xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

@xianc78 LA:DX, good taste xianc

The problem with censorship is that if you censor someone even if the cause is believed to be "legitimate" all you usually do is make them believe whatever you censor them for harder

Really good interview with the guy who made Bleem, ported Doom to the Super Nintendo, and performed other bits of computer wizardry that were thought impossible at the time. He works for Limited Run games now, which is fitting for someone with so much knowledge of old vidya hardware and software.

If the Sony lawsuit about Bleem had gone differently, emulators might be illegal in the United States now. Good thing this man handled himself smartly when faced with massive legal problems. Also, death to Sony.

@coolboymew

https://youtube.com/watch?v=RCw6LpHx9wM

the main thing accomplished by the prohibition of personal alcohol distillation is that ...

honest and sincere potential home distillers are scared away from the hobby while an unregulated market is created for illicit distillers and bootleggers, and the illicit unregulated market results in dozens of preventable deaths in every country every year (career criminals are financially incentivized to add methanol or who knows what to their products)

I'm not saying that drinking liquor is necessarily healthy, but if you're making your own or getting it from trusted friends, you'll at least be sure you're not getting poisoned

it's a proper hobby in and of itself like cooking or gardening. The social/creative benefits of home distilling are identical with those of home brewing... maybe even more, because liquors can be traditionally flavored or used in ways that beers and wines cannot

Governments finally gave people permission to mix yeast and sugar. That's good, because it's an idiotic thing to jail people for anyway. But if you then put your homemade wine in the freezer or on the stove, you risk years in prison. This is something that needs to change

i think an "audio only" community would actually benefit from anonymity, a lot of people who are EXTREMELY ONLINE are afraid to let their online friends hear their voice. being able to listen to a thread as a conversation has potential.

and that's to say nothing of music share threads & remixing

My last anonymous board experiment was federating anonymous boards ....which was a bad idea, but at least I did it ,so I can say it is a bad idea.

anonymous audio-only community

one view is like a booru/catalog, other view is like a forum thread

threads and comments both have categories

posts can be upvoted

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I will add one more thought on the government and internet more generally speakings move toward demanding ID and/or forcing users to login or otherwise jump through hoops to access web sites/content/services/etc. You can fuck off.

I don't care if your Linux Mint, Microsoft, New Egg, Walmart, Amazon, or similar. And yes- my company is a leading sponsor of Linux Mint project, and yes, Linux Mint uses a shitty firewall solution that basically blocks Tor users and possibly users of VPNs (and I believe the company is also a sponsor of the Linux Mint project which is why they won't stop using it sadly).

While I can't claim my company is perfect (it's far from perfect) I can tell you it's a thousand times better in every respect than the trash that amounts to what makes up the internet today.

We DO NOT demand people login to browse our catalog, we DO NOT firewall off every user we can't ID (ie looking at you Linux Mint, and I like Linux Mint for the most part, they otherwise have done a lot of good for desktop GNU/Linux even if I would change a few things), we DO accept Monero (even if it's a little bit more of a hassle, hopefully something we find time to improve upon at some point), we DO NOT demand ID to checkout.

I know this is probably like the first and only time I've posted a link to my companies website ... ever. Terrible at marketing... what can I say... but here it is:

https://www.ThinkPenguin.com/

Ohh and one more thing. The government can fuck off too. Particularly California, New York, and the other states that think they can bully us into implementing 'age verification' or similar tech into the embedded OS for routers that we're the primary sponsor of (and ship). Fuck off. We're not implementing it and I wrote to our NH reps opposing it.

I was trying to checkout with a merchant that uses coinpayments.net to accept crypto payments and was disappointed to see that Monero was not an option and I knew I had paid with it prior. Also knew coinpayments.net had supported Moerno. I created a ticket on the platform I was purchasing services from and then attempted to reach out to the payment platform coinpayments.net, but the contact form doesn't seem to work, or at least not without entering a telegram or linklinden contact info (yea, I know weird, right? telegram I half get maybe if they're geared toward a certain market/element). Long story short coinpayments legacy apparently supports Monero, but coinpayments.net v2 platform does not.

I told the merchant I intended to pay my bill, but if Monero was not supported next time around, next year when I go to pay I'd be looking at alternatives.

Very disappointed in both this merchant who I like and maybe even more so the payment platform. coinpayments.net has been one of the better crypto payment platforms over the decades. Unlike say bitpay.com which has only supported non-privacy oriented cryptocurrencies.

There are other options today for directly accepting cryptos like btcpayserver and btcpay-monero that are MUCH better in that your not dependent on a third party. This ensures you DO NOT force your customers to go through problematic KYC processes.

I attempted to pay with bitcoin at New Egg for example and was unable to do so despite them taking by cryptocurrency payments in the past. This was down to demands for ID. You can fuck off with the ID. I will NOT give you my ID to do business with you.

I also will NOT login to your site in order to find out what products if any you have that I may wish to purchase. Looking at you Walmart.

Petition to stop the lock-down of Android linked below. Google is going to require all app developers whether using the Play Store or not, including those publishing to F-droid, other app stores, and even side-loading to do KYC (know your customer) and ID and pay a $25 (to start) fee.

https://c.org/VcwgZGc2VW

I would also suggest looking at adopting alternatives like the original Pine Phone (particularly for those more adamant about supporting choice in the market place). It's definitely a beta quality not-fully developed solution, but it's massively better than "open source" independently designed and developed phones we've had in the past that have attempted to compete with Android and iOS.

https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-beta-edition-with-convergence-package/

Group A was conned by group B.
A subset of group A was helping con the rest on behalf of group B.

To the surprise of nobody, it's about datamining.

m*crosoft's involvement in the school system will only worsen this. School-provided laptops will likely be their only experience with something that's not a smartphone and they be presented to children as locked-down pieces of shit owned and operated by someone else. Even if they do take an interest in computers, any learning will be taking place in m*crosoft's walled garden.

It's no accident that gen alpha is less tech literate than the two generations that came before them. Big tech have a vested interest in keeping the public too fucking stupid to know why they should oppose them at every turn.