xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

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https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-hardware-designs.html

There are crucial differences between hardware and software, This will not come as a surprise to you, but based on them I conclude that it makes no sense under present circumstances to talk about "free hardware". What does make sense as a concept is "free hardware designs". That article addresses many issues about freedom raised by digital hardware.

A bill introduced in the Wyoming Senate would require the state to maintain precious metal reserves, potentially strengthening its financial stability, insulating against inflation, and reducing reliance on the Federal Reserve’s fiat currency system.

https://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2025/01/wyoming-bill-would-require-state-to-hold-gold-and-silver-reserves/

I've written my first blog post, titled "Why open instant messaging protocols are essential for software freedom". Feedback very welcome!

https://blog.fennell.dev/why-open-instant-messaging-protocols-are-essential-for-software-freedom.html

Thoughts on fusion:

Compression based -> I'm not convinced, lets say you can make a shockwave that amplifies the pressure by 1000x, now you just need 250 MILLION atmospheres instead of 250 billion.

I'm not generally a fan of doing things "the right way", usually the right way is the way everyone has already researched and proved unfeasible. I want to cheat, I want to attack the problem in a way that nobody is thinking about.

Here's a brief summary of where I'm thinking there might be cheat codes:

1. Chemical reaction that triggers fusion -> Take for example some kind of hydrogenated nitroglycerine, when the molecule - reorganizes - you can imagine it creating enough localized energy to fuse the hydrogen atoms.

Ironically when you start down this road, you end up bumping into all of the Stanley Meyer water car stuff. If you pay close attention to his videos, you'll notice that he never really made enough hydrogen to run an engine. An obvious point is that the tubes carrying the hydrogen are hilariously under-sized. If there was ever anything to his claims (which I still find dubious), it is that he found a way to make hydrogen burn much more violently than is justified by the chemical energy. There are other people who claimed to have figured this out as well, and they speak about three distinct types of hydrogen combustion, only one of which will work in an engine. If you take them at their word that they got the car to run, but refuse to believe that they understood at all what was happening, the most likely explanation is that they somehow managed to make some of that hydrogen go nuclear.

2. A catalyst. Perhaps there's some kind of metal that squeezes hydrogen into close proximity in a lattice or something and then a little bit of energy is all it takes to fuse it.

Interestingly this is precisely what was supposed to be happening in the Pons and Fleischmann cold fusion experiment. To quote ChatGPT: "Palladium has a unique property: it can absorb large amounts of hydrogen or deuterium into its lattice structure"

3. I was going to say modifications on a Farnsworth fusor, but these things have been built so many times, I'm pretty sure every idea has already been tried, so I don't think there are any cheat codes to be found there.

4. From the work of Mike McCulloch on Quantized Inertia, trying to see if there's a way to go around the rules.

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I think #4 is probably the best direct path, a lot of work has been done on #2 and cold fusion remains at best a neat party trick. That said, the Stanley Meyer / HHO stuff is like a rock in my shoe, it's hard to stop thinking about it...

@Bad_Banner

man if only the anti capitalists didn't use the code as collateral

Did you know gold is more plentiful than lead when you analyze the bulk composition of the earth? You’re probably thinking, ‘Wait a minute, I thought gold was rare!’ Well, you’re right! Confused? Let me explain.
https://activistpost.com/2024/12/study-sheds-light-on-how-gold-reaches-the-earths-surface.html

@adachi @mischievoustomato @munir @Suiseiseki @waifu @dj We are in a "Death of the Author" situation. It might not matter what RMS thinks or promotes when _some_ of his most devout supporters misinterpret his ideas and preach something RMS didn't intent to/say.

One of such people is in this thread and started the whole discussion about this topic mostly unprompted. I've had multiple discussions with Suiseiseki exactly about promoting free software as much as possible, while also being pragmatic about it when simply no functioning/usable options exist and there's zero chance of changing him. He lives in his own bubble, unable to understand that a world where free software can't replace everything for everyone exists. Barely understanding what BIOS, microcode and system bootstrap are, while saying that updating proprietary microcode makes Libreboot proprietary, because they dared to update already broken software that is _already_ burned into the CPU die. In this case GNUBoot is actually counterproductive to spreading freedom, just like the flawed policy it follows. While Libreboot is better for user's freedom than normal BIOS, he won't acknowledge it because it breaks FSF's own policies. And if you get him into a corner that he can't "escape" with free software, he'll just play the skill issue card and be done with it.

I actually fully agree with RMS here in this case, even though some of his ideas and FSF policies are deeply flawed.

Anyway, to reference the copypasta, the pragmatic type of free software promoter you are referring to is a FOSSoid :D Don't take it seriously though, it was just written as a bait while I was on a long train ride and had nothing to do.

https://fluffytail.org/objects/029c91e1-fb26-4fb0-9d95-c361312d1896

@xianc78
One of my resolutions this year is to get serious about video game development and actually try crossing that line. Worries about becoming a starving artist don't apply when everyone is being starved and frozen out of everything.

>poasties berating a guy for hating politics
lol, lmao

@phnt@fluffytail.org @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @munir@fedi.munir.tokyo @dj@ti.parcero.casa This makes total sense!
Suiseiseki is an inside agent, and he's making free and open source software as ANNOYING AND LAME AS POSSIBLE so everyone uses proprietary software, it's the perfect plan

@mischievoustomato @munir @Suiseiseki @waifu @dj Let's consult the copypasta.

>FOSSTard, GNUTard or in extreme cases a GNURetard, not to be confused with a FOSSoid, is an insufferable person whose most prominent identity is Free Software advocacy (#FOSS advocacy) done the wrong way. (...)
>Instead of advocating for practical Free Software use, they support only 100% Free Software solutions while ignoring how broken and unusable they can be. Thus eliminating any potential new users of Free Software.

Yeah, checks out.