Disclaimer: My worldview is different from many, if not most, people; yet I want to participate in the social space that is the internet. The challenge is that I am taken as oppositional and a contrarian for the sake of, I don’t know, trolling. The simple fact is that my minority view is a very considered position that is different. There is no ‘for the sake of’ in play.

https://substack.com/@brywillis634737/note/c-281128241?r=pvxh5&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=masto

#philosophy #note #blog #announcement #substack #opposition #communication #ontology #epistemology

New post: Highly Verbal Does Not Mean Words Are Easy

https://lanie.work/advocacy/highly-verbal-does-not-mean-words-are-easy/

#Advocacy #Accessibility #Disability #Neurodivergent #Communication #Writing #Ai #Personal

This article is less about what philosophy is about and more about why we can't particularly know some things, and why not.

👉 https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/what-is-philosophy?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=masto&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#blog #substack #philosophy #language #ontology #semantics #semiotics #epistemology #etymology #communication #Heidegger #Derrida #Foucault #Wittgenstein #Nietzsche #Gadamer #Peirce #Gallie #McGilchrist #languageinsufficiency

How to Install #Jitsi Meet on #Ubuntu #VPS

This article provides a guide for how to install Jitsi Meet on Ubuntu VPS servers.
✅ What is Jitsi Meet?
Jitsi Meet is a free, open-source video conferencing platform that you can use without needing an account or installing any software. It runs entirely in the browser and offers ...
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Exploiting Slack's video embeds to achieve E2EE communication

https://v1c.rocks/log/exploiting-slack-video/

#HackerNews #Exploiting #video #embeds #to #achieve #E2EE #communication

Slack #E2EE #Communication #Video #Embeds #Cybersecurity #Exploits

Ontological grammar with examples, including Olivia Rodrigo's babydoll, and more
https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/ontological-grammar-moral-kinds-and

#philosophy #blog #substack #video #poscast #language #communication #institutions #courts #morality

Ontological grammar is subjacent to active cognition and verbal faculties.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/the-grammar-of-ontological-grammar?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=masto&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Many people label those who disagree with their positions as stupid or acting in bad faith, but the notion of ontological grammar liberates me from discussions of subjecthood, agency, and intent.

#philosophy #language #blog #podcast #substack #grammar #perspective #grammar #ClaudeAI #subjecthood #agency #intent #communication #understanding

Wouldn't it be fun if someone invented a telephone booth in today's surveillance society?

You could only make or receive a call after facial recognition + govt. ID verification.

And Superman would be arrested for public indecency the very first time he tried to change into his hero outfit.

#surveillance #phone #communication

Inform your friends and family about these tools.

#Briar ... https://briarproject.org

"Censorship-resistant peer-to-peer messaging that bypasses centralized servers. Connect via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or Tor, with privacy built-in."

#Retroshare ... https://retroshare.cc

"Retroshare establish encrypted connections between you and your friends to create a network of computers, and provides various distributed services on top of it: forums, channels, chat, mail... Retroshare is fully decentralized, and designed to provide maximum security and anonymity to its users beyond direct friends. Retroshare is entirely free and open-source software. It is available on #Android, #Linux, #MacOS and #Windows. There are no hidden costs, no ads and no terms of service."

#RicochetRefresh ... https://www.ricochetrefresh.net

"Ricochet Refresh is an open-source project to allow private and anonymous instant messaging."

#OnionShare ... https://onionshare.org

"OnionShare is an open-source tool that lets you securely and anonymously share files, host websites, and chat with friends using the Tor network."

#DeltaChat ... https://delta.chat

"Delta Chat is a decentralized and secure messenger app."

#Bitmessage ... https://bitmessage.org

"Bitmessage is a P2P communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers. It is decentralized and trustless, meaning that you need-not inherently trust any entities like root certificate authorities. It uses strong authentication which means that the sender of a message cannot be spoofed, and it aims to hide "non-content" data, like the sender and receiver of messages, from passive eavesdroppers like those running warrantless wiretapping programs."

#TorBrowser ... https://www.torproject.org/download

"Protect yourself against tracking, surveillance, and censorship."

#I2P ... https://geti2p.net

"The Invisible Internet Project (I2P) is a fully encrypted private network layer. It protects your activity and location. Every day people use the network to connect with people without worry of being tracked or their data being collected. In some cases people rely on the network when they need to be discrete or are doing sensitive work."

#Hyphanet ... https://www.hyphanet.org/

"Hyphanet is peer-to-peer network for censorship-resistant and privacy-respecting publishing and communication. The original Freenet."

#BitChan ... https://github.com/813492291816/BitChan

"BitChan is a decentralized anonymous imageboard inspired by BitBoard and built on top of Bitmessage with Tor, I2P, and GnuPG."

#DarkMX ... https://darkmx.app

"DarkMX is a new decentralized communication app that utilizes Tor hidden services to allow you to easily have an anonymous, reliable, and censorship-resistant presence on the internet. You can chat. You can share files. You can search other people's files. You can keep a contact list and send private messages to your friends. You can create your own custom .onion site, available to anyone with a Tor Browser."

#Decentralized #TOR #AntiSurveillance #Anonymity #Anonymous #Privacy #Filesharing #Networking #Communication #P2P #F2F #PeerToPeer #Censorship #AntiCensorship #FreeSpeech