Kim's blog

A public set of random notes I'd like to share

Still trying how to humanize this format...

in English

  • US Dem Senator press ICE to explain a leaked memos about massive data collection of US Citizens protesting against ICE, considering them “terrorist”. Nothing special but a small droplet in the Civil War the movie bucket...

  • proceeding of the age-censorship wave which has nothing to do with the safety of minors, but rather with getting the majority used to seeing “only what is authorized” and which is being proposed here “on an international scale” to impose conformism as a necessity “to protect” after having already pushed it “to be a united and therefore strong flock”. Be careful though: the more one lapses into authority due to a lack of authoritativeness, the closer the revolt is, and the later it comes, the less peaceful it will be.

  • proceeding of the new censornet, as we've been hearing for a while now, people are saying that the internet, meaning the web, since most don't know the difference anyway, is “dead.” First it was because of the big platforms, now it's due to LLM-generated content, but there's a common theme: convincing the masses that they need less and less freedom. Right at the moment when technology is starting to allow everyone to actually have it.

  • new-nazi-led Germany keep sinking as is bound to happen, most people still fail to realize that neoliberalism is the new nazism, merging classic nazism with the betrayed socialism of the USSR to carry out a political agenda that originated long before 1933. The EU can only function if it's united with the EEU, because we are industrial processors, while they have raw materials and room for development. Therefore, they could build an industry on their own, but they are behind; we, on our own, are dead, and neither side has the strength to unite by conquering the other. The nazis are plundering the EU and bleeding the Russian Federation dry for their next war against China; Germany, being the most submissive EU country, is the one paying the highest price.

  • the Clean Break Plan keep going slowly because the nazi International knows it doesn't have the strength to invade Iran, and the latter has feet of clay because it is still an oppressive theocracy and the people are starving.

  • the deal to “help Ukraine” is to boost the weapon sales of various giants producers it's not that it isn't known, but it's rare to read about it in The Guardian...

  • new study, yawning improve positively act on brain fluid circulation making the brain cool if needed, more clean/oxygenated, just a minor curiosity not to talk only about politics...

  • Vietnam's dual-track foreign policy or “we compete against China, and so we need USA as allies, but we know they're enemies too and that sooner or later they'll try to invade us again, to plant a different dictatorship that's more to their liking”...

  • San Francisco is still bracing for the Big One but while shops are more and more closed, junkies are more and more spread, Big Tech, in order to avoid losing their grip on their subordinates, are mostly refusing remote work by any means, even if it means taking a huge financial hit...

  • The EU nazis have realized that NATO isn't holding up, so they want a new one called NEATO, which would put the UK in charge instead of the USA. This would unite the countries most easily controlled by the Anglosphere (and the poorest, north and east) as a military force, essentially cannon fodder, while using the wealthier (south/east), less controllable countries as a factory for the former, keeping them on a leash under the pretext of military protection. Sure, the UK's will to oppress within the EU and the conniving submission of the high-level traitors currently in power in the EU is remarkable, but it's even more extraordinary that people still aren't saying “enough” and reclaiming Democracy through indefinite general strikes to impose a political EU furor populi and a new Nuremberg trial against our traitors and the primary Nazis of the British Crown.

  • BMW is continuing its suicide mission by trying to make its cars harder and harder to repair, even for the small things, not to mention the service push; I wonder if their management will figure it out before they end up filing for bankruptcy...

  • Do not rent, own yourself, another post against living on the shoulder of someone else, slave, or “the cloud”...

  • Nice post on how to wipe NVMEs drives and a partial overview of how much stratified issues we have in modern hw.

  • Saudi Arabia introduces camel passports to regulate $13bn market, I had no idea that the camel trade, aside from cashmere, was so economically significant...

  • US report accuses European Commission of interference in 2024 Romanian elections, just to recall what mr. Mr. Thierry Breton said... A shining example of democracy in name only, but substantive Nazism. here the report in pdf.

  • population aging is accelerating in Asia too, wherever there's progress, as natural, but obviously the economy refuses to adapt through advanced automation and the progressive reduction of the theft from the many just to keep a handful of kleptocrats in power...

  • The Netherlands join the unrealized gains tax club, the fiscal theft continues in order to achieve the WEF's Agenda 2030 where “you will own nothing” because they will have stolen everything from us... Until people will revolt...

  • The primary sponsors of terrorism offer help against terrorists, in order to continue their colonial theft...

  • Central Asian countries know they are at the center of WWIII, and while they are still largely ruled by dictators, they are trying to evolve by keeping their options open, an example that isn't all that common these days.

  • India failing to innovate, their ruling classes, much like our own, refuse to allow any evolution that would undermine their foundation, and the common people's fear of change lets them get away with it until the whole system breaks down.

  • Sovcombank now offer bitcoin-backed corporate loans an interesting evolutionary step, still pushing away retailers from BTCs...

en Français

  • Chassé peu à peu des anciennes colonies africaines, Macron tente d'attirer les anciennes colonies britanniques, étant donné que la domination française a été partout bien moins pire que la britannique. Les chances de succès sont évidemment infimes car la Chine colonise par le commerce (en provoquant des bouleversements, certes, mais elle commerce et n'arrive pas avec des armes) et la Féd. de Russie étend son influence en traitant bien ses partenaires. Il est temps de comprendre que le modèle colonial est terminé pour nous.

  • Yahoo Mail supprime son stockage géant gratuit, Il est toujours bon de se rappeler que soit on possède, soit on est à la merci de celui qui possède et offre ou loue.

  • La directive NIS2 s'apprête à faire son entrée en France, et pour une fois, c'est une excellente chose, même si elle ne sera pas forcément bien accueillie et provoquera une habituelle vague de bureaucratie extra et de services tiers.

in Italiano

  • la stratolitografia del silicio Cinese avanza mentre noi, gli ex maggiori innovatori degli ultimi secoli continuiamo a rigettare ogni necessaria evoluzione...

  • continua il tira-e-molla dell'internazionale nazista sull'Iran per portar avanti il vecchio piano Clean Break per il controllo delle risorse mondiali, sanno di non aver la forza di invadere l'Iran, come l'Iran sa d'avere i piedi d'argilla perché le teocrazie non piacciono ai giovani, specie maschi, e l'Iran è un paese giovane e maschilista e la gente ha fame, cosa che mette tutti d'accordo contro il governo...

  • si diffondono gli SSD finti, e siamo al problema del ferro verificabile, conoscibile ovvero della necessità di Open Hardware e FLOSS, necessaria ma già neanche sufficiente da sola...

  • pezzo frivolo su una storia personale che dovrebbe far riflettere sulle storture e limiti del sistema assistenziale che abbiamo...

  • quanto il potere è in bilico, stringe il collare, sai che novità... Quando lo fa, accelera la sua caduta.

  • La raffineria di Dos Bocas va a regime, il Messico cerca di ridurre la dipendenza dagli USA, chissà per quanto.

  • problemi di approvvigionamento anche per le turbine per le centrali turbogas, ma si continua a parlare di impennata della domanda, super-prezzi, non ammettendo il sostanziale fallimento del modello economico corrente.

  • Si continua a parlare di dimissioni per Starmer ma tanto i nazisti quando perdono una testa ne metton prontamente un'altra, e in UK il popolino è suddito anche per definizione formale, quindi...

  • Le proposte di Draghi per salvare l'UE sono continuare a negare l'UE politica con EuroParlamento sovrano, perché questo implica la fine del nazismo alto traditore per gli interessi britannici e della cleptocrazia di loro sudditi oggi al potere. Questo però non garba sentirlo ai più.

  • Automotive UE, il cancro non può esser salvato è destinato a morir con l'ospite, a volte però si può salvar l'ospite e nel caso il salvataggio passa dalla fine dei Dazi alla Cina, ovvero a noi, perché siamo noi a pagare non i Cinesi, per far fallire formalmente l'automotive nostrano, fallito sostanzialmente da tanto tempo, avendo smesso d'innovare per massimizzare i profitti a medio/corto termine, quando erano i nostri Ingegneri sin dagli anni '60 a spinger l'elettrico. Sinché una massa sufficiente di persone non lo capirà però si andrà di male in peggio.

  • i Neet... si, non studiano, perché il grosso delle università è obsoleto al punto che il 90% di ciò che si studierebbe non serve a nulla, neanche per la ricerca pura. Non lavorano, perché il lavoro rimasto, specie per chi non sa far circa nulla è solo sfruttamento e giustamente non è gradito farsi sfruttare, sarebbe il caso di ricordarlo a chi pensa di portar indietro l'umanità “a quando le cose andavano bene”, costoro ci han ucciso e si sono suicidati perché invecchiano e non avran nessuno a badare a loro né un paese vivo per supportarli da anziani. SERVE EVOLVERE non involvere se si vuol vivere.

  • cavo Unitirreno e traffico container positivi, ma se non si ammette la necessità di cambiare, e a livelli sostanziali, non si andrà granché avanti a lungo... Questi esempi sono la prova che è ancora possibile far qualcosa, anche molto, ma serve capire cosa fare e farlo.

  • Sanchez rischia la debacle alle prossime regionali, quando la Spagna ammetterà che l'urbanocentrismo ed il furto di successione detto tassa sono assassini economici nell'era presente allora forse potrà aver governi che durano per approvazione popolare. Quando governano nazisti, che siano vestiti di rosso o di nero per negare chi sono davvero, non potranno comunque durare.

  • Il SIRE, ennesima moneta parallela per negare che la moneta bancaria (tra l'85 ed il 90% degli EUR in circolazione) non è sostenibile e va per questo cancellata col concetto di riserva frazionaria e moltiplicatore dei depositi che questa comporta...

  • Il golden power che serve è quello di conferire al pubblico attività che non possono essere private per l'interesse collettivo. Sinché le armi saran un business, sinché la farmaceutica sarà un business chi vi opera avrà interesse alla guerra e alla malattia, non al contrario.

Starting with the premise that I'm only trying Nostr out as an experiment, so what follows are just first impressions...

what I like

The relative conceptual simplicity of the model; compared to the Fediverse it's definitely more resilient and approachable. The account is simply a key pair: a private one that lets you write, and a public one for reading only. As long as someone accepts you on it's relay (in addition to your own personal one, if you have one, which many don't), you're good, the messages will propagate across the network.

what I don't like

The lack of a complete reference structure to try: as of today, a new user is confused. Even if they have the technical skills to understand the conceptual model, finding a relay that supports a reasonable number of NIPs and a client that is convenient enough to play autonomously is not straightforward at all.

It's no better for the individual software projects, which seem to be a set of different projects started with enthusiasm and then just left there, without a substantial underlying design or an overall vision. They are presented in a very “showcase” style that doesn't suit a FLOSS project, and this is a common problem for many: only a few understand that to make a project work in its early stages, you need to attract those in the know, the nerds, the geeks, not the average person who will only ever be a consumer. While useful for building mass, they aren't helpful for the FLOSS development of something that needs to be structured a bit before reaching the end user. To do that, it needs FLOSS development that includes even distant and marginal contributions, meaning techies, nerds, and geeks who aren't part of the project but try to play around with it, leave serious comments, and suggest good ideas.

what I'd like

First of all, a locally-runnable web app in Go, self-contained and go install-able, that acts as both a relay and a client. This way, any techie, nerd, or geek who wants to test the project can dive right in just like any self-respecting techie, nerd or geek would:

  • a quick read of a landing page

  • trying out a demo instance

  • deploying a personal instance to play with

The latter should be hassle-free. And no, Docker is a huge hassle, and NixOS modules that aren't very complete or well-documented aren't any better. The techie, nerd or geek who did a quick test with a go install and liked it will put the web app on their home server or VPS and stick NGINX or something else in front of it. Period. Go is built for this, primarily for writing web apps. Rust is objectively hard to stomach; it could work too, but having 12k dependencies with maybe one of them breaking during a cargo build isn't a good start. Having relays without a client (meaning no UI) isn't great either. Adding an administrative UI to the WebApp to manage the relay wouldn't be a bad idea. Adding a blocklist for spammers and bots without relying on poorly maintained third-party scripts (because they aren't part of the project) that assume the server has node, deno etc, is a problem. It wouldn't be bad if this single, complete web app also supported optional binary content storage, perhaps limited to certain keys, to be truly complete.

If it's not Go, then Python is fine too, but it has to be something damn well self-contained and complete enough to test everything on the fly. People can play with Lego-style modularity and third parties projects later once they've decided to invest time in Nostr.

The second important thing is having documentation for the techie, nerd or geek so they don't have to struggle to find basic info to set up their own instance. Everything should be gathered in one place, at least for the most common NIPs, in a format accessible to someone who knows nothing yet and just wants to give it a try.

The third thing is the UI of the complete web app: it should be a website. In other words, rather than just being a pseudo-Twitter/X-like feed, it should act as a blog in the style of WriteFreely but with comments under every note plus a discussions page, plus chats and notifications. Everything is there, just not arranged in a coherent shape.

Yes, the project is young, but not having this is a sign of modern Silicon Valley Mode development. That's a bad mode to start with because that style of development barely works at a corporate level where management keeps things with a certain structure/focus, but it produces terrible results in general and just doesn't work in the FLOSS world. pp completa: che sia un sito web, ovvero che più di far da feed pseudo-Twitter/X-like faccia da miniblog stile WriteFreely ma con commenti sotto ogni nota, pagina delle discussioni, delle chat, delle notifiche.

if you want to follow me on Nostr...

In any of the nth clients, which should all have a search function, just enter my

nprofile1qyfhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytntveuzuenj9uqzpax4huez7aaz59wlcmj62plrke6apzh4zl4yl6ckcxdy9al6g4xwwt02mz

or alternatively my public key

npub17n2m7v30w732zh0uded9ql3mvaws3t6306j0avtvrxjz7lay2n8qa0pnwf

knowing that my personal relay is wss://nostr.kfx.fr

A short post I'll make often, collecting and sharing some news I find interesting day by day. They won't be daily, there won't always be in the same amount, but let's say that anyone who wants to follow along will find a sort of collection of “hot off the press” stories I thought were interesting enough to share.

So for today I collect

in English

en Français

in Italiano

This is an experimental blog (for now) to write some small articles on the web and fediverse, directly from Emacs/org-mode. I alredy tried with org-mode and Hugo but I'm not much satisfied by the result. Since I'm currently experimenting with the Fediverse I decide to try WriteFreely and Nostr not that convinced by both for some reasons but still interested to reach an usable modern classic web, meaning easy to use/update personal websites, personally served, mirrored by those who want automatically, with RSS for those who simply want to get the mere text, which is the only real point, as much as personal and without hassles as possible.

rationale for a blog

Well... Almost all of us have something to say, and the internet, the web, are enormous agoras where every message gets lost in the crowd. LLMs help find scraps of information you're looking for, just like classic keyword-based search engines do. RSS helps us follow who we want by creating our own personal aggregator, a limited and modern version of Emacs/Gnus for Usenet, meaning all posts are gathered with personal scoring to organize them instead of a third-party recommendation engine with potential biases according to those third parties' wishes. The essence is the textual message, with possible binary content (images, videos); the tool is how to deliver it depending solely on our own will, without third-party censors banning at their will, without recommendation engines hiding content displeasing to their owner, without dependence on a specific third party. Of course, for DNS, for having a connection, we still depend on third parties, but not specific ones; they are various and we can choose, without that implying any action from those who follow us. The concept is similar to porting a phone number between various operators; there's still a form of “slavery,” but I can change operators and whoever calls me doesn't have to do anything special when that happens; the number, like the blog, remains the same.

rationale for WriteFreely

The blog remains fragile nonetheless: it's a central point where someone publishes, then can delete, disappear etc. The Fediverse helps because it allows those who participate as readers to automatically have others' messages on their own server, to have them updated, but also archived and usable when needed, locally on personal iron. To this day, it's a plethora of different software, quite cumbersome. WriteFreely seems the least cumbersome to me; they are largely suboptimal for my tastes because unfortunately they lack the big picture: recreating Usenet with modern aesthetics for today's users and added modern medias¹ something that unfortunately is alien also to many modern programmers.

That's is, let the experiment begin!

notes

¹ photos, videos in better shape than being base64-encoded in binary groups