● 08.09.23

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● Gemini Links 09/08/2023: Joy of Creative Effort

Posted in News Roundup at 8:35 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Gemini* and Gopher

Personal/Opinions

• The St-lmier Congress marked the beginning of an organized anarchist movement. The comrades who gathered in St-lmier in 1872 drew up a strategy on how to achieve federalism. Their plan was to conduct an economic struggle outside the institutions to take over the means of production and collectivize them.

• 150 years later, many of us share the aim of a society organized horizontally and from the bottom-up, a direct or radical democracy made up of federated collectives. The kind of strategy we need to achieve these goals needs to be discussed. In a world that is changing faster and faster and propulsating us from a crisis to the next is making it difficult for us to draw a plan according to each new situation. Not having a plan in turn makes it difficult to see the horizon of the society we want to build and creates hopelessness and fatigue. But violent crisis are creating breaches in the system and opportunities for those who are prepared to take them.

• Tonight’s performance was a complete and total blast. The place was packed, and we were on our game. There was much mouthing of lyrics, and a fair amount of dancing. My vocal chords were poised for productivity due to a three hour outing followed by several days of rest, which has historically led to above average prowess. The fact our bass player and his sound guy did the majority of the sound system setup and maintenance was glorious. They were happy to help out given they were guests at what was originally my and my wife’s gig.

Technology and Free Software

• It’s common knowledge that SSH connections are secure; however, they always had a flaw: when you connect to a remote host for the first time, how can you be sure it’s the right one and not a tampered system?

• SSH uses what we call TOFU (Trust On First Use), when you connect to a remote server for the first time, you have a key fingerprint displayed, and you are asked if you want to trust it or not. Without any other information, you can either blindly trust it or deny it and not connect. If you trust it, the key’s fingerprint is stored locally in the file `known_hosts`, and if the remote server offers you a different key later, you will be warned and the connection will be forbidden because the server may have been replaced by a malicious one.

Internet/Gemini

• I came to Gemini later than a lot of people, emailing RTC’s admin to request an account last November. It was part of my first (of many) attempts to leave Twitter, my social media drug of choice. I’d known about Gemini for a while; left_adjoint told me about the slow web, and Gemini, and the recent resurgence of pubnixes. I didn’t act immediately but I’m grateful for the conversation. It was one of those things that stuck with me, so that when I was thinking about how everything was sort of going to shit, I thought, okay, why not try something _really_ different?

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