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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • There needs to be some sort of unblockable self-hosted broadcast system where users can spin up their own cloud hosted instance by entering a username and password and choosing one of hundreds of providers for a small fee, or self hosted instance as quickly and easily as installing a single app on an android phone. These with act just like websites, but with a common protocol and API so they can communicate with each other and with clients with no specific add-on. Then, Turkey or whoever could block Turkish ISPs from fulfilling that request, but anyone else could still access the instance in their client as long as their own instance doesn’t block it.

    Hostable on a phone, a windows PC, Linux PC, self-hosted VM, cloud rented VM, whatever. And easily portable from one place to another.

    Sure, uptime and reliability would suffer, EG when PC is turned off, but that’s acceptable to gain resilience against ISP, central services like google and Facebook and twitter, and government interference.

    I have designed a system to do this, using very reliable existing protocols and programming frameworks, I just don’t have the time or money to invest to make it happen.





  • I’m reading “Lost In Shangri La”, It’s a true story about an army plane carrying a lot of womens army corps personnel that crashed in the highland valley of Baliem in New Guinea, a place that almost nobody knows exists, inhabbited by uncontacted cannibal tribes, and surrounded by thousands of guerilla-style embedded Japanese troops. The three survivors, two men and one woman suffer horrific injuries and gangrene, and are on the verge of death when the US army parachutes a bunch of paratroopers in to treat the survivors, with no established plan to extract them. The mountains are far too high for helicopter extraction, and there’s nowhere to land a plane in the jungle.

    I recently got done reading “The Day I fell From the Sky”, a story about a german teenager who was the sole survivor of a mid air plane explosion who survived her plunge into the jungle and self-rescued over the course of like 2 weeks.

    Next up is “Cannibals are Human” by Helen Mcleod, an expedition back into Papua New Guinea. So I guess I’m on a bit of a jungle vibe this month.