Alt Internet Ruminations



By 'Alt Internet' I mean, how is the Alt Right going to route around censorship[2] to free speech? I think I have a solution of sorts, so this thread is where I will present it. I understand that weev, working for Andrew Anglin's Daily Stormer is working on something he calls a WAF like no one has ever seen ('Web Application Firewalls' are a thing), in conjunction with Anglin's new Dark Web site -- it sounds like that will take time and money, though I'd love to know what he has in mind.



My approach to the same problem is different. One thing we learned about the explosive build-out of 'the Internet' in 1993, the Eternal Summer -- and I had moar than a little to do with that particular episode[3] -- is that the social / viral design is essential. It's not enough to be a 'technical saviour' and come up with a technical solution. You have to come up with a *social* solution to the problem, and usually that means enabling people to communicate how they want to. Richard Stallman got this *partly* right with his Free Software movement (the part he got wrong has to do with communism, and failing to appreciate the importance of the Software Guild in maintaining the balance between the developer and the user as a 'natural social relation'. His FSF is all about developer rights to *code stuff*, trampling on user rights to *be maintained* -- not the mention that the user is often the patron, and the developer the client, in Mediterranean sharecropper terminology -- don't get uppity now!).



I think we will need something like Geocities -- a place for experimentation with the medium of HTML, carried out by normies and not so normies who are trying to communicate with each other, across the whole spectrum of interesting things to say. The key is the transparency and sharing that HTML (and later JavaScript) allowed -- you could *copy* someone else's work, and modify it, and tinker.



What I'm going to present on this thread is a way the 'Alt Right' (or whatever other name you give to the proscribed faction that is being denied Free Speech in the usual American sense), can communicate, simply, in non-censorable terms. Using a rather new buzzword -- serverless architecture.



Now, 'serverless architecture' primarily refers to a prototype -- the use of Amazon API Gateway and Amazon Lambda (the Lambda-calculus and functional programming being part of the deep background here). We have had 'RESTful APIs' for 10 years now or moar, and Cloud Computing for nearly as long.



The first generation of Cloud Computing was an obvious merger of two previous trends -- virtualisation and the 'Grid' (multiple Linux clusters, geographically dispersed -- which arose first in scientific collaborations). This developed in parallel to 'Web 2.0' (Ajax -- asyncronous javascript and XML originally, though now moastly JSON -- JavaScript Object Notation). I call this development 'Thin Server'. It means, that the client side and the server side are refactored, so that the Client side is Thick, and the Server side, a commodity (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, etc.). This is dual to the Thin Client movement, which had the server side a beefy Linux server, and the client side little moar than a Citrix Terminal, or a streaming desktop (VDI). A lot of corporations in effect are Thin Client today, migrating towards Thin Server ('Microservices', The Cloud, and so forth).



I first used the term Thin Server in 2007 or so, a bit before I saw the design of the Chrome browser. At the time I commented that Google was revealing to us how they think -- they want the same worker threads they use in their data centres to be on *our* boxes, using *our* resources. It was like looking into the mind of a giant AI, and understanding its plan for world domination. They are at it, still, with their PWA initiative.



Thin Server today means 'serverless architecture'. Imagine that you run a vBulletin or Xenforo forum (oddly enough, maybe you do), running on the LAMP stack. Your vulnerability is that you have a hoast, who has a TOS, and you use DNS. Even though you 'own' a registered domain, you own nothing, Jon Snow. Your domain is really a *behaviour* of people who don't like typing. Because they don't like typing[4], you've gotten permission from an international cabal (ICANN) to use a *short* string to let them find you. This places you at the cabal's mercy. No one is going to install TOR just for you. Or use a non memorable onion -- you are going to have to solve that problem or be driven from the Public Square.



Here is my solution: first, separate the website as container from the website as content. Developers call this Dependency Injection. Second, make put the container in a many-many relation to its content, so that one container can exist at many sites, and many sites can share one container. 'Virtual hosts' at a shared hosting provider isn't good enough -- that is many-to-one. You obviously cannot rely on a *single* host, so your 'service' must be everywhere -- we are all Sparticus.



In this thread I will not just talk about my idea, however. I will show you, and offer you to participate in an experiment -- a sort of Geocities for the Alt Right experiment. If you PM me with an email address (sorry - use a fake one if you wish - the underlying authentication system, auth0, I'll give you an account in the sandbox so you can play). The 'sandbox' will be a *static* website (container) with *dynamic* content.



Imagine, if you will (at some future time), the ability to inject an entire existing Xenforo forum into any domain at all. [Parts of this work today, and parts will take work ... I'll explain the difference later]. If site A gets shut down, move to site B. Or maybe just distribute the site overy zeronet.io in the first place. Who knows what the solution will be? The fun is playing and finding it.



This concept is censorship resistant-- the website is, say 16 lines of code at a static website -- nothing evil there. Why on earth would someone shut it down? The dynamic part is 'Hyperdimensional Ajax 2.0' -- completely build the website from another location. The pages are editable HTML (you know, like Geocities). Build whatever you want -- and put your pages on whatever *site* you want. We are all Sparticus.



OK - so now someone will want to *censor* a data API. That's rather radical. That means, you want to go to census.gov say, and *censor* their Data API that says certain neighbourhoods have blacks living in them. Censoring entire (Deep Web) databases, because you don't like the content in them.



What happens when websites are just static containers for dynamic data, loaded from *other* websites, who just have data in (Deep Web, behind paywall...) databases? Hmmm? I'm sure something will happen of course -- Reality always does.



Yet hear we are, with what Ward Cunningham, when he invented the 'wiki', called the 'simplest online database that might possibly work'-- a bunch of crowdsourced content (like the Phora, or Wikipedia, or Geocities), *created* by its users. How can you stop such a thing? Apparently, if you hate the Daily Stormer, you can. For a moment or two.



I don't have weev's time (or a Hatreon account, yet). On the other hand, I learned years ago the wisdom of letting *other* people play and gain experience, and build content that they want.



Expect moar details this weekend.



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[3]: I am present with my older username, 'Googol'. Joseph Wang is the head of Usenet University, and inventor of tkWWW, the first graphical browser:



Quote: Googol says, "I've been looking into..."

Googol says, "creating curriculum materials"

Ventus says, "Good."

Googol says, "and there are problems with the minimalism of the HTML tag set"

Ventus says, "Of what sort?"

Googol says, "any way we can devise a standard extension?"

Googol says, "Here's where I am with this"

Googol says, "I have some materials, but they are rather long"

Guest says, "HTML ?"

Googol says, "you can get them by FTP"

Ventus says, "Perhaps you could expand on that "HTML"?"

Googol says, "HTML == Hypertext Markup Language. An SGML dialect used for WWW"

Googol says, "DO you know SGML\ and WWW?"

Ventus nods

Guest says, "I know WWW and hope to visit WWW Cern site this year"

Ventus says, "I'm just getting started with WWW. Not used the other."

You say, "What is the FTP address?"

Googol says, "anyway, this is fine for FTP but too long for WWW"



HTML Tagsets... September 1993... Mr President, we have a problem...



We already have a thread for 'Alt internet solutions'.[1] This thread is about research and experimentation.By 'Alt Internet' I mean, how is the Alt Right going to route around censorship[2] to free speech? I think I have a solution of sorts, so this thread is where I will present it. I understand that weev, working for Andrew Anglin'sis working on something he calls a WAF like no one has ever seen ('Web Application Firewalls' are a thing), in conjunction with Anglin's new Dark Web site -- it sounds like that will take time and money, though I'd love to know what he has in mind.My approach to the same problem is different. One thing we learned about the explosive build-out of 'the Internet' in 1993, the Eternal Summer -- and I had moar than a little to do with that particular episode[3] -- is that the social / viral design is essential. It's not enough to be a 'technical saviour' and come up with a technical solution. You have to come up with a *social* solution to the problem, and usually that means enabling people to communicate how they want to. Richard Stallman got this *partly* right with his Free Software movement (the part he got wrong has to do with communism, and failing to appreciate the importance of the Software Guild in maintaining the balance between the developer and the user as a 'natural social relation'. His FSF is all about developer rights to *code stuff*, trampling on user rights to *be maintained* -- not the mention that the user is often the patron, and the developer the client, in Mediterranean sharecropper terminology -- don't get uppity now!).I think we will need something like Geocities -- a place for experimentation with the medium of HTML, carried out by normies and not so normies who are trying to communicate with each other, across the whole spectrum of interesting things to say. The key is the transparency and sharing that HTML (and later JavaScript) allowed -- you could *copy* someone else's work, and modify it, and tinker.What I'm going to present on this thread is a way the 'Alt Right' (or whatever other name you give to the proscribed faction that is being denied Free Speech in the usual American sense), can communicate, simply, in non-censorable terms. Using a rather new buzzword -- serverless architecture.Now, 'serverless architecture' primarily refers to a prototype -- the use of Amazon API Gateway and Amazon Lambda (the Lambda-calculus and functional programming being part of the deep background here). We have had 'RESTful APIs' for 10 years now or moar, and Cloud Computing for nearly as long.The first generation of Cloud Computing was an obvious merger of two previous trends -- virtualisation and the 'Grid' (multiple Linux clusters, geographically dispersed -- which arose first in scientific collaborations). This developed in parallel to 'Web 2.0' (Ajax -- asyncronous javascript and XML originally, though now moastly JSON -- JavaScript Object Notation). I call this development 'Thin Server'. It means, that the client side and the server side are refactored, so that the Client side is Thick, and the Server side, a commodity (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, etc.). This is dual to the Thin Client movement, which had the server side a beefy Linux server, and the client side little moar than a Citrix Terminal, or a streaming desktop (VDI). A lot of corporations in effect are Thin Client today, migrating towards Thin Server ('Microservices', The Cloud, and so forth).I first used the term Thin Server in 2007 or so, a bit before I saw the design of the Chrome browser. At the time I commented that Google was revealing to us how they think -- they want the same worker threads they use in their data centres to be on *our* boxes, using *our* resources. It was like looking into the mind of a giant AI, and understanding its plan for world domination. They are at it, still, with their PWA initiative.Thin Server today means 'serverless architecture'. Imagine that you run a vBulletin or Xenforo forum (oddly enough, maybe you do), running on the LAMP stack. Your vulnerability is that you have a hoast, who has a TOS, and you use DNS. Even though you 'own' a registered domain, you own nothing, Jon Snow. Your domain is really a *behaviour* of people who don't like typing. Because they don't like typing[4], you've gotten permission from an international cabal (ICANN) to use a *short* string to let them find you. This places you at the cabal's mercy. No one is going to install TOR just for you. Or use a non memorable onion -- you are going to have to solve that problem or be driven from the Public Square.Here is my solution: first, separate the website as container from the website as content. Developers call this Dependency Injection. Second, make put the container in a many-many relation to its content, so that one container can exist at many sites, and many sites can share one container. 'Virtual hosts' at a shared hosting provider isn't good enough -- that is many-to-one. You obviously cannot rely on a *single* host, so your 'service' must be everywhere -- we are all Sparticus.In this thread I will not just talk about my idea, however. I will show you, and offer you to participate in an experiment -- a sort of Geocities for the Alt Right experiment. If you PM me with an email address (sorry - use a fake one if you wish - the underlying authentication system, auth0, I'll give you an account in the sandbox so you can play). The 'sandbox' will be a *static* website (container) with *dynamic* content.Imagine, if you will (at some future time), the ability to inject an entire existing Xenforo forum into any domain at all. [Parts of this work today, and parts will take work ... I'll explain the difference later]. If site A gets shut down, move to site B. Or maybe just distribute the site overy zeronet.io in the first place. Who knows what the solution will be? The fun is playing and finding it.This concept is censorship resistant-- the website is, say 16 lines of code at a static website -- nothing evil there. Why on earth would someone shut it down? The dynamic part is 'Hyperdimensional Ajax 2.0' -- completely build the website from another location. The pages are editable HTML (you know, like Geocities). Build whatever you want -- and put your pages on whatever *site* you want. We are all Sparticus.OK - so now someone will want to *censor* a data API. That's rather radical. That means, you want to go to census.gov say, and *censor* their Data API that says certain neighbourhoods have blacks living in them. Censoring entire (Deep Web) databases, because you don't like the content in them.What happens when websites are just static containers for dynamic data, loaded from *other* websites, who just have data in (Deep Web, behind paywall...) databases? Hmmm? I'm sure something will happen of course -- Reality always does.Yet hear we are, with what Ward Cunningham, when he invented the 'wiki', called the 'simplest online database that might possibly work'-- a bunch of crowdsourced content (like the Phora, or Wikipedia, or Geocities), *created* by its users. How can you stop such a thing? Apparently, if you hate the, you can. For a moment or two.I don't have weev's time (or a Hatreon account, yet). On the other hand, I learned years ago the wisdom of letting *other* people play and gain experience, and build content that they want.Expect moar details this weekend.[1]: http://www.thephora.net/forum/showthread.php?t=115616 [2]: http://www.thephora.net/forum/showthread.php?t=115657 [4]: http://zork.net/~googol [3]: I am present with my older username, 'Googol'. Joseph Wang is the head of Usenet University, and inventor of tkWWW, the first graphical browser: https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena/cou...RRICULUM-002-1 HTML Tagsets... September 1993... Mr President, we have a problem...

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