Hacker News: telephone3

New comment by telephone3 in "Petition to Withdraw Canada's Bill C-22"

telephone3 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:03:12 +0000

Am I the only one who sees this as the only viable solution to shutting down foreign interference through social media ? We certainly can't rely on the companies themselves doing it. Fifth column warfare is a thing and we are a ripe target.

New comment by telephone3 in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess"

telephone3 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:30:13 +0000

My understanding is that this is the opposite of what is typically understood to be true - organisms with less truthful (more reductive/compressed) perception survive better than those with more complete perception. "Fitness beats truth."

New comment by telephone3 in "Nature's many attempts to evolve a Nostr"

telephone3 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 12:00:14 +0000

"I have been self-hosting my email since I got my first broadband connection at home in 1999. I absolutely loved having a personal web+email server at home, paid extra for a static IP and a real router so people could connect from the outside. I felt like a first-class citizen of the Internet and I learned so much.

Over time I realized that residential IP blocks were banned on most servers. I moved my email server to a VPS. No luck. I quickly understood that self-hosting email was a lost cause. Nevertheless, I have been fighting back out of pure spite, obstinacy, and activism. In other words, because it was the right thing to do.

But my emails are just not delivered anymore. I might as well not have an email server.

(After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel, Carlos Fenollosa, 2022)"

From the article, quoting this other article

https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-...

New comment by telephone3 in "WordPress blogs can now be followed on Mastodon and other federated platforms"

telephone3 — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 02:01:21 +0000

Wow. It begins. ActivityPub could change the shape of the future web completely.