic,
Holocaust-denying, and neo-Nazi" -- which is what they call anyone
who does not bow to the cancel mob. So we'd have to come up with
another name, something that implies that it is a "wiki of wikis".
And of course the landing page would have a section "Who runs this?"
which would say "...the same people who brought you UNCENSORED!, the
free speech forums that have fought against censorship since 1988."
In the words of MST3K ... "What do you think, sirs?"
It sounds interesting. I think mediawiki has an api that makes queries easy for such metaengine, but I don't know about other wiki engines.
The problem, as always, woudl be to rank the search results. If I search for JFK Conspiracy Theory, how does the engine know which articles to show further up in the list of results?
Links would be modified to go back to the meta site, of course.
And yes, MediaWiki does have an API, but the last time I checked, it was disabled on Wikipedia itself. If that's no longer the case then it might be worth looking at, although that would restrict us to sites that have the API enabled, and definitely only to sites that are using MediaWiki.
One would think that the Wikipedophiles would pursue legal action against this, but as far as I can tell, it's completely allowed.
Lots of stupid frivolous lawsuits out there that they cant win in court.
They just gamble they can holdout longer than you, and have more cash to burn. They have attorneys on staff they are paying regardless if they work or not, might as well give them something to do. ( is their thinking anyway ). most of the time the people in the 'right' eventually run out of money, give up and go away. Or pay a fee to make them stop.
Sickening, but its the reality of how they abuse the system.
One would think that the Wikipedophiles would pursue legal action against this, but as far as I can tell, it's completely allowed.
2021-07-05 12:40 from IGnatius T Foobar
Subject: Re: "meta" wiki
I have no interest in writing a search engine or figuring out how to
rank results. Any page load would be prioritized in the order of the
sites that the user has chosen. For example, if the user wants to see
pages from Correct-o-pedia first, then probably-true-o-pedia second,
and Wikipedia last, then if a page exists on Correct-o-pedia it will
*always* be the one that loads, and so on, with a drop-down on the top
of the screen to see the same page on the other sites.
Links would be modified to go back to the meta site, of course.
And yes, MediaWiki does have an API, but the last time I checked, it
was disabled on Wikipedia itself. If that's no longer the case then it
might be worth looking at, although that would restrict us to sitesthe API enabled, and definitely only to sites that are using
that have
MediaWiki.
One would think that the Wikipedophiles would pursue legal action
against this, but as far as I can tell, it's completely allowed.
I think the Gopherpedia uses the Wikipedia api, and so far, it works fine. I haven't used it in a while, so maybe things have changed.
How All My Politically Correct Bones Were Broken
"I began encountering students who felt that receipt of a poor grade was simply evidence of my racism."
https://quillette.com/2021/07/07/how-all-my-politically-correct-bones-were-broken/
I swear I responded to this earlier.
Fri Jul 09 2021 15:29:59 EDT from LoanShark
How All My Politically Correct Bones Were Broken
"I began encountering students who felt that receipt of a poor grade was simply evidence of my racism."
https://quillette.com/2021/07/07/how-all-my-politically-correct-bones-were-broken/
2021-07-09 15:29 from LoanShark
How All My Politically Correct Bones Were Broken
"I began encountering students who felt that receipt of a poor grade
was simply evidence of my racism."
https://quillette.com/2021/07/07/how-all-my-politically-correct-bones-w
ere-broken/
This phenomena has been at work for long well before identitary politics was thing. Lots of parents would fill complaints if their kids didn't score good grades at school and try to blame the teacher with non-sense.
This is just a continuation of it.
The worst part is that it hurts legit students. When a given education center is known to give grades away for reasons other than the student's competence, employers will know any job application hailing from these places is to be thrown in the trash can.
I consider myself a victim of this problem.
And, if you read between the lines, if you own a 3D printer or CNC mill, or similar, you may have to register it too. Because you 'could' make bad things with it. Wonder when you have to show ID to buy pipe from the local hardware store.
Stalin and Hitler would be proud.
your brain and fingers might make a bad thing, you need a restriction for that. files have been illegal for a long time, the new encroachment are machine tools, next will be the hands that want to hold the tools.
they're afraid of your thoughts and want you to ultimately die.
the files were declared to be free speech. They were not illegal. But them getting classified export rules, means they can change rules and violate the Constitution at will.
Oh, sorry, I was attempting to make the observation that categories of "files" have already been made illegal. the implication being that it would be a matter of time for firearm related files. but that doesn't really matter since they're really after your disobedient mind. they have other ways to make you heel and die. you know, go get a jab.