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Does Internet still care looking onto steganographed/enciphered data?

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Does Internet still care looking onto steganographed/enciphered data?As far as I remember the old Web, riddles and puzzles were quite common, everywhere from old social media and bulletin boards to blogs and their webrings.Y'all may remember things such as Cicada 3301 and that 11b x 1371 cryptic YouTube video; of course, unless you're not a millennial or zennial as I am.How could these puzzles and riddles, useful for learning a plethora of things such as Math and ciphers and steganography, messages hiding in plain sight, are seemingly gone, nowhere to be found across the so-called modern Web of nowadays?You're currently facing one of those puzzles, except I'm just another dust in the wind so, to which extent it's still a thing nowadays?---Letting aside any attempt to fit a text into a steganography (it's not easy to decipher a hidden message, but it's definitely harder to craft one; yes, both the title and the previous text conceal hidden messages), what truly happened, what happening? It's been a while since I stopped seeing and spotting such puzzles and riddles online.I expected to find it the most across Fediverse and Geminispace, said to be places where humans are supposed to enjoy content with layers of depth and meaning... but, since I've been wandering around, even long-form content without hidden messages seems to be met with (seems like humans can't trust lengthy texts such as this one, believing it's AI-generated), as I observe my attempts on "being the change I crave for" being met with this... void... from the cold Web of nowadays.Given how Web is essentially defined by users (although Dead Internet has been a thing for some time), does this have something to do with the collective tiredness going on in the world, with humans too tired to try and focus on reading beyond the visible portion of a text they see online?Perhaps it's just the online analogous manifestation of "Dark Forest Hypothesis" (i.e. there are humans who'd engage with said content, but they're hidden and keeping absolute silence, afraid of the possibility I'd be one of the ones they're hiding from)?Perhaps I've been just an unemployed and pedantic guy in a world where humans are too busy with mundaneness so they can't afford the time to deal with all the effort required to read online content (textual or artistic) with all the depth it requires?Or is it just my neurodivergence being unable to find meaningful connection with this neurotypical world?Maybe the concept and practice of "hidden messages" are somehow associated with evil things or groups of people so humans refrain from dealing with something which would (in their minds) be potentially "dangerous" or "illegal"? (I once asked about the recent deactivation of the global live feed from mastodon.social and I got a reply explicitly conflating my interest in digitally-guided spiritual gnosis with "unsafe content", two things completely unrelated).@asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Existence can't help but rely on itself to be proven Any proof of existence is, categorically, detached from any scientific rigor, questionable by ...

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Existence can't help but rely on itself to be provenAny proof of existence is, categorically, detached from any scientific rigor, questionable by its own.Beyond any ontological evidence, how could it be sustained, except through the ontology itself, ultimately speaking?Yeah, as far as scientific inquiry goes, all it's known somehow infers this supposed validity of existence, empiricism as certainty of existence.Skeptical by nature, of course Science must have some kind of skepticism about existence itself; this doubt can indeed be found, expressed as hypotheses such as the zero-energy universe.Such an idea, still a matter of disagreement, hypothesizes about how universe would actually add up to nothing: net-zero sum non-existent existence.---This was originally a stream-of-consciousness which I restructured as a more, purposefully cryptic and poetic text... speaking of which, you may want to tinker with the initial letters from each of the four individual clauses for each stanza of the text... (Sometimes the true message isn't what can be seen: it's the unseen)@justpost@lemmy.world

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You're being watched How curious is it that the birdwatcher, the one who watches, is, in fact, the one being watched themselves?

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a photography of a burrowing owl (_Athene cunicularia_) perched behind something out-of-focus, which is occluding her from being fully seen. Only the top of her head is visible, as well as her left eye (right side of the picture), directly gazing at the viewer with a scheming-like, half-opened side-eyed expression.

You're being watchedHow curious is it that the birdwatcher, the one who watches, is, in fact, the one being watched themselves? For whenever you watch the abyss, the abyss watches you back: she's watching, watching the one who watches her.Source: Bay Nature, photography by Martin Nicolaus.Alt-text: a photography of a burrowing owl () perched behind something out-of-focus, which is occluding her from being fully seen. Only the top of her head is visible, as well as her left eye (right side of the picture), directly gazing at the viewer with a scheming-like, half-opened side-eyed expression.@superbowl@lemmy.world

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The summoning requirements were updated This is a drawing I just made in Sketchbook out of ongoing political anxieties, not sure whether it fits ...

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An absurdist, surreal drawing depicting an elder man (a Merlin-like wizard), full with gray hair and beard, dressed in purple robe, amidst the woods during night. He kneels before a pentacle circle drawn on the ground, which is surrounded by five black candles. Both the pentacle and the candles are glowing and lit, with the pentacle emitting a purple glow. Hovering above the pentacle, however, is a bureaucratic, quite legalese text glowing purple: "Age verification required! You must be 18 years old or older to do summonings. Follow the instructions to upload your biometrics and a valid government-issued ID. By proceeding, you agree with the terms and the collection of any required personal data. We and our 72 partners will validate your request in up to 72 hours. Charges may apply." The wizard gazes at the hovering text with an unamused expression.

The summoning requirements were updatedThis is a drawing I just made in Sketchbook out of ongoing political anxieties, not sure whether it fits here, especially due to the implied subjects (ongoing politics and religious symbols). Please let me know if it doesn't fit here. Feedback is appreciated...Alt-text (in case Lemmy doesn't pull it from Calckey instance I'm hosted at): An absurdist, surreal drawing depicting an elder man (a Merlin-like wizard), full with gray hair and beard, dressed in purple robe, amidst the woods during night. He kneels before a pentacle circle drawn on the ground, which is surrounded by five black candles. Both the pentacle and the candles are glowing and lit, with the pentacle emitting a purple glow. Hovering above the pentacle, however, is a bureaucratic, quite legalese text glowing purple: "Age verification required! You must be 18 years old or older to do summonings. Follow the instructions to upload your biometrics and a valid government-issued ID. By proceeding, you agree with the terms and the collection of any required personal data. We and our 72 partners will validate your request in up to 72 hours. Charges may apply." The wizard gazes at the hovering text with an unamused expression.@justpost@lemmy.world

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Smile for the selfie "Why so serious?

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Two _Athene cunicularia_ (burrowing owl) amidst a seemingly endless leveled grassland during daylight. One of them is very close to the camera, as if she were taking a selfie, staring directly at the camera with a serious and quite menacing expression. Behind her, not too far, the second owl is gazing at the sky.

Smile for the selfie"Why so serious?"Source: "The Burrowing Owl’s Cozy Underground Home", website "The Kids Should See This", originally from photographer Mac Stone (couldn't confirm this specific authorship because the website links to some YouTube-hosted video and I don't use YouTube anymore; I found the photo through the mentioned website)Alt-text: Two (burrowing owl) amidst a seemingly endless leveled grassland during daylight. One of them is very close to the camera, as if she were taking a selfie, staring directly at the camera with a serious and quite menacing expression. Behind her, not too far, the second owl is gazing at the sky.@superbowl@lemmy.world

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[Microblog] evil

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Screenshot of evil.social returning a CloudFlare error screen for an HTTP 502 internal error.

evil.social down for weeksThere's a Sharkey-like (Catodon) instance called evil.social. A few months ago, I created an alternate account there so I could have an alternative to calckey.world (another Sharkey-like instance) for situations where Calckey would be experiencing downtime (with Calckey itself having been an alternative for my earlier Friendica account, after Friendica began experiencing frequent downtime occurrences; eventually I ended up staying on Calckey permanently).At the time, their ActivityPub federation capabilities didn't seem to work properly, I couldn't fetch posts/comments from other instances as well as Calckey.world can. Nonetheless, I still kept the evil.social account as an alternative.Now, it's been a few weeks since evil.social began returning 502 (Bad Gateway).Anybody knows what's happening with said instance? Is it temporary downtime or the instance is likely gone forever? If the latter is the case, what alternatives to Calckey.world, other than Evil.social, should I be aware of, as someone who's used both to personal micro-blogging as well as interacting with posts and comments from threadiverse, and someone who's used to write lengthy texts (so max char length matters to me)?@fediverse@lemmy.world @fediverse@lemmy.ml

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Mastodon Live Feed is gone This is more of a rant (not sure if this comm is appropriate for it)

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Mastodon Live Feed is goneThis is more of a rant (not sure if this comm is appropriate for it).I've been watching Lemmy's ongoing discussion regarding PieFed. It turns out Mastodon got similar problems, too.The largest Fediverse instance already shadowbanned people, e.g:This profile has been hidden by the moderators of mastodon.social.If you didn't find (and save) a profile before it poof'd, it'd be pretty much unreachable.It's been a while since I've been using the Web solely for consumption of public content (esp. long texts). I ceased posting altogether (with this post breaking 2mo of silence) for reasons beyond the current scope. My source of content are firehoses (e.g. Lemmy /all sorted by "New comments", Mastodon Live Feed), partly due to the chaotic nature (it pleases me as ND) alongside my beliefs (Chaos Magick, noise as gnosis), partly due to how it's the closest to a true discovery algorithm...Today, I opened Mastodon only to be faced with a missing Live feed:This feed has been disabled by your server administrators.Yes, public feeds are noisy, spammy, pornographic. But it should be up to the user to decide what they wanna see: muted +3k spam accounts by myself as I doomscrolled the "Live feed" daily.Then out of naiveté/maliciousness/both, some ppl love to parrot the classic ancap line:Just do your server!I mean, it's trivial, amirite? As if the source of the problem wouldn't be replaced by CloudFlare (2nd Biggest Internet Cancer, only losing the topmost rank to the Ruler of the Tumors, the Online Advertisement), AWS/GCP/DigitalOcean/etc, Mastohost, or regional ISPs if you use a PC (doing your ISP, too? Also do your own ICANN and IANA, do your own ASNs and BGPs, everyone knows how it's so easy-peasy /s).(As a sidenote, radio communication is truly lovely: no one's able to stop transceivers... well, except for ITU and their bureaus requiring operators "a loicense" for people to vibrate a quantum fabric of spacetime continuum that predates us hominids: after all, how'd the "Wise Ones" get to knock at ham operator's doors to seize "dangerous" Baofengs after suddenly becoming unlawful due to "Security"?)Yes, mastodon.social (nevermind the "social" TLD) could be simply ditched, problem is how it's home for most Fediverse accounts me and others would like to discover and read/watch; problem is how it's "model" for other instances, pretty much the Fediverse as a whole. I wouldn't be surprised if this "trend" went viral: imagine no Lemmy feed other than your following list (didn't know the random, SEO-lacking, lone profile out there, shouting at the void things you'd deem interesting to your tastes? Don't worry, you won't!)For me and unknown others who also lurk the global chatter, mastodon.social became indistinguishable from mainstream, lacking live global feeds. Meanwhile, people used to shout at the void will be pushed even further......But hey, we're safer now 😌 /s@justpost@lemmy.world

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