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How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block

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Re: How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block

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Post by icebraining »

faragon wrote: post #207
icebraining wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

mother/habitual This is not the same thing. My mother tongue is not my (current) habitual tongue. I don't see where the report shows the habitual tongue spoken.

It is explained in the above (official) link.

Like I said, I've read the above official link. Multiple times, by now. Nowhere do I see a reference to the habitual language. Only to the Primera Llengua, which is

Llengua o llengües que la persona ha parlat primer a casa seva. Es considera que aquesta llengua ha estat transmesa familiarment i adquirida en el procés de socialització de l'individu.

This is not the habitual language. So, where is it?

Re: How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block

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Post by jarofgreen »

"In the where to vote? page, you are prompted to enter some of your details: DNI (national id), Birth date, Zip code"

Wait a second, can someone from the area explain this? Why on earth do they need your ID number just to tell you where to vote?

In my country (UK) 99% of the time all you need is a postcode and you can be told your voting place. (I say 99% because there are a few postcodes that are split across different seats and thus different people in the same post code have different polling places. Also just to note some areas are bad at publicly supplying this data. But my general point still stands.)

Re: How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block

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Post by enriquto »

euyyn wrote: post #196
ukoki wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So? If they want independence who are we to deny it? If your spouse wants a divorce, if your children wish to disown you — you can't deny them just because it's an inconvenience — it is their right.

Unlike a spouse which is one person with a single will and identity, it's not even clear how to decide who is Catalan enough to have a vote in this.

> it's not even clear how to decide who is Catalan enough to have a vote in this.

All residents in Catalonia have the right to vote in this referendum, regardless of their origin. So your comment is basically empty.

Re: How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block

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Post by pepon »

severino wrote: post #193
pepon wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are also many many people and windows without flags ;) Once they become an independent country, it will be one where ~50% of the people doesn't want to belong to it. Let's see what kind of "democracia" will they apply there.

Well, that's happening already: half the population does not want to belong to the state. The "democracia" here is you don't vote and never will. What can be worse than that?

No, that is not what is happening. Spain is a state where the majority of the people wants to belong to the state. Catalonia would be a state where half of the people wouldn't want to belong to it. I wonder if the future Catalan government will allow referendums so that such people will be able to split from Catalonia.

Besides, not voting is also democracy. Most of the Spanish people don't want to allow these kind of referendums in Spain. Therefore, Spain is doing what the majority wants (== democracy).

Re: How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block

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Post by euyyn »

enriquto wrote: post #213
euyyn wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unlike a spouse which is one person with a single will and identity, it's not even clear how to decide who is Catalan enough to have a vote in this.

> it's not even clear how to decide who is Catalan enough to have a vote in this. All residents in Catalonia have the right to vote in this referendum, regardless of their origin. So your comment is basically empty.

The fact that it is how this referendum was designed doesn't mean it's fair.

E.g. why would a foreigner that's been living in Catalonia for a few weeks, and plans to move away within a month to never return, have more of a say than a Catalan that spent 40 years there but had to move abroad two months ago in search of a job?

Re: How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block

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Post by lottin »

amelius wrote: post #112

As an outsider, it's strange that nobody here seems to question whether the referendum really makes sense. Forgetting about Catalonia for a moment, isn't it fundamentally amoral that a part of the country where prosperity has (by mere chance) concentrated suddenly wants to split off? Isn't this taking wealth-inequality to the next level? Of course the people in a prosperous part of the country want to split off. Abso…

The ones that oppose the referendum also do it for selfish reasons. They don't want to lose something that in their view belongs to them.

Re: How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block

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Post by jarofgreen »

euyyn wrote: post #171
utnick wrote: post #166

A possibly simpler solution would be to not have assigned places to vote that are based on your ID & DOB. Just vote at the polling place most convenient to you, and announce available polling places on posters around town, or facebook & twitter if you prefer.

The reason that isn't done in any election is because, to prevent people from voting twice, each voting station needs a list of the people that are supposed to vote there.

That's a fair point but doesn't explain why ID & DOB are needed. I asked about this in another comment - in my country, you just need your postcode to find your polling place 99% of the time.

Re: How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block

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Post by Fnoord »

Asdfbla wrote: post #118
aoeusnth1 wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Spray paint 8.8.8.8 on buildings.

Government could probably just block any DNS requests that want to resolve the ipfs.io domain. Though Spain probably does not have the censorship infrastructure deployed for that the way a country like China has.

This is why DNSCrypt [1] and DNSCurve [2] are a good thing because they encrypt the data between client and resolver. Although they can block all of the traffic to/from any known resolvers, that's draconic and a lot of work, and it is quite a list.

Mac/Homebrew users: brew cask install dnscrypt

Windows/Chocolatey users: choco install simplednscrypt (or alternative see [3])

Linux: should be in your package manager. Generally, searching for dnscrypt should yield some useful software. It isn't difficult to set up via command line IMO. There's probably howto's to be found via search engine as well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNSCrypt

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNSCurve

[3] https://github.com/Noxwizard/dnscrypt-winclient

Re: How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block

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Post by oh_sigh »

amelius wrote: post #112

As an outsider, it's strange that nobody here seems to question whether the referendum really makes sense. Forgetting about Catalonia for a moment, isn't it fundamentally amoral that a part of the country where prosperity has (by mere chance) concentrated suddenly wants to split off? Isn't this taking wealth-inequality to the next level? Of course the people in a prosperous part of the country want to split off. Abso…

It depends. Is Catalonia rich because the federal government pumped money and resources into it? If so, then I would say yes, it's wrong to try to break off.

But, if Catalonia is rich due to their own industriousness, and effectively prop up other parts of the nation by sending more of their own money to the federal government, then no, I don't think there is a problem with trying to break off.

Re: How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block

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Post by kordlessagain »

kilburn wrote: post #2

Author here. I've tried to keep the article as apolitical as possible, while giving some context to provide the setting. Anyway, I'm very interested in knowing if the used crypto is sound or not, and stirring a discussion around possible alternative approaches. Ask me anything if you want to know further!

Thanks for the article. After reading it, I went and added an IPFS node to my Kubernetes deployment on Google Cloud and then mapped the /ipfs and /ipns endpoints through Kong so they would be served by /" rel="nofollow">https://api.wisdom.sh//. This effectively gives people yet another domain they can use which doesn't require installing the IPFS client. Any IPFS site wil work through the proxy, but here's the site under discussion: https://api.wisdom.sh/ipns/QmZxWEBJBVkGDGaKdYPQUXX4KC5TCWbvu...

If anyone wants the scripts I used to build up the system, let me know. Here's the Kubernetes YAML I used: https://gist.github.com/kordless/5625ae8abf3d3f14dd3f9c9d500...

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