• ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed
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      942 months ago

      Haha internet goes [Error 404]

      (Shoutout to Briar, an app that lets you communicate without the internet, very useful for an organized group of protesters)

      • Banana
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        102 months ago

        Isn’t that basically what signal already does or is there something I should know about signal?

        • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed
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          452 months ago

          No.

          Signal, while is End-to-End encrypted and cool, but it requires the central server. If the government shuts down the internet, you can’t organize your protest

          But Briar does not require a central server and lets you connect via internet (via tor), bluetooth, or share between devices connected to the same wifi.

          Imagine a protest where everyone is using Brair (and have added everyone as contacts), they could create a forum and one message from one end of the street can travel across the entire swarm of protesters, doesn’t matter if the government shut down the internet.

          (I mean… at least until they figure out what y’all are doing and they start jamming bluetooth signals… 🤔 but even then, jammers have limited range, especially at the bluetooth spectrum)

          All data is on your device (and all other devices the forum is shared with), there is no central server to take down content.

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              Depending on you goal.

              For leaderless anonoymous protests, and you want to stay alive, sure.

              For organized groups that are willing to take some risk and be martyrs, its worth considering.

              Use a custom OS (like Graphene OS), turn on airplane mode, use bluetooth to communicate via brair. Its much harder (but not impossible) to track people this way.

              • Cethin
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                52 months ago

                Once you’re at the protest you can talk in person. Sure,. Maybe organizers need some form of communication (and hopefully they do it securely), but otherwise there’s no need. You can just speak with people. People have been protesting far longer than cell phones have existed.

                Even people willing to take risks and be martyred should do it in a way that advances the goal. They shouldn’t try to let themselves be tracked and watched/arrested in private away from the protest. If you’re being arrested it should be forced to be in public and made into a show.

          • Banana
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            72 months ago

            Oh that’s great to know, thank you!! Definitely gonna keep that one in my back pocket.

      • qprimed
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        82 months ago

        have used briar. it works and will be a vital tool. get your peeps to install and have it at the ready.

    • @Cheems@lemmy.world
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      212 months ago

      I truly believe that anyone that believes that it’s already happening will have their beliefs cemented, the people that reject any notion of fascism will reject it, and the people that are on the fence are too old or too dumb to actually make an informed decision

      • @gibmiser@lemmy.world
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        382 months ago

        My friends in gov are experiencing this stuff. Emails telling them to report all DEI contracts or face consequences. Shits real.

        • Queen HawlSera
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          92 months ago

          Right? I work in a company that has a lot of government contracts, I’m just a janitor, but it’s known I’m trans… do I count as a “DEI Hire” ?

          • @LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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            Yes. Anyone not a white cishet Christian male is a DEI hire. There will be some exceptions for straight Christian women for a little while, but they’ll be targeted soon enough and put to pasture with the other breeding stock. Moo.

      • @Crikeste@lemm.ee
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        32 months ago

        Did you bother to look into these claims at all? Or, are you doing practically the exact same thing you’re claiming the OP is doing; assuming?

        There’s that worthless centrist logical superiority, doing what it always does. Nothing.