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AEREEnet: Creating a low-cost, light-weight, scalable, anonymous, secure social network – A Complete Tutorial for Admins

Source: https://xkcd.com/1782/ 1. Introduction The following list contains all tutorials in the AEREEnet tutorial series: [Users, Tutorial] Igl, W (2025). AEREEnet: Using a low-cost, light-weight, scalable, anonymous, secure social network – A Short Tutorial for IRC Users. https://biosphere.wilmarigl.de/en/?p=4776 [Admins, Short tutorial] Igl, W. (2025). AEREEnet: Creating a low-cost, light-weight, scalable, anonymous, secure social network –…

2025-01-18admin

AEREEnet: Using a low-cost, light-weight, scalable, anonymous, secure social network – A Short Tutorial for IRC Users

1. Introduction Here, I show various options to use the AEREEnet IRC server with various IRC clients from beginner to expert level. To use end-to-end encryption (E2EE) there are multiple options in terms of software and encryption algorithms which are not compatible with each other, therefore, users have to agree on which software and algorithm…

2025-02-12admin

AEREEnet: Creating a low-cost, light-weight, scalable, anonymous, secure social network – A Short Tutorial for Admins

1. Introduction Here, I provide a short tutorial on how to install a low-cost, light-weight, open-source, cross-platform, anonymous, secure, self-hosted social network based on Internet Relay Chat (IRC) technology [1] using DOCKER containers [2]. The current software stack provides a low-cost solution to build a social network with anonymity for clients and servers (via the…

2025-02-02admin

2025 Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado –
A Perversion of the Humanitarian Idea

“This Nobel Peace Prize will help to replace the current socialist government of Venezuela by a government which aligns with US imperialist and US capitalist interests and whitewash it as “democracy”, “peace”, and “freedom” in the process.” The Nobel Prize Comittee has awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado in Venezuela “for…

2025-10-11admin

Fixing loss of displays or kernel panic after Linux kernel upgrade on PC with NVidia graphics card

1. Introduction If you are running a PC with Linux and an Nvidia Graphics card, you may experience the problem that the PC restarts after a Linux kernel upgrade, but: the Nvidia graphics card is not recognized and one cannot use multiple screens (since only the Motherboard graphics card is used) kernel panic while booting…

2026-01-18admin

Privacy-protecting, eco-friendly Digital Devices – Phones, Laptops, & Desktops

1. Introduction Here, I am summarizing the results of electronic devices, esp. smartphones, laptops, desktops, and related operating systems which are privacy-protecting and eco-friendly (eg, repairable). Desirable features: Hardware: eco-socially fair supply chain robust (“military-grade”) repairable hardware kill switches for audio, video, internet Software open-source private (does not leak data to corporations) Business accepts cryptocurrencies…

2025-12-31admin

Using virtual phone numbers for calls and texts via Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) using LINPHONE and /e/ OS (Android)

1 Introduction After having happily used a custom Android OS called /e/ OS [1] for several years with refurbished Samsung mobile phones, my provider COMVIQ (Sweden) has now at the beginning of December 2025 switched off its G2/G3 mobile phone networks [2], leaving only G4 and G5 activated. As a consequence, I cannot make or…

2026-01-02admin

A taxonomy of civil resistance

1. Introduction Climate activism is often based on loosely defined concepts such as “Non-Violent Direct Action” (NVDA), “civil disobedience”, “strikes”, “protests”, and other forms, which may be used with different meanings by different groups, and, therefore, lack conceptual clarity. In the following I try to systematize forms of (climate) activism for system change to provide…

2020-01-04admin

Installation and Administration of a MOBILIZON Social Network Server to Organize Events: A Tutorial

1. Overview The following tutorial is a complete, detailed and tested set of instructions to install and administer an MOBILIZON social network server [1-6] . MOBILIZON is an open-source, federated, practical, and ethical social network tool to find, create and organize social events. MOBILIZON is based on the ActivityPub protocol, and, therefore, able to interact…

2025-03-16admin

Advanced AI agents intervening in the change of rewards: An economic perspective

1. Background A recent research article [1] warned that: “an advanced agent motivated to intervene in the provision of reward would likely succeed and with catastrophic consequences” First Author Michael Cohen also summarized the contents of the paper in a presentation [2] and on social media [3]: Bostrom, Russell, and others have argued that advanced…

2022-10-02admin

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