The purpose of this comm would be educational materials, allyship posts, and helping answer questions about queerness. It could contain stuff that a lot of queer people may not be interested in interacting with regularly, so it might be useful to have it as a separate comm

The American “intelligence community” wants to control the narratives on federated social media, as they already do on corporate social media.

• Atlantic Council: Collective Security in a Federated World
• Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund: Fediverse Governance Successes & Gaps

The whole “mis-, dis-, and mal-information” discourse was/is a psyop for top-down propaganda control. The Dem-aligned media did a bang-up job of discrediting Matt Taibbi such that his continued investigatory work into this intentionally opaque system is being ignored.

I don't think I really need to explain much, their admins are transphobic.

https://hexbear.net/post/1587342

Snowe, an admin, complained about a transgender person being offended over being misgendered. Ategon made an apology post but keeps snowe on, no public apologies from snowe to the transgender people affected.

Textbook

note: conversation about Ategon's use of the word triggered edited out, might be misunderstanding, need clarified

I literally do not care about opsec so i usr this sit while im on the shitter on my job's wifi and now i cannot shit in peace with all of this stuff happening, is it just my phone.

It gives me a red error box, error:incorrect_login

I believe I made a similar post around federation, but I think the issue got fixed really quickly or my eyes glazed over it last time. Neither the front page nor the opened post shows the website the link is to, and you have to open the post and click the title again to navigate to the link. Edit: image was broken because I hemmed and hawed

Not sure if this is the correct community to post this? I will make an account and see if I have this issue on Lemmy.ml

Noticed these just now. IIRC pre-patch that images in posts tagged NSFW would have blurred thumbnails until clicked?

Also there's only a 'Next' button when reaching the bottom of a page, no 'Back' button to return.

And some usernames are showing up in yellow, idk why. (Appears to be on mouse over/hover but not triggering off? I'm on phone so if I touch but don't click they'll turn and remain yellow until I interact with another element)

Screenshots below:

Sorry if this doesn't belong here, I couldn't find the user union comm (am I making that up? the place where people put emoji requests). Had an excellent post idea for /c/fakenews, went to post, button got stuck in the "submit" state. Turns out the RED FASH there only allow mod posts. In network console, the api/v3/post POST was returning a 400 status code with

{error: "only_mods_can_post_in_community"}

Can we get a toast for this error? Also this should really be a 403 Forbidden

We're just posting anti-union propaganda on the fediverse now?

Are y'all at least getting paid for it?

How many times does satire and irony posting have to backfire on us before we realize that shit only works if the person is smart enough to be in on the joke; otherwise we're just propagandizing against ourselves.

Like we used to have embedded Youtube videos, etc.

Any chance we can go back to that format? Is that possible post federation? Being taken off site all the time kind of sucks, (especially if you're like me and you get logged out every time.)

Request: Can we please whitelist one or more Rimgo instances for embedding images/videos in comments?

List of Rimgo instances, along with their data collection policies: https://codeberg.org/rimgo/instances#clearnet

I understand that we want to limit which sites are whitelisted for embedding, given embedding's history of abuse after Hexbear started federating, but since Imgur is already whitelisted, maybe Rimgo is okay to whitelist, too?

More info: I use Imgur to share videos with sound in Hexbear comments, because we cannot upload videos directly to Hexbear. Example:

However, Imgur often does not work for me (and likely many other Hexbear users) due to it often blocking VPNs. For that reason, I personally have the LibRedirect extension installed, which redirects any Imgur link I visit to a Rimgo equivalent (example: https://rimgo.kling.gg/aDD5Cf9.mp4). However, because Rimgo is not whitelisted for embedding, using it directly on Hexbear does not work:

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On a side note, if https://catbox.moe/ becomes whitelisted for embedding, we would not need to use Imgur or Rimgo anymore for video hosting. Catbox is generally better than Imgur for video hosting, since Imgur limits videos to 1 minute.

is that the FBI agent that's assigned to me?

On my phone I autofill my username/pw, it shows a green 'logged in' bot, but it doesn't actually log in. Desktop is fine

edit: I touched grass and it was not to my liking

I’ve never actually heard or seen someone honor such a request online or IRL, and it would sound ridiculously stilted if they did. Where is Rumpelstiltskin's coat? Rumpelstiltskin must have left it at the bar. Will someone please text Rumpelstiltskin and let Rumpelstiltskin know?

:sicko: is the format right? But when I use it in posts or comments it never works. Is it because I'm on a mobile app (jerboa)?

Me and @[email protected] were discussing practical aspects of hosting a Space Station 13 server. In particular, we were concerned about the risks of running internet services out of our home internet connections. It pretty much advertises the locality you live in and connects any other services/activity at the same IP address to your Hexbear identity. The usual alternative is to buy some server time from someone else with an internet connection but the costs can add up to a lot if everyone is buying server time individually for their services.

Initally, we were discussing buying some server time for our own use to proxy connections to our home network to run our game server but we thought it might be more efficient and helpful for the community to make this available to everyone here who wants to run an internet service.

Basically, the idea is that instead of exposing a service on your home IP address for everyone on the internet to see, you connect to our server and it accepts connections on its own IP address for you and proxies the traffic back to your home network. So, if you want to tell someone how to access your service, all you need to give them is our server's IP address and a port.

Of course, this has little to no effect on people with a grand ability to surveil internet traffic () but it would expose a lot less information to other bad actors and make running internet services easier.

There would also need to be trust between the maintainers of this proxying service (who could collect the network information and traffic of the users, for example) and the users (who could use the proxy to forward malicious traffic, for example) so we thought it would be most useful if it were a community project. Maybe some of the risks could be minimized by restrictive firewall rules like not allowing users to send traffic out to the public internet unless it were a response to incoming traffic but maybe that is a feature we want?

Anyway, what does everyone think about this idea? Is it worth exploring and implementing or is it a bad idea? Sorry if I was a bit vague because I'm still thinking about the best way to implement this idea.

On Vulcan

[ed. - The private correspondence reproduced below was sent on October 12th, 2023, between two of the world's leading scientists, and especially pertains to the upcoming Solar Eclipse. The text is being published here now, as part of an on-going experiment in consciousness-raising-activities involving Hexbear posters. The scientific views expressed below are erudite, novel, and will be highly controversial once public, and thus, both parties are represented anonymously. The book referred to repeatedly below is the subject of a previous discussion unpublished - *The Minds of Robots*, by Dr. James T. Culbertson.]

Good morning [HEXBEAR], I hope this letter finds you well and in good spirits...

I have been thinking more about new kinds of numbers lately, and more about solar eclipses. Among other things, in the modern fashion: I have spent a lot of time in a lot of old books, and a small fortune collecting them, and have wanted to share some things with company that may appreciate ideas for their own sake, even when one's reach has exceeded one's grasp, as it so often does.

There is an eclipse coming: I do keep track of these things well in advance, and I had hoped to have something put together, but sadly, the necessary research materials only showed up yesterday, and I’m only drafting anything in writing today.

Firstly: I believe you have made an error in equivocation of the work of Dr. Culbertson to others, and a philosophical error in general that should be corrected. One theory is not as good as another, in any case.

In defence of your remark, yes, it would seem as though currently theories in the field of consciousness cannot be tested, and the working scientist is thus in the habit of regarding any theory in the field as an occultism, and elides over the details of each theory as a matter of mental economy.

However, my in my letters, you are always dealing with the exception, and not the rule. Care must be taken: Culbertson’s theory has the unique status of being the only theory of mind so far postulated that could be mechanically and empirically verified through the construction of mind links. Hence the theory has a distinction, and must be set apart from the rest of the field and considered more deeply. That I do not personally plan to or advise constructing the links and animating the robots is beyond the point.

The book is quite lovely, and I should like to send you my copy in the mail, if you’d wish. It is the math that contains a distinction, perhaps unknown to even the author himself.

The rest of the letter could shock you and anyone unaccustomed to the terrain. I do promise to refrain from terrifying everyone with occultism, as much as is possible for me to do.

In order to get to his mathematically-in-theory-conscious-robots, which is a profoundly Platonic assumption of the hypothesis, Culbertson creates a mathematically intuitive, but also consistent and rigorous, “spacetime-reductive materialism”, wherein he assumes with d’Alembert, Einstein, Minkowski, and the modern understanding, that time be considered as the fourth dimension. So far so good.

But Culbertson needs to connect robotic neurons, and needs to create causal transmission networks that constitute his world-lines between these neurons in spacetime; his interest is in connective relations, his world-lines pass through nervous systems, and so he uses topology, which allows him to greatly simplify and quite rightly disregard the complex non-Euclidean chronogeometry assigned to spacetime by relativity mechanics: for these purposes, the topology or connective relations of the world-lines do not depend on geometrical considerations, and can be flattened unto the plane, as thought to paper, or as territory to map, in what Culbertson calls psychospace.

This is so genius that it was beyond everyone. Probably even Culbertson himself.

Spacetime thus simplified, our lovely book is a joy for the reader, and Culbertson, in the manner of a math teacher, is able to include practice problems that summarize each chapter for the aid of the comprehension of the reader, all of which are fully accessible to the non-mathematician and non-specialist, and developed further in his other works.

In order to understand the genius here, one has to be aware of the reductive assumptions of Minkowski et al., carried forward by Einstein, Eddington, and virtually all quantum physicists. In brief, the fourth dimension is spatial, and not temporal, and indeed, certain findings substantiate this conclusion of a physical fourth dimension, and an eighth, and a twenty-fourth.

As a personal aside, if one could see the fourth spatial dimension directly, one would be impressed by the frequency of seeing the Maltese Cross, or the eight-pointed star of the Sumerian Solar Deity Anu within the many tesseracts that occupy the four dimensional reality enveloping our third: this leading thought ought be saved for later development. The same symbol shows up in Peruvian pottery, as well… if you by chance have any old Maltese coins dating to the Phoenician era, or similarly rare books… well I don’t ask for much.

Before Einstein mistook the luminous for the absolute, astronomers empirically spotted something flying far too close to the Sun: infra-Mercurial planet Vulcan, physically visible only during the solar eclipse. Mathematicians, not only Leverrier also obtained rigorous, convincing proofs for the planet, and these to date have not fallen.

If one goes back to the work of Cassini, which has only in modern times been rediscovered and confirmed, one may obtain,against the elliptical orbits of Kepler - a fortiori Newton and Einstein - a quartic law of motion, instead of the quadratic approximation which is now in common use. And if one with Musès, evaluates again the zeros of the zeroth order Bessel function, it is indeed possible to rediscover Vulcan with as high confidence as the same function determined the orbits of all the other planets, including Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto. 

Vulcan then appears for the reader in the mental planes, with an orbital period of about 43 days, at 0.1 AU, mass unknown.

That the elusive body has not been captured is not surprising, as few humans have seen Mercury, and even fewer have claimed to have spotted Vulcan, and as long as the current approximation holds its spell over the mind, none bother to look… but if we are willing to look beyond self-conceit, and engage with the solar system with higher mathematics, and against the common intellectual prejudice, we may be amply rewarded, as have been the oft-maligned practitioners of the royal art.

That is enough for this morning. There are further conversations I would like to have concerning the minds of robots, Israel, the ancient and modern animation of statues, and so on, but this is enough stimulation for all parties for now, and I promised to be restrained. Perhaps a phone call soon, or perhaps telepathy, at some point in the future.

With love,
[the editors]