Maintenance Summary: The present situation.

Posted by Kumiko Oumae on Wednesday, 26 August 2015 20:21.

Let’s pause for a moment.

There are some people out there who have been criticising my contributions and casting aspersions on my motives, because of my ethnic background. In my previous maintenance post, the thematic image was that of a tachometer catching fire, without any explanation of where exactly I was ‘going’. Well, now I’ll stop this metaphorical bike, and shed some light on what has been done.

I think that we now have a site that is retooled for its intended purpose. A lot of things have been changed, some of which may not have been immediately apparent to users, and some things were simply reinforced and are going to be described here for the sake of transparency.

This will be described in colloquial language and will not be written in a legal style, because I want it to be absolutely understood by everyone.

The updated site design philosophy is centred around five things:

Minimalism: Sometimes, less is more. Majorityrights is almost like it is angling toward becoming something like a theoretical journal for European nationalists, and as such there are many lengthy articles which we want to user to focus on. Keeping distraction to a minimum and holding the reader’s attention is paramount. The site design should work toward that end and not against it.

Principles of UI design: Placement of design elements that are consistent and simplistic, and which are intuitive to the user. Use of icon packs to illustrate what design elements do. Fonts are chosen for readability.

Soft on the eyes: Attempts were made to get a colour scheme that did not induce fatigue.

‘Self-sufficiency’: Aim to eliminate auto-loading anything that is not hosted from within Majorityrights.com’s domain.

Risk mitigation: Control the environment to ensure that the user’s sovereignty is policed and defended as much as possible, insofar as we have the capability to do so.

Some highlights of this design philosophy have manifested as:

Fonts

Meiryo was chosen as the font for all content because the Latin characters in it are very good for presenting beautiful and legible text that was suitable for immersive on-screen reading. Meiryo was developed by Eiichi Kono who had worked closely with Takeharu Suzuki of Type Designers, CandG Inc, and Matthew Carter of Carter and Cone Type Inc. Its importance as an emerging industry standard font was reinforced by its receipt of the the 2007 Tokyo TDC Type Design Prize. It’s since been included in every Windows installation since Windows Vista.

In cases where Meiryo is not available on the system, it resorts to using Verdana in its place, which is closely related to Meiryo, since it was designed by Matthew Carter and shares many similarities with Meiryo.

Webfonts that the site loads are Playfair Display which is used for headers, and Roboto which is used for menus, tags and status lines. These webfonts are of course hosted here and are not linked to from Google webfonts or Typekit, or anything like that. Some webfont providers use referrer-aware CDNs, I have decided that such a ‘leak’ would be unacceptable and therefore I’ve chosen to have Majorityrights.com self-host any webfonts that it uses. This has privacy benefits for you that are not insignificant.

Social Media

Social media buttons do exactly what is expected when you click them. They help you to use social media. However, I have taken the deliberate decision not to track anything with those buttons. As a consequence, when the page loads, it makes no calls to any of the APIs associated with those social media networks, unless you click on the buttons to do so.

This means that we are not signalling your browsing habits to whatever entities out there may or may not be monitoring Facebook and Twitter and Google Plus without your consent. The privacy benefits which are accrued to you as a result of the choice to not implement that, are enormous.

Click Tracking, Fingerprinting, and Advertising

We do not do click tracking and never will, because we have respect for the privacy concerns of the users who browse here.

We do not engage in the use of canvas elements to render characters with your hardware from which we could derive a fingerprint of your system. While getting such information and keeping a database of it would doubtless be useful and fun, I deliberately choose not to ever implement anything like that, because that kind of information so often has a disturbing way of getting ‘lost’. So, with that in mind, I take the stance that if we don’t collect it, and we don’t store it, then we cannot ‘lose’ it, nor can we ever be legally asked to hand it over to anyone. Because we do not collect that data in the first place. We can’t ‘lose’ what we never collected.

We do not and will not ever run any advertisements from any of the big advertising CDNs that are out there. Many advertising CDNs are sometimes used by antagonistic individuals or antagonistic government organisations who rent spaces in those rotations into which they push advertisements that are designed to exploit zero-day vulnerabilities in certain browsers, and in Adobe Flash Player. This is a well-documented phenomenon, one which certainly is an interesting phenomenon, and one which I steadfastly refuse to allow to occur here.

Retention Policy

Access logs are retained for two calendar months.

Search and Archives

These used to be broken. Now they are not broken. Try them out and see.

Bitcoin Donations

Majorityrights is able to accept anonymous bitcoin donations to its wallet, which is then anonymously transformed into fiat money which is then anonymously given to the appropriate persons who need it through a complicated process which I cannot explain because of course I am not in charge of anything in that process. Anonymity is absolutely maximised, and no one should have any worries about that.

I can describe how the widget works, however. Clicking on the donate button will present you with the address of the Majorityrights bitcoin wallet. Clicking the wallet will allow you to make donations from your wallet. The left pane shows the number of donations in total so far. The right pane shows the amount donated so far in mBTC. The QR code is the QR code of the Majorityrights bitcoin wallet. The ‘What is Bitcoin’ link, takes you to a Coindesk.com article where they give a brief overview of what Bitcoin is.

Scripts

Javascript and jQuery are only ever invoked under four circumstances. Javascript is used on the Majority Radio page if a user chooses to open the Flash Player to stream a file, and it is used for the buttons in the comments section. jQuery is used to make the folding boxes on the menu exhibit the ‘folding’ behaviour when clicked. jQuery is also used by the Bitcoin widget.

In the cases that jQuery is used, jQuery is hosted here at Majorityrights.com.

Secure Sockets Layer

The Majorityrights.com main site now encrypts all pages that are sent. Calls to images, CSS, and javascript are secure. Images called by linked CSS and javascript files are secure. It is not susceptible to POODLE or any exploit similar to it. You should see the padlock in the titlebar which illustrates this.

There are also many more changes which I’ve chosen not to enumerate here. After having been invited onto the team, it was shown to me that there were real ‘trust related’ problems that some people may have been having with the site, and so I have taken all steps to resolve the security issues so as to absolutely guarantee that people could trust the site.

With that done, it may now be safe to say that Majorityrights.com is the only European ethno-nationalist site of this kind, which has gone to these lengths to earn the trust of its readers. To my knowledge, none of our more ‘right-wing conservative’ competitors have taken such measures. I can’t speculate as to what their reasons are, but here at Majorityrights we are doing our best to keep you safe, as we do not believe that security is your responsibility, we believe that we are also accountable for maintaining a secure experience for you.

This is the logical outgrowth of our adherence to the idea that nationalism is inherently about social responsibility. Majorityrights.com is taking responsibility for you.

Tags: Maintenance

Comments:

Posted by DanielS on Thu, 27 Aug 2015 15:15 | #

Nifty work Kumiko! Thanks to your efforts Majorityrights has gained significantly in the capacity and psychological correspondence that our platform merits.

Reading and commenting at Majorityrights is an enhanced pleasure with the improvements that you’ve made - not only significant but subtle and beautiful - the design has elegance and integrity without the usually attendant stodginess.

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Regarding the security layer, I’ve noticed that the padlock does not appear when certain comment threads are open to be seen.

Is that something that the average person should be concerned about or is it a concern for the fairly paranoid computer nerd, who would simply adjust their PC to secure against images and links (mixed content) passively connecting outside of MR’s security?

I take it that since any images will automatically display when the comment section is open that that is a reasonable default position since images and the other mixed content - connecting to outside links as might occur from the comments - do not generally pose a significant threat as such.

Nevertheless, might MR readers be notified, in plain sight, of the option of adjusting their own computer if they are tech savvy enough to be aware and at all concerned about that?

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Jackie says, the good taste of my designers should go hand in hand with security.

Posted by DanielS on Thu, 27 Aug 2015 16:38 | #

Speaking of nifty, I notice that you’ve got an image of a couple of Vietmamese officers in spiffy uniforms and sporting around on a vehicle probably also not made far from their home.

And if the purpose of that is to shame the WN right by showing who is more concerned for their security than even they are, then right on! These right wingers are the same people who said that Whites were betrayed by “hippies” who had the nerve to protest draft into a war to go and destroy Vietnamese people.

They had the nerve to protest the egregious right wing which deprived people of their being, their humanity - and those not allowed to recognize their own being as White men, the midtdasein of being amidst their own folk, sometimes went over the top, to deprive the Vietnamese of theirs - for a time, all too much time, even raping their women: http://www.vice.com/read/vietnam-and-the-mere-gook-rule

But the violation of their dasein could not last. Just as our right wing, the Angelo John Ganucci’s and so on, who blame “hippies” for having the nerve to pursue our profoundest agenda, our profoundest need as Whites, dasein, rather than go to Vietnam to kill and rape those people, would in fact kill and rape this kind of person - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyvz4PDTZNA - in compliance with mere custom of militarism as a way of life, and criticize those who resisted as “hippies”, copping to the Jewish and right wing ruse that it was they who were the downfall of western man - the traditional order and view of “nature” as war thus, whether war was in service of a clear and immanent danger or not, to kill people who were more than worthy of life, more than capable of being good neighbors: but not, in a view of nature as aggressive war through and through, being a worldview taken to its didactic extreme in Hitler: anything to justify war as a way of life, particularly where social concern and humanity is taken seriously and might makes right is seen for what it is.

And not one of these goddamn right wing WN, from David Duke on, will say a word against Hitler or the fact that the Jews had co-opted and perverted the good ideas and solid moral grounds of “the left.”

Posted by DanielS on Fri, 28 Aug 2015 03:33 | #

..and Jackie adds that privacy is paramount..

Posted by James Reinfeld on Sun, 30 Aug 2015 04:35 | #

I like it.

Posted by Lee Kwan Yew on Tue, 01 Sep 2015 07:48 | #

Tribute to the recently passed Lee Kwan Yew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6sSKXSoXjM

The father of true third positionism in Singapore, he is revered even in the pop culture of their youth of today…that would be a mystery to Europeans; surely by unraveling this mystery to Europeans, of the reverence for Lee Kwan Yew and his success, there are lessons to be learned.