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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by roho@lemmy.ml to c/floss_replacement@lemmy.ml

(i haven't seen it mentioned in this sub. it has improved quite a bit since its inception. it deserves some credit🥂)

Jami is a free/libre, end-to-end encrypted and private communication platform that requires no central authority.

Multiple devices can be linked to a Jami account, and no personal information is required to create an account.

What features does Jami include?

  • Instant messaging
  • Audio and video calls
  • Swarms (group chats)
  • Video-conferences and Rendezvous points with no third-party hosting
  • Audio and video message recording
  • Screen sharing and media streaming
  • Built-in extension platform for new features and experiences
  • Jami can also function as a SIP client

Jami uses a distributed hash table (DHT) to connect peers. Jami accounts are asymmetric X.509 certificates generated by the GnuTLS library. Calls are made over the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) after negotiating a TLS-encrypted secure connection, performing Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP) communication which carries the media streams.

https://jami.net/

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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by roho@lemmy.ml to c/coronavirus@lemmy.ml

From https://drsforchoice.org/

BREAKING NEWS

Freedom Coalition of Doctors for Choice is pleased to announce a significant win for transparency! United States District Court Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk has issued a thoughtful, insightful, and incredible 30-page decision that orders the CDC to release the 7.8 million free text fields from the Covid-19 v-safe program to the public!

The CDC must release hundreds of thousands of these entries each month and all the entries must be released on or before January 15, 2025! CDC had argued that it never had to turn over the entries to the public because it was too burdensome to redact the entries. The Court vehemently disagreed and granted expedited processing, recognizing that “Predictably, the American public now seeks access to COVID-related papers to ensure that relevant government policies were — and still are — supported and justified by the available data.”

The first production of at least 390,000 free text entries is required to be produced by February 15, 2024 and all data received will be posted on this site for the public’s use. The full decision is available here.


Court ruling: https://cases.justia.com/federal/district-courts/texas/txndce/2:2023cv00102/378122/40/0.pdf

Excerpts:

MEMORANDUM ORDER AND OPINION

.. The Motion is GRANTED ..

INTRODUCTION

..

V-safe collected two types of data from millions of Americans: (1) check-the-box options and (2) free-text responses.

Plaintiff seeks production of approximately 7.8 million freetext responses pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”).

..

C. Plaintiff’s FOIA Request

While “Trust the Science” became something of a national slogan, 19 the American public’s trust in science and scientists are at an all-time low.20 It is with this background that Plaintiff aims to further the ideals pledged by the Biden-Harris administration: to “Promote trust, transparency, common purpose, and accountability in our government”21 by making available for public access — and particularly for independent scientific and medical research — all of the relevant health data collected through the V-safe program. As the check-the-box data has already been released, it is the free-text response data Plaintiff seeks.

...

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submitted 8 months ago by roho@lemmy.ml to c/canada@lemmy.ml

is this man on-par, or is he misinformed?

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What do you think of this solution?

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submitted 8 months ago by roho@lemmy.ml to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

This game may bring back some fond memories :)

IsoRealms Spindizzy Launch Trailer

Spindizzy is a remake of the 1986 classic computer game of the same name, originally developed by Paul Shirley. The remake features true 3D OpenGL graphics and runs on a custom-built engine called Isorealms.

In Spindizzy, you are cartographer for undiscovered worlds; your task is to explore and map all areas of the recently discovered strange dimension of Hangworld. In order to complete your task, you take control of GERALD. However, fuel is expensive and funding can only be supplied as long as progress is being made, so it is vital to explore new areas and recover jewels.

The Isorealms engine features a complete content creation toolkit for modifying and extending Spindizzy, as well as offering the opportunity to create entirely new projects from scratch.

Isorealms content creation tools are aimed at users of all experiences, from those who simply want to build new worlds to those who want to take advantage of advanced features such as Lua scripting and custom asset importation.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by roho@lemmy.ml to c/publichealth@mander.xyz

In March 2021, Geert Vanden Bossche (Virologist and Vaccine Developer) warned of the dangers of mass vaccination during a pandemic to drive viral evolution.

Recent further unusual patterns in viral evolution have indicated to him that the virus is now making more changes which will allow it to evade all vaccines.

Three clinicians will reflect on his assumptions and analyse disease presentation in the general public.

  • Dr Shankara Chetty (South Africa)
  • Dr Robert Rennebohm (USA)
  • Dr Philip McMillan (UK)

Channel url: https://odysee.com/@GeertVandenBosscheVideos:9

[-] roho@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

“In the context of censorship in the West, there was a prevailing illusion that the West embodied greater freedom of speech and press, portraying itself as a society with minimal censorship. Yet, I believe that censorship persists wherever there is power.”

Indeed

Censorship, in fact, arises from the vulnerability of power

Which then suggests that that kind of 'power' is without any trust in the moral fiber of society. And if moral fiber indeed is lacking, that i.m.o. would be the place to start building.

western censorship is 'more concealed'

The topic mentioned in the article is not what i'm talking about, but indeed; i know a few other topics for which i've been shadowbanned/censored/banned on various platforms. Sadly.. including this one. A dialogue trying to learn eachothers reasons is not happening a lot anywhere.

(edit)I'm from NL and WOO-reqeuest(like FOIA) have shown that govt had API access, to e.g. fb, twitter, used for censoring whoever they see fit.

[-] roho@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

Me too. i'm assuming it's downvoted by people who see it appear in their servers mainpage, but aren't subscribed to this topic

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Compelling speech by researcher Dr. Karla Turner

Her story:


If you wanted to find four words to describe the life of alien abduction investigator Karla Turner, Ph.D., those words might be intrepid human rights activist. A former college instructor who held a doctorate in Old English Studies from the University of North Texas, Turner had authored three books on the abduction phenomenon, Into the Fringe (1992), Taken (1994), and, with psychic Ted Rice, Masquerade of Angels (1994). She was convinced that the aliens were here not to help us out, but to steal from us the sovereignty of our souls.

She wanted us to fight back – with the same courage that she herself showed when, after a period of struggle – just like Mae Brussell and Ann Livingston– she succumbed to a particularly virulent, fast-acting form of breast cancer, on Jan. 9, 1996.

The diminutive scholar, author and activist, who was born in 1947 and made her home in Roland, Arkansas, had been involved in alien abduction work since 1988. Two traits, she had come to conclude, characterized alien behavior above all: deceitfulness and cruelty. In Into the Fringe, she recounted the abduction experiences of herself, her husband Casey (an assumed name), and several other members of her family. The family had first became aware of their experiences in 1988. Later, they were able to recall abduction events going back to their childhoods; the experiences were uniformly disturbing. In her second book, Taken (published, like Masquerade of Angels, by her own press, Kelt Works, in Roland), Turner told the stories of eight female abductees who had contacted her after the publication of her first book. Masquerade of Angels was the biography of Louisiana psychic Ted Rice, who, used to channeling benevolent entities, then becoming aware of his alien abduction experiences, first believed the aliens were benign, then came to the conclusion that they were no more than remorseless predators.

From beginning to end, Turner had been struck by how contradictory the stories of the aliens were. They would, she averred, say anything they wanted to attain their ends. As the abductees in Taken reported it, the aliens insisted variously that they had come to help us cope with upcoming ecological disaster, interbreed for our good and theirs, help us evolve, take our genetic material to revivify their dying race. Sometimes they claimed they had outright created us; other times, that they were genetically altering us for our own good.

In one of the most moving accounts in the annals of alien abductions, Turner tells Ted Rice's story, in Masquerade of Angels, of how, as an 8-year-old boy, Rice found himself along with his much-beloved grandmother inside a UFO and surrounded by a variety of aliens, including a tall reptoid. The aliens brought out the grandmother's husband, who had been dead for six years, and insisted she have sex with him. Partway through the act, the grandfather metamorphosed into the tall reptoid. Now the reptoid demanded to have sex with Rice. The boy's grandmother refused to allow this, even though the aliens insisted she would be dead in two days if she did not renege. Two days later, the grandmother was indeed dead of a massive heart attack.

The blatant deceit of this incident shaded over into Turner's other area of contention with the aliens: often, they were cruel, inflicting physical and mental pain on the abductees. One of the Taken interviewees was so traumatized by her experience of impregnation on a UFO that she could not resume normal sex. Another suffered a bloody, painful miscarriage in her own bathroom. On account of a pulling action by the aliens, a third victim sustained a spinal injury so severe that her doctor warned her it could prove permanent. And these physical problems were accompanied by the usual emotional trauma of the abductee: confusion, terror, paranoia and ambivalence.

If abductees often came to believe that the aliens must somehow have some lofty purpose, this was because, insisted Turner, they have total control over our minds. Turner cited many cases pointing to a psychic technology that enabled the aliens to make us see whatever they wanted us to see. They could create virtual reality scenarios at will, she was certain. The abductees took home from their abduction experiences as memories whatever the aliens wanted them to remember. Even what was revived under hypnosis might only be a screen memory.

Turner was profoundly at variance with those who claimed we would see the alien abduction phenomenon as benign, if only we could understand it – but we were not capable of understanding it. The author spelled out in Taken what became her credo: "In spite of what some prominent abduction theorists tell us about avoiding thinking in terms of 'good and evil' or 'positive and negative' when it comes to the aliens, this cannot be done, nor should it be. For these women, for my husband and myself, for all abductees, knowing that we have been made a part of this agenda and that we have been implanted, trained, and programmed to participate in some future scenario, how can we not ask to what purpose our minds, bodies, and souls will be used?"

Turner entertained at least one comprehensive theory about why the alien abductions took place. At least one group, she suspected, the reptoids, needed to eat our bodies. Rice had provided her with a chilling account (similar to accounts in Taken) of an alien abduction during which reptoid aliens actually murdered the psychic (Rice watched this, as if disembodied, from a distance), then sucked the soul out of his body into a black box. In a short time, they re-released the soul back into a clone of his body, which they had manufactured apparently using organic materials reaped from cattle mutilations. Turner believed the reptoids then ate Rice's original body – and in general need to ingest human bodies – because it was saturated with the emotional and/or the soul vibrations of the human; the reptoids did not eat cloned bodies, she speculated, because they had not become imbued with soul/emotion substance in the course of living. (Turner also wondered if the oft-mentioned hybrids might not simply be organic fodder used to manufacture the bodies of the zombie-like, carefully-regimented 'greys.')

What Turner perceived as the deceit and cruelty of the aliens – along with the total lack of reciprocity in their actions – made her into a human rights activist who insisted that we must stand up for ourselves and seize back our souls from this rapacious, non-human species (she speculated that the aliens had developed parallel to us, on this Earth, then become transdimensional). "To accept a spiritual explanation for the abduction process and the abducting entities," she told an interviewer for Contact Forum in May/June, 1995, "is foolhardy and potentially dangerous to our souls." To another interviewer she reiterated that, if we do not rouse ourselves, "we may come to the point where we cede the sovereignty of our souls. We should stand up for our souls. I think there is a possibility of finding out how to change the situation."

Until shortly before her death, Turner regularly issued veritable calls to arms from the podiums of UFO conferences across the U.S. and abroad. The aliens, she said time and again, used their powers to control our perceptions and practice disinformation in order to break down our resistance and deceive us into believing they were interested in our well-being – when they were not. All the evidence, she said, suggested their purposes were totally self-serving and without regard for the needs of homo sapiens. Now was the time, she insisted, "to work at getting back control."

How could this be done? Turner contended the best defense against alien intrusions was not "abduction therapy" – though that could be helpful – but abduction research itself. To audiences around the country she listed what she considered to be the only "facts" that might be construed about the alien invaders:

  • We do not know with any certainty what they are.
  • At least some of the aliens lie.
  • During encounters, they control our perceptions.
  • They can implant false memories.
  • What we report about them is what they want us to report.
  • The alien agenda has physical aims and procedures that have nothing to do with reproduction.
  • From childhood, they manipulate us physically, spiritually, and sexually.
  • They create virtual reality scenarios that are absolutely real to the abductees.
  • They show an extraordinary interest in human souls and in our thoughts.
  • There is some element of human involvement in UFO phenomenon.

Turner suspected the military sometimes harassed abductees after they had been harassed by the aliens; but the Arkansas researcher did not reveal facts for fear of endangering friends.

The abductee/author insisted the aliens were engaged in a propaganda war to convince us that their designs were more benevolent than they were. They might be creating virtual reality scenarios of cross-breeding, she thought, to suggest that we share commonalities with them and that they need us. But, she said, there are just as many accounts of, for example, brain operations as there are of fetal transplants. In a propaganda campaign that included demonstrating their superiority and their proprietary relationship to us – and in consistently painting a benevolent picture of themselves – they were basically concerned, she had become certain, to "debase and lower our self-view, and to break down our resistances."

Articulately, always with sensitivity, the former college lecturer maintained there were a number of steps abductees could take in the face of alien provocation:

  • Educate themselves about the phenomenon; there is some control in knowledge.
  • Let go of fear; it is through fear that negative entities maintain control. Anger is a more effective defense than fear.
  • Abductees should be aware of how they're reacting; they should learn to step out of themselves, and to maintain perspective.
  • Maintain a good quality of life.
  • Be realistic about what can and cannot be done.
  • Stay close to their families.
  • Confide. "The hell with the results," says Turner. "You don't need the burden of carrying this around [without being able to talk about it].

"If the terrors of the abduction experience made us grow stronger, concluded Turner, it was not because the aliens wanted us to have this strength, but because we willed it ourselves. Similarly, she insisted, we should take into our own hands this appalling violation of our rights as human beings, and fight it with all the resources which we could muster out of the richness of human creativity and experience.

This brave and defiant refusal, in the name of humanity, to countenance suffering from an alien tyrant masquerading as a benefactor, is Karla Turner's final legacy.

John Chambers, UFO Magazine (source: https://projectcamelot.org/turner.html )

Karla Turner's original website (backup in the internet archive) : https://web.archive.org/web/20080206231039/https://karlaturner.org/

[-] roho@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

On tiktok i found this;

1st hand witness #1 https://www.tiktok.com/@portarok/video/7320640607658052907

~~1st hand witness #2 https://odysee.com/@InfoNews:f/Miami-Eyewitness:9 .~~ (on his tiktok he admits making it up)

Regarding the rooftop video-shot which is all over the news, as if there’s an alien walking… There a better video from another angle, showing those are 3 cops walking… https://youtu.be/fhyx_22iZIE?t=557

[-] roho@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

interesting.. there's this nobel-prize winning ivermectin again https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scabies

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In deze aflevering spreekt Shohreh Feshtali met jurist Jeroen Pols. Jeroen is een jurist die zich jarenlang heeft verzet tegen onrecht en onwettige praktijken van de overheid aan de kaak stelt. Hij werd jarenlang beschuldigd van belastingfraude door de overheid. Na 4 jaar aan rechtszaken en een slopend proces is hij uiteindelijk vrijgesproken. Het is uiteindelijk bevestigd: hij is niet schuldig! Verder deelt Jeroen zijn visie over de huidige situatie in de wereld en wat zijn eigen plannen zijn. Hij geeft ook toelichting over de ontvangen donaties.

[-] roho@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

i think majority wouldn't dare to show their personal take on eternal-life in public, being afraid to receive bad comments. So, kudo's to him to do so here and there, in the face of being bullied. personally, i think how he does it is appropriate and not over the top.

Regarding how serious he's about it; He actually quoted Galatians 5:22-23, at 11:20 with a passion. i.m.o., he isn't "being religious" but he makes it practical.

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Controle Verkiezingen (controle-verkiezingen.nl)
submitted 1 year ago by roho@lemmy.ml to c/nederlandse_info@lemmy.ml

Nieuwe verkiezingen!

Op 22 november 2023 worden de vervroegde Tweede Kamerverkiezingen gehouden.

Wat kan ik doen?

Allereerst: ga stemmen! En overtuig zoveel mogelijk mensen in jouw omgeving om dat ook te gaan doen. Hoe meer mensen stemmen, hoe lastiger het wordt om de uitslag te frauderen!

Wat kan ik nog meer doen?

Heel eenvoudig: zorg dat je op 22 november bij het sluiten van de stembus in jouw stembureau aanwezig bent om getuige te zijn bij het tellen van de stemmen en de controle van de uitslag. Hoe dat in zijn werk gaat, leggen we uit nadat je je hebt aangemeld.

Meld je aan!

Met jouw hulp kun je bijdragen aan een transparant en eerlijk verloop van de verkiezingen. Help mee, zodat elke stem daadwerkelijk telt!

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submitted 1 year ago by roho@lemmy.ml to c/nederlandse_info@lemmy.ml

Partijleden, partij programma en manifest zijn hier te vinden:

Interview met de partijleider:

Youtube kanaal:

Bekend van de protest organisatie:

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[-] roho@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nowadays doesn’t even make any sense to use servers. ... Why not create something better?

i think you might underestimate the problem.

Jami.net (a decentralized messaging app) works p2p. it uses a torrent-like distributed-hashmap to locate the peers at any moment. (The main usability issue for nontechnical users, is that devices on an internal ip address aren't addressable from outside. This requires (a single point of failure and privacy concern), a turn-server)

They started to incorporate Git for merging chats for the reason that any of set of peers (of a group chat) can be out of reach of another set of peers, i.e. the chat continues on different branches and needs to be merged again later.(this happens in the clients-app, because there is no central server). Jami is aiming at double-digit group sizes.. That's not nearly the size of what Lemmy is handling.

[-] roho@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Documentation etc can be found from their github page

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

[-] roho@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Maybe a developer is better suited to answer that question. @nutomic@lemmy.ml i'd assume there's a difference in load in the backend and load on the frontend.

[-] roho@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

if you're a registered user on a server, when you click [Communities], there you can see

  • [local] communities - Those created on your server
  • [all] communities - Those local and also those already federated to your server

You can subscribe to a community of any server which your server can federate with. The list of connected servers you can find via the /instances link at the bottom of the page.

There's an easy to use community search tool here https://browse.feddit.de/

If you've found a community you like to follow, translate the original URL to a federated URL You do this by putting the community URL of the original server in the search bar; e.g.

(This search functionality is available in the web interface, but not yet available in the Jerboa app)

The result will list the federated URL. A federated URL has the form:
https://<your server>/c/<community-id>@<other server>

Visiting the federated link, and clicking [Subscribe] will make that community be federated to your server from now on. Your subscribed community will now also be listed under the [all] communities listing on your server.

[-] roho@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Hi. Thx for the heads up. Indeed server hosters are free to do what they wish. I don't have examples. I saw a video quite a while back, explaining quite some difficulties with moderation on fediverse. I'll search for it.

[-] roho@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

I agree. Lemmy Hoste multiple communities on a single instance. This gives room for interaction with people thinking different than you. That's i.m.o. positive.

I learned In fediverse there's much ignore lists and exclusion of servers happening. I'd much rather have users personally choose which communities/users not to see than whole servers being excommunicated for them(unless it's spam servers ofcourse). Excluded Servers clusters(islands) are a breeding ground for mindset that the whole world thinks likewise(because there's no notion of other servers). In my opinion cancel-culture is detrimental to society. Documentary "The social dilemma" has shown that; eg Facebook which, for add revenue, targets info only to users who are already interested. This breeds anti social/extreme mindsets.

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