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Where can I find DNS denylists for Musk, Trump-owned businesses? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
Danish Ministry Replaces Windows and Microsoft Office with Linux and LibreOffice in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] 3 points 1 year ago

More users will hopefully mean more people finding and reporting edge cases which will lead to better software. Open source is great because anyone can improve it and everyone has the changes if accepted by the developers.

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    • Billionaire Bromance Comics in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
    [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Spoiler alert:

    He already crawled back.

    Never give any of Elon Musk's companies a dime or your time. Twitter is the worst one I think especially because Grok is now trained to repeat right-wing nonsense. I hope no one here is still on Twitter and I hope everyone you know in your personal life is also off that horrible website. If you know someone still using it tell them to switch to an alternative like Bluesky or Mastodon.

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    Where can I find DNS denylists for Musk, Trump-owned businesses? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
    [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I tried researching this and wasn't able to find an exact match for your question.

    However I can say blocking hate websites and fake news websites helps stop Trump because it's part of his pillars of support for power.

    I think the best one I found so far is this which seems well maintained and current: https://github.com/sefinek/Sefinek-Blocklist-Collection it has a hate category and a fake news category.

    Then you can supplement the lists and block the main Trump and Musk websites by searching for Donald Trump for Trump's websites and block the SpaceX, Twitter, Tesla, Neuralink and Boring Company websites.

    The first one I found when searching for this was this blocklist which targets hate websites, propaganda websites and "alt-tech" websites (meaning things like far-right social media) but it's a little old. It seems they used some kind of automated method to find subdomain names. I don't know where they would have got this:

    0.0.0.0 5iisjztgyz.this_is_research.next_query.is_from_us.if_problem.please_see.http.researchscan.cs.berkeley.edu.stormfront.org
0.0.0.0 5x0eggbvlm.this_is_research.next_query.is_from_us.if_problem.please_see.http.researchscan.cs.berkeley.edu.stormfront.org
0.0.0.0 6hwzzfs2iy.this_is_research.next_query.is_from_us.if_problem.please_see.http.researchscan.cs.berkeley.edu.stormfront.org

    To be fair the domain name is a hate website, it's just the subdomain part is of course useless here.

    I haven't closely reviewed the domain names on these lists but a quick glance of these lists makes me think it's overall pretty accurate. If you encounter a website you cannot visit you can always unblock it and create an issue on Github.

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    Amazon Doubles Prime Video Ads Per Hour in c/technology@lemmy.world
    [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Amazon funded Trump's inauguration, they've doubled their advertisements, they mistreat their warehouse workers, for people who don't use Amazon often you're paying more money than you'd spend on just paying for shipping on the occasion you need fast shipping or if you don't need fast shipping you can still get free shipping if your order is more than the threshold which I think depends on your account might be $25 or $35.

    Given all these things I really hope no one is subscribing to Amazon prime. I'd highly recommend anyone who uses Amazon prime to cancel it. Being shown advertisements on something you're paying for is insane. This should be the final straw for any Amazon Prime customer.

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    David Hogg will not run for DNC post again after party orders redo of vice chair elections in c/news@lemmy.world
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    Contact the media and demand fair protest coverage (lemm.ee)
     

    When it comes to protests I've noticed two issues:

    1. Protests especially in local cities are not being covered at all.

    2. The media focuses almost exclusively on the violent aspect which is just a tiny portion of protest activity and a lot is just opportunities who don't care at all about the protest cause and are taking advantage of the fact that police are distracted to cause destruction and steal from stores.

    We have the power to fight back. We can contact the media and first of all for local media use their tip line to say where and when there will be peaceful protests. This will increase the likelihood your local media will cover it which can trickle up to national media.

    The second thing is for national media use the feedback option to contact them and demand they accurately cover the protests.

    Here are some links to submit feedback to national media:

    ABC News: https://support.abc.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=360003079511

    NBC News: https://www.nbcnews.com/information/nbc-news-info/contact-us-n1232521

    CBS News: https://www.cbs.com/showfeedback/

    CNN: https://help.cnn.com/us/feedback

    For how to write the feedback I'd just say keep it short and speak your mind. Don't worry too much about being perfect, the most important thing is they get lots of feedback from real people.

    Here is a sample. Please do NOT copy and paste, it's just a starting point.

    I saw your show the other day and I feel that it wasn't representative of what the protests are like. When I was there it was completely peaceful and I've seen lots of videos online on social media showing peaceful protests but your coverage didn't include that, instead it showed video of people who are opportunists who are not involved with protesting causing chaos.

    I'm calling on {NEWS STATION REPLACE THIS PART ex: ABC News} to spend a lot more time covering the peaceful protests which represent the vast majority of the protests and show less footage of the violence.

    Bluesky vs. Twitter "the X algorithm downranks journalism" in c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
    [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago

    Hedge your bets. You're already here on Lemmy so in a way you're kind of already doing that although this I would consider it a different type of social media. You're free to create a Mastodon account too and try other platforms as well.

    With that said I do believe that Bluesky is likely to at-least remain the lesser of evils when compared with Twitter. I think Bluesky is a great replacement for Twitter because the barrier to entry is about equal. Mastodon is a little more technical.

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    TIL Erica Chenoweth et al. studied over 323 movements and found that in aggregate, nonviolent civil resistance was far more effective in producing change (news.harvard.edu)
     

    Erica Chenoweth initially thought that only violent protests were effective. However after analyzing 323 movements the results were opposite of what Erica thought:

    For the next two years, Chenoweth and Stephan collected data on all violent and nonviolent campaigns from 1900 to 2006 that resulted in the overthrow of a government or in territorial liberation. They created a data set of 323 mass actions. Chenoweth analyzed nearly 160 variables related to success criteria, participant categories, state capacity, and more. The results turned her earlier paradigm on its head — in the aggregate, nonviolent civil resistance was far more effective in producing change.

    If campaigns allow their repression to throw the movement into total disarray or they use it as a pretext to militarize their campaign, then they’re essentially co-signing what the regime wants — for the resisters to play on its own playing field. And they’re probably going to get totally crushed.

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    I successfully changed a Trump supporter's mind using this method (www.vice.com)
     

    It really does work! I just tried it today and it really does work as promised. I'm not saying it will work on everyone but if you treat people with respect and listen to them you will get much farther than if you were to just yell at them or get angry.

    Here's a link to a conversation I had about this article: https://lemm.ee/post/49698211/16853184 some people brought up some interesting comments about the article.