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Patrick says

They get rich by actually building the thing, providing value, and getting people to pay.

You don't even have to build it anymore, Obama did that for you ;) Sarcasm aside, creating and bringing something of value to people is the core of it all. The pay will come if there's value to another human.

I love publisher Tim O'Reilly's philosophy:

"Find people in pain. If you can take away their pain, they will happily pay you."

Patrick says

But if you just want to work on ideas, why not use the Wordpress code? It's out there and well polished.

@Patrick - is there any way to post a private message here, just to one person?

richwicks says

Patrick says

But if you just want to work on ideas, why not use the Wordpress code? It's out there and well polished.

@Patrick - is there any way to post a private message here, just to one person?

@richwicks No, I thought about it, and for a while had a "friend" function which would expose your email address to another user. Maybe I should bring that back.

The main problem with private communication on this site is that users will literally threaten each other with physical violence over that channel, and then I have to deal with the police.

How about just a way for two users to agree to share email addresses?

Patrick says

richwicks says

Patrick says

But if you just want to work on ideas, why not use the Wordpress code? It's out there and well polished.

@Patrick - is there any way to post a private message here, just to one person?

@richwicks No, I thought about it, and for a while had a "friend" function which would expose your email address to another user. Maybe I should bring that back.

The main problem with private communication on this site is that users will literally threaten each other with physical violence over that channel, and then I have to deal with the police.

?! WTF is wrong with people?

Patrick says

How about just a way for two users to agree to share email addresses?

You got MY email? Just send an email there. It's a mailinator account because, why not - the message will be there for about 8 hours before it gets wiped. If you like, I can post from another email account to give you a more permanent email but I've very adverse to spam.

@richwicks Which other user do you want to have your email address? I can send it to him.

@Patrick

This email address is persistent.

I just wanted to describe what I was trying to do.

If you're comfortable connecting to a computer, with a dynamic IP address, I'll send you a link for a short writeup on what I'm working on. Using a link, I can detect intrusion and avoid interception.

If I send you a mail, with a link to it, immediately, I a bunch of bots will connect to that link. If I create the link first, fill it with nonsense, send you an email, change the link, they've connected to the link, but haven't intercepted any data.

People who think they have any sort of privacy are just wrong. There's none on the Internet - I want to bring that back - despite the possible consequences.

Patrick says

@richwicks Which other user do you want to have your email address? I can send it to him.

@Patrick - did my last post disappear?

Anyhow, if you are comfortable with doing it, I can give you a website to connect to. It will just be a pure HTML page describing quickly what I intend to do.

Email is entirely monitored today. If I send you a link, immediately, I will detect a connection to the link made by google, or yahoo, or somebody. The solution around this is that

1) I send an email with the link
2) I create the link

I can see in apache logs who is connected This means I can see your IP address as well - full disclosure. If I send you an email describing what I intend to do, it will be certainly intercepted. There is absolutely no privacy with email today.

Essentially what I'm working on is making a secure, private, internet, impossible to datamine. Creating a website would just running a program on a computer connected to the Internet. No application for a URL, no need for a server outside of your control.

Although it uses IPV4 and 6 for the lower level connection, it uses a protocol on top of that. On top of that, you can run any other protocol.

Anyhow, I wanted your code, to implement a proof of concept that will make spam impossible, and make propaganda impossible. I'll be running it on a standard Apache server (running on a non standard port), then moving it on top of an infrastructure I'm playing with.

richwicks says

the intelligence agencies and the press conspired against Trump

Yes, this seems true.

Certainly the FBI was out to get Trump. They clearly targeted Mike Flynn to get at Trump

As for the media, I've even heard avowed long term liberals remark on how the press seems to have dropped all pretense of impartiality and makes faces now when talking about Trump. I expect their owners tell them what to say, but they also probably don't get hired or remain employed if they don't like being entirely one-sided.

BTW - that IS my other account.

Patrick says

As for the media, I've even heard avowed long term liberals remark on how the press seems to have dropped all pretense of impartiality and makes faces now when talking about Trump. I expect their owners tell them what to say, but they also probably don't get hired or remain employed if they don't like being entirely one-sided.

Well of course, the pretense there is a left and a right has to be maintained. There isn't a left and a right, there's the ruling class, and the underclass of which nearly everybody is a part. So you have "the right wing" and "the left wing" version of everything in our media - but put those together and you don't get any solutions - you get authoritarianism.

I can demonstrate this by current example. You've probably seen a lot of cops beat the shit out of protestors in multiple videos.

Have you seen the cops beat this shit out of any looters? Any arsonists? Any vandals?

NOTE(Edit) I have found an example: https://twitter.com/Sh0tByShaq/status/1267358356978708492

The cops are allowing criminals to run wild. They're doing this because it will cause "the right" to demand a crackdown on criminality. They will crackdown, but they will crackdown on the people that want systemic change - like getting maniac cops out of the policing business.

The entire system is setup to prevent any improvement. It's to not only keep the people in power in power, but to increase their power.

The left and right really don't exist, they are illusions.

jazz_music says

I honestly cannot figure out what is going on with that, unless they think they can get some credibility that way

FOX has been one of the stations that is bipartisan and fair and balanced, verses CNN, which is completely against Trump, who often complains about FOX's coverage of him.

I don't trust Fox News, but I have to admit that they don't always support Trump, which makes them look more impartial than the mainstream media like NPR and the NY Times, which always reports negative news about Trump no matter what he does.

There are clearly people at Fox who don't like him.

richwicks says

The cops are allowing criminals to run wild. They're doing this because it will cause "the right" to demand a crackdown on criminality. They will crackdown, but they will crackdown on the people that want systemic change - like getting maniac cops out of the policing business.

Maniac Cops have about the same level of statistical support as Judas Priest Albums or D&D: Vault of the Drow lead to Child Sacrifice.

They exist, they will never be 0, and decent policies made up regardless of Union Bitching will fix the problem.

Patrick says

I don't trust Fox News, but I have to admit that they don't always support Trump, which makes them look more impartial than the mainstream media like NPR and the NY Times, which always reports negative news about Trump no matter what he does.

There are clearly people at Fox who don't like him.

I don't watch Fox either, I do like Tucker Carlson show though, he does say very reasonable things often. He's been covering the riots pretty well, showing how media and left is playing it.

And to be fair, left played it well, they really caught the nation by surprise, very effective strategy. Even many republicans started cowering for votes. I don't agree with the left, but they are very well organized, well funded, and they are winning the media war. Right has almost nothing left, maybe some stuff on Fox until Disney cuts them off. Other than that... left owns all the media now. It's gonna get really bad here soon I think. When one group controls all media, really bad shit happens if history is any indicator with Nazis and Communists.

Richard Wicks says

Patrick - did my last post disappear?

Anyhow, if you are comfortable with doing it, I can give you a website to connect to. It will just be a pure HTML page describing quickly what I intend to do.

Email is entirely monitored today. If I send you a link, immediately, I will detect a connection to the link made by google, or yahoo, or somebody. The solution around this is that

1) I send an email with the link
2) I create the link

I can see in apache logs who is connected This means I can see your IP address as well - full disclosure. If I send you an email describing what I intend to do, it will be certainly intercepted. There is absolutely no privacy with email today.

Essentially what I'm working on is making a secure, private, internet, impossible to datamine. Creating a website would just running a program on a computer connected to the Internet. No application for a URL, no need for a server outside of your control.

Although it use...

@richwicks I didn't delete anything from you. All your posts and comments should be visible when you click your own name.

Sure, I'd love to see that html page you're talking about.

Also @richwicks did you see this idea I had? https://patrick.net/post/1332461/2020-05-27-a-facebook-replacement

richwicks says

OR the intelligence agencies and the press conspired against Trump.

I don't believe that seeing sufficient reason to investigate Russian involvement in the 2016 campaign (which we know happened) as wrong. Certainly not a conspiracy. That was the stated purpose of the Mueller investigation.

AS for the aspect of that looked into Trups campaign and possible collusion with Russians ? Anyone who thinks there is proof that they didn't have sufficient reason to investigate that, would have to have all the information intelligence agencies have about Russian financing of Trump, and everything else they knew about his dealings and his peoples dealing with Russia.

If it was a legitimate investigation, then it wasn't a conspiracy.

Fact is, it could have been an extremely legit investigation, even if the Mueller report had exonerated Trump, which it didn't.

How was it a conspiracy ? I will acknowledge the fact that way over 40% of the country find Trump to be a truly terrible person (even before he was elected - by the way not a good recipe for unity - HELLO ? ), combined with the high potential of fraudulent dealings in 2016, means that yes, the public and the media had an appetite for hearing about how he was going to be taken down. The same as they would if the actual anti-Christ had been elected. Not surprising and not a conspiracy.

Trust me, when this country gets to the point that the "left" (more like left side of the right - not including the BS SJW stuff), is choosing someone in large part because of how mush it will piss off the right, you might finally see me voting republican.

Patrick says

Also @richwicks did you see this idea I had? https://patrick.net/post/1332461/2020-05-27-a-facebook-replacement

I'll read it and give input after I'm done with work tonight.

I'll send you a private link before I go to bed about what I want to do, and see if you're interested in it.

I want to destroy Facebook too.

marcus says

How was it a conspiracy ?

Be Cause Trump never colluded with the Russians. Got any proof to the contrary? Didn't think so.

@patrick

My organization encouraged all its members to recognize 9 minutes of silence in remberance of George Floyd earlier this week. For the most part, since his death we have all been reacting.

As we move past reacting and into charting a new course it has become apparent that most references to race are racist in modern day discourse.

The most obvious example of how most references to race promote racism would be the inequality in acceptable use of words that is actually enforced by the media and other racists.

The words “Black Lives Matter” are racist. How do we know this beyond a reasonable doubt? Ask any public figure with the common sense to respond by saying “all lives matter” to the racism that the phrase “black lives matter” represents. They will tell you they were forced to apologize for using language that by objective analysis is obviously all inclusive. The media has succeeded in labeling “all lives matter” as racist, and yet in their bizarro world “black lives matter” is not divisive or racist at all?

Let’s look at more examples.

Is white lives matter a racist comment? If it is, then it becomes obvious that “black lives matter” as a phrase is used to promote racism as well. In fact because the media promotes black lives matter racism, it is institutionalized racism. Objective analysis reveals that the narrative promoted in the media, politics and academia is essentially that people of one race are responsible for all the inequality and all the wrongs experienced by all other people of all other races. What they fail to recognize is that racism is a two way street.
Is the term black privilege racist? Well so is the term “white privilege.”
Is it racist to use the n word? Great, but that means EVERYONE that uses it is promoting racism.

We could go on and on, but the objective reader, if they will take the time to contemplate and not just react, will come to the conclusion that most discussion of and reference to race (outside of genetic research and science) is in itself racist, counterproductive, and divisive.

marcus says

Anyone who thinks there is proof that they didn't have sufficient reason to investigate that, would have to have all the information intelligence agencies have about Russian financing of Trump, and everything else they knew about his dealings and his peoples dealing with Russia.

Steele dossier was oppo research written by Russian Oligarchs. There isn't any doubt about it.

All of Maddow's BOMBSHELLS about Russian Financing have been shown to be crap.

The NYT even tried to claim that a few thousand dollars in a Mutual Fund or REIT that itself invested a fraction of their holdings in Russia "Proved" Trumps invested in Putler's Regime.