xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

In about 9 months, all new cars will have mandatory biometrics built into the car to watch your every move. Creepy? That's an understatement.

#TheFreeThoughtProject

okay I can finally show off these things- Sun SPOTs, weird little java on metal microcontrollers from 2005/2006!

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REMEMBER ⚠️ 🚨, if you find a github repo you like, BACK THAT THANG UP
You have no idea when the creator of it is going to crash out online and nuke everything due to feeling some kind of way online.

IA might archive it, but it doesn't always do it.

GN has been making a genuine effort to regurgiate research on various chat services and protocols in light of many people finally realizing that Discord is a Piece of Shit™. They're the only ones who've been honest about Matrix's honeypot smell but still haven't exactly nailed the issue and have neglected XMPP presumably because they are as clueless as the average person - they are better as journalists and not computer experts, but that's better than 99% of journos out there so I'll take it I guess. Above all it is a good thing they are willing to listen to commenter feedback and highly likely that they'll do more good than bad for normies not in the know.

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@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.