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…
Introduction In the current crisis in Gaza, opinions are sharply divided in the UN between a large global community who condemn Israel’s actions as occupation, apartheid, war crimes and/or genocide on the one side and Israel with staunch allies like the USA, Canada, UK, Germany, Italy, and France on the other side. Since the reasons…
“Kindness, honesty and science are partisan, if some parties are spreading hate, spin, and lies.” – Anonymous Introduction Here, I have compiled a list of international news sources and news apps, which I have subjectively assessed as progressive and high-quality (ie, following standards of good journalism and advocating the public good, ie democratic ecosocialism) based…
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 –…
Source: https://xkcd.com/1782/ 1. Introduction To mobilize a growing number of activists an open-source, self-hosted team communication & collaboration platform could be used, which is implemented in the InspIRCd software (Internet Relay Chat technology, IRC). IRC technology has ultra-low requirements on bandwidth and is recommended in world regions where IT hardware has low performance or internet…
Introduction I am reviewing the “DOUZE G4e” two-wheeled electric cargo bike (“long-john”) which I have been using since February 2021. I am writing this review to drive forward the development of the DOUZE G4e model in particular and electric cargo bikes, which I consider the future of (sub)urban transport, in general. The review may also…
1. Overview The following tutorial is a complete, detailed and tested set of instructions to install an XMPP-based messaging service (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) [1, 2] using the PROSODY [1] server as a backend and the MOVIM [4, 5] client as web browser-based frontend. This installation corresponds to company-owned social messengers, such as the…
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…
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…
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…
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