@cavallette That’s rough. Dependence on the domain name system and dns is a real problem for digital sovereignty.
A single signature by Trump can remove you from the internet
di @smaurizi
"A new David-versus-Goliath battle is being waged on the internet, after the U.S. government’s war against Julian Assange and #WikiLeaks. This time, the epicenter is Italy, and David is an Italian volunteer organization – a tiny collective of low-profile individuals who create and distribute encrypted email accounts, blogs, and mailing lists for free.
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https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2026/08/29/autistici-inventati-trump-terrorists-news/8491452/
Autistici/Inventati's domains have now been revoked. I updated the link in the above post with a wayback machine copy.
Every now and then someone tells me, "We have a decentralized naming system, it's called DNS!" and I say, no we don't, DNS is extremely centralized? And if that wasn't clear to you before, hopefully it's clear to you today.
I found a new disrupive technology called pen and paper. Its a text and image storage and editing system. Its a game changer.
O site autistici.org foi retirado do ar sem aviso. Com isso, todos os e-mails autistici.org, incluindo o meu, foram desativados e estão incomunicáveis.
On #DNS.
There's always a shadow side to everything, the unintended consequence, the unintended reveal.
Making #communications infrastructure dependent on #domains such as dot org is, well like any dependency outside of one's control, a serious weakness.
So not only is the money* paid into this system highly unfair, we can now see revealed that politically.. It "can and will be used against you", as they say.
* one hundred and thirty five million! USD was paid speculatively for the presumably lucrative dot web #TLD.
THIS is why domains cost money.
There is no technical impediment to running a perfectly working network of decentralised DNS resolvers on todays internet. Attempting to justify the costs, with "because it costs" is absurd.
Technology Coordinator / Rhizomatica.