Pronounced: “Vay-lid”. An official CULT OF THE DEAD COW projekt. Social Media shouldn’t be monetized. Users are not a commodity. Privacy Matters.
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Joined July 2020
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Veilid 🅅 retweeted
FLOSS Weekly Episode 849: Veilid: Be a Brick:
This week Jonathan talks with Brandon and TC about Veilid, the peer-to-peer networking framework that takes inspiration from Tor, and VeilidChat, the encrypted messenger built on top of it. What was the ins… ift.tt/DSct9LA
Veilid 🅅 retweeted
Cult of the Dead Cow (@cDc_Pulpit) book signed by all the people who put up with me when I was a young punk kid 🥰
Veilid 🅅 retweeted
If you're feeling hopeless and helpless these days: do something. It can be small (make care packages and pass them out to homeless folks), to large (donate money to your local LGBTQ+ org, the EFF, or other orgs fighting the good fight)
What's helped me
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holy moly
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil…
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Always a good time to mention I've got a bunch of terraform repos to easily run a veilid node in your cloud provider of choice (gcp and Oracle still completely free tier!)
github.com/lpmi-13?tab=repos…
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This isn't about "woke" culture. This isn't about gay, straight, black, white, tall, skinny, Christian, Atheist, Muslim, Europe, Russia, China, ... this is all bullshit. This is a distraction. This is noise.
Look past the cognitive fog.
Your anonymity and free-will online should be bipartisan. Fuck all that bullshit.
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DoNt SuPpOrT tHe EfF tHeYrE wOkE aNd LeFtISt
Okay.
Well, we're trying to DO SOMETHING. If you don't like the EFF, then DO SOMETHING else. Do something. Do LITERALLY ANYTHING. If you genuinely care about privacy, your digital anonymity, and your right as a free-willed human-being online, then DO SOMETHING. If there is an alternative to the EFF that you believe is not 'woke', please donate to them. If you think the EFF, or any other non-profit related to digital privacy is 'woke', then call your local representative.
At least TRY to DO SOMETHING.
Alternatively, let the government invade your privacy. Let the government control what you can and cannot see. Let the government determine what's good and what's not. Let the government think for you.
Want to visit Reddit? The government needs to see your ID.
Want to watch YouTube? The government needs to see your ID.
Want to listen to Spotify? The government needs to see your ID.
Want to play video games that may be "violent"? The government needs to see your ID.
Want to update some software on your computer? The government needs to see your ID.
Want to look at pornography? The government needs to see your ID.
Want to look at Wikipedia? The government needs to see your ID.
Want to visit a Discord server? The government needs to see your ID.
Want to use a search engine? The government needs to see your ID.
The government needs to know what music you listen to, what movies you watch, what YouTubers you like, which Wikipedia articles you're reading, what your sexual preferences are, what you're searching online, which video games you're playing, which podcasts you like, what subreddits you visit, what hobbies you enjoy, what you identify as politically.
This is all important information under the Online Safety Act. The government needs to know all of these things to keep you "safe". Don't worry, the government has your best interests in mind so they will decide what is "safe" and what is "not safe".
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I’m supporting Veilid. Have you?
All set up at @BSidesLV! Come see us, adopt an Ellet or a cow, get some stickers or maybe a hat, and support a free open sourced distributed network!
Veilid 🅅 retweeted
I think it's time that people and especially software devs stop thinking about the internet as a place of freedom.
build on @VeilidNetwork to keep the future free
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veilid-core v0.4.7 and VeilidChat v0.4.8 published
✅ Debian packages updated
✅ RPM packages updated
✅ Pypi updated
✅ Rust Crates updated
✅ Apple & Google App Stores (in 24-48hrs)
Veilid Changelog:
gitlab.com/veilid/veilid/-/b…
VeilidChat changelog:
gitlab.com/veilid/veilidchat…
Veilid 🅅 retweeted
Privacy, Veilid, And You now on stage presented by Christien "DilDog" Rioux! #securityfest
youtube.com/live/Znl7TBFAz9E…
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User-centric. Privacy first. .ooM
Go check out the talk from @cyphercon that @dildog and @medus4_cdc gave: "Take Back your data: giving users the privacy they deserve!" Learn how Veilid is different than other privacy frameworks, and what's being built on it!
youtu.be/pOx4jVXmR9A?si=WVZz…
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I think we need completely a new paradigm. My thought is to stop sharing data with companies and share it directly with your own social graph, using free software. Not a commercial walled garden, a truly P2P system on top of something like @VeilidNetwork - no tokens or other cash grabs, just some working, free software that lets people share models, MCP servers, RAG databases and so on. Throw them into Podman or Docker and send them over a message queue.
This way, we build a social network that companies and technologies need to interact with, so rather than centralized services abusing and then replacing the workforce and society, they have to negotiate with it by employing you and/or one or more of your peers if they want your specialist skills and knowledge.
This way we don't become economically net negative and die in a trench while a tiny minority get rich off of our backs, and we can't be manipulated and controlled so easily because they don't have a way into the network.
